We are delighted to host A Story of Home, a powerful exhibition exploring themes of migration, belonging, and identity!
Joe Caslin, Joyce, 2022, Archival pigment prints on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, UCC Art Collection
🗓️ From the 8th of March
🕐Tuesday – Sunday 10am-5pm
📍The Global Hub, Nano Nagle Place
🎟️ Free
Participants:Â Abiola, Arife, Belinda, Catherine, Deborah, Doris, Favour, Genea, Germaine, Husnia, Joan, Joyce, Linda, Lukwasa, Margaret, Marsilda, Michell, Monique, Nabila, Nyoni, Olufunmilayo, Rebecca, Reem, Salamah, Sharon, Yanaisy, Zira, and others who have chosen to remain anonymous.
Through a series of creative sessions at the Glucksman, the artist Joe Caslin worked with a group of 35 women from diverse backgrounds to explore their understanding of home. The participants were given the opportunity to share their experiences, finding connections with other members of the group and exploring creative ways that their stories could be represented. The sessions supported by the Glucksman and Cork Migrant Centre teams, encouraged the group to look at the power of portraiture to communicate ideas and reveal insights into the sitter. Together participants discussed posture, gesture, and symbolism, before putting all their learning into practice and sitting for a portrait with the artist. Theses portraits will be on exhibition in Nano Nagle Place from March 8th.
As part of Misdsummer 2022 two of these portraits were wrapped around prominent buildings Cork city and county.
Joe Caslin is an Irish street artist, art teacher and activist. He is best known for his beautifully rendered pencil drawings, presented outdoors at a massive scale. His work engages directly with the social issues of modern Ireland, on an unavoidable scale – confronting the subjects of suicide, drug addiction, economic marginalisation, marriage equality, stigma in mental health, direct provision, institutional power, consent and most recently, the effects of the Covid19 pandemic on young people. His towering, monochrome drawings define a moment in time while also being deliberately ephemeral, often washing away within a few weeks: leaving us with just memories⌠and maybe a change of mind and attitude.
This exhibition is on loan from the Art Library – A loan collection of artworks that is available to schools, community hubs and healthcare settings across Ireland.
The Art Library is an innovative approach to sharing art and knowledge driven by the principles of creativity, inclusion and participation.
Whether a child in a rural classroom, a resident in a nursing home, or a family living in supported accommodation – for many people, access to artworks presented in museums and galleries may seem beyond their reach. Through The Art Library, communities will have the opportunity to encounter original works of art and access inspiring educational materials that combined enable them to engage with the relevant issues of our time with, and through, art.
The Art Library is supported by a Touring Award from the Arts Council of Ireland touring award and a Regional Museum Exhibition Scheme grant from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
At Nano Nagle Place, there is so much to explore. Visit our award-winning museum to learn about the life and legacy of Nano Nagle, stroll through our beautiful gardens, and browse unique items in our design shop. Treat yourself to a rich and fulfilling experience, celebrating both the history and the vibrant present of our community.