Thanks to @madsholmmads for these shots of the opening party for "I'm sorry, this space is reserved" at @nikolajkunsthal in #copenhagen A brilliant exhibition by international artists with disabilities. Thanks and congrats to curator @kristinasteinbock for inviting me to be part of the show. On view until January 2025 💥🙏 🙏💥
Thank you @amanda_cachia for sending a copy of your first monograph "The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique" with my installation #shortminutematter on the cover. I look forward to a deep read. Available from Temple University Press in hardback, paperback and ebook.Â
The photo I took is from my residency at @ateliercalder in 2015
#corbanwalker #corbanscale
The last two days to see the Spring group show at @solomonfineart on Balfe Street in Dublin city centre, finishing tomorrow. I have these two ambidextrous drawings, on view. Using chalk pastel, I made a series of sequential markings with my left hand and right hand across a large sheet of paper, continuously in opposite directions. When I finished, I smudged the lines to articulate the exercise. #corbanscale #corbanwalker #workonpaper #inthewindow #lastchancetosee
I have some works on paper (centre, left & right) at the Art Evolve Art Fair currently on view in Dublin at the RDS, Hall 4 with @solomonfineart The fair continues over the weekend. Hope you get to see it. 💥🙏💥 @artevolve.ie #evolve #art #corbanscale
I just spent the day at the curragh attending a #spinalinjuriesireland conference on #empowerment for people living with spinal cord conditions. Sooo great & informative on so many levels. Thank you @spinalinjuriesireland for hosting a brilliant medical and scientific analysis of such a broad condition. 🙏🙏✨
Farewell, Ray. Far too soon. I met Ray Cullen in 1985 on my first visit to New York City. He was my brother’s roommate when they lived on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, when there were only a few Puerto Rican bodegas and electrical stores there. On the 2nd night, we came home late and got mugged outside the apartment building. We didn’t actually get mugged because Ray got mad when the 2 kids tried to slash his leather coat with a knife. Ray chased them away and I was a bit shocked, as my first impression of NYC was all a bit too real! Over several further visits to New York, I would see Ray or stay with him in his huge loft on 3rd Ave. There were some pretty wild parties in that loft, the most memorable was after my first show there in 2000, which Ray had helped install dozens of long glass fins, precariously located throughout the space, (pic 1). By the time I eventually moved there in 2005, Ray was fed up with the city and wanted to come home. I put him on a plane, and he set up his own workshop in Dublin and started a family. A few years later he thanked me by building this beautiful Plexiglas sculpture for me at the Hugh Lane Municipal Art Gallery in Dublin, (pics 2 – 5). It is one of my favourite installations and I will be eternally grateful to Ray for his skill, expertise and enormously generous friendship. My deepest sympathies to his family, Virginia and friends, and especially his son, Lucas. May you rest in peace, Ray x❤️
Image 1 “Mapping 4” 2000, Glass & Two-way Mirror, Pace Gallery, New York
Images 2 – 5 “Mapping Hugh Lane” 2009, Plexiglas & Timber, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
⛓️🧱➡️'The matter of practice' : Corban Walker – 18 February, 2:30pm
FSAS is excited to share the first in a new series of afternoon talks in our Sculpture Workshop, 'The matter of practice' . Each 'The matter of practice' talk will see an eminent Irish practitioner discussing studio practice, their choice and use of materials and processes, and how and when these elements resolve into artworks in the artist’s mind. The informal talks take place in a presentation space temporarily arranged within the Sculpture Workshop to allow the artist to bring in samples and examples of their studio practice. After the presentation/talk, there will be time for questions and discussion.
We’re thrilled to welcome Corban Walker – an artist who studies materials in the broadest scope, allowing for any interpretation of their function or appearance – to kick off this series on Wednesday, 18 February at 2:30pm.
Corban Walker (b. 1967, Dublin, Ireland) gained recognition for his installations, sculptures, and drawings that relate to perceptions of scale and architectural constructs. His local, cultural, and specific philosophies of scale are fundamental to how he defines and develops his work, creating new means for viewers to interact with and navigate their surroundings. Walker represented Ireland at the 54th Venice International Art Biennale in 2011.
Find out more at the link in our bio!
Admission is free, but seating is limited. Please arrive in good time before the start of the event. Warm clothes are recommended!
