Clonmel Junction Arts Festival - Boatmen of Clonmel Art Trail featuring a new work by Karen Power

Programme:

The Boatmen Art Trail is a series of visual and sound art installations around Clonmel that showcases the collection of Tipperary Museum.

DAY ONE (JULY 6)

Karen Power talks about her sound installation a premier Past/Present Suir Voices (2020) an 8 channel sound installation commissioned through open call by the festival. Always subtly shifting just like the river Suir, this installation allows visitors to focus their listening while experiencing both the past and present of the Suir.

Michael Duran presents a Suir heritage newspaper, with reinterpreted images from archival documents as well as contemporary portrait and landscape images. Able to be enjoyed as a publication or taken to be framed, Michael Durand's paper provides a unique tactile experience, allowing the visitor to literally experience history at their fingertips.

Local historian Shay Hurley talks with artist Maurice Caplice about their project celebrating Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy.

DAY TWO (JULY 7)

Ciara Connolly's 'Project 53', inspired by W.B. Yeats’ poem “Adam’s Curse”, thinks about the long and arduous lifecycle of the freshwater mussel as a metaphor for the creative process through which art is made, combining sculpture enhanced by natural and artificial light.

Annagh Kelly's The Meadow of Honey, inspired by Clonmel's Irish name Cluain Meala, is a sculptural piece with wildflowers while also incorporating the cot boat, a highly significant boat within Suir river history. Incorporating a variety of native Irish wildflowers, not only beautiful to behold by people but also attractive to our beloved and endangered bees.

Kriti Khatri describes her project, ‘Lifeline of the Boatmen’, a series of ceramic pieces that pay homage to the River Suir.

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