KILLRUDDERY ARTS IS A CULTURALLY DIVERSE PROGRAMME THAT INVITES ARTISTS WHO WANT TO ENGAGE AT AN ADVANCED LEVEL WITH THEIR OWN WORK AND, IN SO DOING, ENLIVEN THE PEOPLE WHO VISIT, WORK AND LIVE AT KILLRUDDERY.
Established in 2006 under the stewardship of Lady Fionnuala Ardee, Killruddery Arts offers free of charge residencies to applicants (both individual artists and groups) who seek a unique environment in which to produce groundbreaking work.
The programme is founded on a vision of excellence to produce work in the arts that can inspire Killruddery’s own culture and events programme.
Killruddery Arts champions a culturally diverse programme and continues to welcome any artist who shows commitment, passion and curiosity in their chosen craft – from oil painting to film-making, and from sculpture to composing.
We have offered residencies to an eclectic mix of artists working in Europe. Offering solitude and retreat, we are very proud of the new art that has been produced here and further developed into successful exhibitions or touring material. Where possible, Killruddery offers a showcase for each artist in our annual programme, featuring events open to the public or designed exclusively for our members.
Here below are some example profiles of Killruddery Arts’ current and past artists-in-residence.
2019 RESIDENCY
Joanna Kidney was born in Dublin and currently lives in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Through drawing, painting and installation, her work explores ideas of temporality and the interrelationship between all living matter. Seeking to make some sense of life, it reflects on how complex and vulnerable our lives are within the infinite universe. At Killruddery, Joanna explores these themes for her upcoming show Pendulum using encaustic paint – an ancient, immediate and tactile painting process using molten pigmented beeswax. Solo Exhibitions include: List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia (upcoming), The LAB, Dublin (upcoming), Wexford Arts Centre (2018), West Cork Arts Centre, Uillinn (2018), Galway Arts Centre (2016), Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow (2015), RHA Atrium, Dublin (2013) and The Drawing Project, Co. Dublin (2012). She has exhibited widely in group shows in Ireland, France, Germany and the USA.
2019 RESIDENCY
Joseph Young is an artist living and working in Brighton (UK) and Berlin. A specialist in binaural recording techniques, his sound diptych The Missing Paintings is held in the permanent collection of Towner Art Gallery (UK) and a 10-year retrospective of his Neo Futurist Collective artist group, Make Futurism Great Again, was held in 2018. Joseph’s residency project takes the archives, architecture and grounds of Killruddery as its starting point to uncover unheard and forgotten stories of Anglo-Irish social histories. He seeks to creatively inhabit the historic Meath family archives, identifying key texts, sounds and images to produce a parallel, contemporary sonic archive using 3D audio techniques. This is part of a practice based PHD with SMART lab at UCD, supervised by Professor Lisbeth Goodman and funded and supported by the Irish Research Council and Killruddery Arts.
2018 RESIDENCY
Róisín Pierce is an Irish textile designer who graduated from the National College of Art and Design (Dublin, Ireland) with a BA Hons in Textile Design. Led by experimental textiles and sculptural forms, Róisín combines innovative 3D fabric manipulation and traditional textile techniques. Her S/S18 collection explored textiles, construction and sculptural silhouettes for a contemporary audience.
2016 RESIDENCY
Performers and composers, Nico Brown and Martin Brunsden, returned to Killruddery to launch their new album Owl Music – five years in the making. Following their album for families ‘Out Of The Door Of The Ark’, this was a circular nocturne of original instrumental lullaby with interludes of sea, played on double bass, piano, harp, concertina, guitar, shruti and sansula.
2016 RESIDENCY
Irish singer and actress Lisa Lambe is a former member of the famous ensemble Celtic Woman. Her debut solo album, Hiding Away, was recorded in Nashville and received much acclaim worldwide. Lisa collaborated with Martin Brunsden and Fiachna Ó Braonáin at Killruddery to explore and record songs for a new album. Martin has worked with holy men and women, artists, musicians, poets, sculptors and theatre companies – as well as a magnificent herd of children. Fiachna has worked with African gospel singers, Moroccan tribesmen, Texan swingers and Irish balladeers as well as performing with his Irish rock group, Hothouse Flowers, for over thirty years.
2013 RESIDENCY
Gavin Beattie is a Wicklow based graphic designer, illustrator and screenprint artist. He is also co-founder of Tiny Little Horse, a small, design and poster art collective producing limited edition, hand-printed posters and prints. Gavin Beattie designed and printed three limited edition colour, silkscreen prints of Killruddery using eco-friendly, water-based inks on 250gsm, recycled paper.
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