Art in Mountshannon village
Walk with us through the art and artefacts that have been gathered over the years by the Mountshannon Arts Festival and Community. Download our map and discover a new dimension to your 5km radius. There is lots to see and surprise you - we’d be delighted to hear your thoughts or send us a photo mountshannonfestival@gmail.com or on instagram #mountshannonartsfestival.
|
Download your map,
Print it (A4, landscape), Walk and enjoy ! |
|
A Walk in My Shoes
Listening while walking Basic tools for Soundwalking, click on the links below to access the toolkits Sound Walking Toolkit A Basic Toolkit for Soundmapping Sound Journaling Toolkit | ||
This walk kicks off in front of the childcare centre...It follows through Mountshannon village, meanders through Aistear Park, drifts along the Harbour, and concludes at the end of the village.
Mayfly and Ploughing ahead will unfortunately not be at our rendez-vous this Wireless weekend. Promise soon....
The Wren
Nathalie El baba - 2017
Mural on childcare centre (2017)
My interpretation of the brief led me to create an artwork that was composed of bright colours and organic shapes, contrasting it with the angular architecture and distinct whiteness of the childcare centre’s walls. The art work was required to express the lively energy and nourishing ethos at the heart of the centre.
The nasturtiums were chosen not just for their bold beauty but also because they are an edible and familiar plant, often grown in home gardens. They encapsulated many elements important in the nurturing of children. The wren, of course, was chosen to represent the young child. This small little bird, at home in the undergrowth, hopping and darting low to the ground.
Creating a work, on site in a public space, gives rise to an engagement with the community that does not exist when I work alone in my studio. The development of the work is seen daily by parents dropping children, residents in the street, centre staff on breaks, those helping me with ladders, and passers by - and conversations had with all of them! This engagement becomes part of the process and, I believe, builds a sense of ownership within the community to the work itself.
Nathalie El Baba
Nathalie El Baba uses the word connection when describing what drives her practice. Her artworks are responsive, and influenced by her interaction with other people and their stories, as well as her own personal history of migration. Her subject matter is concerned with both movement, and identity of place, observed within the social, physical and emotional landscape.
Nathalie was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1971. During the civil war her family moved to England. Based in Ireland since 1990, she has been living and working as an artist in Co. Clare for many years.
She holds a B.A. in Art and Design, and a Certificate in Youth Arts from NUI Maynooth. As a facilitator her aim is to use visual art form as a language to cross barriers within community and public spaces.
Nathalie El Baba
Visual Artist and Facilitator
www.creativearts.ie
087 615 9466
The nasturtiums were chosen not just for their bold beauty but also because they are an edible and familiar plant, often grown in home gardens. They encapsulated many elements important in the nurturing of children. The wren, of course, was chosen to represent the young child. This small little bird, at home in the undergrowth, hopping and darting low to the ground.
Creating a work, on site in a public space, gives rise to an engagement with the community that does not exist when I work alone in my studio. The development of the work is seen daily by parents dropping children, residents in the street, centre staff on breaks, those helping me with ladders, and passers by - and conversations had with all of them! This engagement becomes part of the process and, I believe, builds a sense of ownership within the community to the work itself.
Nathalie El Baba
Nathalie El Baba uses the word connection when describing what drives her practice. Her artworks are responsive, and influenced by her interaction with other people and their stories, as well as her own personal history of migration. Her subject matter is concerned with both movement, and identity of place, observed within the social, physical and emotional landscape.
Nathalie was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1971. During the civil war her family moved to England. Based in Ireland since 1990, she has been living and working as an artist in Co. Clare for many years.
She holds a B.A. in Art and Design, and a Certificate in Youth Arts from NUI Maynooth. As a facilitator her aim is to use visual art form as a language to cross barriers within community and public spaces.
Nathalie El Baba
Visual Artist and Facilitator
www.creativearts.ie
087 615 9466
Signpost mountshannon village
|
|
Ploughing Ahead
|
|
mayfly
|
|
Crannóg Ceoil
|
|
Bird - 1981
|
|
Aosdána Member Honorary member of the R.H.A, Oireachtas gold medal for sculpture 1980
Born in Dublin, to renowned Athenry poet and playwright Padraic Fallon and Dubliner Dorothea Maher, Fallon is one of the finest Irish sculptors of the twentieth century.
Reared on a farm in Co Wexford, his home was always full of visiting writers, musicians and painters includingTony O'Malley and the poet Austin Clarke
As a child he often copied drawings of birds from wildlife books and he began to paint in 1957 at TCD,while studying natural science,which he soon left turning his attention to fine art.
In 1964 He moved to Penzance, Cornwall, where he joined the St Ives group of artists, which included family friend, the Kilkenny painter Tony O'Malley.
After marrying Welsh-born painter Nancy Wynne-Jones in 1966 he took up dairy farming.
"The milking of cows and the shaping of sleek, modernist sculpture went hand in hand for one of Ireland's leading sculptors"
In 1972, the family returned to Kinsale Co .Cork and in the late eighties they finally settled in Wicklow.
Fallon threw himself full time into sculpture, working mainly in steel and occasionally in cast bronze. His subjects were primarily wildlife, particularly hares, horses, fish and birds (all part of the Celtic tradition).
He retained a passion for birds of prey, their balance of taut energy in stillness with rapid movement of attack being perfect examples for the clean, aerodynamic lines of his work
So it is fitting that this piece looks out on to the nesting area on Bushy Island that the White Tailed Sea Eagles have successfully chosen as one of their places to re -establish themselves in Ireland. One can only speculate what the artist would have thought about Mountshannon`s White Tailed Sea Eagles and the fact that his sculpture was sited here years before their arrival to commemorate Mountshannon’s success winning the Tidy Towns competition in 1981.The shield in this piece often captures light from the setting sun coming from the direction of Inis Cealtra, thus nicknamed the Firebird
His larger pieces include : the wonderful “Pegasus” sculptures commissioned for the Irish Independent's building beside the N7 at City West with the three iconic gigantic bronze horses with stainless steel wings , the 7 metre high Singing Bird at the Irish Life building in Dublin, the beautiful Bird of Hope in St Patrick's Hospital, Kilmainham,and his Singing Bird, at Enniscorthy bridge in Co Wexford.
Born in Dublin, to renowned Athenry poet and playwright Padraic Fallon and Dubliner Dorothea Maher, Fallon is one of the finest Irish sculptors of the twentieth century.
Reared on a farm in Co Wexford, his home was always full of visiting writers, musicians and painters includingTony O'Malley and the poet Austin Clarke
As a child he often copied drawings of birds from wildlife books and he began to paint in 1957 at TCD,while studying natural science,which he soon left turning his attention to fine art.
In 1964 He moved to Penzance, Cornwall, where he joined the St Ives group of artists, which included family friend, the Kilkenny painter Tony O'Malley.
After marrying Welsh-born painter Nancy Wynne-Jones in 1966 he took up dairy farming.
"The milking of cows and the shaping of sleek, modernist sculpture went hand in hand for one of Ireland's leading sculptors"
In 1972, the family returned to Kinsale Co .Cork and in the late eighties they finally settled in Wicklow.
Fallon threw himself full time into sculpture, working mainly in steel and occasionally in cast bronze. His subjects were primarily wildlife, particularly hares, horses, fish and birds (all part of the Celtic tradition).
He retained a passion for birds of prey, their balance of taut energy in stillness with rapid movement of attack being perfect examples for the clean, aerodynamic lines of his work
So it is fitting that this piece looks out on to the nesting area on Bushy Island that the White Tailed Sea Eagles have successfully chosen as one of their places to re -establish themselves in Ireland. One can only speculate what the artist would have thought about Mountshannon`s White Tailed Sea Eagles and the fact that his sculpture was sited here years before their arrival to commemorate Mountshannon’s success winning the Tidy Towns competition in 1981.The shield in this piece often captures light from the setting sun coming from the direction of Inis Cealtra, thus nicknamed the Firebird
His larger pieces include : the wonderful “Pegasus” sculptures commissioned for the Irish Independent's building beside the N7 at City West with the three iconic gigantic bronze horses with stainless steel wings , the 7 metre high Singing Bird at the Irish Life building in Dublin, the beautiful Bird of Hope in St Patrick's Hospital, Kilmainham,and his Singing Bird, at Enniscorthy bridge in Co Wexford.
Sadie Monks
Paul Berg
|
Sam Gaine
Sean Durak
|
Mountshannon Eagles
Mountshannon Harbour
Sam Gaine, Paul Berg, Sadie monks, Sean Durak
Four local artists, Sadie Monks, Paul Berg, Séan Durack and Sam Gaine were commissioned to paint and sculpt original artwork to celebrate the return of the White-tailed Sea Eagles to Lough Derg. These works are on permanent display at the Mountshannon harbour.
Sanctuary of Free sounds
|
|
Returning Swallows
|
|
The stag
|
|
