Spaces and Place
Posted on 08/01/2011
Tallaght Community Arts are delighted to present Spaces and Places a project in two parts; firstly Imagined Spaces which is an exhibition of Burke’s latest body of paintings and secondly The Suburban Art Trail which explores Burke’s early work.
Part 1
Imagined Spaces is a series of paintings by Burke, which have developed from collages made from the disassembling and reassembling of photographic studies by Burke, combined with found materials from magazines ad other mass-produced print material. The finished paintings evoke childhood memories or dreams, incorporating familiar details such as windows, steps, and pathways, which help to create a sense of interior and exterior. The end result is a series of imagined spaces.
Exhibition Dates: Monday 24 January – Saturday 19 February 2011
Preview: Saturday 22 January 3pm – 5pm Gallery 2 Rua Red
To be officially opened by Professor Mary Corcoran, Department of Sociology NUI
Mayooth
Location: Rua Red
Civic Square
Tallaght
Dublin 24 (the last stop on Red Luas Line)
Click here to view images from Launch of Exhibition Sat 22 January 2011
Click here to view more of Mary Burke’s work
Click here to view Professor Mary Corcoran’s Opening Speech at Launch
Part 2
The Suburban Art Trail is curated with residents from Jobstown, West Tallaght and
coordinated by Tallaght Community Arts in partnership with Mary Burke.
The viewer is taken on a physical journey through a number of public spaces in the area,
where a series of paintings by Burke on the theme of Suburbia will be displayed individually.
The venues are a medical centre, an adult education centre, a church, a primary and
secondary school and a community education centre
All these venues are open to the public:
Mary Mercer Health Centre, An Cosan Education Centre, St Thomas’ Church, St Thomas
National School, Youth Horizons, Community Education Centre & Mount Seskin Secondary
College.
In addition a number of paintings will be on private exhibition in the individual homes of a
number of pupils and students involved in the curating. This journey is also a chronological one, taking the viewer through Burke’s early work, and culminating in an exhibition at Rua Red of her most recent body of work, ‘Imagined Spaces’.
Preview details:
Venue: An Cosan Fortunestown Road, Jobstown, Tallaght Dublin 24.
Date: 31st January 2011
Time: 2.30pm
Tallaght Community Arts is a pro-active arts development organisation working with
professional artists, local communities, schools and youth groups to activate arts
programmes in line with the needs of the wider Tallaght community: geographically,
culturally and socially.
Artist: Mary Burke (b. 1959) graduated with a BA in Fine Art from NCAD in 1982. She has exhibited extensively both in Ireland and abroad, and her work is included in many public and corporate collections, including The Arts Council, Ulster Bank, and the Dublin Airport Authority.
For more information on Imagined Spaces / The Suburban Trail:
Contact Ruth Clancy
T 01 452 8180
E ruth@tallaght-arts.ie
W www.tallaghtarts.ie