The Listening Group #3 - Curated by David Beattie

Artist David Beattie curates this third edition of our occasional sound art gathering, inviting the audience on a guided walk to explore his 2019 work Reflectors, a permanent Public Artwork that consists of four individually engineered and cast terrazzo sculptures of varying sizes placed along the walkway beside the River Dargle in Bray.

Joined by guest artist and educator Dr Sven Anderson, the pair will discuss Reflectors and invite the audience to interact with the works during a slow stroll from the meeting point beside the Dargle river to Bray Harbour. Please meet here promptly at 2pm.

At the end of the tour the audience is invited to join the artists for an informal discussion, tea and coffee upstairs at The Harbour Bar, which is a 5min walk from Bray DART station.

Meeting Point: Gather at 2pm at the River Dargle Viewing Platform, Ravenswell Road (Beside Fran O’Toole Bridge) Location map

David Beattie is an artist and lecturer in Art and Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. Beattie’s sculptural practice explores the material world through experiential, physical engagements with objects and non-objects. Recent projects have focused on the social and environmental impact of digital technologies, haptic robotics and machine learning. He was awarded the Harpo Foundation Award in 2010 and was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, 2016. In recent years, he has been commissioned to produce a number of temporary and permanent public artworks including VOID Commissions, Derry (2021), Reflectors, Bray, Co.Wicklow and Patterns of Illumination, Griffith Barracks Multi-denominational School, Dublin.

Solo exhibitions include Berlin Opticians (2019), NUI Maynooth (2017), CCA Derry-Londonderry (2017), Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (2011), The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh (2010), Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto (2010) and Oonagh Young Gallery (2009); Group exhibitions include Circadian Rhythms, The Glucksman (2019), Berlin Opticians (2018+2019) TULCA Art Festival, Galway (2017), As above, so below, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017), In the Line of Beauty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013), O Brave New World, Rubicon Projects, Brussels (2013) All Humans Do, The Model Sligo and Whitebox, New York (2012); Feedback, Galway Arts Centre (2011); Holding Together Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2010); La Part des Choses, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, and Quiet Revolution, Hayward Touring, UK (2009).

Dr. Sven Anderson is an artist, researcher, lecturer and architectural consultant based in Dublin. He is Assistant Professor of Film and Course Director of the M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices at Trinity College Dublin. His research and practice explore the intersection of digital art, sound studies, architecture and critical spatial practices.

In 2021, Anderson was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship to develop action-led research advancing the emergent field of urban sound design with the London-based research organisation Theatrum Mundi. He is the co-editor of the books States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape (Actar, 2021) and Signal Spectre System: A Late Evening in the Future (Verlag Für Moderne Kunste, 2018).

Anderson holds a BA from Cornell University and a PhD from the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin). He has developed courses at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and has delivered lectures at universities and design institutions around the world.