2013 EXHIBITIONS
The 13th Month Exhibition
October 2013
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On the opening night, we were delighted to have our exhibition opened by textile artist Pamela Hardesty, Joan O'Sullivan from ARC cancer support house and glass artist Róisín de Buitléar with a reading of the poetry collection by Donna Coogan. Donna says she's been too busy writing poems to get her website up and running so the only thing you can do is buy our catalogue (€10) to get to read the full complement of poems for yourselves
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"The 13th Month"
Tactic Gallery, Sample-Studios, Cork City, Ireland 10 - 22 Oct 2013 The 13th Month exhibition is an installation created as a collaboration between 12 artists including myself and coordinated by me. The body of work was based around a collection of poems by Donna Coogan which chart her bereavement in the year following the loss of her sister, Deidre, to breast cancer. Each artist created a 1.5m x 1.0m panel in response to their chosen poem and the order of the works in relation to each other were dictated by the poem's position in the year. Each artist worked alongside the artists on either side to provide a visual continuity between the panels. Proceeds to ARC charity. |
 150cm h x 100cm w, drawn thread
Daybreak
Waking from the rumble of my dreams, no change, sister still dead. I step outside into first light, the breeze meddles and mixes the autumnal garden. If I could stay under the cover of trees, invisible on the wooden swing, watch my family bring the house to life, making the day like any other. DONNA COOGAN |
5th Annual Student Wallpaper Competition Exhibition
September 2014
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My entry for the 5th Annual Student Wallpaper Competition Exhibition, CAMAC Design was shown 13-21 Sept 2014.
In this competition, entrants are given a colour photocopy of a piece of wallpaper in the CAMAC archives as the inspiration for their piece
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Caroline McNamara from CAMAC came to Cork weighed down with photos from an old wallpaper archive they had recently been given access to and set us a Student Textile Design Challenge: to create an A4 textile piece responding to a wallpaper pattern randomly selected from the Warner Textile Archive as part of the Student Textiles Design Challenge.
The original wallpaper is on the right so you can compare. Imagine being in a room covered with that! My textile response was selected for exhibition with distinction and was shown in the UK at Braintree District Museum and Morley College. The opening of the latter was a great excuse for fellow textile artist, Amanda Hogan, and myself to meet in London as we were both visiting family within travelling distance at the time.
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Brief Exchange II: #26
Digital Exhibition
"How did I get here?"
Assuming that I was somewhere else before, I have moved through time and space to get here.
I have got here through the accident of meetings and genes
I have got here through collision and sticking of particles
I have got here through the propulsion of metal through air
I got here through passport control.
They must have been asleep at the desk.
Brief Exchange is a group graphic design | illustration | photography | art exhibition that invites its participants to compose a brief; to be exchanged with another participant’s brief at random.
The aim of Brief Exchange is to give creative people an opportunity to develop and promote their own work without the limitations often caused by clients’ feedback and money. The show also aims to create a network for creative people who might not know each other yet. Brief Exchange has been set up and is curated by Noeleen Doheny.
The first show was printed and ran in two venues, one in Cork and the other in Dublin. The second show will solely be exhibited online; here www.briefexchange.net and here www.facebook.com/briefexchange.exhibition It is expected that the third show will be another printed show, in Ireland.
Assuming that I was somewhere else before, I have moved through time and space to get here.
I have got here through the accident of meetings and genes
I have got here through collision and sticking of particles
I have got here through the propulsion of metal through air
I got here through passport control.
They must have been asleep at the desk.
Brief Exchange is a group graphic design | illustration | photography | art exhibition that invites its participants to compose a brief; to be exchanged with another participant’s brief at random.
The aim of Brief Exchange is to give creative people an opportunity to develop and promote their own work without the limitations often caused by clients’ feedback and money. The show also aims to create a network for creative people who might not know each other yet. Brief Exchange has been set up and is curated by Noeleen Doheny.
The first show was printed and ran in two venues, one in Cork and the other in Dublin. The second show will solely be exhibited online; here www.briefexchange.net and here www.facebook.com/briefexchange.exhibition It is expected that the third show will be another printed show, in Ireland.
