Heaven is Under Construction

An Exhibition of Work by Mirjam Siefert

Presented by the Sirius Arts Centre.

Opening Thursday 9th June 7pm till 10pm.

Gallery talk by the artist Saturday 11th June 2pm.

“We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it’s towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets we trace absurd and distant Ellipses”.
Fernando Pessoa—The Book of Disquiet

“Photographer Mirjam Siefert was born in Southern Germany in 1978 and presently lives and works in Berlin. She is a founding member of Pavlov’s Dog Gallery and also of the photographic collective “neunplus”, both of which are located in Berlin. Her works have been exhibited internationally in Tokyo, Krakow, Paris, Moscow, Dublin, Denmark, Brussels and Istanbul just to name a few locations.”

 - Cork Midsummer Festival for more information about the work.

Looking forward to seeing this piece of work in the quite beautiful setting of The Sirius Arts Centre.

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Afters…

An Photographic exhibiton of works by 

Stephen Ahern & Stefania Sapio -

Tuesday 7th February 2011 @ 6pm

CLOSE TO HOME

…Stephen Ahern won the Gallery of Photography Artist’s Awards in 2010 which included a show at the gallery, a selection of which will be shown in this exhibition. Close to Home, published by the Gallery of Photography is now available.
“I am interested in the difference between looking at something and looking at a colour photograph of that same thing, whether it’s something I’m seeing for the first time or a scene I’ve encountered everyday for years. Rather than seek out the unusual, I want to make pictures of my own environment, wherever that may be.” Stephen Ahern.

TAME

Stefania Sapio’s photographs were featured in Issue 63, Summer 2010 edition of Source Photographic Review, and received the following editorial:
“Stefania Sapio has photographed her family over a number of years always aware that she is part of what she is recording. As a single mother she is also aware how her life has ‘been cropped to a very tight frame of action’. Out of intensity of this experience comes an intimacy with the people she has photographed and a feeling ‘that she has an inability to reach a total understanding of them’.“ Source Photographic Review.

St. John’s College, Sawmill Street, Cork City.

Rooms 216 & 217.

Sirius Arts Centre

Cobh County Cork
 presents

Slipway to the Galaxies

New Works by Swiss Artist/Performer

Charlotte Hug

Opening reception Thursday 9 September 7:00pm

(Special performance at 8:00PM)

Exhibition runs until Sunday 3 October

Gallery hours:

Wednesday – Friday 11AM- 5pm/Saturday and Sunday 2pm – 5pm/Mon& Tues Closed.

Slipway to the Galaxies audio-visual, Son-icons and sound installation is inspired by the Cork Dockyard in Rushbrooke which captivated Charlotte Hug during her residencies in Ireland which have been ongoing since 2005 with organisations such as ArtTrail and Sirius Arts Centre. Sound and the body interacting with external space, is what drives Swiss artist, Charlotte Hug to create installations and perform concerts of music and sound.  Working with a combination of viola and voice, she creates a third kind of sound quality.  Through a retuning and re-stringing of the viola, Hug brings physicality to the sounds she creates.

Charlotte is known for her solo performances in distinctive locations such as the ice tunnels of the Rhône glacier, the half demolished bunker in Berlin Humboldthain, the House of

Detention - a 250 year old former prison in Farringdon in London, the hot healing sulphur springs beneath the former luxury hotel of Verenahof in Baden, Switzerland and the dockyard in Cobh on the Irish Atlantic coast.

Hug seeks to develop instrumental techniques to their fullest possible extent, which includes the “soft bow technique”, by means of which she can play up to eight voices on her instrument. She plays a viola made by J.G. Thir in 1763. She also specializes in combining the sounds of viola and voice. What has resulted is an unmistakable and distinct tonal language.

Charlotte Hug is member of the “London Improvisers Orchestra”, and founded the “Stellari String Quartet”, a string quartet with the leading British exponents of free improvisation Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos and John Edwards. She has collaborated with composers of the ICST: Institute for Computer music and Sound Technology, Martin Neukom, José López Montes, the photographer and film maker Alberto Venzago, the actor André Jung and the theatre and opera director Jossi Wieler. She collaborates with performers such as Joan Jeanrenaud, Maggie Nicols, Barry Guy, Phil Minton, Larry Ochs,

Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp.

Special thanks to John Brennan and from the Cork Dockyard George Smith and Joe Forde, Art Trail for the artist residency in 2005 and Sirius in 2008, Pro Helvetica and Stadt Zurich Kulture for their financial support


Macroom Town Hall in association with Cork County Council, Sirius Arts Centre and Cork Film Centre Presents

“Bittersweet” - Expressions of Love and Hate. An exhibition of Contemporary Irish and International Artists

Igor Savchenko - The Alphabet of Gestures, bittersweet 1.jpg 

Macroom Town Hall Gallery
 Macroom, West Cork

Opening Friday, 6 August 7:00pm
    Curated by: Sandra Minchin and Peggy Sue Amison
Exhibition runs until Saturday 21 August 2010
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11AM – 5 PM

The Macroom Town Hall located in the centre of Macroom West Cork, presents Bittersweet, an exhibition of works by Irish and International Artists, co-curated by Sandra Minchin and Peggy Sue Amison.  The exhibition opens at 7:00pm on Friday 6 August 2010 and runs until Saturday 21 August.

 “Bittersweet” presents expressions of love and hate, illustrating the pleasure and discomfort of intimacy, unveiling a combination of beauty and tension in an attempt to visually interpret the emotional landscape of a challenging existence. Featuring works by over 20 Irish and international artists, the exhibition will include an eclectic mix of media: from painting to sculpture, photography to video.

 “Bittersweet” showcases a number of established and emerging artists based in, or originally from Ireland such as: Kevin Callaghan, Paul Cialis, Bernadette Cotter, Dominic Fee, Tom Fitzgerald, Michael Gurhy, Chris Hurley, Rebecca Hegarthy, Marianne Keating, Keith Kennedy, Max Le Cain, Breda Lynch, Kieran Moore, Harry Moore, Dan Murphy, Ailbhe Ni-Bhriain, Billy Quinn, Bob Rasmussen Jill Ronayne and Alex Rose along with a collection of visionary international artists, including: photography, performance and visual artists: Franko B (UK), Carolle Benitah (France), Nicola Canavan (UK), Julie Collins (Australia), Doug Dubois (USA), April Gertler (USA), Derek John (Australia), Dominic Johnson (UK),  Charlie Jouvet (France), Harold Offeh (UK), Igor Savchenko (Russia)  and Phil Toledano (UK).

The exhibition is co-curated by Cork based visual artist and curator, Sandra Minchin and Artistic Director of the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Peggy Sue Amison and presented in partnership with Cork County Council, Macroom Town Council, Sirius Arts Centre and Cork Film Centre.

Sandra Minchin, a visual artist and curator, with a reputation for taking radical departures in installation, performance and photography.  Sandra’s work has been exhibited internationally in Italy, Shanghai, Amsterdam, the UAE and Melbourne.   Sandra has also curated numerous group exhibitions in Ireland, including Death and Desire for the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh and Fruitcakes and Furry Collars for the West Cork Arts Centre.  More recently she organized and curated Human Oddities, which was a benefit for the arts in Cork and mentored and curated a student show for the University of Ballart, Victoria.

Peggy Sue Amison has been curating contemporary visual arts exhibitions since 2001 with a specific focus on photography, both in her role as Artistic Director at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, and as a freelance curator internationally.  Most recently Peggy co-curated “All My Lovin”, the main exhibition at the 9th Annual Photography Festival in Lodz, Poland which opened in May 2010 and presented the show of Irish photography and video, “Postcards from the Celtic Tiger” in Shanghai China in July 2010.  A fine art photographer, Peggy’s work has been exhibited in Ireland, the United States and other parts of Europe.  Peggy has also authored numerous critical reviews and interviews for international photographic publications.

Bittersweet premiered at the Doswell Gallery in Rosscarbery, West Cork in February 2010, this second expanded exhibition includes new artists from Ireland and abroad. Bittersweet is presented in partnership with Cork County Council, Macroom Town Council, Sirius Arts Centre and Cork Film Centre.

For more information on this exhibition, images for press or for more information on the exhibiting artists, please contact: Peggy Sue Amison at psamison@yahoo.com or Sirius Arts Centre at 021 481 3790.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5/Sunday & Monday - Closed

21 July 2010: Sirius Arts Centre and Cork Film Centre present “Postcards from the CelticTiger”

“Opening on Wednesday 21 July at 3:00pm a collection of works by sixteen Irish photographic and video artists will be exhibited at the Xuhui Arts Museum in Shanghai, China. Curated by Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh and Chris Hurley, Artistic Director of Cork Film Centre, Cork City”.. read more

The Exhibition includes work from the following artists -

MARTIN CREGG, JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM, MARK CURRAN, DAVID FARRELL, SEAN HILLEN, MAURICE GALWAY, SARAH IREMONGER, MAXIMILIAN LE CAIN, DANNY MCCARTHY, SANDRA MINCHIN, CIARA MOORE, HARRY MOORE, RICHARD MOSSE, JACKIE NICKERSON, AILBHE NI BHRIAIN and EOIN O’CONAILL.

Explorers of the Universe at CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory.

CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory (BCO) in Cork is a centre that provides space age technology and information in a 400 year old Castle. On July 2nd at the monthly open night First Fridays at the Castle BCO will launch Explorers of the Universe, an exciting photography exhibition by acclaimed photographer Max Alexander. The photographic exhibition will be showing until September 2nd 2010 uniquely in Ireland at Blackrock Castle in association with the European Space Education Resource Office, ESERO Ireland.

Through interpretive and character portraits, photographer Max Alexander introduces us to astronomers such as Sir Bernard Lovell, founder of Jodrell Bank, one of the world’s most advanced radio astronomy telescopes, Professor Stephen Hawking and the discoverer of pulsars, Professor Jocelyn Bell-Burnell DBE.

Supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Astronomical Society, the exhibition includes pictures of leading UK astronomers, all of whom have made huge contributions to our understanding of the Universe, while other photographs capture the wonder of astronomy and the wide fascination astronomy inspires for both scientists and the public.

The exhibition can be viewed daily with admission to Cosmos at the Castle at Blackrock Castle and freely at the courtyard Castle Bar and Trattoria or during one of three free open days every First Friday throughout the summer.

Max Alexander is a professional photographer and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and has had a lifelong interest in astronomy. He says, “Astronomy equally fascinates scientists and the public. Ever since Galileo first looked up into the sky with his telescope 400 years ago, finding out more about our universe has captured our collective imagination.”

Steve Owens, International Year of Astronomy 2009 UK Co-ordinator says, “We’re always looking for new and innovative ways of involving people in astronomy, and this exhibition at Cork’s wonderful Blackrock Castle Observatory is a great way to engage an Irish audience.”