The Centre for Print Research is hosting IMPACT 12 Printmaking Conference online and in person here in Bristol, UK, from 21st – 25th September 2022.
Éilis Kirby, in her role as researcher for EAK Enterprises (the organisation that constitutes the personhood of Éilis Kirby) is now in residence at Bower Ashton Library. As a former student of the Art College, EAK is proud to be declared summer AIR. This will be a trip down memory lane for our industrious researcher, as she first walked into the library 29 years ago, in the early years of her education in the matters of making. Now she returns to remember and to see what’s new, bringing the past and the present into collision and forging the future. The residency will provide a space to observe and reflect, especially in the wake of an unprecedented couple of years. What is “the new normal”? What does the world look like now? How do we navigate past, present and future?
The views of, and proximity to, Ashton Court Park with its abundance of vegetal life and nonhuman creatures will be a most pleasing setting for contemplation and perhaps some interspecies connection. Having a keenness for the discarded and overlooked, thinking through doing, and being an avid proponent of making-do, experimenting and improvising, Kirby will wander, observe, converse, collect and see what comes out of the mix. Accumulations of objects, images and texts, may become artists’ books, collages, things, etc. that explore formal concerns, humour, pathos, absurdity, our relationship to the world around us, and challenge mainstream values and hierarchies.
This is part of an on-going, life-long research project into what it is to live in the world that we find ourselves in.
EAK will be in residence at Bower Ashton Library from June to September, with an (possibly changing) exhibition of things to provoke and stimulate thought, and maybe conversation, in the library from 1st July – 31st August. Any one interested in engaging in dialogue, walks, and solving the world’s problems, or just having a bit of fun and seeing the library, is welcome. Days in residence will generally be the second half of the week, but may include other days and weekends. Interested parties may propose visitations by email: enquiries@eakenterprises.org, DM @EAKPress on Instagram, or try and seek EAK out in the Library.
As part of the IMPACT 12 residency, EAK Press will be producing a small and modest gift for conference attendees / library visitors and will display the artworks made during her residency this September in one of the library vitrines.
Image: Untitled by Éilis Kirby/EAK Press
Éilis Kirby, in her role as researcher for EAK Enterprises (the organisation that constitutes the personhood of Éilis Kirby) is now in residence at Bower Ashton Library. As a former student of the Art College, EAK is proud to be declared summer AIR. This will be a trip down memory lane for our industrious researcher, as she first walked into the library 29 years ago, in the early years of her education in the matters of making. Now she returns to remember and to see what’s new, bringing the past and the present into collision and forging the future. The residency will provide a space to observe and reflect, especially in the wake of an unprecedented couple of years. What is “the new normal”? What does the world look like now? How do we navigate past, present and future?
The views of, and proximity to, Ashton Court Park with its abundance of vegetal life and nonhuman creatures will be a most pleasing setting for contemplation and perhaps some interspecies connection. Having a keenness for the discarded and overlooked, thinking through doing, and being an avid proponent of making-do, experimenting and improvising, Kirby will wander, observe, converse, collect and see what comes out of the mix. Accumulations of objects, images and texts, may become artists’ books, collages, things, etc. that explore formal concerns, humour, pathos, absurdity, our relationship to the world around us, and challenge mainstream values and hierarchies.
This is part of an on-going, life-long research project into what it is to live in the world that we find ourselves in.
EAK will be in residence at Bower Ashton Library from June to September, with an (possibly changing) exhibition of things to provoke and stimulate thought, and maybe conversation, in the library from 1st July – 31st August. Any one interested in engaging in dialogue, walks, and solving the world’s problems, or just having a bit of fun and seeing the library, is welcome. Days in residence will generally be the second half of the week, but may include other days and weekends. Interested parties may propose visitations by email: enquiries@eakenterprises.org, DM @EAKPress on Instagram, or try and seek EAK out in the Library.
As part of the IMPACT 12 residency, EAK Press will be producing a small and modest gift for conference attendees / library visitors and will display the artworks made during her residency this September in one of the library vitrines.
Image: Untitled by Éilis Kirby/EAK Press
