We Are
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Current External Examiner
Sarah Browne Artist
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Patrick Fox, Director, Heart of Glass, www.heartofglass.org.uk
Claudia Eipeldauer, Founder Member, Wochenklauser, Danish Artist Collective
Sean Miller, Associate Professor, School of Art + Art History, University of Florida
Visiting Lecturers
Since 2010 the Visiting Lecture List includes the following National and International exemplars of best practice, these have included;
New York based Artist and Educator Pablo Helguera; N55 Danish Artistic Platform; UltraRed Los Angeles, Berlin, NewYork, London, based Art Activist Group; Finish based Collaborative Artist, founder member Complaints Choir, Oliver Kotcha-Kallenin; Basurama, Madrid based Design Collective; Gareth Kennedy, Visual Artist;. Brian Flemming, The Spectacle of Defiance and Hope; Gerard Byrne, Visual Artist; Yvonne Cullivan, Socially Engaged Artist; Dr. Pauline Conroy, Sociologist; Owen Boss, Nua Productions Theatre Company; Ailbhe Murphy, Collaborative Artist, founder of Vagabound Reviews; Jesse Jones, Visual Artist; Paul Sullivan, Static Gallery Liverpool; John Comisky, Theatre Director; Kaos Pilots, Danish Social Design; Bikvanderpol, Dutch Collaborative Art Practice Wochenklauser, Danish Artist Collective; Superflux, UK/India based Design Company; Gideon Koppel, UK based Film Maker; Dr. Adam de Eyto, Sustainable Designer and Researcher; Sarah Browne, Artist; Sarah Tuck - Director of CREATE; Cliodhna Shaffrey, Independent Curator; Dr. Eileen Humphries, Sociologist/Researcher; Caroline Campbell - The Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation (IVARO); Phillip Delamere, Arts Office, Roscommon County Council; Dr. Luigina Ciolfi, Research Officer, Interaction Design Centre; Rurairi O’Cuiv, Public Arts Office Dublin City Council; Liz Burns, Director Fire Station Artists’ Studios; Maria Brett, Arts in Health Artist; Mary McCarthy, Director National Sculpture Factory; Catherine Atkinson, CREATE; Noel Kelly, Director of Visual Artist Ireland; Kath Gorman, Programme Manager, Cork Midsummer Festival; Annette Moloney, Independent Curator; Pat Collins, Filmmaker; Eamonn Maxwell, Lismore Castle Arts; Bronac Ferran, Sustainable Design, Royal College of Art; Roddy Bucannon, Scotish Visual Artist; Jennifer Moroney Ward Director, Northside Learning Hub; Alan Phelan, Visual Artist; Anna McLeod, Visual Artist. John Paul Dowling, Bristol based Graphic Designer; Thinkk Public, UK based Collaborative Design Company.
Joint Programme Leaders and Core Teaching team
Dr. Marilyn Lennon and Dr. Sean Taylor
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Marilyn Lennon received her primary degree from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland. She has an MA in Ceramics from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and also holds an MSc in Interactive Media from University of Limerick, Ireland. She holds a PhD from the University of Limerick, focussing on interdisciplinary collaborative and participatory design. She is currently enrolled on the advanced level professional development module on Commissioning and Curating Public Art at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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For more info see www.marilynlennon.net
Sean Taylor received his primary Diploma (with Distinction) in Fine Art, from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland. Awarded an MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in Belfast in 1983, and received a Postgraduate Scholarship from The Kunstenacademie, Rotterdam, Holland . In 2013 he completed a Deep Listening Certificate Programme, with American contemporary music composer Pauline Oliveros at the Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, New York, USA. He holds a PhD from Limerick Institute of Technology, School of Art and Design.
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For more info see www.softday.ie
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Book Chapters
Lennon M. (2018) ART AS SOCIAL ACTION: "An Introduction to the Principles & Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art”, published by Allworth Press
Taylor, S. (2018) ART AS SOCIAL ACTION: "An Introduction to the Principles & Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art”, published by Allworth Press
Lennon, M. (2015) G.R. Turnbull. (eds.) The Questions We Ask Together. Published by Open Engagement In Print, Portland Oregon, USA.
Taylor, S and Lennon M.(2017) In Grenzüberschreitende Projekte Impulse aus: Kunst & Pädagogik, Cross-border projects. Impulses from: Art and Education. Published by Fabrico Verlag.
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Module Lecturers have included
David Brancleone, Fiona Woods, Tara Byrne, Colette Lewis and Cristín Leach
Programme Associates
MA SPACE has developed a number of important External Relationships with institutes and educational and professional programmes who contribute to the development of the programme, these include; CREATE, Dublin, The National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Galleries and artist run spaces in Limerick City and in Ireland, The Guesthouse, Cork, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, University of Flensburg, Denmark. Wired FM (Limerick), The Limerick Learning Hub, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin, Heart of Glass (UK), University of Limerick, University of Florida at Gainsville (USA)​