Electric Picnic have unveiled a new art programme as the festival gets set to shine a light on emerging artistic talent when it returns next month.
Electric Picnic makes its long-awaited return to Stradbally Hall, Co Laois on September 2-4 2022, with Dermot Kennedy, Tame Impala, Arctic Monkeys, Megan Thee Stallion, Picture This, and Snow Patrol set to perform over the sold-out weekend for 70,000 fans.
Not just the home of die-hard music fans, the highly anticipated festival at Stradbally Estate will also stage an impressive art programme running over the weekend.
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At the Electric Picnic Art Trail, there will be everything from eye-catching sculptures to immersive interactive pieces and hundreds of instalments stitched into the patchwork quilt of green fields and big top tents at the festival.
This year, Electric Picnic will also support up-and-coming artists and will welcome a cohort of second year students from the Institute of Art, Design + Technology, Dún Laoghaire who, as part of their course, have designed and created a menagerie of fantastical wild animals and curious things that will sit alongside the forest section of the Art Trail.
Constructed using recyclable and sustainable materials, the art will be lit up at night.
The Place of the Picnic Art (POPA) returns this year with five artists selected to take residency on-site at Stradbally Estate during the festival build, spending their days painting large scale murals for display across the grounds over the weekend of Electric Picnic itself. The project has once again been curated by renowned local artist Clare Hartigan, who has been at the heart of Electric Picnic’s art scene for many years.
Clare has invited five artists to join her on POPA this year, following the theme of “Speak to Me” with an emphasis on positive body image and mental health.
The artists selected are Debbie Chapman, a contemporary artist based in West Dublin, Myra O’Reilly, an Irish artist, living and working in Limerick city, Des McMahon, a printmaker also based in Limerick, contemporary abstract artist Adrienne M Finnerty, who has a background in hypno-psychotherapy, sound movement and colour therapy, and Michelle Pando-Kelly, an artist and educator from Lima, Peru.
Take a wrong turn down the forest path and you may find yourself at a place called ArtLot. Once upon a time on a little corner of Dublin city, ArtLot held its own as an open-air public exhibition space inspiring and amusing passers-by with its monthly programme of visual art and performance.
It was later rescued by Electric Picnic and the artists were given a permanent home deep in the woods of Stradbally Estate as the festival’s alternative arts and music stage.
ArtLot will be programmed over the weekend by Fluttertone. Dedicated to supporting diverse and emerging artists, ArtLot is the place to see spoken word performers, bongo drummers, independent singer-song writers, queer electric pop performers.
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