Billy Lingwood
Residency & Exhibition
Billy Lingwood is a Cork-based visual artist and arts worker with a BA in Fine Art: Printmaking & Contemporary Practice from LSAD. Their work explores post-colonial legacies in the Irish psyche and the social, cultural and policy impacts these continue to have on resident lifeforms. Rooted in printmaking, their practice often extends into curation, co-creation and intervention-based work.
In 2024, Billy was lead artist and project manager for Quilting the Rainbow, a Creative Ireland funded project celebrating over forty years of queer rights activism in Cork. That same year, they were awarded the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community R&D Award (managed by Create) to develop a future co-creation project with members of Cork’s LGBTI+ community.
During the Triskel-Sample Project Space residency, Billy intends to further develop their practice within the field of co-creative arts participation. A key influence is the Art of Drag exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem (Netherlands), where the gallery supported a lead artist to establish a community group, run workshops in research and skills sharing and co-curate a multi-disciplinary exhibition with resources for hands-on public engagement. Drawing inspiration from this model, and following consultation with De Hallen’s participation office, Billy is exploring how such an approach can be reimagined within a Cork context.
The residency will bring together a professional artist and a group of non-professional collaborators to investigate alternative models of community-based art making. Workshops will combine research, archival investigation, skill sharing and making, with feedback gathered throughout the process informing a responsive curatorial approach. The project will conclude with an exhibition shaped both by the work itself and the specific site, supported by resources for public participation.
Grounded in and for Cork’s LGBTI+ community, the project will feature creative workshops and, in the spirit of co-creation, a resourced “creation station” where the wider public can contribute artistically if inspired to do so.
Triskel Sample Project Space is a new partnership between Triskel and Sample-Studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artists, especially emerging and mid-career artists, to test ideas and to develop new work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career development and audience engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf’ where they have a safe space to develop new ideas, within which risk-taking is possible.
Billy Lingwood is a Cork-based visual artist and arts worker with a BA in Fine Art: Printmaking & Contemporary Practice from LSAD. Their work explores post-colonial legacies in the Irish psyche and the social, cultural and policy impacts these continue to have on resident lifeforms. Rooted in printmaking, their practice often extends into curation, co-creation and intervention-based work.
In 2024, Billy was lead artist and project manager for Quilting the Rainbow, a Creative Ireland funded project celebrating over forty years of queer rights activism in Cork. That same year, they were awarded the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community R&D Award (managed by Create) to develop a future co-creation project with members of Cork’s LGBTI+ community.
During the Triskel-Sample Project Space residency, Billy intends to further develop their practice within the field of co-creative arts participation. A key influence is the Art of Drag exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem (Netherlands), where the gallery supported a lead artist to establish a community group, run workshops in research and skills sharing and co-curate a multi-disciplinary exhibition with resources for hands-on public engagement. Drawing inspiration from this model, and following consultation with De Hallen’s participation office, Billy is exploring how such an approach can be reimagined within a Cork context.
The residency will bring together a professional artist and a group of non-professional collaborators to investigate alternative models of community-based art making. Workshops will combine research, archival investigation, skill sharing and making, with feedback gathered throughout the process informing a responsive curatorial approach. The project will conclude with an exhibition shaped both by the work itself and the specific site, supported by resources for public participation.
Grounded in and for Cork’s LGBTI+ community, the project will feature creative workshops and, in the spirit of co-creation, a resourced “creation station” where the wider public can contribute artistically if inspired to do so.
Triskel Sample Project Space is a new partnership between Triskel and Sample-Studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artists, especially emerging and mid-career artists, to test ideas and to develop new work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career development and audience engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf’ where they have a safe space to develop new ideas, within which risk-taking is possible.
Triskel Arts Centre is proud to announce its association with The F-Rating initiative. Developed in the Bath Film Festival in 2014, the F-Rating is a new film rating which will highlight those with a strong female voice.