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| Introduction |
| Founded in 2004, TRADE (then called Artist as Traveller) invited artists such as Hou Hanru, Hüseyin Bhari Alptekin, Shin Egashira and Julie Bacon among others. Trade 2005 invited artists’ agencies such as N55, myvillages.org and M & M proyectos. |
| Since 2006, TRADE consists of two elements – a residential programme and a seminar event which occur over a two year period. |
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| TRADE 2006 - 2007 |
| Under our first residential programme, artists Alfredo Jaar and Rebecca Fortnum each worked with a group of artists from the two counties over the course of a year. The outcomes of these residencies were presented at the TRADE 2007 seminar in King House, Boyle in December. |
| During the residencies Alfredo Jaar worked with Carol Anne Connolly, Gareth Kennedy, Alice Lyons, Christine Mackey and Anna MacLeod on concepts pertaining to the environment and the effects of the economic boom years on the landscape. These ideas presented in a publication called Draft, were later realised and became a series of arts projects called After. |
| Rebecca Fortnum worked with Angie Duignan, Francis McGonagle, Cathy Reynolds, Holly Asaa and Laura Gallagher who developed a programme for mapping the creative process so as to better recognise and reflect on the decision making intrinsic to making artworks. |
| The 2007 seminar featured national and international artists, curators and thinkers including Alfredo Jaar (Chile/USA) and Rebecca Fortnum (UK) along with writer and critic Patricia Phillips (Head of Art at Cornell University) and artist Phillida Barlow (Professor of Art at Slade School of Art). |
| Irish artists presenting at TRADE included Carol Anne Connolly, Gareth Kennedy, Alice Lyons, Christine Mackey, Anna MacLeod, Angie Duignan, Francis McGonagle, Cathy Reynolds, Holly Asaa, Laura Gallagher and Kristy Varenga. |
| Conversations with keynote speakers and artists presenting at TRADE were chaired and facilitated by Declan McGonagle ( NCAD), Mike Fitzpatrick (LSAD), Siún Hanrahan (Artist/D.I.T) Ailbhe Murphy (Artist/Consultant) and Sarah Searson (Curator/Consultant). |
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| TRADE 2008 - 2009 |
| Under the second residential programme John Gibbons and Darren Almond led two programmes of work with ten artists from the two counties which again culminated in the TRADE residency in December 2009 in the Dock, Carrick on Shannon.. |
John Gibbons worked with Cathy Carman, Seamus Dunbar, Cathal Roche and Anna Spearman. Working with John Gibbons led the group of independent artists into the 'performance' of weekly cross-arts
improvisation sessions. Working in this way, they established a collaborative practice in which each worked independently,
in subgroups and as a single unit. For the seminar
the group presented aspects of their journey through discussion, live performance and a TRADE shop on Bridge Street. |
| Darren Almond worked with Padraig Cunningham, Johnnie Lawson, Róisín Loughrey and Margo McNulty. For the group Trade became a dialogue of ideas, peer critique and resources which led to using an
alternative exhibition space in conjunction with the seminar. Exhibiting on a common ground,
in five warehouse units, brought the work into focus and provided a opportunity to demonstrate the relationship that developed through TRADE. |
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Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1956. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Venice; São Paulo); Sydney; Istanbul; Kwangju ; Johannesburg and Sevilla Biennales as well as Documenta in Kassel. Important individual exhibitions include The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Whitachapel, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Fundacion Telefonica, Santiago. . He has created more than 40 Public Interventions around the world. More than 36 monographic publications have been published about his work. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and a MacArthur Award in 2000. In 2006 he received the Premio Extremadura a la Creacion ( Spain). |
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Rebecca Fortnum has been a Visiting Fellow in Painting at Plymouth University and Winchester School of Art; a visiting artist at The Art Institute of Chicago and Lecturer at Norwich School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, Bath Spa University, Central St Martins School of Art and currently Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London and Research Fellow at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. She has received several awards and has exhibited widely including solo shows at the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Spacex Gallery, Exeter; The Winchester Gallery; Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; The Drawing Gallery, London; and Gallery 33, Berlin. She was instrumental in founding the artist-run spaces Cubitt Gallery and Gasworks Gallery in London and has worked as curator and an art writer, contributing to various magazines and books. |
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| John Gibbons was born in Ireland in 1949. He is currently Professor of Sculpture at Winchester School of Art. His earlier work in constructed steel included sometimes recognisable elements of found scrap objects, plates and colour but since the mid nineties these have given way to the pure, linear material of stainless steel rods. Transparent, skeletal containers of varying complexity and scale have consistently been emerging since, in a continuing exploration of interior and exterior space. His work displays and inherent order and symmetry, together with an intense connection with both physical and spiritual aspects of human experience. He has exhibited extensively internationally and his work is part of many collections including the Tate, London. |
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| Darren Almond was born in Wigan in 1971 and studied at Winchester School of Art. He is renowned for his evocative photography, films, sculptures and installations which harness the symbolic and emotional potential of objects, places and situations. Ideas about memory permeate much of Almond’s work. His solo exhibition Darren Almond: Night as Day at the Tate in 2001 consisted of long exposure photographs taken at night. The idea of the journey is also important in Almond's work. In 2003, his film “If I had you”, installed at the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi explores, amongst other things, the particular atmosphere of Blackpool Dance Halls. Recent solo shows include “K21”, Kunsthalle Zurich, Tate Britain and White Cube. His work was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize. |
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| TRADE seminar 2007 |
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| TRADE seminar 2009 |
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| Clouds - Alfredo Faar 2000 |
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| What am I supposed to do? - Rebecca Fortmun 2006 |
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| Therein - John Gibbons 2005 |
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| If I had you - Darren Almond 2003 |
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