Idir Sholas
MA Art and Environment Graduate Exhibition
26 February to 26 March
Please note that The James O'Driscoll Gallery is closed from Friday 25 March to facilitate deinstallation of the artwork (Díon by Ruairí Ó Donnabháin, Murmurings by Deirdre Archbold and  Rhythmanalysis+ by Ann Burns). Gallery 2 remains open until 4.30 on Saturday 26 March (Guy Dalton, Settlement; Sinéad McCormick, Adrift; Katy Nolan, Trespass and Sylwia Migdal, Translations).

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West Cork Arts Centre · Audio Description of Gallery Information for Idir Sholas

This exhibition at Uillinn showcases the work of the seven inaugural TU Dublin graduates of the Masters Degree Programme – Deirdre Archbold, Ann Burns, Guy Dalton, Sinéad McCormick, Sylwia Migdal, Katie Nolan and Ruairí Ó Donnabháin, and includes a diverse range of media encompassing multi and digital media, film, photography, sound, virtual reality, performance and installation.

The MA Art and Environment (MAAE) uniquely combines post-studio art practice, interdisciplinary research, virtual teaching, island studies and community engagement. Taking contemporary art’s relationship with environments – ecological, spatial, political, economic – as its object of study, the MAAE instructs students in artistic practice shaped by ‘archipelagic thinking’ (a post-colonial spatial discourse that emphasises relationality, locality, and decolonisation) and by a pedagogy that is ‘world-centred’.

Located in the West Cork Archipelago and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, the MAAE is supported by a team of artists, lecturers, and researchers based in the Dublin School of Creative Arts (TU Dublin) and by an interdisciplinary, island-based and international, network of peers and colleagues. The focus is on environmental art practice and community art-related knowledge and the participants, led by Course Coordinator Dr. Glenn Loughran, are actively involved in contemporary culture as organisers, makers and commentators.

Idir Sholas: MA Art and Environment Graduate Show opens on Friday 25 February at 6.00pm with guest speaker, Dr. Ailbhe Murphy, Director of Create: the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts.

See https://www.art-environment.com/ for more information. 

See https://idir-sholas.eu/ for more information on the exhibition here at Uillinn

WCAC acknowledges the financial support of Arts Council Ireland and Cork County Council in making these exhibitions possible.