• the arts column: January 15th

    This week’s edition of the arts column has details on Ireland’s largest open submission, a group exhibition on current and urgent political and social issues, a host of exhibitions opening on the same night in the same place, a talk on Brexit, politics and art and an look at the culture of death and morning. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Exhibition │RHA Spring Exhibitions Not one, not two… There are five exhibitions opening this Thursday in Dublin’s RHA Gallery, with a broad range of shows from established artists, emerging talents and…

  • Perspectives: Richard Forrest @ Glucksman Gallery

    Thursday September 20th see artist Richard Forrest host a lunchtime discussion in Cork’s Glucksman Gallery from 1pm. Forrest is currently on show in the gallery’s latest exhibition Please Touch, and the talk will see him explore themes raised in that work regarding the experience of an exhibition beyond traditional sight only perception. As part of Please Touch Forrest, along with Rhona Byrne, Maud Cotter and Katie Watchorn, actively encourage their audience to get up close and personal with the works, employing the sense of touch when engaging with the work. Forrest’s talk is part of a series of discussion with the artists involved, with…

  • Exhibition: Babel Unbound @ CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery

    This Friday at 6pm sees the opening of Babel Unbound in Cork’s CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery. Featuring the works of American artists Leslie Mutchler and Jason Urban, Babel Unbound is a multi-disciplinary show with focus on the print medium. Mutchler and Urban are collaborative artists and here they focus on the role of printed media and editions within the context of a library, and ultimately as a curated and performative space. “A series of printed works, risographs, xeroxes and screenprints become a publication pulled apart, ephemeral and in-flux, lining walls of the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery. Photographs, 3D printed objects and large-scale digital prints…