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pluck projects are delighted to announce the launch of From Pride in Diversity to Standing Fast: Out Art, 1996 – 2001.

Platforming the work of LGBTQ+ artists from Ireland and abroad, Out Art captured the range of work being made by q***r artists in the wake of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland in 1993. First organised to coincide with Pride celebrations, the group exhibitions offer insight into q***r visual practice during this important moment in Irish LGBTQIA+ history and the intellectual and artistic context of the time. Supported by the RHA, and the Association for Art History, this publication includes reproductions of works and reprints of original catalogue essays, offering an opportunity to revisit this important exhibition.

Designed by Niall Sweeny, designer for several of the original catalogues, the publication reflects on Out Art’s legacy and images a community of people working to understand what it meant to make and show q***r art at the turn of the Millenium in Ireland.

This project was made possible by the generosity and thoughtful contributions of numerous people and pluck would like to thank all the artists and writers who have allowed us to reproduce their work, and those who have supported this project's development. Particular thanks to: , , ,

Image 1: Andrew Fox, Sauna 1, 1992, pencil on paper and Street Corner, 1993, pencil on paper, OutArt pages 54 -55 designed by Niall Sweeney

Image 2; Lorna Healy, doing it to/for themselves, 1997, photographs, OutArt, pages 80-81, designed by Niall Sweeny

Image 3: Niall Sweeney, b.l.a.b. (bleeding like a bastard), 1997, skin, ink, blood, needles, plant, video projection on latex screen, OutArt pages 82-83, designed by Niall Sweeny.

Pluck@RHA part 4 is now on show in the RHA’s Atrium! Padraig Spillane’s interview with Andrew Kearney about his experience of exhibiting in Pride in Diversity, the first OutArt exhibition in 1996, offers a rich insight into the ways in which this impacted his burgeoning national and international practice. This conversation is the fourth chapter of our research project From Pride and Diversity to Standing Fast: Exhibiting Q***r Culture in OutArt 1996-2001 - more to come soon!

With sincere thanks to Andrew Kearney Padraig Spillane RHA Gallery Association for Art History NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library

ID 1: Merge, Andrew Kearney, 1991 - a black and white diptych showing on one panel a man’s naked torso with hands clasped in front of his crotch, and on the other panel an arrangement of plumbing pipes and shower taps
ID 2: A screen shot of Andrew Kearney in conversation
ID3: A screen shot of Padraig Spillane in conversation

Pluck are delighted to announce that the next chapter of our collaboration with the RHA goes live this week! From Pride in Diversity to Standing Fast: Exhibiting Q***r Culture in OutArt 1996-2001 is an oral history of the OutArt exhibitions, a series of group shows that focused on the work of LGBTQ+ artists in the years following the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland. Featuring interviews by Padraig Spillane with Catherine Harper, Andrew Kearney and Niall Sweeney, and conversations between Pluck Projects and Mick Wilson, Louise Walsh and Alan Phelan, this series of videos will play out in the Atrium of the RHA and will be available on the RHA's website. This project is supported by the Association for Art History. More details to come!

RHA Gallery Association for Art History Padraig Spillane Catherine Harper Niall Sweeney

Emergency Mothering!

Due to the unfortunate weather circumstances expected tomorrow instead of How to Protest, The Mother City will run an Emergency Mothering clinic, with tea and biscuits, absorbent shoulders and listening ears. Come and join us at the Kitchen Table in the foyer of CCAE. There will be tours to The Living Commons in Shandon St, home of the Radical Library at 1pm and 2pm. For without Care first there can be no Protest!

Entry through Nano Nagle Place

( The Mother City GreenHouse - How to Protest at Red Abbey has been cancelled due to Yellow Rain warning).

Pluck Projects CONNECTION - The countdown is on! As we build up to the festival launch , we’d like to introduce you to the artists and projects will be presenting for Cork Midsummer Festival 22.

This week we focus on Rachel Fallon, an artist who works with sculpture, drawing, photography and performance to address themes of protection and defence in the domestic realm and who thinks about the topic of motherhood and women!s relationship to society.

We are delighted to be working with Rachel to present- The Mother City – A research project

How does a city need to be in order to be a place of belonging for all its inhabitants?

Do you have ideas and advice? On the 18th June we will be holding an open event at our mobile GreenHouse/GlassHouse where you can advise the project on “What to Do Next”. All answers on a postcard. Things will happen and seeds will be sown

And we’re launched! Pluck are delighted to be visual arts curators in residence with 22 and so excited to be presenting new projects with the amazing Siobhan Kavanagh and .walayat We are also super grateful for the support of and and and in hosting us. It’s going to be an amazing summer!

Really looking forward to Cork Midsummer Festival 2022 and to fantastic projects by Amna Walayat and Roisin O’Gorman Department of Theatre, UCC& Michael R. Murphy

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Pluck Projects are delighted to announce the winners of our Open Call for Cork Midsummer Festival 2022. We are thrilled to be presenting Amna Walayat's In the Name of Shame and Roisin O'Gorman and Michael R. Murphy's Terminal Moraine as part CONNECTION our new strand of programming for Midsummer 2022. These artists explore the idea of connection, community and care in new and compelling ways that will tie in to our broader theme of CONNECTION, an analysis and reimagining of how we can come together in the wake of the pandemic.

Pluck are excited to be releasing our Open Call for Cork Midsummer Festival 2022, which will support two projects for artists from, or based in Cork. For more information, check out https://bit.ly/3oVrs3q

Image: Anne Ffrench , To Hold Still, 2020 (detail)

Pluck are excited to be releasing our Open Call for Cork Midsummer Festival 2022, which will support two projects for artists from, or based in Cork. For more information, check out https://bit.ly/3oVrs3q
Image: Anne Ffrench, To Hold Still, 2020 (detail)