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Emmett Cathcart
Emmett Cathcart artworks in worldwide collections, private and public institutions. Recent exhibitions of notable standing include current large scale exhibition on permanent display in Government Health Service Executive St John’s Hospital unveiled by Director and senior politician (Nov 2022). Commissioned by Irish Government Office of Public Works OPW (May 2022) works held by Irish Government in permanent collection (July 2022) Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Oct 2022). Emmett paints plein air out in the Irish countryside, climbing mountains, not to capture the stunning landscape that unfolds beneath, but to be surrounded by nature and to escape from
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Marta Romani Karl Logge The Wild Weave-a-torium
The Wild Weave-a-toriumMarta Romani and Karl Logge Over and under, windershins and turnwise…Traveling from Sardinia, Italy, the artists Marta Romani and Karl Logge bring to ‘Earth Rising’ their nomadic live-lab, micro-museum and participatory workshop. From first time weavers to more experienced hands, audiences are invited to experience the meditative rhythm of timeless gestures. Between the warp and weft of Earth’s colours and nature’s fibers, fuso, spool and loom will become instruments to attune to nature, cycles and seasons, tracing infinite threads that spin and weave the vibrant fabric of our planetary home. Come and visit The Wild Weave-a-torium in different
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Lieselle McMahon Memento Mori IMMA Earth Rising Festival
Memento Mori (2022) soil, white clay, concreteLatin for “remember that you die”, Memento Mori is an artistic or symbolic tropeacting as a reminder of the inevitability of death which has been used in philosophy,religion, art, spirituality through the ages. It is in the acknowledgement andacceptance of the inevitability of death that we are free to engage fully with thepresent reality. This sculpture is comprised of 400 bone-like sculptures, representing the 400vertebrates that have become extinct in the past 100 years, in a process that throughnormal evolution would have taken 10,000 years. Arranged in a circular form in theGarden Galleries at
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Lisa Fingleton & Dingle Creative Climate Action Project IMMA Earth Rising 2022
At IMMAs Earth Rising festival, come draw the future you would like to see with artist Lisa Fingleton and farmers from the Dingle Penninsula. Are you concerned about climate change, biodiversity loss and food security? Have you ideas about how we can transform our food and farming systems? How can we transition to a fairer and more sustainable future? Workshop Workshop: Garden Gallery, IMMA, 2.00pm- 4.00pm, Saturday 22nd October This 2 hour event includes an artist talk with farmers from the Dingle Creative Climate Action Project and an interactive drawing workshop Artist Lisa Fingleton literally believes that drawing can radically
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SALT David Ian Bickley Hina Khan IMMA Earth Rising Eco Festival Dublin 2022
SALT is an immersive environment based on themes of borders / thresholds, migration and the liminal spaces found in nature. SALT is centred around cinematic imagery of a salt marsh, the tidal sequence that shapes it, and the influence of the moon — The multichannel video elements are augmented by moving biomorphic painting, and an electronic score / sound design based on field recordings. David Ian Bickley is an award-winning media artist whose body of work spans the primitive technological of the 1970’s to the digital cutting edge of today. His media work has manifested as television, installation, electronic music and video art. The soundtrack / sound
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Ros Burgin Life Lines IMMA Earth Rising Festival 2022
Showing 2 large-scale sculptures Lifelines and Island 2 in ‘Earth Rising’ eco festival at Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). I am giving a talk on 21 October 16:15 with guests Gavin McCrea-Irish Surfing Association, Brianna Bambic-Allen Coral Atlas, Dr Karen Joyce-Co-founder of SheMaps and GeoNadir https://www.rosburgin.co.uk/ https://irishsurfing.ie/ https://allencoralatlas.org/ https://shemaps.com/ Ros Burgin is a sculptor who combines globally traded materials and a variety of processes and styles, discovering new ways to shape and inform sculpture. She makes work that comments on sustainability, the marine environment and the part women play in shaping the collective values of society. Lifelines is a sculpture exploring issues of marine pollution
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Oana Sânziana Marian Paula Meehan Installation Performance
In the neoliberal endtimes, a disused lot is an offence; people throw trash, and neighbourhood boys start bonfires in it. It is an image of a world without us, after us. It reflects what is disused inside our internal landscape, our unfulfilled potential. We think: something useful could grow here. (And so, the need for affordable homes is pitted against the need for green space). One of the hardest things for people to accept is that to face the climate crisis, we must face our deep pain and the addictions it gives rise to. My project focuses deep attention on a
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Adrian O’Connell What are we building in there?
‘What are we building in there?’, is a poetic deep dive into the rise of data centres on our island, and a reflective look at their effect on our people and our planet. Adrian O’Connell is a video artist and photographer creating contemplative installations through image and sound. Link: www.instagram.com/itchyfeetcreative/ FREE IMMA Earth Rising Tickets
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How to Butcher a Chair…. And Other Recipes – Nessa Doran O’Reilly IMMA Earth Rising
How to Butcher a Chair…. And Other Recipes‘Arm chairs’, ‘high chairs’, ‘musical chairs’… What do chairs mean to you?Join The Rediscovery Centre at IMMA’s Earth Rising Festival to discover the endlesspossibilities of an upcycled chair. This collaborative exhibit and workshop will grow ‘legs’throughout the weekend, as visitors join us in co-creating new lives for old chairs.This experimental and immersive exhibit echoes the ethos of the work in the RediscoveryCentre, Ireland’s National Centre for the Circular Economy. As a creative movement connectingpeople, ideas and resources, they bring together the skills and expertise of artists, scientists,designers and craftspeople united in a common
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Andrew McSweeney – Alone Again, Natura-Diddily IMMA
Bio: Andrew McSweeney completed a BA in Fine Art at CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, in 2015 and an MA in Interdisciplinary Design Practice in 2021 from the Limerick School of Art & Design. Recent exhibitions include his solo exhibition Alone Again, Natura Diddily at the Marina Market, Cork (July 2022), The Stars Are In The Earth at A4 Sounds, Dublin (August 2022) and Earth Rising: IMMA Outdoors: Eco Festival (October 2022) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He was recently awarded the Visual Arts Agility Award in 2022 by the Irish Arts Council and is a member
