Cork Culture Night & Last Chance to See Fort Camden Commissions

This weekend is a busy one for the arts in Cork. Friday night, 23rd September, is Culture Night, the annual event where over 75 of the city's cultural venues are open late for one night only with hundreds of events happening for free. You can download the program here. At Backwater Artists Studios we will be having an open night with tours of the studios every half hour as well as tea & buns. I'll be giving the tour at 7.30 & 8pm and I'd love to see you there.

Also opening on Culture Night is Memento in the James Barry Exhibition Centre in CIT. This exhibition is a result of an international Erasmus project, exploring the notion of memory and recollection. This work emerged from intensive workshops delivered across various institutions in Europe. You might remember that I was involved in running workshops both here in Cork at the Crawford College of Art & Design and at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Enschede, Holland. Its an exhibition worth seeing. You can see photos from the Memento exhibition in Holland here.

Fort Camden by Joleen Cronin via the Rescue Camden website

This weekend is also the last weekend to see the Cork County Council and Fort Camden art commissions at Fort Camden in Crosshaven. This includes my piece Document II, a site specific piece documenting the passing of time through the changing light. Fort Camden will also have a number of different events for all the family running this weekend including over 40 reenactors and the Barracks Street Band. Check out the Fort Camden Facebook page for more details.

Culture Night Website - Cork City
Cork City Council Culture Night Website
Cork City Arts Facebook Page

Rescue Camden Website
Fort Camden Facebook Page

Memento III

At the end of May I traveled back to Enchede, Holland, for the grand opening of Memento III. It was great to be there to see the result of all the hard work. The exhibition was spread over 3 locations and it was very interesting to see the response of 7 different art institutes to the same theme. I'm happy to say that the Crawford did itself proud. Once again the Dutch were wonderful hosts and it was lovely to meet the tutors from the other institutes. Marcel, Rudi and Eric even introduced me to their 10 x 8 camera and there are plans in the pipeline for me to return in the future to run a workshop & make some work with it. I look forward to it!

Congratulations to everyone involved in Memento III, it was a great success.

Memento Project Award

I'm just back from a wonderful week teaching in Enschede, Holland. The photo above is of myself, Trish Brennan (Head of Fine Art in Crawford College of Art & Design) and the Dean and members of the AKI ArtEZ Institute for the Arts responsible for the Memento project, after they received the Orange Carpet Award. CIT Crawford College of Art & Design is a partner in the Memento Project.

Dutch Mementos

This week I'm in Holland teaching a workshop in the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Enschede as part of the Memento Project. The Memento Project is an international educational exhibition which a number of European art colleges take part in, including the Crawford College of Art & Design here in Cork. The theme of the project focuses on memory and recollection. Marcel, a photography tutor here, has written about it on his blog. (You'll have to use Google Translate unless you can read Dutch!)

Tasio having his hair cut for a photoshoot (Courtesy of Marcel Vos)

ArtEZ recently won the Orange Carpet Award for the Memento project. It is awarded to the University in the Netherlands who does the best to ensure the well being of their International Students.