Introduction 2016
In acknowledgement of the importance of time to the incubation of the site specific idea, the residency was offered in two parts, an initial visit and a return research development and production phase. In 2016 the artists continued their enquiry into the very depths of this context; drawing on history, fiction, geology, communication and community. Linking the presence of St. Ita’s Hospital to stories embedded in rock, sea and atmosphere through radio and sound, illuminating communication portals from Lambay Island, a volcanic past and the mobile home park itself. Fingal County Council proudly supported these ambitious explorations into history and landscape with some of Ireland’s most fascinating contemporary artists. We were also grateful for the reception and welcome the project received in the area.
In keeping with the experience of process in practice we invited Suzanne Walsh to produce a creative text which responded to her own experience of the area as an art writer. Suzanne drew on some of 2016’s themes through conversations with the artists who have inhabited this place both past and present. We also commissioned photographer Brian Cregan who, alongside Rossi McAuley of Distinctive Repetition created a bespoke, site responsive design piece, where the layers of this landscape were presented through graphic and traditional photographic form with stills shot by Brian using medium format.
In 2016 we explored shared interests in this particular residency model with the National Agency for Collaborative Art practice Create and offered the Resort Residency experience to an International resident drawn from their Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme network, we welcomed awarded performance artist Selina Thompson from the UK to Lynders Mobile Home Park this year.
Congratulations to 2016’s artists Alan James Burns, Caroline Doolin, Emer Lynch, Fiona Marron, Ella de Burca, Michael McLoughlin & Mike Finn on their new work and welcome new artists to the Programme, Catherine Barrargry, Deirdre O’Mahony, Suzanne Walsh, Brian Cregan, Rossi McAuley of Distinctive Repetition and Create. Thanks is due to Gerry Lynders & family, Eilish McDermott, Larry Carolan, Anne Hand and all at the Bleeding Pig Festival, Peadar Bates, the Tower Singers, Tom Noctor and volunteers at St. Ita’s Radio Station, Tracy Lanigan & Caroline Coakley at St. Ita’s Hospital, Jacinta Lowndes at the Donabate/Portrane Community Centre, Noelle Corcoran and the Donabate/Portrane Dramatic Society, Ailbhe Murphy, Lynnette Moran & all the Create team.
For further information, click here to download the 2016 booklet.
