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Pluck@RHA part 4 is now on show in the RHA’s Atrium! Padraig Spillane’s interview with Andrew Kearney about his experience of exhibiting in Pride in Diversity, the first OutArt exhibition in 1996, offers a rich insight into the ways in which this impacted his burgeoning national and international practice. This conversation is the fourth chapter of our research project From Pride and Diversity to Standing Fast: Exhibiting Q***r Culture in OutArt 1996-2001 - more to come soon!

With sincere thanks to Andrew Kearney Padraig Spillane RHA Gallery Association for Art History NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library

ID 1: Merge, Andrew Kearney, 1991 - a black and white diptych showing on one panel a man’s naked torso with hands clasped in front of his crotch, and on the other panel an arrangement of plumbing pipes and shower taps
ID 2: A screen shot of Andrew Kearney in conversation
ID3: A screen shot of Padraig Spillane in conversation

Emergency Mothering!

Due to the unfortunate weather circumstances expected tomorrow instead of How to Protest, The Mother City will run an Emergency Mothering clinic, with tea and biscuits, absorbent shoulders and listening ears. Come and join us at the Kitchen Table in the foyer of CCAE. There will be tours to The Living Commons in Shandon St, home of the Radical Library at 1pm and 2pm. For without Care first there can be no Protest!

Entry through Nano Nagle Place

( The Mother City GreenHouse - How to Protest at Red Abbey has been cancelled due to Yellow Rain warning).

And we’re launched! Pluck are delighted to be visual arts curators in residence with 22 and so excited to be presenting new projects with the amazing Siobhan Kavanagh and .walayat We are also super grateful for the support of and and and in hosting us. It’s going to be an amazing summer!

Pluck are excited to be releasing our Open Call for Cork Midsummer Festival 2022, which will support two projects for artists from, or based in Cork. For more information, check out https://bit.ly/3oVrs3q

Image: Anne Ffrench , To Hold Still, 2020 (detail)