Thursday 12 January 2023

Embodied Cognition and the Limits of Digital Museum Experience by Renata Pękowska published in Museum International by ICOM International Council of Museums, Volume 74, Issue 1-2 (2022), Taylor & Francis.



Tuesday 17 May 2022

DigiArt22 - presenting a paper at the upcoming Digital Art in Ireland Symposium in University College Cork on 2 June, focusing on my recent project of creating coded visuals for live music, which respond in real time to sound.

Tuesday 22 March 2022

Pavilion Theatre Artist in Residence developing visuals for animated public projections in collaboration with Paul Synnott.


Tuesday 4 January 2022

Material Encounters - an article on Irish book arts published in the winter 2021 edition of Printmaking Today, featuring work by Sioban Piercy, Andrew Folan, Redfox Press, Hannah Bowler, Seed Objects of Wonder and Sandi Sexton


Monday 18 October 2021

Muzeoterapia (Museotherapy) Conference at the National Museum of Poland, Kielce

Renata Pekowska presentation title: Koncepcja ucieleśnionego poznania a doświadczenie przestrzeni muzealnej (Concept of embodied cognition and the experience of the museum space).



Thursday 19 August 2021

Issue #17 of Critical Bastards interdisciplinary art magazine was launched on Thursday 19 August 2021 at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Dublin. 

Featuring Self and other stories by Renata Pekowska

Wednesday 28 July 2021

Emerge 2021 by Cork Craft and Design, Exhibition of new makers is coming back to the windows of the MTU Gallery at 46 Grand Parade in Cork during Cork Craft Month August 2021. Curated by Renata Pekowska


Friday 2 April 2021

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane: Artist's Takeover: Renata Pekowska

For the Hugh Lane Gallery's Artist's Takeover page I chose to limit the volume of text and combine it with images in order to create a short visual essay, based around a single idea: the thoughts and musings on and around the 'roundness' of compositions and things.

https://www.hughlane.ie/news/3185-artist-takeover-renata-pekowska

Thursday 1 April 2021

Renata Pekowska will work with Sculpture Dublin to facilitate public engagement with the new sculpture commissions in Dublin in 2021. 

https://www.sculpturedublin.ie/announcement-creative-engagement-facilitators/


Thursday 7 January 2021

Book Arts: Renata Pekowska considers the format of the artist's book, including various Irish publishers and collections

Visual Artists' News Sheet, January-February 2021



Tuesday 1 December 2020

Talk: Renata Pekowska for the National Irish Visual Arts Library - Judge by the cover - book as object and artwork

10th Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery & Studio, Dublin

01 December 2020, 6.30pm

https://www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/events/talk-national-irish-visual-arts-library-judge-by-the-cover-book-as-object-and-artwork

Friday 7 August 2020

Emerge Exhibition of New Makers part of Cork Craft Month is now on until 28 August at the Crawford Institute of Technology Gallery at 46 Grand Parade in Cork @thegallerygrandparade #emergecorkcraftmonth.
Curated by Renata Pękowska

Image credit Celeste Burdon

Monday 1 June 2020

Emerge 2020 Exhibition will take place in August as part of Cork Craft Month. 
Curated by Renata Pękowska

Friday 10 April 2020

Artists' Books - a public lecture for the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin

Tuesday 24 March 2020

Dublin Digital Radio broadcast of Publication Scaffold documentary,
featuring extracts of presentation - performance by Renata Pekowska (starting at 18:47)

Listen to it here: https://www.templebargallery.com/news/publication-scaffold-broadcast-on-dublin-digital-radio?fbclid=IwAR1oZ6_x3cjBjeArRCZdQctbD5UwFj6dQ15jlu4g0iRDBKk64buVvF_4VkY


Wednesday 20 November 2019

Publication Scaffold 22-23 November 2019, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Renata Pekowska presents a 'Dialogue between Dublin streets and an artist's book'


Image: John Carson, Evening Echoes, 1993
Gene Beery / Gareth Bell-Jones / Elisabetta Benassi / John Carson / Adam Chodzko /
Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty / Wayne Daly / Emanuele De Donno & Viaindustriae /
Barry Flanagan / John Hutchinson / Ramon Kassam / John Latham /
Vukašin Nedeljkovic of Asylum Archive / Renata Pękowska / Cesare Pietroiusti / Juan Sandoval / Dan Starling

Curated by Jo Melvin, Michele Horrigan & Sean Lynch
Temple Bar Gallery  + Studios presents Publication Scaffold, a series of events, performances, installations
and discussions held during 2019’s Dublin Art Book Fair.  Publication Scaffold finds practical and
metaphorical ways of envisaging the process of publishing. It points to books not solely as objects, but as
conversation and encounter, as discursive notions surrounding their own existence. Pages turn, words are
uttered, platforms for communal discovery emerge. Juxtaposition and serendipity are fundamental to these
investigations, leading to new ways of thinking about the portable, malleable exhibition format as a
publication itself.
Inspired by the dialogues of 19th century Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Renata Pękowska’s performance imagines a casual exchange of views between disgruntled Dublin streets and an artists’s book caught in the midst of an identity crisis.

Attention-seeking utterances end up as a series of monologues and allude to books that are more than the sum of their pages, as well as their value as tactical encounters, and the role of city structures as message bearers.

Friday 10 May 2019

Women in Design Conference: 24th & 25th of May at the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Dublin. 
The conference explored topics such as women designers in the Museum’s collections and whether it is important that designers are recognised and remembered as women. 

Renata Pekowska presented a paper 'Women designers shaping the visual identity of contemporary Dublin' focusing on women designers/artists in Dublin creating murals, posters, signs, prints and other visuals on public display, and how they highlight social and political issues such as body image, challenging the language of patriarchy and the campaign to repeal the 8th amendment in Ireland.


Image credit: Holly Pereira illustration

‘The highlight was artist Renata Pekowska’s talk on how women designers are shaping the visual identity of contemporary Dublin.
Citing the rise in art murals, projects such as Dublin Canvas and decorative shop fronts in the city, Pekowska argued that Irish female artists today like Vanessa Power, Clara Dudley and Karen Harte are brightening the capital, while exploring contemporary issues in a new way.’

Sunday 10 March 2019

Seeing the light; Renata Pekowska discusses the theme of light across several recent exhibitions
VAI Visual Artists' News Sheet March/April 2019

Tuesday 13 March 2018

Immaterial material: Notes on light and shadow in design 
Iterations Design Research and Practice Review Issue 6 February 2018

Monday 15 January 2018

In the land of Light & Space


Haze and blinding light
Permanent filter of airborne dust
Blue tint of air perspective
Dark mountains and pale desert

Horizon at sunset orange and purple
A sunset of pale turquoise and dirty flamingo
So much sky multi-hue glows
Indescribable colour combinations

Paying attention to changing light brings on the true sense of wonder.