Students and Staff Invited to Hire Artworks from Trinity’s Art Collections
Posted on: 14 November 2011
A selection of artworks from the prestigious Trinity College Dublin Art Collections will be made available for hire to students in College residences and staff with offices on campus when the College Gallery Art Hire Scheme kicks off today at 1pm with an exhibition in the Pavillion. Staff and students are invited to visit the display of available artworks today between 1-6pm and tomorrow, Tuesday November 15th, between 12-5pm. At the display, interested parties will be invited to submit a form with their top choice for entry into a lottery draw. Successful applicants will be informed on Wednesday November 16th.
Highlights of the College Art Hire Scheme include works by Irish and international modern and contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, Victor Vasarely, Michael Farrell, Robert Ballagh, Norah McGuinness, and Alice Maher. For those who cannot make the display at the Pavilion Bar, an image catalogue of the pictures for hire can also be viewed online along with the submission form and framed dimensions of each picture. The small picture hire fee is used to run the annual scheme and all profit goes back into buying more art for the scheme and for conservation efforts.
‘The Kiss’ by Patricia McKenna.
All students in rooms on the main campus, Goldsmith Hall, or Trinity Hall may partake in the scheme. The staff scheme encompasses all offices on the main campus and those at Tallaght and St James’s Hospitals, College Green, Foster Place, Dunlop Oriel House, The Gas Building at D’Olier Street, Apollo House, and Leinster Street. Deliveries will be arranged to locations off the main campus, excluding Goldsmith Hall.
Founded in 1959 by the late Professor of Genetics, George Dawson, and a group of four students, the aim of the scheme is to encourage engagement with art and to further enhance the living, learning, and working environment for all Trinity staff and students. Now in its 52nd year, the College Gallery scheme has not only significantly expanded its catalogue of modern art but also allows both staff and students based off campus to avail of the scheme.
The College Gallery loan scheme was established with the assistance of a grant from the Trinity College Dublin Association and Trust along with financial support from the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Arts Council. Numerous artworks were also donated from Professor Dawson’s own collection while others were purchased by him for the scheme using both his own funds and the hire fees. Professor Dawson’s passion for art motivated him to encourage others to support the College collections and the pictures collected, along with the Henry Moore, Alexander Calder and Arnaldo Pomodoro sculptures on campus, became the foundation of the prestigious Trinity Modern Art Collection.