Christmas Greeting

Thank you all for your support during 2010 and wishing you a Happy Christmas & a Creative 2011

from Kathryn, Crissie, Dara, Trudi

The Gallery is open:  29th, 30th and 31st of December from 12 - 4 pm

                                 4th, 5th and 6th of January from 12 - 4 pm

The Gallery is closed:  24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th of December

                                   1st, 2nd and 3rd of January

OPENING OF THE CHRISTMAS SHOW

We are delighted that Mayor Christy Curtin opened our Christmas Show "has been + is going" and "Trasna" . It was a great evening  and we had a very successful auction.We sold 50 pieces from the 200 original postcard-sized works by established artists.

The exhibition runs until the 6th January and these affordable works, now € 40 each, make original Christmas presents. Works sold can be taken away and they will be replaced by new ones.

                                                                                              

'has been + is going'

Exhibition will be opened by Mayor Christy Curtin,

on Friday 26^th November @ 7pm

‘Trasna’ AUCTION begins at 8pm

‘has been + is going’ features an astonishingly diverse range of work that ‘has been’ exhibited or ‘is going’ to be exhibited in the near future. Artists were selected for the high standard of their work and the show captures a variety of styles, materials and ways of working. Alongside individual artists’ works are collaborative projects such as Sitemeetings, Collection of Minds and Aughty Public Art Projects.

Artists featured are Jackie Askew, Fiona O’Dwyer (in collaboration with Paddy and Jimin Dooley), Sinead O’Connell, Vicky Lennie, Sarah Fuller, Fiona Woods, Trudi van der Elsen, Nicola Henley, Sitemeetings (Alexandra Boettcher, Maeve Collins, Maria Kerin), David O’Rourke, Ilsa Thielan, Martina Cleary, Desmond McLoughlin, Mairin Kelly, Fiona Woods, Christy McNamara, Dyan Smith, Aoife McGovern and Aughty Public Art Projects (curated by Dr. Aine Phillips with artists Marie Connole, Emma Houlihan and Tom Flanagan).

Alongside these works the Courthouse will host a selection of artist’s paper projects; catalogues, artist’s books and zines.

‘Trasna’ is an exhibition of postcard-sized works by well-known artists run in conjunction with the Christmas show. This is a first for the Courthouse Gallery who have been delighted with the response from national and international artists.

 In celebration of this unique exhibition all works will be at a reserve price of 40 euros. This is a wonderful opportunity for locals to purchase original artworks as gifts for loved ones in the upcoming festive season

To encourage all of the communities of North Clare to share in this fun event there will be a wine reception and a humourous Auction to be enjoyed on the opening night Friday  26^th November. Members of the public are invited to come early and place bids on their favourite pieces before the auction begins at 8pm.

The Courthouse Gallery welcomes you to these exciting events which celebrates artists’ work in the community of Ennistymon and beyond.

'Trasna' the auction

  

  ‘Trasna’ exhibition and auction of postcard-sized work

• This collection of almost 200 postcards-sized works from national + international artists will be auctioned by Chris Wallis and Sarah Fuller on the opening night at 8 pm.
• There is a reserve price of €40 on each work.
• This is a silent auction, meaning artists are anonymous until after works are purchased.
• To place a bid : please use stickers provided to indicate which piece you are interested in bidding on.
• Auction starts at 8 pm, and the highest bidder can take their purchased work on the night. 
• List of participating artists : Emma Houlihan, Cora Griffin, Cynthia Sinnott, Will O’Kane, Madeline Smith, Jackie Askew, Leslie Wieltschnig, Valerie O’Driscoll, Mimie White, Frank Golden, Patricia Tuite, Pauline Keena, Carmel O’Driscoll, Tara Barone, Sarah Stevens, Margaret Duffy, Fiona O’Dwyer, Desmond McLoughlin, Ann Vaughan, Ben Smith, Kate Hodman, Betty Gannon, Katja Wittmer, Joe Ryan, James Slevin, Judy O’Sullivan, Finola Graham, Achim Riffelwood, Trudi van der Elsen, Liz Moloney, Mary Hoey-Dietz, Barbara Damen, Koos van der Elsen, Maeve Collins, Alexandra Boettcher, Ilsa Thielan, Caitriona Sheedy, Vicky Lennie, Hilary Gilmore, Thomas Prendergast, Natalie El Baba, Madeleine Lara Smith, Mimi Kern, Charles Henihan, Mary McMahon, Ian Wieczorek, Orla Campbell, Gabrielle Cap, Caireann Browne, Carol Kennedy, Fiona Calnan, Joyce Shee, Josephine Quigley, Jean Duffy, Mary Fahy, Emma Barone, Sadie Cramer, Dorothy Ledwith, Tessa O’Connor, Marianne Slevin-Potterton, Dyan Smith, Corinna Schroeder-v.Frihling, Sinead O’Connell, Marje O’Brien, Nicola Henley, Marie Connole, Diana Reid.

Seeing and Dreaming

DOG AND STRING THEATRE

SEEING AND DREAMING

in the Gallery 

Saturday November 13th @ 8pm

Two visual theatre portraits telling the intricate stories of two lives.

‘Astonishingly insightful, sensitive piece. I think, as it exists, is near perfection – a dance between performers. It is both complete and complex.’

THE SHOW IS SUITABLE FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN AGED 10 AND OVER

Seeing and Dreaming is a new piece of visual theatre that tells the intricate stories of two lives. Visual artist and puppeteer Sarah Fuller and performer Vanessa Earl are collaborating to bring these people’s stories to life using shadows, objects, puppets and people.

Dorothy is eighty, lives alone in a Victorian house in Birmingham. She has one eye, no teeth and a soft spot for Starsky and Hutch. Michael is eighty-eight. Gnarled and bed ridden, he dreams of dancing and wild horses.

Dorothy’s story is told through the memories of her eight-year old grand-daughter who spent many weekends alone with her. This is a portrait of older age told through the eyes of a child.

Michael’s story focuses on the last year of his life spent in hospital. This portrait explores his changing states of mind, slipping between dream, reality and memory. This is a man preparing to die.

Vanessa Earl

Trained at the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School and the Laboratory for the Study of Movement in Paris. For sixteen years she has worked professionally making theatre. Among others she has worked for the Clod Ensemble, Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Opressed, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Tom Morris and the Battersea Arts Centre, Theatre de Complicite and the National Theatre. 

Sarah Fuller

Graduated in Textile Design at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design London. In 1995 she established Dog and String Theatre and since then has devised, performed and toured shows for childrens audiences both nationally and internationally. Her visual art has been exhibited widely throughout Ireland. She has considerable experience working in Arts in health and has been exploring the therapeutic possibilities of puppetry in relation to dementia. 

Trasna

Open invite to “Trasna” Postcard Exhibition 

In conjunction with the Christmas exhibition ‘has been + is going’ 25th November to 6th January, The Courthouse Gallery Ennistymon is inviting A5 postcard submissions from national and international artists. Postcard- max 19cm x 13.5cm size, in any medium and clearly label on back artists name, title, medium, address, mobile number and email address. Post to Trasna, The Courthouse Gallery and Studios, Parliament St., Ennistymon, Co. Clare, by 16th Novemeber.  All postcards priced at 40euro including 25% gallery commission. There will be an auction on opening night and prices may increase. ennistymoncourthousegallery@gmail.com

The Bahh Band

 The Bahh Band 

concert in the gallery to launch their new CD

“Worlds Colliding”

Friday 12^th November @  9pm

door: €15,  includes CD!

                                             

The Bahh Band

The Bahh Band are a rapidly evolving group of seven eclectic musicians based in the cultural melting pot of Galway in the West of Ireland. Their unique and soulful blending of such diverse influences as Indian classical music, bluegrass, Irish music, vocal improvisation and groove laden rhythms have won them many fans at their regular appearances in festivals such as Body N Soul, Electric Picnic and the Festival of World Cultures. The group began as a three piece founded by Australian born, Mattu who plays the sarode (a 25 stringed Indian lute), Italian tabla player, Ciro Montanari and Galway bluesman, Tom Portman on the dobro (a slide resonator guitar). However, the group has constantly been seeking a greater density of sound and have expanded to include the dynamic Pauli Smalls (double bass), 2 vocalists (Ceara Conway and Goishka) and well known bodhran/percussionist Brian Fleming. They have become increasingly known for their hypnotic live shows, incorporating more guests using further percussion, drones and electronics. The Bahh Band also display an interesting choice of covers in their live repertoire, drawing on psychedelic rock riffs, jazz standards, Johnny Cash, reggae motifs and traditional Irish folk songs!!!

Most recently, in 2010, they recorded a version of Jeff Wayne’s 70’s rock opera, War of the Worlds, which received the enthusiastic approval of the author and numerous hits on youtube for their subsequent video. The band’s founding member, Mattu, received a grant from the Arts Council of Ireland to further his study in India and funding from Galway County Council to complete the group’s debut album entitled, Worlds Colliding. The group performed for thousands of people at the recent visit of Indian guru, Amma, in the RDS in Dublin and are planning a tour of England and India.

“Exceedingly talented and diverse, the Bahh band mix elements of blues, bluegrass, folk and eastern sounds seamlessly” (bodynsoul.ie)

“Serious shoes off music!!!” (Ronan O Snodaigh-Kila)

Mrs.Redhead Photography

In the Red Couch Space

Perceptions

Olga Leszczynska
 

16^th October – 11^th November

official opening 16^th October at 5 pm

  Everything in her starts with a thought which glides above the picture. The eye sees it, the mind catches it and pierces it with the free bird's beak. Individualism, passion and the technique of peeping from the other side of a mirror is connected with humbleness, a child-like admiration for the world and the resolution of a mad motorcyclist.
Born in Poland, she has been living in Ireland since 2004. She's an open, communicative risk-taker who wants to get to know the people and herself. She wants to catch the hidden pictures. That is why, by taking a camera to her hands, she feels fulfilled.

Olga invited also Peter Cierniak to exhibit some photographs.

Peter Cierniak is a freelance photographer based in Dublin and Kildare. Passionate of fantasy art. Adrenaline junkie addicted to extreme activities. Shares his time between motorbike touring adventures and his PCPA Photography Studio project. In photography he likes expression, wide angles...and no rules.

'collins. harper. lane.' - new paintings. Launch on Saturday 16th of October at 5 PM by Doris Staal.

Artists John Collins, Charles Harper and John Lane are about to present a selection of brand new works for the very first time to the public on that date ,with the show running until November 11^th 2010.

Travelling from America’s east coast to officially open proceedings is New York artist Doris Staal. No stranger to our shores, Doris has spent most every summer sketching and painting along our western coastline and is honoured to return in this official capacity to open the show.

Doris Staal is a lecturer at National Academy & School of Fine Arts, New York City which is situated across the road from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 5^th Avenue. She has worked with high profile artists from the New York scene over the years including Robert Mejer, Robert DiNiro Snr; and Hans Hoffman. 

In addition to yearly faculty shows at National Academy, her work has appeared in exhibitions across the United states, the University of Wales, and Skidmore College where she was the recipient of several fellowships. Her work is included in the print collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, amongst others.

All 3 contributing artists will also be in attendance on Saturday the 16th, so a real treat in store for all art lovers who wish to visit the opening.

'Limerick Clown - A Head for Hats' 

by John Collins

John Collins is a Limerick artist who’s works are instantly recognisable as his composition continues to be dominated chiefly in red and white settings. As you would expect from Collins, there is a poetic outlook yet a dark approach to his work which becomes immediately obvious with his representative colour and structure. Primarily, a self taught artist, he also studied art at LSAD and his works are part of private collections in Ireland, England, France and the United States.

'Delayed Race' by Charles Harper

Charles Harper is retired Head of Fine Art at LSAD and while lecturing at the Limerick campus was a founding member of Aosdana. He was the initiating dynamism behind ev+a, Limerick‘s annual international arts exhibition, and is a council member of the Royal Hibernian academy and a member of Limerick Printmakers. Harper has contributed to private and public collections both nationally an internationally throughout the world. Most recent is his One-Man Show at Wexford Vocational College and Gormley Fine Art Gallery in Dublin & Belfast. Group shows include: RHA, Iontas prize winners Show in 2004 and the Amnasty show in Dublin.

 

'Just to know Peace' by John Lane

John Lane is a local artist, born and raised in Ennis Co Clare. After studying art in Limerick and Sligo John ended up homeless for a short spell, coming out of this stronger and more positive he began this new series of work, delving into his soul and the souls of those who view his paintings.

Willie Doherty remarked “Each painting is like a song” after viewing John’s work in Belfast.

An Evening of Poetry

Salmon Poetry 

continues its successful reading series in the gallery,  with a special reading to celebrate 

All Ireland Poetry Day, 

7pm, Thursday 7th October,

 Admission is free. 

The featured readers are:

Rita Ann Higgins - Internationally acclaimed Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins reads from her new book, Hurting God - Part Essay Part Rhyme, just published by Salmon, which includes essays and accompanying poems, drawing us into a childhood world of God, púcas, jiving factory girls and a crocodile-wielding father. Her first five collections were published by Salmon: Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986); Witch in the Bushes (1988); Goddess and Witch (1990); Philomena's Revenge (1992); and, Higher Purchase (1996). Bloodaxe Books published her next three collections: Sunny Side Plucked (1996); An Awful Racket (2001); and Throw in the Vowels: New & Selected Poems in May 2005 to mark her 50th birthday.

Kevin Higgins is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events. He facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre, teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute and on the Brothers of Charity Away With Words programme. He is also Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital and the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser. He has had three books published with Salmon, The Boy With No Face, Time Gentlemen, Please and, earlier this year, Frightening New Furniture.

Susan Millar DuMars is American-born, now living in Galway. Also co-organiser of Galway's Over the Edge events, she works as a teacher of creative writing, and has had two books published with Salmon; Big Pink Umbrella and Dreams for Breakfast. She also writes fiction.

Mary Madec was born and raised in the west of Ireland, and is currently Director of the Villanova Study Abroad Program in Galway. With her husband Claude Madec, she started up a community-writing project, Away with Words, now in its third year. She published her first collection, In Other Words, with Salmon this year.

Mary Mullen, taught memoir writing at Galway Arts Centre, and now tutors writers privately. Mary was born in Anchorage, and raised on her parent's homestead in Soldotna, Alaska. She moved to Ballinderreen, Co. Galway, Ireland in 1996, where she still lives with her daughter Lily, a sparkly Galway girl who was born with Down Syndrome. Her first collection, Zephyr, was published by Salmon this year.

Glenn Shea was born and has lived most of his life in Connecticut. He is living for the moment in an old farmhouse in Uncasville and works with a group of illuminati in a huge used-book shop in Niantic, Connecticut. He has published two chapbooks. Find A Place That Could Pass For Home, his first full-length collection, has just appeared from Salmon.

Jessie Lendennie
Managing Director
Salmon Poetry Ltd.
Knockeven
Cliffs of Moher

http://salmonpoetry.com

http://jessielendennie.com