The Fold - Clouds

The Fold
Issue 2 : Clouds

The Fold is a Workroom Elsewhere* edited project by Cora Cummins and Alison Pilkington.
Published by Workroom Press Summer 2007
workroomelsewhere@gmail.com

‘Clouds’ is the second edition of The Fold – a published platform for an invited group of artists to considers a particular topic or theme.

Clouds – delicate, mutable, weightless; pushed around by vicissitudes of the winds. Are we comforted or disturbed the their wanderings? The Fold explores a gamut of possibilities – of being ‘beyond the clouds’; encumbered by ‘cloudy vision’, tormented by ‘clouds of doom , or sitting pretty on a cloud nine.

Contributions by ¬–
Cora Cummins, John Gerrard, Joy Gerrard, Alison Pilkington, Deirdre Houlihan, Alan Keane, Niamh Looney, Anna Macleod, Fiona McDonald, Dr. Yvonne Scott, Ciarán Walsh, Rebecca Solni

The Fold - Torch Songs

The Fold
Issue 1 : Torch Songs
Arists - Jonathan Hunter, Markus Oakley, Stephen Loughman, Alison Pilkington. Roisin Lewis, Carly McNulty, Jason Oakley,

‘Torch Songs’ artists were invited to contribute artworks related to the theme of love, romance, broken heart and laments typified by the famous torch songs of singers such as Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. The result is a diverse mix of artworks and texts. This issue explored ideas related to contemporary romantic notions surrounding art and the creative process.
"Art should be distant and un-understandable, the sublime is where narrative ends and fear is part of the experience”
Anish Kapoor
Modern Painters vol 16 no 3

In Torch Songs we touched on the topic of painting in contemporay Irish art.;Has painting regained part of its position of dominance as an artform that or is it to remain doomed to a corner of the art world as an ‘option’ or ‘understudy’ to the serious artforms such as photography and installation.
In Irish Art the tradition of painting in particular landscape painting has been cited as the dominant art form in Irish Art . Bruce Arnold has written extensively about modernist influences on Irish painters such as Hone, Jelliet, Yeats and later William Scott. However it is important to revise ideas related to modernist notions of authenticty, originality purity and ‘truthfulness’ with reference to contemporay Irish painting.

The Fold

The Fold is an artist led publication project produced in Dublin, Ireland by The Workroom Elsewhere*. Related blogs include – www.whathiver.blogspot.com and www.theworkroomelsewhere.blogspot.com