Workhop for artists
Workshop: Who is it for?
Event: Socially Engaged Arts Workshop with artist Kate O' Shea
Venue: Tech Amergin, Waterville
Date: Thursday 15th February 2024
Time: 10am – 1pm.
Cost: Attendance is free to artists and arts organisers. Please book your place at ealain@comhchoiste.ie Refreshments will be provided.
Description:
This workshop is about thinking through and sharing ideas around the creation of art works which are locally specific, process based, community integrated and ultimately concerned with creating change. Kate O’ Shea is an artist with a strong social practice – her methods include printmaking, the production of ‘social spaces’, publishing and community events where food, conversation and performance become platforms for social solidarity. Kate will lead this half day workshop for artists from Uíbh Ráthach (and beyond) who are interested in exploring her process of initiating, developing and delivering socially engaged art projects through community engagement and collaboration.
Kate O Shea Biography:
Kate O’Shea is an artist working across printmaking, large-scale installation, performance, and publishing. In March 2023 HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? Kate O’ Shea and The Just City Residency; Reflections on an embedded practice at the intersection of art and activism was published by Half Letter Press (Chicago), Common Ground (Dublin 8) and Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. In 2021 Kate was awarded AIC Scheme Bursary Award 2021 Recipient in Collaborative Arts and Community Development. In 2021, Kate also co-organised Networks of Solidarity with Dr. Enya Moore, an online event series aimed at strengthening transnational networks of solidarity from Dublin 8 to Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia). In late 2021 Kate began a process of critical reflection and review of twelve years of her artistic practice with mentor Dr Ciaran Smyth, Vagabond Reviews. Gravity Express #1 is a publication device which they co-constructed with a view to sharing some insights from that mentoring process. Kate is co-founder with Victoria Brunetta of independent publishing house Durty Books. They are currently publishing The Artist-Led Archive.. In 2015, she co-founded The People’s Kitchen, drawing threads from NomNom Café, the first social space Kate set up in 2009 -2014 outside Kenmare, County Kerry. Kate has collaborated with Aoife Barrett through Print Van Go since 2019. Kate is a member of Broken Fields Collective and Red Wheelbarrow Productions. Kate has a Masters by Research in Printmaking as a space for solidarity and dialogue.