Studio available Monster Truck Studios Francis Street. Large, bright studio space with good natural light. Broadband wifi,  24hour access. Please email interest to:info@monstertruck.ie

Now Closed

Monster Truck Gallery, 4 Temple Bar, open call for submission 2012. Monster Truck Gallery and Studios is a contemporary arts organisation with two locations in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. Monster Truck is currently accepting submissions from artists and curators for consideration for the 2012/13 programme of our gallery at 4 Temple Bar. We are particularly interested in artists, curators and groups that are looking to exhibit challenging, experimental new works.

Exhibitions will be subsidised and supported by Monster Truck.
To submit your work or project, please send submissions:
1) CV or CVs
2) Biographical info for all submitters,
3) Statement of intent
4) 5/6 (jpegs, PDFs, etc.) good quality images/examples and/or Quicktime files of your work (on CD). With group proposals please submit an adequate number to represent the work of each individual artist.

Send by post only to Submissions, Monster Truck Gallery, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland.  Deadline for submissions: Tuesday 24th of January 2012.

Monster Truck Gallery held a music night in The Workman’s Club on Wellington Quay last weekend, with excellent bands and a fantastic DJ.

Eat me drink me http://www.myspace.com/eatmedrinkmemusic
little xs for eyes http://littlexsforeyes.bandcamp.com/
Sleep Thieves http://www.sleepthieves.net/
T-Woc http://t-woc.alphabetset.net/

+ the welcome return of everyone’s favorite R Mutt’s Kunsthole #2
by Michelle Considine, Joan Healy and Adam Gibney

We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came down.

Monies raised from this fundraiser will be used to allay some of the operating costs inevitable with running an alternative art space in Dublin.

Thanks for your support! MT!!

At 7.30 on the 1st of December, in Monster Truck Gallery.

Noilin O’Kelly will discus the themes of her current show ‘Incubated Works’ with Adrien Reilly,

Adrien Reilly is a photography lecturer at IADT Dun Laoghaire.

There will be refreshments of tea and coffee after.

All welcome to attend.

How did the Incubated Works exhibition begin for you as a project?

My grandmother’s derelict house is the current focus for my work. The house dates back 250 years and much of its original furnishings remain. Untouched for thirty years, it is alive with religious relics, rotting books and bed linen. I see the house as a body and have drawn links between it and it’s decomposing contents. In my practice I respond to this environment with various installations. I have planted out the entire back room with grass, floor to ceiling and I am in the process of recording it by both photography and video. Narrative is always contained within my work and I respond within my practice to various emotions illicited by either place or object.

When you had to decide how best to display the photographs, what sort of ideas and display choices did you have to reject or rethink, because of the deterioration of the images?

The selection process for my images was actually done over many years. This particular body of work began while I was studying in London. I had found the slides the previous year and began playing with them within various locations as projections. There are around 300 images. I wanted to show a cohesive body of work which explored identity, role and narrative. I chose to display them as Lamdachrome prints mounted in liquid acrylic. It was the contrast between the technicality of this style of printing and the discarded images that interested me. As the slides had not been exposed to any light they had retained particularly bright colours and tones which have mould and spores shot through them. The slick glossy finish of the prints is contrasted with the snapshot style slides. There is beauty in their decay.

Showing personal family photos in public, and objects from your family’s past, must be a strange experience. What kind of atmosphere or approach to the exhibition were you anxious to encourage, or discourage, when imagining your show?

Yes, it is a strange experience. I tend to work in quite an isolated manner. When I am working I try not to imagine the exhibition too much, I just go with my gut instinct and create a body of work which I have researched thoroughly before it ever gets shown. With these images I deliberately refrained from finding out who they are. The mystery and uncertainty is central to the work. However having my Grandmother’s bed, ‘You used to call me Princess’, in the space is an interesting experience. The mattresses on top of it belonged to my aunties and uncles. I like the idea of people participating and engaging with a piece. I am currently creating various sculptures out of discarded objects which react to movement.

Other than the exhibition of your work in Monster Truck, where can people see your past, current and future work online?

My website www.noilin.com

“The Drover Turns The Cattle” opening night saw the attendance of artists Matthew Dennis, Marisol Malatesta, and Laurie Lax, three out of the four artists who had undertaken a residency with Cow House Studios. Gail Cunningham was unfortunately not in attendance, but her work was very well received by the guests of Monster Truck Gallery, as was the art of all the artists.

Matthew Dennis’ Snow Suits performance art piece and installation added a sense of the surreal as five actors donned the suits and mingled with the crowd. Laurie Lax’ fascinating work adapted from a film taken on the ferry from England, drew on the idea of what is left out of technical artistic mediums, that she then reinserted back into her series of drawings. Marisol Malatesta’s processional drawings involved viewers through their stark fantasy-realism, that also drew from South American culture.

The Drover Turns The Cattle is open now, and will run until November 5th.

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Artist studio open day at Monster Truck Studios, 73 Francis Street, Dublin 8. This Saturday the 22nd of October.

Discover VISIT for yourself – take a bus, hop on a bike, jump on the Luas or stretch your legs with a walk. On Saturday 22nd October we’ll be waiting for you, from 12 –6pm.

We hope you enjoy your VISIT!

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This was our first pot luck dinner, and we were very happy with it, it wont be the last,

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Thanks to everybody who came

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The Drover turns the Cattle

October 15th – October 29th
Preview 14th 6 to 8pm
The Drover turns the cattle

In the fall of 2010 four artists with disparate practices, different approaches, different tools, different materials and from different geographies. were brought together with the purpose of creating a new body of work at Cow House Studios in Wexford, Ireland. The rural location of the Cow House, the ideas shared communally and its informative influence form the content of the exhibition. Formal connections with their practices were replaced, or exchanged, with what the cattle farm had to offer- its landscape, the mountain, its noises, the tractor, the air, the weather, and the intimate community that was created. A year later, the artists have been turned-moved from one field to another, from Cow House to Monster Truck taking their work, their newly found connected experiences and knowledge, and presenting them in a new landscape

Gail Cunningham1 | Matthew Denniss | Laurie Lax1 | Marisol Malatesta1

Monster Truck Studios

Monster Truck Studios are situated at 73 Francis Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.

Studio available: Monster Truck Studios has one studio available in June 2011. Broadband wifi, 24hour access. Space is approx 13×8 ft and has good light. Please email interest to: info@monstertruck.ie

How to apply

To apply for at studio at Monster Truck we need the following:

• A brief description of you practice, giving some information about your studio needs
• A current C.V.
• Four to five Images / text / sound / jpeg / video or any alternative methods that will describe your area of interest.

Please send to info@monstertruck.ie