Leitrim Artists meet and greet at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon

The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon is hosting an informal, free meet-and-greet event open to artists, musicians, theatre makers, writers, and anyone interested in meeting other practitioners!

The series will take place on Saturday morning, April1 as an initiative to create a friendly meeting space for creative workers in the region. With three galleries, a cosy coffee shop, black box theatre space and the Leitrim Design House also onsite, the location could not be more suitable!

Led by artist-in-residence Fiona Reilly, herself relatively new to the area, the meet-up has expanded its scope since its inception last year, and is now an opportunity for all artists, both new to the area and those who are long established in the locality, to meet up, exchange ideas and share opportunities and hopefully forge new friendships and collaborations.

Conversations often circl around the lived realities of balancing art practice and daily life; the group is open to all artists whether practising at present or not.

Fiona is a multidisciplinary artist based in the North West.

She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2014 with a first class Hons. Masters Degree in Social Practice and the Creative Environment. She also holds a BA Hons degree in Fine Art from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Fiona has exhibited throughout Ireland and abroad and is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Art Award 2016.

She works using a combination of performative and event based actions and the production of objects. Site, context and circumstance are of fundamental importance and works often emerge in response to personal and social situations.

Play, experimentation and repetition are tools she regularly employs.

The next artists' meet up will take place in The Dock on Saturday, April 1 at 11.30am.

Call (071) 965080.