'The World on View' interview with Corina Duyn - podcast

Podcast of interview by Bernadette and Stan Phillips on Tramore Community Radio 'The World in View' with Artist and Writer Corina Duyn.

Corina was the facilitator of the Life Outside the Box Puppet Project and curator of the Dis-ability ... This Ability exhibition.
This talk came about as a result of the exhibition, and starts at about 9 minutes in.

Exhibition in the newspapers

Waterford News & Star 15 November 2016

Munster Express 15 November 2016

Grace O'Sullivan: "The work at the Dis-ability … This Ability exhibition is beyond Ability. The level of the work is Extraordinary."

Grace O’Sullivan and Corina Duyn

Senator Grace O’Sullivan launched the Dis-ability … This Ability exhibition at the Coastguard Cultural Centre in Tramore last Saturday.

Grace started off by saying how huge an honour it was for her to launch this wonderful exhibition… “The work of Corina Duyn and all her colleagues is beyond Ability. It is Super Ability. It is all about professionalism. The level of the work is extraordinary."

Among other works on show are the nine puppets created under the guidance of Artist and Writer Corina Duyn with her fellow members of the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) Dungarvan Resource Centre. While looking at these “Life Outside the Box” puppets, Grace talked about the detail in the faces, the characters, the boxes, and passports: “they are Irish Nationals…! All are telling a story. A story of Ability.”

Grace commented that Dutch born Corina Duyn, who was the brains behind this exhibition, doesn’t accept her dis-ability… “You are absolutely motivated and have a strength of character, and are on everyone’s case … you are setting the bar high. We as a nation in Ireland, are a bit of ‘cap-in-hand’. You won’t settle for that. Keep pushing the barrier!”

Grace O'Sullivan talking to Stephanie
from Waterford Healing Arts Trust

O’Sullivan raised an interesting point about the need to have people with disabilities visible in the community. “Everyone in our community is the richer for it if we can live in harmony with each other … as shown here, there is no such thing as dis-ability.”

See HERE  for video of Grace O'Sullivan's Talk and some images of the puppets. 

Corina and artist Tunde Toth who facilitated the paper making also on show, and for sale, at the exhibition, told in more detail about the experience of working with this diverse group of people and their abilities. New ways of working can always be explored. The outcomes were beyond all expectations.

Duyn told passionately about the personal empowerment of her first experience of teaching, with the help of the IWA staff, after a seventeen-year gap. How, although spending a lot of her time at home, her writing and art makes her part of society. Her creative work has become a communication tool. “All of these works here today are ways of communication too. When you purchase a piece of art or a book, it creates a ‘conversation’ with the artist, the buyer and the recipient of the gift, and that is hugely empowering for all involved.”

Anna Moore, Ann O'Grady and Karen 

after finishing setting up the exhibition 

Corina thanked Artist Anna Moore, Ann O’Grady and her sister Karen for assisting in setting up the exhibition, and IWA staff and Coastguard Cultural Centre for their practical support to make this exhibition happen; and Grace O’Sullivan for her compassionate talk to launch this event. Which might be the first of many...

Grace, Corina and Tunde all stated how immensely proud they are of all the work that has been created and asked the audience to do their best to encourage others to come and see the show.  There are many stocking fillers and other gifts for Christmas: books, prints, painting, postcards, paper art, poetry, and practical stuff like the fun puppet notebooks. The raised funds will bring financial recourses to do more creative work for the group and the individual artists.

The exhibition runs until 1^st December.
Corina Duyn website
See HERE  for video of Grace O'Sullivan's Talk and some images of the puppets 

Group paper art
(which is available for corporate buyer, contact Caroline if interested)
and two of Corina Duyn’s sculptures

Puppet books and notebooks

sample pages of Into the Light - book in a box by Corina Duyn

paper art by John McGrath, Corina Duyn and Ann O’Grady and sculpture by Corina Duy

Pat Coffey paintings

Pat  Coffey and friends at the opening

view of Exhibition

John McGrath and family

Some of the comments

Tramore Coastguard Dis-ability This Ability exhibition

Article in Waterford News & Start 8 November 2016. Marion O'Mara

Article in Waterford News and Start last week: 
"How we can be influenced by word meanings and how taking part of a word away can give a whole new meaning and perspective is what will challenge us with the opening of the Dis-ability ... This Ability exhibition at Tramore coastguard Cultural Centre...."

Exhibition Details

Links to Exhibition details:

• Paper Art 
• Books, postcards, prints, poetry 
• Press release
• Coastguard Cultural Centre Location 
• Media coverage & here
• Opening Talk

Opening 12th November 3 pm
Running till 1st December!

Books at the Dis-ability ... This Ability Exhibition

At the exhibition there will be a selection of books, notebooks, bookmarks, poetry and postcards, prints and sculptures available. Also some paper art, see here

The Puppet- Project book "Life Outside the Box" 

Framed Poetry by Amy Fitzgerald, 
author of Freedom to Fly 

Covers of the ten blank notebooks!

Books by Corina Duyn
 including Into the Light,
which has been shortlisted for a CAP Independent Author award 2016 

Art Postcards by Corina Duyn
Also Prints from Into the Light

Also Postcards by Ann O'Grady and Paintings by Pat Coffey, of which one is also on the cover of one of the notebooks (second from left - bottom row), and bookmarks from the Puppet books and Into the Light, and a few sculptures.

So something for everybody!

If you can't make it to the exhibition, a lot of the books and cards are available here.

Paper-making with Tunde Toth

After we finished our puppet project we were thinking about what project we can do next.
Paper making with Tunde Toth!!

It proved to be a wonderful experience in which all IWA members were able to partake.
A very tactile form of art.

About ten of the finished pieces will be on show - and for sale- at our upcoming Dis-ability ... This Ability Art exhibition.

See here for exhibition details.

Photographs © Tunde Toth

Tunde Toth's website