PLEASE JOIN US ON THE 22ND JULY FOR THE EXHIBITION OPENING OF BOG COTTAGE'S LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY, FROM 6-9PM.

Life in the Community is a look back on two years of living and art making in Co. Sligo. Artists and best-friends Roberta Murray and Kian Benson Bailes reunited to join Dublin-born outsider artist Orla Meagher to create Bog Cottage Collective. The collective is named after the place and cottage where the artists lived on their return to Connacht.

Life in the Community is a collaboration, combining painting, sculpture, weaving, ceramics, drawing, audio and video work.

Life in the Community is: play, rural, sex, drinking, landscape, idols, cars, mountains, trees, wolves, Sligo, friendship, cooking, flirting, fighting, weaving, art, knitting, messaging, matriarchy, renaissance, kinship, community, love, hive mind, spirituality, DIY, gay shit, kisses.

Eimear Walshe’s The Land Question and The Land for the People and Iarlaith Ni Fheorais’s Turlough Invagination and Táim ag imeacht are exhibiting at the invitation of Bog Cottage.

Bog Cottage, poster, mixed media, 2022.

THIRD WHEEL OPEN SUBMISSION

Bog Cottage was selected from applications to the “Third Wheel” open submission for our annual curated exhibition Peripheries 2022. Three artists were asked to propose an idea for an exhibition at Periphery Space for July 2022. The concept was based around ideas of awkwardness within groups, especially within the visual arts, where artists either work alone or form support groups that are based on survival rather than kinship. Third Wheel invited three artists to come together and make an exhibition that is formally relational and conceptually cohesive. This was not to be thought of as a group show of segregated individuals exhibiting alone within a group, but as a dialogue in the conception of the exhibition and the display of the work, together, in the gallery. Bog Cottage fit the ethos of the proposal perfectly.

VISITING
EXHIBITION RUNS FROM THE 23 JULY – 12 AUGUST 2022
WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY
11AM – 3PM

MEET #2 is the culmination of our 2021/22 correspondence programme at Periphery Space / Gorey School of Art. It is a group exhibition, one more attuned to a middle or beginning than an end.

Over the last six months the eight participating artists have discussed their work with mentors and most importantly, between themselves. As mentors we have tried to question the motives behind their art-making, whether personal, public, or both, and give them feedback in terms of their motives. This exhibition is the outcome of that questioning.

In general, the exhibition is a public phenomenon, which usually forces an artist to bring focus and clarity to their work before it goes public. The exhibition is a very different space to the privacy of the artist’s studio, where the necessary activities of play, risk and destruction take place. The exhibition is a celebration and commitment, but can also be a traumatic experience for the artist, as the artworks are left to the public to enjoy or dismiss.

We have asked the artists to bring all the explorative and destructive play that takes place in their studios into the gallery space. The outcome, which is not an outcome, is drawings pasted to the gallery windows (like the art students do during the academic year), a colour washed backdrop to a body of process paintings, and other floor and wall displays that question the relationships between the studio vs the exhibition, the individual artist vs the community, work-in-progress vs the finished product, the public form of the art object vs its hidden content.

Please come along to our opening reception of MEET #2 at Periphery Space / Gorey School of Art this Friday 17th June from 6-8pm. The artists and mentors will be present to chat about the work and the process involved in being part of peripheriesMEET.

ARTISTS: Polly Maher, Ciaran Bowen, Kevin Ryan, Zoë Nolan, Natasha Pike, Sinéad Lucey, Marian Balfe, Fergal Styles

The exhibition continues from Saturday 18-25th June (11-3pm, except Sundays).

We would like to thank our visiting artist mentors Mark Swords and Austin Hearne for their insights and support during the process, and Wexford Arts Office for their continued support for what is an enriching developmental and communitarian project.

Supported by Wexford Arts Office

To whom it concerns,

Periphery Space invites artist Austin Hearne to do what he wills, dreams, desires over the course of a three-week installation in the gallery.

We wish the artist equal amounts of pleasure and struggle during this permissive contract.

Yours Faithfully,
the Facilitators,
Periphery Space.

15 JULY, 4PM: ARTIST TALK STREAMED LIVE FROM THE GALLERY
Austin Hearne in conversation with James Merrigan on the occasion of his exhibition "Love Letters to Cardinal Raymo" at Periphery Space (Gorey School of Art).

Join Zoom talk:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82825874570?pwd=a0FWZEdhOHl5cFBNVHM5NlR1Rzg0dz09

Meeting ID: 828 2587 4570
Passcode: 767953

EXHIBITION RUNS FROM 16 JULY – 15 AUGUST 2021, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, 11AM – 3PM

AUSTIN HEARNE BIOGRAPHY

Austin Hearne is an Irish artist living in Dublin. He holds an MFA from NCAD. In April 2018 his solo show Remains at Pallas Projects/Studios was awarded as part of their Artist-Initiated Projects. In December 2018 he was awarded a place in the prestigious annual Periodical Review #8 also in Pallas Projects/Studios. In 2019, two works were acquired by the State Collection (O.P.W.), and these works are part of an Ireland wide touring exhibition Life in Still Life. Austin is part of the artist Collective Child Naming Ceremony who performed Host at TBG+S. He was also involved in co-curating an exhibition and publication Orphan with Curator and Artist James Merrigan. Four works where included in the 2019 survey show Silver at The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery’s 25th anniversary exhibition. In 2020 Austin was awarded the Arts Council Bursary. He exhibited his zine Dead at the Dublin Art Book Fair in TBG+S, also work was shown in Covid Stories Ireland at Lismore Castle Arts in Waterford. He exhibited in The Complex, Dublin with Ann Ensor in a show titled Ceremony. In 2020 he also worked with Artist and Curator Brendan Fox on the online platform, Games for Artists and Non-Artists (GFANA) with the archive of this project shown as part of A Reluctant Mirage in NCAD Gallery. In 2021 he collaborated on a music project Satin Shadow with film maker and music producer Glenn McQuaid, with a live stream performance in The Complex as part of Tanad Aaron and Mark Swords exhibition Portico. His film work Whispers was recently shown on RTÉ Culture (online) with an essay about the work in VAN. Austin has an upcoming solo show The Complex in November. Child Naming Ceremony will perform in the Circe Pavilion in Gorey in July. He has group shows in the The Luan Gallery in Athlone, Ballina Arts Centre, Garter Lane Arts Centre and Catalyst Arts, Belfast.

Supported by Wexford Arts Office

Visiting:

• Gallery opening hours, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, 11AM – 3PM, 16 JULY – 15 AUGUST

• No booking required, but limited to six persons in gallery at one time with social distancing and face masks

• We are frequently cleaning and disinfecting throughout the building.

• Additional hand sanitiser dispensers are placed at key points throughout site.

• Additional signage to promote hand washing and best hygiene practices has been posted throughout the building.

'MEET' is the accumulation and culmination of PeripheriesMEET, an online correspondence, which, in its first year, has existed exclusively online – until now. The seven artists presented at Gorey School of Art's Periphery Space have been asked to take into account the context of the art school that frames it – a space of process and play in the tradition of Black Mountain Art School. This group exhibition eschews individualism for collectivity and risk – some artists are presenting work that is still being worked out or worked through during the installation of the exhibition. The artists at the moment of writing this press release are painting the walls and floors, while proposing ideas that might work together rather than apart. So this exhibition statement acts as an inadequate and premature document for the experiments and processes to come. 

Exhibition runs from the 19 – 26 June 2021, 11am – 3pm daily

Artists: Orla Bates, Serena Caulfield, Catriona McLoughlin, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Olivia O'Dwyer, Laurence O'Toole, Ciara Roche

>>Gallery Map with artists and artworks list

PeripheriesMEET is an online correspondence programme for artists with an opportunity to exhibit at Periphery Space. Over the course of the academic year, eight Wexford-based artists take part in four online feedback sessions and one in-person session at Periphery Space. Each feedback session is led by artists Emma Roche and James Merrigan. Guest mentors (Anne Ryan and Kevin Atherton for 20/21) were appointed to refresh perspectives and to accommodate the particular needs of different types of art practices. This free programme offers artists critical feedback in a safe environment, and encourages independent thought and support for individual artists who feel a little lost inside and outside the studio context.

Supported by Wexford Arts Office

This show will feature work from 20 of the most exciting student, emerging and established artists, filmmakers and photographers working in Ireland today. Selected from hundreds of submissions, we are excited to announce the artists and filmmakers for peripheriesOPEN 2019.

Opening November 30th 2018 at 7.30pm

This show will feature work from 28 of the most exciting emerging artists, including 5 powerful filmmakers, working in Ireland today. Selected from over 200 submissions, we are excited to announce the artists and filmmakers for peripheriesOPEN 2018.

On the opening night, "Arena" by Paraic McGloughlin will be played on loop in our dedicated cinema. Created using Google Earth imagery, Arena takes a brief look at the earth from above, based on the shapes we make, the game of life, our playing ground.

Free guided tours will also be available for schools. To book your tour, please email Paul at paul.carter@gsa.ie

For directions, please click here.

Hope to see you all there!

Paul, James, Deirdre and Emma

Selected Artists:

AUSTIN HEARNE
DANIEL BALTENEAU
LINDA BHREATHNAACH
ORLA BATES
JOANNE BOYLE
HELEN G BLAKE
ELLA BERTILSSON & ULLA JUSKE
SUSAN BUTTNER
RORYBYRNE
DANIEL COLEMAN
ROBERT DUNNE
ANN ENSOR
NOELLE GALLAGHER
KEVIN GAYNOR
HELENA GOREY 
ALI KEMAL & EIMEAR BOYED
STEVE KENNY
BERNADETTE KIELY
BRIAN KINSELLA
DAVID LUNNEY
PARAIC McGLOUGHLIN
JONATHAN MAYHEW
DAVID MONAGHAN
BENNIE REILLY
CERI RYAN 
PHILIP SHEILS
HANNEKE VAN RYSWYK ERIC VAN KAMPEN
LEE WELCH

Selection Panel: Paul Carter, James Merrigan, Deirdre Robinson and Emma Roche.

Our 8th Peripheries exhibition will be the highlight our annual exhibition programme at Periphery Space

DESTROY ALL HEROES is a group exhibition presenting artworks that explore the grey matter of thinking and feeling through the medium of drawing and text. Presenting four artists – Laura Fitzgerald, Joy Gerrard, David Godbold and William Murray – the exhibition begins where most superheroes begin, with the ZINE, defined as a cheaply-made, cheaply-priced publication, often in black and white, but brimming with the personalities and passions of its creators. 

The series of zines DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1976-1979) by American “part-time punk band, part-time art collective” (Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Niagara and Jim Shaw) is an influence that runs throughout the exhibition and its component parts, even in name. But as a mark of respect for subcultural tenets we have inverted Mike Kelley et al’s influence to put the head of the HERO on the chopping block in place of the MONSTER. 

From the outset the production of a ZINE made of Real white paper and Real black ink has been a Real desire, especially with Laura, Joy, David, and William in mind. We felt the DIY ZINE represented a kind of internalised and intimate propaganda for those caught on the edges of the socio-political-economic-cultural swell. We asked the question: Does the internalisation of something like propaganda, something that is meant for the poster/pulpit/throne for politician/priest/king have a different nature, a different purpose in the hands of the artist? 

Presentation of original Raymond Pettibon zine collection from the 1980s—courtesy of exhibiting artist David Godbold. 

“A significant figure of the Southern Californian punk scene in the late 70s and 80s, Raymond Pettibon started his artistic career making scrappy zines, handbills and flyers for his band Black Flag and his brother’s record label, SST Pubs. These early zines feature comic-like illustrations paired with bizarre, ironic, and often seemingly disjointed text. Particularly focusing on the dissemination of post-war American culture, Pettibon works with recurring themes of sexuality, violence, youth-culture, religion and idols.” ( Printed Matter, New York)

Artist Talks

A series of artist talks with exhibiting artists exploring a scrapbook of subjects, from individuality to community, joy to nihilism, in relation to image and text, speech acts and hand acts. 

OPENING TIMES:

July 28th - August 4th (inclusive), 11am - 4pm, Daily

Patrick Redmond, ‘All Possible Worlds’, 15th June – 29th June, Periphery Space, Gorey School of Art.

Patrick Redmond is Gorey School of Art’s Paul Funge Resident Artist for 2017/18: a residency that awards an individual or small group/collective 24/7 access to a studio space, mentorship, an exhibition, and access during normal opening times to facilities such as a print studio, computer room, library, fabrication room and photography studio.

Patrick’s solo exhibition ‘All Possible Worlds’ is the culmination of nine months of what American painter Milton Resnick coined “soul-beating”... to describe the method and difficulties of an artist changing his or her work”. While turning himself inside out during the residency, Pat has turned his painting practice inside out, finding resolution in mistakes and processes that partly take him out of the equation to challenge and redefine his own taste. Where once mainly oil paint composed his painted worlds, now paint, collage, plaster, soot, mirrors and dish scrubbers compose these current worlds where painting is not defined by style and consistency but possibility.

And ‘possibility’ is the defining difference between the medium and message of Patrick’s earlier and current work. “During those earlier times I was more interested in trying to make the hand of the artist less visible in the work. It was quite a tight realism or naturalism in those days, working mostly from photographs I’d taken. When I look at them now they aren't as tightly painted as I thought, but then the hand always lets the imagination down.”  

Beyond painting method, Patrick’s subject matter has also changed, from the ‘silent theatricality’ of his earlier paintings, where vulnerable subjects were left forlorn in uncanny settings but protected in their psychic detachment, to these current utopian landscapes that sojourn possibility from source imagery collected from second-hand procured National Geographic Magazines to holiday brochures with weirdly balanced symmetries.  

Although Patrick's work has changed dramatically in subject and substance during the residency, you could even call it a rupture in how it ‘looks’ now and how it ‘looked’ before, he still seems conscious of his own hand in the work, in the same way American painter Frank Stella attempted and failed to “free [painting] of human touch”. Before, Patrick worked dutifully from photographs, the photograph dictating the terms of his touch; today Patrick has relinquished the control of the photograph to leave chance and process to choose what remains on the canvas, the mirror, the paper, the plaster. Patrick has gone from laboriously building a planned illusion of a painted reality on canvas to relying now on experience and intuition to produce unknown but energetic and new possibilities.

Exhibition Opening Hours

Monday – Friday, 11am to 3pm

Saturday, 11am to 5pm

Closed Sunday

SATURDAY 16TH JUNE AT 3PM.

ARTIST PATRICK REDMOND IN CONVERSATION WITH ART CRITIC JAMES MERRIGAN ON THE OCCASION OF PATRICK'S SOLO EXHIBITION 'ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS' AT GOREY SCHOOL OF ART.

“...as I see it, a kind of painting that repudiates its supposed essence will always be preferable to one that keeps within its allotted boundaries and its unbroken faith in itself.” -- From Isabelle Graw's The Love of Painting, 2018.

On one of many coffee breaks over the course of the residency Patrick posited: “You can’t think your way out of a painting” – I laughed while penning it down. Patrick thinks! But his encyclopedic knowledge and passion for painting has found solace and agency in the statement "Painting doesn’t matter!" Patrick and I will discuss this statement and others in relation to Patrick's new work, and explore why painting does matter, to him, to us, to you.

All are very welcome.

Showcasing over 70 Gorey School of Art graduates, this exhibition has become one of the highlights of the year. With over 400 people attending the opening it's always a great celebration and feast for the creative souls.

Opening: 7pm June 1st 2018

Opening times:

• Exhibition runs from June 1st to 3rd inclusive
• June 1st, 7pm - 9pm
• June 2nd, 12noon - 4pm
• June 3rd, 12noon - 4pm

peripheriesOPEN is a new open submission opportunity for artists in Ireland. The exhibition will run for one month from early December 2017 to early January 2018 in our newly refurbished gallery space at Gorey School of Art. This year's selection panel is Paul Carter, James Merrigan and Emma Roche.

Opening: 7pm December 1st 2017

Selected artists include:

Soul-Beating

An exhibition of painting told through the lens of film.

Artists: Robert Armstrong — Susan Connolly — Diana Copperwhite — Colin Crotty — Brian O’Doherty — Damien Flood – Paul Hallahan — Mark Joyce — Mark O’Kelly — Sheila Rennick — Emma Roche — Mark Swords — Kathy Tynan