Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council announces

Sculptor-in-Residence for Airfield

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to announce Jennie Moran, as sculptor-in-residence at Airfield for 2007 – 2008. 

The artist-in-residence initiative has been a collaborative venture between Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Airfield Trust since 2002.   Jennie Moran is the first occasion of a sculptor selected for Airfield.  Throughout the residency, Jennie will engage with the distinct environment of Airfield in creative and meaningful ways.

With Gleethings, Jennie Moran’sresidencyproposal, she marries a playful practice to the quirkiness of Airfield Trust.  For the period of the residency, Jennie undertakes to create a series of interventions that illuminate the particular charms of Airfield.  An emerging artist, over the past two years she has been exploring ways of providing opportunities for people to step outside their busy routines.  Her practice overlaps sculpture with philosophy, psychology and sociology. 

Carolyn Brown, Acting Arts Officer, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council comments:  “DLR Arts is delighted to have such an innovative and exciting young artist as our sculptor in residence. Jennie Moran’s imaginative work will be well-suited to the fantastic surroundings of Airfield which will no doubt provide her with much inspiration for her work”.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council through its extensive Arts Programme is committed to producing and supporting artistically ambitious programmes across all art forms that stimulate, engage and connect with the public or local community.  The current Artist-in-Residency Programme includes: writer-in-residence, Katie Donovan at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT); fine-artist, Julie Merriman in a residency with the Harbour Board and writer, Claire Keegan who is the inaugural recipient of the Hugh Leonard Writer’s Bursary 2007.

Bernadette Larkin, Head of Education & Programmes at Airfield extends a warm welcome to Jennie Moran and thanks to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for their support of this, our third artists’ residency, saying:  “the innovation and playfulness that Jennie demonstrates through her work will lend itself to the natural rhythms and environment of Airfield.  We look forward to be surprised in so many ways over the next six months”. 

To date, Jennie Moran has developed her art practice of enquiry though several opportunities including: a commission with Kildare Local Authority in collaboration with artists Tara Kennedy and Barbara Nealon (2007); an Arts Council and Dublin City Council supported collaborative project, entitled ‘Hope Inherent’, with artist Tara Kennedy (2005- ongoing).  Jennie studied sculpture at the National College of Art and Design from 2001-2005. She currently lives and works in Dublin.

2006 Photographer in Residence
Dominic Turner

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, the Arts Council and Airfield Trust are delighted to announce Dominic Turner as the Photographer in Residence based at Airfield Trust. Dominic is the first photographer in residence in the County and intends to spend his residency concentrating on exploring the archives at Airfield House with the intention of producing a series of images which reflect it's rich and unique history. He will also be exploring the use 19th Century photographic printing processes such as Gum Bichromate and Photogravure with the aid of 21st century digital imaging techniques to produce the final prints.

Dominic Turner is a self taught photographer and graphic designer based in Dublin. His photographic work mainly tends toward the values of the early 20th Century pictorialist photographers, using a broad range of tools and processes, both antique and modern, to achieve his aesthetic. His solo work has been exhibited in Japan, the USA and Ireland as well as having featured in several magazines and books internationally. He has also collaborated on projects with composers and theatre practitioners in Ireland.

This residency is run by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council supported by Airfield Trust and The Arts Council.

Printmaker in Residence 2003

Louise Meade is Printmaker in Residence at Airfield House, Dundrum. The residency commenced in November 2003 and runs until April 2004. Louise will be based in the purpose built and fully equipped print studio at Airfield House, Dundrum.

Born in Dublin in 1959, Louise studied printmaking at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She is a member of the Blackchurch Print Studio where she works as a full time printmaker. Recent exhibitions include a solo show Uncharted Waters (Original Print Gallery, Dublin) and group exhibitions including Gene Pool (Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin), Print Portraits (Original Print Gallery, Dublin) and Contemporary Irish Prints (National Arts Club, New York) Louise’s work is in public and private collections including The Office of Public works collection.

Louise has extensive teaching experience, which she intends to bring into practice when working with the wider community during the residency. She is running workshops that give the participants the opportunity to experience the fascinating and traditional art of printmaking within the beautiful surroundings of the Airfield Trust.

This is a very exciting undertaking for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown and Airfield Trust as this is the first year a Printmaking Residency has taken place.

If you would like further information please contact the Arts office at 01 2054749 email arts@dlrcoco.ie

This residency is run by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council supported by Airfield Trust and The Arts Council.

The Airfield Trust Writer in Residence 2OO2

The Airfield Trust in partnership with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Arts Council is delighted to announce the appointment of Siobhán Campbell as the first Writer-in-Residence at The Airfield Trust. The residency commenced in April, 2002 and will run until November. Siobhán will be developing various outreach programs, establishing contacts with the local community and liaising with the educational program at Airfield.

From the beginning of May, two non-fiction workshops are taking place over a six week period. Among the other Writer-in-Residence projects which will take place at Airfield, are workshops with primary school children who will be visiting Airfield, workshops in writing fiction and poetry, and a seminar for emerging writers is also planned.

Siobhán Campbell

Born in Dublin in 1962, Siobhán Campbell was educated at University College Dublin, where she returned in the 1990s to take a Master of Arts degree in Anglo-Irish literature. She began writing poetry as a teenager and was encouraged by publication in the Irish Press under the editorship of David Marcus. She has been widely published and anthologised and is represented in the major contemporary collections of Irish poetry. She has broadcast her work on BBC and RTE radio and has given readings in Ireland, the UK, Canada and the United States. While living in New York in the early nineties, she worked on her first book The Permanent Wave published by Blackstaff Press, Belfast in 1996. In New York she read at Sin É and at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. In Autumn '98 she was a guest reader at the International Writers Festival in Ottawa, Canada and at the Contemporary Art Fest in Glasgow, Scotland. The work in her second book, The Cold That Burns has been characterised by Paul Durcan as ‘passionately precise, precisely passionate’. Recent readings include the Cuirt Festival Galway and Wexford Arts Centre as well as a number on the west coast of the United States including being the guest reader at Menlo College Poetry Day and at the American Conference for Irish Studies West in Seattle.