Islander Artist / Maker
The Islander Artist / Maker scheme is for artists, creatives, community groups and individuals who are residents of Oileán Chléire, Sherkin Island, Heir Island, Long Island, Whiddy Island, Bere Island and Dursey Islands.
Mary Sullivan
Project Title: From the Inside Out and the Outside In.
Date: 2023
This exhibition of new works by the artist shone a light on both the resilience and fragility of island life and island communities.
Mary Sullivan
Artist book: Softback (48 Pages)
Design: Stuart Coughlan edit+
Photography: Jed Niezgoda, Mickael Do Couto & Mary Sullivan
Print: Print Dynamics, Dublin
Texts: Sarah Kelleher & Cristín Leach
First Edition: 200 copies
For sale: Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen
Kirstie Affleck
Oileán Chléire
Ongoing
Farmer maker and Islander Kirstie Affleck is working on a new body of work with her self shedding sheep, developing her practice, of traditional wool spinning, knitting and multi-stranded colourwork to produce pictures and stand-alone art pieces.
Fergus Murphy
Solo exhibition
Townhall Art Centre,
Co Cavan
26 September – 9 October 2024
FxMurphy presented a new body of work at Townhall Arts Centre in September 2024. The work was a response to the efficacy of colonialism, a construct that still seems to pervade and inform our world despite a presumed demise.
Paula Quirke
Working with Artist Sarah O Brien as a mentor/collaborator.
Title: Exploring painting as an embodied practice.
Sherkin Island.
Ongoing through 2025 & 2026.
Paula is an emerging artist based on Sherkin island in West Cork where she recently completed a degree in Visual Art, accredited by TU Dublin. Her artistic practice explores issues around environmentalism and social justice through a material exploration of painting, print and photography.
Simon Kidd
Residency
Oileán Chléire
Ongoing
His work creates artefacts of place, dealing with the island’s physical materiality, creating very pleasing casts (silicone moulds) of rock faces, before translating them into ceramic objects.
Norman King
Norman King
Book and Exhibition
Sherkin Island
Never before published reflections on island life through poetry and songs by islander Norman King. A selection of work that gives voice to his unique personal lived experiences with wit and humour and some are pure flights of fancy and imagination, others connect with the natural environment and evoke a pure sense of joy with illustration by John Simpson.
