About this Event
The Tea House is excited to launch its first Sharing Session led by artist Sinéad Lucey. Sharing Sessions are a new series of informal, artist-led workshops aimed at creating space for artists to gather, connect, and explore practice in a supportive and shared setting. Each session is guided by an artist, introducing an important approach, skill and research in their own creative process. As a group we will explore different ways of working and use this opportunity to talk about our own work collectively.
This session will focus on observational drawing as a democratic tool, a means of expanding perception beyond the symbolic. In the words of John Lessore, “I regard the instant of translation from three-dimensional subject to two dimensional surface as being that in which all decisions vital to one’s personal realisation are made; and I am unable to relinquish these to someone or to something else”.
We encourage practitioners from all disciplines and research interests to attend. These sessions are a response to the lack of opportunity for artists to share work and to collectively connect with one another.
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Sinéad Lucey approaches the primed painting surface as a space for exploring transitions between planes of lived experience; the observed, the imagined, the factual and the subjective. Themes include landscape, journeys, the human figure and the studio. She is interested in the porosity of different modes of perception and in the possibilities of slippage of pictorial elements between them. Various gestural and conceptual strategies are used as a means of subverting dominant ways of seeing, including those relating to Art itself.
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We are committed to creating a safe space for everyone involved to take part equally. The space is fully wheelchair accessible. If anyone has any further access needs for this event please don't hesitate to get in touch with Rachel Botha at [email protected].
We kindly suggest a small donation to participate; however, please feel free to join even if you are unable to contribute. All donations support the Tea House programme.
The Tea House project is proudly initiated by the Kilkenny Arts Office and programmed by Rachel Botha.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tea Houses, 1 Bateman Quay, Kilkenny, Ireland
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