September 29th – November 30th (9 weeks) 

Greywood Arts is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity for hands-on education and training working within a successful arts organisation in rural Ireland. Our mentorship program is open to artists looking to expand their practice to include arts management and who would benefit from practical experience. 

In autumn 2024, the participant will contribute to the production, promotion and delivery of: 

• Samhain Lights: willow lantern making, installation of a light art sculpture over the River Dissour, and a lantern parade into Glenbower Wood 
• Youth STEAM education programme for primary schools & Greywood’s Youth Art Club 
• Space Fest: a Science Week festival that brings together the art and science of space, at the National Space Centre & locations in Cork City. This includes a Space Fest artist residency in the lead up to the festival. 
• Inclusive Arts programme 

Mentorship Includes:

• Training on the operations of an artist residency and a small arts centre. 
• Hands-on experience of programming, promotion, social media, funding applications and reporting, and project management.
• Mentorship to set goals for your mentorship period. We aim to tailor your experience to help you achieve these objectives and support you to develop the skills relevant to those goals.
• Opportunities to share your work / skills with the Greywood Arts community.
• A letter of reference for employment  applications. 

Activities may include, but are not limited to:

• Programme and event design, planning, implementation & support.
• Communication with artists and audiences.
• Social media management.
• Calendar maintenance.
• Archive maintenance.
• Event management, including set up & break down.
• Assistance with grant writing / reporting.
• Artist Residency management.

We ask that the participant: 

• Work 25 hours/week, spread across the Greywood office, events, and facilities management as needed. There will be a greater time commitment required during the week of Space Fest. 
• Has basic computer skills. 
• Is flexible and able to take on a variety of roles, especially leading up to/during larger events and festivals.
• Is on-site for 9 weeks. 

This is a voluntary role, however Greywood Arts will provide a stipend of €500 towards living expenses. 

Self-catering accommodation is provided on-site, including a private bedroom with a desk for personal creative work and shared kitchen, garden and living spaces in our artist residency.   

There is flexibility to arrive earlier / depart later than the dates above. 

To Apply:
Please send a letter outlining your interest in the role and any relevant experience or skills, as well as a CV, to Greywood Arts by September 15th. create@greywoodarts.org 

 An interview by Zoom will be requested for shortlisted candidates.  

For the second year in a row, Greywood Arts and the National Space Centre are delighted to co-host visiting artists who engage with themes of outer space, technology, and speculative futures in their work for a residency project and exhibition in November 2022.  

We are thrilled to announce collaborators Emilia Tapprest and Valerie van Zuijlen as the recipients of the six-week residency which entails studio space at Greywood Arts and access to the NSC’s busy satellite groundstation campus. The artists captured our imaginations with their project Our Side of the Moon and its distinctive investigation of technology, communication and humanity. Their stunning collective aesthetic is underpinned by intellectual rigour contrasted with embodied approaches to understanding the world around (and beyond) us. 

Valerie and Emilia will use their residency to film and develop immersive and poetic scenes for their docu-fiction film project Our Side of the Moon. Their work and research will be showcased below the Big Dish at the National Space Centre as part of Space Fest November 18-20. Audiences will get a window into the artist’s practice through the use of multi-screen setups that map the mood and rhetoric of this particular moment in time in relation to space.  

READ ALL ABOUT VALERIE, EMILIA & OUR SIDE OF THE MOON HERE.

With over 150 applications, from 40 widespread countries, the selection process was incredibly competitive. The panel, consisting of Greywood and NSC staff, as well as artist Scott Gorham, were astounded by the breadth of engagement with space themes from artists around the world. 

The residency is named for Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907), an Irish astronomer and writer from County Cork, Ireland.

Through her quarter-century career, she became a leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in the English-speaking world. The lunar crater Clerke is named after her.

She was the author of Modern Cosmogonies, whose chapter “The Inevitable Ether” inspired the title of this award.

Alongside the Our Side of the Moon video installation will be collaborative works created by 100 young people from St. Fergals National School (Killeagh), Gaelscoil Mhainister na Corann (Midleton), and the Greywood Arts Youth Club that have participated in our STEAM programme. Facilitated by artist Roisín White, young people have learned  how both photographs and space telescopes use light to give us pictures of the past. The young artists have created photographic images that utilise morse code to project their questions for the universe into outer space. 

Bookings for weekend exhibition visits and tours of the NSC can be booked at SpaceFest.ie.

The exhibition opening on Friday November 18th is by invitation only. Please contact us at create@greywoodarts.org if you would like to request an invitation.