Artlink marked this national day of culture with an open air event at The Potting Shed. Local musicians Nine Hazel Trees (Mickey Herron, Louise Doherty and Gary Raymond) provided the atmosphere with traditional and contemporary music and visitors were treated to afternoon tea.
Artlink used the occasion to celebrate a number of recent achievements. Aileen Barr, one of the founders of Artlink recently installed a series of site-specific ceramic tile panels produced as the result of her residency. These formed a trail around the fort so we marked the publication of a map showing the locations.
Local ceramic artist Matthew Porter of Puca Pottery worked with Rebecca Strain and the community to produce tiles illustrating native flora around the community garden so this was an opportunity to unveil the tiles. Hannah Tucker’s solo exhibition ‘Paper Wave’, consisting of collage works, was on show in the Saldanha Gallery. Hannah invited the public to engage with her creative process by making free collage packs for visitors.
Twenty Artlink members produced a beautiful publication based on their work for “Drawn From Borders”, shown at the Virtual Saldanha Gallery in 2020. Four of these artists were selected by writer and curator Garrett Carr to develop new work for an exhibition at the Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny in January 2022. Selected artists were announced at Culture Night.
Over the winter, over 50 people took part in online drawing workshops with artist Elaine McGinn as part of #LovetoDraw, a collaboration with Creative Lives. The project took place in Donegal, Carlow and Cork and a series of 60 postcards were produced from the drawings by participants across the three sites.
Artist in Residence Sarah Duffy hosted an open studio with audio demonstrations throughout the course of the event.
- September 18, 2021
