Maeve Collins and Marie Connole at the Irish Shop.com

Cleary in Hair by Ken Bradley

Norma Jean - Rianta's temporary gallery

Martina Cleary at Hair by Ken Bradley

The images presented in Rianta are part of the ‘The Outside is Inside’ series. This includes photographs and narrative extracts based upon 60 individual interviews and surveys conducted over a 3 month period from July-September 2010, in collaboration with Clare Women’s Network. The short texts are a collation of perceptions, memories and associations brought together as one speaking subject. The sites pictured are particular to the local environment of the Ennis area. Research for this project was supported by the Create – Artist in the Community Scheme. It seeks to explore how womens expeience of physical being within space, forms subjectivity and is directly influenced by the threat of violence. Part II of this body of work will be presented as a solo exhibition at the RHA Ashford Gallery in November-December 2011.

The Lost Girls by Dr. Áine Phillips. Mademoiselle.

A collection of sculptural costumes that function as memorials for lost girls & women in the world. Each outfit is dedicated to a real lost girl, her information is sourced from public internet sites and the piece created as a portrait, using materials and objects worn on the body as representations of her life and identity. This art project functions to further publicise the fates of lost girls and to benefit campaigns for their retrieval. This project has been created with young women artists in London and Kyoto in 2010.

Dr Áine Phillips is based in Clare and she shows her work internationally. She is Head of Sculpture at the Burren College of Art.

Big Money by Lewis Goodman. Stone. Glór

I was once told "If you want to make big money, you have to make it yourself." I am making big money now! (the irony is not lost on me!)

Spoilt Broth by Vincent Wall. Lightbox. Glór.

‘Spoilt Broth’ was an installation in Vincent Wall’s kitchen featuring work by 22 members of the Ground Up Artists’ Collective. The scene was photographed at night and printed onto linen tea-clothes. The title is a humorous summary of the difficulty of collaboration for an art group whos far flung members work independantly in rural isolation. It is a contemporary art version of the traditional illustrated tea-towels which were common decoration in Irish country homes.
The project set out to create an artwork which is inexpensive, informal and a practical object. It is intended to be pinned to the kitchen wall or stuck to the fridge with magnets. It can also be used to dry the dishes. They are on sale at Glor for €5.00 each.