Íde Ní Shúilleabháin: May 2015

Creative Journey to Madrid

Íde is travelling to Madrid next week to an arts workshop hosted by Arts Organisation Debajo Del Sombrero as part of a longer term Erasmus + project called Expanding realities which will see exchange or ideas, approaches and collaborations between GASP Cork, Art in Motion (AIM) Bristol and Debajo del Sombrero Madrid.

The project is coordinated by CIT Crawford College of Art and Design and supported by Leargas. The workshop in Madrid will be a change to engage with new method and approaches. Some workshop will be focused on visual response to performance art while time will also be spent working on a large piece of work on an outdoor wall.

Public Engagement at the Sirius Arts Centre

Ide takes part in Public Engagement events at the Sirius Arts Centre for Generation & People-Tools-Cities.

During the exhibitions Generation and People- Tools- Cities, a number of opportunities for Public Engagement were organisied. Meet the Artsist Events, Coffee Mornings and Workshops.

Ide Ni Shuilleabhain was heavily involved in the public engagement aspect of the exhibitions. Her work inspired the workshop activities and she was present at all the events.

Ide worked as if in studio, set up in front of her work while the public viewed the exhibition.

The images below show how Ide's art inspired the workshop activities:

Participants were invited to create unusual names for usual tools.

Ide also drew portraits of people on a whiteboard at the exhibition and the audience were encouraged to get involved.

Íde At Work

Ide prepares her work for the People, Tools, Cities exhibition in the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork (27.03.15-26.04.15)

Ide works in studio at Crawford Gallery Cork City and C.I.T. O' Sullivan's Quay Cork City and is using Watercolour Pastels on paper.

People- Tools- Cities at the Sirius Arts Centre

Exhibition: People, Tools, Cities at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork

People, Tools, Cities features the work of three artists from GASP who have been working in Cork City; each artist focusing on a chosen subject. Exhibiting with Yvonne Condon and Rosaleen Moore, Ide Ni Shuilleabhain focuses on her chosen aspect of the city, tools and is influenced by the work of Konrad Klapheck. (27.03.15-26.04.15)

Ide Ni Shuilleabhain, People-Tools- Cities, Watercolour pastels on Paper

Generation at the Sirius Arts Centre

Generation at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork.

Generation is a public participation project with GASP (Glasheen Art Studio Program). The project invited people of varying ages to create works on the subject of age; the work of both children and older people are presented together, portraying the curiosity and magic of childhood through to the experience of those in later years. The project provides opportunities for people from different generations to meet, interact and support each other's creative process. Generation is in collaboration with St. Luke's Nursing Home in Cork and Cork Educate Together National School.

Ide Ni Shuilleabhain focused on portraiture for her work for the exhibition. She created bold and colourful interpretations of the people of the nursing home.