Spent early January on a residency at Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry.
New work available at the Lavit Gallery, Cork, email: www.lavitgallery.com
Spent early January on a residency at Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry.
New work available at the Lavit Gallery, Cork, email: www.lavitgallery.com
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Cork Art250 in aid of the Cill Rialaig Project at Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry.
Corn Market Centre, Corn Market Street, Cork
See link below for information and side bar for my contribution; Killgarvan Road, acrylic on linen.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-250/221721547842833?ref=nf
I did a residency at Cil Rialaig in 2007 and it was a wonderful opportunity to escape and indulge in the Irish landscape, for two weeks. The Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat has been an amazing success story and all due to the inspired thinking of Noelle Cambell Sharp.
Below is a link to uTube shots on the Cill Rialaig project
An t-Éalú
Art Exhibition
Friday 4th March 2011
Exhibition opened by
Peadar Ó Riada
Musician & artist
Continues until 2nd May 2011
Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne, Co. Chorcaí. 026.45733. eolas@ionadculturtha.ie www.ionadculturtha.ie
In the recent past my work recorded memories of familiar environments. River Lee Project (2008) was a study on the evolving cityscape against an unchanging backdrop of the River Lee. That unchanging presence inspired thoughts of past generations while I sketched and painted from the quay walls.
In the late nineteenth century my Grandfather and two of his brothers crossed the River Lee in Cork on their way to Cobh. They were blacksmiths from Ballyvourney and were seeking employment in America. Like many Irish who made that journey they found work in Montana. On her visit there in 2006, President Mary McAleese spoke of how tens of thousands of Irish made Montana their home, while “they kept Ireland in their hearts”.
This exhibition records parts of that journey and the landscape and environment that many emigrants had to leave behind. I sought to experience the environment of my ancestors and painted what remains of it today.
An tÉalú
Le tamall anuas, tá fócas mo chuid oibre dírithe ar thaifeadadh a dhéanamh ar chuimhní na dtimpeallachtaí aithnidiúla. Mar shampla, is éard a bhí i gceist le Tionscadal Abha na Laoi [River Lee Project] (2008) ná staidéar ar dhreach cathrach éabhlóideach Chorcaí, neas-suite i gcoinne cúlra neamh-athraitheach Abha na Laoi. Thug an cúlra neamh-athraitheach sin smaointe ar ghlúine atá caite chun cuimhne, agus mé i mbun sceitseála agus péinteála ó bhallaí na cé. Sin é an spreagadh laistiar den tionscadal reatha seo.
Go déanach sa naoú haois déag chonacthas mo Sheanathair ag trasnú Abha na Laoi i gCorcaigh, i dteannta le beirt dá dheartháireacha, agus iad ag gabháil an treo go dtí an Cóbh. Gaibhne dubha ba ea na fir seo ó Bhaile Mhúirne agus é i gceist acu dul sa tóir ar fhostaíocht i Meiriceá. Cosúil le go leor Éireannach a thug faoin turas sin, d’aimsíodar roinnt oibre i Montana. Ar cuairt ann sa bhliain 2006, labhair an tUachtarán Máire Mhic Giolla Íosa ar an tslí inar chuir na céadta mílte Éireannach fúthu i Montana, fad “a choimeád siad Éire go daingean ina gcroíthe".
Déanann an taispeántas seo taifeadadh ar chodanna áirithe den turas sin, an tírdhreach agus timpeallacht gurb éigean don oiread sin eisimirceach a fhágaint ina ndiaidh. Theastaigh uaim blúire de thimpeallacht mo shinsir a roinnt mar atá sí inniu, agus an taithí sin a thaifeadadh.
Geraldine O'Riordan
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Hello All,
"Backwater Twenty 10" exhibition is currently on at the Crawford Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork. The exhibition runs until 10th April, 2010. I have put up my selected painting on the side bar. Click twice on the image to view in large format.
Ballyvourney is beckoning! So, that is where I will be this Summer. I am looking forward to introducing some landscapes into my portfolio. It is all part of the "River Lee" study, my ancestors and revisitng the past. The work will be for an exhibition at Ionad Culturtha, Ballyvourney, in March/April 2011.
(Art classes (2 a week) at my studio are ongoing. Anyone interested may email, geraldineoriordan@yahoo.ie)
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Lately I have been doing some murals on my own house and also a few by commission. Some of the inspiration comes from mid-twentieth century interior design and art. I think they really lend themselves to the modern interiors of today. It's nice to add colour and design as a feature to a room. It can act as a focal point or highlight an architectural feature. The challenge of designing for individual homes is stimulating and it also gives me an opportunity to reflect on my other artwork.
Take a look at the album on the sidebar!
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(To view paintings click on the album on the side bar on the right).
Most recent exhibition was 15th May to 13th of June 2008. The opening was by Colm Murphy.
At the Cork City & County Archive
Seamus Murphy Building Great William O'Brien Street
Blackpool
Cork
The work emerged from my experience of Cork City as a lifeworld, and specifically, the changing nature of that lifeworld. The layered unfolding of its landscape, its interaction with the passing of time is one that inspires me. As a painter, I seek to capture the nuances constituting that changing landscape, and thereby bring to mind our past, and the journey that we take with the environment that is our home. As a native of Cork City, I bring a keen sense of the evolving cityscape to my work, and this is represented in my painting. The passing of time brings with it an organic development to the architectural shape and fabric of the city, one that is interwoven into the experience of daily life for its residents. My paintings bring this passage of time to the fore, as represented by the heightened play of light, colour and shadow, calling to mind the transient nature of our experience.
The River Lee Project has enabled me to explore my vision of the meaning of the cityscape; to explore my understanding of it as a lifeworld. The river - symbolising an essential element of city life - interplays with my vision as a painter; it has become the backdrop against which my sense of the excitement and delight of the City are played out, enabling me to express something of what we are, and the role that our environment plays for us. The solid quay walls tell their own story. They are a stable, solid and unchanging factor. Above them things are happening...
Through this project I would like to awaken an appreciation for our experience with the environment, evoking a sense of our past and a vision of our future. By choosing to represent experience through representational painting, I am calling on my background as a decorative artist. My prior work was the application of traditional painting methods to the home environment. During the years when I ran this business, my skills as a painter developed, along with the hope of fulfilling my lifelong desire to express my vision through painting. It is my hope that those of you who viewed "The River Lee Project" exhibition will concur.
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I was born and have lived most of my life in Cork. Having initially pursued a career in business the desire to paint has always been there. As the result of doing a residency at the Burren College in 2005 I decided to pursue art as a career. Soon after I acquired a studio at the Backwater Artist Group at Wansford Quay which enabled me to study and sketch the old buildings of the city and the docklands.
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