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Residencies

Sample-Studios offer six supported residency programmes, designed to launch and sustain creative careers in Cork:
Studios of Sanctuary
Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award
Sample-Studios Summer Residency in CSN
Graduate Curatorial Residency Award
Graduate Residency Awards
Sample @ Spike Island Residency

Studios of Sanctuary

The Studios of Sanctuary offers tailored support for marginalised artists, supported by the Cork Arts Fund at The Community Foundation for Ireland

Meet the Residents

This residency offers marginalised artists and arts practitioners who are from an asylum seeker, refugee and migrant background tailored support to meet their professional goals.

The residency offers each of the residents:

  • Full access to our studio facilities
  • One to one expert mentorship with monthly mentor meetings
  • Monthly professional development and training workshops
  • A programme of day trips to arts events throughout Ireland
  • Quarterly support meetings with the Sample-Studios team
  • An individual bursary per month for the duration of the residency

 

Recipients Of This Award:
2023
Tetiana Milshyna
2021-2023
Catarina Araújo
2021-2023
Seiko Hayase
2021-2023
Jerome Jefferson Kiyemba
2021-2023
Neo Gilson

Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award

A Partnership Award supporting Early Career Stage Film Artists by the National Sculpture Factory, Cork International Film Festival and Sample-Studios, Cork.

Sample-Studios is delighted to partner with the National Sculpture Factory and Cork International Film Festival to develop a new residency initiative to support and promote early career stage film artists.

Click for more information: Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award – Open Call

Sample-Studios Summer Residency in CSN

Sample-Studios Summer Residency in partnership with Cork College of FET – Tramore Road Campus

Sample-Studios is delighted to partner with Cork College of FET Tramore Road Campus to deliver a residency for professional visual artists during the summer months, for the second year running, following the success of the residency undertaken by the inaugural recipient, Seiko Hayase, in 2022.

Sample-Studios members Rachel Walsh and Kate McElroy have been awarded the 2023 Summer Residency in CSN. They will both avail of dedicated large studios and the use of specialist equipment throughout the summer months in CSN,  culminating in exhibition opportunities.

Recipients Of This Award:
Summer 2023
Rachel Walsh
Summer 2023
Kate McElroy
Summer 2022
Seiko Hayase

Graduate Curatorial Residency Award

As part of our mission to launch and sustain creative careers in Cork, Sample-Studios offers residencies for emerging curators

The residency includes:

  • 6-month free Associate Membership with associated access to use the shared facilities and professional development programme.
  • A fully-funded online course in curatorial studies from the NODE Centre for Curatorial Studies (http://www.nodecenter.org). The course must be chosen and taken before end 2023​
  • Training in front of house, event management and planning, artist liaison, gallery management, administration, marketing and fundraising with programmed exhibitions.
  • The opportunity to apply to curate an exhibition as part of Sample-Studios Visual Arts Programme with the full support of Sample-Studios. The curated exhibition must take place in 2023/4.
  • Mentorship from an established professional curator.

This residency is run in partnership with UCC and awardees selected from relevant graduate and postgraduate courses.

Recipients Of This Award:
2023
Mariana Fuentes Olavarría
Postgraduate Curatorial Resident
2022
Casey Walsh (UCC MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing)
2021
Kate McSharry (GMIT)
2021
Aimée Leahy (MTU Crawford)
2021
Ava Hayes (MTU Crawford)
2019/2020
Sinéad Barrett (CCAD)
2018
Catriona Osborne (LSAD) – Archives of Shame, St Luke’s Crypt, Cork (October 2019)
2018
Alison O’Shea (CCAD) – Burning Down the House, St Luke’s Crypt, Cork (July 2019)
2017
​Irene Berkerey (CCAD) – I see Crimson, I see Red – Elizabeth Fort, Cork (January 2019)
2017
​Katie O’Grady (LSAD) – Rolling Hills (part of Cork Midsummer Festival)- The Guesthouse, Cork
2016
Alison Fogarty (CCAD) – Oh Everywhere There is Gladness (part of Cork Photo)- Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork. (January 2018)
2016
Dervla Mulcahy

Graduate Residency Awards

As part of our mission to launch and sustain creative careers in Cork, Sample-Studios offers free 6 month studio residencies for emerging graduate artists.

The residency includes:

  • 6-month free Associate Membership with associated access to use the shared facilities and professional development programme.
  • The opportunity to apply for a solo exhibition of new work in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, with the full support of Sample-Studios. The exhibition must take place in 2023/4.

Awardees are selected from the MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Degree Show.

 

Recipients Of This Award:
2023
Saoirse Radford
Graduate Residency Award
2023
Andrea Newman
Graduate Residency Award
2023
Mary O' Leary
Graduate Residency Award
2023
Caroline Bowles
Graduate Residency Award
2023
Abbie O' Mahony
Graduate Residency Award
2023
Conor O' Brien
Graduate Residency Award
2022
Aoife Nolan (MTU Crawford)
2021
Graduate
Kayleigh Marimaran (MTU Crawford)
2021
Postgraduate
Padraic Barrett (MTU Crawford MA in Art & Process)
2021
Postgraduate
Catarina Araújo (MTU Crawford MA in Art & Process)
2020
Elinor O’ Donovan (Edinburgh College of Art)
2020
Deirdre Frost( CCAD)
2020
Lily O’Shea (CCAD)
2020
Nellie Corbett and Trevor Boyle (CCAD)
2019
Aoife Claffey (CCAD)
2019
Roz Spencer (CCAD)

Sample @ Spike Island Residency

A supported summer residency in a unique heritage setting, in partnership with Spike Island and Sirius Arts Centre and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Arts Grants.

In 2021, Sample-Studios established a new partnership with Spike Island. Our Project Coordinator Sinéad Barrett curated the work of four local artists Kate McElroy, Aoife Claffey, Pádraic Barrett and Deirdre Breen (Inter_Site Collective) in developing artwork for ‘Oiléan’, a spectacular event on Spike Island in September. The artists were given an opportunity to complete residencies on Spike Island over 3 months, and then they had the unique opportunity to present their work as part of a series of nighttime island tours on one of Europe’s most renowned heritage sites.

Spike Island has over 1300 years of Irish history which includes a remote monastery, a fortress to defend an empire and was formerly the world’s largest prison. In 2019, it was named Best Attraction at the International Travel and Tourism Awards. It is an island full of memories and stories which makes it an ideal location for artists to create new and ambitious work inspired by context. The artists who took part in the pilot residency in 2021 integrated these stories and contemporary accounts by former residents into their work and it is our intention that this information be used to inform future residencies, with an iterative research approach.

In Summer 2023/24, we will build upon this successful residency model established with Spike Island to host a series of residences on the island, supported by Sirius Arts Centre residency programme. Sirius Arts Centre, based in Cobh across the water from Spike Island are supporting these annual residencies with mentorship with Director Miguel Amado and provision of one of their artist apartments. The work developed as part of the residencies will culminate in an annual exhibition in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion.

In the summer of 2023, emerging artist and member Eanna Heavey will explore contemporary masculinity and queer identity in this historic context of Spike Island during a residency on the island. The long history of Spike Island with all male institutional holdings that included monks and monasteries, rioters and redcoats, captains and convicts provides a rich site of activation for the themes and interests of Eanna’s practice relating to the male psyche and ‘toxic masculinity’. The psychosocial elements but also the cultural and political landscapes during Spike Island’s many different functions will also be an important dimension which he will explore through artistic film, photography, performance and drawing culminating in an exhibition at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion.

Exploring these ideas within the historic context of Spike Island – most notably and with focus on its prevailing time as a prison which encapsulated, captured and manifested the darkest elements of the male psyche and experience – allows for bountiful analogy with which to create new work that directly addresses the concerns of Eanna’s practice. Yet even during the darkest times on Spike Island – there was still evidence of camaraderie, respect and creativity amongst the prisoners which the artist will honour through film, photography, performance and drawing.

Eanna is a Cork-based visual artist with a BA Hons in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art & Design. He received the ‘Best Moving Image Award’, ‘Cork Film Centre Exhibition Award’, ‘MART Gallery Graduate Exhibition Award’ & was invited to exhibit in Sarah Walker Gallery Cork. Member of Sample-Studios since 2018, with 110+ members was popularly voted to the position of Member Liaison. Founding member of ‘f-project’ artist collective with Cork Film Centre since 2018.

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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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