Open to the Public
Working Artist Studios Is an artist-managed venue based in
the town of Skibbereen, West Cork, Ireland.
It's comprised of three galleries and a number of
studios which are occupied by our group of four artists.
Each artist has his or her own studio and everyone shares
the gallery space. We regularly update our galleries and
hold special openings, exhibitions, events and evenings
throughout the year such as poetry readings, music and of
course our art exhibitions.
Our intention is to provide an informal environment
where engagement between artists, art-lovers and the wider
community can occur.
We invite you to visit, browse the galleries and exhibition
space and meet the artists at work. We also welcome showing
groups around i.e. school art classes, tours or
organisations. Just give us a few days prior notice.
Most of the work on display in the three Galleries and four
Studios is for sale.
For ten days from March 1st, our complete Artists
Group headed off by car and Ferry to a small village near
Lassay les Chateaux on the Normandy Brittany border for ten
days of drawing, sketching and painting.
Read more
here....
The edited Video of our event in Working Artist
Studios - Beginning of Spring Imbolc (the festival at
St.Brigid's Day), Poetry reading and music
now online
here...

Various events are planned for July and
August 2009 such as a Book Launch and an evening of
Punk Music all to be held in our own Mini Hall. Check
in at the Gallery and Studios for more information.

Barry McCullough is holding a Drawing
and Painting Workshop on the Easter weekend 10th 11th
and 12th of April - all materials supplied. You can
read
more about it here....

Our Group member, Marie Cullen is now
holding weekly evening classes for adults interested
in exploring collage work and skills surrounding
collage, at our premises. You can
contact Marie here....

Ian McNinch has a new Art Class for 7 -
13 year olds called FREE FALL now up and running with
another new class just starting.
Read more about it
here....

News and results from the First Sketch
Crawl on Saturday January 10th 2009 - a great day out
sketching in Skibbereen.
Check it out
here....

Our new shopping Cart is now live and
online. This will be updated throughout the year with
new work from each artist.
Here it is....
One of our policies is that everyone, if at all
possible, should be able to afford to acquire and enjoy our
art. So depending on the artist and the work, you have the
possibility of purchasing any piece you may be interested
in through staged payments - please enquire.
We've setup one of our three Galleries as a 'Drawing
Room'. The purpose is not only the obvious, to show
drawings, but also to display, sketches, wood engravings,
writing, poems, small paintings and the ideas and
inspiration behind our work. Unlike our other two Galleries
which are rehung around every ten weeks, this Gallery is
dynamic and updated by all four artists on a week-by-week
basis.
We've also decided that all work displayed in The Drawing
Room is priced within reach of virtually everyone. We have
our policy (mentioned above), of the option of staged
payments. So it really does make our art available to
everyone, which is one of our wishes. Come along and
explore our Drawing Room.