Spiral Space Opening Night

Spiral Space exhibition flyer

 

Art hive is ready to launch our show on Friday 9th Dec between 4-5pm. Dennis is making delicious mulled wine and all are welcome to drop by!

There will be two Festive Art workshops delivered by Art Hive members

- perfect for an after-school activity for 7-12 year olds

while you catch up on some Christmas shopping!

Registration in the gallery: €5 per child.

Workshop 1: Friday 9th at  2.40pm - 3.40pm
Workshop 2: Monday 12th at  3.25pm - 4.25pm 

Mr Pillow & the Umbillicius

Brigid Teehans' workshop and art installation.

Projection painting at the Solar space Cafe

My aim for the cafe was to direct a communal painting, to involve both volunteers & members of the public. I also wanted to see how successfully a computer drawing could be transcribed in the real world in this manner. I was allocated the back wall space in the gallery to do a mural.  During prep work I drilled & screwed in various large pieces of cardboard to the wall and coated it all in white primer.

When putting "solar space" into a search engine I found several depictions of a proposed satellite array of solar panels capable of harvesting the sun's energy 24/7. What caught my eye was that the frame of the array was hexagonal; a shape which I felt tied in with our honey-cone logo motif.

I made a simplified abstracted version of the solar panel array in a vector drawing format and had it printed onto acetate. This was laid on the projector. Once the projected image's size and placing on the wall were determined satisfactorily the acetate was sellotaped down and the projector's degree of magnification, its position and angle were marked off with masking tape in order to ensure the projection wasn't moved. Not only that the table's position and angle the projector rested on were marked off with masking tape as well. 

I outlined the drawing in charcoal. A table was set up with brushes and paints next to the wall. Some of the volunteers helped paint in the outlines prior to and during the first day of the festival.

Textile workshop

Aisling Egan

Monoprint workshop

Bill Doyle oversaw the ongoing print workshop.

 

Honeybee Presentation

Honeycomb display

Dennis Ryan Senior gave a talk on beekeeping. A former president of the Federation of Irish Beekeepers’ Associations, he also produces locally Pure Tipperary Honey. More info on his passion can be found here.

Given the name of our group, inspired by our general location 

- Cluain Meala, aka "honey meadow" its quite an appropriate subject.

Dry felting workshop

Violeta Pserackaite creates bespoke felt and silk clothing for her own fashion line, wildwomenart. In this workshop she demonstrates the creative possibilities of nuno felting. She started her demonstration with one large piece on a table where folk could actively participate in adding to/amending the various fabrics.

 

Ceramic workshop at the Solar Space cafe

Possibly the most popular with kids of all ages the ceramic workshop invited people to get their hands mucky with wet clay and mold their own creations.

Beehouse Arts launch

Founder member Brigid Teehan recently launched her Arts & Health business Beehouse Arts in the South Tipperary County Museum, Clonmel.

Despite the wet stormy weather, a large crowd showed up, including several Art Hive members.

December 2010 show

 Art Hive's second Christmas Pop-Up show is in the old mobile repair shop on Market Place in Clonmel town.

Lagganstown studio meal

To celebrate cleaning and moving into our new studio space, we decided to break bread there. Everyone brought something to share and a pleasant meal was had. We had a fire going in the grate that gave out little heat but more than compensated for that with a nice woody smoke. Indeed the fire tended to send more smoke into the room than up the chimney, giving the place a hazy atmosphere.

Newspaper Promo/no

We got a publicity piece written about us and our aims in Clonmels' local free newspaper, the South Tipp Today. Much kudos go to Bernie Commins for interviewing some of us and setting up a photo shoot.

 

However upon seeing the first two words of the headline, we winced. Calling the empty premises of potential landlords 'shabby shops' may well close more doors than it opens. 

    In fairness Bernie couldn't have been more helpful; she let us preview her article and approve it for publishing. There was a deadline of course, so it had to be a quick perusal. It's a great article that sets out our aims and what we have to offer clearly. If 'shabby shops' had been written in the report, it would have been set in the right context. As I understand the headline is usually written by someone else, apparently someone fond of a snappy bit of alliteration. Its a minor caveat but tis a pity all the same.

Emer Lynch - Outside Junction Art Trail

Emer Lynch - Astound on corner of Market St, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

My escape view was pierced by webbed wires, sectioning the sky.
Poles and lamps that tower over humble me. I felt estranged but
spots of brightness in the clouds caught me. The sky gleams and
breathes between the valley of the buildings, crowning the shapes
beneath. To look beyond the blockades is joyous; the belly of an
endeavouring seagull glistens, wings pumping against the dazzling
presentation of infinite forget-me-not blue.

Emer Lynch 2009

Bewilder on corner of Emmet St & Market St, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

As they were too big for the space we had, Emer Lynch decided to display her large scale photographs on the street. With the help of Bill J Doyle and his drilling expertise she had them mounted at various locations around Clonmel town. She left a map at our Market Place gallery to pinpoint their locations around the town. The map has subsequently been recreated in google maps.

Bewilder on corner of Emmet St & Market St, facing Market St.

Emer Lynch's Stupefy on  Market St, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Emer Lynch's Heavenly Hurt on Market St, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Emer is heading off to pastures anew. She'll be showing at New York's Heller Gallery in The Post-Glass Video Festival 2010, more info on her and the show can be found in the how is this glass? blog here. We wish her well.

Interactive artwork 1 : Dead nature being revived

For the Junction Fringe Festival Exhibition Brigid Teehan decided to incorporate some shop display furniture to create an interactive piece. Gallery visitors were invited to draw and/or write on a revolving four-sided paper-covered tower. The following is from the blurb :

"It is a six day recording of a network of memories in response to the title ‘Dead nature being revived’. The theme is one of hope: that the possibilities of regeneration are limitless and out of destruction can come new life and growth.

Participants can choose to equally ignore the title and make whatever marks/images come to mind or react to others work on the paper tower."

Most participants chose the latter.

Xmas Pop-Up Exhibition 2009

Art Hive members organised a pop-up Christmas Exhibition in former clothes shop Chess Clothing, a now vacant unit in Market Place, Clonmel. In its short duration it received good local press attention and over 100 people visited the show over 4 days with a database of interested viewers gathered. 
 

Flyer for event, depicting the venue Chess Clothing, Market Place.

The disused shop space was let rent free to us by the property owners. It was arranged by Pat Quirke from P. F. Quirke & Company Ltd a firm of auctioneers and estate agents based in Clonmel. The source photo of the venue used in the flyer is taken from PF.Quirke and Co's website, pfq.ie. Pat Quirke has kindly posted about the exhibition along with some choice photos on his property matters blog.
 

Bill J Doyle Bearing (Welded Steel) in foreground, Wilderness (Brazed steel) in background.

Violeta Pserackaite poses with her

-->mixed media installation Walk with Time.

Ian Mannion Automata

-->de fé, -->(digital print on board) in background, left, Kristina Olechiene Life (acrylic) in foreground, right.

from left to right: representatives of Cuan Saor, Breda Bell and Geraldine Mullane with artists Ian Mannion, Brigid Teehan, Dennis Ryan, Violeta Pserackaite, Bill J Doyle, Kristina Olechiene

This was our first group exhibition. In the spirit of the season that was in it Art Hive donated a percentage of  the proceeds to Cuan Saor a local Women´s Refuge and Support Centre .