Studio Website: www.thegoodhatchery.wordpress.com
Email: ruth.e.lyons@gmail.com
D.O.B: 13/ 09/ 83
Education:
B.A Hons. Fine Art, Sculpture (2003-2007) National College of Art and Design,
100 Thomas St. Dublin, Ireland.
Erasmus scheme, Fine Art Dept. (2006) Academy of Fine Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Written Publications: .
Thesis 07: NewGrange to Nuclear power plants- Humankind’s relationship with the sun. NCAD Library.
Art publication 08: -Sapphire Highway. NIVAL, VAI, The Good Hatchery.
Curatorial work and presentations: .
2010:
Mercedes Fire Touring International Summer School
2009:
Ongoing curated projects and residencies @ The Good Hatchery
Celestial Salt, Outdoor exhibition curated by The Good Hatchery
What Next?, Presentation, Draiocht Arts Centre, Fingal, Dublin
Ritual Flux 51, Birr Vintage Week, visual arts trail, the Good Hatchery in collaboration with Eilis Lavelle
2008:
Time of Little Sun, group exhibition, co-curated in Cavan County Museum.
Sapphire Highway, contextual residency programme, organised and directed in The Good Hatchery. Exhibition curated at The Lab, Dublin.
Midlands Master Classes, presentations on artist-led initiatives, Birr, Co. Offaly.
Awards:
2009:
Offaly County Council Support for Artists Award
2008:
Offaly County Council Support for Artists Award
Residencies: .
February 2010:
Awarded two months residency in Custom House Studios, Westport
August 09:
Selected for the Art@Work residency by Roscommon Co.Co. for Lough Key Forest Park
June 09:
Selected to for residency in Kilruddery House leading up to the Enchanted Garden Sculpture Festival
March 09:
Awarded a three month residency at Belmont Mills studio in Birr, Co. Offaly
October 08:
Selected to work to partake in _UNIT residency programme in Portlaoise curated by Sarah Searson and Sally Timmons
April 07:
Awarded a three week residency at the Friary in Multyfarnham
Selected Exhibitions and Events .
Upcoming
31st- 7th August : ‘Commonage’, Callan, Kilkenny
12th- 19th September :‘Inish Turk Beg’ Residential Project in conjunction with
The RHA and Monster Truck Galleries
March 2011: Invited group show Monster Truck Gallery Temple Bar
2010
‘New Living Art’ curated by Claire Feeley, IMOCA
‘An Cosan Glas Lionnir’ Outdoor sculpture festival,
Donegal
Glasimile, The Good Hatchery @ SOMA, Waterford
2009
Savoir Faire 212, in collaboration with Carl Giffney, The Good Hatchery @ PLACE, Gorey, Co. Wexford.
Amphibious Sound, outdoor installation, Lough Key Forest Park, Co. Roscommon
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, Rapture Heap, Liberty Corner, Dublin 1
The Ecstasy of Power , outdoor scuptural installation for The Enchanted Garden Festival, Kilruddery House, Co. Wicklow .
Iridescence A, in collaboration with Carl Giffney, The Good Hatchery @ Monster Truck Gallery, Francis St. Dublin.
Spatial Relations, an exhibition of publicly sited work culminating the _UNIT Project in Portlaoise
This must be the place, in collaboration with Carl Giffney, group show curated by Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons, IMOCA, Dublin
A Silent Year, group video show curated by Culturstruction, The Lab, Foley St.
2008 .
Life at the Joy, Group show, The Joy Gallery, Dublin 1
No Place, film screening, curated by Human Resources, Memphis, USA
GodBall, Solo show, Grennan Mill, Kilkenny Arts Festival
Never Ending Telescope, group exhibition, The Back Loft Gallery, Dublin.
Weather Permitting, film screening Mantua Art Project, Roscommon
And the dead tree gives no shelter, Group Show, East Wall, Dublin
2007 .
Attic Submarine, NCAD Graduate exhibition, NCAD, Dublin.
2006
Fake Tan, The Cork Street regeneration project, community based project in conjunction with the Arts Council and Percent for Art, Dublin.
2006- Present
Ongoing anonymous public sculptures, interventions and street installations under the group name Bluebricks in Dublin, Ljubljana, Vilnius.
Major Vs Minor, Solo performance, Cathedral Park, Vilnius, Lithuania