Please view our past Exhibition Programme below to get an overview of our extensive range of exhibitions and artists.
Graham Crowley: Paintings
12 Jan – 9 Feb
A series of new and recent works by this West Cork-based artist.
Children’s Exhibition
16 Feb – 8 March
The exhibition will draw from the Classroom-based Primary Schools Programme (involving over 20 Primary schools in the West Cork region), based on a theme, developed by the Schools’ Co-ordinator Alison Trim and the teachers involved, from the exhibition Everywhere is Here by Arno Kramer.
Curating Degree Zero
15 March – 19 April
Curating Degree Zero Archive is an exhibition of material (catalogues, articles, videos, CD’s, images and web sites) in relation to the practice of over 90 international curators, artist curators, new-media curators and curatorial collaborations. The project was co-founded by curators Dorothee Richter and Barnaby Drabble and set out to present and discuss new curatorial ideas and experiments. Artist, educator and curator Mick wilson organised the exhibition for West Cork Arts Centre. For further information see www.gradcam.ie/cdz and www.curatingdegreezero.org
Rhythm: Youth Event and Exhibition
26 April – 10 May
Workshops, performances and an exhibition of work by young people in schools and in youth groups in West Cork.
Andrew Vickery
17 May – 21 June
A series of paintings, photographed and made into a slide projection, based on a loose narrative, back-projected into a model theatre and accompanied by music.
West Cork Artists 2008
27 June – 26 July
A group exhibition by artists living and working in West Cork.
The Plinian Sponge, maybe?
1 – 31 August
A group exhibition of painting and DVD by artists who have previously shown in the Ashford Gallery, Dublin. The exhibition is about painting and the process of painting by young emerging artists. The artists involved are:
Eoin O'Connor, Claire Kerr, Ross McDonnell, Anne Hendrick, Ann Quinn, Cara Thorpe, John Beattie, Colin Martin, Graham Chorlton, Graham Crowley, Jonathan Hunter, Laura Brennan, Kate Warner, Phillipa Sutherland, Leda Scully and Thomas Brezing.
In association with the Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin.
Domestic Godless
18 September 2008
A commissioned project by artists Stephen Brandes, Mick O’Shea and Irene Murphy
for the A Taste of West Cork Festival.
Selected Works from the University College Cork Collection.
6 Sept – 18 October
Selected from the University College Cork Collection by Justine Foster, Education and Community Co-ordinator and Alison Trim, Schools and Youth Co-ordinator to explore the theme ‘myself’, this exhibition will resource the Primary Schools Classroom-based project for 2008 / 2009. A series of talks, workshops and interactions will be programmed with the artists involved in the exhibition and with the teachers and their class groups.
In collaboration with the Glucksman Gallery and UCC. An exhibition guide for general public and schools will be produced.
Diana Copperwhite
25 Oct – 22 November
Nominated by WCAC and winner of the AIB prize for Artists of Promise, this exhibition of new work will be accompanied by a publication and will travel to the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda and Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris.
Bodies of Water: Bernadette Burns, Majella O’Neill Collins, Patricia Hurl and Therry Rudin
29 Nov – 23 Dec
Four artists based in Ireland have been collaborating on the development of an exhibition around the theme Bodies of Water, supporting this development through a series of brainstormings, studio visits, and artistic exchange. They have also extended this contact to four artists based in Spain whose own networking effort has been supported by the Galeria Safia. The result will be an exhibition of the Irish work in WCAC and then in Barcelona and the Spanish artists showing in Barcelona and then in Ireland in 2009.
In association with Galeria Safia, Barcelona.
Choowaawa: Children’s Arts Festival and Exhibition
13 January –3 February
Workshops, performances, talks and tours and an exhibition of work based on Chutzparadiso by Stephen Brandes by children from primary schools in the West Cork region.
Gallery I: Colin Martin - The Night Demense
Gallery II: Clare Langan - A Film Trilogy
10 February - 10 March
Paintings from The Night Demesne by Colin Martin alongside a projection installation by Clare Langan
Handle with Care
WCAC Youth Event
16 March – 7 April
Workshops, performances, talks and tours and an exhibition of work from The Drawing Project with Second Level Schools and Similarity and Difference an Artist’s Residency Project with young people.
Nearly There: Work in Progress
Johanna Connor and Gabrielle Byrne
14 April - 12 May
New work by two West Cork-based artists.
I’ve never seen your face
Sandra Minchin and Chris Hurley
19 May – 9 June
A collaborative exhibition of mixed media works, film / projections and installations dealing with life experience and memory by these two Cork-based artists.
The Barry’s Van Tour
Jorge Satorre
16 June – 7 July
New work emerging from this Mexican’s residency on Sherkin Island alongside work from the Living Landscape Symposium, 2005 and a residency in US (National Balloon).
West Cork Artists - A Celebration 2007
Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery 7 – 29 July
WCAC 14 July – 6 August
Group exhibition in two locations in West Cork celebrating the breadth and range of arts practice in the region.
City
Eithne Jordan
11 August - 1 September
Recent paintings exploring cityscapes and focusing on artificial light sources accompanied by a catalogue produced by WCAC in collaboration with the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
Everywhere is here
Arno Kramer
8 Sept - 20 October
An exhibition of drawings and works on paper including a site-specific work for WCAC by this Dutch artist.
Cadere
Cecily Brennan
27 October – 21 November
A series of video works exploring an interest in the precarious balances that exist between the human body and mind. Featuring a new work for WCAC and accompanied by a publication.
Triptych: Drawing Exhibition and Symposium
Saturday 1 December
In association with Dublin Institute of Technology, Kingston University, UK and Loughborough University, UK.
Making Memories: Ten years of the West Cork Craft and Design Guild
1- 22 December
A selected exhibition by invited curator Sarah Foster and linking to the West Cork Craft and Design Guild’s 10th Birthday Celebrations.
Choowaawa: Children’s Arts Festival and Exhibition
21 January – 11 February
Workshops, performances, talks and tours and an exhibition of work on the theme Harvest by children from 21 primary schools in the West Cork region.
Groundworks
Joe Wilson
18 February - 18 March
Large scale paintings and drawings by this Wicklow-based artist.
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
EYEdentity
WCAC Youth Event
25 March – 8 April
Workshops, performances, talks and tours and an exhibition of work from an Artist’s Residency Project with young people.
Mire
David Bickley
15 April - 6 May
An audio-visual installation by this West Cork-based artist.
An Leabhar Mór: The Great Book of Gaelic
13 May – 10 June
An exhibition from the visual anthology that brings together the work of more that 200 poets, artists and calligraphers from Scotland and Ireland alongside work from An Leabhar Beag – a project involving 10 primary schools at WCAC and in libraries in the West Cork region accompanied by a programme of poetry, film and music events. In association with West Cork Education Centre, Ealaín na Gaeltachta and Baltimore Fiddle Fair.
17 June – 15 July
Gallery I: Muirne Lydon Urban Dialogues
Gallery II: Julie Merriman Backwards and forwards, in and out
Paintings by emerging UK-based artist Muirne Lydon and drawings by Dublin-based artist Julie Merriman exploring urban regeneration and reconstruction
West Cork Artists - A Celebration 2006
22 July – 12 August
A group exhibition in four locations, WCAC, Baltimore Community Hall, Sherkin Island Community Hall and Co-Action West Cork, Castletownbere by West Cork-based artists.
Fresh: Re-imagining the Collection
19 August - 16 September
In collaboration with Limerick City Gallery of Art, a group exhibition of selected work from the LCGA Collection and new work by contemporary Irish and international artists, Alice Maher, Amanda Coogan, Jill Dennis, Neva Elliott, Marie Foley, Sam Ely, Lynn Harris, Linda Molenaar and Melanie O\'Rourke inspired by the ideas and visual references found in the Collection.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Chutzparadiso
Stephen Brandes
23 Sept - 21 October
Two-dimensional and a new three-dimensional work by this Cork-based artist.
Memento Mori
Nigel Rolfe
28 October - 25 November
New and recent photoworks and a video projection / sound installation by this Dublin-based artist.
A publication accompanies this exhibition.
Postcards
1- 22 December
A group exhibition by Irish and international artists.
2005
Living Landscape: Ireland and Catalunya-Spain
Living Landscape , an Exhibition and Symposium took place in West Cork in April 2005. Organised by West Cork Arts Centre and Sculptor's Society of Ireland, and curated by artist Therry Rudin, the project was an exploration of contemporary artists’ relationship with and investigation of landscape, place, environment and space. Living Landscape involves eight artists from Ireland -Amanda Coogan, Anita Groener, Katie Lincoln, Patricia McKenna, Fx Murphy, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Alannah O’Kelly and Niamh O’Malley and seven from Catalunya-Spain - Chema Alvargonzalez, Clarissa Cestari, Domènec, Jorge Satorre, Jordi Gispert, Maïs and Ignacio Uriarte.
A number of these artists were invited to spend two weeks in different locations in West Cork, stretching from Skibbereen, to Sherkin and Heir Islands and west along the coast to Castletownbere on the Beara Peninsula. The Symposium, leading to site-specific installation, projection, performance and documentation further amplified the concept of ‘living landscape’ in a European context, explored through the exhibitions at West Cork Arts Centre and other locations in the region including the SW Gallery in Castletownbere.
BreadMatters III Mediating Through Art and Bread
BreadMatters is a platform for exchange and collaboration, a medium for bringing together professionals from various disciplines, communities and cultural backgrounds to question and debate across a range of disciplines, focusing on contemporary issues such as migration and emigration; the construction of identity; power, globalization and equality; historical legacy; ritual and symbolism in contemporary life; connectedness and communion. BreadMatters thus explores the social, cultural, historical, philosophical, political, and theological issues around bread.
Twenty-one participants from Ireland, Portugal, Poland and Britain gathered at West Cork Arts Centre for BreadMatters III. Work by 12 artists was exhibited at the Centre, the programme included a film screening, two performances - one by Nigel Rolfe (Ireland) and the other by John Newling (UK), an exhibition at the Caha Centre, Adrigole and a projection at the Abbey on Sherkin Island. The forum involved artists, composers, musicians, historians and writers who presented papers, workshops and events exploring the theme. Participating artists, writers, historians and composers from Poland, Portugal, Ireland and Britain were Ines Amado, Alexandra do Carmo and Alison Knowles, Frederica Bastide Duarte, Luis Braganca Gil, Jan Gryka, Siun Hanrahan, Maria Lino, alice Maher, John Newling, Abigail O'Brien, Gerald O'Brien, Rachel Parry and Eileen O'Sullivan, Henrique Pinto, Nigel Rolfe, Malgorzata Sady, Bartolomeu dos Santos, Mo Throp, Ruth Weinberg and Michael Wright.
In addition to the exhibition and forum at West Cork Arts Centre, work by two artists was also exhibited at Sherkin Abbey, Sherkin Island and twenty local schools took part in an extensive education programme organised by the Arts Centre around the work of the artists and the role bread plays in our daily lives.
Two of the artists: Rachel Parry, working with musician Eileen O’Sullivan (Ireland) and Inês Amado (Portugal), undertook extensive residencies, working with West Cork communities on the Beara Peninsula and Sherkin Island. These projects were part of Cork 2005 / Credit Union Residencies Programme in partnership with the Arts Council, Cork City Council and Cork County Council and supported by the Office of Public Works.
for futher information see the BreadMatters website
