Creative Places Enniscorthy (CPE) announces exciting new Artist Residencies at Cow House Studios, Rathnure, Co. Wexford
Creative Places Enniscorthy is delighted to launch in partnership a new artists residency programme at the renowned Cow House Studios, Rathnure, Wexford. This initiative offers Wexford based artists critically valuable time and space to become immersed, research, and make new work. The residencies fosters immersion in the creative process and ensures that momentum gained while working in the studio can be acted upon, helping to make even shorter stays highly productive.
Cow House Studios is an artist run workspace. It is a unique, centre of excellence set on a working farm amidst the rolling hills and adjacent to a forest in rural Wexford. Founded in 2008 it provides a nurturing environment for artists to create, collaborate and engage with each other and local community. This is a wonderful opportunity for artists in the Southeast to meet and work alongside a dynamic group of local and international practitioners.
Starting 05 August 2024 four selected artists will begin CPE residencies throughout the month of August. Each residency will last for one week during which time the artists will immerse themselves in their practice have opportunity to collaborate and contribute to the cultural landscape of Enniscorthy.
The four artists are:
Sarah Walsh 5 – 11 August
Sarah Walsh is a Dutch/Irish actor, as well as a drama facilitator with an M.Ed in drama in education. She will use this week at Cow House Studio to finish a play she had been developing in a playwriting course at The Lir that will be performed in a pub.
Paul Cashin 12 – 18 August
An Irish artist based in Wexford. His chosen medium is oil on canvas, along with photography, drawing and sculpture. His work normally contains a figurative element, but not always, located in an Irish landscape. He is interested in large scale paintings that employ a sense of embodiment to create large complex scenes imbued with pattern and repetition in order to explore ideas of the numinous or Awe.
Gillian O’Shea Monday 19 – 25 August
An emerging visual Irish artist passionate about highlighting the importance of our natural world, particularly in the face of the climate crisis. Her practice explores themes of the nature, conservation
Fiona O’Connor 26 August– 01 September
Fiona O’ Connor is an artist who uses photography as a medium to explore her ideas. She has an interest in things that catch her eye, make her think, smile and spark her curiosity. She enjoys and plays with the space photography holds. It can document events and people in our lives but also it has the ability to obscure and twist.
‘Creative Places Enniscorthy are thrilled to partner with Cow House Studios on this initiative. We hope these residencies will encourage cultural exchanges, break down boundaries and build bridges between artists living and working in our community in ways that can be transformative. ‘
For more information about the Cow House Studios artist residency programme and full artists biographies and other Creative Places Enniscorthy projects contact Deryn O Callaghan – Co ordinator
W: www.creativeplacesenniscorthy.ie W: https://cowhousestudios.com
E: cpenniscorthy@wexfordartscentre.ie
M: 087 9578984
