From April 10th – 15th Common Ground presents a series of artworks and performances that reflect on the studio 468 awards programme CITIZEN ARTIST 2016-2018. The work of the following artists will be shown: Seoidin O’Sullivan – The Grafter from HARD/GRAFT, Fiona Reilly – Declarations of Time Spent from The Dept. of Timekeepers, Laragh Pittman – The Invisible Museum, Pat Curran – This City Life, and Mark Holburn – Individualisation & Useless Time.
Free tickets can be booked through Eventbrite.
PLOTS is a project created by artist Seoidín O’Sullivan that invites you with Mapping Green Dublin to create a map of your current 2km run, walk or cycle route.
Your PLOTS Map will form an integral part of our Dublin 8 community atlas, building a picture of our valuable public green infrastructure across Dublin’s south west inner city. Let’s work together to make our city bike and pedestrian friendly and give everyone fair access to green space.
You can create your map in two ways:
Please click HERE to get all the information you need to be part of this mapping project.
Mapping Green Dublin’s research is funded by the EPA and is a partnership between UCD Geography, Common Ground, Artist Seoidín O’Sullivan and Connect the Dots.
We are delighted to share Pat Curran’s HOME accompanied by a timely and beautiful text by Dr. Ellen Rowley.
We have been supporting Pat to practice as a painter since 2017 beginning in studio 468 in St Andrews Community Centre Rialto, to his current residency in the Lodge, Inchicore. HOME embodies multiple meanings while we all stay at home and collectively work our way through the impact of Covid 19.
As Pat outlines ‘The source of this work has predominantly been peoples lived experience. I invite people to share with me their own images which are often of individuals on the margins, people who are often excluded from society, or have been historically made invisible in the cities visual representation’.
It has taken Pat over three years to develop this collection of work by connecting with local people. We hope you will get to see Pat’s physical paintings later this year as part of Pallas Projects Artist Initiated Projects 2020.
Many of the communities where we work and the artists we work with live consistently precarious lives. They currently live without the collective support of being present to the arts organisations, community networks and communities of place and interest they have been connecting or working with up to now. That reality is stressful and isolating.
Yesterday it was reported that 700,000 people have registered for Covid 19 payments in a time of absolute precarity and uncertainty. Last week the Dept. of Arts alongside Culture Ireland and the Arts Council made a call to artists that was ill-advised, misjudged and came from a place of privilege and continues to exclude public audiences. We need to remember that not everyone and every family has access to computers, nor does everyone use or want to access social media.
We all need to support artists in this time of crisis not require them to conjure up a creative piece of work for tokenistic funding or exclude artists whose work practice involves collaboration with local communities or groups over a long period of time.
It doesn’t matter how many digital platforms we encounter nothing beats being social, meeting people, sharing ideas and having conversations or working together in the surprise encounter or seeing the art work in the flesh. Our present everyday reality is that we all miss our neighbours, our families, our friends and our wider community.
While we stay at HOME, keep safe, keep well and we look forward to meeting you all again soon.
UPDATED. Following the statement by the government on March 27th, we respectfully ask the public to not call into The Lodge. We can be contacted by phone 01 7078766 or email: siobhan at commonground.ie ger at commonground.ie We will update you all by April 12th. #staysafe #staywell #washyourhands
Common Ground is delighted to announce that Cork based artist Kate O’Shea has been awarded The Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood residency award 2020.
Kate’s project ‘HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?’ is in response to the Just City and she will work with Common Ground and a mix of local activists, Irish and international artists, academics and urban planners to create ground breaking and effective artistic practices and events that challenge spatial injustice in and across Dublin 8.
Common Ground in partnership with CREATE are delighted to launch a new residency award. The Just City, the Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Award offers a collaborative or socially engaged artist or arts collective the opportunity to engage across Dublin 8.
The residency award will run from November 2019 to December 2020 and offers a living space in The Lodge at Goldenbridge Cemetery, Inchicore, Dublin 8 and a workspace/studio at studio 468 in St Andrew’s Community Centre, Rialto, Dublin 8. The deadline for submissions is October 25th 2019. The brief and background information is available through this link.
