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Sample-Studios Annual Members Show 2015

December 10 - January 16, 2016
Opening night: December 10th 19.00 Tuesday- Saturday 12-15.00
TACTIC, 3rd Floor Sample-Studios
Curated by
Aoife Power, born 1988, Waterford received her BA (Hons) Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015. She is interested in exploring the postmodern position which accepts the realities of the art market and comments on the blurring of the lines between commodities and fine art. The value of an art object is a subject of contention; its material/labour value versus its pricelessness, its aesthetic or contemplative value; essentially art’s ability to command a price that far exceeds its function. Niamh Cooney is a visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. Graduating from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015, her curatorial interests are predominantly concerned with the moving image, as portrayed through performance art. As a practicing performance artist, she is interested in the idea of spatial communication in durational performances especially, where the physicality of the space is thoroughly narrated by the artist as they become less aware of time and become more engaged in the present moment or action. In these ongoing performances, he is drawn to the means by which the space gives context to the piece being performed; paying attention to sound, light and surrounding pieces and how they might correspond with each other.
Other Exhibition Artists
Claire Lee is an artist based in Cork, Ireland. Born in 1992 she graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015. Her work explores a clash of uncoordinated orders reflecting a landscape that is in a state of flux and lies between representational painting of architecture, spaces and abstract structures. Pádraig Spillane’s practice explores the construction of appearances through the manipulation of photographic and appropriated surfaces. Stagings of surrogates and alternates draw anthropomorphic resonances with constructive and dissipating tendencies. Working with photography, sculpture, collage and décollage, works examine the body, desire, and sensation. Shay Quinn has a background in metal craft, jewellery making and welding. Following his acceptance to CCAD in 2008, Quinn developed an interest in painting and his recent body of work is an exploration of his unique personal style. His recent work has been developed from a reworking in paint of old personal photographs, drawings and digital media, with an aim of experimenting with different palettes in gesso and acrylic. Peadar Lamb was born in Dublin in 1966. He studied at the National College of Art and Design, and went on to receive a Postgraduate in the UK. He is known primarily as a stained glass artist, but his practice also includes print and sculpture. He describes his current work as "striving for a certain simplicity and purity, that belies the complexity of its composition and technique, more evident in my earlier work."

An annual showcase of Sample-Studios members, this year’s Annual Members’ Show features works by artists Claire Lee, Pádraig Spillane, Shay Quinn and Peadar Lamb. Curated by Aoife Power and Niamh Cooney, recipients of TACTIC’s Graduate Curatorial Award, the works range from painting to drawing, and photography.

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Sample-Studios Ltd. is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Council, the Cork Arts Fund at The Community Foundation of Ireland and Gurranabraher Credit Union.

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