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professional development training for visual artists 2011
Culture Night Friday 23 September 2011 5 – 8.30 pm
The Gadfly
– a large time-based sculptural work: sixty feet of cowhide with bronze-cast movable parts by Anne Ffrench and Brian Harte. Live performance by
Wölflinge
sound/performance artist Vicky Langan. Alongside NSF studio artists. Drinks reception 5.30 – 6.30 pm www.nationalsculpturefactory.com
The National Sculpture Factory is committed to being an active and engaged resource for artists. We provide flexible studio spaces, fabrication and technical services, curatorial and project management support, talks and advice,workshops and residencies. In 2011, we have expanded the professional development workshops to include some free workshops on finance, tax and insurance matters as well as initiating workshops on social media skills and presentation skills. We have also included two master classes with artists Nigel Rolfe and Ingrid Murphy to provide opportunities for conceptual and practical creative engagement. Parallel to this series, we also have many creative projects in development including our participation in Culture Night, September 23 and a new collaboration with the Corona Cork Film Festival. Log onto www.nationalsculpturefactory.com for all details Hope to see you all in the NSF soon, Mary McCarthy Director
Writing the Artists’ Statement & CV Panel Discussion Professional Development Workshop & Crit Preparing Digital Images for Submission Insurance for Artists Tax Exemption for Artists
OCTOBER
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10.30 – 16.30 10.00 – 12.00 10.00 – 1.00 10.30 – 13.00 11.00 – 14.00 11.00 – 14.00
Masterclass – Performance Art
DECEMBER
Legal & Contractual Issues for Artists Peer Critique – Ceramics Online marketing
NOVEMBER
Thurs 1 December
Wed 23 November Fri 25 November Wed 30 November
10.30 – 16.30
10.30 – 16.30 10.30 – 16.30 10.30 – 16.30
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INSURANCE FOR ARTISTS Peter Kirwan & Alan O’Brien Friday 14 October 11.00 – 2.00 pm Venue: NSF Cork Places: 20 Free: booking required
Peter Kirwan & Alan O’Brien of McCarthy Insurance Group lead a workshop entitled Insurance For Artists at the National Sculpture Factory. It will provide practical advice on insurance options/requirements. Duration of the workshop – two hours with one-hour clinic afterwards for Q&A.
TAX EXEMPTION FOR ARTISTS Andrew Guerin Wednesday 26 October
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11.00 – 2.00 pm Venue: NSF Cork Places: 20 Free: booking required General outline on Tax Relief for Artists, who and what income qualifies for the relief, procedures in applying for tax exemption, timescale involved in obtaining Revenue approval, calculating relief for Artist Exemptions, VAT issues, PRSI, Income Levy and Social Insurance charges, Advance Revenue rulings and the €40,000 income limit introduced in the tax year 2011. Duration of the workshop – Two hours with a one-hour clinic afterwards for Q&A or follow on individual queries with Andrew Guerin. Participants may submit queries to elma@ nationalsculpturefactory.com related to their practise in advance of the workshop to be addressed by Andrew during the workshop.
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LEGAL & CONTRACTUAL ISSUES FOR ARTISTS Linda Scales & Patricia Clyne-Kelly Wednesday 23 November 10.30 – 4.00 pm Venue: NSF Cork Places: 10 €35 NSF members/€40 non-members
A Workshop on Key Professional Issues: Two Perspectives. Patricia Clyne-Kelly is an artist and freelance art project/ commissions/exhibitions consultant and curator and Linda Scales, solicitor and copyright specialist will facilitate this workshop, using complementary approaches. It will cover a range of topics, which will include artists’ contracts and commissions, essential copyright, and studio space issues. Patricia’s session will centre on practical scenarios and Linda on filling in the law around these. The subject matter will revolve around the areas they considered most important: contract, copyright and studio occupancy issues. These all spin off into other issues, which will be handled on
an ad hoc basis.
ONLINE MARKETING Mary Carty
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Wednesday 30 November 10.30 – 4.30 pm Venue: NSF Cork Places: 20 €5 NSF members/€10 non-members This session will guide you on how to build your profile, increase your network and promote your work online. By using social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Flickr effectively, you can grow your audience and position yourself as an expert in your field. Mary will use case studies and give a practical walk through to help you get the most from your time online.
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PREPARING DIGITAL IMAGES FOR SUBMISSION Mike Hannon Thursday 13 October 10.30 – 1.00 pm Venue: NSF Cork Places: 10 €25 NSF members/€30 non-members
Artists submitting photographs of their work often face what seems like a bewildering array of options regarding file formats, image sizes, dots per inch and compression levels. Mike Hannon, a visual art documenter and artist, explains the important differences between these variables, when to choose one over another, and how. The workshop will show participants how to prepare their images in the best way for common uses: online or postal submissions to institutions, galleries and residencies; print formats for catalogues and invites; and preparation for the web and
talks.
WRITING THE ARTISTS’ STATEMENT AND CV Kerry McCall
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Monday 3 October 10.30 – 4.30 pm Venue: Webworks, Eglinton Street, Cork Places: 15 €25 NSF members/€30 non-members As an artist much of your time will be spent making proposals and writing grant applications. Because funding bodies don’t have the capacity to interview everyone seeking funding, they need to get a picture of who you are very quickly. The CV aims to do this and can be augmented by a concise artist’s statement. This course is designed to give artists the know-how and understanding to write clearly articulated and comprehensive CVs and statements for a variety of situations including proposals for funding, proposals to galleries and job applications.
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PEER CRITIQUE – CERAMICS Ingrid Murphy Friday, 25 November 10.30 – 4.30 pm Venue: NSF, Cork Places: 10 €35 NSF members/€40 non-members
This workshop provides the opportunity to engage with professional development and identify new opportunities to extend and promote one’s own ceramic practice through focussed analysis and discussion of own and others' work. Artists are asked to bring CDs and/or original artworks/ drawings designs to show. Participants will present and discuss their own work and talk about their own career development during the workshop.
MASTERCLASS/WORKSHOP Nigel Rolfe Thursday, 1 December
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10.30 – 4.30 pm Venue: NSF Cork Places: 10 €45 NSF members/€50 non-members Small Fires (Part 2) As a development of the works with groups Working out/ Working In with live-work performance in spring this year, the proposal is to extend and focus the experience of making live works. Working for record or with others or for audience and examining three fundamental states of making live images. The Cold Eye: 1) For the Record... documentation, recording, the silent witness... drawing, noting, to camera, to video, sound: methodologies both technical and conceptual includes presenting images that stand in for live actions or that live working forms a fundamental part. "Relationship and Detour" (Marina Abramovic and Ulay): 2) Working in groups/working with others/Pairing up... working together or working against Concepts of the dynamic of co-relations and direct communication Pure Live: 3) Presenting a work live: Questions of the audience, tips, tricks and methodologies
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DISCUSSION PANEL Sarah O’Brien and Sibyl Montague Monday 10 October 10.00 – 12.00 pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, Crawford College of Art & Design Free: no booking required
An informal panel discussion covering issues concerned with maintaining and developing emerging practices. Sibyl Montague and Sarah O’Brien established a studio group in Cork in 2003 immediately after completing BA degrees at LSAD and CCAD respectively. This dialogue will chart their professional development from collaborative practice (VillaK, Cork 2005) to their subsequent move from Cork to pursue Masters Degrees at the NCAD, Dublin and Chelsea, London. In partnership with Crawford College of Art and Design and the Guesthouse.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP AND CRIT Sarah O’Brien and Sibyl Montague Tuesday 11 October
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10.00 – 1.00 pm Venue: Lecture Theatre, Crawford College of Art & Design Free: no booking required This course invites educators to interrogate teaching and learning methodologies and approaches. It is apparent that the art college context is a learning environment unlike that of other disciplines. How do we assess students when style and approach are so fundamentally arbitrary, individual and subjective? Do art students find the crit process helpful to ones practice and learning development? Are art students prepared for life as a professional artist outside of college? Do we need to investigate the idea of art school sitting within a broader learning context? This dialogue and workshop will culminate in a crit that students can opt to partake in. Sarah O’Brien and Sibyl Montague will facilitate these. In partnership with Crawford College of Art and Design and the Guesthouse.
TRAINERS’ BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS Mary Carty is a writer, curator and arts consultant. She is CEO of award winning online agency Spoiltchild. Mary previously held the position of County Arts Officer with Meath County Council. She is on the steering committee of Practice.ie and is founder of the first Irish ArtCamp, an unconference for creatives. Patricia Clyne-Kelly is an artist and freelance art project/commissions/exhibitions consultant and curator. Director/owner of Access to Arts and Clyne Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin and art consultant to Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland 2004-2011, she has completed MSc in Tourism Management specialising in Cultural Tourism. Andrew Guerin is a certified public accountant and also a member of the Institute of Taxation. He runs his own accounting and tax consultancy practise and has a particular interest in family and small businesses. He previously worked with Deloitte and Ernst & Young. He is principal of Andrew Guerin & Associates, which is based in Cork City. He has also lectured extensively to various bodies including business groups and accounting bodies. In addition, the firm have many clients in the artistic and cultural sector and the firm has considerable experience in this area. Mike Hannon is a freelance photographer and video documenter for creative sectors and the visual arts. He has worked as an architectural photographer for Murray Ó Laoire Architects. He is also a video artist and filmmaker. His work has been screened at various galleries, film festivals and on national TV. Peter Kirwan & Alan O’Brien. Wtih a keen personal interest in the arts, Peter Kirwan of the McCarthy Insurance Group identified the arts as a sector not well catered for within the insurance industry. Having discussed the merits of providing an exclusive scheme to cater for the arts with Aviva Insurance Company, M.I.G. developed a number of products for visual artists, production companies,
dance companies, theatres & arts centres. Over the past number of years Peter, with his colleague Alan O’Brien, has identified a number of alternative insurers, with Aviva who have an appetite for providing cover to those involved in the arts industry. McCarthy Insurance Group, founded in 1952, is one of Ireland’s largest independent insurance brokers. Kerry McCall has been engaged in the professional development programme with the VAI and NSF for the last number of years. Kerry is a lecturer in Arts Management in the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Her research area is in Cultural Event Management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has completed an MSc in International Event Management in Glasgow Caledonian University. Previously Director of The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland (now Visual Artists Ireland), Kerry has also been involved in Printed Project, the VAI’s critical journal for contemporary thought. Kerry continues to be actively engaged with current arts practice at a research and consultancy level. Sibyl Montague was born in Ireland. She completed her BFA at Limerick School of Art and Design (2003) and an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London (2011). Recent exhibitions include: Notes of Protest, Gdansk, Poland (2010), RE-Animate, Oriel Davies Open, Wales, UK (2010) George Polke, London, UK (2008) Eigse Carlow, Ireland (2008) Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2007). In 2009 she was awarded the Cork City Arts Bursary Award. Her work has been commissioned for the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) Tazmania. In 2007 she was awarded emerging artist prize at Claremorris Open, selected by Ingrid Swenson, PEER, London. In 2010, Sibyl won student 1st prize and peoples’ choice award at RE-Animate, Oriels Davies, Wales, UK with a forthcoming solo show there in 2012. Ingrid Murphy initially studied ceramics at the Crawford College of Art & Design; upon graduation in 1990 she completed an MA in Ceramics at Cardiff School of Art & Design where she has recently taken up the post of Director of the BA Hons Ceramics Course. A practising artist, Ingrid’s work has been widely exhibited and recently
she undertook a residency at the FuLe International Ceramic Museum in China. Her current research is concerned with creative pedagogies within the material arts. Ingrid spends much of her time in the Dordogne, France, where she is involved in developing the La Perdrix Ceramic & Art Centre, which runs courses and residencies for students and professional artists. Sarah O’Brien was born in Ireland, 1980. Her practice is focused on drawing-based installation. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, having solo shows at Pallas Contemporary Projects (PCP) in May 2008 and Draiocht Arts Centre in January 2011. Among selected group exhibitions Sarah took part in Holding Together (2010) at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin which celebrated 50 years of the Modern Art Collection at Trinity College. Sarah completed an MA in Fine Art (Painting) at NCAD in 2007 and is currently undertaking a Postgraduate Diploma in education at DIT. Sarah is based in Dublin, with a studio at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, and is an independent arts educator. Nigel Rolfe was born in the Isle of Wight in 1950 and lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He works with many media - video and photography and sound, and for the past forty years he has made performances throughout Europe, and the former Eastern Block, North and South America and Japan. In 2010 he had a major show and performance European Dream at Green on Red Gallery in Dublin and was the featured artist at Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland in the European festival there. This year he made performances in the Morgenland Festival in Schaan in Liechtenstein and in the Iniscealtra Festival in Mountshannon in Co Clare. Linda Scales is a solicitor practising and lecturing in copyright and related areas of law. She has a particular interest in the visual arts, and is a founder member and director of the Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation, the copyright collecting society for visual artists.
BOOKING To book places on any of the workshops please contact: Elma O’Donovan Administrator/Artists’ Liaison National Sculpture Factory Albert Road, Cork. T: + 353 (0)21 431 43 53 E: elma@nationalsculpturefactory.com Early booking is advisable as places on workshops are limited and only guaranteed upon receipt of payment along with advance information. All bookings are on a first come, first served basis. Cancellations received less than ten days prior to a workshop will not be refunded.
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