Art Links Limerick is a collective of visual artists, designers and social practitioners.
Art Links Limerick (ALL) is a collective of experimental Visual Artists, Designers and Social Practitioners. ALLs methodology involves collaborating with groups and individuals in Limerick and beyond. Through collaboration with other groups ALL intend to exchange skills, ideas and knowledge. Through these exchanges, ALL creates projects through research, response, participation and re-contextualisation. Through our work ALL intends to create open platforms to initiate dialogue within a diverse audience.
Originally from Co. Mayo, Aoife Cox lives and works in Limerick City having completed a BA in Sculpture 2010 and an MA in Social practice and the creative environment in 2011, both in Limerick School of Art and Design.
Joanna Hopkins is a Limerick and Mayo based artist. She is the founder of Your Video Here Exhibitions, Screenings and Events and was co founder of Videogram Limerick.
Current projects include a six week residency with Kilkenny Arts Office in June 2012. Recent exhibitions include Now thats what I call Praxis Occupy Space March 2012 and the upcoming May 2012 Flotsam and Jetsam in Tactic Cork.
Biography
Contact Art Links Limerick at:
E: artlinkslimerick@gmail.com
F: Facebook/artlinkslimerick
T: Twitter/artlinkslimerick
Current Members of Art Links Limerick:
Aoife Cox
Originally from Co. Mayo, Aoife Cox lives and works in Limerick City having completed a BA in Sculpture 2010 and an MA in Social practice and the creative environment in 2011, both in Limerick School of Art and Design.
Aoife’s visual art practice is based in Faber studios. Currently an intern with EVA International in Limerick city Gallery, She is also runs Art workshops in the Southside Community Leadership through Arts and Sports Programme. Additionally she is involved with Occupy Space as a gallery assistant and is co-editor of Occupy Paper a bi-monthly publication.
Recent works include;
Hidden Community a long term project with the International Diabetic community which resulted in participatory film works.
Blood sugar: An endurance performance first held as a seven hour private performance event in the Franciscan church, Limerick leading to a three hour public performance in Faber studios.
A Haunting; a public participation event based in the Peoples Park, Limerick. Aoife was creative director of this large outdoor event in collaboration with Tracy Fahey, Gothicize and Limerick City Council.
Joanna Hopkins
Joanna Hopkins is a Limerick and Mayo based artist. She is the founder of Your Video Here Exhibitions, Screenings and Events and was co founder of Videogram Limerick. Current projects include a six week residency with Kilkenny Arts Office in June 2012. Recent exhibitions include Now thats what I call Praxis Occupy Space March 2012 and the upcoming May 2012 Flotsam and Jetsam in Tactic Cork.
Artist Statement
Both the viewing and making of art is subjective. Working in the medium of video and photography, I intend to explore the subjective nature of works, and to experiment with the idea that any artwork can be re-contextualised by the viewer. I am interested in creating a dialogue about art works by the viewer, and by directly engaging and initiating this dialogue by facilitating public workshops, discussions and screenings. My work is influenced both by the immediate nature of production and reception in the online digital society, and by the potential of unlimited sharing and discussion that is enabled by an online society. All works are issued with Creative Commons share-a-like licenses, to enable continued evolvement of a piece of art by a potentially unlimited audience.
Mary Conroy
Biography
Mary Conroy is a graduate from Limerick School of Art and Design. She graduated in 2004 with a degree in Ceramic Product Design and in 2011 with a MA in Social Practice and the Creative Environment.
Mary has worked in art education in both Ireland and London and as an art co-ordinator in Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Artist Association in Yuendumu, NT, Australia.
Artist statement
Mary Conroy is a socially engaged artist/maker with a strong environmental ethos.
Her current practice involves the unbuilding of found objects and combined re-assimilation of parts to create new functional objects.
Her current project Wildroutes employs phychogeographical methodologies to explore and document Limerick City as an everyday urban space. This is done mainly through photography and mapping.
The main focus of this documentation is urban wildlife and our interaction in this shared space with the non-human community.
