Commonplace Drawing Group
Published March 14th, 2012
The Commonplace Drawing Group had their first meeting on Saturday morning, 10th March.This regular weekend/drawing session takes place every two weeks at Commonplace studios.
The group is open to anybody who wants to join in. It is intended as a social gathering and an opportunity for skills-sharing. Members will be expected to take a turn in leading an informal drawing session through either demonstration of skills or creative ideas/exercises.
The group may even organise an exhibition of their work some time in the future. But for now, the emphasis is on technique, exercises and practice.
If you wish to join the group please consider the questions below and if you still wish to join the group, please send an email to: commonplaceprojects@gmail.com
or phone 086 3963845
- Are you available on a Saturday morning at least once a month? (times may change but the group meets every two weeks on Saturday mornings, it would be expected that each member can attend at least once a month)
- Would you be willing to lead an informal drawing/creative workshop (that is loosly connected to ‘drawing’) from time to time?
- Are you willing to contribute a nominal fee of five quid per session (for materials only)?
For further information please contact, commonplaceprojects@gmail.com
Unfortunately, Commonplace Studios are not wheelchair accessible.
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Commonplace EVENT - Took place February 11th
Published February 8th, 2012Valentines is not just for lovers!
Join artist Niamh Davis and friends for an afternoon of Romantic Splendour and have the craic, if you are in love or not…
If you do need a Valentines gift, we have the perfect ones! All handmade gifts under 40 euro. You can buy a personalised poem or a one off drawing for your Valentine! Come and confess your secrets or share a story in the Romance Confessional or write a Love Letter at our Table of Romance.
Join Niamh for tea, coffee, cakes and wine and celebrate the glory of Saint Valentine!
From 3pm at Commonplace Studios
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Commonplace EVENT - Art Market 4pm until 7pm Sunday 18th December 2011
Published December 12th, 2011
The Commonplace Art Market was a huge success. We would like to thank everyone who came along, joined in on the fun and purchased some artworks.
On behalf of the artists we would like to thank our visitors and on behalf of you we would like to thank the artists for all the work they put into organizing the event the week before Christmas.
The one-day exhibition of small works was initiated by the artists who currently occupy the studios at Commonplace. Each resident artist invited up to five friends to submit work for a salon style showcase that took place between 4pm and 7pm in one of the artists studios on 18th December 2011. All of the artworks were for sale on the day. Prices ranged between 1 euro and 300 euro for unframed and framed pieces.
The participating artists include, Mark Beattie, Owen Boss, Joanne Boyle, Diana Caramaschi, Noel Cleary, Simon Conneally, Michelle Considine, Ronan Coyle, Conor Crowley, Jennifer Cunningham, Niamh Davis, Aoife Desmond, Aniz Duran, Monica Flynn, Jennie Guy, Emma Haugh, Helen Horgan, Emma Houlihan, Sarah Hurl, , Fiona Kelly, Joanna Kidney, Ida Mitrani, Cecilia Moore, Jennie Moran, Bennie Reilly, Paul Timoney, Mary Rose Timmons, Sally Timmons, Sarah O’Brien, Nina Tanis, Louise West, Chanelle Walsh and more.
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Commonplace EVENT - Book Launch, Saturday 10th December, 8pm
Published December 12th, 2011
Poddle Publications enjoyed a successful launch of their handmade limited edition book on Saturday 10th December 2011.
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Commonplace EVENT - VISIT Open Studios 2011
Published October 20th, 2011VISIT Open Studios took place on Saturday 22nd October
The six artists who occupy three of the four studios on the two top floors of 10 Burgh Quay opened their normally private workspaces to the public for an afternoon. During this time the general public witnessed an artists’ working environment.
Founded by Sally Timmons in 2006, Commonplace is also a venue for exhibitions, cultural projects and workshops. Following from this unique open day, visitors (artists, curators, teachers and cultural motivators) might consider submitting proposals or ideas for innovative ways of using the project space at Commonplace.
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Commonplace EVENT - Workshop with Peter Mulligan 14th October 2011
Published October 20th, 2011Drawing inspiration from your alter ego…
This workshop took place in studio one at Commonplace on Friday 14th October 2011. The workshop was facilitated by Peter Mulligan (the alter ego of Irish Artist, Paul Timoney). Eight visual artists worked along with Mulligan to develop new personas as a means to access new forms of inspiration for their artistic practices. Mulligan provided a hilarious, insightful and at the same time, “very serious” critique of the works produced on the day. Each person left the session (seriously) with a new understanding of their approach to making art.
A series of affordable workshops with Peter Mulligan will take place at Commonplace from November 2011 until Spring 2012 and will be advertised in the coming weeks. Please send enquiries to commonplaceprojects@gmail.com or check this news column again in November.
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Project # 7
Published April 3rd, 2011An exhibition of new work by Emma Haugh
This exhibition took place during April 2011
This was the first solo project for artist Emma Haugh since graduating from The Dublin Intstitute of Technology with a BA Honours Degree in Photography in 2010. This being the case, Haugh has been involved in and associated with Photography, Club promotion, Dj-ing, Theatre and Performance alongside Youth and Community Arts Training for more than fifteen years.
Haugh continues to practice as a photographer but has shifted her attention from the documentation of events to a more speculative investigation that uses more than just photography as a means to communicate her personal experiences and observations of sub - cultures.
Exhibition Description from press text,
This exhibition uses two rooms at the top of a building on Burgh Quay in Dublins city centre. After climbing the stairs to the top floor one enters a studio space where a series of photographic portraits are exhibited. When passing through the building one can hear the sound of repetitive music resonating from some place. Once in the exhibition space It becomes apparent that the music is coming from the room below. In fact, as part of the development of this project the artist worked together with two Dublin based music producers (Philip Stewart and Peter O’Neill) to create an eight minute techno dance track. The photographic portraits were captured using only an intermittent strobe light to illuminate the subjects while they danced to the hard and repetitive beats of the track in almost total darkness. It is possible to return down the stairs and enter the room below to investigate where the sound is coming from.
According to the artist,
How we shape our cultural environment and how it shapes us is an ongoing balancing act of resistance and acceptance, vastly complex networks of cultural data are relentlessly disseminated and cognized. The internal life of the individual in relation to their surrounding cultural environment is an important thematic in my engagement as an artmaker.
The appropriation and production of photographic images, slogans, texts, music, web - based materials and specific social environments are some of the forms that I exploit in order to create small moments of resistance, questioning and remembering.
www.emmahaugh.com
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Commonplace EVENT Lean-To February 2010
Published January 25th, 2010LEAN-TO
a provisional structure
at Studio One, Commonplace, 10 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2
13th until 27th February 2010
An exhibition over 7 evenings- Saturdays 13th, 20th, 27th; Thursdays 18th and 25th; Fridays 19th and 28th from 6 - 8.30pm
including Sarah Lincoln, Jennie Moran, N55, Superfolk and Jo Anne Butler, Andrew Vickery, Jana Zitzmann
Curated by Rosie Lynch
Lean-To is an exhibition, taking place over seven evenings in Commonplace Studio One, Dublin. Responses by Irish and international artists, both instructive and poetic, investigate infrastructures of generosity and shelter. The exhibition considers the resourcefulness of explorers, hermits and wanderers with works varying from drawings, projections, vernacular furniture, city farm solutions and gestures of hospitality.
There is an art to attending to the weather, to the route you might take, to the landmarks along the way, to how different the journey back looks from the journey out, to reading the sun and the moon and the stars to orient yourself, to the direction of running water, to the thousand things that make the wild a text that can be read by the literate. The lost are often literate in this language that is the language of the earth itself, or dont stop to read it
Excerpt from Ways of Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
www.leantoproject.com
Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland
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Commonplace EVENT - artist in residence Summer 2009 - Emma Haugh…
Published May 12th, 2009Photgrapher Emma Haugh was artist in residence at Commonplace during summer 2009.
Haugh exhibited Work in progress titled - you are the snow in winter - in May 2009
The exhibition took place at Studio One 10 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2 in May 2009
A second offsite installation was viewed from the street below 6 Rosemount Terrace, Arbour Hill, D7 from the 14th-17th May - after dark each evening.
The working title - You are the snow in winter - is an aesthetic statement about flux and the upheaval brought about by change. Nietzsches ideas about the uncertainty of existence inform image making and the installation of the work itself. Haugh is interested in the relationship between image and text and the interplay and dialogue which can be generated between the two when met by an audience. In this work, Haugh is regarding text as both pictorial and sculptural through its installation at both sites.
This project is an ongoing interrogation of the nature of flux through a series of photographic and text based works.
www.emmahaughphotography.com
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Project # 6
Published February 2nd, 2009Projector Collective - RADIANT CITY
This project opened to the public on Saturdays from 7th - 21st February 2009
The works in edition that are a result of the Project - Radiant City - are available to view or purchase by contacting CPP [commonplaceprojects@gmail.com]. A catalogue [pdf] illustrating editioned artworks that are a result of previous Commonplace Projects [listed below] is also available.
The Radiant City, an installation by Projector Collective at Commonplace, Dublin, borrows it’s title from a book by the French architect Le Corbusier. Projector Collective are interested in the idealism of Le Corbusier’s book and the optimism of his theories. In absorbing these ideas and viewing them through the contemporary urban environment, the Collective have sought to respond to locations where these ideas might once again be relevant. While focusing on examples of decommissioned buildings in the Dublin inner city the Collective were taken by the closing-off of function of what Le Corbusier himself referred to as ‘machines for living’. These shuttered and fenced houses carry a new skin that temporarily excludes them from use - they exist in a sort of dream state, sleeping buildings waiting for re-use.
The artists have used found elements from these buildings that form a barrier on or around their structure; shutters and fencing - objects that have been put in place to guard and protect them for a future purpose. These elements have been transformed and a given a new function situated in a new space and become talismanic emblems of the transitory state of these houses. Pure gold has been used as a material in this transformation and makes physical an aspect of Le Corbusier’s idea of Radiance.
Since 2008 Projector Collective have also been working on a project with Via Artists Group and Dublin City Council Arts Office to interact directly with a specific location in Dublin’s historical North Inner City - St. Agatha’s Terrace. The Radiant City offered a prologue or pre-meditation on some of the ideas that were further explored in project titled Bright Shadow.
http://www.viaart.org
One of the objectives of CPP is to promote the idea of editionable artworks and Projector Collective has responded on this occasion by producing a series of embossed prints in an edition of ten.
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