Diane Henshaw from Outland Arts is working in Room this week until September 05. All week the room will be open to visitors. Diane will be holding a studio tour with tea and cakes and informal meet the artist this Saturday 06 at 3pm.
Outland Arts is an artist-led organisation based in Fermanagh run by volunteers set up to promote and support the ethos of exhibiting contemporary art in rural locations and to support artists who practice involved ideas of the rural and the remote in its widest context. Artists involved must be feral at heart.
Floating World Artists Books will be holding a Show and tell day on Saturday 13 September in Room from 2-5pm. where artists from the collective will be on hand to talk about the thinking behind the works, and explain how they were made.
Helen Sharp and Simon Carman of Outland Arts will be working on Room from 16 – 20 September. Helen and Simon will be creating a collaborative work over the course of the week. On Thursday 18 at 4pm Outland Arts will be screening i am here, a short film by internationally renowned DJ and music producer David Holmes, shot by the legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle, with Production Design by Outlander Helen Sharp. Room will be open for informal meeting and chatting with the artists from Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 September.