The arts have been part of the Amaranta Family Practice since its inception. Our doctor, Dr. Ciara McMahon is acutely aware of the importance of creativity to our quality of life and so the practice is co-located with a cultural space. deAppendix hosts a changing calendar of contemporary art exhibitions and artists talks. While not a therapeutic project itself, deAppendix’s lives in symbiosis with — or perhaps parasitic on — the space of a GP surgery for it’s existence. Through its artist-in-residence programme deAppendix challenges how such spaces are activated and in doing so questions accepted norms for this genre of space. deAppendix is a project examining the potential for hybridity between the disciplines of Art and Medicine.
(above: Amaranta: Dr.Ciara (2013), mixed media ephemeral installation, Myra Jago)
Click here : deAppendix for further details about the gallery’s regular program of events, artists talks and interviews with the artists who’ve been on residency.
Paraphernalia
Judy Carroll Deeley
Opening by Patricia Mckenna Tuesday March 26th 2019; 6 – 8 pm.
1 JudyCarrollDeeley_Paraphernalia 1_aa_Oil on canvas_70 x 50 cm_2018
Judy Carroll Deeley’s paintings are concerned with illuminating the strange or mysterious qualities that haunt everyday objects. In Paraphernalia 1 the source of her work is a number of gifts of kitchen implements she received for her wedding but never used. Now largely rusting or otherwise discoloured or dilapidated, the act and fact of painting these objects is her way of ‘reclaiming’ them and acknowledging the temperament she feels pertains to them on taking a fresh, long-delayed look.
Judy Carroll Deeley is a professional artist and has a BA Hons. Fine Art (Painting) from NCAD, 2008, and an MA Hons. Visual Art Practices from IADT, 2011. Her fourth solo exhibition, Paraphernalia 1, opens in deAppendix, 30 Ardagh Grove, Blackrock, Co. Dublin on Tuesday 26st March 2019. She has participated in many group shows including ‘Arrival’ in the dlrLexicon Gallery 2017/18 curated by Gemma Tipton, and the Dunamaise Open 2017/18 curated by Patricia McKenna and Claire Behan. Earlier group shows include the Rua Red Winter Open 2014/15 where she won The People’s Choice Award, and The Claremorris Open 2009. She was awarded a Belmont Mill Residency in 2012 and a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2015. A fifth solo show takes in 2020 in South Tipperary Arts Centre to be curated by Carissa Farrell and a sixth in the Custom House Quay Studios in February/March 2020. See Essay on Paraphernalia 1 by Dr Maebh O’Regan for the essay by Maebh O’Regan on Judy’s work.
Contact : Instagram: @judy.carroll.deeley / www.judycarrolldeeley.com
Happenings
Olwyn Colgan at deAppendix,
21st January until 17th March 2019.
21st January until 17th March 2019.
Olwyn’s art has evolved into a combination of collage, (using found and self-created imagery), combined with paint, inks and pastels. Her practice embodies the belief that art making can enrich life by providing a means of engaging, reflection on, expressing, and developing life stories.
Her subject matter is drawn from day-to-day life including figures within landscapes and interiors, generating visual images telling stories with the intent to engage the viewer’s imagination and emotions.
Olwyn’s paintings aim to strike a balance between Realism, Surrealism. Her enigmatic and intense art wishes to “make you think, confuse you, make you feel like you are in a dream”.
www.olwyncolgan.com / olwyncolgan@hotmail.com Instagram: OlwynColgan / FB: OlwynColganArt
Olwyn Colgan was born in Co. Tyrone, and is now living in Dublin.
She graduated with a degree in Fashion and Design at the University of Ulster Belfast in 1995. She then pursued a career in London, designing for fashion companies Cyberdog and Sue Rowe.
In 2000 she moved back to Ireland and began to move into a fine art tradition studying Painting and Drawing, bringing into her work illustration skills but also powerful dynamics from her fashion background and culture.
Olwyn has had previous solo shows in Strule Art Centre, Omagh, Co. Tyrone in 2017 and Inspire Gallery Dublin in 2016 and an up and coming solo show in The Icon Factory Dublin. She has participated in numerous group shows most recent being The Engine Room Gallery Belfast and, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Co. Laois. She is currently undertaking a Diploma in Art and Design in NCAD and is employed in Arts Education.
Memento Aldi
Danny Kelly at deAppendix, 30 Ardagh Grove.
23rd October until 7th December 2018
Community of biro (2018), oil and mixed media on canvas
Memento Aldi – a new body of work by Danny Kelly. Show runs from 23rd Oct until 7th December, 2018
Memento Aldi is an installation of Danny Kelly’s recent painting at DeAppendix. Kelly’s work elaborates a subjective sphere of heterogeneous features comprising tropes of painting culture and items of biographical significance. A protean topography traverses the work’s pictorial content, objective environmental and material properties, and interpreted public and personal cultures – intimations of chart music and domestic miscellanea. Dynamics of disintegration and consolidation alternate, suggesting an accidental crucible breeding ephemeral hybrids. A visceral, crudely drawn practice emerges – playing with cohesiveness, personal identity and public visuality – and is embraced as a pidgin chart music.
“This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the artist John Freeney, who lived on Merville Road. His talent and generosity made it possible for me to want to be an artist.” Kelly, 2018
Community of biro (2018), oil and mixed media on canvas
January 16th 2015
deAppendix is very excited that Ciara McKeon has started her residency. She comes directly from her show ‘I Have To Say I Have To Say’ at the Octagonal Gallery. Watch this space for more details …..
January 11th 2015: Lieselle McMahon at deAppendix
After a busy week, Lieselle McMahon’s recent work is now on show at deAppendix. Lieselle is a music and audiovisual artist living in Dublin, where she studied Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. She uses a combination of sound synthesis, field recordings, spoken word, soundscapes and voice, as well as layering visual textures in film and photography. Her work is very much influenced by her background as a musician and songwriter, and by her experience as a molecular biologist.
Reflection (2015), Digital print on acetate.
Reflection (2015); photographic print on acetate, wire is based on the non-linear, revealing nature of reflection. Satellite (2015); mp3 player, speakers, audio track 4min 30sec (Looped) Our fascination with the moon and stars down through the centuries has inspired humans to venture into space. There has been much debate about the reasoning behind space exploration including power, war, competition, ownership and scientific investigation. Here, NASA field recordings such as interstellar plasma sounds, passing comets, lightning on Jupiter, Saturn radio emissions, the Sputnik satellite beep and chorus radio waves within Earth’s atmosphere are interlaced with sound bites from NASA space missions. These are layered and looped, mimicking the alternating chaos and calm of being in orbit.
The Moon Graffiti Series (2011) is a series of photographs taken in the Dublin-Wicklow Mountains on the night of a very bright full moon. The moon is a constant in our sky and we are inexplicably drawn to its light – it captures our imagination, is both mesmerising and mystical, and it gives us pause for reflection. The “graffiti” effect was achieved by lengthening the exposure and experimenting with movement to create shapes and symbols similar to “tags” used by graffiti artists.
June 2014: Olivia Hassett at deAppendix
March 2014: Olivia Hassett at deAppendix
To date Olivia Hassetts practice has dealt mainly with notions of the body as an abject entity; visceral organs, held in place by a fragile porous skin. Her artistic aims to work across disciplines and research additional notions of the superhuman led to the initiation of a collaboration in 2013 and this residency at deAppendix (March-May 2014).
The collaborative project with Professor David Taylor, Engineering dept., Trinity College Dublin explored the evolutionary possibility that humans could become superhuman/ less vulnerable by developing an exoskeleton; tube like bone structures to protect the muscles and organs of the body. The main collaborative outcome was a prototype exoskeleton knee joint that was designed and 3D printed in plastic.
Olivia Hassett was invited by Dr McMahon to further explore the collaborative project outcomes and research notions of the superhuman during the residency at deAppendix.
It is envisaged that the research undertaken at deAppendix will inform the development of a new body of unique art works that will synthesise art, science and medicine. Through the innovative experimentation and unorthodox use of cutting edge materials and technologies she will expand the boundaries of her practice while exploring the tensions between notions of the fragile and superhuman body.
Currently on display in deAppendix is an introduction to Olivia Hassetts practice, which spans sculptural installations, performance art and interdisciplinary collaborations.
October 2013 deAppendix
Article published in 2ha, an architectural magazine about deAppendix.
A No-place like Home Suburbia + Public Space
Issue 03 of 2ha explores the relationship between suburban morphology and public spaces. Three essays observe existing conditions and propose an architectural response. A fourth and final essay describes a real intervention which deals with conceptions of public and private in suburbia.
Michael Hayes (editor) begins with ‘The Contemporary Commons’. Here suburbia is perceived as a space that is either maligned or overlooked. In the left-over and oddly-shaped green spaces of the housing estate may lie the greatest opportunity for the civic in suburban life.
Andrew Clancy (architect, lecturer QUB) presents ‘Marginalia’. Among the landscape of Dublin’s suburban coastline is an artificial topography made of commuter railways, by-passing roads and the ambiguous space left between. A condition of constant flux defines this landscape.
Colin McDonnell (architects) produces a spatial analysis of the suburbs entitled ‘Pieces of Suburbia’. In reading the existing fabric as elements of field, point and line and alternative approach to a suburban architecture might develop.
Ciara McMahon (GP/artist) reflects on her practice ‘deAppendix’, a doctor’s surgery and public gallery located in a Dublin housing estate. The project reassesses ideas of publicness/privacy and programmatic preconceptions within a suburban community.
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deAppendix nominates Olivia Hasset
deAppendix announces the nomination of Olivia Hassett for the Jim McNaughton / Tile Style Artists Bursary award as part of the Allianz Business to Arts Awards. These awards recognise businesses, artists and arts organisations that developcreativepartnerships, bringing the arts and artists into mutually beneficial relationships across society.
The Jim McNaughton/ TileStyle Artist’s Bursary award will be awarded towards the evolution of a work / body of work or project by an emerging artist(s) in any art form. The bursary is designed to develop an artist’s creative practice and help take an idea to realisation, whether that be in writing, composing, performing, or creating in a visual or other medium. The successful nomination will be announced in September 2013.
Hasset is a Dublin based artist. She completed an Honours Degree in Fine Art Sculpture at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin in 1996 and went on to obtain a Postgraduate Diploma in Advertising Management from the Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street. Olivia worked in the advertising industy and Radio Teilifis Eireann for a further five years.
In 2004 Olivia returned to sculpting and has since focused on working in various media, combined with ongoing professional development. She recently completed her Masters in Fine Art Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In 2004 Olivia was awarded the Distinction in bronze award at the Sculpture in Context exhibition in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin. She was one of three artists chosed to be part of the Mentoring schene at the National Sculpture Factor in Cork. Her work may be found in the Nissan Ireland Corporate Collection and in many private collecitons. deAppendix are looking forward to working with Olivia in January 2014 when she will start her residency.
Further information on Hassett’s practice is available here: OHassett document containing Images and weblinks
Deirdre Glenfield at deAppendix.
deAppendix presents the first solo exhibition, Henrietta’s Dance, by visual artist Deirdre Glenfield will run from Tuesday, 20th August until Friday 6th September, 2013
(above: Henrietta’s Dance, Deirdre Glenfield, Video Projection, 2013)
This exhibition which features installation and video projection, has been inspired by Henrietta Lacks, a 31 year old poor tobacco picking American black woman, who in 1951 presented at Sir John Hopkins Memorial Hospital, Baltimore MD with cervical cancer. Her cancer cells were taken without her consent and were the first cancer cells to grow in culture. She died 8 months later but her cells still live today. They have transformed medical research, but have also become embroiled with international politics as scientists believed that the secret to conquering death lay within her cells. Her story explores the mystery of cell mutation, proliferation and replication within the human body, the political complexities of medical research and the enormous part that one person can unknowingly play in modern medicine.
Concurrently the artist will screen “The Way of All Flesh” at The LAB, Foley St., Dublin 1 Thursday 15th August 7-8pm . This BBC documentary by Adam Curtis explores the Henrietta story. The screening will be followed by a talk between artist Deirdre Glenfield and curator Siobhan Mooney.
(above: Hela Host 2, Deirdre Glenfield, Pen & Ink on paper, 16cm x 11cm, 2013 )
Deirdre is a Dublin based multimedia visual artist, whose work has evolved following a process of experimentation with video projection and installation.
She graduated in 2010 with a BA in Visual Arts Practices from IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, and is currently undertaking an MA in Visual Arts practices with IADT. Deirdre has exhibited at group shows in Block T, Dublin in June 2011 and the Market Studios, Dublin in December 2011 with the artists’ collective ‘This is Yellow’. For the past four years Deirdre has worked as an arts facilitator in Tallaght Hospital, collaborating with elderly patients in a commissioned stained glass artwork for the Aged Related Day ward in 2012. She currently works with oncology patients receiving chemotherapy at the hospital.
Drawing from current topical issues and personal experiences, her work explores various themes within the context of societal, political and scientific systemic structures in our everyday environment, often appropriating material from the internet. Her practice examines not just the workings of these systems, but also the failure of such structures. Her work is a continuous development of digital exploration involving layering, mapping, collage and abstraction. Her present work creatively explores the hybrid space between arts and health, within which she finds herself.
(Above: Hela Host 1, Deirdre Glenfield, Pen & Ink on paper, 16cm x 11cm, 2013)
For Further information about Deirdre’s practice see here
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KATHY HERBERT at deAppendix House Trees and other tales JUNE 28TH – JULY 31ST
Aerials, 30 x 38cm, pencil on paper, Kathy Herbert, Kathy Herbert’s practice incorporates 2 to 3D work says of her drawing practice : Drawing is a straightforward means of capturing an idea and giving it substance. It can be immediate and responsive, it can be meditative, or logical and structured. I work with the idea of “sharing space”, joining man-made and natural imagery to imply equal occupancy of the same space. This work draws on the idea of respect for other living beings – animal plant etc, and implies that we are not the only important beings on this planet. I draw from nature, giving every living thing equal value in the hope that it will be reflected in our way of living on Earth.
KATHY HERBERT has been an Artist for over twenty years, exhibiting in Ireland, America, and Europe: She has taken part in Symposia, projects and initiatives, lectured and lead workshops. Kathy completed her MFA in the National College of Art and Design in 2011. She has recently shown in “Sculpture in Context”, Botanic Gardens 2012, the Drawing Project, IADT 2013 and presented her artist initiated project “Drawing Conversations” with Phizzfest 2012 and 2013, Dublin. From July Kathy will be Artist in Residence at Draiocht, Blanchardstown. Her forthcoming show, “Studies from Tree Journeys”, made using graphite drawings on paper and some watercolours, will shortly be on show at Excel Theatre and Gallery, Tipperary. Further details regarding Kathy’s work is available at www.kathyherbert.ie or by contacting Kathy directly on +353 87 9481740 or at kathy@kathyherbert.ie
CATHY FITZGERALD: Originally from New Zealand, Cathy has a diverse work background in both art and science. Although always passionate about art, Cathy spent the first eight years of her working career working in biological science working at a agricultural research institute in New Zealand. On moving to Ireland, Cathy spent the next six years completing a First Class Joint Honours degree in Fine Art Painting and Irish Art History at the National College of Art & Design (NCAD 1996-2000), Dublin, then an MA in Fine Art (NCAD Virtual Realities) 2000- 2002. Her MA further developed her interdisciplinary approach with a novel residency in the leukaemia laboratory at St James Hospital in Dublin, while also allowing her to develop considerable knowledge of interactive online media, and experimental film practice. Since arriving in Ireland in 1995 Cathy has been very involved in Irish and European forest NGO’s, and Green politics (particularly Green Party Forest policy in recent years). From 2007-10 she acted at the first Director of ArtLinks.ie, an innovative five county on and off-line programme of professional arts development catering to over 1500 creative practitioners through the Local Authority Arts Offices of the South East of Ireland (the website for this programme was short-listed for an e-government award in 2009 and 2010). Highlights in her art practice include an Art Council Residency and exhibition in the Zoology Genetic laboratories in the Zoology Department at Trinity College (2004-5), curation of ecological artist Cornelia Hesse-Honneger’s work for Visualise Carlow (2005) and her solo exhibition, ‘the local project’ at the Dock, Co. Leitrim (2006), comprising of a 30 minute film documentary and exhibition that celebrated Crann’s pioneering local native woodland planting scheme. In 2008 she created the first art & ecology resource website in Ireland www.ecoartnotebook.com and has since contributed to many international art & ecology networks. She began doctoral studies on her art-ecology-forest-politics practice in October 2010. For further information see: www.ecoartfilm.com
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MYRA JAGO at deAppendix
Arrested Development
8th MAY – JUNE 6th 2013
OPENING EVENT : SHOW AND TELL
WEDNESDAY 8 MAY 2013 6.30 – 8pm AT deAPPENDIX, 30 ARDAGH GROVE, BLACKROCK, CO. DUBLIN.
Chaired by Jennette Donnelly, co-director of Avenue Road Gallery in Portobello, this informal salon will delve into newly developed and renegotiated work, looking at both the artist’s intent and the audience’s analysis.
It is immediately evident when encountering Myra’s paintings that she has a mastery and skill of her trade that is worth gazing upon. The use of paint, brushes, canvas, and gesso give her images a smooth and mirror like appearance. It creates an urge for closer inspection and contemplation. They are based on an art history of the representational but have a surreal element to them which can be humorous as well as reflective in nature. Arrested Development I – V are five paintings that are informed from her sculpture piece. They are small and beg for the viewer to move closer to inspect their use of colour and technique. Crooked Little City and one piece yet to be titled are two of the three new paintings to be viewed. It shows the smooth application of paint, reflecting the images within the painting, as well as creating reflections within the viewer. The third painting bears a title that is as much a part of the work as the image created. All this has happened before and it will All happen again comes from the opening line of Disney’s Peter Pan made in 1953.
The two sculpture pieces Arrested Development and Nobody’s Home have a crafted skill of the hand built. There is a feeling of curiosity and desire to look inside them to see if there is more to find. What is important to note is these sculptures were constructed with materials that were nominal in value such as paper, match sticks and cocktail sticks which also renders them fragile in nature.
These works all display the mastery of the artist’s tools and are a well deserved mark of the end of her residency at the deAppendix gallery.
Susan Edwards, (ACW NCAD), 2013, siunmcdonel@yahoo.co.uk
For more information or images please contact : Ciara McMcMahon at deAppendix, 30 Ardagh Grove, Blackrock; 0035312785866 / email: contactdeappendix@gmail.com or Myra Jago on myrajago@gmail.com / 00353872323561
15th April 2013
Myra Jago, our current artist in residence has settled in and is beavering away in her studio. She has been developing a changing installation within deAppendix and has kindly agreed to share them with us below.
The exhibition space has been morphing, reflecting the passage of the residency itself:
Jago’s work is concerned with reflections, repetitions and optical illusions.
Given the reaction to the collapse of the housing market and the local reaction to our newly introduced property tax, this work holds a particular site specific resonance.
Jago’s installation will continue to morph throughout her residency so keep an eye out here for further shots. We’re thrilled that she’s also intending on having an open conversation early next month. More details on that to follow.
18th March 2013
We are delighted to announce that Myra Jago is our artist in residence during March and April. Myra’s work centres on the human experience. Jago notes we operate halfway between what is tangible and what is felt. In describing this dichotolmy, recent work uses mirroring, where a thing appears apart from itself, and symmetry, where an object is rendered groundless.
All this has happened before and it will all happen again, oil on canvas, 100x120cm, 2013
RotatoR, oil on canvas, 60x50cm, 2013
Images roll into and out of one another in a loop-like system, similar to the indiscernible division between reflective and reflexive action. Work is realised through oil painting, watercolour, drawing and sculpture. Oil painting are set on a smooth, uninterrupted surface of several polished layers of gesso; watercolours present on hot-pressed paper, devoid of grain. Sculptural pieces favour recycled materials or low-costing alternatives and are suspended / hung without visible support. Palindromes offer further elucidation, both within the work and in titles.
not-a-cloud-in-the-sky, mixed media-pop-up-book, 2012
Jago states ” I’d like to use my time at deAppendix to renegotiate past work and delve into the long list of unrealised ideas lying dormant in my notebooks. So, I expect there will be some experimentation popping up in the the public rooms of deAppendix”.
Arrested Development, trifold popup book, oil on card, 2012
nobodys home, matches, cocktail sticks, card, glue, paint, 30x22x19cm, 2012
blot (detail), oil-on-gessoed-paper, 36x15cm, 2011
bud, oil-on-canvas, 25x30cm, 2012
Myra Jago received her MFA in 2011, subsequent to her BA (Hons) from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She was a selected emerging artist for Manifest and subsequently for ArtNow, a Dublin Contemporary 2011 Circle Programme. Most recently, she has taken part in group exhibitions at The Hugh Lane Gallery, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow and Art & Style at Brown Thomas, Dublin. Further information on Myra’s work see: www.myrajago.com
29th Jan, 2013 :
Marie-Claire Cassidy is the second artist to have been awarded deAppendix visual arts residency. Marie–Claire will be working from a designated artists studio at deAppendix during Feburary and March 2013.
Rain Dance, oil and mixed media on canvas, 2012
Marie Claire Cassidy is a practising artist who has studied in Dublin and Belfast. In 1999 she graduated from the University of Ulster with a 2.1 degree in Fine Art Painting.
Her work has been exhibited in Ireland, New Zealand and the US.
While still at college Marie-Claire was the recipient of the Thomas Dammann Travelling Scholarship to Spain awarded by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where she worked with local textile artists in Capellades just outside Barcelona. In 2001, she exhibited work at the Irish Arts Centre, New York. Since then, she has worked on a number of artists’ projects including the Inislacken Island Residency in Connemara in memory of Belfast artist, Gerard Dillon in 2002, and more recently in 2012. In 2010 she received an Arts Council Create “Artist in the Community Award” for her Public Art project, “Mapping the Brain” to collaborate in an Art and Healthcare setting with “trainees” at the National Rehabilitation Hospital’s Rehabilitative Training Unit in Dún Laoghaire. Her work is part of many public and private collections, including Microsoft Ireland, Mason, Hayes Curran Solicitors, Dublin and Botanic Inns Ltd, Belfast.
Although, Marie-Claire graduated in Fine Art Painting, she spent time studying textile design at NCAD and studied Art, Design and Mixed Media in Ballyfermot College. Techniques she learnt on these courses play an important part in the research for her paintings. Tactile processes like photographs, montage, printmaking and paper making are amongst these methods. As too, is the layered approach and mark making example found in the drawings. Colour and Texture have always been an integral part of Marie-Claire’s work which combines oil painting techniques with mixed media.
Marie-Claire has said in relation to spending the next eight weeks at The Appendix: “This opportunity as artist in residence in a hybrid space which combines art and a GP surgery is exciting and new to me. I plan to develop further textural work through the media of print making and works on paper and to create large drawings which could be displayed in the surgery’s waiting room.
Marie-Claire’s recent body of work Land and Sea Series: Oil and mixed media on canvas can be seen in deAppendix.
This work has been influenced by the light and texture of seascapes off the west of Ireland. The sense of wilderness of the landscape and the contrasts of the delicacy of light against the solid structure of the coastline are what attracted me to this theme. The work was explored further at a recent artist residency at Inislacken Island, Roundstone in June 2012.
January 2013:
Marie Soffe’s work, made while on residency in deAppendix is now installed in the waiting room.
Wnen the evening light catches it the whole panel lights up the room. Marie says :
Amaranta Family Practice takes is name from a genus of perennial plants known as Amaranthus, which were revered by the ancient Greeks for their tenacity and ability to thrive in the most hostile conditions. Amongst other cultures, including the Aztecs, the Greeks prized these plants for their great healing and nutritional qualities.
Following extensive research into the rich history and properties of the Amaranthus plant, I have created a frieze-like panel to fit a window in the waiting room. Utilising symbols and text, applied with glass paints on clear acrylic sheeting, the panel tells the story of this wondrous plant, whilst also casting rich colours into the room during daylight hours.
At night, a different treatment with mark-making on the reverse surface of the panel creates an intriguing effect which plays with both the interior light in the room and the streetlights outside. The piece is thus transformed from a series of images that engage the curiosity of the viewer into a surface that demands the physical interaction of the viewer in order to be fully appreciated.
October 15th 2012:
We are delighted to announce that for the months of November and December our inaugral Artist-In-Residence, Marie Soffe, will be based in a designated studio in deAppendix.
Following the residency Marie will exhibit the work influenced by her time at Amaranta Family Practice in the surgery itself. And, as a taster of what is to come, some of her previous work can now be seen in the practice reception and waiting room. The work on show is part of a larger body of work that Marie made following a scholarship in Poland and the image below is a detail from one of her drypoint prints:
Marie says about her residency:
“Making art in a doctor’s surgery would seem to be an incongruity. However, the basis of both medicine and art is enquiry – in order to bring out into the open whatever ails the patient or intrigues the artist.
The Amaranta Family Practice looks out over a large, wooded green, an expansive space with the southern sky as a constantly changing backdrop. This, in itself, is a healing and calming sight that most likely goes unnoticed in this long-settled residential area. To me, it is an enticing space and will provide the starting point for my artistic enquiry during this residency.”
Marie Soffe is a Dublin based artist who worked for many years in the corporate world before successfully completing an Art Design and Mixed Media course in Ballyfermot College in 2005. She then achieved a Joint Degree in Fine Art (Printmaking) and History of Art in NCAD in 2009, followed by a Masters Degree in Contemporary Art. During this time, Marie also studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland, while on an Erasmus scholarship which concentrated on Traditional Printmaking, Studio Painting, Documentary Photography and Weave.
Marie’s practice is wide-ranging, fed by a deep curiosity and visual awareness of her surroundings, in particular while walking. She has exhibited in Japan, Poland and Ireland, and her work is held in corporate and private collections in Poland, Ireland, the UK, Canada and Australia, and in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan.
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