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🐸 NCAD 🐸
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Yesterday I did an artist talk at NCAD, the college I started my BA in 21 years ago!!!!! WTF time has PASSED 😂
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It was such an honour to be welcomed back by Taffina Flood to talk about my practice to the fine art students. When I was in my BA, and attended those seminars, I used to hope that one beautiful day I will be an artist and I will be the one up there talking, well....hey.. sometimes dreams comes through 💫✨⭐💫 how amazing is that!?!? It felt very very special to me.
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So thanks to all the students for coming (on their lunch break!) and listening to my talk. I hope it was useful in some ways 🙏🙏🙏
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When I walked in to the campus I was immediately struck by nostalgia to the max. The smell of NCAD! The ping pong table, the student union, the tables...it kinda looked the same. And all the super lovely and kind people working there as attendance, many still the same people. And ALL the amazing teachers too that are still there, like Taffina - the power house behind Core year (which was the best year in all fairness).
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I LOVED studying at NCAD. The BA was such a magical time, doing art all day long, I just couldn't believe my luck! I remember standing in the cue to register on the first day and I was in absolute internal panic 😂 but four years of absolute bliss followed.
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I worked my ass of in college, and I worked my ass of in the restaurant at night, I burnt the candle at two ends and totally burnt out and then got a little lost for a while. But when I came back in 2013 for my master's I was back on track. Absolutely loved Art in The Digital World, led so wonderfully by Leah Hilliard along with a super helpful crew in the media department.
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Great memories and it all just came bubbling up. I got quite emotional. The whole day ended with me running to catch the train and there was Michelle 💖 standing with a present and a card for Locky from her mam. How sweet is that? We had a "When Harry met Sally" moment, gave each other four hugs and then I kept running. What a moment ❤️ what a day 💖 LIFE sometimes comes back around and this one was a good one 🩷🙏🩷
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Here are some slides I took out from the presentation last minute....

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Join us on Jan 22nd at 6pm for this fabric workshop with artist Leah Hilliard, as part of the exhibition ‘Still, We Gather’.

‘Care and Solidarity’ is a fun workshop that will look at serious things. Using conversation, colour and fabric, we will explore what happens when systems are built for the institution and not the user. Looking at the invisible wall that’s put up by the use of abbreviations and the frustration of “FOR OFFICE USE ONLY”. Over the course of two hours, we’re going to make protest cushions, because if there’s a delay in action we might as well be comfortable.
More info in bio

All materials will be provided and no experience is necessary
Spaces are limited, booking is essential via link in bio
Complimentary refreshments provided

Photo: Courtesy of artist

See links in bio for more info on our current exhibition and the 'Thursday Lates' programme.

'Thursday Lates' is funded by Galway City Council and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy scheme.

@leahhilliard

@dervlabakerartist @kinshipcork @andyingamells @marilynlennon.art @narryphotographyvids @ceara_conway @roisindohertyartist @stephendoyleart @felispeaks @ainephilips @_emma_finn_ @kevingaynorartist @austin.d.h.ivers @vanessajordanart @therealciaralee @studiochristinemackey @cmackeystudio @manalmahamid76_ @ranasamir @johnnymcmahonart @fiyinpng @misc.aine @lilyoshea__ @msvenuspatel @katherinesankeystudio @_leewelch_ @fite.fuaiteg juliemoiaussi @davidhughsherry @susanthomson_ghostempire #BrainCrusherandKinGamesArtCollective @artscouncilireland @deptculturecommssport @galwaycitycouncil @artsofficegalwaycity @thisisgalway @galwayswestend @patrickodonovan_td #ThursdayLates #GalwayByNight

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@leahhilliard one of our regular attendees @twocuratorsand recently told us that ‘Over the last couple of years @eamonnmaxwell s generosity in sharing his knowledge of the art world and sense of humour has made me feel supported and BRAVE.’

I mean could there be a better endorsement for checking us out at one of our monthly sessions?

Book your spot now. The link is in the bio.

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all set for “Text/Textile” #texttextile symposium with “office use only” by @leahhilliard a set of cushions (using acronyms in relation to care in Ireland) temporarily in place for the day. The day includes talks and workshops by artists, writers and makers whose work explores the intersection of text and textiles. image of chairs with cushions with brightly coloured felted text acronyms placed on chairs in a lecture theatre

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Feeling incredibly grateful for the enriching experience of participating in the “Feminist and Queer Spatialities” conference at University College Dublin. I was part of a roundtable related to my work for Beyond Opposition, a groundbreaking research project that considers, in the face of increasing social polarization in Ireland, Great Britain and Canada, how recent social and legal changes to sexual and gender rights impact different people within these countries. Working with scholars in Canada and Ireland, I co-created and implemented a workshop that took place in Vancouver in May 2023. The workshop brought together participants with a wide variety of views on gender, sexuality, and abortion. It asked these participants to imagine, by engaging in arts-based practise specific to music and sound, how everyday spaces can be shared with those who feel differently than us and how we might address social polarization without seeking to change each other’s minds - a process of imagining new, utopic worlds.

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2. The roundtable
3. “Car/ Care”, a brilliant artistic intervention by @leahhilliard
4. The conference
5. Very Irish, somehow?

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Date night.

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@thehughlane this morning

grateful to catch this symposium ‘Care and Creativity’ : Parenthood and Arts Practice in the EU, by @the.mothershipproject and @ncad_dublin

supported by the Communicating Europe Initiative.

real pleasure to hear sociologist and author Kathleen Lynch’s views, also Sabine Reinfeld and Annette Hollywood’s perspective.

great work by the fab duo @michelle_browne_3 and @leahhilliard and all at the Mothership Project.
💪🏻💪🏻❤️❤️

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#waysofworkingasaparentingartist
#managingtojugglecareandcreativity

#themothershipproject

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I’m delighted to be one of the winners of the Meath County Council’s Kathleen McKenna Award 2021. My response is drawing on personal memoir and public archives to map Kathleen’s important role, contribution and sacrifice in the greater National Irish Fight for Independence

https://solsticeartscentre.ie/about/kathleen-mckenna-award-winners/

This award is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 initiative.
#womeninhistory
#historyfrombelow
#irishdecadeofcommemoration
#irishfightforindependence
#artistsandthearchive
#overlookedwomeninhistory
#comtemporaryart
#irishartist
#irishcommissions

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We are delighted to be welcoming artists back to the farm for our Open Residency Programme. Here are some moments from our first week back.
For more information about our residencies, follow the link in our bio.

#artistresidency #residency #ireland #artist #bookarts #fabric #landscape #photography #art #studioart #cowhousestudios #wexford

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I am asolutely delighted to announce that I am one of the winners of Meath County Council’s Kathleen McKenna Award, 2021, alongside @fitzgibbonmargaret1 and @leahhilliard

This award will afford me the time and materials to create a series of prints and artist books to commemorate Kathleen McKenna. As historical accuracy was clearly something which was important to McKenna, the primary aim of this project will be to represent her legacy accurately. Large-scale prints will represent different aspects of her life, such as her career with the Irish Bulletin. These prints will have a green tone, referencing McKenna’s tam o shanter cap. A series of artist books will document my visual and written research, and will combine a variety of printmaking methods which will serve to reference the mimeograph process which. McKenna would have used. Mimeograph printing was a precursor to photocopying, and involved preparing a plate using wax resists. I plan to use a combination of photocopying, letterpress printing, and etching using wax. The work will be done at a small scale to allow me to easily experiment and quickly create multiples. These actions of creating multiples of prints, and rolling plates through presses, will allow me to recreate the physical actions of McKenna.

This award is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012 - 2023 initiative.

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Myself and Leah Hilliard telling tales of 1990s clubbing, performance and the transformational social & political power of dressing up and having fun — this Friday 7 May 4pm with MC Sarah Pierce. As part of NCAD’s “Aftereffects and Untold Stories”. Get your name on the free list and get into the club at www.ncadinpublic.ie. (week 4: activism and the archive). Dress code: anticipation of participation. #ncad_gallery #ncadinpublic #alternativemissireland #powderbubble @nival_ncad @ncad_gallery

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