Ormond Art Studios

OPEN CALL!

Ormond Art Studios is hosting a Zine fair for Palestinian aid on the 12th and 13th of April and we are looking for submissions!

SUBMISSION DEADLINE APRIL 9TH

We’re accepting all forms of artist books, publications and zines from zine makers and artists! Our zine fair will launch with an opening event on April 12th and payment will be accepted via Revolut or Paypal.

All proceeds will be donated to E sims for Gaza, https://gazaesims.com/. E-sims are a crucial way for Gazans to communicate with each other and the outside world. Under Israel’s brutal and genocidal occupation, e-sims are vital for Palestinians in sharing precious resources, keeping each other safe, and documenting ongoing human rights abuses. We at Ormond Artist Studios recognise the importance of communication in ensuring that we do not look away from Gaza. We demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire and an end to the Israeli occupation.

To enter fill out the form in the link below and choose a preferred date to drop off your zine(s).
hTps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxX_3lzlSG1dgbaVe_1yGCCdtcpDEQtSRVvb1hIzFviP5ALQ/viewform. We will aim to confirm with all entries within a few days of submitting to allow for enough time to prepare and send their zines.

Work must be delivered to the studios located at 4 Ormond Quay Lower, North City, Dublin 1, either on the date indicated in this form, by appointment, or by Post addressed to Ormond Ar-st Studios. All unsold works will be available for collection on Sunday 14th April.

Ormond Art Studios acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon in making this event possible.

New Studio Member – Isabelle Ryan!

We are delighted to welcome our new member Isabelle to the studio!

Isabelle Ryan is a visual artist, living and working in Dublin. Her work deals with the sensory and atmospheric qualities of space. Examining a variety of architectural settings and objects, void of physical human presence, and rendering them through the mediums of painting, photography and installation.
Through a process of contemplation, objects are chosen and isolated. Ryan creates a sense of atmospheric tension and silence in her paintings and photography, thus drawing on the unspoken connection between the objects and those who interact with them. The result is a delicate push and pull, between abstraction and thoughtful focus.

New Studio Member! – Falon Weaver

We are thrilled to announce Falon Weaver as one of our newest studio members!

Falon is an American visual artist based in Dublin and a recent Fine Art Painting graduate from NCAD. Her painting practice is grounded in image making processes, often pairing representational oil painting with found object installation. Drawing from a personal archive of nature and wildlife imagery taken from her home place in Pennsylvania and time spent living in Norway and Ireland, Weaver’s work seeks to create silly moments inspired by absurdist narratives and the digital lens from which many experience nature today. Weaver also makes up one half of a collaborative practice with artist Aoife Ní Dhuinn which documents collective exchanges through installation, public interventions, and publications.

Weaver is a participant of The Douglas Hyde Student Forum 2024 and co-chair of After School Special Dublin, a peer critique group for emerging artists. Her practice is currently supported by the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Award 2023, and the Arts Council Agility Award 2023. Recent exhibitions include My Heart-Shaped Fiskekaker Won’t Fit in My Suitcase, 2022, Galleri Taxi, Bergen, Norway (group), Shitposting From The Cryosphere, 2022, NCAD Atrium Space (two-person), As Good A Way As Any, 2023, NCAD Works, and 21 Bridges to the Sea, Clancy Quay Artist Studios, January 2024 (group).

As Good A Way As Any, NCAD Works 2023 (install view)

Anna Stuart | A Thick Present

In November of this year, Anna Stuart’s exhibition A Thick Present opened in Ormond Art Studios’ Project Space.

Encompassing a variety of media, this body of work is the visual exploration of a philosophy where parameters rather than outcomes are set for works. Interested in the potential materials can hold, this methodology has taken many forms, most recently through the exploration of the alchemic qualities of salt and wax. Taking inspiration from the writing of Donna Haraway, A Thick Present is a visual investigation into time, phenomena and the potential chain of actions and unknown reactions that occur when living systems come into contact. Driving this body of work is Anna’s fascination with deep time and a desire to explore new areas of art making as a way of observing and engaging with the world.

Anna Stuart is a visual artist based in Dublin, having recently graduated with First Class Honours from BA Art at IADT, Dun Laoghaire. Anna has exhibited work both in Ireland and abroad, including solo show Entropy (2021) at Tasku Gallery, Helsinki, as well as group shows ; Window Series (Ormond Art Studios, 2023), OnShow (IADT, 2022), Propositions (IADT, 2022), Peripheries in Parallax (Aalto University, 2021) and Tuntemattomat, (University of the Arts, Helsinki, 2020). She was recently awarded the IADT/Pallas Projects Mentorship Award.

Aoife Ní Dhuinn | Email Shaped Clouds

Ormond Art Studios were delighted to host our 2023 Graduate Resident Exhibition.

Email Shaped Clouds is a work in progress by Aoife Ní Dhuinn, loosely exploring ideas around language in the digital age, skeuomorphic design and Laurie Anderson’s 1982 album Big Science. Thinking about what we think about when we think of the words: mouse, window and cloud, these works reflect on how digital technologies have shaped the English language. Through the use of objects whose words hold double meanings and appropriating lyrics from a song written from the perspective of a computer, Ní Dhuinn is beginning to pose questions about our growing connections to digital reality.

Aoife Ní Dhuinn is a Dublin based visual artist interested in culture, words and existential feelings. Ní Dhuinns work explores the boundaries between digital and physical spaces through recontextualising digital ephemera. Ní Dhuinn’s expanded practice clinically examines the absurd relationships we have with digital technologies through a satirical lens,manifested as manipulated images, artefact-like objects and moving image. Taking inspiration from post-internet art and culture, Ní Dhuinn’s work blurs the line between image and object, and aims to create uncanny spaces through clinical installations.

It has been fantastic to have Aoife with us here in Ormond and we were delighted to facilitate her residency exhibition here in the Project Space.

Graduate Artist Talks 2023

This past month, Ormond Art Studios was delighted to host our 2023 Graduate Residency Award Talks.

Thank you to Aoife Ní Dhúinn, Falon Weaver and Shane Malone-Murphy for discussing their practices and giving their time so generously. We wish them all the very best for the future!

Aoife Ní Dhuinn (Aoife Dunne) is a Dublin based visual artist, who recently graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a First-Class BA degree in Fine Art Media. Ní Dhuinn completed her graduate show project in June, and was awarded the Fire Station Studios Sculpture Graduate Award 2023. Ní Dhuinns work is currently being exhibited in OUTSET Gallery in Galway, as part of the ‘Recent Graduate’ exhibition, running from August 18th-Sep 3rd.

Falon Weaver (b.1999) is an American visual artist based in Dublin. Weaver’s work, inspired by absurdist narratives, draws from a personal archive of natural imagery from her home place in Pennsylvania and time spent living in Norway and Ireland. Her work seeks to create silly moments by pairing concentrated painting with found object manipulation. Weaver’s painting practice is grounded in image-making processes, but extends beyond into object making and installation.

Shane Malone-Murphy is a Wicklow-based artist, who recently graduated with a first-class honours degree in Sculpture and Combined Media From The Limerick School of Art and Design. His work concerns itself with the entanglement of the human experience with landscape on both the personal and cultural realms. His work specifically takes note of the impact of grief upon one’s experience of the world. His practice is committed to harnessing the power of grief as a catalyst for ecological change. By understanding grief in a broader context, he aims to expose its potential to drive meaningful shifts in our relationship with the environment.

Aoife Ní Dhuinn – Graduate Residency Awardee 2023

We are delighted to announce our 2023 Graduate Residency Awardee is Aoife Ní Dhuinn!

Aoife Ní Dhuinn (Aoife Dunne) is a Dublin based visual artist, who recently graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a First-Class BA degree in Fine Art Media. Ní Dhuinn completed her graduate show project in June, and was awarded the Fire Station Studios Sculpture Graduate Award 2023. Ní Dhuinns work is currently being exhibited in OUTSET Gallery in Galway, as part of the ‘Recent Graduate’ exhibition, running from August 18th-Sep 3rd.

Ní Dhuinns practice is generally centred around culture, words and existential feelings. Her work explores the boundaries between digital and physical spaces through recontextualising digital ephemera. Ní Dhuinn’s expanded practice clinically examines the absurd relationships we have with technology through a satirical lens, manifested as manipulated images, artefact-like objects and moving image. Taking inspiration from post-internet art and culture, her work blurs the line between image and object, and aims to create uncanny spaces through the use of high contrast flash photography and clinical installations.

As well as her individual practice, Ní Dhuinn makes up one half of a collaborative practice with artist Falon Weaver, which documents collective exchanges through installation, public interventions and publications. Their most recent show ‘Shitposting From The Cryosphere’ (2022) took place in The Atrium Space at NCAD, and included sculpture, textiles and mixed media work.

We will welcome Aoife in to the studio in September where she will complete a residency and develop a show for the Ormond Project Space in October! !

Open Call | Ormond Art Studios 2023 Graduate Award

Holly Pickering’s solo exhibition *Amanuensis*. Photographed by Aoife Herrity

Ormond Art Studios are delighted to be inviting applications for our 2023 Graduate Residency Award!

The Ormond Art Studios Graduate Award will include a studio residency and peer mentoring in Ormond Art Studios for the month of September 2023 and will culminate in a solo exhibition in the Ormond Project Space in early October.

To apply please email your application in PDF format to ormondartists@gmail.com with the following information:

Letter of interest with regards to the Award and how you feel it will benefit your practice (300 words max)
Artist Statement detailing the themes, working methods, and use of media in your practice (300 words max)
Examples of work: documentation of work in the form of images or video hosted on Vimeo/YouTube/Own Website (please make sure these are not password protected/provide password). Please include the following details: title, medium, dimensions/duration, and date of work. (10 works max).
Up-to-date CV (2 pages max)

Applications are welcome from all 2023 BA graduates and are due by midnight on the 16th of August 2023.

Detail from 2022 Graduate resident Holly Pickering’s solo exhibition *Amanuensis*. Photographed by Aoife Herrity

New Studio Member! Rachel Enright-Murphy

Mouthsounds performance response series as part of the Fly Floor Exhibition in the Complex Gallery 2023. Artworks featured in image are by Louisa Casas and Niamh O’Malley. Photo by Fionn McErlean.

We are delighted to introduce Rachel Enright – Murphy as our new Ormond Studios member!

Rachel Enright-Murphy (b.2000) is a visual artist from Dublin and a 2022 graduate of NCAD Fine Art Media. Through textual and time-based processes such as video, sound, performance, and printed material, Rachel’s work interrogates language’s relationship to the human voice. Her practice spans a range of disparate subject matter focusing on how emotion or intonation of the voice both succeeds and fails to transgress language. She often utilises found sound, video and text with the intent of reconfiguring existing linguistic forms and creating alternate communication methods.

Rachel is a member of the Douglas Hyde Gallery Student Forum 2023. She was awarded the General Artist Grant from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown county council in early 2023, allowing her to complete a 3 month residency in Leipzig. Recent exhibitions, performances, and responses also include: Fly Floor (2023) in the Complex Gallery Dublin, Caesura (2022) in Unit 44 Dublin, and I Love The Things I Kill The Most (2021) In Dzialdov Gallery in Berlin.

Ormond Art Studios ‘Window Series’ June 2023

Last month Ormond members created work for the public facing windows in Ormond Studios. Our central location in Dublin city and the daily views from our two main windows became the framework for each artist to develop a new work. The series was launched on June 5th with a week long program by artists; Holly pickering, Anna Stuart, Mary Kervick, Sinead Kampff, Johnny O’Grady and Emma Battlebury.

Program: