INSIDE | OUT

This aspect of ‘In the Open Clonmel’,  led by South Tipperary Arts Centre,  proposes to make the town of Clonmel an outdoor gallery. By bringing the art outdoors to the streets, buildings and footpaths INSIDE/OUT will activate and engage audiences in a new way.

This project will include mural/street art and large scale 2D art installations on buildings, walls and streets around the town. Artis Joe Caslin will respond to the theme of ‘Come out to play’, creating a temporary work which will be central to the exhibition.

Joe Caslin is an Irish street artist, art teacher and activist. Best known for his beautifully rendered pencil drawings, which manifest as towering pieces of street art. His highly accessible work engages directly with the social issues of modern Ireland, on an unavoidable scale. Caslin confronts the subjects of suicide, drug addiction, economic marginalisation, marriage equality, stigma in mental health, direct provision, institutional power, inclusion, consent and most recently, the effects of the Covid19 pandemic on young people. The monochrome drawings Caslin creates live with us and against many of us for some time before washing away. They hold a mirror up to the kind of society that we are, whilst asking us individually what kind of society we want to be a part of.

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The Inside Out chosen artists are:

1. Emma Maher

2. Nocht Studio (Philip Ryan & Martin McGloin)

3. Laura O'Mahony

4. Marine Kearney

5. Wojciech Ryzinski

6. Maurice Caplice

7. PressPlayRepeat (Paul Sheehan)

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This project is funded by In the Open | Faoin Spéir - an Arts Council funded programme developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis for 2021 which will see a variety of outdoor arts events taking place in public spaces around Ireland.

Co-funded and led by Tipperary County Council.

Supported by our partners at Technological University of the Shannon (TUS)

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