Art in the Park
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Rosie Cole
Rosie Cole is a London born artist. Since arriving in Cavan 12 years ago she has immersed herself in the Irish art scene. She has been at the heart of many beautiful Art Instillations throughout Ireland. Rosie will be coordinating & working closely with the amazing Visual Arts team to help explore, expand and present new and exciting work under this year’s chosen theme, HOME.
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Shane Carroll
Shane Carroll (Carroll Prop Art) specializes in costume prop making, set design/construction & Production management. Shane has been at the foundation of the thriving successful Cavan Arts movement for the last ten years. As site manager of Cavan arts Festival his creations & wisdom will be surrounding everything you see at Cavan Arts Festival 2019, including is own installation…Is It Raining Out?
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Jane McCormick - Dympna's Cure
Dympna's Cure is a video installation located in the Cavan Co Council mobile canteen nestled in the trees in the park. The video shows a visit to St Dympna's Well in Lavey, just outside Cavan town. The well is said to have the cure of all head related ailments including depression, headache and epilepsy.
Jane McCormick is a visual artist based in Cavan. She studied at De Montfort University Leicester in the UK graduating with Hons Degree in Ceramics in 1980. Over the intervening years her practice has gone from domestic scale ceramic sculpture to large multimedia installations. Her recent work is informed by her experience of living with chronic illness. The ephemera of a sick life & the associated pills, potions, cures and lotions are some of the themes explored in this work. Dympna’s Cure is a development of a video piece shown at her 2018 exhibition Not Half Right shown in The Atypical Gallery, Belfast.
Supported by Cavan Arts Office Development Award
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Carrie Lewis - Small, Not far Away
Small, Not Far Away is a collection of miniature buildings from Cavan town's past and present. The landmark buildings are integrated into the flora of Con Smith park. Digitally illustrated, the buildings are constructed with folding cardboard. This is a tiny fairy town of nostalgic sites for young and old. These buildings are small, but the ones in Cavan are not far away... from our memories at least.
Carrie Lewis is a Dublin based artist/graphic designer from Cavan. She studied Industrial design & illustration & has worked as a graphic designer for 8 years. She was a member of the Townhall Cavan Arts Space, worked with Trans-art Cavan and has a passion for illustration and all things tiny and miniature.
Supported by Cavan Arts Office Arts Development Award
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Rosie Cole & Cavan Youth Reach - Natures Medicine
Using natural materials and creative spontaneity artist Rosie Cole is facilitating a number of workshops with the Cavan Youth Reach learners. Together they are designing and creating individual willow lantern sculptures to shine light on the park and bring their voice to our festival.
A special Commission by Cavan Arts Festival 2019
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Sally O'Dowd - Mothers Milk
Kindly supported by Cavan Arts Office
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Ciara McKeown - Durational Piece
Ciara McKeown is an artist, curator and producer whose practice focuses on performance and live events. Most recently producing Practice and Power, with Create as part of CAPP. She has performed nationally and internationally, including Dublin Fringe Festival, FUTURE HISTORIES as part of the Arts Council's ART:2016 projects, Nan Arts Festival in Thailand, BUZZCUT festival, First Fortnight Festival and SPILL festival of performance. Improvisation and collaboration are integral to her practice and research.
She performed a durational piece in 2016 as part of Future Histories. Future Histories was a 12-hour group performance in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin in May 2016. 16 artists from north and south of the border responded to the 1916 centenary, creating contemporary perspectives on shared pasts, conflicts, crises and passions in relation to the Rising and its greatest monument, Kilmainham Gaol.
McKeown was part of the Low lying performance during ‘Mind the Step’ 2015. Current interests focus on the connection between the personal and the socio-political. McKeon will do a durational performance on Saturday 18th at Cavan Arts festival.
Supported by Creative Ireland.
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Ciara O'Connor Walsh - Matrescence
Like adolescence, matrescence describes a developmental transition from womanhood to motherhood that is hormonal, physical and emotional. This audio meditation reflects on how women's lives change and evolve in motherhood, how they become entrenched in the domestic sphere: emotional and domestic labour, caring for children, the repetitive loop of the everyday.
You are invited to eavesdrop on the minutiae of the day-to-day work which forms the tapestry of a woman’s life. While listening to these soundscapes, you are invited to listen and conjure your own meaning of the word home, of mother and the transitions into motherhood, and your own imagination of the domestic sphere.
Ciara is a podcast producer and audiophile. She currently produces a number of podcasts within the Headstuff Podcast Network, and with them, made a ten-part series in 2018 – The Eighth – about the eighth amendment referendum. She recently completed a documentary podcast series with A Lust for Life on the mental health system in Ireland – Where There’s A Will, and is currently producing a new series on culture and stress with Niall Breslin. Talk to her about podcasts and she’ll talk back forever.
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Rebecca O'Connor - The Caterpillar Candy Store
Sweets, children's magazines, storytelling & portrait drawing at The Caterpillar's candy store caravan.The Caterpillar is an art & literature magazine for children, produced by Rebecca O'Connor and Will Govan in Milltown in Cavan.
Rebecca O’Connor is a writer, and co-founder and director of The Moth. Her debut novel, He Is Mine and I Have No Other, was described by the Sunday Times as ‘powerful and searing’ and is now available in paperback.
‘I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE The Caterpillar.’ (Charles Ghigna)
‘The Caterpillar is such a unique and inspired magazine.’ (Coral Rumble)
‘Every child should own a Caterpillar.’ (Ian Whybrow)
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Leanne Coyle & The Smile for Me Photo Project
A group trying to change the way we talk about mental health through this beautiful photographic project
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Joey Burns
Through the Doors - Live Chainsaw Art
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Paul Galligan & Will Govan
Live Portraits
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Catriona O'Brien, Helen Foy, Tony O'Brien & John Braughall
Faces & Furniture
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th May, 1-6pm
Con Smith Park
Chris O Brien & Aisling Fay
The Bandstand Theatre