Visual Art / Other

BABORÓ 2017 AT NUI GALWAY

BABORÓ Visual Art Exhibition at NUI Galway's, O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance

A World of Colour:  The Art of Beatrice Alemagna and Chris Haughton

http://www.baboro.ie/festival/programme/a-world-of-colour

Curated by Sarah Webb

Supported by dlr Lexicon

Activity sheet available for families and schools

A true feast for the eyes, this exhibition brings together two of the most exciting illustrators working in children’s books today, Beatrice Alemagna and Chris Haughton. Enter their world of the imagination, featuring art work from their award-winning picture books. Both are masters of composition and colour, and their work is lively and full of humour.

Beatrice Alemagna was born in Bologna and now works and lives in Paris. Her work has won many international awards and she has exhibited all over the world, from Munich to Tokyo.  Her most recent picturebook is On a Magical Do Nothing Day.

Chris Haughton is an Irish designer and a picture book maker. His first picture, A Bit Lost has been translated into 20 languages and has won awards in 7 countries including the Dutch Picture Book of the Year. He co-founded NODE, a fair trade social business based in Nepal in 2012. His latest picturebook is Goodnight Everyone.

Sarah Webb is an award winning children’s book champion, writer and arts programmer. She put together this exhibition during her year as dlr Writer in Residence 2016-2017. It was first displayed at the dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire. www.sarahwebb.ie

 With thanks to Marian Keyes, dlr Lexicon for her support.

 Dates & Times:

• Mon 16 October 9.30 to 5.30
• Tue 17 October 9.30 to 5.30
• Wed 18 October 9.30 to 5.30
• Thu 19 October 9.30 to 5.30
• Fri 20 October 9.30 to 5.30
• Sat 21 October 9.30 to 5.30
• Sun 22 October 9.30 to 5.30

• Venue: O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, NUI Galway

Full Baboró festival programme at: http://www.baboro.ie/festival/programme

Other Baboró events on campus:

Performance:http://www.baboro.ie/festival/programme/close-cerca          http://www.baboro.ie/festival/programme/we-come-from-far-far-away

Creative Connections: http://www.baboro.ie/festival/programme/creative-connections-imagination-playground

and Child and Adult Dance & Movement workshop: http://www.baboro.ie/festival/programme/family-dance-movement-workshop

Past exhibits at NUI Galway's Staff Club

In association with the Burren College of Art: 

Timothy Emlyn Jones: Without Impatience 

May 31 until September 29, 2017  

 Timothy Emlyn Jones is a Welsh-Irish artist who has been associated with NUI Galway since 2003 when he became Dean of Academic Affairs—and subsequently Dean of Possibilities—at Burren College of Art, when he developed the Creative Difference modules that are widely available to postgraduate students at the university.  He has exhibited in the university art gallery and is represented in the university art collection, notably with The Idea of The Rain, on the glass bridge at the IT building, which was  commissioned for the university’s annual arts festival, Múscailt, in 2008.  His drawing Maesta is on long-term loan to the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at NUI Galway.

The drawings in the Staff Club explore equanimity, and how direct experience informing action can transform consciousness.  These reflective drawings are based on the Burren coast, notably at the Flaggy Shore and Murrooghtoohy. 

In association with the Burren College of Art:

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Ruby Wallis: Contact II until May 27, 2017

Ruby Wallis investigates photography’s potential to convey sensory experience to the viewer. Drawing on Lauren Elkin’s (2016) re-evaluation of women as wanderers, Wallis collaborated with her mother in this series, spending a period of time walking in the West of Ireland.  These images focus on the figure in contact with the environment.  Instead of adopting the traditional distant view, Wallis uses the photographic close up to highlight tactile surfaces and substances, natural or synthetic, organic or structured.

The works can be viewed Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm at the Staff Club which is located in the Quadrangle Building until May 27, 2017.

https://www.burrencollege.ie/

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