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Founded in 2006, Askeaton Contemporary Arts promotes contemporary visual art in Askeaton town, County Limerick, Ireland. 

By developing and understanding how art might be produced and experienced in this locality, Askeaton Contemporary Arts aims to open up fresh possibilities of how art might operate outside a city environment, while concurrently supporting the production of new artists’ projects. The seventh edition of Welcome to the Neighbourhood, an annual programme of invited international and Irish artists resident and working in the town, will occur in July 2012. Commissions and exhibition projects are also frequently organised, often taking the everyday life of Askeaton as a subject.

Askeaton Contemporary Arts has introduced the work of artists from Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Mexico, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Northern Ireland and Ireland to Askeaton.

This website features a selection of projects made by artists in recent years, along with regular updates and news.

 
 

NEWS

DECEMBER 2011


Upon an island in the middle of Askeaton, the remains of a Hellfire Club can be seen. Set up

in the mid 1700s by the Duke of Wharton throughout the UK and Ireland, most Hellfire Clubs

were soon outlawed and shut down. However, the Askeaton Club, founded in 1740 and the

most westerly branch of the organization, probably stayed in existence until the end of the

century, and received visitors from near and far. Known as a satirical gentleman’s club, those

who met there considered it as a way of shocking the outside world. The supposed president

was the Devil, although the members themselves did not apparently worship demons or the

Devil, but called themselves devils. Mock religious ceremonies took place, with dishes like

Holy Ghost Pie, Breast of Venus, and Devil's Loin served, washed down with Hellfire punch.

Lurid tales are often recounted in local folklore of other outrageous rituals enacted.

Askeaton Contemporary Arts have commissioned artists Diana Copperwhite, Tom Fitzgerald,

Stephen Brandes, Sean Lynch and Louise Manifold to produce new artworks around the

Hellfire Club legacy, all to be presented in Askeaton in March 2012. A publication on the project

will follow in summer 2012.

Askeaton Contemporary Arts features in The Irish Times, see here

 

NOVEMBER 2011

Oswaldo Ruiz, Askeaton Idle, 2011

New York-based BOMB magazine features an online article on some recent Irish art by

Askeaton Contemporary Arts curator Michele Horrigan. It can be read here at BOMBBLOG

 

SEPTEMBER 2011

Magdelena Jitrik's artwork Painting in Askeaton is included in the 12th Istanbul Biennial,

curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffmann. The exhibition runs from 17 September-13 November 2011,

and features a painting and video made by Magdelena during 2009's Welcome to the Neighbourhood.

Painting in Askeaton also features in the publication Vitamin P2 New Perspectives in Painting, an

overview of new contemporary painting from around the world published by Phaidon.

Askeaton Contemporary Arts reviewed in Paper Visual Art Journal

AUGUST 2011

Artist Andrew Dodds receives an Artist in the Community Award from the Arts Council and

CREATE, Ireland's national development agency for the collaborative arts. Beginning in 2012,

he will develop a long term project called Paradise Regained in collabration with the inhabitants

of Askeaton. To see more about Andrew's work, see www.andrewdodds.com

AUGUST 2011

Documentation of 2011's Welcome to the Neighbourhood now online, SEE HERE!

JULY 2011

APRIL 2011

Read more about Welcome to the Neighbourhood at Independent Curators International

MARCH 2011

Michele Horrigan reports on The Curatorial Intensive, a New York-based workshop organised

by Independent Curators International. READ HERE

 
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