Showing posts with label Lagganstown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lagganstown. Show all posts
A Gathering in Lagganstown
Lagganstown School Reunion 2013
Former pupils of the schoolhouse are arranging a school gathering on the 2nd & 4th August 2013, to meet old friends and classmates once again.
To celebrate this event, Art Hive are going to hold a second studio open day. After all if you are going to have a school reunion it seems appropriate to visit the school itself.
Stolen Gate
The front gate to the studio was stolen, sometime between the 20th and the 24th of March we reckon. Though it had a basic design, it was very solid durable structure. Presumably it dates back prior to 1971, when the building was a school.
This is most unfortunate. We had planned on letting a neighbour have some goats graze on the grounds round the school. It would have been a more environmentally friendly and economically viable way of trimming the grass. Until a new gate is put in, that's not going to happen.
We don't have any decent quality photos of it (see above) to send to the Gardai. If anyone reading this has some do please either fax or drop them into the Tipperary station c/o John Bohan.
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| Image sourced from google maps |
We don't have any decent quality photos of it (see above) to send to the Gardai. If anyone reading this has some do please either fax or drop them into the Tipperary station c/o John Bohan.
New members
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| Kabuki time! (photo of Robin Daly's Lagganstown studio) |
Arthive are happy to welcome four new members to our group. Two are taking residencies in the Lagganstown Schoolhouse. They are :-
Emma Hogan, painter and photographer
Robin Daly, painter and sculptor, artvitae.com/robindaly
Tishi O'Malley, ceramist and sculptor, tishi-ceramicsandme.blogspot.ie
Catherine Starling, Arts and Crafts worker, skydrive portfolio
Partitioning the studio
Aisling Egan, Brigid Teehan, Dennis
Ryan, Ian Mannion and Violeta Pserackaite all needed studio spaces. In
order to delineate them we had partitions built.
Each partition consists of two large mdf boards reinforced at top and bottom and braced at the corner by timber boards adjoined in T-formation for stability. Though they are heavy two people can move them easily enough should the size of the space need to be adjusted or something large and unwieldy has to be brought in.
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| View from Aisling Egan's space through to the print press room. |
Each partition consists of two large mdf boards reinforced at top and bottom and braced at the corner by timber boards adjoined in T-formation for stability. Though they are heavy two people can move them easily enough should the size of the space need to be adjusted or something large and unwieldy has to be brought in.
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| Desk and cupboard separating Aisling Egan's and Brigid Teehan's space. |
The old schoolhouse is divided into two large rooms, one with a printing press and other equipment and storage facilities taking up a large amount of floor space, the other largely bare save for a lectern and a table. Dennis and Ian set up space in the print room, while Aisling, Brigid and Violeta took resident in the other. There was some debate over the positions of the partitions but a consensus was soon reached.
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| In the centre of her space, Brigid Teehan's latest piece of work. |
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| View into Aisling Egan's space |
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| Violeta Pserackaite's space |
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