NSF Residencies 2007 / 2008
The NSF offer four major residency opportunities for artists
working in
any medium.
Ciara Moore – first Artist in Residence for Australia/Ireland Exchange - in Tasmania now
News on successful recipients of 2007 / 2008 Residency Awards
Emerging Irish Artist Professional Development Award
Award for an International or Irish Artist in Mid-Career
Ireland / Australia Exchange Residency
Pépinières Européennes Pour Jeunes Artistes Programme
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Ciara Moore- first recipient
of the
Ireland/Australia Residency Exchange 2007/ 2008
Maddie Leach - Award for an International or Irish Artist in Mid-Career 2007/
2008
Emma Houlihan - Emerging Irish Artist Professional Development Award 2007/2008
Ciara Moore – first Artist in Residence for
Australia/Ireland Exchange - in Tasmania now
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artist Ciara Moore, from Howth, Co. Dublin, is the winner of the inaugural National Sculpture Factory Ireland/Australia Residency Exchange. Letter from Tasmania written by Ciara Moore
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Ciara works primarily in video, sound and text and was selected from a competitive process in 2007. Her residency takes place over three and a half months, having started on 28th January in Tasmania (Hobart) and ending in Sydney (via Melbourne) on 11th May 2008. This award is valued at €20,000 + and includes travel costs, a stipend, a studio and accommodation (also in Sydney and Melbourne), access to the University of Tasmania School of Art’s facilities and an exhibition at the end of her residency. She will also spend time in Artspace, Sydney, and Monash University, Melbourne, making contacts with cultural practitioners and organisers there.
Ciara was born in Dublin in 1966 and attended the National College of Art & Design from 1996 to 2000. She was awarded a first class honours degree in painting and was the recipient of the CAP Foundation Award in 2000. In 2002 she was granted an Arts Council of Ireland Commission Award to produce a video artwork for Cork Film Centre. She has also participated in the Pépinières Européennes pour Jeune Artistes, with a three-month residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Crete.
Her work is grounded in philosophical, sociological and cultural theory and the location of her residency accommodation and studio within the Hobart School of Art campus, should make for fruitful connections. She hopes to engage with the unique environment in Tasmania and conduct intense research there.
The NSF will host an Australian artist in Cork when we relaunch our newly refurbished premises in 2010.
This residency is supported by Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.
Ciara Moore – letter from Tasmania
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Ciara Moore
is the inaugural artist-in-residence on the National Sculpture Factory’s new initiative, the Australia/Ireland Exchange Residency, a three month residency in Tasmania with a shorter trip to mainland Australia. Here Ciara reports on her experience mid way through her stay: click on image to enlarge
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I am now eight weeks into my 15-week residency in Tasmania. The first month was a quiet time of adjustment and solitude; visits to museums, tentative exploration of the city and a lot of reading. It was an interesting transition, like zooming the camera lens in on the subject. My idea of the island where I would spend the next three months altered quite dramatically during that initial period.
My first thoughts were of how our imagined notions of distant places are created and informed by maps, photographs and the Internet. Far off places seem smaller, we get an impression that we can arrive and experience it all. The reality is different. The shift between a formerly objective view and total emersion in Tasmania alters the perspective and I believe that's what makes foreign residencies such an intense and creative experience for an artist. Tasmania is no longer a dot on the Southern hemisphere. And yet it is - because, as I stand on a hot surface of dried out dusty earth in a landscape of burnt-out eucalypti trees and focus my macro lens on a spider web, that thought is always at the back of my mind. Someday soon this place where I'm standing will once again be 11,000 miles away.
My initial month’s reading provided me with a good background from which to proceed with my work here. The Aborigines lived on this land for 40,000 years before the Europeans arrived two hundred years ago. The impact the European settlers have had on the land and its native population raises huge political and philosophical issues. Tasmania is a fascinating and inspirational location both on a macro level and on a larger universal and philosophical level.
At this half-way stage
and after all the research and reading I've done, I feel that I am better
informed and can now trust my intuitive and creative responses to the place. I
don’t believe that as an artist you can simply dive into a place with
pre-conceived notions about what you will do on a residency. In a sense it is a
de-programming process, wading in from the shallow end until you find a level
where it is possible to see both ends of the pool. I believe I've arrived at
that point. I'm working at ground level now. I've been invited to join and
present to a group of artists, environmental scientists, zoologists and others
known collectively as the University of Tasmania Society and Animal Study Group
who have regular meetings to discuss issues, hold screenings and seminars etc. I
am taking a course "Art, Natural Environment and Wilderness" with the artist
Martin Walch. The college hold art forums by visiting Australian and
international artists every Friday which I attend and, as they stay in the flat
next door, I also get to meet them on an informal level which is a great
opportunity. At the end of this month I will be going on a 4-day field trip to
Maria Island with the Wilderness study unit along with other professional
artists and Phd students. I will be in a group show at the Plimsoll Gallery on
April 4th with established artists Leigh Hobba, Martin Walch and
Daniel Von Sturmer (who represented Australia at the Venice Biennale 2004).
So the pace has picked up and my time here has become even more precious
although I imagine that my experience in Tasmania will inspire work for a period
well beyond the 15 weeks I spend here.
- Ciara Moore
 Ciara on a field trip to Maria Island click on images to enlarge |
 'Transmission Still'
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 'Clearing' |
Maddie Leach - Award for an International or Irish Artist in Mid-Career 2007/ 2008
Maddie Leach is the winner of the NSF Artist in Mid-Career Award, the only award open to international artists as well as Irish. Maddie is from New Zealand, and works primarily in installation and video. This residency offers two months accommodation, studio space, and a stipend of €2,500. One of the aims of this award is to build a relationship between the NSF and the artist in order to develop a Cork-based commission at a later stage.
Emma Houlihan - Emerging Irish Artist Professional Development Award 2007/2008
The winner of the Emerging Irish Artist Professional Development Award is Emma Houlihan. Emma recently graduated with a BA in Sculpture from NCAD Dublin and her work is concerned with urban exploration and spatial dynamics. This residency offers two months studio space, a stipend, NSF membership, free access to all Professional Development and Training workshops and free digital equipment loans. However, in 2007, this residency will also offer a new professional development opportunity via an intense two-week residency with Static, an art and architecture project space and think-tank, based in Liverpool, with which the NSF has commissioned projects in the past.
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Pépinières Européennes Pour Jeunes Artistes Programme
The National Sculpture Factory is the participating host venue in Ireland of the prestigious Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Programme, that supports and facilitates the cultural exchange of artists of outstanding potential.
The programme offers up to four international artists the opportunity to undertake a major residency at the National Sculpture Factory, engaging with both local artists and a different culture and community.
2006 Programme
2006 marked the return of the biennial Pépinières Européennes
Pour Jeunes Artistes Programme. The following three emerging artists participated
in the programme:
KONIK, Anna (Polish)
CV and Artist's Statement
STERNBERG, Tobias (Swedish / British)
CV and Artist's Statement
www.tobiassternberg.com
CHUNG, Soyoung (France)
CV
www.soyoungchung.com
Their residencies occurred between February and June 2006.
Past artists who have participated in Pépinières in the National Sculpture Factory are:
Stephan Weitzel (France)
E-mail: info@stephanweitzel.com
Web: stephanweitzel.com
Severine Hubert (France)
E-mail: hubard_s@yahoo.com
Joao Pedro Vale (Portugal)
E-mail: joaopedrovale@hotmail.com
Vincens Cassasas (Spain)
Inka Nieminen (Findland)
Catherine Bolduc (Canada)
Dusan Zahoransky (Slovakia)
Consuelo Rosa Servan (Spain)
Danielle Kraay (Holland)
Simca Roodenberg (Holland)
Tamas Trombitas (Hungary)
Vessa-Pekka Rannikko (Finland)
Jacqueline Pennell (UK)
Piotr Kowalski (France)
Nicos Nicolaou (Greece)
Pépinières Objectives:
- to promote mobility and collaborations between young artists throughout
the European artistic scene;
- to reveal the talent of young creators who are exploring new forms of
expression and find new trend for contemporary creation;
- to give priority to the establishment of European and international professional pathways; to facilitate co productions between artists
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