STAC Podcast

In Hypercarbon, Austin McQuinn uses a range of carbon-based materials including Chinese Ink, bog oak, bog deal, packing paper, quartz, bees wax and his own body to make new work for this exhibition in Thurles. The intense energy in the work expresses a hypersensitivity to these materials, forging connections between the molecular and the cosmological. This is Austin’s first solo exhibition in Tipperary, where he lives and works, and was specially commissioned by The Source Arts Centre, Thurles.

Artist and writer Austin McQuinn has exhibited widely with solo shows at DCP, San Francisco; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, and three solo exhibitions at Project, Dublin. His work is held in public and private collections in Ireland, UK and USA. His upcoming book, titled ‘Becoming Audible: Sounding Animality in Performance’, will be published by Penn State University Press in Spring, 2021. He lives and works on Slievenamon, in South Tipperary.
Exhibition commences Saturday 12 September and runs until Saturday 17 October, 2020.
Official launch 2 p.m. on Saturday 12 September.
 
Gallery Opening Hours:
10am to 5pm from Tuesday to Friday
2pm to 5pm on Saturdays
For further info:
www.austinmcquinn.com
https://www.thesourceartscentre.ie
More on 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire - Animals & Imagination
http://gallery.limerick.ie
Due in 2021: Penn State University Press: Book Publication
Austin McQuinn – ‘Becoming Audible: Sounding Animality in Performance’.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08796-2.html
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This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

This will be the first in a new series of the SouthTipp Arts Podcast and fits in beautifully with the reopening of South tipp arts centre.
This first episode focuses on our reopening exhibition, Protectorate by Photographer Denis Mortell.
Using the phenomenon of Brexit as a starting point, the exhibition considers themes such as Britishness, cultural difference, and social and political history. It looks at how myth and myth making, memory and place form part of national identity and community.
While some images reflect on borders, borderlands and territory; a puritan approach to food and the ironies of daily life are also commented on. The viewer is asked to consider what is really being protected and why. How much is real, how much is myth?
In this episode i caught up with Denis during the installation of protectorate, and also managed to have a chat with curator and art historian Catherine Marshall
As it has not been possible to have a public opening, we have released a short film on our youtube channel featuring some of Denis work and hearing the man himself explain his motivations and creative process. (link below)
Photographer Denis Mortell and Curator Catherine Marshall take a tour through the gallery and discuss the images that make up Denis' exhibition 'Protectorate' - this guide is available to visitors to South Tipp Arts Centre as a QR code that can be accessed with a mobile device in the gallery, and provides an insight into the artists motivations and inspirations for this body of work.
The exhibition runs from July 30th to August 22nd, 2020.
For further info email [email protected]
Denis Mortell @South Tipperary Arts Centre
https://youtu.be/BL7u00ejkXA
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This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

Clonmel Junction Arts Festival started almost 20 years ago as a celebration of touring theatre and live music. Over the years, it has grown into a week-long arts festival where national and international acts share a stage with some of the best local talent.
Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, one of the key arts events of the summer in the South-East, is currently underway – but in a re-worked and re-imagined fashion. With a theme of 2020:Visionaries, the festival will bring its audience a host of events from 4th – 12th July that are taking place in a virtual context, as well as a series of visual arts events in the town itself.
I had the opportunity to chat with some of the large team of people who are making it all happen, from the festival hub/studio in O’Connell St, who shared with me some of their personal highlights and the challenges of adapting to the new circumstances.
A huge thanks to Elizabeth Bartley, James O'Donovan, Alan McCormack, Eoin Barry & Colin Everitt for sharing their valuable
time. Please support their hard work by visiting www.junctionfestival.com and/or following the festival through their social media channels, bookings can be made for events through https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/clonmel-junction-arts-festival-19982185981
#2020Visionaries #CJAF20 #RaisingSpirits
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This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

This week we were delighted to catch up with Fiona Kearney, Director of the Glucksman Gallery at UCC, who have been playing a blinder throughout the lockdown period, with initiatives like their 'Creativity at Home' project, 'Home from Home' - a reworking of a planned gallery exhibition, and their Billboard exhibition 'New Light' - presented in a series of exploratory walks around the city.
http://www.glucksman.org
Fiona Kearney is the founding Director of the Glucksman, a contemporary art museum that promotes ambitious art for all ages and abilities. In this position, she has curated numerous exhibitions of Irish and international art, with a particular emphasis on how contemporary art practice relates to research directions within University College Cork.
You can get in touch via email: [email protected]
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@GlucksmanGalleryUCC @SouthTippArtsCentre
This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

This week Helena and Eimear chat to Tom Creed, opera/theatre director about the National Campaign for the Arts #savethearts campaign. Through their years of hard work (NCFA was established in 2009) they have lobbied on behalf of the arts in Ireland and in recent weeks have secured an unprecedented commitment from government to help #savethearts. We can each play our part in amplifying the message by visiting http://ncfa.ie
and informing ourselves about things we can do to help.
“The National Campaign for the Arts is a volunteer-led, grassroots movement that makes the case for the arts in Ireland. We work to ensure that the arts are on local and national government agendas and are recognised as a vital part of contemporary Irish life.”
NCFA website
#savethearts #NCFA #southtipparts #cuppaculture #southtippartspodcast
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This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

Be Creative Clonmel is a project designed by Clonmel artists Niamh Curry and Kevin Power who have put together a series of short video tutorials suitable for budding creatives of all ages. The sessions will bring you through Abstract Art, Portrait Drawing and Video & Photography for mobile phones. They invite the people of Clonmel to participate and to share their masterpieces with us all in a pop up gallery in shop windows around the town, painting the town with colour for this years Clonmel Junction Arts Festival in July.
Submissions can be sent to [email protected]
Watch the tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0kpivq6BKQFcYO1li1pFA/featured
and for further information visit http://www.junctionfestival.com
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This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people. This year, Cruinniú - now in it's 3rd year will be a completely digital festival with a myriad of online events taking place throughout the country on Saturday 13th June.
This week Roisin O'Grady, Tipperary's Cruinniú na nÓg Co-Ordinator joined us for a cuppa culture to talk about the changes to the festival this year, and the many free events and ways to connect with them. It's fair to say that this year, more than ever, the arts need our support, and the projects here in Tipperary vary across a wide range of creative activities. There's sure to be something to suit every age and interest. Visit the Cruinniú website and start planning your day now!
https://cruinniu.creativeireland.gov.ie/events
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Welcome to the latest episode of the Cuppa Culture from South Tipp Arts Podcast! We were delighted this week to be joined by Sculptor James Horan, who some of you might remember from “Sticks and Stones” and exhibition at South Tipp Arts Centre in 2017, which saw James and fellow sculptor Denis Lynch share the space to great effect. You can have a look back at that exhibition here:
https://youtu.be/3i-1fh7GpMg
But during the lockdown, James has begun to explore paint as a medium, and we caught up with him to see how he’s been getting on.
If you’d like to follow see more of James’ paintings, head over to his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshoransculpture
You can also visit his website: http://www.jameshoransculpture.com
or visit him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/jameshoransculpture
If you'd like to get in touch, email us at [email protected]
This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

This week we take the opportunity to have a virtual cuppa with our friend Cliona Maher, Director of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival. This year the Junction team have taken the decision not to cancel the festival, but rather to adapt and adjust the festival programme to suit the current restrictions that we all find ourselves under. This years Junction festival promises again to showcase the best of local and international talent, albeit in different ways. We can't wait for it!
Visit http://www.junctionfestival.com for details of what's coming up this year, and subscribe to their newsletter to keep up to date.
If you'd like to contact the podcast, or would like to join us for a Cuppa Culture, drop us a line to [email protected] . Thanks for listening :)
This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

On this week’s Cuppa Culture we finally get to have a chat with Brazil based illustrator Róisín Hahessy, from Clonmel. After the Skype gremlins thwarted our last attempt, we were keen to catch up with Róisín and see how she was getting along...
If you'd like to see Roisin's work, you can find her at any of these links:
https://rosha.ie
https://www.instagram.com/roshaillustration
https://m.facebook.com/roshaillustration
https://www.boredpanda.com/english-idioms-illustrations-roisin-hahessy
Contact the podcast: [email protected]
This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020