Goma Gallery of Modern Art, 7th Feb 1pm – 2pm 2023
Waterford Healing Arts Trust & GOMA Gallery of Modern Art are delighted to invite you to an artist talk by Caroline Schofield at GOMA Gallery.
Tuesday, 7th February, 1pm – 2pm
Free event – All welcome.
The talk will be based on the artist’s current exhibition at GOMA titled ‘I brought the dream of flying…’ by Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield
*Corina Duyn will also join you in the gallery on the day via zoom.
‘I brought the dream of flying…’
Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield,
‘I brought the dream of flying…’ a new exhibition by artists Corina Duyn and Caroline Schofield 14th January – 11th February 2023 in partnership with Waterford Healing Arts Trust. Inspired by a broken-winged bird puppet which accompanied Corina when she moved to full-time nursing home care last year, the exhibition features work made in response to this move and illustrates the new collaborative creative process Corina has developed with Caroline as a result of her increasing disability. The exhibition is presented by Waterford Healing Arts Trust and GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, with funding from Creative Waterford. Further details are available from www.waterfordhealingarts.com and www.gomawaterford.ie
About Caroline Schofield
Visual artist Caroline Schofield studied textiles at NCAD and completed a Master’s in Art & Process at Crawford College of Art & Design. An Azure and TimeSlips facilitator, for Waterford Healing Arts Trust, Caroline delivers Open Gallery, a dementia-inclusive art project, and Art at the Kitchen Table, supporting older people to make art in their own homes. She recently worked with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland on Narrative Tools, exploring the culture of making and handing down tools and skills within families and community. Other work includes projects with Butler Gallery, Age & Opportunity and Open Circle. Caroline’s work is found in public and private collections and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. www.carolineschofield.ie
About Corina Duyn
Dutch born Artist, Writer and Puppet Designer Corina Duyn trained as a nurse and social care worker before becoming a full-time artist after moving to Ireland in 1989. The rapid decline in her health with the onset of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in 1998, aged 36, changed Corina’s creative ability, intensity and output. Portrayal of life around her changed to exploring the inner world of illness, in order to understand this utterly changed existence. Creative highlights in recent years include facilitating Life Outside the Box puppet project (2015), keynote speaker at Broken Puppet Symposium on Puppetry, Disability and Health (2018) and the Invisible Octopus video poem (2020), an extraordinary and succinct illustration of life with ME. The need to move into long term care in 2021 further influenced her creative output, including now accepting use of her co-artist’s hands to bring ideas into being. www.corinaduyn.com
GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, 6 Lombard Street, Waterford https://www.gomawaterford.ie/