• Exhibition: Babel Unbound @ CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery

    This Friday at 6pm sees the opening of Babel Unbound in Cork’s CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery. Featuring the works of American artists Leslie Mutchler and Jason Urban, Babel Unbound is a multi-disciplinary show with focus on the print medium. Mutchler and Urban are collaborative artists and here they focus on the role of printed media and editions within the context of a library, and ultimately as a curated and performative space. “A series of printed works, risographs, xeroxes and screenprints become a publication pulled apart, ephemeral and in-flux, lining walls of the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery. Photographs, 3D printed objects and large-scale digital prints…

  • Picture This: Meanwhile @ CIT Wandesford Quay

    What: Meanwhile Where: CIT Wandesford Quay When: February 3rd – February 25th Words: Judt Fisher “This exhibition is a celebration,”  said Catherine Fehily, head of CIT Crawford College of Art and Design as she opened the new show Meanwhile in the Wandesford Quay Gallery.  “These artists have succeeded in combining creative thought with critical intelligence, resilience and tenacity resulting in D.I.Y-led productivity and action, and we are proud.” Meanwhile is curated by Aideen Quirke and shows work from artists who graduated from  Crawford College of Art and Design between 2008-2013. These artists through their work, the organisations they have founded and events they have organised…

  • Picture This: Gut Instinct @ Glucksman Gallery

    Thomas Rentmeister – Untitled (detail)  (Image Courtesy of Tomas Tyner / University College Cork) What: Gut Instinct: Art, Food and Feeling Where: Glucksman Gallery, Cork When: 25th November 2016 – 19th March 2017 Words: Judy Fisher “The gut is the seat of all feeling,” – Suzy Kassem This is the basic premise being explored by the artists in Gut Instinct: Art, Food and Feeling the current show at the Glucksman Gallery. The exhibition is a visceral display of our emotional relationships  with food in the light of recent discoveries by neuroscientist John Cryan of the UCC and his colleagues at the APC Microbiome…

  • #CorkLovesMusic

    Presented in association with First Music Contact, the inaugural #CorkLovesMusic will see a standalone series of free music industry clinics, talks and performance events kick off in Coughlan’s on Wednesday, February 22. Set to run throughout the year, the opening event will feature one-one-clinics with FMC CEO Angela Dorgan, talks featuring Young Wonder/aboveDat producer Ian Ring, venue promoter Joe Kelly and arts journalist Ellie O’Byrne, as well as performances from Sillk, The Sunshine Factory and Ghostking. Reserve your place at the launch here and keep ’em peeled more announcements throughout the year. Leaf EP by GHOSTKING IS DEAD