IADT 3rd year students
Milada Bacik, Aine Belton, Joanne Boyle, Ella Burke, Emer Brady, Vivienne Byrne, Niamh Carroll, Berni Clarke, Gavin Clarke, Penelope Collins, Joan Connolly, Olwen Coughlan, Matt Cullen, Jeanette Donnelly, Louise Farrelly, Conor Foy, Katherine Fitzgerald, John Fitzpatrick, Paul Gallagher, Ciara Grant, Jackie Gray, Niamh Heery, Yvonne Higgins, Helen Horgan, Phillipa Kavanagh, Orla Keeshan, Angela McAndrew, Conal McGovern, Anthony Murphy, Bernadette O´Brien, Audrey Reilly, Sinead Reilly, Jennie Taylor, Stephen Taylor, Louise Scott, Jane Stewart, Nicky Teegan, Saskia Vermeulen, Anna Wallace, William Whyte
1 in 10 is an exhibition took place in Broadstone XL which brought together the work of a group of visual arts practice students in their third year at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology. The range of media and thematic concerns in the work of the students reflected the diversity in current artistic practice. However, the diversity that exists in the forms and content of contemporary artistic practice is not necessarily reflected in the range or number of working opportunities for the visual arts graduate. The title was chosen by the artists and refers to a statistic overheard in the class-room that only 1 in 10 graduating art students develop a career as practicing fine artists. Whether this statistic is a merging of fact and fiction remains unclear but as students considering their future this idea took hold and served as a reminder of the tough reality of ´making it as an artist´.
In a spirit of lightness and jest the artists in the show have voted amongst themselves in an exaggerated and ridiculous contest on whose work amongst their student peers in the exhibition is ´most likely to hang with the work of Sophie Calle/Damien Hirst/insert the name of your favourite BIG artist here ______´. Audience members can identify these works by the ribbon rosettes.
On a more serious note, recent research suggests that there are some common factors which enhance career longevity for artists such as the holding of a second job which is complimentary to the role of the artist (eg. teaching or arts administration), the support of peers in the artistic community and thirdly, the existence of artistic neighbourhoods with studios, art spaces and local businesses all providing positive conditions for the creation of art.
Artists are above all creative and resourceful, one hopes that these brave, ambitious, young artists (young in their art-making and usually in years) create for themselves a meaningful career supported by an engaged audience and a society responsive to art and artists.
Cleo Fagan
curator
For more information please contact:
Jennie Taylor
jennietay@gmail.com
0861959403
