News & Events
Smartphone Campus Art Trail
click here to print the Campus smartphone trail document (pdf)
Special thanks to Prof. Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh and Shane Brennan, School of Computer Science, TCD, fortheir friendly assistance and support – both creative and technical
Instructions:
Smartphone users can download a free ‘QR tag reader’ app to scan the codes which can be downloaded from the art collections website as a pdf document. Each tag will be accompanied by an image and brief description of the artwork.
Simply open the QR app once downloaded. This automatically opens the smartphone camera.
Hover the camera over the black and white tag and your phone will be directed to the relevant page on the Trinity College Dublin Art Collections website where you can access more information on the artist and work. Enjoy!
For those who do not have smartphones:
Direct access to the Campus Art Trail web pages - click here
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2 November 2011 - CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF TCD STAFF & STUDENT ARTWORKS
The TCD Visual Arts Society
invites you to participate in their 3rd Annual Art Exhibition
showcasing the artistic talents of the Staff and Students of Trinity College Dublin
Queries & submissions to visarts@csc.tcd.ie
Click here to read about the 2010 exhibition at The Oisín Gallery, Westland Row, Dublin 2
The Visual Arts Society is a long standing student-run body in College that encourages an engagement with all forms of the visual arts. To facilitate this, the Society runs regular tours of galleries & museums around the city, theatre trips, film screenings, workshops and talks. In keeping with the success of the previous two years, the TCD Visual Arts Society will host their Third Annual Exhibition of Artworks by both the staff and students of Trinity College this December.
One of the principal events in the Visual Arts Calendar, the exhibition provides an incredible opportunity for staff and students to display and sell their art in a commercial setting without any related professional fees. You are invited to participate whether exhibiting is something familiar or completely new to you. Last year showed an exciting mix of painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance art, proving that creativity is continuously flourishing in Trinity College. This exhibition hopes to strengthen the ties already made from last year in relation to the creative skill of all of the societies, the staff and students of the college, and to promote that talent to both the campus audience and the wider community.
If you are interested in submitting a work for consideration, you should download the application form here, fill it in and return it to us at visarts@csc.tcd.ie before the submissions deadline on November 14th 2011. We would also ask you to attach a publishable photo of the work to your email when returning the completed form.
Thank you for taking the time to read this email, and we look forward to seeing your submissions!
Jennifer Duignam
Chair, TCD Visual Arts Society 2011-12
visarts@csc.tcd.ie
ARCHIVED News Information:
Meet the Artist: Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland – ‘How I made New York a Suburb of Dublin’
14/10/2011
Friday 14 October, 1-2pm
Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, The Long Room Hub, Fellows’ Square, TCD
This event will feature, for the first time in Europe, an artist-author signing of the recent publication, ‘Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland: Between Categories’, by Brenda Moore-McCann
Artist, critic & Booker prize nominated novelist Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland, in conversation with Christina Kennedy and Brenda Moore-McCann, will discuss his new work for Dublin Contemporary 2011, ‘Hello Sam’, which attempts to engage the myth of Beckett; he will also reflect on his career since the 1960s including his many creative personae. Christina Kennedy, Head of Collections at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, has curated exhibitions and projects with the artist since 2001, including the Burial of his Patrick Ireland identity. Dr. Brenda Moore-McCann is a graduate of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, TCD, and is the author of a major monograph that has been developed from her connection with the artist stemming from research for her B.A. thesis, PhD and culminating in an IRCHSS post-doctoral fellowship at TCD.
Don’t miss O’Doherty’s performance of one of his Vowel Poems and an amazing opportunity to hear an excerpt from his recording of Jack McGowran (1918-73) reciting ‘Texts for Nothing #8’ by Beckett, that the artist included in his edition of the journal ‘Aspen 5 & 6’ (1967) considered by Alexander Alberro as ‘the foundational moment of conceptual art’. MacGowran won the Obie Award in 1971 for Best Performance by an Actor assaying "Beckett" on the off-Broadway stage.
‘Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland: Between Categories’, by Brenda Moore-McCann, published by Lund Humphries, will be available on the day at a special rate of €30 (RRP €42) and is also at the National Gallery of Ireland bookshop, among others nationwide.
Dublin Contemporary @ Trinity - events
10/10/2011
Wednesday 12 October 1.15pm
Exhibition Tour
Alice Neel: Family
Introductory tour of the exhibition by Gallery staff
Hosted by The Douglas Hyde Gallery www.douglashydegallery.com
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Wednesday 12 October, 7pm
Emmet Lecture Theatre (Room 2037), Arts Building, TCD
A Panel Discussion with Guest Speakers from the Dublin Contemporary Curatorial Team: Aideen Darcy, Jota Castro, Christian Viveros-Fauné
Chaired by Dr. Yvonne Scott, Head of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, TCD
In association with the TCD Student Visual Arts Society
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Thursday 13 October, 5.30-6.15pm
Starting at Front Arch, TCD, continuing through the College Campus to The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Contemporary exhibition
‘Hello Sam’ - A one-off extended performance as part of the installation ‘Hello Sam’ by the team of Brian O’Doherty, Joe Stanley and Christina Kennedy, at the National Gallery of Ireland, is a site-specific installation piece incorporating sound recordings that attempt to engage the myth of Beckett’s persona, as well as the mystery of his work by staging a situation which calls on the viewer’s imaginative participation and ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ . A component of this work is an intermittent performance by robed figures that circulate in sequential patterns around the work, ‘binding’ the suspended figure in concentric motion. These ‘walkers’ are both witnesses, celebrants and mourners, engaging time through repetition to create an imagined no-place which is shared with the visitor. The Trinity College Art Collections Curator and Visual Arts Society Students were invited to participate in the group comprising artists, curators, lecturers and students in the visual arts, and members of other professions beyond the visual arts community.
Onlookers are invited to come along with the performance to the National Gallery of Ireland to experience the artwork on the eve of the ‘Meet the artist’ talk with Brian O’Doherty.
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Friday 14 October, 1-2pm
Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, The Long Room Hub, Fellows’ Square, TCD
Meet the Artist: Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland – ‘How I made New York a Suburb of Dublin’
This event will feature, for the first time in Europe, an artist-author signing of the recent publication, ‘Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland: Between Categories’, by Brenda Moore-McCann
Artist, critic & Booker prize nominated novelist Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland, in conversation with Christina Kennedy and Brenda Moore-McCann, will discuss his new work for Dublin Contemporary 2011, ‘Hello Sam’, which attempts to engage the myth of Beckett; he will also reflect on his career since the 1960s including his many creative personae. Christina Kennedy, Head of Collections at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, has curated exhibitions and projects with the artist since 2001, including the Burial of his Patrick Ireland identity. Dr. Brenda Moore-McCann is a graduate of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, TCD, and is the author of a major monograph that has been developed from her connection with the artist stemming from research for her B.A. thesis, PhD and culminating in an IRCHSS post-doctoral fellowship at TCD.
Don’t miss O’Doherty’s performance of one of his Vowel Poems and an amazing opportunity to hear an excerpt from his recording of Jack McGowran (1918-73) reciting ‘Texts for Nothing #8’ by Beckett, that the artist included in his edition of the journal ‘Aspen 5 & 6’ (1967) considered by Alexander Alberro as ‘the foundational moment of conceptual art’. MacGowran won the Obie Award in 1971 for Best Performance by an Actor assaying "Beckett" on the off-Broadway stage.
‘Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland: Between Categories’, by Brenda Moore-McCann, published by Lund Humphries, will be available on the day at a special rate of €30 (RRP €42) and is also at the National Gallery of Ireland bookshop, among others nationwide.
4/10/2011
Trinity College Dublin in association withIreland’s first International art festival, Dublin Contemporary 2011, will launch
Dublin Contemporary @ Trinity
including the latest artwork in the ‘Casual Passer-By’ series by Braco Dimitrijević
at a reception in the Public Theatre on Tuesday 4 October at 6.00pm
If you wish to attend this launch event please contact Orlagh Ennis by email at orlagh.ennis@tcd.ie
As part of the programme of events for Dublin Contemporary @ Trinity, the latest artwork in the ‘Casual Passer-By’ series by Yugoslavian born artist, Braco Dimitrijević will feature on the College Green face of Trinity College for the month of October. Trinity will also play host to a captivating programme of talks, tours, discussions and performances organised by the College Art Collections and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, aided by the Student Visual Arts Society, supported by the Creative Arts Technology and Culture. Shows and events are also underway in The Douglas Hyde Gallery and The Science Gallery.
For further information on the programme of events, please click here and refer to www.dublincontemporary.com
50th Anniversary of Modern and Contemporary Art at Trinity
6/12/2010
'George Dawson: An Unbiased Eye.' Modern and contemporary art from Trinity College Dublin.
The Royal Hibernian Academy - Dr. Tony Ryan Gallery & the Atrium, until Sun. 19 Dec. 2010
Generously supported by the Trinity College Association and Trust
Wed. 8th Dec. 5pm 'The Making of TCD's Modern Print Collection' - Exhibition tour, Royal Hibernian Academy
Dr. Angela Griffith (TCD History of Art Department)
Sun. 12th & Sun. 19th Dec. at 3pm 'George Dawson: An Unbiased Eye.' Exhibition tour at the Royal Hibernian Academy by Catherine Giltrap, Trinity College Art Collections Curator
TCD Campus Art Tours: 8th & 15th Dec. 1.15-1.45pm (indoors & outdoors - weather permitting) Meet Arts Building concourse - access campus via Nassau Street entrance, meeting point inside sliding doors on right hand side.
24/11/10
Major exhibition and publication on the Trinity College Modern Art Collection - 'George Dawson: An Unbiased Eye. Modern and contemporary art from Trinity College Dublin', The Royal Hibernian Academy, 19 November - 19 December 2010, Curated by Catherine Giltrap
Smartphone Campus Art Trail - launch
click here to print the Campus smartphone trail document (pdf)
Wednesday 24 Nov. at the 1.15pm Campus Art Tour
(meet Arts Building concourse, inside the entrance)
The smartphone art trail continues at the RHA exhibition - click here to print the exhibition smartphone trail document (pdf)
Special thanks to Prof. Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh and Shane Brennan, School of Computer Science, TCD, fortheir friendly assistance and support – both creative and technical
Instructions:
Smartphone users can download a free ‘QR tag reader’ app to scan the codes which can be downloaded from the art collections website as a pdf document. Each tag will be accompanied by an image and brief description of the artwork.
Simply open the QR app once downloaded. This automatically opens the smartphone camera.
Hover the camera over the black and white tag and your phone will be directed to the relevant page on the Trinity College Dublin Art Collections website where you can access more information on the artist and work. Enjoy!
For those who do not have smartphones:
Direct access to the Campus Art Trail web pages - click here
Direct access to the Exhibition Art Trail web pages - click here
George Dawson : An Unbiased Eye
Modern and contemporary art from Trinity College
19 Nov - 19 Dec 2010 Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place (off St. Stephen's Green)
Free gallery and campus art tours - all welcome
gallery tours | Dr. Tony Ryan Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy
Wed. 24 November: 5.15-6pm
From Eye to I – sharing a vision
Catherine Giltrap, Curator of the Trinity College Art Collections
Wed. 8 December: 5- 5.45pm
George Dawson and the Making of Trinity’s Modern Print Collection
Dr. Angela Griffith, Department of the History of Art, TCD
campus tours | Trinity College Dublin
Wednesday Lunchtime tours of selected artworks on campus
(indoors & outdoors) Bring smartphones to use the interactive art trail but not essential for the guided tour!
Wed. 24 Nov; 1 Dec; 8 Dec; 15 Dec 2010
1.15-1.45pm: Meet Arts Building entrance overlooking the café
17/11/10
TRINITY - THE ART CONNECTION bite-sized - FREE LUNCH TIME TALK
Artists, architects & students reveal how the campus became a living gallery
Wednesday 17th November 2010, 1-1.50pm, Swift Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College
All welcome - join us at lunchtime this Wednesday for informal bite-sized stories celebrating
50 years of visual arts initiatives at Trinity and add your story to the mix
Special guests include: Prof. Anne Crookshank (first Head of the History of Art Department from 1966 and key figure in the development of the modern art collection), Paul Koralek CBE RA RIBA (architect of the Berkeley Library, Arts Building & Douglas Hyde Gallery), Richard Gorman RHA (artist & graduate), Richard Wood and George Wynne Willson (former College Gallery student volunteers involved in initiatives such as the Picasso exhibition during the1960s), Valerie Mulvin (architect of the Long Room Hub and the Dental Hospital extension), and recent College Gallery Student Committee volunteers
Chaired by Catherine Giltrap, Curator of the College Art Collections.
Celebrating 50 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art at Trinity College