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Patrick Murphy on Life Vividly Lived, Pt. 2
We're honoured to have Patrick Murphy -- Director of the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin -- co-curate our second artists' residency, Life Vividly Lived, Pt. 2. Here he is to share his thoughts on it.
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Poem by David Farrell
A poem kindly contributed by photographer David Farrell, who we were privileged to have stay on our island last month, as part of our Artists' Residency 2010.
Back in the shoebox, daily
I resist the temptation
Of visiting the webcam
Hoping to catch
My ghostly presence
On a hat-shaped island
Somewhere in the west
Where the wind still blows through my silvery hair
And the last Swallow of summer falls from a blood red sky.
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An Introduction to Life Vividly Lived, Pt. 2
Here's an introduction to Life Vividly Lived, Pt. 2 -- our second annual Artists' Residency -- from Chief Islander, Nadim Sadek.
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Busy Times
Nadim Sadek, Chief Islander:
- "Our 2010 Artists' Residency was great; they lived on the island and did wonderful things. For a flavour of the work and the time we had, please go here.
- I’m final-proofing our Brilliant Irish Flute book today, and then it goes to press along with our great two CDs. I’m afraid our pre-order system collapsed (thanks for the enthusiasm!), so may I ask you please, if you do wish to pre-order a copy, to let us know again by writing to music@inishturkbeg.com. Our website now also has a lovely section on the music, and will keep enlarging with videos and photos of the sessions. Click here to visit.
- Our whiskey bottle has been produced. It was hard. We’ve broken moulds, literally. Each beautiful bottle is hand-blown, and includes a bit of our beach in every bottle. Whiskey news will be announced shortly, including the chance to pre-order our first ever bottling – it’s known as ‘Maiden Voyage’ and there will be only 2,888 bottles produced, so apart from being fabulous, it’s also a collector’s item. It’s a delicious single-malt, using island water and made in barrels that have rested on the island soaking up our atmosphere (and the art and music that’s passed by on some days!). Click here to see the start of our whiskey story."
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Artists Week 2009
In September 2009, Inish Turk Beg, a private island off the West Coast of Ireland held its first annual Inish Turk Beg Artists Week.
Pieces created from this unique experience are on display in February 2010 in London's Flowers Gallery and one piece from each artist has been donated to the island for future visitors to enjoy.
The artists selected for the inaugural Inish Turk Beg Artists week were Nicola Hicks, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Kay Harwood, Shoichi Sakurai, Peter Jaques, Laura Brennan and Darren Edwards.
The artists were each chosen for their experience and skill with different media and their instinctive relationship with the environment. They were invited to spend a week living on Inish Turk Beg in what is hoped to become an important event in the art calendar. They each created a piece of work in response to this incredible environment, communicating the island’s unique creative energy and philosophy of Life Vividly Lived.
Inish Turk Beg is situated in Clew Bay, County Mayo, a remarkably beautiful part of Ireland on its wild and rugged West coast. A fascination with islands led owner, Nadim Sadek, to wish to share the beauty of Inish Turk Beg and the island is now available for rental for those who want to enjoy its special energy which they claim delivers a real "lungful of life".
The event was co-ordinated by Jim Edwards of the Michael Hoppen Gallery and Sara Johnson, managing director of Inish Turk Beg.
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Scarlett Hooft Graafland
Scarlett was resident at our inaugural Artists Week in September 2009.
Take a look at some of her work Scarlett here. To see more of her work, come to the Life Vividly Lived, Pt. 1 exhibition tomorrow.
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Calling all London art lovers!
Come along to our exhibition next week:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281286841900&index=1.
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2009 Residency: Laura Brennan
Laura’s work explores how industrialized society’s relation to the natural world is no longer balanced, and recent paintings have focused on the human psychic relation to that world and its landscapes. Her paintings are also an attempt to discover what paint can do, and use paint as the vehicle to manifest this subconscious connection: a parallel journey into unknown territory.
"Inish Turk Beg provides a remarkable vantage point from which to view Clew Bay, which is populated by scores of other small islands shaped like hump-backed whales. These islands are glacial landforms evocatively termed drumlin swarms (from the Irish "druim", meaning mound); or better still, a "basket of eggs topography".
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2009 Residency: Nicola Hicks
Nicola Hicks is one of the foremost sculptors of her generation. Born in London in 1960, she studied at Chelsea School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. Hicks has been honoured with an MBE for her contribution to the visual arts, and works primarily in plaster and straw, as well as huge sheets of brown paper on which she works up her dynamic charcoal drawings. Many of her sculptures have been cast in bronze, often with such subtlety that every fragile detail of plaster and straw is reproduced.
"Out of the blue, via a friend of a friend, a chap I'd never met called and asked if I would like to come to Ireland. Odd really: nobody has my number and I don't answer the phone anyway, but there was something about Jim -- and something about his wild enthusiasm for this project -- that made me listen. Nothing about him and his plan put me off. The more I listened, the more I thought, "why not?"
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