"));WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
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Founded in 2006, Askeaton Contemporary Arts promotes contemporary visual art in Askeaton, County Limerick, Ireland.
The fifth edition of Welcome to the Neighbourhood, an annual programme of invited international and Irish artists resident and working in the town, occurred in July 2010.
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. Welcome to the Neighbourhood 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 resident artists in recent years.
Anita Di Bianco
Angela Fulcher
Jeronimo Hagerman
Dennis McNulty
Filip Van Dingenen
are participating artists for Askeaton Contemporary Arts’ 2010 Welcome to the Neighbourhood programme.
Askeaton derives its name from a waterfall to the south of the town which was known as Eas Geitine, Eas Gebhtene or EasGheiphtine. A tribe called the Geiphtine settled there in pre-Christian times. Throughout the centuries the town has been called Inis Eeibhtine, Inikkefty, Iniskesty, Inisketti, Hiniskefty, Hinksty, Innkefty, Asketon, Askeyton, Askeatton, Askeating, Rockbarkley, Rock Berkeley and Inysgebryny.