Butler Gallery Education - Adults Archive

Chasing Ostonato
	Glue Factory was a live art project formed in 2004 by composer George Higgs and artist Sarah Lincoln. Glue Factory devises musical and visual performances inspired by the spaces they fill: derelict buildings, old factories, farms, houses and city streets. In 'Chasing Ostinato' Glue Factory led audiences through the workhouse in Callan, exploring the space through instruments and installations fashioned out of buckets, piano wire, car alternators and a sewing machine. Glue Factory performed Chasing Ostinato in Callan Workhouse, Kilkenny on 21 June. Glue Factory was comissioned by Butler Gallery and Kilkenny County Councils Arts Office.

Walking the Line
	Artist Brian Fay led two workshops at the Butler Gallery in June 2007. Workshop participants were instructed in the use and exploration of materials; pencil, charcoal, oil and chalk pastels. A pool of images and reference material was supplied. Brian Fay gave a 15 minute presentation about his current exhibition and working methods and encouraged participants to consider line, tone, composition and colour in the creative environment of the Butler Gallery.


Re-produced 2007


The Butler Gallery Collection
	Context, Choice and Chance Saturday 28 February 2009 The expansion of the Butler Gallery Collection since 1943 has been shaped by many factors over the years including its location in Kilkenny, the collecting policy of different individuals involved in buying and choosing work, and the generosity of artists and collectors. Art historians Catherine Marshall, Roisin Kennedy and William Gallagher lead an afternoon of discussion on the Butler Gallery Collection, talking about its history with reference to work on exhibit and giving insight into the collecting of modern and contemporary art in Ireland in general.


Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
	Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Poetry Reading Butler Gallery Thursday 16 April 2009 Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an animated reader of her poetry which juxtaposes folkloric motifs with modern life. There is a fine sense of humour to her work too along with a feisty strain of feminism. Ní Dhomhnaill’s portrait by Barrie Cooke is one of those exhibited as part of the Barrie Cooke: Portraits exhibiton at the Butler Gallery and on this occasion the poet reads from her repertoire. Booking essential. Please call the Gallery for more information.

Guerrilla Girls Gig
	Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle Friday 3 April 2009 The Guerrilla Girls are a group of radical feminist artists established in New York City in 1985, known for using creative posters to promote women in the arts. A collaboration between Millenium Arts Centre, Portadown, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, the Butler Gallery and Kilkenny Arts Office host a performance by the Guerrilla Girls in the Parade Tower consisting of a presentation and commentary on their work and a ‘skit’ with audience members. With thanks to the OPW for their support. Booking essential. For more information and to book a place, please contact the Gallery.

Barrie Cooke
	Monday 16 March 2009 Barrie Cooke leads a unique and illuminating tour of his current exhibition Barrie Cooke: Portraits at the Butler Gallery, shedding light on sixty years of painting and talking specifically about his portraits of friends on view in the exhibition – among them luminary poets, writers and artists such as Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Ted Hughes, Núala Ní Dhómhnaill and Leland Bardwel; John McGahern and Dermot Healy; and Dorothy Cross, Camille Souter and Nick Miller. Booking essential. For more information and to book a place, please contact the Gallery.

Sonia Shiel
	The Brief Tremendous Wednesday 14 January 2009 Schools Talk 11.30am Public Talk 2.00pm Dublin-based artist Sonia Sheil works in a range of media including painting, sculpture, film and installation. Within The Brief Tremendous for the Butler Gallery, paintings are exhibited alongside sculptural work made of crude man-made materials, as components of installations that evoke fictitious environments. In this talk, Sheil discusses her explorative and adventurous approach to her work with reference to the pieces in the exhibition.