Interface Inagh Residency Exchange in Pasaj, Istanbul, Turkey and Leitrum Sculpture Centre

Interface Receives an International Residency Scheme Award from the Arts Council

Interface was delighted to receive an International Residency Award this year from the Arts Council of Ireland. This award will fund a series of residencies in Ireland, Sweden and Turkey.
The artists selected are Anna MaclLeod, Kathryn Maguire, Eliška Kováčiková, Kate Fahey and Zahra Zavareh. Each artist will undertake 5 weeks of residencies between Interface, Leitrim Sculpture Centre Manorhamilton, Detroit Stockholm and PASAJ Istanbul.

Kate Fahey

Kathryn Maguire

Anna McLeod

Zahra Zavareh

Eliska

About the artists:

Kathryn Maguire is making diverse cultural references linking the past with the contemporary; exploring geology, history of materials including building materials and the circular economy. Current themes in her practice are lithics, minerals and mining and knowing place from the ground up.

Eliška Kováčiková is a Slovakian visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She holds a BA in Printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, additionally she took part in several study programmes in Finland, Lithuania, Russia and at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has been featured in solo- and group exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. Her artistic practice encompasses printmaking, drawing, sculpture and large-scale site-specific installations with a focus on experimental approaches, spatial examinations and cross-media practises.

Anna Macleod is an independent visual artist, researcher and educator based in Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, She studied B.A. Fine Art Sculpture and Painting at NCAD and more recently graduated with an MA in Fine Art Practices (MAVIS) 2009.
Her work mediates complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical and cultural understandings of land and water through a variety of visual art media. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland and Internationally since the 1990’s. Recent awards include residencies at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2021 & 2022 and a 2023 Reach Scotland Residency Award to Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
Anna is a former Lecturer and Programme Chair of the Fine Art programme at TU Dublin .
www.annamacleod.com

Kate Fahey is an artist based between Kilkenny and London working with print, sculpture, moving image and installation. Recent solo exhibitions include Mouthnotes at Pallas Projects Dublin in 2022 and blubbing, at Commonage London in 2021. Recent group exhibitions include Bodies of Water at CCA Andratx Mallorca, Small Sculptures at Sharp Projects Copenhagen (2023), Living Balance at The Library Project Dublin, em-bracing at The Lab Gallery Dublin (2022), Woman in the Machine, Visual Carlow and Gut Feeling, Arti et Amiticiae, Amsterdam (2021). In 2021/22 she was the recipient of the New Contemporaries and SPACE Studios Bursary. She has completed residencies including ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin (2019); Guest Projects, London (2018); Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2018); British School at Rome (2017) and Callan Workhouse Union, Kilkenny (2016). In 2015 she received an MA in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art, London and in 2020 she completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London supported by an AHRC Techne Studentship.

Zahra Zavareh From Tehran (IRAN), currently based in Stockholm.
Visual artist working with mixed media. Zahra is aiming for her work to interact with its audience and her way of expressing herself is always in flux.
She has participated in many group exhibitions. Since 2001 her work as been seen in venues such as The 5th Tehran sculpture of Tehran(2007), Three Generations of Iranian Sculptors(2010), Art habens art review (2015). Video installments have been shown in Limited Access Four and five(festival for video) (2013-2014) and Stockholm Fringe Festival (2017), Manifesto: A moderate Proposal (2018)

Silt & Other Matters

Kathryn Maguire in the Department of English

Kathryn Maguire is an artist-in-residence at King’s College London. Working in collaboration with Dr Jemima Matthews, Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature, Kathryn is working on a project exploring the rich history and possible futures of riverine and estuarine matter.

Field trip to Isleworth with Dr Di Clements examining London Clay in the Thames Estuary. Micro fossils were found and sharks teeth.

Silt and other Matters

This residency will explore the rich history and possible futures of riverine and estuarine matter. Six materials have been selected and this project will consider the biography of these materials, their physical characteristics, and the sites and spaces where they can be recovered. This practice-based research provides a new way of uncovering the literary and material history of the river. By introducing hidden voices from the archive Dr Jemima Matthews and artist Kathryn Maguire will introduce a new set of narratives about riverine materials. Through this unique collaboration, Dr Jemima Matthews and Kathryn Maguire will explore the early modern, modern, and future history of these materials on and off the page. By tracing the six materials through time and space this residency will engage with landscapes lost and regained by the river; histories of flooding, drought and riverscape management; local and global narratives of crisis and sustainable practice. 

Project team

Dr Jemima Matthews is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and culture at King's College London. She is currently preparing her monograph Habitat and Habitation: The River Thames 1550 to 1650 for publication. Challenging the divide between riverine texts and contexts in new ways, this study unsettles the distinction between written and physical geographies.

Kathryn Maguire is making diverse cultural references linking the past with the contemporary; exploring geology, the history of materials including building materials and the circular economy. Current themes in her practice are lithics, minerals and mining, and knowing place from the ground up.

Extraction: Loss and Restoration

Extraction: Loss and Restoration

An evolving exhibition and artist in residence projects: 16 July – 26 August and 2 – 30 September (closed 27 August – 1 September)

Featuring works by Darren Almond, Onya McCausland, Chris Drury, Shaun Fraser, Kaitlin Ferguson, Anthony Powis, Frankie Turk, Sara Grisewood, Kathryn Maguire, Aindreas Scholz

 For Extraction: Loss and Restoration, GroundWork Gallery will be a hive of activity. We will host an evolving exhibition, with a total of 5 artists in residence. Two of them join in as part of our new consortium in Norfolk. A stunning exhibition will anchor the programme.

The exhibition begins on 16 July. However, from 27 August – 1 September, it will close for reorganisation. On 2 September it will reopen to include the results of the work of all 5 artists in residence. See the link to Lynn News press here.

Extraction: Loss and Restoration. The Artist in Residence Programme

Supported by a grant from Norfolk Coast Partnership, Anthony Powis and Frankie Turk will explore, through their art projects, a range of highly topical extraction-related themes which are critical for the local environment. A third artist, Sara Grisewood joins the Residency programme from the University of the Arts London’s prestigious, Art in the Environment Residency programme.

Thanks to a new GroundWork Gallery Residency Consortium with The Grange Projects, Great Cressingham https://www.thegrangeprojects.org/ and Broomhill Wetlands, Reepham, two further artists: Aindreas Scholz and Kathryn Maguire will take part as Associates.

GroundWork Gallery Artist in Residence Consortium Programme

In residence at The Grange Projects, Great Cressingham

https://www.thegrangeprojects.org/

Kathryn Maguire: 8-19 August

Kathryn Maguire Living Mountain

Kathryn Maguire intends to research the silica quarry and ancient flint in order to inform her new work about our relationships with minerals. She says: “My primary medium is sculpture and over the last seven years I have researched the locations of minerals and metals and their histories.

I use mould making as a major process and I have discovered I am using large quantities of silicone in rubber moulds. Silica sand is used in glass making, ceramics, sand blasting and yet it is also used for golf courses . I am interested in the levels of silica within our bodies.

One discourse I am interested in is the geological body and also how we use geology as technology. I am fascinated by the elements used in our daily life, by the rocks we carry about and are so dependent on. For example in phones: there is 24.88% silicon in a smartphone. “

GroundWork Gallery

17 Purfleet St, King's Lynn PE30 1ER

Rathfarnham Educate Together artist in residence

The overall project is titled Magnes.

Magnet’ is derived from the legend of Magnes, or from the territory of Magnesia. Pliny states that Magnes, the shepherd, discovered it, and the legend told of him is that while carrying a message over Mount Ida he felt his feet clinging to the earth, to the iron ore which lay thickly upon the hill. Hence the name of the Magnet. But Magnesia was a territory whence this native iron was for hundreds of years exported, and the name “Magnet” is, no doubt, due to this place.

I have always been a Rock Hound, I cannot resist having a rock or pebble in my pocket. Later as a Adult I realize how those simple acts were a way for me to understand the world I inhabited. I guess I am a hobby geologist. This has been informing my practice and research and output since 2016. While I am in AIR I am researching the invisible forces that created the planet and their importance throughout the ages.

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Fish Factory East Iceland

Kathryn Maguire is an Installation Artist, Ireland. Kathryn came to the Fish Factory for a residency for the month of October 2019. She spent her time here exploring the remote landscapes of the East Fjords researching geological phenomenon. Her findings shall inform solo shows in 20/21 investigating The Physical World and Materials. She tested strange goings-on within the Earths Crust aided by Icelands leading Geologists and fabricated and floated geometric casts in the icy seas near the residency.