Far In - Far Out
VISUAL ART | OUTDOORS
Far In Far Out
A Visual Art Trail
Opens Sat 3rd July
Sat July 3rd to Sat July 17
Kari-Cahill — Rocks Sucking Soaking (2021)
Event Details
Time & Date:
Sat July 3rd to Sat July 17
Duration:
Sat 3rd July – Sat 17th July
Event Categories:
Visual Art | Outdoors
Admission:
No tickets for exhibition – people view in own time
Venue:
A visual exhibition using multiple empty shop fronts
In Far In Far Out, a collection of Sligo based artists take over empty shop units of Sligo town to help us reimagine and reconsider our collective future as we begin to emerge from lockdown. This visual art exhibition trail considers wonder and deep time, past mythology and imagined worlds, the inner and outer environment, memories within and without.
This past year of restrictions and lockdowns has forced the world to retreat into individual internal spaces, whilst at the same time giving people the opportunity to re-engage with community and place; to re-discover our local pathways, to re-connect with nature. Others again have felt their peripheries encroach; their spaces confined.
Join us for this visual art trail through Sligo town
Featured artists are: Kari Cahill, Barra Cassidy, Ruth Le Gear, Kate MacDonagh, Yvette Monahan, Ciarán Óg Arnold, Kiera O'Toole, Cléa van der Grijn and Lorna Watkins.
We would like to thank Jon Dunt of Fortem Property.ie, Helen and Jimmy Barr of Craftsman’s Press, Richard Lyons, Seamus Gilligan, Sligo Tidy Towns, Declan McPartland, Shane Flanagan and DNG Flanagan Ford, Laura Quinn & The Gallery Cafe, John Mitchell, Donal Adams & Adam Rooke of Bookmart.
Curated with Yvette Monahan, project managed by Hannah Dobson.
Cléa van der Grijn
Cléa is a visual artist + film maker based in Sligo. Van der Grijn presented more than 25 solos exhibitions and 40 group shows nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of major Arts Council, Culture Ireland and SligoCoCo awards , grants and bursaries. Van der Grijn , employs various media, including site-specific installation, experimental film, large format photography, collaborative projects, sculpture, drawing and painting. She travels extensively and has lived in Italy and Mexico with her young family, researching the relationship between emotional time and measured time through the culture of death. RECONSTRUCTING MEMORY was presented as a major experiential installation and film for The Model, Sligo, in 2016. For Cairde Sligo Arts Festival Sligo 2021: Cléa is recreating a shrine / altar in homage to reconstructed memory.
Barra Cassidy
Barra is a predominantly self taught artist who also studied at The Leitrim Sculpture Centre and North Strand College in Dublin. Upon finishing at the Sculpture Centre, Barra relocated to North Sligo where he now lives and works. Barra has exhibited in numerous group shows including the RHA, RUA, Iontas, Ceramic Awards, Cairde Visual and Sculpture in Context. He has had solo shows in The Bridge, The Hamilton Gallery and The Hyde Bridge Gallery. Barra has been a recipient of The Mill Cove Gallery Award at Sculpture in Context, The Mill Cove Commission Award and Sligo Arts Office Artist Workplace Bursary. His works feature in collections at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin, the Park Hotel in Kenmare and private collections in Ireland, England, U.S.A, Canada, Sweden and Jamaica.
Kate Mac Donagh
A Sligo born artist currently living and working in Dublin. She studied at The Limerick School of Art and Design, Bellas Artes Madrid, Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio, New York and MI-Lab, Fujikawaguchiko, Japan. Her work explores dualities of light and dark, scale and ephemerality, stillness and movement, the spectral and the material. Since spending time in Japan throughout the last six years, Kate's primary focus is on water-based woodcut (Mokuhanga) and water colour painting.
Kate’s work is held in public and private collections in Ireland, UK, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, USA and Japan. She is a recipient of numerous commissions and residencies including: The Model, Sligo. Ireland, MI-Lab, Artist in Residence Programme, Japan’ and Colony of Painters, Islake, Slovenia.
Ruth Le Gear
Le Gear’s practice involves an engagement and meditation with the landscape, through the creation of water essences. This work is an exploration of one drop of water. This work has emerged from the outcomes of research, collaboration and fieldwork based around water and its potentials held within the River Naab and its water polarity the Atlantic ocean. Her methodology of working as a visual artist offers the viewer an opportunity for a new understanding of the material world, presented through the element of water. The artist’s curiosity about the nature of water and its potency for story, is based on a deepening understanding of water and its potentials.
Kiera O’Toole
A visual artist and a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University, UK whose practice and research examines drawing's capacity to record and materialise a site’s atmospheric emotional tone. Her practice combines fieldwork, material and philosophical research to create site-specific drawings both inside and outside the gallery space. Her creative outputs include conferences, publications, and exhibitions recently including VISUAL Carlow, Highlanes Gallery Open and ‘Beyond Drawing’ curated by Arno Kramer, Ballina Arts Centre. Current residencies include; CCA Derry, Leitrim Sculpture Centre’s research residency 'Landscape, Ecology & Environmental. O’Toole is co-founder of NINE an artist led-collective and co-founder of Drawing deCentered which is artist-led collective that explores contemporary drawing practice.
Lorna Watkins
Lorna graduated in Printed Textile Design at the National College of Art in Dublin after studying at the Grennan Mill Craft School and Edinburgh College of Art. She was selected for the 188th Open Exhibition at the RHA, Dublin and was awarded a fellowship by the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in 2019. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in London, Berlin and New York. In 2020, Lorna was awarded a residency at JOYA:AiR residency in Almeira, Spain and was selected to show work at the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago in Threads of Truth, curated by Sergio Gomez. In 2021, as part of The Drawing Box collective, her drawings will show in India, Cyprus, Greece and France.
Kari Cahill
Cahill’s practice is site-responsive. The artist is interested in the interaction of site-and-artist to collaboratively respond to landscapes. The process of harnessing colour from the environment forms the backbone of each aspect of her visual art practice. She creates paint from metamorphic rock formations, digs earth pigment from mineral rich riverbeds and extracts botanical pigments from native plants. The colours Cahill seek out are synthesised into pigment, paint and ink through various colour- making processes and are used in the artworks themselves. Her paintings are gestural and experimental, capturing the essential aspects of colour, texture and emotions that found rooted in landscapes. “I drip, bruise and blush colour onto surfaces to create visually bold, visceral works that stretch between two and three dimensions’.
Ciaran Og Arnold
Born 1977 and based in Ballinasloe, Co, Galway, Ciaran Og Arnold graduated from University of Ulster in 2012 with an MFA in Documentary Photography. Winner Mack first book award 2015 for "I went to the worst of bars but all I could do was to get drunk again" Mack Books 2015. His photography practice takes a subjective approach to documentary photography involving memory, perception, psychogeography and inter-dimensional portals located in the everyday vernacular.
Yvette Monahan
Yvette Monahan is an Irish photographic artist. Her current practice looks to further her understanding of three main ideas, namely intuition, transcendence, and narrative.
She engages with different processes to investigate these precepts, incorporating photography, drawing, sculpture and print-making. Yvette aims to create images that reflect the inner world and outer spaces. A graduate of the MFA Photography program at the Belfast School of Art, Yvette's work has been exhibited extensively. Recently, Yvette was the Irish representative for 'Visions from Europe' and a Futures Talent at Unseen Amsterdam.
Since 2019, Yvette's work has been selected for TULCA, Winter Papers, PhotoIreland, Format Festival, and Lishui Photography Festival, China. In 2020, she was chosen for residency programs at both Cowhouse studios, Wexford and Joya Air, Andalucia. Yvette also co-founded and co-managed South Studios, a cultural hub, from 2007-2017. South Studios was a collaborative space for artists and designers based in Dublin 8.