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Tulca 2010: Living on the Edge: People, Place & Possibility
Galway
November 6th - 21st

Tulca Festival of Visual Arts 2010 will present the work of over 40 national and international artists across 8 venues and public spaces in Galway city and will include a hectic programme of workshops, talks and live performances. Now in it's 9th year, Tulca will run for 2 weeks, from the 6th of November to the 21st of November.

Engage Art Studios is an artist-run studio space in Galway city centre.  Engage supports ambitious contemporary artists in a professional environment.  Artists hail from as far away as Sweden and the US and as close as Galway City itself.  Engage members’ practices range from the emergent to the well established, and the media Engage artists work in is also diverse, including everything from performance to drawing to video to oil on canvas to sculpture to installation and more.

EimearJean McCormack has created drawings and prints based on climatic changes and contrast them against human activities contributing to land alteration.  Jennifer Cunningham’s video, Island, is about Inishlacken, a deserted island off the coast of Roundstone, Galway. It explores the themes of emigration and relocation as it addresses the island’s isolated beauty and the way that modern life has cast aside once useful objects.  Cecilia Danell shows an alternate route out to Mutton Island in a stop motion video. She references sci-fi space travel and brutalist architecture, while highlighting the lesser known sides of a structure integral to the Galway City coastline.  Rust Mountain is new work by Miriam Donohue.  Using the found object and accompanying sound, the artist works as collector, transporter, thief and as documenter of the sounds of the last docking place.  Maeve Curtis exhibits Turn, the remnant of a performative arena where the energetic and rhythmic forces of tidal currents are played out through the meeting of contesting surfaces.  Porifera is a piece by Maria Brennan that explores living on in the remote ‘edge of Europe’ where the idea of self-protection and survival can become insular and isolating.  She combines the biology of sea sponges and an allegorical look at regeneration and fragmentation.

To View the Full Tulca Programme, go to www.tulca.ie

Watch us on Platform Ireland.
Read about us in the Galway City Tribune.
 

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Galway City Culture Night 2010
Open Studios at Engage
September 24th, 6 –9pm

www.galwayculturenight.com

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Enrage

Curated by Ian McInerney for the Galway Arts Festival 2010

The White Room Gallery

July 13th – August 14th 2010

Opening reception: Tuesday, July 13th, 6pm

Engage Studios is an artist–run studio space in Galway city centre. Now in its sixth year, Engage supports contemporary artists in a professional environment. This exhibition is curated by Ian McInerney, co–founder of the Black Mariah Gallery in Cork, and reflects the diversity of the members’ practice ranging from drawing to painting and video to installation.

Featuring the work of:

Tadhg O’Cuirín
Tiarnán McDonough
Eimear Twomey
Roisin O’Brien
Siobhan McGibbon
Angela O'Brien
Miriam Donohue
Eimear Jean McCormack
Jennifer Cunningham
Maeve Curtis
Seamus Keane
Áine Phillips
Cecilia Danell
Maria Brennan
Ann Maria Healy
Jim Ricks
Sandra Bunting

Check us out in the Galway Arts Festival programme here.

Check out what Aidan Dunne of The Irish Times has to say about Enrage here.

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Centre – Line is a group multimedia exhibition showing as part of the Volvo Ocean Race Galway Stopover Art trail. Engage Art Studios is located in the heart of the city and is home to 23 artists working in a diverse range of media, 16 of engages artists will exhibit work for Centre – Line which was curated by Victoria Mc Cormack. The show will open on Saturday June 23rd at 4pm in the cathedral buildings on Middle Street, the show will run until June 6th and will be open to the public daily between 1-5pm.