2008 Press Releases
NUI Chancellor launches Jennings Gallery at UCC
30.01.2008
Dr Garret FitzGerald, Chancellor of the NUI and former Taoiseach launched the Jennings Gallery at Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC on January 29th 2008.
30.01.2008
Dr Garret FitzGerald, Chancellor of the NUI and former Taoiseach launched the Jennings Gallery at Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC on January 29th 2008.
The new gallery space, located on the middle floor of the old Brookfield House, now the centre of a large educational complex housing UCC's Schools of Nursing & Midwifery, Medicine and Clinical Therapies (including Occupational Therapy and Speech & Language Therapy), is named after the Jennings family who built Brookfield House in 1898. Thomas Jennings was a noted athlete and captain of the University Athletic Club while at Cambridge.
The Jennings Gallery will be run and managed within UCC's policy framework for the visual arts. "The concept of the gallery is to encourage a wider appreciation of, and involvement in, the visual arts in UCC by demonstrating how expressive visual creativity can emerge from human experience shaped by different personal, social and cultural circumstances", explained Michael Hanna, Manager, College of Medicine and Health, UCC.
The Gallery aims to:
The opening exhibition is a glorious display of the work of the Kilkenny Collective for Art Talent or KCAT, based in a converted and extended sausage factory in Callen, Co Kilkenny. KCAT grew out of the Camphill Community which began in Ireland in 1972. It owes its inspiration to George McCutcheon, a Camphill resident, for whom creating art is both a compulsion and a passion. KCAT is now home to 13 artists and has exhibited in Ireland and abroad, most recently in Sweden and Australia. KCAT has grown to an arts and study centre running courses in the visual and performing arts. In 2006, they collaborated with MACNAS to produce "The Big River Parade" for the Galway Arts Festival and the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Some 50 works are on display in Brookfield, the majority of which are available for purchase.
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Picture: Artist Sinead Fahey from Carrick on Suir shows her work to Dr Garret FitzGerald at the launch of the Jennings Gallery in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex at UCC.
The Jennings Gallery will be run and managed within UCC's policy framework for the visual arts. "The concept of the gallery is to encourage a wider appreciation of, and involvement in, the visual arts in UCC by demonstrating how expressive visual creativity can emerge from human experience shaped by different personal, social and cultural circumstances", explained Michael Hanna, Manager, College of Medicine and Health, UCC.
The Gallery aims to:
- provide a focus for the visual arts at the western end of the UCC campus for staff, students and members of the public;
- contribute to personal growth by encouraging visual creativity and appreciation among staff and students of UCC;
- encourage students to see visual creativity as something that crosses all social and health divides, that is accessible to all and that can be affirming of human health and wholeness; and
- mount a diverse range of exhibitions, from individuals or groups, by invitation from the organising committee, which bear on the work and mission of the College of Medicine and Health in providing education and research into human health.
The opening exhibition is a glorious display of the work of the Kilkenny Collective for Art Talent or KCAT, based in a converted and extended sausage factory in Callen, Co Kilkenny. KCAT grew out of the Camphill Community which began in Ireland in 1972. It owes its inspiration to George McCutcheon, a Camphill resident, for whom creating art is both a compulsion and a passion. KCAT is now home to 13 artists and has exhibited in Ireland and abroad, most recently in Sweden and Australia. KCAT has grown to an arts and study centre running courses in the visual and performing arts. In 2006, they collaborated with MACNAS to produce "The Big River Parade" for the Galway Arts Festival and the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Some 50 works are on display in Brookfield, the majority of which are available for purchase.
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Picture: Artist Sinead Fahey from Carrick on Suir shows her work to Dr Garret FitzGerald at the launch of the Jennings Gallery in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex at UCC.