West Cork Arts Centre

Lunchtime Film Screenings at West Cork Arts Centre

May 14, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

Monday 20 May at 1.00pm

Free, no booking required

As part of the Bealtaine Festival, West Cork Arts Centre will screen The Last Statue Maker in Cork. This short film tells of one man’s life and work. Maurice O’Donnell’s lifelong fascination with statues, grew from modelling figures from turf as a small child, to an apprenticeship at Bernardi’s Statue Shop in Cork, to time spent in Italy studying with the great masters. His work has been exhibited all over the world and he continued to make statues right up to his eighties. The documentary also tells the stories of some of the statues themselves, including the famous ‘moving’ statue of Ballinspittle, which was one of Maurice’s creations. [Read more...]

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Opportunities for artists this May at West Cork Arts Centre

May 14, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

National Drawing Day on Saturday 18 May

Life Drawing

Artists and students are invited to take part in a life drawing session at West Cork Arts Centre as part of National Drawing Day on Saturday 18 May. Drawing Day was started in 2004 by the National Gallery of Ireland’s Education Department and has developed into a nationwide event, held in partnership with national and local museums, galleries and cultural centres.

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Gawky & Awkward

May 1, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

‘Whether you see dyslexia as a disability or not, it so affects your daily life, and you have to get to a place of excepting it for its foibles, and what it gives you, and what it takes away, the way it interrupts your life… In that way it is so like Love.’ Caroline Bowditch

Tara Brandel’s new solo work Gawky & Awkward is a very personal piece, revealing the things we struggle with and a dancer’s creative journey through dyslexia. The work is directed by Caroline Bowditch (previously Scottish Dance Theatre’s Dance Agent for Change) and incorporates an original score by disabled composer Charlotte White.

Octagon Exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre

May 1, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

OPENING at West Cork Arts Centre on Saturday May 4^th is Octagon, an exhibition of painting, print, drawing, mixed-media, video and sound works by West Cork-based artists - Alison Cronin, Marie Cullen, Sharon Dipity, Paul Forde-Cialis, Ian Humphreys, Tess Leak, Susan Montgomery and Sarah Ruttle, which showcases the diverse studio practices of 8 artists who facilitate creative learning programmes at the Centre. The exhibition opens to the public at 3.00pm this Saturday and runs until Saturday June 8^th.

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See for Yourself: West Cork Arts Centre’s annual Youth Event

April 9, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

OPENING this Friday 12^th April, West Cork Arts Centre’s annual Youth Event includes See for Yourself, an exhibition of artwork by young people from West Cork; film screenings for schools; poetry workshops with award-winning performance poet Dave Lordan and a pop-up outdoor performance somewhere in Skibbereen by WCAC’s Youth Theatre.

Panel discussion at West Cork Arts Centre

April 9, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

Pilot plot panel discussion: Sarah O’Brien, Stephen McGlynn and Rowan Sexton

This panel discussion coincides with the launch of artist Sarah O’Brien’s publication, Pilot Plot.

Tales of Light and Shadow at the West Cork Arts Centre

March 12, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

TALES of Light and Shadow is WCAC’s latest exhibition and showcases artwork from the nine groups of West Cork primary school children aged 4 to 13 years who participated in the primary schools’ classroom-based programme 2012 -13.

The children developed class projects, under the guidance of their class teachers and facilitating artists Alison Cronin and Tess Leak, inspired by a visit to the exhibition The Essence of Taste by James L. Hayes at West Cork Arts Centre in Autumn 2012.

WCAC presents talk on The Atlas of The Great Irish Famine

March 8, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

THE West Cork Arts Centre, in association with the Geography Department, University College Cork and Cork University Press has great pleasure in presenting a Public Talk based on the Atlas of The Great Irish Famine on Friday, March 8^th at 8pm by Mike Murphy, Cartographer, Geography Dept., UCC and one of three Editors of the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine along with Fr. Pat Hickey, Atlas Contributor, Historian and Local Famine Expert

The atlas has in excess of seven hundred pages and includes expert analyses from over fifty contributors.

Fundraiser for Sherkin BAVA /Sherkin Island Developement Society

February 20, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

Graduates on Sherkin Island. Pic: Adrian Legg

THE Students Of BA Visual Arts Sherkin have organised a fun night out for all at the Eldon Hotel, Skibbereen at 9 pm on March 9th next.

The BA Visual Arts Course runs on the island and produces quality graduates of many different deciplines every two years

Free family workshops at West Cork Arts Centre

February 12, 2013 By Editor Leave a Comment

COME along to the West Cork Arts Centre this Saturday morning, to explore the Panto Collapsar exhibition with your children. WCAC’s family programme, Discovery Box, welcomes children and adults to experience art works and art making together, in the company of artist Susan Montgomery.