Beara Arts Festival

08/08/2019

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04/08/2019

The opening of Landscapes of a Life: The Paintings of John Eagle / Beara Arts Festival.

01/08/2019

Mary Sullivan in today's Irish Examiner. Mary's new work, Breathe, launches at Lonehort Battery, Bere Island at 3pm Sunday August 4th.

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Mary Sullivan’s art has been heavily influenced by her life in West Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

31/07/2019

Just a reminder that Landscapes of a Life: The Paintings of John Eagle will be opened by the Mayor of the County of Cork Cllr Christopher O'Sullivan at the Beara Coast Hotel, Castletownbere at 3pm Saturday August 3rd.

Tim Goulding will deliver a talk on John's life and work at the same venue at 12pm Saturday August 10th.

All welcome.

Thanks to the Southern Star for their feature on the exhibition.

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21/07/2019

Beara Arts Festival is delighted to present our 2019 visual art commission, Mary Sullivan’s Breathe, which launches at 3pm, Sunday August 4th at Lonehort Battery, Bere Island.

Mary, a native of Bere Island, is an award winning visual and performance artist. Well-known for her inventive use of performance, photography and installation, she draws unique inspiration from her picturesque surroundings and the many aspects of human nature that are typically overlooked.

Mary is a graduate of DIT Dublin School of Creative Arts, Sherkin Island, where she was awarded a first-class honours BA in Visual Art. In 2018, the artist was selected to participate in the RDS Visual Arts Awards Exhibition, where she was awarded the acclaimed Taylor Art Award for her installation and video sculpture At Home, At War.

Mary was listed as ‘one to watch in 2019’ by esteemed RTÉ art critic Cristín Leach, and more recently, completed a four-month residency at Uillinn, the West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, where she has been developing her work for upcoming exhibitions, including Beara Arts Festival and the RHA Futures Exhibition in November.

Beara Arts Festival 2019 will see Mary Sullivan showcase her most recent work Breathe, an immersive visual and sound installation in an underground tunnel at Lonehort Battery, Bere Island.

Lonehort Battery is situated on the east end of Bere Island, approximately 2.3 km from Rerrin village. Mary’s work will be available to the public from 11:00am – 4:30pm from August 4th – 11th.

Breathe is funded by Cork County Council West Cork Municipal District Creative Communities Scheme.

For more information on Mary’s current and upcoming projects, or to contact the artist: www.maryksullivan.com

21/07/2019

Beara Arts Festival launches at 3pm, Saturday August 3rd with the exhibition Landscapes of a Life: The Paintings of John Eagle at the Beara Coast Hotel.

Through his work as an artist, writer and photographer, John promoted Beara tirelessly until his untimely passing in December 2018.

John was born and grew up in Oxford, but visited Beara regularly from the age of seven. His mother Dorothy bought a house in Formanes, Eyeries in the 1960s, and John himself made his home in Derrivore, Kilcatherine when he settled in Beara in 1991.

John first made his name as a photographer, producing postcards and calendars of all the lighthouses around the coast of Ireland. His work was the subject of two books, An Eagle’s Eye View of Irish Lighthouses, published in 1999, and Ireland’s Lighthouses: A Photo Essay, published by Collins Press in 2010 and reprinted in 2013. He also organised lighthouse tours, attracting visitors from all over the world.

John’s interest in painting was encouraged by local artists such as his friends Tim Goulding and the late Maurice Henderson. His love of the landscape of Beara is evident in all his work, in the paintings of the hills and mountains where he walked his dogs, and those of the sea where he’d fished as a boy.

John travelled extensively, and his paintings were bought by collectors throughout Europe and America. Ultimately, however, his heart was always in Beara, and it is fitting that he should be remembered with this exhibition of his work in the one place in the world he considered home.

Landscapes of a Life: The Paintings of John Eagle will conclude with a talk on John’s life and work by Tim Goulding at the Beara Coast Hotel at 3pm on Sunday, August 11th.

With special thanks to Martin Eagle, Sue Swansborough, Georgina Goulding and Tim Goulding, and the Beara Coast Hotel.

Supported by Cork County Council Arts Office.

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