You are invited to attend the opening of an exhibition

Chasing Shadows II

on Monday 18th July 2011, 7pm.

at the Centre for Creative Practices

Exhibition is open daily 12 – 7pm

19th – 31st July.

The Centre for Creative Practices

15 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin 2

Following  on the success of Chasing Shadows I at PhotoIreland Festival in 2010, the Chasing Shadows group once again reunites to host an exhibition of works by Irish artists exploring the contemporary use of historical photographic processes. The Chasing Shadows group includes; Dominic Turner, Louise Haugh, Jamie Maxwell, Adrian Reilly, Gwen Wilkinson, Kasia Kesicka, Monica Fabijanczyk, Kamile Matulaityte, Ian Mitton, Catriona Dunnett, Meave O’Neill, Alison Kerrigan & Lucy Nuzum. Photographic processes will include –  wet plate collodion works, gold toned albumen printing, van dyke printing, cyanotypes, platinum printing, gum bichromates. The exhibition is run in association with the 2011 Photo Ireland Festival, Dublin.

The Norman Gallery invites you to attend

the opening of an exhibition by

Gwen Wilkinson

EDIFICE

on Sunday, 31st July 2011 at 3pm

Opening by Ian Mitton, Lecturer Photography IADT Dun Laoghaire

Exhibition is open daily 12 – 6pm

1st – 14th August

The Norman Gallery

Monksgrange, Rathnure, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford

Tel: 053 925 5071 www.normangallery.com

As part of Eigse Arts Festival 2011 an exhibition of work by members of the 9 Stones Artists group will take place at Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow from Friday 10th June to Wednesday 15th June.

The exhibition will feature the diverse range of work and mediums practiced by these artists – painting, sculpture, photography, video and drawing. Members of the 9 Stones participating in the exhibition include; Anthony Lyttle, Annabel Konig, Michelle Byrne, Remco de Fouw, Jules Michael, Rachel Joynt, Martin Lyttle, Cathy Fitzgerald and Gwen Wilkinson

Kerry Hardie, poet, will officially open the exhibition on Thursday 9th June at 6pm. Wine and refreshments, generously sponsored by O’Shea’s of Borris, Bar and Supermarket, will be available on opening night. 

Exhibition is open to the public daily 11 – 4pm. 10th June – 15th June, 2011. Admission is free.

For further information please contact: gwenwilkinson@eircom.net

For directions to Borris House view www.borrishouse.com

We managed to spend several days working outside doing wet-plate collodion work, making images at St. Mullins, Ducketts Grove, Wilton House and Ballyloughan Castle. It was fantastic for me to have assistance at these locations and great to have her company.

Here are some images we managed to achieve . . .

Vera is a great photograher in her own right and I wish her all the best in her future work and studies.

 The Golden Fleece Award is an artistic fund established as a charitable bequest by the late Helen Lillias Mitchell. The annual award aims to support and promote a wide range of artistic practices in Ireland. This is the tenth anniversary for the award.

Edifice is a project I have been working on since 2009. From abandoned hillside cottages to relics of great architectural optimism, the images in this series explore aspects of our collective history; memories of conflict and struggle, of fortunes lost and gained, monuments that recall a romantic and heroic past.

 The collection exists as collodion plates, photographs on glass (ambrotypes) and metal (tintypes). The process was invented in 1851. These one-of-a-kind images are made directly on glass and tin plates that have been coated with chemicals, exposed in camera while still wet, and developed on the spot. Each image is a unique handmade artefact.

 The spectral images in this series invite the observer to revisit familiar sites, such as the grandiose ruins of Ducketts Grove, Wilton House and Ballymoon Castle and endeavour to reveal an alternative manifestation of these remarkable structures.

 I look forward to putting this award towards progressing the work of this project over the forthcoming year. I am grateful to the generosity of Helen Lillias Mitchell and for her passion in furthering the development of the arts in Ireland.

www.goldenfleeceaward.com

www.gwenwilkinson.com

　Huntington Castle, Tintype (wet plate collodion)