Upcoming At The Sirius Arts Centre

The Pont-Aven Leaves (by Allan Giddy)

A multi projection video installation with sound Opening Friday 8th at 7pm – all welcome

Taking Place In The Centre Gallery – Exhibition runs until July 31st

As part of Sirius Arts Centre’s continued commitment to working with international artists and developing work through the artist in residency program, Sydney based New Zealand born artist, Allan Giddy, will return to Cobh in July 2011 to present his new work The Pont-Aven Leaves, a multi projection, video installation with sound opening on Friday 8th of July at 7pm and running until July 31st.

At 4:15 every Sunday afternoon the Pont-Aven ferry leaves Cork, Ireland on its way to France. Over the period of a year, six half-hour video clips of Cork Harbour have been taken from the same vantage point. Each clip starts at precisely 4:10 pm but focuses on a different area of the harbour, so that the ship passes through each shot in turn as it slips out to sea.

When all 6 clips are synched and mounted on a single wall, mapped to their true locations on the harbour, the ship slips out of one frame and into another, curling back to exit through the central frame. The ship, glides from screen to screen, sliping from one set of weather conditions to the next, collapsing one year into 20 minutes. A cacophony of six radio stations adds an international siren song to the gradual departure of the ship.

For further in formation on Allan Giddy: www.allangiddy.org

EYE BOX 2 (by Clifton Dolliver)

A three-dimensional diorama installation with drawings – Opening Friday 8th at 7pm – all welcome

Taking Place In The West Gallery – Exhibition runs until July 31st

This exhibition continues Sirius Arts Centre’s commitment to supporting local artists. Clifton Dolliver, a Tasmanian relocated to Cork, works with drawing, painting and interactive sculpture. His practice begins as drawings of lyrical and random lines from a personal repertoire, slowly evolving towards representational imagery. The initial lines are outlines around unknown bundles of people, objects and scenes, their development relies on memory, imagination and concerns at the time of creation; the intention of the drawings is to stop short of an absolute interpretation, and focus on perception.

Presented here in the form of a large-scale three-dimentional diarama, the viewer is invited to participate by opening different hatches in the roof, using levers adjacent to the viewing window, thus changing the lighting of the objects inside the diarama.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Friday 11am – 5pm / Saturday & Sunday 2pm – 5pm / Monday & Tuesday Closed

For more information contact Sirius Arts Centre at: 021 481 3790 or via email at: cobharts@iol.ie