Thursday, June 20, 2013


Welcome to occupyspace.com.

 You'll find the Occupy Space archive of past exhibitions listed below, or find out more about Occupy Space with the tabs above.

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Exhibition Archive
2013

Tadhg Ó Cuirrín: Optimisim
Occupy Space and Stag & Deer Present: Richard Forrest // Laura McMorrow // Caroline McNally // Jillian McAteer
Taking Place
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2011
Occupy Space Graduate Residency Award 2011 - Rachel Healy and Ronan McGeough

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 2010
Show Me - Curated by Nora O Murchu & Anna Crudge
Occupy Space Annual Residency Award 2010 - Eoin Francis MacCormack and Brian O' Shea
Surplus Value - Curated by Michele Horrigan

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2009
PREOCCUPIED

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Monday, May 27, 2013


Occupy Space and Stag & Deer present: 
Richard Forrest // Laura McMorrow // Caroline McNally // Jillian McAteer

12th April to 11th May 2013
 Preview from 7pm to 9pm Thursday 11th April

 7/8 Rutland Street, Limerick
Gallery open from 12-6pm Tuesday to Friday and from 10am-6pm Saturday

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Occupy Space presents Taking Place, a weekend of artist talks, workshops, music, theatre and bingo which ran during the March Easter Weekend 2013 in Faber Studios. Occupy Space invited arts organisations such as Mo Cinema and Orchard Theatre Co. to take part.





                                                        Mo Cinema, Taking Place, Faber Studios March 2013


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013


Un_Noted Professional Development Workshops

Annette Moloney, Budget and Local Authority Funding, Ormston House, Nov. 2012

Un_Noted Professional Development Workshops are a series of workshops aiming to provide the practical tools required to work as a professional artist in a competitive art environment.

Serving as a bridge between the culmination of fine art education and the professional art community as well as being a resource for those further along in their career, we began with a workshop by curator Kate Strain covering topics such as the various formats of an artist C.V. and creating an artist statement. The following workshops then progressed into discussing areas such as web presence, preparing submissions and applying for residencies.

These workshops seek to provide practical information about the opportunities and resources available to artists. They also provide opportunities to interact with a variety of individuals across the art community from established artists, curators and those involved in art education. The workshops offer a platform for discussion of the provision of professional development for artists and the changes that should be made in this respect.


Please email un.noted.occupy.space@gmail.com to find out more.
Project Managed by Aimée Lally, Alicia Lydon and Orlaith Treacy.

                                          Dobz O'Brien and Carla Burns, Residency Workshop, Belltable Arts Centre, Oct. 2012


Belltable Workshops

4th of October 2012:   Kate Strain presents "The Basics"
11th of October 2012: Ruth Crean presents "Growing an Online Identity as an Artist"
18th of October 2012: Dobz O'Brien and Carla Burns presents "Residencies"
25th of October 2012: Michele Horrigan presents "Submissions and Proposals"

Ormston House Workshops

 9th of November 2012:     Annette Moloney presents "Budgeting and Local Authority Funding"
16th of November 2012:   Maeve Mulrennan presents "Arts Council Funding" 
23rd of November 2012:   Dr. Pippa Little presents "Post- Graduate Options"
30th of November 2012:  "Round-table Discussion on Art Education"

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Thursday, August 23, 2012





Occupy Space @ LCGA
Preview 6pm Thursday 23rd August
Exhibition runs until Friday 5th October
Occupy Space continues to provide a diverse programme of exhibitions and events following the closure of their Thomas Street gallery. Working in partnership with Limerick City Gallery of Art, Occupy Space commandeer the first floor to deliver a six week project consisting of an Occupy Space 'Active Archive', screenings from the RAP (Real Art Project) video archive and solo exhibitions I See a Viewfinder by Sean Guinan and Prospect by Laura Kelly. 
In the Carnegie Gallery, Noelle Collins and Kevin O'Keeffe will compile a record of Occupy Space activity in Limerick from 2009 right up to the present. Taking documents stored in the NIVAL archives as a starting point, the Active Archive will be developed throughout the duration of the show. 
   
NIVAL is a public research library for the study of Irish art and design from 1900 to the present day. The library collects, stores and provides access to an unparalleled collection of information in all formats on Irish visual culture. NIVAL has collected documentation on Occupy Space since its foundation in 2009.
   
I See a Viewfinder is a solo show by Limerick-based artist Seán Guinan. The exhibition brings together a body of work created over the last 17 months. These works are small in scale and deal with illogical spaces which unfold into an unlikely, subjective narrative.
Laura Kelly, based in Dublin, has installed  'constructed drawings' in which she combines aspects of a traditional pictorial approach to creating space with the use of three-dimensional elements and incorporating landscape imagery in the process. The interplay of two and three dimensional work contributes to a larger theme of space within the project at LCGA.
The archive of The Real Art Project (R.A.P) will also be exhibited as part of Occupy Space @ LCGA. RAP was a successful artist led initiative based in Limerick City between 1996 and 2001. 
 The aim of the group, which featured emerging graduates as well as tutors from Limerick School of Art and Design, was to create new opportunities for both emerging and established artists through the provision of a studio space as well as an exciting exhibition and events program. In 2007 Aileen Lambert and Michael Fortune, who were both heavily involved in the establishment of RAP, compiled its archive and added it to the Artist Led Archive created by Megs Morley in 2006. Catalogued by Orlaith Treacy, it is being exhibited in appreciation of the great work they have done in establishing a strong art community in Limerick. 


Laura Kelly
NIVAL
The Artist Led Archive

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012




Common Place
An Exhibition by
Pamela Valfer & Allen Brewer

Opening 7pm, Thursday 14th June
Exhibition runs 15th June - 13th July



Hosted by Occupy Space @ Istabraq Hall “City Hall”, Limerick City Council, Merchants
Quay, Limerick



In January 2011 artists Allen Brewer and Pamela Valfer spent 4 months in residence at the Burren College of Art, an experience that challenged their notion of “place”. The exhibition Common Place seeks to explore this topic through questions of contemporary landscape, memory, beauty and overall questioning of one’s “authentic” experience.

Brewer’s work involves renderings and readymades based solely on other’s descriptions
of an experienced place. His process is predicated on the use of language as the
only formal cue for image making, thus abolishing traditional landscape tropes of
romance and emotion. The work addresses our emotional attachment to objects and
environments, highlighting awkward linguistic limitations attributed to memory and place.

While Brewer’s limitations affect the outcome, Valfer’s interests lie within possibility.
This investigation is articulated through pinpoint accurate drawings and collages of
constructed vistas, monuments, ruinous modernist inspired memorials and architectural
models. These newly constructed forms are a clearer representation for Valfer, who
acknowledges her distance to nature as dystopic yet nostalgic.

Coinciding with the exhibition COMMON PLACE at Istabraq Hall will be the Eva International Biennial of Visual Art, (19 May-12 Aug), curated by Annie Fletcher..

Images coming soon

Click here to view Pamela Valfer's website.
Click here to view Allen Brewer's website.






More from Common Pace images coming very soon.
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Friday, May 4, 2012


The Wood between the Worlds


Exhibition runs 4th May to 6th May
Preview from 7-9pm, Thursday 3rd May

Artists: Paul Bokslag, Fiona Burke, Gerard Carson, Marie Connole, Aoife Flynn, Marilyn Gaffney, James L. Hayes, Christine Mackey and Eimearjean McCormack

Curated by Noelle Collins.





Occupy Space presents 'The Wood between the Worlds' an exhibition of works from contemporary artists using paper as a fundamental material in their practice.
Through both invitation and an open submission call, artists working in sculpture, printing, collage, painting and mixed media explore the transformative quality of paper.

The Wood between the Worlds as described in the writing of C.S Lewis is a transitional space between alternate realities. Upon arrival in the Wood you are susceptible to amnesia, but once you have been transported there, other Worlds are accessible through pools of water.

The potential to see different versions of the World we inhabit seems an absurd reference in relation to artists using paper, but it is that sense of possibility and escapism that informed the selection of work.


Image courtesy of Eimearjean McCormack















More images and accreditation coming soon.

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