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How To Flatten A Mountain: An Arts Residency.
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How To Flatten A Mountain

What: How to Flatten a Mountain is an exciting 12 days residency opportunity presented by PhotoIreland & Cow House Studios, and with the support of OPW, open to emerging and mid-career visual artists whose artistic practice in whole or part, makes use of digital and/or analogue photographic processes.The colophon of the residency is an exhibition of the works produced, presented during the PhotoIreland Festival at Rathfarnham Castle or The Library Project.
When: Late April to early May, coinciding with PhotoIreland Festival.
Where:
Cow House Studios, Rathfarnham Castle, and The Library Project.
When: Late April to early May, coinciding with PhotoIreland Festival.
Why: To empower emerging and mid-career visual artists whose artistic practice in whole or part, makes use of digital and/or analogue photographic processes.
Started: 23 May 2016.

List of Exhibitions and Events

Participating artists in 2016:
Abigail Taubman, Alex Westfall, Alexandra Huddleston, Alisha Doody, Aoife Shanahan, Christopher Bleuher, Deanna M Witman, John Cullen, Julia Mejnertsen, Rixt de Boer, and Tomoko Daido.

Participating artists in 2017:
Benedetta Casagrande, Kate Petley, Lauren Roeder, Mike Callaghan, Nathan Harris, Patricia Howard, Roisin White, Ruth Connolly, Val Patterson, Valéry Pelletier, Yinon Avior, and Zhao Qian.

Participating artists in 2018: 
Rose Bennett, Donna Cooper Hurt, Sarah Flynn, Ana Gómez de León, Shaney Marie Herrmann, Katinka Igelberg, Daniel Orlando Lara Garcia, Nancy Libson, Sarah Pannell, Leah Raintree, Molly Ruoho, and Sofia Seguro.

The 2020 edition had to be postponed due to COVID-19.
However, we featured in OVER Journal works by two of the artists selected for this year’s residency, Yvette Monahan and Eva Kreuger.

Residency details to be announced.