RPA Luas Art Competition 2009 Now Closed for Entries
The RPA Luas Art Competition 2009 is now closed for entries. The deadline to enter the competition was Friday, 30th October 2009. RPA would like to thank all those who entered this years competition. This competition is run in conjunction with Dublin Culture Night organised by Temple Bar Cultural Trust. The winning entries will be announced before the end of this year. A big Thank You to all the entrants to this years RPA Luas Art Competition for making it a massive success.
Artists aged 16 years and over were invited to submit artwork using the theme of Luas Docklands (Busáras – The Point). Luas Docklands is the new extension of the Luas Red Line (Connolly - Tallaght) to The Point. The line will serve the IFSC and the area east of the Royal Canal. Stops will be provided at George’s Dock, Mayor Square, Spencer Dock and The Point. The line will link with the Luas Red Line between Busáras and Connolly Stops. Journey time from Busáras Stop to The Point Stop will be approximately 7 minutes. The line is expected to open in December.
RPA were interested in receiving submissions of photography, photos of paintings or sculpture, short stories, funny stories, poetry, graphic designs or indeed any work that can be printed flat. The closing date for entries was Friday 30th October 2009. The winners will be announced toward the end of the year.
The Winner’s Prize
- A cash prize
- Annual Luas Ticket
- Winning entry will be displayed on all Luas Stops for a four week period
- Winning entry will be displayed on Luas trams for a two week period
- Cover image on RPA-Luas 2010 Official Calendar
- Winning entry will be displayed for a four week period on www.luas.ie
- Winning entry will be displayed for a four week period on www.rpa.ie
Click here for Competition Information Booklet
Click here for Rules of Entry
Click here to get Your Questions Answered
Click here for information on How to Enter
Dublin Culture Night 2009 – Friday September 25th
Temple Bar Cultural Trust are delighted to announce details of this years Dublin Culture Night – a night of free late night culture for all the family! Curiosity and energy will fill Dublin city this September as workers, young people, families with children, grandparents and groups of friends escape their usual Friday evening activities to explore the Culture of Dublin for FREE!
In Dublin a record 124 cultural venues will open their doors for Culture Night including St Stephen’s Green Park, the National Museum of Ireland, the Science Gallery Trinity College, The Revenue Museum, Guinness Storehouse, RTÉ Performing Groups, Dublin Castle State Apartments, Gallery Zozimus and a Francis Street Treasure Hunt, The Ark Cultural Centre for Children and much more.
While visitors move from venue to venue, they can experience the exhilaration of live performances, music and colourful acts on the streets and open spaces including a Charlie Chaplin and stilts walkabout, dancing to La Vie en Rose in DCC Civic Offices Atrium, a 50ft inflatable whale in Wolfe Tone Park, the Discovery Gospel Choir on Exchequer Street, Tai Chi martial art performers and a Barbershop Quartet in St Stephens Green Park, Cuban drummers on Henry Street, Thai dancing in Ranelagh, a young people’s multimedia show in Meeting House Square and a Buí Bolg larger than life characters walkabout.
To help visitors move around on the night, Dublin Bus are providing free buses along three culture trails from 6pm to 11pm. Buses will leave every 20 minutes from bus stops at Bachelor’s Walk, Aston Quay and Trinity College transporting visitors to outermost venues. LUAS are also offering 50 free, return tickets for the night.
Culture Night is a hugely important event on the cultural calendar providing people with the opportunity to discover and enjoy the rich cultural offering of the country’s cultural venues at night. This year Dublin Culture Night will see Temple Bar Cultural Trust working in partnership with the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, Dublin City Council, Fáilte Ireland, Dublin Tourism, Dublin Bus, DART and LUAS.
Culture Night will also take place in 10 other towns, cities and counties across Ireland on the 25th. For more information on Culture Night visit www.culturenight.ie or pick up a full programme of venues and events at participating venues or at the Temple Bar Cultural Information Centre at 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Click here to view or download the Dublin Culture Night 2009 Map
Click here to view or download the Dublin Culture Night 2009 Map
STREETS—PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Multi-Media Art Installation at Connolly Luas Stop
Streets-Past, Present and Future is a video, light and sound installation located at Connolly Luas Stop, the Red Line terminus, created by the community of Dublin’s North Inner City with the artists Ciara O'Malley and Sven Anderson.
Streets-Past, Present and Future was officially switched on by local writer-director Peter Sheridan on 29th April 2009 at 7pm on Connolly Luas Stop. Sheridan grew up locally and is best known for his interpretation of fellow Dubliner Brendan Behan’s works both on stage and in film. The Streets—Past, Present & Future installation will run for 12 months, and can be viewed for six hours after dusk each evening.
The installation reflects the ever-changing urban landscape of the North Inner City. Using a collective community voice, the piece expresses the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the community. The installation presents a story that mirrors the complex history and culture of the streets and the communities it represents while inviting Luas passengers, pedestrians and passing traffic to view, interact with and experience the story from different perspectives.
Participation by local people took place over 2003 and 2004 during the artist Ciara O’Malley’s ‘Studio Award’ residency in the local Fire Station Artists’ Studios. Bringing the installation to fruition, has though a lengthy and challenging experience for the artists, it has been worth while. The project has involved input from various technical experts including audio-visual technologists, Luas operator and RPA architects’ office.
Writer and critic Gemma Tipton has praised this new Luas feature. She called the piece “a poem to the North Inner City,” and noted that “the projections come to take on the role of the city speaking for itself, as if it is telling stories and making arguments that come from within its own collective memory.”
Click here to view or download Streets-Past, Present and Future Launch Stop Poster
Tales from the Promised Land
Residents of St Michael’s Estate in Inchicore celebrated the postponed redevelopment of their estate through art in and by the community; Tales from the Promised Land exhibition ran for five days from Friday 21st – Tuesday 25th November 2008.
This outdoor exhibition of large scale sculptural and photography work was created by local people, young and old, working with professional artists. St Michael’s Youth Project, Family Resource Centre and Common Ground, have worked closely together to make Tales from the Promised Land possible. The art on display is as exciting as it is challenging and surprising, bringing to life the experiences of those living at St. Michael’s Estate.
For more information contact Common Ground
Tel: 01-707 8766
Email: siobhan@commonground.ie
For more information on Tales form the Promised Land:
www.commonground.ie
www.stmichaelsestate.ie
Click here to view or download Poster No.1 from Tales from the Promised Land Exhibition
Click here to view or download Poster No.2 from Tales from the Promised Land Exhibition
Click here to view or download Press Release from Tales from the Promised Land Exhibition
Click here to view or download Exhibition Invite from Tales from the Promised Land Exhibition
The Hybrid Love Seat : A Participatory Public Art Project
St. James’s Hospital- Luas Stop
Catherine Byrne T.D., former Lord Mayor of Dublin, unveiled a new sculpture project "The Hybrid Love Seat" at the Luas James’s Stop on February 13th 2008.
Sculptor and lecturer from the National College of Art and Design, Louise Walsh has created, with local young people, The Hybrid Love Seat situated close to James’s Luas Stop beside St. James’s Hospital.
The Hybrid Love Seat spans a 40 metre boundary wall between Mary Aikenhead Flats and James’s Luas Stop curving to form love seats on either side. Railings stand vertically along the piece and are topped with unique bronze sculptures.
These sculptures were created by local teenagers who attended workshops run by Louise in a dedicated studio on Donore Avenue. Students from the Sculpture Department in National College of Art and Design (NCAD) volunteered as mentors on the project, so that drawing and sculpting was explored in a fun, peer led learning environment. The local young people took inspiration from Celtic Art, as well as the architectural features and gargoyles from around Dublin City.
The workshops were not just about creating bronze pieces for the artwork. They functioned as a self development process, exploring ideas like community, environment and self image. At the end of the workshops, the local teenagers had created 16 clay pieces, which were then cast in bronze. These sculptures now feature on the curved railings, which form the love seat sculpture.
Luas, St. James’s Hospital, Diageo, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and many others funded Walsh’s initial design of a boundary structure between the Luas Stop and The Mary Aikenhead Flats.
Sculptor: Louise Walsh www.louisewalsh.org
Local Young Artists: Mary Brannigan, Jessie Brown, Dearbhaile Butler, Aislinn Comerford, Aaron Finlay, Erta Kalemi, Aisling Long, Adriana Madajewska, Lorna McMillian, Sarah Moriarty, Graham Ray, Edel Salinger, Jenny Warren, Mary Warren, Robert West Project
Contributions: CREATE, Irish Youth Foundation, Eric Kinsella (Jones Engineering Group), Edward McLone (Glenveagh Ltd.), Belinda Moller and Roddy Doyle and P Elliot Developers.
Sponsorship in kind for the completion of the project came from Irish Fencing, CAST and Wallace Construction. Special thanks to St Teresa’s Parish who provided the dedicated workshop space.
The Hybrid Love Seat has been discussed in context with other types of participatory/collaborative/commmunity practice on the art forum website http://www.axisweb.org/dlFULL.aspx?ESSAYID=147
For more information on The Hybrid Love Seat please contact Conor O’Byrne Irish Museum of Modern Art on 01-6129950 or by email through info@imma.ie
Click here to view "The Hybrid Love Seat" RPA Press Release
Click here to view “The Hybrid Love Seat” Luas Stop Poster
Click here to view “The Hybrid Love Seat” Launch Invite
RPA Announces Winner of RPA-Luas Art Competition 2007
Daniel Reilly was the overall winner of the RPA-Luas Art Competition 2007. His winning entry "Ride the Luas" is a retrospective look at Dublin through the modern Luas system. The announcement was made by RPA Chief Executive, Frank Allen, on Thursday 24th January 2008, at a special Prize Ceremony in the Fitzwilliam Hotel beside St. Stephen's Green Luas Stop.
Daniel Reilly is a graphic designer originally from the USA now living with his Irish wife in Dublin. As the overall winner of the RPA-Luas Art Competition 2007 had his design displayed as a poster on all Luas Stops from January 18th to February 29th 2008 and featured as the cover for the RPA-Luas 2008 Calendar.
All 12 Runners-Up were awarded a month each on the limited edition RPA-Luas 2008 Calendar.
January image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Monike Dias
February image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Maruta Cesnauska
March image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Nikita Seltsov
April image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Caoimhghin O'Croidheain
May image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Bartosz Kolata
June image on RPA 2008 Calendar by The Children's Sunshine Home
July image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Colm Grey
August image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Killian Dunne
September image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Oreste Casalini
October image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Willem Heffer
November image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Emmet McGlinchy
December image on RPA 2008 Calendar by Nikola Mihov
RPA-Luas Art Competition 2007 ran in conjunction with Dublin Culture Night on the 14th September 2007 which was organised by Temple Bar Cultural Trust. For more information go to: www.culturenight.ie and www.templebar.ie
Luas would like to warmly thank all those talented people who entered the RPA-Luas Art Competition 2007. The standard of entries was exceptionally high with a large range of media being entered including Cartoons, Painting, Graphic Design, Poetry, Photography and Sculpture.
Entries came in from all ages 1-80 years, all parts of the country from Derry to Kerry and all over the world from South Africa, Mexico, France and the UK.
Images from Luas Art Competition 2007 Prize Ceremony can be viewed here.
RPA greatly appreciates all entries in the Luas Art Competition 2007 and wish everyone who entered success with their work in the future. The RPA-Luas Art Competition 2008 is now open for entries. Please click here to go to RPA-Luas Art Competition 2008.
Click here to view or download the winning image from RPA-Luas Art Competition
Click here to view or download Biographical Information on RPA-Luas Art Competition Winner 2007
Click here to view or download Biographical Information on RPA-Luas Art Competition Runners-Up
Click here to view or download Press Release from RPA-Luas Art Competition
POETRY AT BELGARD LUAS STOP
The poetry at the Belgard Luas Stop is part of County Lives by Dermot Bolger, commissioned by South Dublin County Council’s In Context 3 public art programme.
County Lives is a sequence of poems by renowned Irish poet & author, Dermot Bolger, primarily in the voices of commuters undertaking everyday journeys across South Dublin County. Dermot commissioned artist John Carpenter to create a mural of three poems at the Belgard Luas Stop.
The twelve poems in the County Lives sequence are also displayed in twelve locations across South Dublin County between September 2007 and September 2008 and will rotate throughout the year. The locations include County Hall, the Civic Theatre, Clondalkin Civic Office & Motor Tax Office as well as county libraries at Ballyroan, Castletymon, Lucan & Clondalkin.
All twelve County Lives poems are available on the In Context 3 website http://incontext.southdublin.ie
Between the January 1st and March 30th 2008, people who live or work in South Dublin County where invited to submit to the author, via the above website, up to three original poems that reflect some aspect of their lives within the county.
In September 2008, the full text of County Lives will be published, consisting of Dermot Bolger’s original sequence interlinked with a representative cross section of submitted poems by other authors.
County Lives by Dermot Bolger has been commissioned by South Dublin County Council through In Context 3 and funded under the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government’s Per Cent for Art Scheme.
STORE STREET PLAZA AND SCULPTURE
On Friday 9th November 2007 Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Paddy Bourke, launched and unveiled the New Store Street Plaza and Sculpture. This project was made possible by funding from Dublin City Council, local businesses and RPA.
Dublin City Council has redeveloped the public space at Store Street to create an exciting, new and user friendly urban space with a unique sculpture at its focal point. The sculpture, Scáthán, meaning mirror, was designed by artist Robert McColgan. The piece reacts with light, reflecting light in multiple ways within the plaza, causing a unique interaction of the sculpture and the environment.
The New Store Street Plaza was designed by Costin Associates. It features Chinese silver granite paving, a unique lighting design, and five evergreen trees mounted above street level giving an enhanced functional public space.
Dublin City Council Lord Mayor, Councillor Paddy Burke, on launching the New Store Street Plaza and Sculpture wished to thank those who contributed to making this project possible; The Isaac’s Group, Ulster Bank, Brian and Dr. Mary O’Donnell, Bennett Construction, Railway Procurement Agency, SIAC, An Garda Síochana and the National Council for the Blind.
ROUND HERE – Short Film
On 16th August 2007 in Dublin’s Docklands, Round Here a short film about growing up in Dublin’s inner-city was shot on the construction site for the Luas Line C1 (Red Line extension) from Connolly through Docklands to the Point with the very kind permission and facilitation of the Railway Procurement Agency.
The stars, Robert "Bobbo" Sunner (15) and Paul Fagan (16) from the Sheriff Street Project, thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon's filming on the Luas Line C1 Construction site. This short film is part of the Sharp Focus Project, a film production project, funded by the National College of Ireland and produced by Calipo Pictures. The participating young people are from the After School Education and Support Programme, (Sherriff Street Project) which is based in St. Lawrence O’Toole Centre in Sherriff St. Between June – August 2007, a film production team worked with the group on the writing and production of an original short film.
The project will culminate in a Film Screening in Dublin, in National College of Ireland, which will give the participants the opportunity to present their films to an invited audience and to present their work on a cinema screen. Calipo Pictures, recently screened their short film Frankie, funded by the Irish Film Board and RTE, at the Galway Film Fleadh where it received a Special Recommendation. The Sherriff Street Project supports local residents by providing crèche facilities, an after school service and an evening youth programme. Others who have been involved with the Project include Bono, Andrea Corr and Gavin Friday.
The short film depicts the everyday lives of three local teenagers. Paul plays a young criminal who is on the run and has just found out that his teenage girlfriend is pregnant. Devised by the participants of the After School Education and Support Programme, (Sherriff Street). A Calipo Picture Company Production.
Credits
Written by Phillip McMahon
Directed by: Colin Thornton
Lighting Camera by: Ivan McCullough
Produced by Collette Farrell and Darren Thornton and Funded by National College of Ireland.
Please click here to view images from Round Here Short Film Project
Goldenbridge Art Project- Going Places
This photographic project depicting different forms of transport was undertaken by the Bulfin Youth Club’s Photography Group in 2006 in coordination with LUAS and was opened by Councillor Catherine Byrne on 1st February 2007.
The Photography Group involved in this project ranged in age from 10 to 13 years of age. These young photographers chose to depict their own modes of transport - bikes, rollerblades and scooters as well as public transport and other ways of Going Places.
The chosen title also refers to the progress that the young photographers made over the duration of the project with regard to personal growth and development of interests and possible future careers. These talented young people will be ‘Going Places’ as they all progress and continue to learn, and will benefit from the support of a community that cares about their future.
The final display is to remain on the Goldenbridge LUAS shelter adjacent to the Bulfin Community Centre for the next three years.
This project has been completed with thanks to RPA, Common Ground, Canal Communities Local Regional Youth Services and Drugs Task Force, City of Dublin Youth Services Board, Army Equitation School, Dublin Bus, Dolphins Barn Fire Station, Thomas and Stephen Larking, Julia McCauley, Jimmy Hendricks, Laura Flynn from RPA, Declan Masterson and Photographer Jeannie Wenham.
Photographers: Amy Delaney, Aisling Doyle, John Doyle and Sarah Kennedy
Please click here to view images from Going Places RPA Luas Arts Project
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