Thanks to everyone who celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the publication of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ with us at Mountmellick Library! We really enjoyed having all the wizards (of all ages!) and owls at the library over the past week.
You can see more photos of the birthday events on the Mountmellick Library Facebook page
In accordance with the provisions of Section 75 of the above Act and Article 12 of the Roads Regulations, 1994, Laois County Council hereby serves notice that it proposes to place lane restrictions on the M7 motorway to through traffic between Junction 18 and Junction 19 of the M7, during the period 24th July 2017 to 31st October 2017 to facilitate mainline pavement repair works. A Traffic Management Plan will be in operation.
The works will be undertaken utilising a phased approach and diversions for wide loads, with diverted wide load traffic directed to follow signage along an alternative route. Single lane running will be provided and the motorway will remain open at all time to all vehicles except for wide loads.
Laois County Council hereby serves notice that it proposes to provide a single lane running on the M7 motorway to through traffic between Junction 18 and Junction 19 on the M7 eastbound carriageway and the M7 westbound carriageway during this period.
Under Section 10 of the Road Works Speed Limit Road Traffic Act 2004, it is the intention of Laois County Council to impose a temporary road works speed limit from 24th July 2017 – 31st October 2017 reducing speed from 120kph to 60kph at the above location. The road works speed limit is required to facilitate the above works.
Maps of the diversion routes are available for inspection at www.laois.ie and Áras an Chontae, Portlaoise.
Eastbound Diversion
Westbound Diversion
Any person wishing to object to the proposed roadworks / lane restrictions should do so in writing to the Senior Engineer, Roads Section, Laois County Council, Áras an Chontae, James Fintan Lalor Avenue, Portlaoise not later than 4.00 pm on Monday 10th July, 2017.
Laois Arts Office will run a workshop titled Cog and Axle with Colm O’Hanluain in Portlaoise from Tues 4th to Thurs 6th July from 11-1 for ages 9-14 in the Portlaoise Further Education & Training Centre, Tower Hill, Portlaoise. The workshops will involve learning about simple machines through story and play. Participants will create complex hanging mobiles based on the story of Henry’s Piano and learn about, and engage in, paper engineering (pop-up cards) using their understanding of levers and inclined planes. Cog & Axle has participated at the Festival of Education in Learning and Teaching Excellence (FÉILTE) at the RDS, The Dublin Maker Fair 2016 and at Cork City Science Fair at UCC 2016 where hundreds of children and adults enjoyed exploring simple machine through the story of Henry’s Piano.
Booking essential: Application forms available at Laois Libraries or by contacting the Arts Office T: 057 8664033/13 or E: artsoff@laoiscoco.ie. or online at www.laois.ie
ROAD CLOSED to public traffic to allow for resurfacing works. Access for residents will be accommodated where possible. Diversions will be clearly signposted.
At the following location:
L – 7893 From Towlerton to Strand Bridge, Ballickmoyler Upper.
Please see map below.
BETWEEN:
Monday 03/07/17 07:00 – 20:00 and Tuesday 04/07/2017 07:00 – 20:00
Observations (if any) should be emailed to jormond@laoiscoco.ie rrsmith@eircom.net and copy dcoss@laoiscoco.ie & dwalshe@laoiscoco.ie
ROAD CLOSED to public traffic to allow for resurfacing works. Access for residents will be accommodated where possible. Diversions will be clearly signposted.
At the following location:
L – 7860 From Slatt Cross Roads Wolfhill to Doonane Cross Roads. Please see map below.
BETWEEN:
Monday 03/07/17 07:00 – 20:00 and Tuesday 04/07/2017 07:00 – 20:00
Observations (if any) should be emailed to jormond@laoiscoco.ie philptoland@arkil.ie seancotter@arkil.ie jimmannion@arkil.ie and copy dcoss@laoiscoco.ie & dwalshe@laoiscoco.ie
ROAD CLOSED to public traffic to allow for planned drainage works. Access for residents will be accommodated where possible. Diversions will be clearly signposted.
At the following location:
L – 79791-0 North East of Ballynagall, The Strand, Co. Laois, as indicated below.
BETWEEN:
Tuesday 04/07/17 09:00 – 17.00 and Wednesday 05/07/2017 09:00 – 17:00
Observations (if any) should be emailed to jormond@laoiscoco.ie and copy dcoss@laoiscoco.ie & dwalshe@laoiscoco.ie
Laois Arthouse and The Olivier Cornet Gallery are delighted to present ‘The Meeting’ a group exhibition featuring work by David Fox, Aileen Hamilton, Darina Meagher and Vicky Smith
County Laois Arts Officer Muireann Ní Chonaill and Dublin gallerist Olivier Cornet met for the first time at the Speed Curating event arranged annually by Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) as part of their artists’ Get Together at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Through working side-by-side in the chapel at IMMA, meeting artists at this event, the idea for the joint exhibition was born. From the artists they met last year, Olivier invited David Fox and Vicky Smith and Muireann invited Darina Meagher and Aileen Hamilton to participate in this joint exhibition.
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The exhibition will open in the Laois Arthouse, Stradbally, Co Laois, on Saturday 1st July, 1pm and will run there until Friday 28th July. Guest Speaker at the opening: Monica Flynn, Professional Development Officer, Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)
The exhibition will travel at the end of the month to the Olivier Cornet Gallery, 3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1 where it will open on Sunday 6th August, 3pm. The show will run there until 3rd September. Guest Speaker at the opening: Noel Kelly, CEO and Director of Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)
About the artists
David Fox
Originally from Tullamore, Co. Offaly and born in 1987, Fox has been painting since a very young age. He graduated from GMIT (Galway), with an Honours degree in Fine Art in 2011 and the University of Ulster, Belfast, with an MFA (Masters in Fine Art) in 2013
Currently, he is both living and working in Belfast, and has a studio residency at Creative Exchange Artist Studios, in East Belfast.
Fox has exhibited both nationally and internationally including the Galway Arts Festival in 2009, Belfast’s Platform arts gallery in 2011 and the Luan Gallery, Westmeath in 2015. He has exhibited at international art fairs including Positions art fair, Berlin and international solo exhibitions at Galeria Silvestre, Tarragona Spain. Most recently, he had a solo show, ‘A road less travelled’ at An Chultúrlann in Belfast.
Olivier met the artist at Visual Artists Ireland’s Speed Curating event in Belfast in January 2016. David was then invited to participate in a group show ‘Republic’ in the summer of 2016. Since then the artist has become an AGA member (Associate Gallery Artist ) of the Olivier Cornet Gallery
Aileen Hamilton
Aileen Hamilton considers ecological cycles and organic process within her drawings, exploring the delicate balance and repetitive patterns that bind the natural world to form. Isolated landscapes appear suspended or floating in a fragile and exposed state as Aileen explores the physical and mental borders of our world. In doing so, she reveals hidden layers and draws an analogy between the internal terrain of the body and the wider ecosystems in which we live. Landscapes bend as if in a space-time continuum, the exploratory folds evoking the artist’s search for meaning in both micro and macro environments. The interplay between 2D and 3D environments is an integral part of the process in which Aileen moves back and forth between depth and flatness, her drawings growing out of the wall and interacting with the architectural space. In creating these hybrid landscapes, Aileen is drawn to the thin yet fibrous quality of paper, a material both fragile and solid which she progressively allows to find its own form of existence.
“I am currently based between Barcelona and Ireland. Originally from a rural part of County Meath, I am continually inspired by home, my travels and our connection to the land. In my drawings, I investigate themes of dis-location and our relationship with a changing landscape. The interplay between 2D and 3D environments is an integral part of my process where I move back and forth between depth and flatness, with drawings growing out of the wall and interacting with the architectural space.
I studied Fine Art in NCAD and graduated in 2001. Since then I have shown in Ireland, Spain, Japan, Sweden and Thailand and completed residencies in Ireland and Japan.”
Muireann met the artist at Visual Artists Ireland’s Speed Curating event at IMMA in August 2016.
Darina Meagher
Meagher’s work is an on-going investigation through the medium of paint and the simple act of mark-making. She explores new ways of seeing and experiencing the world, always seeking that juncture within artistic process, which allows the infra-thin to occur.
With an Honours B. Des and an MA in Visual Communication, from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Meagher spent many years working in the area of design and visual communication. A deep interest in the hand-made has led her to contemporary painting.
Awarded a BA (Hons.) in Visual Arts Practice at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire in 2011, she completed a Masters in Fine Art Painting at the NCAD, Dublin in 2014. Winner of the Peter O’Kane Solo Exhibition award at the RDS Student Awards 2011, Meagher also completed a three-month studio residency at the RHA, in 2015.
Recently, Meagher was presented with a residency at Arthouse, Stradbally, this was awarded at the Dunamaise Arts Centre Annual Open Submissions Exhibition in November 2016.
Meagher has exhibited extensively. Muireann met the artist at Visual Artists Ireland’s Speed Curating event at IMMA in August 2016.
Vicky Smith
Vicky Smith is an award winning visual artist who is a member of Engage Art Studios in Galway. Her practise is rich and a complex language in a variety of mediums-small drawings, paintings, film to installations predominately installation based often composed of paintings, photographs, sculpture, text, found objects and film that explore feminist concepts. The bell jar is motif for the complex installations of enclosures. Performance films and appropriated films are an enjoyment of this enclosure, the isolation bell jar of a female experience. Her artistic concern is female identity within the domestic setting, the social setting and the workplace defined by traditional roles of house wife, work, woman. The work is rooted in being a woman a female artist, what this means, the made boundaries.
‘HouseWork, Woman, Wife’ is a series of photo stills reflecting a suburban housewife’s realisation that maybe all of her life will end up with invisible, repetitive, uncreative housework.
The film on which these photo stills are based is a non-narrative study of domestic labour, work that seems not to be taken seriously by society at all. The whole notion of women being housewives has changed. Do you talk about yourself as a housewife? Most of the change that has happened since the 70’s is a superficial inequality of responsibility. 70% of British and Irish women said they are mostly responsible for housework. Men did housework, he helped her with the housework not the other way round. The 1970s is still happening now.
This body of work explores the space between the individual domestic labour and society’s economic workplace through the lens of a personal story of a newly-married woman who finds herself temporarily out of work. She marks time through the act of housework.
Olivier met the artist at Visual Artists Ireland’s Speed Curating event at IMMA in August 2016. Since then the artist has become an AGA member (Associate Gallery Artist) of the Olivier Cornet Gallery.
The Arthouse and Library
Stradbally, Co. Laois
057 866 4033/ 13
Web: www.arthouse.ie Email: artsoff@laoiscoco.ie
FB: thearthouseandlibrary Twitter: @ArthouseLibrary
Opening hours:
Tue+Thu 1-5pm, 5:30-8pm
Sat 10am-1pm (entry through library)
Wed+Fri 1-4pm
(entry through Laois Arthouse)
Olivier Cornet Gallery
3 Great Denmark Street
(beside Belvedere College,
off Parnell Square)
Dublin 1
Opening hours:
Tues to Fri: 11am to 6pm
(till 8pm on Thursdays)
Sat & Sun: 12 noon to 5pm
Closed on Mondays (or viewing by
appointment only)
www.oliviercornetgallery.com
olivier@oliviercornetgallery.com
FB: Olivier Cornet Gallery
Twitter: OC_Gallery
0872887261
ROAD CLOSED to public traffic to allow for road surfacing works. Access for residents will be accommodated where possible. Diversions will be clearly signposted.
At the following location: Hawthorn Drive, Portlaoise.
Road: L81010 Hawthorn Drive
BETWEEN the following dates:
Wednesday 28/06/17 08:00-19:00 – Friday 30/06/17 08:00-19:00
Observations (if any) should be emailed to
rrsmith@eircom.net jaycarey@eircom.net
wwilkinson@laoiscoco.ie and copy squinn@laoiscoco.ie & rglynn@laoiscoco.ie
ROAD CLOSED to public traffic to allow for road surfacing works. Access for residents will be accommodated where possible. Diversions will be clearly signposted.
At the following location: Rosskelton
Road: L5678 Rosskelton
BETWEEN the following dates
Wednesday 28/06/17 08:00-19:00 – Friday 30/06/17 08:00-19:00
Observations (if any) should be emailed to
senancotter@arkil.ie jimmannion@arkil.ie wwilkinson@laoiscoco.ie and copy squinn@laoiscoco.ie & rglynn@laoiscoco.ie
In conjunction with Parkingtag.ie and Laois Co Co, during the Old Fort Quarter Festival this weekend in Portlaoise, a competition is being held to give away €50 Parking Tag Credit. Log on to the Parkingtag.ie page on Facebook or Twitter for more details.
Competition runs from Friday 23rd June until Sunday 25th June with winner announced on Monday 26th June 2017.
ROAD CLOSED to public traffic to allow for road surfacing works. Access for residents will be accommodated where possible. Diversions will be clearly signposted.
At the following location: Pass (Cashel Cross to Money Cross)
Road: R427 Pass
BETWEEN the following dates:
Monday 26/06/17 08:00-19:00 – Wednesday 28/06/17 08:00-19:00
Traffic Diversion Routes R427 Pass
Observations (if any) should be emailed to
rrsmith@eircom.net wwilkinson@laoiscoco.ie and copy squinn@laoiscoco.ie & rglynn@laoiscoco.ie
Road ClosureNotification of Road Closure
The Roads Authority ofLaois County Council Road Closure Hereby Notifies of ROAD CLOSED to public traffic to allow for planned drainage works. Access for residents will be accommodated where possible. Diversions will be clearly signposted.
At the following location: L – 3960 West of Rahin Cross, Rathgilbert, Co. Laois, towards Loughlass for 1KM as indicated below
BETWEEN: Monday 26/06/17 09:00 – 17.00 to Wednesday 28/06/2017 09:00 – 17:00
Observations (if any) should be emailed to jormond@laoiscoco.ie and copy dcoss@laoiscoco.ie & dwalshe@laoiscoco.ie