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CÚRAM Art/Science Residency Galway – €10,000

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There’s an excellent opportunity for artists wanting to or working around science themes in Galway. CÚRAM is a biomedical research centre in Galway, and has announced an artist’s residency worth €10,000.

Since 2015, CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland funded Centre for Research in Medical Devices based at NUI Galway, has hosted artist residencies in its laboratories.

In partnership with the Galway City Arts Office, we are now inviting proposals from artists who are interested in working as part of CÚRAM’s public engagement programme, which supports Science Foundation Ireland’s objective of ‘having the most scientifically informed and engaged public’.

We invite artists to propose ideas for an ambitious and contemporary permanent artwork in Galway’s Eastside community in Ballybane and Doughiska. The budget for this project is €10,000.

The artist will work with one of the following three themes:
• Cardiovascular research – Researcher: Professor William Wijns
• Soft and hard tissue regeneration – Researcher: Dr Dimitrios Zeugolis
• Biomaterials and the body – Researcher – Dr Manus Biggs

The chosen artist will work within the CÚRAM laboratories to learn about CÚRAM’s research and will then spend a period of time working with the Eastside community to realise the project. The artist will be required to undergo Garda vetting.

Time is short on getting a proposal submitted in time for 5pm, June 21st. Interested artists should make submissions to curam@nuigalway.ie. No submissions will be accepted after this date, so interested artists should get working on proposals ASAP!

via June 2019 – CÚRAM

NY Times Trashes Cartoonists | Daryl Cagle

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The New York Times is to cease publishing political cartoons from its international edition after previously publishing an antisemitic cartoon to international backlash.

By choosing not to print editorial cartoons in the future, the Times can be sure that their editors will never again make a poor cartoon choice. Editors at the Times have also made poor choices of words in the past. I would suggest that the Times should also choose not to print words in the future –just to be on the safe side. –Daryl Cagle

via NY Times Trashes Cartoonists | DarylCagle.com

GMIT art students showcase their work in exciting Graduate Degree Show | GMIT

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Always a high point of the Galway arts year is the GMIT Graduate Show, and a great place to pick up top quality art at the beginning of an artist’s career.

Final-year art students in GMIT’s School of Design and Creative Arts will hold an exciting exhibition of their work in GMIT’s Cluain Mhuire campus, opening Saturday, 1 June, at 2pm. Galway-based, award-winning Swedish artist Cecilia Danell, a GMIT graduate, will open the show which runs daily from 11am to 6pm until 8 June.




via GMIT art students showcase their work in exciting Graduate Degree Show | GMIT

On A Bicycle Made for Two!

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tandem wedding bicycle made for two wedding gift

This tandem bike wedding caricature gift was a lot of fun to draw. It’s absolutely stuffed with references from the newlywed couple’s lives, from charity work to Game of Thrones (you can see the Night King running off in the distance!) Other important elements were their love of GAA, music, tea and scones, and there’s some snowboarding going to happen too. In the background there’s a cheetah and rhino looking on. Of course Dublin and Meath are famous for their cheetahs and rhinos. 🙂
night king game of thrones cartoon rhino cheetah cartoonMy caricatures make excellent wedding gifts and come in a variety of sizes, framed and unframed.

They are available for delivery all over Ireland and Northern Ireland, and I can ship to the UK too.

The process is very simple, you send me a description of what you’d like included in your bespoke caricature gift, along with recent head and shoulder photos, and I do the rest. You can include hobbies, work references, favourite football, rugby, GAA or other teams, and even pets! I’ve drawn many dogs and cats over the years! All frames are hand made by Mark in the Framing Loft Galway, and securely packaged and shipped by courier by Carabay Packaging in Galway. Once the artwork is shipped you’ll receive a tracking number so you can see your caricature art gift making its way to you! For a unique wedding gift that will be truly treasured by your newlywed friends, order a bespoke caricature from one of Ireland’s top caricature artists, Allan Cavanagh!
tandem wedding bicycle made for two wedding gift

KAVA artists explore why Earth Matters

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Earth Matters is the title of an exhibition from 13 Kinvara Area Visual Arts artists, which is currently running at the village courthouse, and which focuses on climate change. The exhibiting artists are Petra Breathnach, Fiona Cawley, Patsy Connolly, Belinda Fair, Pam Fleming, Mavis Gormally, Antoinette Hensey, Meriel Lloyd, Regina O’Dea, Julia O’Keefe, Diane Reid, Patricia Timmons, and Darryl Vance.

via Advertiser.ie – KAVA artists explore why Earth Matters