PEAKSHOW EXHIBITIONS PROJECT (2018-2019)
PeakShow Exhibitions was an independent artist-led project based in Limerick, founded by Sara Dowling and Ellen Egan. It aimed to facilitate more Open Call opportunities for local students, recent graduates and emerging artists, and had 4 successful large scale exhibitions over 12 months, featuring the collective works of 69 artists, designers and practitioners. PeakShow at the Sailors Home took place in Oct '18 and ran in conjunction with Open House Architecture Festival, and PeakShow at The Loft took place in Feb '19 (featuring Durty Words by Kate O Shea and Victoria Brunetta, and Artist talks by Stephen Murphy and Helena Grimes). PeakShow at the Fab Lab (working in collaboration with the Riverfest Weekend and the Limerick Arts Office) took place over the May Bank Holiday Weekend, and featured 14 Artists, many of whom were current students and recent graduates. Events in line with the exhibition itself included a socially engaged Tea Event by artist Pavithra Kannan and a live performance by Conor Coady from Echtrae Collaboratives on the final exhibition day. PeakShows last exhibition of the year featured at Limerick City Museum in June, in an awarded 3-artist exhibition selected by the PeakShow team. PeakShow also offered curatorial teams and exhibition assistant call-outs, and shared hands-on knowledge with all interested in being part of its growing PeakShow community for each exhibition. For more information, email peakshowinfo@gmail.com.
PeakShow Exhibitions was an independent artist-led project based in Limerick, founded by Sara Dowling and Ellen Egan. It aimed to facilitate more Open Call opportunities for local students, recent graduates and emerging artists, and had 4 successful large scale exhibitions over 12 months, featuring the collective works of 69 artists, designers and practitioners. PeakShow at the Sailors Home took place in Oct '18 and ran in conjunction with Open House Architecture Festival, and PeakShow at The Loft took place in Feb '19 (featuring Durty Words by Kate O Shea and Victoria Brunetta, and Artist talks by Stephen Murphy and Helena Grimes). PeakShow at the Fab Lab (working in collaboration with the Riverfest Weekend and the Limerick Arts Office) took place over the May Bank Holiday Weekend, and featured 14 Artists, many of whom were current students and recent graduates. Events in line with the exhibition itself included a socially engaged Tea Event by artist Pavithra Kannan and a live performance by Conor Coady from Echtrae Collaboratives on the final exhibition day. PeakShows last exhibition of the year featured at Limerick City Museum in June, in an awarded 3-artist exhibition selected by the PeakShow team. PeakShow also offered curatorial teams and exhibition assistant call-outs, and shared hands-on knowledge with all interested in being part of its growing PeakShow community for each exhibition. For more information, email peakshowinfo@gmail.com.
DHG STUDENT FORUM RESPONSE EVENT, FEBRUARY 2019
The 2018/19 DHG Student Forum members’ responded to 40 years of programming at the DHG Douglas Hyde Gallery with a schedule of events on the 28th February in the gallery space. Each member selected a category within the Archives of particular interest, presenting the results in various ways - through audio/visual artworks, interviews, archival documents, workshops and written papers, concluding in a panel discussion and live performance. Personal response featured faxes and letters exchanged between EVA International and the DHG tracing back to the creation of the EVA International exhibition of 1983, 'New Works by Past Winners', which featured at DHG as part of the exhibition. Photos by Rachel & Aideen at the Gallery, with thanks. More details of this event as found on the DHG website at: http://www.douglashydegallery.com/events#/old-invitations
The 2018/19 DHG Student Forum members’ responded to 40 years of programming at the DHG Douglas Hyde Gallery with a schedule of events on the 28th February in the gallery space. Each member selected a category within the Archives of particular interest, presenting the results in various ways - through audio/visual artworks, interviews, archival documents, workshops and written papers, concluding in a panel discussion and live performance. Personal response featured faxes and letters exchanged between EVA International and the DHG tracing back to the creation of the EVA International exhibition of 1983, 'New Works by Past Winners', which featured at DHG as part of the exhibition. Photos by Rachel & Aideen at the Gallery, with thanks. More details of this event as found on the DHG website at: http://www.douglashydegallery.com/events#/old-invitations
'Αφηγήσεις' (Narrations), 2017.
Below: Character Snapshots of Video Piece as displayed in Mudhouse Residency Exhibition 2017, Agios Ioannis Cultural Centre, Crete.
Fully created in collaboration with the village residents and residency participants.
Inspired by the narratives of village life and encouraged by the spirit of Mudhouse community, this series of video interviews asked its participants to share a personal rendition of local experience with the artist. Each invited the artist into their personal space and issued their chosen tale in their own mother tongue. The video weaves an ecclectic collection together to establish a new social history featuring the narrators of the mountaintop village as its storytellers. An exceptional thanks to each participant for their contribution to this project.
Below: Character Snapshots of Video Piece as displayed in Mudhouse Residency Exhibition 2017, Agios Ioannis Cultural Centre, Crete.
Fully created in collaboration with the village residents and residency participants.
Inspired by the narratives of village life and encouraged by the spirit of Mudhouse community, this series of video interviews asked its participants to share a personal rendition of local experience with the artist. Each invited the artist into their personal space and issued their chosen tale in their own mother tongue. The video weaves an ecclectic collection together to establish a new social history featuring the narrators of the mountaintop village as its storytellers. An exceptional thanks to each participant for their contribution to this project.
URBAN GARDEN ART STALL, ARTISTS INITIATIVE TENT, O CONNELL STREET, LIMERICK. (SUMMER 2015)
3-day weekly event in the heart of Limerick City for the summer of 2015. Sara Dowling, Philip Desmond and 8 other volunteer graduates and past pupils of LSAD collaborated in a visual showcase to discuss sale orientated work with the public. Face Painting/crafts were available for children, with sculptural work, ceramic crafts, art works, prints, photographs, fashion pieces and other works available for purchase from the artists on site.
3-day weekly event in the heart of Limerick City for the summer of 2015. Sara Dowling, Philip Desmond and 8 other volunteer graduates and past pupils of LSAD collaborated in a visual showcase to discuss sale orientated work with the public. Face Painting/crafts were available for children, with sculptural work, ceramic crafts, art works, prints, photographs, fashion pieces and other works available for purchase from the artists on site.
'MY BEER DIARIES', COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARTIST/STAFF OF RED HEN BAR, 15 PATRICKS ST, LIMERICK, 2014.
Derived from studies of the Deadly Vice of Gluttony, this combined sculptural and public happening aimed to contrast the vices of both Pride and Gluttony in relationship with the artists experiences of alcohol consumption as a student. The artists blood mass was presented in the form of 28 frozen beer diaries, in reference to the Irish Alcohol Diaries Report 2013. Both artist and staff of the Red Hen Bar were active performing participants, creating debate on the environmental circumstances of intoxication and its place within cultural aesthetics.
Derived from studies of the Deadly Vice of Gluttony, this combined sculptural and public happening aimed to contrast the vices of both Pride and Gluttony in relationship with the artists experiences of alcohol consumption as a student. The artists blood mass was presented in the form of 28 frozen beer diaries, in reference to the Irish Alcohol Diaries Report 2013. Both artist and staff of the Red Hen Bar were active performing participants, creating debate on the environmental circumstances of intoxication and its place within cultural aesthetics.
