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Moore College of Art and Design

International Residency

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During the 2nd summer term, a required four-week international residency provides an intense studio immersion within a distinct cultural environment. During the residency, candidates gain access to international visiting artists not otherwise available in the United States. In addition, candidates examine visual art and culture specific to the region and their influence on past and contemporary art in a seminar entitled “Art History at Burren: Time and Place.” Candidates are provided an opportunity to reflect upon the Burren experience and to prepare for a mid-program review in a two-week studio intensive at Moore immediately following the residency at Burren.

Burren College of Art located on the Burren, a limestone plateau in County Clare on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast. The facilities at Burren include modern studios, well-equipped darkroom and photography studio, sculpture workshop, lecture theater, library, internet, seminar room, study room with word processing and copying facilities and art materials store. The Burren itself is an area of some 150 square miles of remarkable fissured limestone terraces and rolling mountains. The landscape is dotted with megalithic tombs, prehistoric burial mounds, Bronze Age and Iron Age forts, ancient settlements and field systems, churches, monasteries, holy wells and medieval castles.

Summer 2010 Visiting Guest Faculty in Burren, Ireland

[Image: Julian Stocks] Julian Stocks is one of the UK’s leading artists working in the field of glass sculpture and architectural glass and his commissions have included designs for the Royal Ballet School and the Open University headquarters building.
[Image Jane Harris] Jane Harris’ oil paintings on canvas (in two colours) form geometric ellipses that can be seen as both a flat shape with two focal points or as a circle from an angle. As the viewer changes positions and as the light changes from natural to artificial
light, her paintings move through a series of optical transformations. One can easily compare her brushwork to the computer pixel as a unit of colour, form or image where the resolution of the pixels determines the degree of sharpness and clarity of an image.
[Image: Charlotte von Poehl] Charlotte von Poehl’s work has a recurrent focus on repetition and seriality. Using ordinary materials and techniques, von Poehl draws repetitive patterns such as the ongoing Arrow Drawings, and makes miniature modeling?clay sculptures, which form large floor installations, expanding according to the size of the exhibition space. For von Poehl, writing down notes, citations and making drawings is made into a daily routine that holds a central role in her artstic approach. Each of her works can be seen as a fragment of this larger ongoing project, simply torn out of the continuous process.
[Image: Effie Halivopoulou] Effie Halivopoulou creates an autonomous, entirely personal and integrated visual discourse on the body, incorporated within a broader framework of research. Over recent years she has shown a remarkably consistent and mature involvement with issues of biotechnology. In the four works being shown now for the first time she composes mainly cyclical forms which swim in a brilliant sea of colors, different textures, materials and shapes, landscapes which evoke magnified images from the interior of the human body. Halivopoulou's work raises unavoidable questions associated with the biological genetic definition of man's physical, mental and psychological characteristics, in relation to a socially controlled context which makes it difficult to achieve differentiation from a predetermined course.

International Residency at the Burren College of Art

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MFA Studio Art Internation Residency at the Burren College of Art in Ireland
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