ISBN 978 0948037 160 336 pages (paperback) 17x16cm 521 illus artist index
This book features 160 contemporary Irish artists, each with colour illustration, artist’s statement, short biog. Also included appendices of art galleries and organisation.
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EXTRACT
"Launching the visual arts programme for Cork’s year as European Capital of Culture, this vast exhibition held at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery succeeded in reflecting the contemporary art scene in Cork, while encompassing a range of practices sometimes overlooked in more mainstream exhibitions. Thus, C2 includes devoted, but lesser-known, painters of cityscapes, landscapes and naïf scenes, alongside the major established names in contemporary art in Cork. Sound art, video and installation works are all represented, as is a strong element of the welded steel tradition (and its successors), still providing an important reference point for the visual arts in both city and county. Wood-engraving is not forgotten, nor the art of fine lettering. The exhibition, as installed in both the historic and contemporary exhibition galleries of the Crawford, is intended to suggest a possible ‘permanent collection’ of a regional art museum, and also to reflect the transient but vibrant nature of temporary exhibitions. This enormous range of artworks – the creation of more than 160 artists – gathered together in one book, provides an invaluable introduction to the talent and energy behind the visual arts in Cork."
— from the introduction by Peter Murray
CONTENTS
Artists Index 6-7 Foreword by Lord Mayor Seán Martin 8 Foreword by John Kennedy, Cork 2005 9 Introduction by Peter Murray 10 C2 – Featured Artists (A-Z) 13-307 Appendices – Art in Cork 1 – Galleries: city 308 2 – Galleries: county 313 3 – Organisations 316
FEATURED ARTISTS 1-4-page spread for each artist (incl colour illus, statement, biog):
John Adams / Pauline Agnew / Rachel Ballagh / Robert Ballagh / Kevin Bannon / Anne-Maree Barry / Katherine Boucher Beug / Cormac Boydell / Stephen Brandes / Dermot Browne / Johnny Bugler / John Burke / Julian Campbell / Tom Campbell / Patrick Cashin / Clare Cashman / Orla Clarke / Tom Climent / Elaine Coakley / Teresa Collins / Donna Coogan / Lorraine Cooke / Bernadette Cotter / Maud Cotter / Marie Coveney / Ciarán Cronin / Dorothy Cross / William Crozier / Jim Cummins / Justin Pierre Davenne / Jill Dennis / Colm Desmond / Maurice Desmond / Stefanie Dinkelbach / Wendy Dison / DOBZ / Paul Drohan / Damien Duncan / Sarah Durcan / Megan Eustace / Angela Fewer / Patrick Michael Fitzgerald / Margaret Fitzgibbon / Billy Foley / Julie Forrester / Ita Freeney / Laura Gannon / Mags Geaney / Valerie Gleeson / Debbie Godsell / Tim Goulding / Bill Griffin / Vivienne Griffin / Stephen Gunning / Half Angel / Pamela Hardesty / Mark Hathaway / Eileen Healy / Martin Healy / Catherina Hearne / Catherine Hehir / Carol Hodder / Toby Hodson / Kevin Holland / Ian Humphreys / Sarah Iremonger / Andrew Johnson + Ger Staunton / John the Painter / Marianne Keating / Julie Kelleher / Jo Kelley / Brian Kennedy / Mark Kent / John Kingerlee / Simon Knowles / Helle Kvamme / Brian Lalor / Paul La Rocque / Niamh Lawlor / Susan Leutenegger / Colette Lewis / Breda Lynch / Catherine Lynch / Paul McAree / Leo McCann / Danny McCarthy / Seán McCarthy / Dara McGrath / Róisín McGuigan / Donna McNamara / Austin McQuinn / Peter McTigue / Mary Mackey / Kathryn Maguire / Fergus Martin / Frieda Meaney / Sandra Minchin / Anna Mitterer / Sibyl Montague / Harry Moore / Kieran Moore / Peter Morgan / Michael Mulcahy / Catherine Mulvihill / Irene Murphy / Ray Murphy / John Phillip Murray / Lorraine Neeson / Eilís Ní Fhaoláin / Collette Nolan / Noelle Noonan / Michael O’Boyle / Deirdre O’Brien / Eamonn Ó Ceallacháin / Tomas Ó Ciobháin / Eilís O’Connell / Eva O’Connell / Denis O’Connor / Robert O’Connor / Sarah O’Flaherty / Noilín O’Kelly / Cormac O’Leary / Suzy O’Mullane / Danny Osborne / Mick O’Shea / Lillian O’Sullivan / Margaret O’Sullivan / Luca Paradisi / Rachel Parry / Alex Pentek / Michael Quane / Una Quigley / Linda Quinlan / Ben Reilly / Victor Richardson / Gail Ritchie / Miriam D Robinson / Vivienne Roche / Colm Rooney / Alex Rose / Anthony Ruby / Jim Savage / James Scanlon / Patrick Scott / Angie Shanahan / Danielle Sheehy / Jim Sheehy / SHEW / Blaise Smith / Aidan Staunton / Ken Thompson / Carolyn Treacy Ray Tsang / Charles Tyrrell / Sarah Walker / Tom Walsh / Maura Whelan
