The Cill Rialaig project and images from Ireland
All material copyright Liam Addison 2006
An excerpt from the article "A Very Untraditional Irish Session" by Liam Addison 2006
"Squelch, slurp, fart. That’s the noise that Ireland makes when you walk on it. At least that’s the case for the bit that I’m walking on. A field with a glistening surface that moves with sinister intent at every footstep, to the extent I can almost feel the cool, slippery mud between my toes, even inside my sodden boots. As my foot slides I spectacularly fling myself into the air but I manage to keep an arm straight and protect the camera from the impact my rear end receives, just as I have done three times already this week.
When I mentioned to people that I would be spending February in a stone cottage on an isolated cliff in County Kerry, they all looked at me as if I was mad, and as I picked myself out of the mud I was beginning to understand why. Nevertheless, this is exactly what I did.
I had been accepted to spend a residency at Cill Rialaig, the project founded by Noelle Campbelle-Sharpe, the owner of the Origin Gallery, Dublin. Artists of various disciplines have flocked here for over a decade to absorb inspiration from the unique surrounds. Cill Rialaig is a pre-famine village on remote Bolus Head in the Gaelic speaking part of County Kerry……”
An excerpt from the article "A Very Untraditional Irish Session" by Liam Addison 2006
"Squelch, slurp, fart. That’s the noise that Ireland makes when you walk on it. At least that’s the case for the bit that I’m walking on. A field with a glistening surface that moves with sinister intent at every footstep, to the extent I can almost feel the cool, slippery mud between my toes, even inside my sodden boots. As my foot slides I spectacularly fling myself into the air but I manage to keep an arm straight and protect the camera from the impact my rear end receives, just as I have done three times already this week.
When I mentioned to people that I would be spending February in a stone cottage on an isolated cliff in County Kerry, they all looked at me as if I was mad, and as I picked myself out of the mud I was beginning to understand why. Nevertheless, this is exactly what I did.
I had been accepted to spend a residency at Cill Rialaig, the project founded by Noelle Campbelle-Sharpe, the owner of the Origin Gallery, Dublin. Artists of various disciplines have flocked here for over a decade to absorb inspiration from the unique surrounds. Cill Rialaig is a pre-famine village on remote Bolus Head in the Gaelic speaking part of County Kerry……”
So for two weeks during February of 2006 I observed and photographed the area around Cill Rialaig in County Kerry and further afield. These are some of the pictures that I took that accompany the article.
I'd like to thank Kurt Jackson; the Cill Rialaig team; Dave Sergeant; friends and family; fellow artists and those others that helped along the way for making the trip possible.
This story is dedicated to John Hardy and Pete McCarthy.
