Le Chéile

Contact Information

2011-07-13T11:17:00.000-07:00

For information on the project or to contact the coordinators please email lecheile09@gmail.com

New Publication by Le Chéile artists at Cill Rialaig

2011-04-29T15:24:00.000-07:00

Le Chéile at Cill Rialaig by Le Chéile Artists | Make Your Own Book

Background Timeline of Project

2011-04-29T15:14:00.000-07:00

July 2004Steffan Jones-Hughes from the Regional Print Centre in Wrexham, and Jeanette Orrell, both visual artists based in Denbighshire, visit Ireland on a CCAT Interreg Go and See grant from Aberystwyth Arts Centre to look at making connections with arts organisations and artists in Ireland. One of the first people to get in touch is Lucina Russell, Arts Officer for County Kildare, who makes the

Frances Carlile

2010-10-08T14:38:00.001-07:00

I lived in rural Mid Wales for twenty five years and now live on the boarders of Powys. The Welsh landscape has always been part of my work both in sculpture and print. I have recently begun to make prints based on imaginary fairy tales and myths. Myths and legends are a universal language and belong to everyone. I am hoping to make links with Welsh and Irish traditional

Tara Dean

2010-10-08T14:36:00.000-07:00

I first became interested in the project after visiting the exhibition ' Le Cheile' at Rhyl Arts Centrein January this year.The exhibition really made me think about communication through images.I like to receive things by post, especially when the envelopes or parcels have been decorated in some way. Seeing this combination of print and how it can be used to layer and layer between

Le Chéile at the New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide

2010-01-09T09:02:00.001-08:00

Report from Australia: Le Chéile at the New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide

2010-01-09T08:40:00.000-08:00

Le Chéile looks excellent in the New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide. It is the premier art space in Port Adelaide, a short drive from the city. The streets of Port Adelaide are wide and spacious leading to the harbour and waterfront where the New Land Gallery is located.The gallery has a high ceiling with good lighting, a foyer space with the exhibition title Le Chéile written high up as visitors

Charles Hulgraine

2009-12-18T13:25:00.001-08:00

My visual image of Wales, where I went on holidays with my parents in the 60's, has always been the mirror similarities of the rural landscape of Wales and our own in Ireland,formerly linked by land mass.Our land and soil must also be one and the same.These rural similarities are most notably evident in the silent guardians of the hills and valleys--Trees.Along with our common Celtic culture,

Collaborative Drawings

2009-11-11T15:54:00.000-08:00

Photos from Nant Gwertheyrn

2009-11-11T15:52:00.000-08:00

Nant Gwrtheyrn

Feedback from Nant Gwtheyrn

2009-11-11T15:25:00.000-08:00

Ros: Enjoyed the printing very much. The food was great, the work was good and the company wasn't too bad, I especially liked the goat. It was very motivational and well organized. Thanks. Margaret: Arriving in Nant was daunting! down a long corkscrew very steep road, you feared you might never climb up again! so with the feeling of being trapped, we cautiously approached the 3 days incarceration

Riverbank Arts Centre May 2008

2009-11-06T15:36:00.000-08:00

In May 2008 a three-week exhibition was held at Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co Kildare, Ireland, which showcased work in progress from this exciting collaboration. A promotional publication was also launched at the exhibition.

Nant Gwtheyrn Residency

2009-11-05T15:01:00.000-08:00

Le Chéile Background

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The collaboration was initiated in August 2004 when Steffan Jones-Hughes, from the Regional Print Studio in Wrexham, visited Ireland on a CCAT Interreg Go and See grant. He met with Margaret Becker in the Leinster Printmaking Studio and they talked about the potential for some sort of print exchange. In October 2006 discussions were followed by exchange visits between

Eileen Keane

2009-10-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

I live in Newbridge, Co. Kildare which is about 25 miles south of Dublin but I was brought up in the west of Ireland in Roscommon. I moved to Kildare after college when I got a fulltime job teaching in Naas and I have lived in Kildare ever since, got married there and have two children. I was mainly involved in painting up to 1997, that year I attended a course in the

Margaret Becker

2009-10-10T12:55:00.001-07:00

Margaret was born in Dublin, grew up in Ireland and attended the National College of Art, Dublin. Graduated with teachers certificate, moved to Rome for a one year residency, attending the free school of painting and joined an toir gloinne stained glass studio and worked on commisions for stained glass windows throughout Ireland, England and America. Joined graphic studio Dublin, and studied

Don Braisby

2009-10-10T12:50:00.000-07:00

Much of my early childhood was spent with my grandparents in the Scottish Borders. My parent’s home was in Gloucestershire on the South Wales Borders. I am now living in the border country of North Wales. I have sense of comfort in living on the borders always being drawn towards the Celtic, which I believe is a state of being rather than a place. In my work as an artist

Veronica Calarco

2009-10-10T12:47:00.001-07:00

I grew up in a small town in East Gippsland, Victoria in a big family. Escaping as soon as possible, over the next thirty years I achieved my aim of living in every state in Australia and studying printmaking at the ANU, ACT. Whilst at uni I became involved in working in community arts and continued as a community artist in the ACT for the next decade, working at Megalo

Jan Copeman

2009-10-10T12:45:00.000-07:00

Alison Craig

2009-10-10T12:42:00.001-07:00

Alison Craig was born and brought up in Britain: her father is a Scot from Aberdeen, and her mother was English. Alison has drawn and painted all her life, and after working for many years in the National Health Service she became a full-time artist. She moved to rural North Wales in 1990.“My work is grounded in my love of observational drawing, a process which allows me to investigate my

Branwen Davies

2009-10-10T12:39:00.001-07:00

I was born in St David's Wales, the third and last child for my Welsh speaking father and Wales loving, English/Irish mother. As kids we could all recite poems in Welsh though it was the days of suppressing the language as far as schooling went. Not a concern for me as we arrived in Australia to live when I was four. Thus Wales has been a very particular place in my mind:

Linda Davies

2009-10-10T12:34:00.001-07:00

Part of this current body of work is the result of collaboration with Irish printmaker Eileen Keane. Elements of this collaboration have focused on the concept of land and cultural identity. A common interest of ours was ancient lands and archaeological findings. I have always been fascinated by sacred sites and whether some places intrinsically “hold” sacredness. Having

Monica de Bath

2009-10-10T12:29:00.000-07:00

Biodh go bhfuil mo shaothar bunaithe go háitiúl tá tionchar ag an dearcadh faoi inscne agus tir air. While my work is sited at rural locations its concerns are informed by attitudes and values to gender and land. My practice explores the connections between people and land with which they work and interact. It is concerned with emotive layers that link us to previous

Pamela de Brí

2009-10-10T12:25:00.000-07:00

My work incorporates my interest in Irish culture, language and traditions with the changes that are happening in 21st century Ireland. I am interested in how art fits into society and how artists have used their work to comment on or respond to our changing world both socially and economically. I like art that subverts, that challenges the viewer’s sensibility. I am

Jan Gardner

2009-10-10T12:23:00.001-07:00

My life has been spent embedded deep in the creative milieu of art and engaging others in the creative process. I am passionate about my own work, I am inspired by colour, texture, mark-making, drawing, expression and decoration.I was born and brought up in Flintshire, North Wales, my spirit and soul is deeply rooted here, recently returning to it after many years travelling I love to remember

Sylvia Hemmingway

2009-10-10T12:19:00.000-07:00

My work usually centres around the persistence of the past in the present and the element of chance in the make-up of the individual.

Rebecca Homfray

2009-10-10T12:15:00.000-07:00

Steffan Jones-Hughes

2009-10-09T17:27:00.000-07:00

This piece is me, as a bird. I moved back to Wales in 2002, having been born in Bangor, I had never lived here. I was born while my parents were studying at the Royal College of Art in London. My Father is Welsh and my Mother of Irish parentage, I had been brought up in London and North West England, but had maintained a strong link with family in Wales. There is always a

Helen Kavanagh

2009-10-09T17:25:00.000-07:00

From 1994 – 1998 I worked towards a number of solo exhibitions in South Australia and Victoria. My subject matter was family life and motherhood. During this time I was commission as a master printer and was the Co-ordinator of the South Australian Print Workshop. Sadly the SAPW no longer operates. At the start I thought what have I GOT MYSELF INTO. The idea of working

Eirian Llwyd

2009-10-09T17:23:00.000-07:00

Eirian trained as a nurse but has always been interested in art, and seriously began to pursue her career in 1997 when she began a part time degree course in Coleg Menai, Bangor. She transferred to a full time course in UWIC Cardiff two years later, and graduated in Fine Art in 2001. Whilst at Cardiff, she began her interest in printmaking under the encouragement of her art

Ros Longwill

2009-10-09T17:22:00.000-07:00

I started painting twenty five years ago when I lived in Essex. As I moved around England the painting and gardening were constant companions. I have done lots of different things from keeping pigs to sign-writing. I had a period of teaching horticulture then moved to Ireland sixteen years ago with my family. I became a clown and studied performing arts and went round

Deirdre Shanley

2009-10-09T16:59:00.000-07:00

Deirdre Shanley grew up in Johnstown Bridge, a small village near Enfield, Co. Kildare, Ireland. She first studied printmaking as part of a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Education at Birmingham College of Art and Design and she is a founder member of the Leinster Print Studio. She won the prize for Best Emerging Artist at Eigse in 2002.Deirdre likes the experimental nature of

Andrew Smith

2009-10-09T16:51:00.000-07:00

As a painter my practice is inherently studio based and I work in a dedicated light filled space. The subject of colour has been the overriding concern leading to the analysis of shape and surface in relation to colour-space-areas. Due to geographic location and issues of cultural context my practice has included the idea of exchange. Where and how an artwork is made and

Tracy Sweeney

2009-10-09T16:44:00.000-07:00

I am a creator who begins with deconstruction. My dismantled recordings of everyday surfaces are re-assembled together side-by side, creating an austere surface of colour & texture. The quiet segments within my work allow the mind to rest & wander into the drama & energy of the adjacent surface. Each print retains immediate connection with architectural significance on

Diana Williams

2009-10-09T16:42:00.001-07:00

In 1974—1977 I studied art at college in Bangor. After graduating I spent two years in Milan, Italy studying the work of the Masters and travelling the length and breadth of the country. Upon my return I took up a teaching post at a Secondary school teaching art. I spent time teaching in a primary school and was then appointed as an Art Advisory Teacher by Gwynedd County

Ian Williams

2009-10-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

I am a painter and printmaker, based in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales. My work is generally based on day-to-day experiences, and set in the modern rural landscape, but abstracted so as to render any narrative and meaning obscure. I like to weave thoughts and internal imagery into the work, because these are part of ones reality, even whilst standing on top of a mountain.