New exhibition at Gallery FRIDA. A solo exhibition of paintings entitled “Belly of the Whale” by artist Barbara O’Meara will feature at Gallery Frida, South Main Street,Youghal. Opening Tuesday 17th January 2012. Further information and openings hours contact: Lars Moeslund, Manager, Gallery Frida, 38 South Main Street, Youghal, Co. Cork.

Gallery FRIDA
38 South Main Street
Youghal
phone: 085-8866424 or 085-2389452
website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gallery-Frida/290109044352787?sk=wall

Gallery FRIDA would like to thank all who has helped us making Gallery FRIDA a new place for art in Youghal and we would like to thank all who has come by and visited the Gallery. There has been a very good response to the 20 artists from all over Ireland who exhibited there work at “Summer in December”.
The raffle went very well and we are happy to be able to send around €250 to the orphanage project TORO BABIES in Uganda.

The winner of the raffle was picked by Sheila Loughnane and the lucky winner of the painting “Setanta” by Lora Murphy is John Roche. Gallery FRIDA wishes all a happy new year and Welcome back for new exhibition in 2012.

Gallery Frida are running a raffle for one of artist Lora Murphy’s painting entitled ‘Setanta’. You may purchase a ticket to be in the draw for this wonderful painting at Gallery Frida, South Main Street, Youghal. 5 numbers for 5 euro and all money goes to the orphanage project in Uganda. The draw will take place at the Gallery on Christmas Eve.

 

Frida Gallery is named in honour of Frida Kahlo, an iconic early to mid-19th century Mexican artist renowned particularly for her surrealist self-portraits, depicting “pain and passion”, through intense, vibrant colours. Her work is highly celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. “She was and remains a hugely inspiring figure.

Gallery Frida thank you -A message of thanks from Lars and Lora.

” I just wanted to thank you so very much for all the trouble and time you took to help us with the launch of Gallery Frida! We are delighted with the coverage you have given us.There was such a great turn out despite the rain .  Thanks to all the brave souls who came to support this new venture, your presence was greatly appreciated and we very much hope that you enjoyed your evening as much as we did  and of course, a thousand thanks to all the wonderful talented artists who are exhibiting with us , we are very grateful for your trust and wish you all every success! We also are very grateful to Barbara o Meara and John Rushe for their invaluable help over the last few weeks, and of course Eithne and Anthony Watson. Thank you both. Nor will we forget Sir Michael Beecher, who did great work for us too !! Thanks Mick!!

Thanks to Sergyv who has been there from the beginning and did excellent work !and finally , a thousand thanks to the town and people of Youghal ! What a wonderful community to be a part of , we are proud to be here! “We would also like to thank the Mayor Eoin Coyne very much for taking time to come and open our Gallery officially. We appreciate this support very much.”
Lora and Lars”

Summer arrives in December to re-enchant as new art gallery opens. – By Christy Parker

YOUGHAL has acquired a new art centre with the opening of Frida Gallery at 38 South Main Street last Wednesday (November 30th). Youghal Mayor Eoin Coyne cut the tape on the new business, which is owned by Offaly-born Lora Murphy, now in her fourth year of residency in the town.

The three-storey building, owned by Lora, formerly housed a tattoo parlour on its first two floors with a painting studio in the upper reaches. The two lower floors will now accommodate exhibition spaces, where artists from throughout Ireland are expected to display their work. “I hope in the long term to provide a focal point where young and emerging artists can be encouraged and can display their work,” says Lora.

A graduate from UCC, free-spiriting Lora arrived in Youghal having resided for over 20 years in Montana and Alaska. She was poised to settle in Abbeyside, Dungarvan –indeed had paid a deposit on a house- when a day trip to Youghal turned her head. “I couldn’t believe how beautiful the town was and immediately opted to live here instead!,” she recalls. She purchased a home in the strand the work base in South Main Street.

Inspiring

Frida Gallery is named in honour of Frida Kahlo, an iconic early to mid-19th century Mexican artist renowned particularly for her surrealist self-portraits, depicting “pain and passion”, through intense, vibrant colours. Her work is highly celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. “She was and remains a hugely inspiring figure,” says the inspiring Lora, simply.

Last week two new exhibitions were launched at ‘the Frida.’ On Floor 2, Re-enchantment currently features abstract paintings by Greystones painter Barbara O’Meara. The inaugural ground floor exhibition carries the wishful title of Summer in December’ a theme carried by over 20 established artists, local and national, in ‘Plein Air’ mode as the easel world terms it -that is to say, the paintings are outdoor creations. They traverse oils to acrylic to watercolours and all points in between, with representations varying from Killarney’s luscious landscapes to a Kerry rave scene by way of a County Cork rail station!

Orphanage support

The gallery will donate 25% of its income to an orphanage project in Uganda called Toro Babies Home. Championed by Lora’s partner Lars Moeslund and run by Norwegian volunteers, the orphanage houses over 50 children, whose parents have died or are dying of AIDS.  “It provides a ‘substitute  mother and family’ and enables them to have some normality through attending school etc,” says Lars. “The plan is to make the orphanage as self-sufficient with its own food production over the coming years.” The gallery will continue to support the orphanage project into the future.

Summer in December and Re-enchantment run until Christmas Eve from noon to 6 pm. Enquiries: 085-8866424; e-mail: mornag@usa.net; fb: look up Gallery Frida

Please click on image to see more photos of the opening night of Gallery Frida – Pics by YOL

A NEW ART GALLERY will open its doors for the first time on Wednesday, 30th of November.The official opening of  Gallery Frida will be performed by the Mayor of Youghal, Eoin Coyne. The first exhibition will support an Orphanage Project in Uganda (Toro Babies Home) run by Norwegian volunteers. The gallery is run by Danish man Lars Moeslund and artist Lora Murphy and the public are welcome to the opening. The gallery has its name from the mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who by her life has inspired Lora. Gallery Frida is situated at 38 South Main Street, Youghal.

The gallery will open with an exhibition called “Summer in December”, Plein Air, to bring in light and warmth in this dark and cold season. There will be represented around 20 established painters from all over Ireland. The plein Air part of the exhibition will be at the ground level and at the first floor Lora will exhibit some of her own paintings together with another female painter Barbara O’Meara from Greystones.

The exhibition will be opened on the 30th of November from 5-8 pm and the Mayor of Youghal, Eoin Coyne, will officially open the exhibition at 5.30 pm.

Part of the commission from selling the paintings will be used to support an Orphanage Project in Uganda (Toro Babies Home)run by Norwegian volunteers.

Dan Aage Mortensen from Norway is part of the volunteer group that raises money for the project in Norway. All money for this project is given by donors (private persons and companies).

This exhibition will become part of the project by donating 25% of the commission directly to the project in Uganda.

Gallery Frida will continue to donate money to the project in Uganda after this exhibition is over.

The Orphanage houses 50-60 children, who have no parents or their parents are dying of AIDS. The children live at the Orphanage with a “substitute mother” and have a life as normal as possible going to school and having a family. Almost all money from donation goes directly to the Orphanage. The plan is to make the Orphanage self sufficient with its own food (vegetables, milk, egg and honey) in the years to come. That will cost a good deal of money and therefore the money from this exhibition will be welcomed very much.
The exhibition will run from 30.th of November to 24th of December 2011 (12-6 pm every day).

ART AND CULTURE VENUES open their doors in Youghal on Friday night, Sept. 23th 2011. Drama, behind-the-scenes tours, and music performances are all part of the fare on offer. The night is one of the highlights of Youghal’s cultural calendar and will give people the opportunity to explore venues and facilities at night and for free!

ART AND CULTURE VENUES open their doors in Youghal on Friday night, Sept. 23th 2011. Drama, behind-the-scenes tours, and music performances are all part of the fare on offer. The night is one of the highlights of Youghal’s cultural calendar and will give people the opportunity to explore venues and facilities at night and for free!

A Plein air paint out in Youghal Co.Cork,on September 11th 2011 where the South West gang brave the elements. Click on the video below.

Plein air is a term derived from the French phrase en plein air, which literally means ‘in the open air’. It’s a familiar concept today, but in the late 1800s when the Impressionists ventured out of their studios into nature to investigate and capture the effects of sunlight and different times of days on a subject, it was quite revolutionary.

A selection of artists and their tracks released with kind permission of each artist (recording and copyright belong to each artist respectively) to a) showcase the work of local and visiting artists that played at the sessions this year. we didn’t get everyone featured but more releases are hoped for next year including live recordings once we get new audio equipment for the marine which this cd is raising money for in order to make it more of a contender as a live venue.

Kudos to all the artists who played at the Marine, and contributed previously recorded material, thanks to Claycastle Studios for any extraneous recordings and mixes and masters, and to claire for her free time for artwork and other bits and bobs!

Looking forward to a year of great sessions plugged and unplugged in the Marine Youghal 2011. If interested in playing contact themarinesession@mail.com

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CLAYCASTLE RECORDING STUDIO
Seafield business center,
Youghal,
east cork
Ireland
0035324 90885

Aimed at both local and visiting musicians, it provides an intimate platform for individuals or groups to have their original or cover works listened to. More info from Claire Regan and Warren Tivy from Claycastle Recording, Youghal

The evening will close with Warren playing a selection of his own vinyl, and those discs brought in by the customers.

The Urban Druids new video “I Can’t Breath” feat John Burke is about World domination by the elite superpowers, a New World Order that has led to a dead democracy where it is impossible for people to express themselves and ‘Can’t Breath’ in this new globalized society. The video was directed and filmed by local Youghal man Tony Irwin from Stoneybucket media and produced by Warren Tivy from Claycastle Recording Studios.

This is the first successful venture by both media companies incorporating the audio, artistic, technical and video talents that are available here in East Cork. The film was recorded over several days and involved many hours of shooting to get the finished footage that the innovative band wanted. The Urban Druids are an Irish/American hip hop/rock band with a Celtic twist.

Click on the bands latest video below and please feel free to leave a comment at the end of the post.

Born in Ireland raised in L.A front man MC dodges street poetry about good times/bad times and the world we live in completes the the druids sound and gives them there true roots. the urban druids have performed to great reception over the last few years in the UK and Ireland with The bands latest cd (CEOL, SPELLS, HERBS AND BEATS) out this year ,The Urban Drudis music tells of tales of global down turn, Irish life, capitalism, religion, irish bank robbers, girls, drink and love. if you get a chance The Urban Druids are worth checking out. www.reverbnation.com/THEURBANDRUIDS#!

The band consisting of MC Dodge (George O Shea – vocals & decks), PAUL CREMIN (electric guitar), Ian Walsh(drums) and Warren Tivy playing keyboards/bass guitar/backing vocals.Plus guest appearances by SaraLou,Helen Murray and John Burke. this music is released by Rifle Range Records

Tá an Druids Uirbeach Gaeilge / hip hop Meiriceánach / banna rac-bhanna le casadh Cheilteach. Rugadh in Éirinn a ardú i LA MC fhilíocht os comhair an fear dodges sráide faoi aimsir an dea / droch-uair, agus ar an domhan ina mairimid i críochnaíonn na draoithe Tugann an fhuaim agus fréamhacha acu fíor ann. na draoithe uirbeach a fheidhmítear chun a ghlacadh mór thar an cúpla bliain anuas sa Ríocht Aontaithe agus Éire leis na grúpaí an CD is déanaí (Ceol, geasa, luibheanna agus BEATS) amach i mbliana Drudis Insíonn an Uirbeach ceol, na scéalta domhanda dul síos, saol na hÉireann, capitalism, creideamh,, robbers bainc na héireann, cailíní, deoch agus grá. má fhaigheann tú an deis ag an Druí Uirbeach Is fiú a sheiceáil amach. www.reverbnation.com/ # / THEURBANDRUIDS

CLAYCASTLE RECORDING STUDIO
Seafield business centre
Youghal
Co Cork
Ireland
0035324 90885

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