Angie Shanahan
Angie Shanahan
22 March to 22 April 2023
Angie Shanahan will use her studio residency to explore The Islands, Six Fictions by Irish novelist, poet and short story writer William Wall.
The first Island featured, namely Castle Island in Roaringwater Bay, West Cork, a real place, less than half a mile long, 'its castle, a ruined watchtower and in the shadow of the watchtower, a cluster of ruined cottages' Spurred by the way the writer's stories evoke landscape, the artist was compelled to visit Castle Island, to absorb the writer's words through sense of place. 'the rumor of sea among stones, the grinding of pebbles' combined with the evocative nature and deep ecology of the island as suggested by Wall's poetic descriptions, created the potential for a sketchbook narrative of the artist's own journey. All to be explored further in Studio 2.
Image: Angie Shanahan Ebb & Flow
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre's Artist Residency Programme is supported by the Arts Council and Cork County Council.
