SALT- multimedia-art-exhibition-Tallinn

Jackie Askew creates art that engages with her immediate environment of the beach and with the objects that she finds washed up on the seashore. Through photographic documentation and then the process of drawing and painting she explores the strength and fragility of these objects engaging with the materiality of what has been displaced and given by the sea. For this exhibition she has a selection of oil-on-canvas paintings from the series Wrack Line.
(INSERT IMAGE Pile oil-on –canvas by Jackie Askew)

A multi disciplinary artist, Maeve Collins responds through sound, movement in time, photogrpahy, drawing and film in installation works that are often time based and site-specific. Maeve Collins work for this exhibition grew out of practice based at the Edge of the Atlantic, where the artist had a residency on Inis Oírr (one of the Arann Islands) in 2007 and continued on the West Coast of Ireland to date. We have chosen her audio installation the quiet voice, recordings from the Comhra na nAosach Group, inis Oirr, Aran Islands, 2009. the quiet voice speaks directly in Irish of stories, sites and truths from a life being lived on Inis Oírr influenced by the sea. In exploring the value given to knowings given and received, the work reveals the careful act of listening to hear the quiet voice. Also exhibitied are her photoworks from her project Contemporary Hybrasil: Chair I and Chair II are of a performance created in 2010. For the opening Maeve will sing “Full Tide”, a song written by Fransis A. Fahy from County Clare.

( INSERT CHAIR II photoworks by Maeve Collins)

Maria Kerin creates through dance and art with new media and has developed her practice with the support of daily movement practice to explore meeting points of presence and site with artists Maeve Collins and Alexandera Boettcher over the past few years. (See sitemeetings.blogspot.com.) Being born and raised on the west coast of Clare, the rural landscape and seascape has always influenced her. She very drawn to the edge, the cliffs, this magical place with the open horizon that stretches out. For this exhibition Maria is developing a solo piece entitled Salt: Stories of looking back, that will take place quietly and probably hardly noticed during the opening reception. She will be using salt, dance, drawing and taking poloroids in a series of story sketching through movement and meeting audience. What is created will be left on the gallery wall for the duration of the exhibition. See mariakerin.blogspot.com for her creative history.

For this exhibition we will also distribute a photomontage of Second Horizon, designed by Michael Walsh, Emajoe Disain,Tartu. It is a collection of still moments in a performance by Maeve Collins, Alexandra Boettcher and Maria Kerin that took place last July in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co.Clare, a fantastic local run gallery with a very supportive curator Trudi van der Elsen. See Courthousegallery.blogspot.com for more information.

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Fiona O’Dwyer had a very successful multimedia exhibition entitled strange the rooms we’ve all lived in……. a project commissioned by Clare Couty Council and took two years of work shown in the Courthouse Gallery in 2010. For Salt she will present images and stills from this series that depict the performer riding an old bicycle round both in a circle and in a straight line along a beach, while her conflicting reflection is visible in the sand. Working in film, sculpture, print and drawing O”Dwyer deals with memory and transience, creating haunting, edgy images and installations.
(INSERT IMAGE endless return, installation by Fiona ODwyer)

For SALT we have selected images of FOLLY (STAGE 1) (2009), a sculptural and event based work by Fiona Woods. Woods' practice includes curating and writing and is largely oriented towards the public realm. She incorporates actions, objects, publications, discussions, and performative photography into explorations of matters that interest her. Folly (Stage 1) sees the construction of a monumental form from scrap materials, anchored on the beach during a particularly high tide. The event engaged the massive, overwhelming power of the sea in a foolish attempt to overcome the subject-object dichotomy inherited from Enlightenment thinking, by expanding it into a field of materiality, a protean flow of matter-energy. See www.fionawoods.net, www.collectionofminds.net, www.rhyzom.net.

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Image FOLLY photoworks by Fiona Woods)

Fergus Tighe has his film company Gallivanting media based in Ennistymon. He directed Clash of the Ash, 52mins, when he was 26 and won awards at the Cork, L’Orient, and the Celtic Film Festivals. He has since worked in documentary around the world, most notably “3 Brothers”, and “John of God, Spirit Doctor of Brazil. Seaside Stories… is his first feature film and was created using local acting workshops and local amateur actors with professional actors.
Set in a west of Ireland seaside resort Seaside Stories… is a drama that tells the story of 11 year old Locky as the lives of the adults around him unravel in a haze of alcohol and cocaine. His mother, Anna, hits the bottle when an old boyfriend , Mick, is released from prison. Locky’s sister, Sally, arrives home from London to tell him a secret that sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to pull the family apart. This is set against the backdrop of Lahinch beach with breathtaking scenery but with a dark an insight to a side of Irish culture. It’s a very moving, tear jerker, suitable for every age group.

(INSERT IMAGE Fionn de Burca. )