STAC Podcast

STAC Podcast

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Episodes

March 22, 2024 22 mins
New Neighbours brings together the work of Olivia O’Dwyer and Fergal Styles for the first time.
Both artists work come from places of imagination and memory, of things half-remembered or dreamt, with playfulness and experimentation at the heart of each of their practices.  Accompanying the exhibition will be a newly commissioned text by Neva Elliot. (You can download the essay HERE

Olivia O’Dwyer’s work is influenced by 'Bad Painting...
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Threadsuns - Sophie Béhal

Threadsuns, a new body of work from Sophie Béhal, comes as the result of the Tipperary Artist Residency Award with STAC, supported by Tipperary Arts Office. This body of work comes from a period of engagement with new materials in a new place. Situated in a rural landscape in County Tipperary, it searches for a new way of being in this world and uses repetition, ritual and process to investigate this. The s...
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November 17, 2023 15 mins
Welcome to the latest episode of the South Tipp Arts Podcast!
This time I sit down with artist Moran Been-noon to chat about her exhibition 'Here Nor There' which is currently running in the gallery here at STAC until December 2nd. 'Here Nor There' invites us to consider the connection between ethnicity and one's ability to belong.

Mixing moving image and audio pieces with objects that symbolise fragments of the artist's ethnic ident...
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In this latest Ep, I chat with artist Kate O'Shea from Broken Fields, a multi-disciplinary collective made up of individual practitioners Louise Harrington, Enya Moore, Aideen O’ Donovan and Kate O’ Shea.

Broken Fields brings together experience, knowledge, and practice from the fields of socially engaged art, architecture, community work, activism, research, and writing. The name Broken Fields refers to the breaking down of discip...
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May 26, 2023 31 mins
In this episoed, I chat with Dorje de Burgh about his exhibition 'Under the Same Sky', currently on show at STAC.. Following the artist's move to Carrick-on-Suir in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic due to his high-risk status, Under the Same Sky is a photographic documentation of the town and its surrounds. Representing an outsiders view, this work reflects the particular atmosphere of unease and alienation of that time, as well ...
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Austin McQuinn ‘Some signs are secret, some manifest’ 31st March – 13th May 2023

A Solo Exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, and live art performance, curated by Helena Tobin.

‘Some signs are secret, some manifest’ is an exhibition of new work specifically created for the double-height atrium and gallery @STAC. Austin’s new paintings on ash wood panels and found antique prints are intensely gesso-ed, collaged and inked to psychede...
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If you missed our latest artist talk, you can listen back here.

Ita Freeney's artist talk on Saturday March 4th featured a conversation between Ita and fellow artist Katherine Boucher Beug. The discussion focused on the process behind Ita’s current series of paintings - from her choice of subject, to her focus on form, light, mood, and structure, and the making of the paintings.

Water's Edge @STAC
February 17th - March 18th 2023

Ita Fr...
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February 24, 2023 27 mins
Artist Ita Freeney's 'Water's Edge' was officially opened here at STAC on 16th February by Catherine Marshall. It presents a body of ethereally beautiful paintings produced over the last three years.
The sea is glimpsed at in all of these works but they are not seascapes per se. They play with abstraction and representation - finding and emphasising abstract forms in reality, while also observing nuances of colour, tone and form to...
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January 27, 2023 43 mins
Our first exhibition of 2023 features a new body of work from Annie Hogg, coming as a result of her Tipperary Artist Residency Award with STAC, supported by Tipperary Arts Office. LOST is a keen consideration of what happens in a landscape after the land has gone through conversion to an industrial scale farming model, specifically a system of long established hedgerows.

Through installation, incorporating pigments rendered from th...
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November 24, 2022 33 mins
Welcome to the latest episode of the South Tipp Arts Podcast!
In this Ep, we focus on the artists involved in 'She'll Give You All she Has' - Orla Barry, Chloe McKeown & Laura Fitzgerald.

In 'She'll Give You All She Has', the artists create work addressing farming, feminism, farming practices and being an artist in rural Ireland, through a mixture of objects, sound, print, writing and video. The works are woven through with absurdit...
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In this episode I chat to artist Stephen Brandes about his latest exhibition 'The Trotskys in Kilsheelan and Other Histories of Unreliable Origin', showing here at STAc until October 15th.
If you've not had a chance to visit, pop in and see it before it closes.

In the Winter of 1936, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalya Sedova were taken from their house arrest at a farm outside Oslo in Norway and put on an ...
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July 29, 2022 31 mins
Ed Devane is a sound artist and instrument designer based in Donegal. Beginning his creative career as an electronic music producer, his work has broadened over the years to include interactive installation, electronic instrument design, community projects and workshop facilitation relating to music and sound. Much of the inspiration behind his installation work is to use technology and instrument building to encourage creative enc...
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INSIDE | OUT - Joe Caslin

Joe Caslin's latest temporary mural 'Come out to Play' has just been completed on the facade of the old museum/library on Parnell Street, Clonmel. In this episode I caught up with Joe to talk about his unique work and how his INSIDE | OUT mural represents a departure from his usually more serious subject matter.

Joe is an Irish street artist, art teacher and activist, best known for his beautifully rendered...
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In this episode we take to the the streets of Clonmel to showcase the 7 local artists whose work is currently brightening up the streets of our lovely town!
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INSIDE/OUT is a project led by South Tipperary Arts Centre (STAC), as part of Faoin Spéir- In the Open Clonmel funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and in partnership with Tipperary County Council. INSIDE/OUT proposes to make the town of Clonmel an outdoor gallery, including...
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Walking in the Way is a series of performances by Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti, begun in 2009, where the artists appear as men and represents a decade long collaboration between the artists. It is a timely showcase of contemporary thinking on gender issues and challenges the perceptions of what is culturally viewed as normal public realm negotiations from a gendered stance.

Women throughout their lives experience vulnerabili...
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January 14, 2022 25 mins
This new body of work from John Kennedy, comes as the result of his Artist in Residence award with STAC and supported by Tipperary Arts Office. His work is primarily concerned with isolation, abandonment, and remoteness, while exploring the physical properties of paint and other less traditional materials. Edgelands focuses on expanses of land that exist in the margins. Rough and ready in the functionalism of their edifices, they a...
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December 23, 2021 50 mins
We were thrilled to be help Clonmel Theatre Guild to spread the festive cheer with their Christmas 2020 Radio Play, Dickens’ classic Christmas tale of redemption- ‘A Christmas Carol’ - It was originally broadcast on Pure Radio Tipperary and Tipperary Mid West Radio last Christmas, and you can hear this timeless Christmas classic again right here!

Directed by Catherine McVicker.
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October 29, 2021 13 mins
To get us in the mood for Hallowe'en, if you missed the broadcast of 'The Woman' by Presentation Clonmel TY Class of 2021 on Pure Radio Tipperary, you can listen back here!

The Woman - an Original Radio Play, written, performed, and produced by the TY students of the Presentation Secondary School in Clonmel.

The story centres around Lucy, who has been having terrible dreams of a mysterious woman. Her friends think she's crazy... bu...
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October 26, 2021 17 mins
Water Witching is an exhibition of new work by artist Shelagh Honan. Her lens-based narrative features photography, sculpture, video, sound and installation, all of which pivot around an audio video called Aistear.

The film touches on themes of mortality, transcendence, infinity and the abyss. Its co-ordinates are those of modernist poetic cinema, with long takes which are sometimes fixed in slow motion. The central figure moves t...
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October 19, 2021 23 mins
This episode focuses on what's on in Clonmel this year for Halloween -

Colin Everitt of West Gate Creative shares what's planned around town for this years Halloween Celebrations:All events are free. Booking Required..see Eventbrite for more information.
Brought to you by Clonmel Borough District

Spook Trail: 25th-31st October- Join the trail and find the clues.
Drive in Movie: 31st October- Kids Halloween Movies and Uproar video scre...
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