The committee of the NCAD Gallery invites exhibition proposals from NCAD alumni of all faculties, who graduated in the years 2009, 2010 & 2011. The written exhibition proposal should detail plans for an exhibition/ installation, to take place at the NCAD Gallery in June 2012.

Proposals will be accepted from individual artists/makers, curators, writers or those wishing to organise a group exhibition. In the case of group or curated exhibitions, the curator/organiser and all proposed artists must have graduated from NCAD within the designated time frame 2009, 2010 or 2011.

All proposals must be accompanied by a CV and relevant visual support material including digital or printed photographs and should indicate clearly the nature of 
the work[s] and a rationale for showing in the context of NCAD Gallery.

Proposals must reach NCAD Gallery by Monday 15 January 2012.

Please post your proposal to Anne Kelly, NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
If you require further information please email gallery[AT]ncad.i

Preview on Thursday 24th November 2011 at 6pm at The National College of Art and Design Gallery. Exhibition continues 25th November 2011 – 21st January 2012.

NCAD Gallery presents the work of Xiaowei Zhuang, Professor of Glass at the Fine Arts College of the University of Shanghai, as part of a touring exhibition from the CIT/Crawford College of Art, Cork. The exhibition is an opportunity for a Dublin audience to see outstanding and inventive sculptural work in glass, by a lead practitioner and to experience a different sensibility at work.

Professor Zhuang was appointed Director of the Glass Museum of Shanghai in 2008. He is also a member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Glass of the International Council of Museums. His work is in private and public collections both nationally and internationally.

The exhibition, curated by CIT Crawford College of Art & Design lecturer Debbie Dawson, will continue at NCAD Gallery until 21st January 2012, as part of Year of Craft 2011, supported by the Crafts Council of Ireland

Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang is professor of glass at the University. He runs the Glass studio MA programme and is also opening a new Glass Museum in Shanghai next year. Prof. Xiao Wei Zhuang’s work can be found at:

http://www.glassart-studio.com/intro-en.htm

The Gallery remains open until 11pm for Culture Night 2011, Friday September 23rd.

The Institute of Designers in Ireland present

Best of Graduate Design 2011
Design work by graduates from over twenty two 3rd Level design courses in Ireland

16 September – 5 November 2011, NCAD Gallery

The Institute of Designers in Ireland is pleased to announce the Best of Graduate Design Exhibition 2011 which open at the NCAD Gallery on September 15th and run through November 5th.The exhibition will showcase a selection of the very best design work from graduates from more than 22 third level design courses in Ireland.The exhibition will promote the most innovative thinking and highest quality making skill in seven design disciplines, including craft, product, fashion, textiles, interior and architectural design, visual communication and new media.

Many of the exhibits are short listed for Institute of Designers in Ireland graduate design awards having been selected by design industry experts.The seven category winners, as well as the Grand Prix winner, will be announced at the Institute of Designers in Ireland annual awards night in late October.

The Best of Graduate Design Exhibition has been organised by Derek McGarry, Chair of the judging committee and Immediate Past-President of the Institute of Designers in Ireland.

Selected works from The NCAD Collection 8^th July – 10^th September, 2011

Maurice MacGonigal

Harry Clarke

Noel Sheridan

Campbell Bruce

Robert Armstrong

Helen McAllister

Rob Smith

T.P. Flanagan

William Scott

William Orpen

Ollie Whelan

Darragh Hogan

Carey Clarke

Domhnall O Murchadha

E.C. Hayes

This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Collection of the National College of Art and Design. The Collection has been assembled over many years and reflects aspects of the history of art in Ireland by artists who have taught or are currently teaching at NCAD.

This particular selection of works focuses on painting with an emphasis on the historical, including a significant stained glass work by Harry Clarke.

Traditional skills predominate across the figurative and abstract languages of painting in works by important historical figures and in works produced in the recent past by artists on the College’s staff. The three dimensional works represent different approaches to object making.

The NCAD Gallery presents a mix of exhibitions and projects which reflect activity in the College by staff and students, but also activity in Dublin/Ireland and the international art context in one person and group exhibitions and themed retrospectives as well as site specific projects.

For further information contact:

NCAD Gallery

100 Thomas Street

Dublin 8

Telephone: 353 (0)1 6364390

Selected works from The NCAD Collection 8^th July – 10^th September, 2011

Maurice MacGonigal

Harry Clarke

Noel Sheridan

Campbell Bruce

Robert Armstrong

Helen McAllister

Rob Smith

T.P. Flanagan

William Scott

William Orpen

Ollie Whelan

Darragh Hogan

Carey Clarke

Domhnall O Murchadha

E.C. Hayes

This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Collection of the National College of Art and Design. The Collection has been assembled over many years and reflects aspects of the history of art in Ireland by artists who have taught or are currently teaching at NCAD.

This particular selection of works focuses on painting with an emphasis on the historical, including a significant stained glass work by Harry Clarke.

Traditional skills predominate across the figurative and abstract languages of painting in works by important historical figures and in works produced in the recent past by artists on the College’s staff. The three dimensional works represent different approaches to object making.

The NCAD Gallery presents a mix of exhibitions and projects which reflect activity in the College by staff and students, but also activity in Dublin/Ireland and the international art context in one person and group exhibitions and themed retrospectives as well as site specific projects.

For further information contact:

NCAD Gallery

100 Thomas Street

Dublin 8

Telephone: 353 (0)1 6364390

Graduate drawing exhibition at the National College of Art and Design Gallery

Archimedes Last Drawing

Francis Quinn and Fintan Ryan

Dates: 7th – 25th June
Launch: Friday 10th June (alongside NCAD degree show)

‘Archimedes’ Last Drawing’ is a collaborative drawing project and exhibition by recent graduates of NCAD Francis Quinn and Fintan Ryan. The project will take place over two weeks at the NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8. The project will be centred around a monumental drawing, which will be created throughout the run of the exhibition. Five recent graduates of the National college of Art and Design have been invited to take part in the project. Each artist will spend a day working on the drawing and all seven artist will return to work together on the final day of the project. The gallery will be open to the public during the entire project, giving visitors the oportunity to see the artists at work and witness the development of the drawing over time.

The subject of the drawing will be drawing itself, its history, development and current position within the contemporary worlds of art, craft and design.

Francis Quinn graduated from Fine Art (painting) at NCAD in 2008. Since then he has been developing his practice in drawing and painting, and has exhibited in Dublin and around the country.

Fintan Ryan Graduated from Fine art (media) at NCAD in 2008. He has exhibited in Dublin and Cologne. He works predominently in video, sometimes augmented with performative and /or interactive elements. His work focuses on the processes that go into the making of an artwork.

This is the third in the ongoing series of exhibitions by recent NCAD graduates since the NCAD Gallery opened in 2009, selected from open submission proposals.

Gone to the Dogs
Nigel Graham Cheney

At: NCAD Gallery, National College of Art and Design,100 Thomas st, Dublin 8
Dates: Friday 6th May -  Saturday 28th May 2011
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm. Admission Free.
Opening View: Thursday 5th May, 6-8pm

In the context of the 2011 National Year of Craft, the National College of Art and Design Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by textile designer and lecturer in Textiles at NCAD, Nigel Graham Cheney. ‘Gone to the Dogs’ brings together Cheney’s most recent work, a group of intricately embroidered and quilted textile prints. These richly coloured works feature images of decommissioned banknotes and purebred dogs, reflecting upon associations of value and speculation and playing on notions of the counterfeit. While celebrating the beauty and detail of the imagery of these, decommissioned banknotes, Cheney’s heavily hand-worked surfaces also invest a new value into the objects.

This body of work comprises of 6 large, wall-hung quilts. Approx 1.5 metre sq each. The bold, images which form part of the complex surfaces are digitally printed on Panama Cotton fabric before being hand and machine embroidered. The textile is then sandwiched in a layer of polyester wadding and a woven, woolen tweed lining before being free machine quilted.

This exhibition showcases a body of work that treads a line between craft, fine art and design. The work exploits both hand operated and computer driven machinery, placing it at the centre of current debates around the role of technology in contemporary craft practice. However, The ‘hand-made’ is also an essential element in this work, with the hundreds of hours spent stitching each piece clearly in evidence.

Nigel Graham Cheney completed his MA in textiles at Manchester Metropolitain University in 1991. He has worked as an embroidery designer, forcaster and illustrator as well as in academia in a number of lecturing roles. He had been full time lecturer in embroidery at the National College of Art and Design since 1993.  He is the Republic of Ireland Selector for Lódz Tapestry Triennale, Poland, and has exhibited his work widely.

Friday 8^th April, 11am
Harry Clarke Lecture Hall
National College of Art and Design
All welcome!

Hans Thyge Raunkjaër  will discuss his work with his design studio Hans Thyge & Co in product, visual and concept design. Hans Thyge  Raunkjaër ‘s exhibition ‘CHAIRS: The Sketch and the Chair’ is currently on show at the National College of Art and Design Gallery.

At: NCAD Gallery, National College of Art and Design,100 Thomas st, Dublin 8
Dates: 25th February – 16th April 2011
Opening View: Thursday 24th February, 6-8pm
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm. Admission Free.

In the context of  2011 – Year of Craft [Craft Council of Ireland], the NCAD Gallery is pleased to present CHAIRS: The Sketch and the Chair, an exhibition by Danish furniture designer Hans Thyge Raunkjaër, opening at the NCAD Gallery on February 25th  and running until April 16th 2011. Raunkjaër ‘s design company Hans Thyge and Co, have put together this touring exhibition showcasing the creative process of furniture design, from initial concept sketch through to the finished product. The exhibition combines largescale sketches and working drawings with the finished product; the chairs themselves, covering all aspects of the process, from concept to making.

The exhibition focuses on the sketch as the starting point and gives a back story of the inspiration and ideas behind each design.  Raunkjaërs  work focuses on the field between design and art, design and space and design and language. He is especially interested in the chair as a significant cultural object, and as a sculpture that relates directly to the human body, therefore one of the ultimate challenges for a designer.

Raunkjaër’s company Hans Thyge & Co working mainly within the field of furniture, householdware and other design articles, for manufacturers worldwide. The studio is divided in 2 main areas: product design and visual communication. The ethos is that a strong dialogue between the product and the way it communicates is the essence of good design. In short, Good design communicates!

Hans Thyge & Co takes part in a wide range of activities as well as commercial product design, including teaching lecturing, exhibiting, publishing in order to be an active part of  creative society. Hans Thyge Raunkjaer will be involved in teaching and learning activities in the College for periods during the exhibition’s run.

Liminality

Ciara McMahon

NCAD Gallery

100 Thomas Street, Dublin 2

Opening reception : 6-8pm Thursday 3rd^th February 2011

Exhibition continues: 4^th -12^th February 2011

Liminality is a project by Ciara Mc Mahon, manifesting at the NCAD Gallery Dublin from Friday 4^th until Saturday 12^th February 2011. During interviews with the artist, heart and lung transplant recipients reported that waiting for an organ transplant was like existing in a limbo state, an in-between land. They felt hopeful and yet feared that the offer of an organ would come too late.   Liminality uses the metaphor of heart/lung transplantation to juxtapose a waiting experience with a series of discursive events exploring subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Deploying the experience of waiting and transplanting it to the gallery environment, the project looks for a creative tension between a waiting subject – dependent on others to release them from a form of confinement – and that of the seeking subject – actively looking for answers through theory. Liminality invites gallery goers to inhabit the role of a (hospital) visitor and/or to conditionally donate their physical presence, their self, to the project. Participants of parallel discursive events will explore such questions as : What is a subject? What is signified by intersubjectivity? What are the implications of mutual interdependence? There is an urgency to such questions given our current socio-political climate. Liminality is funded by the Arts Council through the artist in the community scheme, managed by Create, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts.

Viewers are invited to participate in the project by taking part in the discursive seminars or by stepping into the artist shoes as part of the installation, thus creating a flawed simulacra of a donation process. No appointments are necessary to take part and further schedule information for seminars during Liminality can be found at http://gallery.ncad.ie/  or at  www.livinggift.ie/leaky-self/blog . Liminality will be accompanied by a commissioned essay by Tina Kinsella, edited by Emma Dwyer, Available on the opening night,

Ciara McMahon trained and practices both fine art and medicine. She recently graduated from NCAD with masters in Art in the Contemporary World (combined pathway). McMahon received a first (commended) in Fine Art Practice and Art History from NCAD. Her art work is collaborative and performative, realised through digital media and site specific installation. In 2010, McMahon was awarded a bursary to attend the Theory and Philosophy Summer School, Cork and a capital grant from Dun Laoghaire County Council. Her work is in the collection of the OPW, Ireland. In 2011 Ciara is due to sit on the editorial panel of the forthcoming Arts and Health website Council funded by the Arts Council. Selected exhibitions include: Chimeric Agonism, Broadstone Studio and Gallery,  Preface, Pallas Heights;  The Leaky Self Project, Dublin, TULCA;   Détruis Space, The joinery;   Moving Media Exhibiton, RUA;   My Space, Breaking Ground, Limerick City Museum;   Annual Exhibition, R.U.A.;   Future exhibitions include Mutual:Esteem, Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery.

Schedule for seminars during Liminality Project, NCAD

Note: During these times, it is possible as an alternative to taking part in these discursive seminars to step into the artists shoes within the installation, thus creating, however flawed, a simulacra of a donation process.

Seminars will take place in the NCAD gallery.

Seating for seminars limited to 15 (including the leader/s).

The panel discussion will take place in the Harry Clarke lecture theatre. For this discussion seating is limited to 60.

There is to be no prior booking. Places allocated on first come first served basis.

• Saturday 5^th : 2pm- 3pm:

Infinite distraction: the erosion of attention in everyday life.

Dr.Aislinn O’Donnell : will open a dialogue about the role of attention. Is attention to something or to someone becoming increasingly difficult to sustain? Rather than offer a neuroscientific account, I look to the work of Bernard Stiegler and Simone Weil to examine the relation between attention and education. I then ask what, if any, is the relation between phenomenological experiences of paying attention and of waiting.

• Monday 7^th:  6pm – 7.30pm

The body as a site of Liminality:

Screening of ITU (2007) followed by a discussion between artists John Wynne and Tim Wainwright and Dr Francis Halsall. Photographer Tim Wainwright and sound artist John Wynne spent a year as artists-in-residence at the Royal Brompton & Harefield. ITU (2007) shot in the intensive treatment unit of the hospitals heart transplant unit resulted from that residency and collaboration.

• Tuesday 8th 10.30 – 12.30 ’

… the truth of the subject is its estrangement and its excessiveness’

In this seminar, Tine Kinsella will review the ethico-aesthetic writings of Nancy and the art practice and theoretical writings of Ettinger in order to explore the notion that the “body” and the “artwork” are potentially ethico-aesthetic sites at which the conundrum of personal identity can be investigated.

• Wednesday 9^th : 3.30- 4.30pm

Screenings : Transplant (2008) John Wynne and Tim Wainwright  and  I used to say it was gold, but really it’s a platinum one, Platinum (2011) Ciara McMahon and Living Gift Transplant Support Group.

• Friday 11^th :  11am- 1pm

Joint seminar by GradCam seminar groups: Dead Public and Dead Public and Undead: alternatives and alterity. Resourced by  Dr.Mick Wilson, Dr. Syliva Loeffler and Edia Connole

• Saturday 12^th : 2 – 3.30pm, Harry Clarke Lecture Hall.

Artist in conversation with Fiona Loughnan / Tina Kinsella /Dr. Silivia Loeffler/ Ciara McMahon