Following the success of the inaugural Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios residency for an artists from a culturally diverse background in 2018, Create are delighted to announce two residencies for 2019. Create will partner with Fire Station Artists’ Studios once more to invite applications from collaborative artists from ethnic minority backgrounds that are based…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. For January 2019, we will spotlight Durty Words: A space for dialogue, solidarity, resistance and creation. Edited and designed by Victoria Brunetta and Kate O’Shea, this book features 134 contributors, and is rich with illustration, photography,…
Create is delighted to announce that Marielle MacLeman has been awarded the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2018: Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts MacLeman is a visual artist who has developed an Arts and Health practice since the early 2000s. Her practice explores the interconnection between place and the human drive…
Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme Scéim An Ealaíontóra Sa Phobal 2019 Deadlines: (Round 1) Monday 25 March; (Round 2) Monday 29 July. Are you an artist working collaboratively with a community? Are you an artist or community group with an interest in working on a collaborative, socially engaged project? Twice yearly, the…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. This time, we’re focusing on What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, by Tom Finkelpearl. In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, co-authored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He…
Caroline Cowley in conversation with Grainne Coughlan “Working with artists within the local authority has the potential to change how we all do things. I am aware too that while the artist may work on these local platforms, their reputational reach is International. I am interested in how the local responds to the global through…
Uisce Salach (Dirty Water) is a new collaborative sound art project about contested water issues in Ireland. Softday, the art-science collaboration of artist Sean Taylor and computer scientist Mikael Fernström, are initiating a collaborative art process leading to the creation of a significant citizen’s art-science project based on water analyses from domestic water supplies from…
In June 2018, Dublin was host to a four-day, major transnational event exploring questions of negotiation, exchange and representation in contemporary collaborative arts practice. Artists across the world are engaging with diverse constituencies to develop projects that seek to influence and expand the possibilities for greater participation and agency across artistic, cultural and socio-political spheres….
Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2018: Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2018: Collaborative Arts in Health Contexts aims to support individual professional artists in any art-form working collaboratively in the field of Arts and Health. The purpose of the Bursary Award…
Artist in the Community Scheme Second Round 2018 Create manages the Artist in the Community Scheme on behalf of the Arts Council. The successful applicants to the Second Round 2018 come from a range of art forms and contexts. Research and Development Award Artist; Community; Context; Artform; Location Andy Parsons; The Metal Mariners CLG; Interest…
On a regular ongoing basis, Create staff will recommend an article, book, or performance that has caught their eye. Our inaugural featured publication is Learning In Public: TransEuropean Collaborations In Socially Engaged Art. Reflecting on the first four years of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP), Learning in Public: transEuropean Collaborations in Socially Engaged Art…
Hina Khan’s work is the constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and express ideologies through symbolism. Having completed a BFA (Bachelor in Fine Arts) from F. G Degree College, she completed my MFA (Masters in Fine Arts) from FJWU (Fatima Jinnah Women University), Pakistan in 2003, with Miniature Painting as Major. Using…
