artist in residence
General Information
Cake awards two, 2-8 week residencies annually. The two residencies are open to both Irish and international artists. These residencies offer a valuable support structure for emerging and mid career artists and features critically engaging contemporary work to the community. Successful applicants are responsible for obtaining sufficient funding to cover all costs relating to the residency ( e.g. travel, materials, local transport and living expenses).Artists are welcome to visit the space prior to making an application.
Programme Dates
The 2010 Artist in Residence Programme runs from June until August.
Application Submission Date
Applications for the 2010 residencies are due 31st March, 2010.
Eligibility
Applications are open to visual artists working in any medium. Residencies are open to both Irish and international artists.
Required Information
Artists must submit a brief :
The brief can be based around any medium, drawing, painting, sculpture, time based art, photography, installation etc (but the space available is indoor only)
The brief must be 1 side of A4 only
it must demonstrate the artists ability to achieve one or more of the following:
provide the artist the opportunity to research and develop their work practice
enable the artist to investigate and explore new ways of working
encourage the artist to cultivate and develop new ideas
complete a body of work currently underway
It must also:
state the benefits to them of acquiring a space in this particular space
include a current artists CV, (1 side A4 only) include two referees, personal and professional
Artist Statement
List of images. Include title, year, medium & dimensions.
Maximum 10 still images: Photographs, laser prints or CD (When sending a CD images must be j-peg, tiff or pdf files, no larger than 1600 x 1200 pixels)/Up to 10 minutes of DVD (Can also be in QuickTime or windows media player format).
Decisions
A selection panel will review the submissions and make its decision solely on the information provided. The panel includes the committee, practicing artists and other arts professionals.
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Cake contemporary arts is pleased to present
It went like this...
Kevin Kirwan
curated by Rayne Booth.
Kevin Kirwan’s work is driven by serendipitous moments and events. Kirwan uses the materials, situations and ideas that he comes across in everyday life and subverts or embellishes them to draw attention to a wider truth. His work is predominantly lens based.
In May 2011 Kevin Kirwan participated in a residency at Cake contemporary arts. During this time he stayed with U.N. Veterans at the military base and worked in the studio of Cake Contemporary arts, which is located in the base.
For security reasons, photography or sketch making is not permitted within the boundaries of the Curragh Camp. The exhibition that has arisen from the residency and was made within the unusual parameters and restrictions of the military base.
Using found footage and images from his own archive, Kirwan attempts to circumvent the problem of being an image maker in an environment where image making is forbidden. The footage from popular cinema, which Kirwan has appropriated for his own use, could reflect the context of the surrounding area, but it also contains its own its own strong narrative and history.
For It Went Like This, Kirwan has appropriated the two clips of Stanley Kubrick’s footage and reunited them in a twenty one second loop to make the work You Look Back And It's Straightforward. In filming the opening scene for The Shining, Kubrick reached into the future; the future of two years later when Blade Runner was released, and also the more distant fictional future of 2019 when Blade Runner is set.
In Kirwans mind this process mirrors his experience of making this exhibition. As well as this, the footage reflects not only the surrounding countryside; the camp like an island in the lake if the Curragh; but also Kirwan’s experience of apartness within the community of the military base. The strange dystopian world of Blade Runner, and the eerie isolation in The Shining, for Kirwan, find a commonality in the unfamiliarity of the setting and atmosphere of the camp. Likewise, the photographs were selected because they seem to reflect some elements of the landscape or atmosphere of the place.
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Kevin Kirwan is an artist based in Ireland he works in photography video and sculpture.
Curated by Rayne Booth
Rayne Booth is a curator who has worked independently and in connection with several organisations in Dublin. She currently works at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, where she has curated and project managed many group and solo exhibitions by Irish and international artsits. She is also on the curatorial panel of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, and in this capacity she works with a group of curators to devise the gallery programme. She has worked as gallery co ordinator at the National College of Art and Design Gallery and was a founder member of Monster Truck Gallery and Studios, an artist run initiative which has now become an important part of the contemporary art landscape in Ireland. She has curated many independent projects both by herself and with co curator Alan Butler. Her curatorial interests include alternative space and artist initiated groups, and the influence of new technologies on contemporary life and art practice.
The opening reception is on Friday, June 24th and runs to 29th July 2011.
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Reflection on residency at CAKE July 2012 – Davina Kirkpatrick
The residency moved me out of my comfort zone – being in a different environment caused physical, emotional and mental shifts and gave me space to look differently at issues of absence and loss
It allowed time to be playful without an end point and gave me time to let each idea unfold with breathing space, to develop or not through the process of doing and playing
I purposefully brought a limited range of materials with me and this helped set choice and process boundaries.
It gave me time to experiment with cyanotype and explore combinations of cyanotype, drawing and collage.
The happenstance gathering of imagery from museum visits in Dublin combined with an object I had chosen to bring with me caused a different juxtaposition of images and ideas.
I feel the initial playfulness I allowed myself in the studio will inform future work, the ideas I started to develop I will continue to work with particularly the potency of the vacant circle contained within the reliquaries I photographed in the Museum of Decorative Art.
I wrote copious notes for taking these ideas further into other materials and processes that I can explore once back at the University Of the West of England on my practice based PhD
Opportunities to attend IMMA seminar and talks on Art and Science
Lived experience of arts scene in Ireland by visiting gallery spaces and exhibitions in Carlow, Limerick and Dublin.
Time to explore ideas for further links between UWE and CAKE, possible exhibition in 2013
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Maybe I needed this strangeness, this emptiness, this sojourn in suburbia to start to make some work about loss; specifically the loss of my partner because maybe the scaffolding of order and routine and friends and distractions allows me to evade the hopelessness, the freefall, the loss of illusory control. Kirkpatrick (2012) 5-14 July.
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Davina Kirkpatrick is an artist who works with arts based and qualitative research methodologies.
More information: davinak.co.uk