UPCOMING.. Crunnui na nOg funded by Creative Ireland, June 15th and 16th 2024. ‘Four Walls and a Roof’ art engagement workshops.
Art workshops in Irish Georgian Society exhibition space, facilitated by Rachel Burke and Niamh Moran. Four booked-in free workshops run over two days as part of Crunnui na nog. Morning workshops catering towards under 12’s and afternoon workshops for teens.
Building your own 3d model out of card, paper, collage and paint of houses/homes to be part of an installation piece. Burke and Moran have a two- person exhibition running in the Irish Georgian Society and the workshops are designed to respond to exhibition, the venue’s architecture and also to housing crisis.
Book your free tickets..
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/four-walls-and-a-roof-tickets-890161405727?aff=oddtdtcreator
UPCOMING… National Drawing Day 2024
Saturday, May 18th.
Join artist Rachel Burke on National Drawing Day for Plein Air Painting in the gardens of Butler Gallery.
The workshop will include experimentation on paper, using pencil, pens, charcoal, pastels, watercolours and acrylic inks on paper.
Rachel will guide participants through observational drawing from nature, creating mark marking and documenting what you see, combining it with a personal response to nature. Creating a layered image of immersive experience in the garden and surrounding area around the gallery.
National Drawing Day is an annual celebration of drawing and creativity, an initiative of the National Gallery of Ireland and is co-hosted by dozens of partner venues around the island of Ireland.
National Drawing Day 2023, drawing from Butler Gallery collection
Studio Launch and Open Studio 2023 funded by Kilkenny Arts Office, Arts Act Grant.
Waking the Seeds. Art and ecology engagement project. I am collaborating with Maura Brennan from the Acron Project on an exciting new project. We are bringing both of our strengths to the project combining monthly Art Workshops in Butler Gallery and Forest workshops in Kilkenny Woodlands. We will explore our human connection to nature and how we can hold a group vision for nature and her restoration through creative practice, ritual and nature connection practices.. It is an invitation to play and create, to restore and be restored and spend some time in nature.
The Waking the Seeds collaboration will explore our human relationship to forests and nature through creative practice and nature immersion . The collaboration will be a blend of creative practice in the Butler Gallery and nature based workshops with the Acorn Project in the woods. Project is commencing February 5th 2022 and running till Autumn 2022.
CREATIVE SPACES, KCAT and Butler Gallery Art collaboration. As KCAT Artist Facilitator I run Creative Workshops in the Learning Centre in the Butler Gallery. Funded by Community Education, Kilkenny ETB. Current courses running till Easter. New courses every term on Thursday evenings and Friday mornings. Contact alice@kcat.ie for details.
| KCAT Pop-up Open Studio project funded by Creative Ireland. It is a KCAT and Butler Gallery collaboration. The Educational Centre of the Butler Gallery is hosting KCAT Open Studio on thirteen Thursday evenings. Initiated in October 2020 and running till Spring 2021. Rachel Burke sourced funding and is facilitating KCAT Pop-up Open Studio project. Custodians is an Art Engagement project funded by Creative Ireland and Kilkenny County Council. In 2019, Rachel Burke was awarded funding to create greater community access to the arts. The project consisted of collaborating with a group of farmers, becoming an artist-in-residence in St. Lachtains N.S., holding an exhibition of final works and producing an Artbook. During the year long project, Burke met with individual participants in their home places and gathered stories, images and photos to support her resulting artwork. Farmers collaborated with Burke on how to document their homes and farms in paintings, deciding on how they wanted to be represented. As a body of work, the compilation reveals a visual story of the Threecastles area both past and present. Rachel Burke Artist Facilitator 2010- Facilitator of Workshops, Events and Artist-in-Residence for Butler Gallery 2019- Facilitator of Open Studio and Roots courses for KCAT Arts Centre, Callan 2019- Facilitator of Workshops and Events for Recreate, Dublin 2020 Facilitator of Adult Workshops for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Arts Office in Dlr Lexicon Gallery, Dublin |
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