CultureCRAFT- Culture in the Making

Please join us for the opening reception of CultureCRAFT-Culture in the Making 

The exhibition will be opened  by the President of Ireland, Michael D.Higgins

Opening Reception: 2.30pm, 11 August 2013 London Street Gallery, Derry, N.Ireland

The exhibition showcases the work of 37 eminent designer-makers who have responded to the curator’s request for an object of their making which reflects their understanding of culture; of how material objects can carry a community’s shared history and reflect a cultural perspective.
Expect to see some very exciting and enriching pieces, embodying a wide variety of cultural identities and backgrounds.
The exhibition will be supported with a specially produced catalogue, featuring essays from a number of leading academics - including Dr Audrey Whitty, Dr Jessica Hemmings, Dr Josseph McBrinn and Professor Declan McGonagle - which aim to contextualise this exceptional exhibition and convey the importance of Craft to us all.Exhibition runs: 29th July – 22nd August, 2013

TRADE 2011 art residency programme

TRADE  2011 art residency programme 
2011 residency programme where two Roscommon and two Leitrim artists are working with New York based artist David Michalek over the course of the year concluding with the TRADE seminar in 1-3 December 2011, DOCK Arts Centre, Carrick on Shannon.
TRADE is a collaborative visual arts programme between Leitrim and Roscommon County Councils providing knowledge, resources and opportunities for visual artists to engage internationally. Rather than considering ‘rural’ as ‘isolationary’, TRADE emphasises that art is a global construct and encourages a freeflow of ideas and opportunities both for local artists to engage internationally as well as for international artists to participate locally.   
Talk About Fracking Exhibition:2nd-6th December 2011, ercantile Plaza, Carrick on Shannon opened by Declan McGonagle, Director of the National Collage of Art and Design