SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE: A TAX EXEMPT BODY

Excellent news!  Signal Arts Centre a not for profit body for more than twenty years has been awarded a charity number as a tax exempt body. This is good news for our fund raising of course.

Congratulations to the Signal Executive Board members who worked very hard burrowing through the minefield of paperwork to achieve this end.  Special thanks to the very helpful and patient public servants in the Charities Section, Revenue Commissioners, Nenagh, and the Finance Department, Merrion Square who answered dozens of questions and offered excellent guidance.

SIGNAL ARTS GARDEN PROJECT AT YOUTH CENTRE, HOLY REDEEMER,BRAY

Andrea Lowe Staff Artist and Garden Designer, is working with Penny Byrne also Signal Staff Artist to design and install landscape at the Youth Centre, at Holy Redeemer in Bray.

CURATOR'S TALK AT MERMAID ARTS CENTRE, BRAY

You are invited to a curator's talk by Mermaid's Artistic Director, Nora Hickey, this Saturday 27 March @ 2.30pm in the gallery at Mermaid Arts Centre.


Voices in the Landscape is a group exhibition, which features video and sound installations by Jesse Jones, Aileen Lambert, Graeme Miller, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Lemn Sissay and Richard T. Walker.

The exhibition continues until Saturday 17 April.  Admission is free of charge

BLAST FROM THE PAST 2009

Photos of Staff Artists and the Willow Ball Project.

Lian, Staff Artist, the beginning of Willow Ball

Lian admiring her handiwork

Empty Willow Ball

Willow Ball with admirers

Sarah and Denis getting children into the Willow Ball

How many more?

All the children in

Children waving

Great fun!

Any room for us?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDE!

Linde Fidorra has been on staff with Signal since 2007.   Linde is a vital member on the committee to produce Signal Arts Newsletter.  As an artist Linde uses drawing, digital image-making and artist's books to explore patterns in nature as expressions of the dynamics of life.  Happy Birthday Linde hope you had a great day.

MOVIE NIGHT AT SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE, MARCH 25, 2010, 7:30pm

PAN'S LABYRINTH is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable. Told through the eyes of a little girl whose imaginary world is inhabited by nightmarish creatures, Pan's Labyrinth is a visually imaginative and allegorical take on the fears she faced in Spain during WWII.

Tickets are 5 euros each. 

ROISIN VERDON - PAINTINGS

I saw these wonderful paintings on Facebook so thought they should get a wider view.
Roisin Verdon is a staff artist at Signal and is also a hard working member of the Signal Art Society Committee.

Hello Signal Arts Centre Blog Afficionados March 21,2010

I am bringing you some visual news from Largo, Florida.  I attended a terrific exhibition of the prints of Henri Matisse at the new Tampa Museum of Modern Art.  Here are a few pics.

These prints, lift aquatints were done later in his career in the 1940's. 

Matisse used many techniques in printmaking:  relief using lithography, linoleum, woodcut; intaglio using engraving, etching in drypoint, aquatint and chine colle.

Matisse print from woodcut.






Head of a Woman, Mascaron, 1938

 Linoleum