Blueprint at the Carlow Arts Festival 2016

Culture Night Carlow 2015 - Blueprint Pop-up Event

Fantastic Culture Night experience at Blueprint Carlow Pop-up, No . 10 Dublin Street Carlow. Carlow-based artists included Derry Dillon, Siobhan Jordan O'Rourke, Brian Bastick, Anthony Walsh, Mary Cullen Kelly, Katie Watchorn, Rosalind Murray, Maureen Phelan and Adam Bohanna to create one of Blueprint's most striking and successful exhibitions to date.

Rosalind Murray's performance enhanced the experience for everyone and rounded off a wonderful Culture Night in Carlow.

SPACE@Blueprint 2015

Brian Bastick, 'Fairy Kinddom',Digital Photograph on board 

Mary Cullen Kelly, 'Domestic I' (detail), Photopolymer print with chine collé, 2015

Blueprint Carlow's 7th annual exhibition at the Eigse Carlow Arts Festival is a show of contemporary works by artists Brigid Teehan, Ian Mannion, Maureen Phelan, Adam Bohanna, Anthony Walsh, Brendon Deacy, Mary Cullen Kelly, Tadhg McSweeney, Ian McCaffery and Sue White.  Now an established part of the festival experience, the Blueprint show aims to provide a space for contemporary artists from the south east at the Eigse Carlow Arts Festival.

Kindly supported by the Carlow Arts Office

Blueprint at Eigse Carlow Arts Festival June 2014

Dark to Light is the exhibition of contemporary artworks curated by Blueprint for this year's Carlow Arts Festival.  Opening on 7th June and running until 14th June, artists include Tadhg McSweeney, Maureen Phelan and Susan Connolly and 9 others.

Eigse Arts Festival 2014

Plans are starting to come together for the next Blueprint exhibition at Eigse Carlow.  The show, and Eigse, opens on 6th June 2014.

Blueprint's venue is No.10 Dublin Street, next door to the Eigse Carlow Arts Festival 2014 Office.

Exhibiting this year are Saidhbhín Gibson, Anthony Walsh, Tadgh McSweeney, Stephen Mynhardt, Mary Cullen, Arthive Artists Collective and a number of other artists working in paint, print, video and installation.

What have Blueprint artists been up to lately?

Just a short post about what some of the Blueprint artists have been doing in recent months...

Anthony Walsh was involved in Taylorfest, the film/music/1920s festival inspired by early Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor, a Carlow native, which was organised by Marc-Ivan O'Gorman for the second year running in September 2013 http://www.culturenight.ie/event-region/carlow/

Brandon McLane, Anthony Walsh, Brian Bastick, Maureen Phelan and Mary Cullen are involved in an exhibition during the Wexford Opera Festival Oct-Nov 2013 http://www.wexfordfringe.ie/exhibitions-out-of-town/ 

LIFE Blueprint Exhibition at Eigse Carlow 2013

'Life: Images of the Human Form'

Blueprint Artists Network
Eigse Local Culture Section 8th-16th June 2013
Courthouse Hotel, Dublin St., Carlow

The Blueprint Artists Network, Carlow, was set up with the purpose of involving artists in the creation of opportunities for exhibiting in the local area and beyond.  
 

Harpist in Paris with Grafetti, photograph, Mary Cullen, 2010

Experienced and emerging artists working in a variety of media including performance, visual arts and music, have taken part in the Blueprint show at Eigse over the past 5 years.  ‘Life’ is an exhibition of paintings, prints, photographs and drawings based on images of the human form, showing at the Courthouse Hotel, Dublin St., Carlow during the Eigse festival.