2010-2012 NEWS/GALLERY

 

news just in, 2018!—

GRADUATE MAEVE COULTER CHOSEN FOR FEATURE ARTICLE IN THE U.S. MAGAZINE SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL!  

Maeve’s statement about this work:

These textile pieces are from my Reparation series of rust prints. I refer to themes of family and identity, grief and regret, disintegration and repair. I screenprint using family photos that are personal yet universal. My approach is haptic. I print but replace the use of ink with flocked iron filings. The image then rusts like evanescent memories and fading family dramas. A tarnished shadow creeps across the cloth and threatens to obliterate. A simple darning stitch alludes to the notion of repair, like an incantation to restore and recall. It is my way of warding off the inevitable decline of memory, to conjure and preserve.

GRADUATE LESLEY STOTHERS FEATURES HER SECRETS AND LIES WORKS IN  Common Languages exhibition at Glor, Ennis IN 2018.

HELEN O’SHEA IN IRISH ARTS REVIEW! HELEN APPLIED FOR DIRECT ENTRY INTO YEAR 4 OF OUR FULL-TIME COURSE, EARNING HER BA IN CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ART IN 2017!  The article says she completed our FINE ART TEXTILES course—this was the name of the SPA in earlier years—now ART TEXTILE! So proud of Helen!

MAEVE COULTER

The Curator’s Award of €2500 for the Halcyon Days exhibition at Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare was awarded to Maeve Coulter.
Artists nationwide were asked to respond to the theme of Halcyon Days. Submissions flooded in from all over the country and glór now presents a remarkable exhibition featuring work from both emerging and established artists.

 

 

 

FRANCES LEACH, Graduate of our 2010-2012 Fine Art Textiles Special Purpose Award course (now called ART TEXTILE), in this prestigious show with a great lineup of artists.

 

 

MAEVE COULTER 2012 GRADUATE:

Maeve Coulter has been awarded first place by The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) for her entry to their ‘Same but Different’ open submission exhibition. The gallery invited artists world wide to submit images using any photographic process and to respond to the challenge of presenting a pair of images that are similar but unique.

Maeve submitted a pair of her rust prints made by screenprinting combined with fabric, stitch and flocked iron filings that rust to create evocative and nostalgic images.

The exhibition can be viewed online by clicking the following link http://www.nyc4pa.com/#!same-but-different-2016/c13bh

 

 

 

HELEN OSHEA MENTORING PROJECT CCAD.

HELEN O’SHEA WAS ONE OF 3 INAUGURAL MENTORING RESIDENT ARTISTS AT THE CRAWFORD IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015.  HELEN DEVELOPED A BODY OF WORK EXHIBITED IN JANUARY 2015 IN THE CIT WANDESFORD QUAY GALLERY.  HERE ARE SOME OF HER WONDERFUL WORKS BASED ON A STUDY OF EROSION AND BREAKDOWN OF THE SHORELINES IN COASTAL KERRY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LESLEY STOTHERS has just informed me that MEP Nessa Childers has bought one of her textiles works, and it is heading for her office in Brussels!

FRANCES LEACH has had a stitched work accepted in the 2013 RHA exhibition!

STEPHANIE HORWILL has been selected to exhibit a small format work in an upcoming juried international textiles show in Bratislava, Slovakia!

SIX OF OUR GRADUATES HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO EXHIBIT IN CHINA WITH IRISH WAVE 2013.  THEIR TEXTILES WORK WILL FEATURE IN SHOWS IN BEIJING AND IN SHANGHAI.  THE SIX STUDENTS ARE:  MAEVE COULTER; DEIDRE CULLEN; FRANCES LEACH; HELEN O’SHEA; LESLEY STOTHERS; SARA WILSON.

  

 

FINAL WORK FOR ASSESSMENT 2012

Karen Ashley: Dyed cotton velvet painted with bleach and dyes, formed on board.

Jenny Rose Clarke—Constructed fabrics with a variety of marks recording systemically mundane everyday events over 4 weeks. Data sheets.

Maeve Coulter—Pleated, stitched and printed cotton, constructed–2 of 3 works presented in a series

Deirdre Cullen—Resist-dyed variety of fabrics, manipulated, stitched, constructed

Deirdre Hegarty–Series of 3 in various formats of digitally printed organza over cut units of the print pattern layered between the fabric and a photograph print.

Stephanie Horwill—-Largescale panel of cotton overlaid with silk organza, collaged with text in stitch and collage, photography. Suspended from a synthetic cloth stiffened into a vessel form.

Frances Leach–an installation of 3 elements that spanned the corridor’s width–on one side the large digital print of wool, facing opposite the stitched photographs sitting on spindly metal stands at the top of a column on the floor.

Frances Leach–detail of floor section: print and stitch on roofing felt–this spanned the corridor connecting the printed cloth with the spindly photo towers

Therese O’Dowd—Two of 3 final works: Left is silk/viscose velvet painted with dye and distressed over wood; Right is silk thread-wrapped hawthorn twigs, felt-tipped, with distressed silk organza, shadow, and sound

Helen O’Shea—Dyed, bleached and stitched linen with collage and stitch; distressed

Lesley Stothers—paper in layers in three works: One cascading layers down dyed cords; two boxed sets of stitched, etched layers. The largest of these has threads and word-forming-wire issuing from central opening, falling toward the floor into a pile of paper fragments.

Sara Wilson–Large-scale layered traditional blanket form, embellished through felting with domestic detritus such as dust, hair, threads; distressed and stitched. This work included a sound element

    

                                                                                                                                                           CLOTH MATTERS: SMALL FORMAT WORK BASED ON INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Fine Art Textiles (now ART TEXTILE) students exhibited in the College during the first week of March, 2012, alongside students of the full-time Fine Art or Ceramic Degree of Year 3 Subsidiary. Each work had to fit within a 30cm format, and each work was submitted with a short statement outlining current research concerns developing from autumn Semester, 2011.

Following are statements and photos of works/details as shown in March.  Students are currently working on finished artworks for May assessment and June exhibition.

HOME PROJECT–FINAL PRESENTATION OF WORK FOR SEMESTER TWO, 2011

Focus in this Semester was based on ideas of ‘Home’–broadly researched in terms of identity, gender, security, shelter, spirit–ideas of belonging and place.  Each student pursued a research path, and we looked at special textiles formats such as garments, domestic linens, tents, toys. . . .for their conceptual potential.  Below are the final projects of this year’s Fine Art Textiles (NOW CALLED ART TEXTILE) class.

Karen Ashley referenced consumerism and value with embellished screen print backed in velvet travelling through a series of boxes

Detail of stitched, screen-printed layers using imagery of trinkets and ‘useless’ objects

Jenny-Rose Clarke explored nesting and made a small delicate vessel of stitched horsehair and flowers

 

Maeve Coulter used an envelope format and a wide variety of materials to trace history and human traces in the life of a house.

Deirdre Cullen created a ‘hug’ of comfort mixing garment and armchair in a work about her memories of her grandmother.

Deirdre Hegarty made an interactive game using interesting word choices for a range of organic forms, exploring touch.

Stephanie Horwill looked at the conformity of boarding school and the breaking away of individuality.

Detail of Stephanie’s stitched, printed backing layer

Frances Leach used digital print on roofing felt, and steel pins to explore order sinking into disorder.

Mary O’Dea created a fine web of cotton muslin, secured by a system of locks, to evoke vulnerability and security.

 

Therese ODowd used layers of heat-distorted polyester scrim to explore vision.

A detail of Therese’s layers

Helen OShea used knotless netting to make a ‘dome of heaven’ in personal scale, highly embelllished with stitch and applique

Helen OShea–detail

Lesley Stothers created a book-like journey through a system of threads and knots, indicating a path of choices

Closeup of the burned holes and threads travelling through them

Sara Wilson made a wall of shirt fragments covered in machine text of dyed threads using words relating the story of the shirt through all the many processes and makers. This work covered a wall and used the sound of a sewing machine.

Detail of computerised text embroidery, bled and stained

TEXTILES TEA PARTY AND VIDEO CAFE   5 MARCH 2011 IN THE CRAWFORD Small white tablecloths were given to each student as a challenge–a short-term project to make an artwork.  The resulting works were playful and somewhat provocative.  Fine Art Textiles (now ART TEXTILE) class along with the Year 2 Textiles Subsidiary showed tablecloth projects; Year 2 Multimedia Subsidiary exhibited animation and video works.  At the opening night we held a tea/coffee and cake sale that raised an impressive €560 for Trócaire charity.  Below are a selection of tablecloth images from our Textiles students.

Sara Wilson– Sara evoked a complex story of loss and history with found objects, stitch, pigments

 

Karen Ashley–Karen also created a character, but this one using the tablecloth as garment!

Deirdre Cullen–Deirdre split her table into two cultures of dining

Helen O Shea–detail of her intricate and delicately coloured conversations in stitch

Therese O Dowd–discreet seated bodies are revealed through the lace in a dialogue expressed through the felted cutlery floating above–gender roles in spoons and forks. .

Lesley Stothers–Her cloth comes to life and enters space through a burst of cast-fibre tea service carefully arranged in mid-flight!

Jenny-Rose Clarke –the structure of the cloth is celebrated as a template for light patterning, transforming the humble cloth into a strong image.

Mary O Dea–Mary stitches tiny words into the spaces of the lace to recall ordinary conversations around the table. Dominant words overlaying this cloth are the commands of right living remembered, as is the sanitary plastic covering, keeping the cloth proper and  nice.

Maeve Coulter–Exploring an ironic look at the Domestic Goddess idea, using scorching and staining in a ritualised pattern.

Deirdre Hegarty–traced family memories of card games and socialising, using finely embedded card and photo strips, pigment

Frances Leach. Frances added value to a cheap commercial fabric by investing it with a complex hand-woven re-structuring.

Stephanie Horwill–A boldly colourful garden springs out of the tablecloth!

MARY GIEHL VISITS FROM NEW YORK

November 22-26 2010

American installation and community artist Mary Giehl spent a week in the Crawford with an exhibition of textile works, two lectures, and two exciting days out in Cork with fulltime and Fine Art Textiles (NOW CALLED ART TEXTILE) students ‘art-bombing’ the city centre with textile infiltrations!  Students walked with Mary around a circular route from the College to Grand Parade and back along the quays, looking for possible public sites needing a ‘lift’.  They then had 4 hours to plan, construct, and install textile installations for their chosen locations.  Some collaborated.  It was icy cold but some made their work on-site, wrapping and constructing in the November air.  Mary’s visit was organised to coincide with a workshop theme of ‘World’ in which the classes are looking at spatial concerns.  They are constructing miniature works in class; here was their chance to take on the large scale challenge of public work.  Below are some selected images from the week:

Mary with Sarah Foster and the Fine Art Textiles (NOW ART TEXTILE) Group 25 November, 2010

Lesley Stother:  a flotilla of fish are cast out into the River Lee, while spanning it is a bridge of colour by Frances Leach, Helen O Shea, and Sara Wilson

Mary O Dea made a family for the little directional man

Mary Palmer wrapped up and wrapping the fence with music

Mary Palmer: music at the boardwalk, Grand Parade

Maeve Coulter with her splash of colour and movement offered to a grey end of Washington St

A tiny washing line for the fence at Grand Parade riverside by Jenny Rose Clarke

A colourful Cork chain for the Labour Exchange entrance by Deirdre Cullen

Therese O Dowd: small furry creatures peek out from the fencing around the monument on Grand Parade, hoping to be discovered and taken home by children

Stephanie Horwill:  shopping lady takes a rest at Nano Nagle Bridge

Anita Johnston brings the trees along Wandesford Quay to flowering life

Colourful buoys brighten the bridge–Karen Ashley and Deirdre Hegarty