Speed Curating

Subject: Invitation to Get Together 2015: Speed Curating! Extra Slots Added

Ireland's National Day for Visual Artists - Friday, 15th May 2015 in IMMA
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Artist Opportunity

Cavan Alzheimer’s Dementia Friendly Project - Artist Opportunity

Cavan Alzheimer’s Dementia Friendly Project, invites application from artists to design and produce a mural or graffiti art on the Band Stand at Con Smith Park, Cavan.

Cavan Alzheimer’s Dementia Friendly Project is developing a meaningful Reminiscence Walking Trail from Supervalu to the existing Con Smith Park (over 1 km distance). This walk includes the award winning outdoor exercise amenities which were created specifically for older people. The project will make a more interesting walk by adding reminiscence features such as animals and objects that were used in the past in agricultural activities.

This “Boithrin na Smaointe’ is a new, exciting, innovative and culturally relevant development. It will greatly enhance the cluster of interesting amenities in the same locality. It will engender a sense of curiosity for both carer and person with dementia to explore at no cost and at their leisure. To walk on this trail will provide stimulation to the senses and physical exercise, all of which will provide intervention to dementia.

This reminiscence walk can be used and enjoyed by other members of the family i.e. grandchildren, friends, associates and the wider community thus making it inclusive and an amenity for all generations to enjoy. The band stand is part of this walk and we seek submissions from artists to enhance it. We envisage painting a mural on the floor of the bandstand and/ or on the panelled roof. The mural would ideally be based on a Cavan theme. Ideas might include interpretation of the popular music or other meaningful symbols that will be relevant in a Cavan context to a wide audience and in particular the Dementia Friendly Project. We are also looking to develop an appropriate logo for the project.

Artists are invited to submit a letter of interest detailing how their proposal consider the theme relevant to the Dementia Friendly project as outlined here, a current CV and good quality relevant examples of their relevant work.

Artists should also consider the material and multi-purpose, outdoor nature of the floor and ceiling in the Band Stand, durability, project time line and costing.

Submissions must be received by Thursday 7 May 2015.

Please send your submission to: brady-cath@hotmail.com

by Closing Date: 7 May 2015

Total Budget Available: €900 Info: 0498540088

http://www.cavanarts.ie/Default.aspx…

Landscape and Memory Exhibition

You are cordially invited to attend:

Landscape & Memory Johnston Central Library Gallery Space will host an exhibition titled ‘Landscape and Memory’ curated by visual artist Marilyn Gaffney. The exhibition comprises of 20 international artists work.

One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity, belonging and human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. Landscape therefore is not simply what we see, but a way of seeing. We see it with our eye but interpret it with our mind and ascribe values to landscape for intangible spiritual reasons. Landscape can therefore be seen as a cultural construct in which our sense of place and memories inhere.

This group of artists gathered to talk in one shared language -as well as many tongues, on the matter of memory and landscape. Since the landscape changed in times for them, and as much as their eyes allowed, becoming their own. Many of them have come from other countries and cultures, adding to the personal voyage, the re- interpretation of the land by different experiences and tongues.

The landscape then changes, subtly transformed by memory, acquiring multiple forms: abstract digitized photos to fine painting; children playing in bucolic gardens that the artist eye turns sinister, portraits disintegrate to pixels, the human body as a textual form and repository for memories, human impact on the land, stating what matters is the personal voyage, the unique experience under the set point Memory and Landscape.

This exhibition is taking a step into the computer screen to bring the combined international artists together, into a ‘real’ space and ‘real’ artwork that we get a true sense of.

Exhibiting artists include: Malgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (Poland), Nikolas Lamplaos (Greece), Carly Zufelt (USA), Judith Mazzucco, (USA), Elena Feijoo (USA), Marilyn Gaffney (Ireland), Karen Esteves (USA), Madaline Walker (USA), Tomás Castaño (Spain), Sasha Romashko (Ukraine), Stuart J. Gibson (USA), Andy Golan (Great Britain), Xiaohong Zhang (USA), Reyhaneh Afzalian (Iran), Miranda Mirandita (Argentina), Yami (France), Klaus Pinter (Austria), Vera L.P. Cauwenberghs (Belgium), Rachel Lin Weaver (USA), Courtney A. Henderson (USA).

Official Opening by Cathaoirleach Shane P. O’Reilly Opening 23 April at 7pm.

Welcome by Marta Mirandita.

The exhibition runs until 22 May and takes place during the Bealtaine Festival 2015.