Monster Truck Gallery is looking for submissions for a project of minute proportions. Following the curious appearance of a miniature gallery within the gallery, Monster Truck are currently constructing at a scale of 1:20.

Submissions to exhibit in the miniature gallery should include text – artist statement, cv/bio, and statement of intent (no more than 200 words inclusive) and images of previous and/or proposed work (max 10).

Submissions can be emailed to Julia MacConville at: monstertruck.minitrunk@gmail.com

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Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work collaboratively on arts projects.
The scheme covers all art forms –visual arts, dance, theatre, literature, music.

Phase One, Research & Development, is open to artists who wish to research and develop a project in a community context.

Maximum time frame is 3 months. The maximum amount awarded in Phase One is €1,000.

Phase One, Research & Development/Mentoring is open to artists who wish to develop a community based project and who have identified an artist mentor they want to work with during the research and development phase. The maximum award is €1500, which includes E500 fee payable to the mentor.

Phase Two, Project Realisation, is open to communities of interest or place (or their representative organisations), planning a project of between 6 weeks and 5 months with a maximum award of €5000, and those who are planning a project of between 6 months and 9 months with a maximum award of €10,000.

The deadlines in 2010 are Friday 26 February 5pm and Friday 25 June 5pm.
For further information, application forms or to book an advisory session, contact Katherine Atkinson,

Project Support & Professional Development, 01-4736600 or email support[at]create-ireland.ie.
Also visit www.create-ireland.ie and Artist in the Community page http://bit.ly/4oxgoE

Image courtesy of the artist Sonia Shiel - Artists' Studio 2008

Artists’ Open Studios Day: Free Public Event

Saturday 5th December 2009, 12pm – 5.30pm
All Welcome

On Saturday 5th December between 12pm – 5.30pm, twenty artists working at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios will open their studio doors wide, inviting the public in to visit their work spaces and providing first hand experience of their artwork and art practice.

The participating artists who will welcome the public into their studios are: Robert Armstrong, Rhona Byrne, Colin Crotty, Cora Cummins, Anita Delaney, Mike Duhan, Sean Fingleton, Damien Flood, Mark Garry, Stephen Gunning, Joe Hanly, Fiona McDonald, Mark McGreevy, Dennis McNulty, Seamus Nolan, Niamh O’Malley, Holly Periera, Sonia Shiel and Margaret Tuffy. Curator Padraic E. Moore, who occupies the Curator/Art Writer’s Studio, will be at hand to answer questions about contemporary art and to talk about the artists that excite him and recent exhibitions that he found interesting.

In addition to the open studios, there will be a separate presentation of work by the artist Niamh O’Malley, whose recent work Flag (2008) will be exhibited in Studio 6. Flag is a DVD projection onto black screen, which has previously been exhibited in HIAP Project Room, Helsinki, 2008, Galleri Flach-Thulin, Stockholm, 2009 and Void, Derry, Northern Ireland, 2009. Niamh O’Malley made the work while on residency at HIAP–Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme in October-December 2008, as part of the annual artist exchange partnership between Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and HIAP.

Elsewhere, in the gallery, artist Aleana Egan’s solo exhibition Sunday Night, which is curated by Padraic E. Moore, will continue until Saturday 16th January 2010.

We look forward to welcoming you at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios on Saturday 5th December!

For further information, please contact, Claire Power, Studios Development Officer claire(at)templebargallery.com or tel. 01 671 0073