Call for Submissions for 2010

Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery is seeking submissions for the forthcoming year, 2010.

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 2nd October 2009

The newly renovated Ennistymon Courthouse building features a main art gallery, the smaller Red Couch gallery space, five artists’ studios, and a sound recording studio. The Courthouse Gallery seeks to attract local and national audiences by exhibiting work of the highest standard by local, national, and international artists.

We are interested in exhibiting a wide range of visual art, including collaborations and multi-media projects for exhibition in both our gallery spaces. We also welcome proposals that are participatory led or involve some engagement with the community.

We wish to focus on exhibiting emerging artists based locally and nationwide.

If you are interested in applying, please send your submission (which should include):

*biography/ CV
*artist statement,
*brief description of proposed show,
*6-8 images on CD or hard-copy photos

25% commission charged.

Please send submissions to:
Trudi van der Elsen - Coordinator,
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery,
Parliament Street,
Ennistymon,
Co. Clare.

Selection will be made mid October and all artists will be contacted after that.

For more information or a gallery viewing please contact:
E: ennistymoncourthousegallery@gmail.com
T: 065-7071630
W: www.ennistymoncourthousegallery.blogspot.com

Deadline for submissions: 5pm, Friday 2nd October 2009

Present Exhibition - "Solitary Company"

“Solitary Company”

Mona Hynes, Patsy Ricks and Mary Fahy

“Solitary Company” is the title of the exhibition by three artists from the North Clare area in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon this August.

Inspired by the transient local landscape, local artists

Mona Hynes, Patsy Ricks and Mary Fahy

have created a diverse show, highlighting each of their unique expression through the medium of paint. “Solitary Company” captures the energy and light of North Clare and this is a wonderful opportunity to re-visit your local area through the eyes and creativity of another. They have made visible interepretations of the landscape that we pass by everyday, noting subtle changes and celebrating all that is so intriguing in our local environment.

Through multiple layers of paint Galway born Mary Fahy has created dense landscapes highlighting the edge of things; where sky meets land, where sea meets shore, to twilight images at the edge of day. She manifests through painting the essence and energy of a place in a highly personal way by re-]imagining it on canvas. In some paintings Mary Fahy suggests interaction between people and their environment: a trace of a footprint, evidence of people having passed through.

Being an artist from the Burren, Mona Hynes expresses her connection to it through paintings that are in a fluid expressive style and deal with an emotional and imaginative response to this beautiful and often desolate landscape. Mona Hynes allows the paint the freedom to form an initial image by dropping and pouring it onto the canvas and then she paints over this. She never knows what the final piece will look like. For Mona Hynes this process reflects the unique and mysterious quality of the Burren.

Patsy Ricks, an artist based in the Courthouse Studios, engages with everyday scenes in Ennistymon and Lahinch such as dilapidated buildings, old stone walls, rust and even the dogs in the street catch her eye. She feels it is necessary to record, through the medium of watercolour, the demise of buildings and their surroundings in the local area. Patsy Ricks work is her chronicle of places fast disappearing .

“Solitary Company”,Paintings by Mona Hynes, Patsy Ricks and Mary Fahy was opened by Councillor Flan Garvey on Thursday 7th August 2008 at 8.00pm.

Exhibition runs until Saturday 30th August.

Open: Tue to Sat 12.00 - 5.00pm.Ph: 065 7071630 Email: ennistymon@mail.com