Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art by Yvonne Scott
Delighted and honoured to be part of this book:
This book identifies a representative selection of compelling and intriguing artworks by a range of around one hundred of the most challenging and vibrant artists from, or working in, Ireland or whose work addresses Irish landscapes and environments.
This field of representation has never been more vital and expansive than it is now in the first quarter of the twenty-first century in the face of climate change.
This is our book BEYOND DRAWING (2023) from our exhibition in Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Ireland (2022). It was an exhibition by 3 Dutch and 3 Irish artists. It was produced by Drawing deCentered, the design is Oonagh Young HQ, the curator is Arno Kramer who wrote a lovely essay for the book. To Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith thank you for his insightful paper on drawing, to Ann Davoren, director of Uillinn and her staff for making this such a great experience and a great show; to our Dutch and Irish colleague artists who were such a pleasure to work with, Kiera O’Toole, Marisa Rappard, Marleen Kappe, Felicity Clear, Romy Muijrers and Mary-Ruth Walsh
In 2022 I had a glorious three months in Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris studio. Left to right, CCI director Nora Hickey M'Sichili, Ambassador Niall Burgess, artist yours truly Mary-Ruth Walsh and artist Nadia J. Armstrong. It was an exceptional time working in this environment, soaking up the culture and meeting new people. Thank you to all involved and to the new friends I made - it’s the people that make it happen.
Have a listen to our conversation on World Radio Paris, when interviewer Patricia Killeen dropped into sunny Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI) Paris to catch up on Paris, my work and SKIN DEEP. This is also the 100th anniversary of James Joyce’s Ulysses which features insightful thoughts on skin. Ulysses was published in Shakespeare & Co, Paris only a stroll from Centre Culturel Irlandais. Thanks to CCI, Niall Burgess of the Irish Embassy and all their collective staff for an amazing programme on Joyce.
‘Modern man has an epidermis rather than a soul’, James Joyce
In Ulysses, Joyce chronicled and cataloged the surfaces of Dublin which was ‘crowded with skins: tanned skins, blushing skins, skins enhanced by make-up and creams, skins marked by race or religion, skins legible and visible, skins…’
Underpinned by these historical and philosophical views on skin as a porous, non-closed surface, my work examines how it is viewed today as a bodily boundary and bearer of ethnic information, colour, age and gender.
Great to see this review in the Visual Artist Ireland News Sheet Thanks to Uillinn director Ann Davoren, curator Arno Kramer, writer for forthcoming book Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, VAI writer Mieke Vanmechelen, Drawing deCentered and the Arts Council of Ireland and all those who helped make this cracking show happen - it was an amazing show - OK, I'm biased!
Have a listen to our conversation on World Radio Paris - link below - where interviewer Patrica Killeen dropped into sunny Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris to catch up on how Skin Deep relates to James Joyce.
We got good news from @foldedleaf.ie SKIN DEEP, this book-catalogue was selected for the 100 Design Archive, a showcase of 100 best design projects from 2021 in Ireland. Congratulations and thank you @foldedleaf.ie and curator Catherine Bowe - it was amazing working with you guys.
Essays by Dr. Yvonne Scott, @TrinityCollegeDublin and Katherine Waugh, curator, writer and filmmaker. Thank you both for your rich discussions. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Artslinks.
See the link here: 100 Archive The book photography here is by Éilís Murphy @foldedleaf.ie where the limited edition book is also for sale.
SKIN DEEP opened in November 2020 at Highlanes Gallery and ran until January 2021. It traveled to Limerick City Gallery of Art from May to July 2021. The tour will conclude at Wexford Arts Centre in October to December 2021 coinciding with the Wexford Festival Opera. The exhibition was commissioned by Wexford Arts Centre. Award funded by The Arts Council of Ireland.
BEYOND DRAWING: You and are warmly invited to Ballina Arts Centre Thursday 5th March 2020 to the opening of BEYOND DRAWING.
This international show of experimental drawing climbs up walls, wrestles with gravity and question what is representational drawing.
2019
Grölle Pass Projects, RAUM2, The Transparent Stillness of the Turning World opening 8 March - 28 April 2019 - new collages, paintings, blueprints and a selected film from Walsh’s archive. Galerie showing Palmtag, Schmid and Olsen - photos, video, installation and objects.
Grölle Gallery Presents Artlessness and Artificiality
Mary-Ruth Walsh and other artists exhibit their works in pass:projects and Room 2 / Supported by Cultural Ireland
There’s more to see in Room 2 of the Gallery, where artist Mary-Ruth Walsh presents works from “The Transparent Stillness of the Turning World” in the third contribution to the German-Irish project organised by Jürgen Grölle and Anya von Gosseln. Here the eye is immediately drawn to three radiant blue works, “blueprints” developed in a laborious process. Inspired by the architecture of Eileen Gray, the Irish artist’s works represent oversized versions of the plastic packaging we’re familiar with from supermarkets, dead material, which, when taken out of context, calls to mind futuristic architectural structures.
By Julia Wessel / translated by Anne Boden
https://www.wz.de/nrw/wuppertal/galerie-groelle-zeigt-natuerlichkeit-und-kuenstlichkeit_aid-37379553?utm_source=mail&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share. 11. März 2019
Gemma Tipton chaired a panel discussion on Still Life, a commissioned exhibition for Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland. She explores the question of what to do with our old courthouses and country houses, and suggests they are turned into shopping centers or art galleries. Still Life is at its “most compelling in the film which lulls the senses in the same way that architecture, air, sound, smell and surface are all orchestrated to so do in the highly artificial atmosphere of the shopping mall”…'“there is a seductive beauty” to these works.
Phoenix Rising, conceived and curated by Logan Sisley, invited six artists to respond to Dublin City a hundred years on from Scottish biologist, sociologist and planner Patrick Geddes' invitation to visit Dublin. Inspired by Patrick Geddes, Dublin's 1914 Civic Exhibition attempted to re-imagine Dublin as "the phoenix of cities" during a period of economic, social and political strife, see Hugh Lane.
Title: Still Life #5 Medium: watercolour on Fabriano. Dimensions 70 x 100 cm Date: 2015
