BRIAN BOURKE | Artist Talk
Saturday, 7 December 2019
10:30 – 12:00
dlr LexIcon Theatre Studio, ground floor
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ArtNetdlr presents BRIAN BOURKE, one of the most prolific Irish artists working today, to discuss his extraordinary ideas and creative processes.
Dublin born artist Brian Bourke studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and St. Martin’s School of Art, London. He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1965, claimed first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967, and received the O’Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993. Bourke is well known for his very distinctive portraits and self portraits which combine strong colours and often caricature-like distortion. His early landscapes and life-size nude self-portraits in various series shows his interest in observational work and fictional narrative. Bourke’s work informed by classical art and literature and artist’s own Dublin background, adding a wild, urban energy to all his work.
His works are in many important collections and galleries throughout Europe.
He is an elected a member of Aosdána and an Honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Image: ‘Self Portrait with a Hat’, Brian Bourke, 2004, IMMA Collection
Welcome to Arts Night 2019
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
7 pm till late
McLoughlin’s Bar
73 Upper George Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
ArtNetdlr will host the Arts Night, featuring an exciting mix of live music and spoken word, to celebrate all of our valued members, all of the participating artists in our network, all that creative spirit that makes Dun Laoghaire so unique.
The Arts Night will be an opportunity for ArtNetdlr members and local community – people with an interest in all aspects of the arts, including literature, poetry, painting, sculpture, drama & film, photography, ceramics – to meet one another, to make new connections and share good conversations.
The artists taking part in this event include musicians Ronan Murray, Justyna Kosmulska and Eleanor Dawson. Poets Alison Hackett, Cathy Dillon, Triona McMorrow and Phil Lynch will read and discuss their latest work.
Following our hugely successful Hinterland collaborative project / exhibition last May, the Hinterland committee will join forces again to present it’s success. We are proud to launch a new feature on ArtNetdlr website – Online Gallery – where Hinterland exhibition continues. The next ArtNetdlr Biennale Collaborative Exhibition will be held in 2021. This year four exhibitions will be curated online leading to a grand exhibition opening in the area next summer.
All are welcome to join the celebration and show your support for invaluable work of ArtNetdlr in breathing cultural life into Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown burrough.
Image: Jane Buggy, ‘Bee Space’, 2013. www.janebuggyartist.com
DONALD TESKEY | Artist Talk
Saturday 19 October
10:30 – 12:00
dlr LexIcon Theatre Studio, ground floor
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ArtNetdlr is proud to present a lecture by one of Ireland’s leading contemporary landscape painters Donald Teskey, who will discuss his large-scale landscape paintings which offer powerful images that bound with energy and force of nature.
‘One River, One Creek’, Donald Teskey, 2018
Donald Teskey was born in Co. Limerick and graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in1978.
He came to prominence as an artist through his skill as a draughtsman during the 1980s with several significant solo exhibitions. Since 1992 he has crafted out a substantial body of work as a painter of the landscape focusing on the ruggedness of the western seaboard. Sometimes working on a very large scale, his images reflect his response to the formal elements of composition; shape, form and fall of light. The result are powerful images of instantly recognisable parts of the Irish landscape with large abstract passages and surfaces which articulate the relentless, energetic and elemental force of nature.
‘Portrait of Lenny Abrahamson’, Donald Teskey, 2018, National Gallery of Ireland
He is the recipient of awards from EV+A, the Claremorris Open Exhibition, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Ulster Academy.
Awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Centre, USA in 2002.
Artist in residence for 2 months at the Josef and Annie Albers Foundation, Connecticut in 2007
Awarded a 3 month residency in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in 2012.
The Print Club of New York’s Presentation Print Artist for 2015
Artist in residence at Swarthmore College PA funded by the William J. Cooper Foundation in 2017
Teskey’s work has been exhibited in the UK, USA, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland and South Africa.Collections include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, corporate and private collections worldwide.
He is a member of Aosdana (The Arts Council established Aosdána in 1981 to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland, and to encourage and assist members in devoting their energies fully to their art)
Meet the Artists | Hinterland Coffee Dock
Tuesday 14 May
10:00 -11:00
Eblana house, Eblana avenue, Dun Laoghaire
ArtNetdlr invite the public to meet the artists for an insightful walk-through of the HINTERLAND project / exhibition, followed by coffee and chats.
See interdisciplinary creative interpretations by the local artists what Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown area means to them, see how it shapes our own inner hinterlands.
Join Shabnam Vasisht, Miriam Sweeney, Elizabeth Shaw, Erika Tyner, Iris O’Connor, Gaby Browett, Alison Hackett, Dylan Ryan and Eliot Smith who will guide you through their work and talk about their own creative collaborative process.
Hinterland is open to general public 11am – 6pm daily with late night opening on Thursday 16 May. Exhibition closes on Saturday 18 May.
photo: Erika Tyner
February Coffee Dock
ArtNetdlr will be hosting the first EVENING Coffee Dock
Tuesday 12 February 7 – 8 pm
dlr LexIcon 5 floor, meeting room 4
Winter walkers on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, last evening. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Drop in for a chat and help us understand the needs of local artists and communities. In an ideal world what would you want from ArtNetdlr to offer.
- A forum for the exchange of information and ideas,
- A place to meet other artists working and living in your neighborhood,
- Talks that would interest you – visiting artists, workshops,
- Any other suggestions very welcome.
The Coffee Dock takes place on the second Tuesday of every month in the dlr LexIcon. Informal networking sessions take place around a designated theme and each member has two minutes to discuss a topic without interruption, followed by a general discussion.
EVENTS
OCTOBER 2 – ArtNetdlr Coffee Dock | Walters26th September 2024 - 5:34 pm
OCTOBER 9 – Open Mic Night with Phil Lynch & Lulu Sinnott26th September 2024 - 5:29 pm
SEPTEMBER 14 – Call for Submissions | ArtNetdlr Members Group Exhibition IN BETWEEN21st September 2024 - 1:58 pm
SEPTEMBER 11 – Open Mic Night | Walters19th September 2024 - 11:46 pm
SEPTEMBER 6 – the Launch of CROSSCURRENTS Collaborative Project | dlr LexIcon18th September 2024 - 7:57 pm