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Emma Houlihan & Jennie Moran

Title:The Shortest Night Duration:3min 43 sec

Artist Statement

The Shortest Night documents the launch of a Chinese lantern over the Irish Sea on the night of June 21, 2009. Bonfires traditionally burn throughout the night duing the summer solstice. The Shortest Night explores the magic of chemistry, the wonder of flight and the journey of light.

Artists Biography

Emma Houlihan and Jennie Moran met in Como, Italy in 2006 while attending the Foundazione Ratti residency led by Marjetica Potrc. Since then, they have shared a studio space at Commonplace Studios, Dublin and collaborated on many informal projects. The Shortest Night is their first formal collaboration.

HYPERLINK "http://www.emmahoulihan.com" www.emmahoulihan.com

www.jenniemoran.com

Séamus McCormack

Title: Galatea, 2010, Duration, 3.47mins

Performed by Michael Bates, William Delaney, Vanessa Matias Fahy and Geraldine McAlinden

Artists Statement

In several of his works George Bernard Shaw has preempted the complexities of an actor’s ability; prefacing dialogue with adjectives and elaborate often ornate stage directions. ‘This kind of prescriptive writing may work for the Stanislavskian actor, but for the modern actor it is anathema.’

Artists Biography

(b. 1983, Mullingar) graduated with a first class honours degree in Fine Art from DIT in 2006. He is currently undertaking an MA in Sculpture at NCAD. He has exhibited in group exhibition across Ireland and has had two solo exhibitions, most recently in Ballina Arts Centre

Emily Boylan

All because the lady loves…. a healthy balance sheet

I made this work as a response to the theme of vacancy. The story considers the issue of businesses in Ireland that are shut down or destroyed in order to make money from insurance during a recession. I find the idea that sometimes a business is worth more destroyed than operational interesting. For me, there is humour in the short-sightedness through which we as society would rather make a short term saving that leads to a long term loss. I’m also interested in the idea that people who are cogs in the machine of a particular organization can find themselves in traps of their own making, from which they struggle to escape.

Biography I am an artist living in Dublin, currently working on an MFA: Media in NCAD. My work involves video, animation, drawing and community based practice. My work is interested in perceptions of sanity and insanity, and in the influence of action and reaction in shaping our experience and relationships as people.

Mary Caffrey

Title: Man, Dog, House, Duration 3.40

A concerned owner, a curious dog, thinking too hard, too nosey, serious still shots. Stops. Has to go. Quiet, no dialogue. A portal, a levitating holy Mary, a sound to use and a possessed lamp. The possibility of real and imagined communicating with each other.

Mary Caffrey graduated from Fine Art in DIT in 2006 receiving a BA honours degree and the award of Best use of Multi Media. She had a solo exhibition in Thurles in 2008 and has exhibited in several group shows since. She was born in 1982 and lives in Dublin.

Trisha Mc Crae

Title: What Do We See: 2008. Duration: 4 minutes.

Above- still from 'What do we see' by Trisha Mc Crae

Artists statement

My interest in film relates to ways people see; to the theory of the visual, the poetics of vision and the liminal spaces between. These ideas transfer our attention from what we look at, to us as the subject, the looker and our experience of looking, our interpretation of what we see is filtered by our path of knowledge and understanding. It is this visual phenomenon, the idea that vision is a construct of the mind, that I am interested in exploring through the 6000 animated stills of this film.

Artists Biography

Born in Dublin, based in Cambridge UK.

Graduated from Cambridge School of Art in 2004. BA Hons Art and Art

Winner of the American Express Award.

Short listed for the Jerwood Artist Moving Image Award.

Exhibited nationally and internationally, screened in galleries and cinemas and festivals; including the Whitechapel Gallery, and theTraverse Video Festival, Toulouse, France.

Founder member of Neuf, a group of experimental filmakers in Cambridge.

Ian Clotworthy

Title : Nearer My God to Thee, Duration 3 mins.

Artist Statement

This performance, Nearer My God To Thee, was filmed in May 2009 outside the Thomas St Social Welfare Office in Dublin. It was conceived by conducting casual interviews with social welfare clients. The questions dealt with how they felt about being out of work and what they thought of the often dramatic media coverage of the recession. Most people felt frustrated or fearful about the future. This work, of a string trio busking outside the office, was a response to the fear in particular.

Artists Biography

Ian Clotworthy was born in Dublin in 1986 and studied sculpture at the National College of Art and Design. He divides his time between his art practice, furthering his education and the Shell to Sea campaign.

Vincent Sheridan

Title: Starling Ballet ‘Whale’ , Duration 2 min approx

Artists Statement

Animals are often the main themes of Sheridan art, reflecting social behaviours, dynamic interaction and their relationship to the physical and human environment. Works frequently highlight - often in a whimsical and comical way - aspects of animal behaviour that mirror or mimic our own human activities. Such titles as Hierarchy, Attitude, Chorus Line, Marching Line and Stop! are comments on aspects of modern society, i.e. groupies, stereotypes, passivity, and rule bound societies.

Artists Biography

Vincent studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology. He has been working as a full-time artist since 1981. From 1989 to 1998 Sheridan lived and worked as an artist in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. He returned to Dublin in 1999. In 2007 he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, specialising in Video. He joined the Black Church Print Studio in 2000 and is currently a Director of the Board.

Ella Bertilsson

Artists Statement

Through the urban terrain; this work explores time and memory in the context of a journey. Immersed in the city, this landscape conveys a well; a dark pool of memories and dreams that reveals sequential by the unfolding process of travelling through an alienated and isolated place. By examining this journey through the notion that time is non-linear, we begin to discover the way in which past and present interlink and become blurred. Questions also arise about how memories are formed and maintained over time.

Artists Biography

Bertilsson is a Dublin-based artist. She graduated from NCAD’s fine art department in 2009. Her work has been shown in Ireland and internationally in Belfast, London, Los Angeles, Malaysia and Sweden.

Bertilsson is a member of the Black Church Print Studio and the artist collective Turbo Monthly. In 2009, she received a studio scholarship in Vilhelmina, Sweden, and recently received the SIM residency in Iceland that she will begin in February 2011.

Aoife Daly

Title: WAKE, Shot on Super 8 film Duration 2mins,

Artist Statement

This film is about manmade objects in nature. It explores how they impact on the barren, open landscape they occupy. These huge looming turbines populate this lifeless environment. They also reflect the individuality and unity of humanity, through movement and rhythm. Wind Turbines, to me, seem to have a kind of energy or life force. They can be turbulent or gentle, like the mind can be in turmoil or at peace. Collectively they look the same but each one has it’s own unique rhythm.

Biography

Aoife Studied Printmaking at Limerick School of Art and Design and graduated in 2003. Through her print work she developed an interest in photography. She has completed two workshops in digital photography and is currently studying film and media production in Galway.. She has exhibited with Lorg Printmakers and was assistant director on a project that was shown in the short drama category of the Galway Film Fleadh in 2010. She directed a short film that was selected for the Tuam Arts Festival in 2010

Ciara Mc Mahon

Title: I used to say it was gold but really its a platinum one, Duration 8 mins

Artist statement

Ciara McMahon's work, Leaky Self Project discusses the long term adjustments to lifestyle and attitude to self that heart/lung transplantation demands. Made in collaboration and conversation with the Living Gift Transplant Support group the Leaky Self Project is a site specific filmic installation, I used to say it was gold, but really it's a platinum one, platinum (2011), a web presence ( HYPERLINK "http://livinggift.ie/leaky-self/" http://livinggift.ie/leaky-self/) and an ephemeral, conversational event in Dublin cafés running concurrently with the exhibition.

Artist Biography

McMahon trained in both fine art practice and medicine. Her art work is frequently collaborative and realized through performative, participatory works, digital media and site specific installation. The Leaky Self project is funded by the Arts Council through the artist in the community scheme, managed by Create, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts. McMahon will exhibit Liminality at NCAD Gallery in February 2011 as continued development of this body of work.

The Leaky Self project's website is : HYPERLINK "http://www.livinggift.ie/leak-self/blog" www.livinggift.ie/leak-self/blog

Des Kilbane

Artist Statement

" The potential of vacancy is explored here as an empty stage is transformed over a sort period of time into a spectacular set"

Biography and Filmography

Des Kilbane successfully completed the BA in Film & Television Production in GMIT Galway in 2009. His graduation film Rhyming Couplet was premiered at the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh. It was also screened at the Flatlake Festival in August 2009. His next short documentary A Year in the Life of a School Garden was screened at the Galway Junior International Film Festival in November 2009, the Flatlake Festival in June 2010, Galway Film Fleadh July 2010 and Clones Film Festival October 2010.

He operated the lighting equipment for the short film Malfunction in 2008, which was shown at the Prix Europa festival in Berlin. He also filmed Carte Blanche Theatre Company, from Denmark, for the Baboró International Children’s Festival in October 2008.

He has just completed a feature length documentary, Bullsmouth National School 100 Years of Education, filmed on Achill Island over the course of 2010. He is currently working on a documentary on the life and time of Johnny Kilbane former World featherweight champion.

James Merrigan

BILLION

James Merriganʼs video work shows the sweeping camera view of the word BILLION cut out in a sheet of plywood and backed with peg-board and lit with work-lights. The inﬂuence for this work was the paradox between the ubiquity of the word “billion” in the media, creating a symbol of signiﬁcance, but in truth, an empty signiﬁer. The work also reveals the crude ʻmakingʼ of the work by showing a view of the ʻset-upʼ for ﬁlming in the ﬁnal 2 seconds.

Bio

James Merrigan is a mixed-media and video installation artist based in Dublin. He was awarded the Irish Residential Studio Award at Red Stables for 2011. He has exhibited throughout Ireland and is a published writer on art. Forthcoming shows include the group show Trompe Le Monde (Feb 2011), curated by Mary Conlon, Occupy Space Limerick; solo show The Truth Spoken as Word (March 2011), curated by the Director of the RHA,

Patrick T Murphy, Roscommon Arts Centre. Current projects include the creation of an online art criticism journal +BILLION-. In 2012 he will have a solo show at the LAB, Dublin.

:http://billionjournal.blogspot.com/

Gill Christie

Artist Statement

Working with Photography, Digital Media, Video, Super 8, and 16mm film, Gill’s work explores the challenges of transition within human experience where night and day meet.

Biography

Now living in Ireland, Scottish born Filmmaker Gill Christie studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art. Gill completed her studies in Film and Television at G.M.I.T. Galway with distinction and was awarded ‘Student of the Year’. She has exhibited and screened her work in Ireland, including Galway Film Fleadh. Gill worked on co-ordinating and conceiving the mixed media exhibition, ‘Wir sind Berliner’, 2009 which was commissioned by the German Embassy to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gill was also a participating artist in the exhibition. This exhibition received Local and National press coverage.

Anne O’Byrne

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Title: ‘Red Kite’, 2010 Duration 4.12 mins.

Artists Statement
The search for ones identity can manifest itself in different forms. Annes work explores and documents the process of building in an empty space, the building of ones identity.
Through video and small works on board she is charting the subtleties and nuances of the process.

Artists Biography
Anne is a visual artist , born in Cork and now lives and works in Galway. She studied at the Limerick College of Art and Design and holds an Honors Degree in Fine Art from GMIT, Galway (2010).
Anne is a board member of Artspace Studios. Her practice incorporates paint, print, video and installation.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, some recent exhibitions include, 126 Gallery selected for Graduate Show, Impressions 2010 print show, Galway Arts Centre, Artspace group show, Lorient France, Tulca Festival Live @8 video screening, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Hallward Gallery Dublin. She has an upcoming group exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden in February.

Rachel Kiernan

Title- ‘Structural Development’, Duration 1:36

2D computer animation

“You see, we Doozers love to build, but we keep running out of space” - Cotterpin Doozer

Ghost estates

Programmed mindless actions

Barriers and constraints that obstruct societies creative potential

Poor planning

Stagnant educational formats

Thoughtless/destructive actions

Repetitive cycles

Information overload

Build, build, build.

Rachel Kiernan (b. 1982, Dublin) I holds a BA in Fine Art Sculpture and New Media from the Dublin Institute of Technology and a Diploma in Community Arts Education from the National College of Art & Design. She currently facilitates art class with adults with learning disabilities.

Hugh Cooney

Live performance piece, various

Artist Statement.

“For the uninitiated and undernourished: Cooney makes postmodern one-man black comedy videos not unlike Chris Morris' erstwhile Jam TV series. His videos are dizzying and disorientating, bewilderingly hilarious and hilariously bewildering. He relies on absurdism and repetition almost to breaking point - see his infamous ‘Accessorise' Youtube clip for the formula. Hugh, in lipstick and tousled hair, sits with another lipsticked, tousled Hugh in a café, discussing, ad infinitum, the importance of accessorisation - before one of the lady-Hughs starts coughing up water, and, bizarrely, beans. Constantly chanting ‘acccessssorrrriiiise' all the while. On a lower budget than Brian Lenihan, Cooney ekes all the lopsided charm out of lo-fi video-trickery that he can.” Daniel Gray

Dublin based artist Hugh Cooney works in performance, video and mixed media. He is an award winning graduate from National College Of Art & Design.

www.hughcooney.com/

The event went very well with a large turn out. Below are images of the event.

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