Triskel Sample Project Space Residency
in 2023, riki was awarded the 2nd sample-studios cork midsummer festival award. In advance of presenting her multidisciplinary installations and pop-up performances at Cork Midsummer festival in June 2024, riki matsuda will engage in a focused residency in Triskel, exploring her materials, methodology and testing her ideas with triskel audiences.
Triskel Sample project space is a new partnership between triskel and sample-studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artist, especially emerging and mid-career artist, to test ideas and to develop new work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career development and audicne engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf’ where they have a space space to develop new ideas, within which risk taking is possible.
Stamp Festival 2024
STAMP 2024 will run from 16 to 18 May at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City.
Cork Midsummer Festival
Enjoy an emotional game of hide and seek while searching for the work of artist Riki Matsuda in this year's Cork Midsummer Festival.
While walking through the streets of Cork, you will pass countless posters, advertisements, and signs, hoping to catch your eye; from an ambiguous Site Notice drilled into a wall to the illegible graffiti on a traffic sign, every word is written to be seen by those willing to pause and read them. If you’re the kind of person who lingers on these leftovers, it is likely you will be able to spot the personal messages left for you by artist, Riki Matsuda.
In her three-piece project for Cork Midsummer Festival, Matsuda uses her fascination with communication to playfully discuss the humor within misunderstandings and the ways in which we stay connected.
Cork Zine Fest 2023
This yar we are bring hoted by Creativiety and change at MTu grande parade, cork city on dec. 9th and 10th. celebrating all froms of paper based delights, including a two-day long market and zine workshops run by creativity and change.
DABF 2023
Dublin Art Book Fair
Dublin Art Book Fair, Ireland’s leading art book fair and centre for artist books presents its thirteen edition. Taking place in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios over ten days, DABF champions small, creative and independent publishers, both Irish and international and artist books. Within this mix, over 500 newly published and unusual publications on art, design, visual culture, philosophy, architecture, select fiction and poetry will feature alongside a special section of nominated books led by guest curator, Wendy Erskine.
Laneway's Christmas Show
Laneway Gallery on Shandon Street
a little Christmas show to celebrate the Gallery’s first year. including works by all the artists who have helped make it a great start! Stop by for affordable art by local artists this december / January.
Maureen's Pop-Up
A tiny local pop-up in my favourite pub in COrk. A small selection of artist and makers will be taking up space in the coziest spot you ever did see. Come see us and take home a few gifts.
LHQ Gallery - Small Things Like These
Cork County Council presents a group exhibition titled Small Things Like These after Claire Keegan’s novel of the same name. The novel is set in the weeks leading up to Christmas in the mid-80s and captures the busyness of the season, the family traditions, and also the complicit silences of a town. For Small Things Like These, LHQ Gallery are presenting almost 100 works by 85 artists, craftspeople and designers that are relatively small in scale. The exhibition at LHQ Gallery will take place from December 1st to 22nd. There will be an opening event on Thursday 30 November at 6pm, all are welcome!
Culture Night 2023
A key event of Culture Night Late 2023, Join us in City Hall for 'Faoi Choim na hOíche' a celebration of the mesmerizing interplay between sound, vision, and movement, an extraordinary exploration of our shared human experience.
We Were Made From Shadows
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents We Were Made from Shadows, featuring large-scale installations and assemblage works by artists Hirona and Riki Matsuda, on view August 23 through September 10, 2023, at City Gallery, located at 34 Prioleau Street.
The public is invited to attend a complimentary reception celebrating the opening of the new exhibition on Thursday, August 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. at City Gallery.
Sample Studios Members Summer Exhibition
Sample-Studios is delighted to present its Annual Members Summer Exhibition in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park. This exhibition showcases new work by our artist members in a variety of media including painting, drawing, print, sculpture, photography, installation and mixed media. We invite you to explore the diversity of our members artistic practices.
irish contemporaries {ii}
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
gap gallery
Gap Gallery is back and hosting another legendary pop-up art exhibition in partnership with the City Gallery and Redux Studios for the 2023 Piccolo Spoleto Festival! The one-night event offers an opportunity for emerging artists to showcase their work while connecting with the vibrant visual arts community in Charleston.
distro
Featuring 90 titles by over 40 artists, Distro (which is a slang term for an independent distributor of zines and other forms of alternative press) is a pop-up exhibition of artists’ books and zines that aims to highlight the practice of artist publishing and zine culture in rural Ireland. Artists’ books have been defined since the 1960s as artworks in their own right and as a means for artists to add and unheard voice into the discussion.
stamp fest
Benchspace, Cork Craft & Design, Sample-Studios and Shandon Art Studios have come together to offer Corkonians and visitors alike a jam-packed weekend programme of over 50 art, design and craft events, exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations, screenings, and markets, all in one extraordinary venue – The Counting House.