Olive Stack Gallery Artists Residency
Two years of international artist's residencies at Olive Stack Gallery, Listowel, Ireland
Jen and Diane. Artists in Residence at the Olive Stack gallery in Listowel, Ireland, August 2016
Song performed by Artist: Bette Midler
Album: For the Boys
Released: 1991
Artist Residency | Ireland July 2017
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The Olive Stack Gallery Artist’s Residency is a cooperative programme. Visual Artists from around the world may apply for one or two-month residencies that allow both time and creative space for making art in exchange for minding the gallery four days each week. The residency is mutually beneficial allowing artist Olive Stack the freedom to work in her home studio to create new bodies of work, while the studio and residence above the gallery provide a similarly exceptional experience for visiting artists. The residency ideally accommodates two artists each month. The 2018 residency will include artists from Belgium, Canada, Germany, and the US forging connections across continents and creative genres, building new bodies of work illuminating the beauty of Listowel and its people. The ensuing results of the residency have been expansive and surprising. Artists have made fast friends in Lovely Listowel. The residency continues to enrich both locals and visitors. Listowel, Co Kerry, Ireland is fast becoming a favourite destination for international artists. The Olive Stack Gallery Artist’s Residency is fully booked until 2019
Kim Wosniak July 2017
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Kim Wosniak - Artist in Residence - Olive Stack Gallery, Listowel, Ireland - July 2017
My work has always been an experiment, about the process and the not the final work, but in time I lost the experiment and mastered the process. Here I stepped back, settled in, and started experimenting and creating from a fresh place. Using past experiments in a new way, creating jewelry based on my larger fine art mosaics that contain familiar materials; concrete and mosaics. I look forward to learning more about the process and adding new metal working skills to expand this direction when I return home. On the bus to Listowel I felt like I was returning to the place I grew up. Small farms, green pastures littered with cows and fences lined with stones and brambles. A picture of my childhood in northern Wisconsin. All that was missing was the big red barns. In Listowel I found the community I grew up in, local pubs that welcome everyone, small shops that care about their customers and their products. A pace that was slow, caring and genuine. It’s a beautiful place where service and people are more important that profit and its ok if the store doesn’t open on time and if your wallet is short, you can come back later to pay. I miss that! It has been said and is quite true, “Ideas are nothing without execution.” Ideas reside in my head, sometimes for years while I manage the daily rush of life and never find the time to experiment, create and execute. At home I am an artist, but I am also the owner of two businesses, a web programmer, accountant, a nana, a mom and a sister. Finding time to create is always a challenge. Thanks to Olive, the residency and Bonnie Fitzgerald urging me to go, I was given the time to slow down, reset and create the things that have been only visions living in my imagination. I came with ideas and materials for things I thought I wanted to do but in the end, after settling in, it was those visions that rose to the surface and said it’s my time.
Bonnie Fitzgerald | Artist in Residence | Olive Stack Gallery | July 2017
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Thank you Olive for the gift of time. July 2017 will forever be a memory that puts a smile on my face and warms my heart. My time in Ireland has been fulfilling, enlightening and reflective. The Olive Stack Gallery Residency provided a backdrop for creativity, education and rejuvenation. I will cherish the memories. There are not adequate words to describe the natural beauty of your country. The countless breathtaking landscapes of County Kerry and the Wild Atlantic Way are now indelible and moving images that will inspire me for years to come. Your hometown of Listowel quickly became my home, with a pace to life I am grateful to have been reminded of. Many American’s, myself included, live at a frenetic pace. What a pleasure to be reminded that is a lifestyle choice, not a mandate. I plan to incorporate a bit of the Listowel pace to my daily routine. The gift of time from you allowed me to wrestle with creative challenges and focus on creative pursuits long dogging me. I partnered with Kim Wozniak on the Residency, and what a great companion she proved to be. Our settling in was surprisingly challenging – we both work alone and sharing a studio space was a new experience. We spurred each other on to embrace the treasure of our time away from the trappings of our businesses knowing the work would come. And indeed it did. Although our work was a priority an unexpected opportunity to teach an Introduction to Mosaics class to a group of enthusiastic beginners presented itself, reminding me just how much I enjoy sharing my love of mosaics. Thank you Olive for this amazing opportunity and adventure. Bonnie Fitzgerald Washington DC USA Artist in Residence July 2017
Listowel Visual Arts Week
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The inaugural Listowel Visual Arts Week’ takes place from June 20th– 24th 2018. Coinciding with the summer solstice, the international fine art festival will celebrate the work of visual artists, and harness our collective energies to collaborate, learn and create.
Listowel Visual Arts Week welcomes the return of many former Olive Stack Gallery Artists in Residence to teach workshops, exhibit and reunite with friends in Listowel – the creative home of this growing international family of artists! The festival will mark the 20th anniversary of Olive Stack Gallery (Est 1998), celebrate the residency and the growing and thriving visual arts scene in the heritage town of Listowel, Co Kerry, Ireland.
Irish at Heart
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Irish at Heart Artisan Tour May 2017 with Artists in Residence Jean Cauthen, Laura Hitchcock and Pamela Goode along with 16 intrepid painters and mosaic artists on a 10-day creative journey in Lovely Listowel Ireland!
Workshops
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Listowel Visual Arts Week
20th - 24th June 2018
Listowel, Co Kerry, Ireland
Workshops
Last Work - Tasmania 21 - The Artist's Vlog
This is my twenty first vlog since my arrival in Tasmania. I am doing a series of these on my artist's in residency with the LARQ program in Tasmania.
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Stuart Stack wrote, played all instruments and recorded this track himself.
Pam Goode | May 2017
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My time in Listowel as Artist in Residence at Olive Stack Gallery has enriched my life more than I can adequately express. The land, the sea, the sky, and most of all the people are so present, so rich, so exuberant and endlessly giving. It will be an honor to spend the rest of my life trying to emulate the warmth and graciousness of quite literally everyone I’ve met, the power of the sea racing toward cliffs littered with wildflowers, the gentleness of skies that billow and change hundreds of times in a day. The natural beauty of town and wood and beach has stimulated my imagination exponentially, and I can’t produce work fast enough to match the visions that circle me daily. Fortunately I have enough memories (and photographs) to keep me going for many moons once I return home. For that and for Olive’s always-supportive encouragement and grace, I am endlessly grateful. Pamela Goode NC USA May 2017
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Take a peek at a new book by Jen Walls and Mary W. Cox. It is an art story collection that showcases mixed media art and haiku. 36 pages, available in either soft cover or hard cover.
The Stunning at Revival. Listowel Music Festival August 13th 2016.
The Stunning get the large crowd going in Listowel during the first Revival Music Festival. A great night was had by all. Well done to all involved. Well done Listowel, showing again how great a town Listowel is.
OMAH Artist in Residence James Ireland We are fighting for the arts
OMAH's first Artist in Residence, James Ireland, quotes Winston Churchill in his opening remarks for new exhibition 'The Man in the Little Black Dress' on October 8th.
The Man in the Little Black Dress runs October 8 - January 10 in The Lounge Gallery
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