Located in the small town of Manorhamilton, North County Leitrim, the Leitrim Sculpture Centre support innovation and understanding in contemporary art by facilitating artists wishing to extend their practice or knowledge.

‘Artists in Residence’, Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Call for Applications 2010/11

Leitrim Sculpture Centre and Leitrim County Council are offering 5 residencies to visual artists in 2010/11. Each residency is based at the Sculpture Centre and is valued at a total cost of €4,500. More Info.

Current Exhibition: 'Fields of Vision'

Cross Border Arts Project in Collaboration With Ten Schools From Leitrim and Fermanagh.

Organised by the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Fields of Vision explores the diversity of the border landscape in terms of its cultural and physical geographies and their mutual influences and interactions.

Four Irish artists, Andrew Dodds, Diane Henshaw, Seoidín O’Sullivan and Moira Tierney, each with particular interests in landscape representation and environmental arts practice, worked with ten schools from different border areas and cultural backgrounds. A total of eighty primary and secondary pupils participated.

The artists engaged school children with their own practice leading visual arts research and field study trips to various locations along and across the border between counties Leitrim and Fermanagh. Their collective investigations and various artistic activities are presented as a joint exhibition, opening at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre on Friday June 11th 5-7pm.

The exhibition features new works commissioned for the event and includes ‘End Times’ by Andrew Dodds; ‘Mapping Flight’ by Seoidín O’Sullivan; ‘Borderlines’ and ‘Drawing Music’ by Diane Henshaw and the filmwork ‘Are We There Yet?’ by Moira Tierney.

This PEACE III Project has been funded by County Leitrim Peace III Partnership through the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund which is managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. The project offered opportunities for young people to not only engage with the rich heritage of their surroundings but to interact with each other and professional artists and to share different viewpoints and perceptions of the land.

Participating schools included: St Clare’s Comprehensive, Manorhamilton; St. Mary’s High School, Brollagh, Fermanagh; Killyhommon NS Boho; Kiltyclogher NS; St. Mary’s PS, Killesher; St. Martins PS, Garrison; Gaelscoil Chluainin, Manorhamilton; Florencecourt PS Fermanagh; Drumlease NS and St Hughes NS, Dowra. Research with the schools was facilitated by Community Connections Community Development Project based, Co. Cavan.

Fields of Vision will run from June 11th – August 10 th 2010. All welcome.

This project has been funded by the Peace III Programme through the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund which is managed by the Special EU Programmes Body