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​Manchán Magan in conversation with Breaking Borders artists, Trudi van der Elsen, Myra Jago and Beata Piekarska-Daly on 14th September
The conversation will cover a range of topics including the artists' practice, the notion of borders and boundaries in the artist's works, the role of art in the digital age and a changing society, among other related topics. The event forms part of the accompanying outreach of the exhibition, Breakings Borders, which brings together seven visual artists working in various mediums. 

Luan Gallery - Athlone 
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cif1QhlpBh4/



Breaking Borders, a group exhibition curated by Valeria Ceregini, featuring artists Nicola Anthony, Trudi van der Elsen, Bernadette Hopkins, Benedict Hutchinson, Myra Jago, Vukašin Nedeljković, and Beata Piekarska Daly. The exhibition brings together seven visual artists working in various mediums. The artists respond to physical, psychological and societal forms of borders and how we, as a society (including artists and art venues) can address, debate, and potentially dissolve these barriers. Until 25 September 2022. Luan Gallery, Athlone.  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg142cdF3-D/

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Participating in the film RISING, by William Bock 2022
https://vimeo.com/758679579/a24c484b33
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RISING is an experimental film by artist William Bock created in collaboration with members of the community in Kildysart and Labasheeda commissioned by Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland. Prior to making the film, William Bock spent a year residency visiting local families and individuals to learn about their connections to the river, their history and their thoughts about the future. Through the film, local community members worked together with William to offer a new vision of the landscape and their place within it.
​The River Residencies are funded by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Invitation to Collaboration scheme and supported by the Clare Arts Office


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Breaking Borders - Exhibition curated by Valeria Ceregini in GOMA Gallery of Modern Art - Waterford 
https://valeriaceregini.com/2021/12/27/breaking-borders/ - January 2022

Breaking Borders aims to explore the intersection of multiple narratives and discourses in the arts, engaging a mix of conversations with the exhibiting artists accompanied by talks and performance art contributions.
The group exhibition intends to be an organic project to mix and match artists from all disciplines to contribute to the development of the arts in Ireland and artists’ practice across any discipline. This exhibition project offers a creative and digital approach to the arts to expand the physical exhibition space as a response to these current times where we witnessed an increasing use of technology to implement our reality.
Breaking Borders has the ambition to become a global and inclusive space with no physical barriers with a proactive approach to delivering new forms of cultural experiences and tackling the challenges facing the changing landscape of the arts as a result of social pressures.
This future-facing project will make up of an interactive exhibition project and a series of online and offline events  focused on the perception of a globalised and dislocated life.

Watch on Youtube : In conversation with Valeria Ceregini : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-YneSlt6Q4&t=7s

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​​NOTES FROM A DIGITAL SEA
An exhibition of paintings 
The Gallery @ the Burren College of Art,
Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare.

27 February - 27th March 2020

www.burrencollege.ie/exhibitions/





2019 -  BOG series have been published in the Swedish, artists and writers run magazine OEI # 84/85

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​Transparent Messenger 
HERMIT lll
​1994

​Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic 
https://agosto-foundation.org/trudi-van-der-elsen-self-reflection-in-the-water

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Culturlann Sweeney Kilkee
10th February - 5th March 2016


Jackie Askew / Fiona Burke / Peter Burns / John Busher / Marie Connole / Gerry Davis / Trudi van der Elsen / Mary Foudy O'Halloran / Sara Foust / Noelle Gallagher / John Hanrahan / Vincent Killowry / Chris Leach / Selma Makela / John McHugh / Fx Murphy / Mary Noonan / Christine Porter / Hanneke van Ryswyk / Joan Sugrue / Ian Wieczorek 






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Fiona Woods |One Kind And Another | Book Launch & Panel Discussion | Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare | February 6th 2pm, 2016
Fiona Woods’ new publication One Kind and Another is the outcome of her episodic collaborative practice collection of minds. This practice asserts the artist’s embededdness within and reliance upon social, geographical, and conceptual networks.
This new publication documents a number of collection of minds episodes which took place over a period of 18 months (2014-2015). The episodes outline contrasting worlds from the High Plains of Colorado to the tracking of goat herds in the Burren. They produce a myriad of dialogues with others, including artists with a strong rural focus, gun club members and goat farmers. The publication captures a multitude of engagements with the material world, both sensuous and intellectual.



Woods will be joined by members of the Ground Up Artists Collective http://guac.ie/portfolio/trudi-van-der-elsen/ 
who participated in some of these episodes, for a discussion about collaboration as process of discovery, as innovation, as risk.

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Sift: Contemporary Painting Project
From 17th October – 31st October 2015
John Busher, Trudi Van Der Elsen, Noelle Gallagher, Will O’Kane, Kate Murphy, Joan Sugrue
Twitter Project Feed: https://twitter.com/SiftPainting  
A Wexford Fringe Festival Event!


Sift is a co-curated project initiated by John Busher and Trudi van der Elsen. Without addressing a specific theme, the works examine emerging developments in contemporary painting practice. Sift is a reference to the physical act of filtering through source material, unearthing ideas, and the unexpected which can result from this. A common thread is formed, where image making, photographic referencing, place and memory rise to the surface. Largely grounded in the premise of figurative painting, the individual art practices explore a territory where this concern borders on abstraction.
 https://www.facebook.com/events/1469082230089247/

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Dwelling In Time, Creative Solidarity , 2015
A presentation of research from a recent residency on Inis Oírr
The Red Couch Space, Courthouse Gallery, Enistymon, Co. Clare


The word “dwelling” can suggest place, habitation, or home. As a verb it is more active, in calling up ideas about living, a sense of conscious decision, or staying with whatever is in focus. It also suggests time, reflection and waiting with slow patience. The latter option is one that does not come so easily at this time of ever increasing acceleration, speed and instant gratification, with its intolerance of slow returns. GUAC made the conscious decision to uphold a slow, durational processes.
​http://guac.ie/current-projects/


​SOLARGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS from and of Dún Formna, Inis Oirr,  2015                                                                                                                           'Dwelling in Time', group exhibition by Ground Up Artists Collective in Aras Eanna, Inis Oirr from 1 May - 24 May

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Calendar 2014/2015 created by Outriders Artists and friends from Ireland
& Vedelik artists from Estonia.


Wild Garlic by Trudi van der Elsen
APRIL 2014

Inspired by the lunar calendar & Ringfort with wild garlic.
This particular landscape is exotic for both Irish and Estonians,
it reflects a poetic view of nature that they share. 



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Feasting On The Wind  by Ground Up Artists Collective 2013
with artists: Monica de Bath, Maeve Collins, Marie Connole, 
Trudi van der Elsen, Barry Foley, Pauline Goggin, Lewis Goodman, 
John Hanrahan, Marianne Slevin.

http://guac.ie/

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CULTURE NIGHT @ THE FIVE STAR
Friday 20th September 2013, Ennis
'Culture Night @ The 5 Star' - an exhibition featuring an array of lens based media that includes –installation, sound, video, photography and painting. Ennis artist Shelagh Honan curates the exhibition which is the third from the series ‘Call It What You Will’

With: Maria Finucane, Shelagh Honan,
         Fiona O'Dwyer, John Hanrahan, 
         Trudi van der Elsen.






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​1. 'Hand' - Accomplicen I, II,III, 2013
2.' Komplizen' - Ostrale 2013 - Dresden, Germany  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAjkxNgpX_0, 2013
3. 'ACCOMPLICES II '- in TETEM, Enschede (NL), 2014
4. 'ACCOMPLICES III '- in KunstenLab Deventer (NL), 2014

1. FLOOR, Overgaden, Copenhagen - 'Transformation' detail (DK) 1993
2. FLOOR, Overgaden, Copenhagen - 'Transformation' detail (DK) 1993
3. 'Morningstar', Friesland Buitendijks Foundation Art Manifestos Ferwerderadeel (NL) 1996

1. Boom=Beeld,Foundation Art Manifestos, Leerdam (NL) 1994
2. Three Openings - Shadow Dance, Rideau Street, Kingston (CAN) 2002
3. TIME, Modern Fuel gallery, Kingston ON (CAN) 2002

1. Rianta, Ground Up Artists Collective group show, Ennis (IRL)
2. 'BOG', Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon (IRL)
3. 'Songlines', Mixed Media Installation, Punt WG, Amsterdam (NL)
4. 'The Power of Local,' Festival of art and culture in Ennistymon, Courthouse Gallery, Divised and directed (IRL)

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