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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Commonplace EVENT - workshop…
Published July 24th, 2008Workshop - August 2008
Challenging Myths and Misinformation about Asylum Seekers and Refugees took place on Wednesday 6th August 5pm, Commonplace, Studio one 10 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2
Challenging Myths and Misinformation about Asylum Seekers and Refugees is a free workshop led by Ismale Khurdi that provides the opportunity to: question definitions of refugee, asylum seeker and economic immigrant; challenge stereotypes and offensive labels applied to these groups; look at the meanings and perceptions of ‘home’; and facilitate the exchange of personal and professional experiences.
Ismale Khudri is an artist who has exhibited his work in Ireland and is participating in an Artist in Community awarded project, a project based at the Mosney Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers, led by artist Anne Kelly and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Create. He has worked with SPIRASI (www.spirasi.ie) and TEAM Educational Theatre Company (www.teamtheatre.ie) lecturing at DCU and DIT, devising workshops for secondary school students and for parents of primary school children around the country. Earlier this year Ismale was nominated for asylum seeker of the year, an award organised by the African Refugee Network. He was born in Kurdistan and is currently seeking asylum in Ireland.
This workshop was organized by artist Anne Kelly and Kindly facilitated by Commonplace as part of a project at Mosney funded by the artist in community scheme awarded by the Arts Council of Ireland and Create.
For further information about Mosney Mobility Project phone 0877515123
www.mosneymobility.wordpress.com
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Project #4
Published May 25th, 2008
Paul Timoney - THINGS PRETENDING TO BE OTHER THINGS
Fridays and Saturdays from 13th until 28th June 2008
THINGS PRETENDING TO BE OTHER THINGS is an interactive performance, which was devised by Paul Timoney. Visitors to studio one at Commonplace [CPAP] took on a character and played their part in a virtual world constructed from ordinary objects that have been dismantled and re-jigged in interesting and amusing ways
The sculptural objects or props that were created by Timoney acted as triggers for the enactment of critical, poignant, funny and confrontational scenraios
A shop keeper was fired for taking time to chat with his customers
A nurses aid entertained their critically ill patient by giving them a nice hair do
Throughout his time at Commonplace Timoney collaborated with individuals and groups to film many different scenes. The footage that he gathered will later be edited together to form a coherent story…hopefully.
Biography
Paul Timoney - AKA Peter Mulligan - has worked on a number of successful projects that have involved open and invited participation. These include SHOW at The Excursions Festival 2008 in Limerick and BIG MASSIVE PROTEST at Out Of Site 2006 in Dublin and Project 06 in Galway.
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