Containers

Location: Port of Cork, Custom House Quays

Curated by Sarah Iremonger in collaboration with Art Trail.

Containers come with a redolent history of use, reuse,
adaptation and tragedy. As a platform for Art Trail’s
2009 theme ‘Rediscovering Locality’ the two containers
situated at the Port of Cork will provide an opportunity
for the public to rediscover the Custom House Quays
through viewing the works by Open Shutter and Stephen
McGlynn. ‘Camera Obscura’ and ‘Mapping Office’
respectively provide the viewer with an opportunity to
engage with this site in direct and original ways.
Made possible with the support of The Port of Cork
Company.

Open Shutter

Location: Port of Cork
A Cork City based project group concerned with the interrogation of the medium of photography. For Art Trail 2009, the group aims to create a contemporary photographic document of the city in response to local photographic archives. See it at Denis McSweeney’s Photoshop, Marlborough Street each night. Open Shutter will also create a large-scale ‘camera obscura’ in a container, which allows patrons to experience how photographic images are captured from inside the camera.
Artists: Maureen Considine, Philip Bourke, John Tarrant, Lynn Atkinson, Steve Jordan.

Stephen Mc Glynn
‘Mapping Office’

Location: Port of Cork
A project which entails a psychological mapping of
geographies both real and constructed around Cork City. It is
more an office than exhibition, more registrar than white cube.
At it’s core it seeks to map the changed face of our City, to
rediscover lost and forgotten streets and map them once
more. Streets with emotional weight have been absorbed into
our City’s ceaseless growth, I propose to map them a new
and give room for emotional attachments to these forgotten
geographies to see light of day once more. My story starts at
Slattery’s Avenue, how about yours?

This project is supported by The Port of Cork Company, Denis McSweeney Photoshop

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Stephen Mc Glynn, Born In 1976 in Cork, holds a BA in Textile Printing from Central Saint Martins, London and engages in process-led exercises in storytelling which incorporates Printmaking, Photography, Ceramics and Installation.

Sarah Iremonger is a visual artist and curator based in County Cork. Sarah works and exhibits nationally and internationally, studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and
Design in Dublin and The Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork and has an MA in
European Fine Art from The Winchester School of Art, Southampton University.