Together Now: The Engagement P
Together Now: The Engagement Project
15 June to 21 August 2019
The exhibition will be opened on Friday 14 June at 6.00pm by Catherine Marshall.
Together Now: The Engagement Project is a large group exhibition of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and film by artists from the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent (KCAT), in Callan, Co. Kilkenny and artists from very different practice contexts from all over Ireland, who have been working together in residencies and other forms of engagement since 2014. Curated by Catherine Marshall, and following a symposium at KCAT in Callan at the end of 2018, this exhibition, drawing on the work of the 24 artists, is touring to venues across Ireland.
Commencing in June 2019 at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Together Now will travel to the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Ballinglen Art Foundation and Ballina Arts Centre in Co. Mayo, the OPW galleries at Farmleigh and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery in Banbridge, before finishing back in Callan, Co. Kilkenny.
The work on show has been made as a result of collaborations and conversations between the artists from KCAT and artists who prioritise social engagement, performance, installation and a variety of media from film and video to very un-traditional interpretations of traditional media such as painting and sculpture.
The artists who are engaged in these collaborations of hand and mind are Saturio Alonso, Steven Aylin, Thomas Barron, Declan Byrne, Francis Casey, Diane Chambers, Mary Coady, Eileen Mulrooney, Lorna Corrigan, Sinéad Fahey, Fergus Fitzgerald, Mary Ann Gelly, Breanna Hurley, Fintan Kelly, Sinéad Keogh, Nevan Lahart, Alistair MacLennan, Paul Mosse, Rachel Parry, Andrew Pike, Anna Spearman, Dominic Thorpe, Jason Turner and Margaret Walker.
The exhibition will be engaging, challenging, colourful and fun. Most of all, it is focused on encouraging awareness of the diversity of arts practice. It will be accompanied by a publication from the Together Now symposium.
Image: Fergus Fitzgerald and Dominic Thorpe, Collaborative painting by Fergus FitzGerald and Dominic Thorpe, acrylic on paper, 2019
WCAC acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Cork County Council
