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As a contemporary art project unfolding narratives considers both the visible and the hidden narratives of Dundrum as a place.

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4th – 22nd Nov 2011 Dundrum, Co. Dublin Where and When Dundrum Open Submission Esther Breslin | Fiona Hallinan Exhibition opens to the public David Lunney | Laura Macauley from Friday 4th to Tuesday 22nd Conor McGarrigle | Eoin O’Connor November 2011 inclusive. Bláithín Quinn | Deirdre Morrissey + Catherine Ryan County Council Offices Dundrum Office Park, Main Street Monday – Friday: 9.30am – 12.30pm Curated by 1.30pm – 4.30pm Annette Moloney + Maeve Mulrennan Saturday: 1.00pm – 5.00pm Dundrum Library Upper Churchtown Road unfold ng Monday / Friday / Saturday: 10.00am – 1.00pm 2.00pm – 5.00pm Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday: 10.00am – 8.00pm Mill Theatre Dundrum Town Centre Monday – Saturday: 10.00am – 5.30pm Rosemount Family Resource Centre 3 Waldemar Terrace, Main Street narrat ves Dundrum Open Submission Exhibition 2011 Fiona Hallinan’s audio piece will be available to hear outside this location Monday – Saturday: 10.00am – 8.00pm Accompanying documentation may be viewed Monday – Thursday: 9.30am – 5.30pm Exhibition Venues Friday: 9.30am – 1pm County Council Offices Dundrum Library Access Public Events and Key Dates Mill Theatre Admission to the Exhibition and all A number of free tours and events are Rosemount Family Resource Centre accompanying events is free. planned as part of the exhibition. For full details please visit www.dlrcoco. Dundrum County Council Offices and ie/arts The Mill Theatre are fully accessible to those who are mobility impaired. Find out more Further information TEL: (01) 271 9529 There is access to the adult library EMAiL: cking@dlrcoco.ie downstairs in Dundrum Library. WEB: www.dlrcoco.ie/arts R.C.D.G.
Introduction Curators’ Introduction Venue Locations Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County As a contemporary art project Council is delighted to present the unfolding narratives considers both the Dundrum Open Submission Exhibition visible and the hidden narratives of 2011. This is the first exhibition that Dundrum as a place. The title refers has been programmed in a variety of to an ever-changing social context, for spaces around Dundrum town and we Dundrum and beyond. are pleased to see such a broad range in working with the dlr Arts Office of artistic practice represented. and with nine artists we are inviting The County Council is committed the public to explore Dundrum’s vision to encouraging opportunities for of and for itself. in many ways our artists from the County to create perceptions of place may be rooted to and showcase work. The work of a particular space and time; however nine artists is represented in this time moves on and alters this view. As exhibition; three through direct citizens we are constantly shifting and commissions and six by way of open adjusting to different contexts, be they submission selection. The County personal, social, historical, political Council is delighted to have worked and environmental. with curators Annette Moloney and Working across a number of Maeve Mulrennan on this exhibition; diverse locations in Dundrum the they have brought significant exhibition includes new art projects expertise to this. by artists who are living in, working There will be a number of free in or originally from Dún Laoghaire- tours and talks to complement the Rathdown, including artists from exhibition and i hope that you will Dundrum itself. avail of these opportunities. As a common thread all the works i would like to congratulate both consider ideas of identity, belonging the curators and the artists on the and change and each artist’s practice interesting and impressive work we is a unique and engaging investigation see in the various venues. The artists into contemporary life in Dundrum and have all responded in individual and its wider context. unique ways to the context of Dundrum As curators we would like to and it’s environment and we hope that acknowledge the myriad of people you enjoy this exhibition of work by who have collaborated with us on artists from the County. the development of unfolding narratives. in particular a note of An Cathaoirleach appreciation to the artists for their Councillor John Bailey openness in exploring the creative 1. Dundrum Library 3. County Council Offices October 2011 possibilities of the project, along with Upper Churchtown Road Dundrum Office Park, Main Street the usual logistics, and to the many citizens of Dundrum who contributed 2. Rosemount Family Resource Centre 4. Mill Theatre to their research. 3 Waldemar Terrace, Main Street Dundrum Town Centre
Artists Open Submission Projects Esther Breslin Vestiges of a Village Deirdre Morrissey + Catherine Ryan Eoin O’Connor Uniformed Plane The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre Closing Time – Indoor Picnic Event The Mill Theatre, The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre Dundrum Town Centre At a time when Dundrum is known mostly for its modern commercial Saturday 19th Nov 2011 Eoin’s paintings, in this series, explore facilities Esther is uncovering the 2 – 4pm & All are Welcome the notion of Dundrum as a navigation narrative of a previous time, when point and as an emerging hub in the Dundrum had village status. The artists invite the public to join suburbs of Dublin. them for an informal discussion on the Through her etchings she aims to Dundrum Open Submission Exhibition. Focussing on the structures and reveal and preserve some original architecture devised to help people architectural features which thus far The event will take the shape of move from place to place, the works remain and which give Dundrum its an Afternoon Tea with cakes and aim to highlight the new directions individual character. David Lunney 53.264158, -6.256239 sandwiches sourced locally. and convergences that Dundrum The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre has now developed. and the south Dublin hills Catherine and Deirdre will act as facilitators for this event encouraging David’s work attempts to use conversation between the public, the physical objects in conjunction with artists and the curators. the internet as a means of exploring the physical landscape. This event is designed as an alternative to the usual artist-curators The construction of sculptures in the talk and aims to invite key people from hills surrounding Dún Laoghaire– Dundrum who have informed the artists’ Rathdown serves as a stimulus for research along with fellow practitioners imagery and artworks directly whose work presents cultural and inspired by them. historical connections to the unfolding Laura Macauley As It Was Then narratives project. The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre Laura has taken J. Nolan’s publication The Changing Face of Dundrum (1981) as a starting point for a series of screenprints, which explore popular childhood games from a by-gone era. The prints invite the public to step back into the life and the imagination of a typical Dundrum child growing up in 1930’s Southside Dublin.
Artists Commissions About the Curators Fiona Hallinan Getting Purchase Conor McGarrigle Walking Stories Bláithín Quinn / Transcolonia Annette Moloney is a curator and Rosemount Family Resource Centre Dundrum Library ByPass collaborator based in Limerick. Her & Environs of Dundrum Dundrum County Council Offices curatorial practice includes exhibitions, Looking specifically at Dundrum, critical writing, talks, artist’s Getting Purchase explores the idea of Walking Stories is a Soundwalk through Through ByPass Bláithín exposes professional development projects and attachment to place. Dundrum town guided by a free some of the forgotten, overlooked and public art commissions. location-aware smartphone app. abandoned spaces in Dundrum. How is Dundrum ‘branded’ to locals She is interested in how social change and to outsiders? Walking Stories asks what it is that This site-specific artwork highlights is reflected in contemporary arts connects us to the spaces in which we the excess of vacant, yet inaccessible practice, while also remaining aware of What makes Dundrum unique to you? live and work and invites us to share in commercial space on the Main Street. the role of audience and public(s). She the personal memories that create a remains curious about the development The project was developed by the artist place. ByPass is revealed in the Dundrum of alternative art spaces and how with attendees at the Rosemount Family County Council Offices. contemporary art engages with slack Resource Centre in Dundrum town. Starting at Dundrum Library the spaces within society. soundwalk unfolds in Dundrum town, The room used to display the work is An audio piece is projected from leading participants on a narrative trail often used for public consultations on More than anything she tries to retain a window in the town with an recounting the personal stories which future plans for Dundrum. an artist centred and idea centred accompanying installation documenting connect people to specific locations. approach to her work. the artist’s meeting process with the Walking Stories reveals a virtual Perhaps this work will be a starting participants in the Rosemount Centre. world of memories, associations and point for a new local narrative about the connections that underpin a community. potential re-use of these urban voids for Maeve Mulrennan is the Visual Arts the community, the arts and for culture? Officer in Galway Arts Centre. She A printed map will also be available also lectures in Visual Arts Policy in from the library with the walk locations. Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUi Galway. She is a founding member of Live @ 8 and Chairperson of Tulca Festival of Visual Art in Galway. Maeve graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD) with a Degree in Fine Art Painting. She has received a H.Dip in Arts Administration from NUi Galway and an MA in Visual Arts Practices from iADT. All images courtesy of the artists

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Dundrum Open 2011 Unfolding Narratives Exhibition Leaflet

  • 1. 4th – 22nd Nov 2011 Dundrum, Co. Dublin Where and When Dundrum Open Submission Esther Breslin | Fiona Hallinan Exhibition opens to the public David Lunney | Laura Macauley from Friday 4th to Tuesday 22nd Conor McGarrigle | Eoin O’Connor November 2011 inclusive. Bláithín Quinn | Deirdre Morrissey + Catherine Ryan County Council Offices Dundrum Office Park, Main Street Monday – Friday: 9.30am – 12.30pm Curated by 1.30pm – 4.30pm Annette Moloney + Maeve Mulrennan Saturday: 1.00pm – 5.00pm Dundrum Library Upper Churchtown Road unfold ng Monday / Friday / Saturday: 10.00am – 1.00pm 2.00pm – 5.00pm Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday: 10.00am – 8.00pm Mill Theatre Dundrum Town Centre Monday – Saturday: 10.00am – 5.30pm Rosemount Family Resource Centre 3 Waldemar Terrace, Main Street narrat ves Dundrum Open Submission Exhibition 2011 Fiona Hallinan’s audio piece will be available to hear outside this location Monday – Saturday: 10.00am – 8.00pm Accompanying documentation may be viewed Monday – Thursday: 9.30am – 5.30pm Exhibition Venues Friday: 9.30am – 1pm County Council Offices Dundrum Library Access Public Events and Key Dates Mill Theatre Admission to the Exhibition and all A number of free tours and events are Rosemount Family Resource Centre accompanying events is free. planned as part of the exhibition. For full details please visit www.dlrcoco. Dundrum County Council Offices and ie/arts The Mill Theatre are fully accessible to those who are mobility impaired. Find out more Further information TEL: (01) 271 9529 There is access to the adult library EMAiL: cking@dlrcoco.ie downstairs in Dundrum Library. WEB: www.dlrcoco.ie/arts R.C.D.G.
  • 2. Introduction Curators’ Introduction Venue Locations Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County As a contemporary art project Council is delighted to present the unfolding narratives considers both the Dundrum Open Submission Exhibition visible and the hidden narratives of 2011. This is the first exhibition that Dundrum as a place. The title refers has been programmed in a variety of to an ever-changing social context, for spaces around Dundrum town and we Dundrum and beyond. are pleased to see such a broad range in working with the dlr Arts Office of artistic practice represented. and with nine artists we are inviting The County Council is committed the public to explore Dundrum’s vision to encouraging opportunities for of and for itself. in many ways our artists from the County to create perceptions of place may be rooted to and showcase work. The work of a particular space and time; however nine artists is represented in this time moves on and alters this view. As exhibition; three through direct citizens we are constantly shifting and commissions and six by way of open adjusting to different contexts, be they submission selection. The County personal, social, historical, political Council is delighted to have worked and environmental. with curators Annette Moloney and Working across a number of Maeve Mulrennan on this exhibition; diverse locations in Dundrum the they have brought significant exhibition includes new art projects expertise to this. by artists who are living in, working There will be a number of free in or originally from Dún Laoghaire- tours and talks to complement the Rathdown, including artists from exhibition and i hope that you will Dundrum itself. avail of these opportunities. As a common thread all the works i would like to congratulate both consider ideas of identity, belonging the curators and the artists on the and change and each artist’s practice interesting and impressive work we is a unique and engaging investigation see in the various venues. The artists into contemporary life in Dundrum and have all responded in individual and its wider context. unique ways to the context of Dundrum As curators we would like to and it’s environment and we hope that acknowledge the myriad of people you enjoy this exhibition of work by who have collaborated with us on artists from the County. the development of unfolding narratives. in particular a note of An Cathaoirleach appreciation to the artists for their Councillor John Bailey openness in exploring the creative 1. Dundrum Library 3. County Council Offices October 2011 possibilities of the project, along with Upper Churchtown Road Dundrum Office Park, Main Street the usual logistics, and to the many citizens of Dundrum who contributed 2. Rosemount Family Resource Centre 4. Mill Theatre to their research. 3 Waldemar Terrace, Main Street Dundrum Town Centre
  • 3. Artists Open Submission Projects Esther Breslin Vestiges of a Village Deirdre Morrissey + Catherine Ryan Eoin O’Connor Uniformed Plane The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre Closing Time – Indoor Picnic Event The Mill Theatre, The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre Dundrum Town Centre At a time when Dundrum is known mostly for its modern commercial Saturday 19th Nov 2011 Eoin’s paintings, in this series, explore facilities Esther is uncovering the 2 – 4pm & All are Welcome the notion of Dundrum as a navigation narrative of a previous time, when point and as an emerging hub in the Dundrum had village status. The artists invite the public to join suburbs of Dublin. them for an informal discussion on the Through her etchings she aims to Dundrum Open Submission Exhibition. Focussing on the structures and reveal and preserve some original architecture devised to help people architectural features which thus far The event will take the shape of move from place to place, the works remain and which give Dundrum its an Afternoon Tea with cakes and aim to highlight the new directions individual character. David Lunney 53.264158, -6.256239 sandwiches sourced locally. and convergences that Dundrum The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre has now developed. and the south Dublin hills Catherine and Deirdre will act as facilitators for this event encouraging David’s work attempts to use conversation between the public, the physical objects in conjunction with artists and the curators. the internet as a means of exploring the physical landscape. This event is designed as an alternative to the usual artist-curators The construction of sculptures in the talk and aims to invite key people from hills surrounding Dún Laoghaire– Dundrum who have informed the artists’ Rathdown serves as a stimulus for research along with fellow practitioners imagery and artworks directly whose work presents cultural and inspired by them. historical connections to the unfolding Laura Macauley As It Was Then narratives project. The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre Laura has taken J. Nolan’s publication The Changing Face of Dundrum (1981) as a starting point for a series of screenprints, which explore popular childhood games from a by-gone era. The prints invite the public to step back into the life and the imagination of a typical Dundrum child growing up in 1930’s Southside Dublin.
  • 4. Artists Commissions About the Curators Fiona Hallinan Getting Purchase Conor McGarrigle Walking Stories Bláithín Quinn / Transcolonia Annette Moloney is a curator and Rosemount Family Resource Centre Dundrum Library ByPass collaborator based in Limerick. Her & Environs of Dundrum Dundrum County Council Offices curatorial practice includes exhibitions, Looking specifically at Dundrum, critical writing, talks, artist’s Getting Purchase explores the idea of Walking Stories is a Soundwalk through Through ByPass Bláithín exposes professional development projects and attachment to place. Dundrum town guided by a free some of the forgotten, overlooked and public art commissions. location-aware smartphone app. abandoned spaces in Dundrum. How is Dundrum ‘branded’ to locals She is interested in how social change and to outsiders? Walking Stories asks what it is that This site-specific artwork highlights is reflected in contemporary arts connects us to the spaces in which we the excess of vacant, yet inaccessible practice, while also remaining aware of What makes Dundrum unique to you? live and work and invites us to share in commercial space on the Main Street. the role of audience and public(s). She the personal memories that create a remains curious about the development The project was developed by the artist place. ByPass is revealed in the Dundrum of alternative art spaces and how with attendees at the Rosemount Family County Council Offices. contemporary art engages with slack Resource Centre in Dundrum town. Starting at Dundrum Library the spaces within society. soundwalk unfolds in Dundrum town, The room used to display the work is An audio piece is projected from leading participants on a narrative trail often used for public consultations on More than anything she tries to retain a window in the town with an recounting the personal stories which future plans for Dundrum. an artist centred and idea centred accompanying installation documenting connect people to specific locations. approach to her work. the artist’s meeting process with the Walking Stories reveals a virtual Perhaps this work will be a starting participants in the Rosemount Centre. world of memories, associations and point for a new local narrative about the connections that underpin a community. potential re-use of these urban voids for Maeve Mulrennan is the Visual Arts the community, the arts and for culture? Officer in Galway Arts Centre. She A printed map will also be available also lectures in Visual Arts Policy in from the library with the walk locations. Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUi Galway. She is a founding member of Live @ 8 and Chairperson of Tulca Festival of Visual Art in Galway. Maeve graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD) with a Degree in Fine Art Painting. She has received a H.Dip in Arts Administration from NUi Galway and an MA in Visual Arts Practices from iADT. All images courtesy of the artists