Noah Rose

‘Samhain Chléire’ zine, Oileán Chléire/ Cape Clear Island

Noah Rose — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:30:27 +0000

Art-zine celebrating the celtic festival of Samhain, and its influence on the modern festival of Hallowe’en, made collaboratively by the three Oileán AiR artists, Vicky Langan, Brigid O’Dea and Noah Rose, in response to our experience of Oileán Chléire/ Cape Clear Island, during the Oileán AiR residency, September-November 2020.

Over the course of our two-month cónaitheacht ealaíontóirí ar Ghaeltacht Oileán Chléire (artist residency on Cape Clear), increasing governmental restrictions were put in place to control the spread of COVID-19. This meant that we had limited opportunities to get to know muintir an oileáin (the island community) When we found out that the national lockdown would prevent the island’s annual community Hallowe’en celebrations from going ahead, we took a break from our own projects to collaborate on this zine, in order to document & celebrate Samhain on Oileán Chléire ag an am aisteach seo (at this strange time).

Designed & published in seven days, the bilingual, full colour, 30-page zine features the island’s uncanny landscapes, the community in disguise, a hand-drawn map of mysterious Chléire place-names, curses, cures, poetry and more. Each zine comes with four unique postcards, made by us, featuring mallachtaí (curses), beannachtaí (blessings) agus leigheasanna (cures) from Oileán Chléire.

A copy of the zine was delivered to every household on Oileán Chléire (observing Covid-19 safety measures) on the morning of Hallowe’en, Saturday 31st October 2020.

Researched, written and designed by Vicky Langan, Brigid O’Dea, Noah Rose.

Míle buíochas / Many thanks:

Ruairí Ó Donnabháin, Máirtín Ó Méalóid, Séamus Ó Drisceoil, and the community of Oileán Chléire.

Logainmneacha ó Eamonn Lankford agus Conchúr Ó Siocháin.

This work was made as part of the Oileán AiR residency programme. Le tacaíocht ó / proudly supported by:

Engaging Communities Grant – Cork County Council Arts Office, Comharchumann Chleire Teo, Ealaín na Gaeltachta and CREATE.

www.vickylangan.com | www.brigidodea.weebly.com

www.oileanair.com

Oileán AiR, Cape Clear Island residency

Noah Rose — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:17:22 +0000

I’m delighted to be traveling to Cape Clear Island, County Cork, Ireland for two months for the Oileán AiR residency, from September to early November 2020.

The residency starts with the question:

‘Cad a thárlódh dá gcaithfeadh ealaíontóirí agus deantóirí am ag smaoineamh ar a gcuid oibre agus an caidreamh idir é agus an Ghaeilge i gcomhthéacs Gaeltachta?’

‘What would happen if artists, thinkers and other creators could take time to reconsider their practice and its relationship to community and the Irish language in the context of the Gaeltacht?’

The world has changed significantly since I started my PhD at Glasgow School of Art; researching the intersection between interdisciplinary sculpture, place and minority language. After months of spending more time on Zoom than I would like, I’m very excited to be traveling to the special environment of Oileán Chléire/ Cape Clear Island. As I go into the second year of my PhD, and with so much of life having moved online, this is a perfectly-timed opportunity to develop my practice-based research in a unique environment, to make new work, to take time to think, to experiment, to meet people and improve my Irish.

During my time on Oileán Chléire, I’ll be investigating the relationship of language, place and sculpture through a process of creating temporary sculptural-poetry in the landscape.

I see the whole residency as a series of interlinked and equally important creative processes: the conversations I have and the connections I make on the island whilst improving my level of Irish, the original visual research in the landscape, the experimentation with found materials, the collaborative process of identifying and translating text in Irish and English, the transformation of this text into some kind of sculptural form, and then the placing of this work in its location – in a way which is sensitive to the environment, temporary and non-destructive.

I envisage this as not just a single work but a number of connected temporal, ephemeral works spread out at different locations across the island. I’m really looking forward to spending time on the island exploring the landscape, learning the history and engaging with the contemporary culture of Oileán Chléire – through conversations, through research, and through engaging with the Irish language.

Oileán AiR: www.oileanair.com

le tacaíocht ó / proudly supported by Engaging Communities Grant – Cork County Council Arts Office, Comharchumann Chleire Teo, Ealaín na Gaeltachta and CREATE.

PhD, Glasgow School of Art

Noah Rose — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:13:00 +0000

As of September 2019, I have enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art on the PhD programme within the School of Fine Art. I will be studying part-time for a practice-based PhD, researching the connection between language, sculpture and place. My Project Title is:

’Making Words Matter – materialising minority language as contemporary sculptural practice in a shifting European.’

I’m very excited to be studying again in such an illustrious and dynamic Art School, with a great supervisory team, very supportive staff, great facilities and connections across other universities and research networks. As my study will be practice-based I will continue to work as an artist and will be researching my field of inquiry through my own work, in the studio and in the field.

During the first semester (until December 2019) I will be undertaking the Research Degrees Training Programme, along with this year’s cohort of PhD/ MPhil students.

‘Inishlacken Project’ 2019

Noah Rose — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 17:26:52 +0000

In June 2019, I’ve been delighted to spend a week on Inishlacken, an uninhabited island off the coast of Connemara, Ireland, as part of the Inishlacken Project, an annual event curated by artist Rosie McGurran from Roundstone, the nearest village and our base for the week. Rosie has organised the project annually for the last 18 years, and invited a really interesting group of artists with a diverse range of practice from across Ireland and further afield.

‘International Public Art Symposium’ 2018, Bhubaneswar, India

Noah Rose — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:46:56 +0000

I am delighted to have been invited to participate in the First International Public Art Symposium in Bhubaneswar, organised by ANPIC (Artist Network Promoting Indian Culture) as part of the Odisha International Art Triennial in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during November 2018.

I am working alongside 22 Indian artists and 15 international artists, making sculpture from recycled waste metal. The symposium is taking place in a new outdoor sculpture museum and will finish on 20 November 2018, at which point the sculpture museum will be inaugurated.

Gertrude Hermes ‘Peacock’ restoration, Ordsall, Salford, England, 2018-19

Noah Rose — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:43:50 +0000

I’m thrilled to be working on a very special project – the restoration and re-siting of a remarkable historic sculpture, ‘Peacock’ by renowned sculptor Gertrude Hermes (1901-83). This beautiful Bronze sculpture was originally commissioned in 1961 by the then Salford Corporation (now Salford City Council) and was sited outside Ordsall Girls’ School. The school was demolished some time ago; the intervening years having seen many changes in Ordsall – a community shaped for many years by the adjacent Salford Docks, now Salford Quays. I have been commissioned by Ordsall Community Arts to restore this beautiful work and re-site it in a new location at Primrose Hill primary school in the heart of Ordsall. The project is due for completion in early 2019 and I’ll be posting more information as the project progresses.

‘Peep Fiction’ 2018, ArtB&B, Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

Noah Rose — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:30:52 +0000

I’m delighted to have been selected to realise my proposal ‘Peep Fiction’ – a site-specific installation for ArtB&B in Blackpool, Lancashire. ARTB&B is a a traditional Blackpool Bed and Breakfast re-imagined by artists for the 21st Century. My installation ‘Peep Fiction’ will fill one of the bedrooms and will use archive photographs, text and analogue slide viewers installed into the fabric of the room’s interior to explore the hidden histories of some celebrated and less well-known denizens of the Blackpool B&B, whilst exploring the cultural heritage of this unique seaside resort town which has been the premier holiday destination of the North of England for over 150 years. More to follow soon…

‘North West Open’ 2017, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Co. Leitrim, Ireland.

Noah Rose — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 13:00:18 +0000

I am very pleased to have been selected to show some work in the North West Open exhibition at Leitrim Sculpture Centre. I will be showing a sculptural/ typographic hybrid piece and an etching “Tuamaí Tashbaan’. This work was originally created and exhibited during my residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre in 2016. It’s great to have returned to the Sculpture Centre for a couple of days, and to do some more work in the printmaking studio.

‘Tír Sáile Symposium’ 13-14 October 2017, Belmullet, Mayo, Ireland

Noah Rose — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:54:30 +0000

I am delighted to be presenting the results of my joint residency with Selma Makela as part of the Tír Sáile residency at a symposium at Aras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet on 13-14 October 2017. The symposium has been convened to mark the 25th anniversary of the original Tír Sáile North Mayo Sculpture Trail and will bring together a number of artists, curators, historians, archaeologists and those instrumental in setting up and developing the Tír Sáile sculpture trail in North Mayo. Selma and I will be making a joint presentation, exhibiting some of our work and participating in discussions, alongside the other residency artists Joanna Hopkins and Gareth Kennedy, as well as research project artist Dorothy Cross.

The symposium is free and all are welcome. Places are limited so booking is essential. More details, full programme and booking information can be found at: https://publicart.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/images/projects/A_Misc/TirSaile_symposium_A4promo_01.pdf

‘Claremorris Open Exhibition 2017′, County Mayo, Ireland

Noah Rose — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:52:42 +0000

I’m very pleased to have been selected to show work in the group Claremorris Open exhibition in Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland. The exhibition opens on 16th September and runs until 30th September. I’ll be showing a selection of sculpture and prints.

Claremorris Open Exhibition is celebrating its 40th Anniversary by turning Claremorris into a living art gallery. For 2017, curator Tom Morton returns to Claremorris , having previously adjudicated the 2009 Open Exhibition. Tom is a writer, independent curator, and Contributing Editor of frieze magazine. His exhibitions include: ‘Apparat’ at The Ballroom Marfa, Texas; ‘Panda Sex’ at State of Concept, Athens; ‘British British Polish Polish’ at CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; and ‘British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet’ (Hayward Gallery, London and touring, co-curated with Lisa Le Feuvre).

For more details on the Claremorris Open, see https://coearts.org/