Creative Ageing: Guided visit of RINN & The Great Book of Ireland
We invite older people to join us for a guided visit of our current exhibitions RINN & The Great Book of Ireland.
The Glucksman’s Creative Ageing Community programme is dedicated to involving older people in all kinds of activities in the gallery with an emphasis on social, fun and creative encounters. We invite older people to join us for guided curatorial tour of our current exhibitions RINN: An Ireland and Japan dialogue on making, place and time and The Great Book of Ireland.
RINN explores the culture of making and its relationship to place and time through the work of Irish and Japanese artists and architects. While each piece is a personal expression of form, their works are united by an immersion in the culture of making. Whether drawing on craft heritage – the materials and skills associated with place - or challenging new techniques and pursing new materials, they all share an intimate relationship with the handmade.
Rinn in Gaelic means place or a point – and in Japanese, the same word means circle, ring or circularity. Joseph Walsh has observed that the meaning in both languages strongly represents ideas inherent in his practice, of place and this moment in time, within a continuous cycle of time.
Presented by Making In by Joseph Walsh Studio as part of the Ireland Japan 2025 programme in partnership with the Government of Ireland, the exhibition premiered in April at both Ireland House and A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo.
The Great Book of Ireland is an extraordinary vellum manuscript which contains the original work of 120 artists, 140 poets and nine composers.
All of the contributors were asked one thing – please convey your hopes, joys, fears, loves in being an Irish person at the turn of the second millennium. Described by former president, Mary Robinson, as “the Book of Kells of the second millennium”, artists and writers who contributed include Samuel Beckett, Eavan Boland, Cecily Brennan, Louis le Brocquy, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Barrie Cooke, Dorothy Cross, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Seamus Heaney, Eithne Jordan, Michael Longley, John Montague, Tony O’Malley, Kathy Prendergast, and Patrick Scott.
No specialist knowledge is required. This tour will last approximately one hour and will be followed by time for discussion.
Thursday, October 9, 11am to 12pm.