• Exhibition: Nasty Women Dublin

    August 3, 2017 - By 

    Opening tonight in Dublin’s Pallas Projects & Studios is Nasty Women Dublin. Originating in New York, the fundraising initiative has spread to over 40 destinations globally and is described as: “a global art movement that serves to demonstrate solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of threats to roll back women’s rights, individual rights, and abortion rights. With over forty fundraising art exhibitions taking place around the United States and abroad, Nasty Women Exhibitions also serve to support organisations defending these rights and to be a platform for organisation and resistance.” For this incarnation…

  • Exhibition: Memorabilia @ Belfast Exposed

    August 15, 2017 - By 

    This week is the last to the Memorabilia exhibition in Belfast Exposed – closing this Saturday August 19th. Gábor Arion Kudász, son of Hungarian artist Emese Kudász, began photographing and documenting his mother’s archive in the years that followed her death in 2010. Gábor’s cataloguing of his mother’s work threw up a interesting observation – is the coherence between objects one that existed prior to his undertaking of the task? Or is it one generated through the creation of an archive? What is for certain is the context these works were created in is separate to the context they are placed under when…

  • Exhibition: SANDMAN @ The Complex

    July 27, 2017 - By 

    Tonight sees the opening of SANDMAN in Dublin’s The Complex. SANDMAN is the second exhibition from Stream, an artist-led project, and follows on from their successful first show in the same space in April. The brief for this show saw Stream ask “the artists involved to produce work which considers the human tendency to worship; to elevate objects, ideas or people to semi-divine or miraculous status. We would like the artists to contemplate the role of worship or superstition within our current Western culture and our future culture, from a religious or secular perspective” The exhibition’s theme also draws on elements of…

  • Exhibition: Isabel Nolan & Brendan Earley @ Douglas Hyde

    July 26, 2017 - By 

    This Thursday sees two solo shows launched in Dublin's Douglas Hyde Gallery: Kerlin Gallery's Isabel Nolan in Gallery 1, with mother's tankstation's Brendan Earley in Gallery 2. Nolan presents a mixture of mediums, making use of photography, drawing, sculpture and installation work in a show titled: Calling on Gravity. Her work is an enquiry into why of existence drawing on a diverse set of characters, both real and fictional, as inspiration. Earley's show, titled back of beyond, sees the artist comment on escapes to the wilderness – be they completed by him or in the past by painters, filmmakers and walkers. Earley is…

  • Void Derry: Workshops, New Director and Exhibition

    July 25, 2017 - By 

    Void Derry have announced the appointment of Mary Cremin as their new Director. Cremin, who’s CV includes Festival Director for 2015’s TULCA Arts Festival, Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios as well as Project Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, will assume the role with immediate effect and has advised: “It is a privilege to be joining the team at Void. I look forward to building on the extraordinary programme that Maolíosa Boyle and the team have developed during her time as Director, and to articulate the next chapter. I look forward to working with the…

  • IN CONTEXT 4: Work Songs

    July 21, 2017 - By 

    Visual Artist Fiona Dowling and Composer George Higgs are currently seeking five South County Dublin business to part-take in their project Work Songs. The project sees the pair look to create a musical portrait of South County Dublin’s economic profile. The initiative is part of the wider IN CONTEXT 4: In Our Time programme which is part of the South Dublin County Council’s Public Art Programme for 2016-2019. The tradition of work place songs is a long and rooted one, but this practice has wained in recent years. Work Songs  is very much viewed as a collaborative effort with Dowling and Higgs consulting the…

  • Exhibition: When Walking @ Butler Gallery

    July 20, 2017 - By 

    When Walking is the latest exhibition in Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery and features the work of Irish artist Eithne Jordan RHA. Jordan is currently undertaking a year long residency in Kilkenny’s Tony O’Malley Studio – established by the RHA in 2010, the studio is in the former home of influential local painter. When Walking continues Jordan’s exploration of local architecture, incorporating scenes and building styles not usually eulogised in artworks, and incorporating a gaucho technique for some pieces. Though a common vernacular exists within the local landscape, idiosyncratic features have evolved over time with each owner stamping their individuality on each building. Jordan…

  • Picture This: The Honeymoon Suite @ Golden Thread

    July 15, 2017 - By 

    There comes a point in self-portraiture when you lose focus of the fact the imagery in front depicts the artist themselves. While you don’t truly ‘forget’ this knowledge, it doesn’t become the overriding concern. The work transcends itself from self-portraiture to portraiture, and with this emerges the possibility of the work to speak of societal observations rather than personal musings. The more successful the work is the quicker this process happens, which allows for greater insight. The most obvious case of this, in the history of photography, is the canon of Cindy Sherman. It’s hard not to think of Sherman…

  • Exhibition: It happens to be @ Pallas Projects

    July 13, 2017 - By 

    Following on from their pop-up exhibition last week Traveling without Moving, which featured the work of Colm MacAthlaoich, Pallas Projects + Studios return again with another pop-up exhibition. Painting is also the medium of choice this week, with the works of Japanese duo Atsushi Kaga and Aya Ito, both of whom live and work in Dublin, on display. The exhibition, entitled It happens to be, is predominantly a collaborative show with the majority of pieces being paintings worked on by both artists – some individual pieces by Ito are also shown. The foreword for the show advises: “Kaga developed narrative in the paintings drawn by Ito and Ito added…

  • Arts Funding Information Clinic

    July 12, 2017 - By 

    Later this month a funding information clinic is due to take place in Dublin’s Wood Quay Venue. It is designed to provide assistance and guidance to applying for the Arts Council’s Strategic Funding programme in September this year. In order to attend the session on July 28th you must complete an inquiry form by this Thursday July 14th. The Arts Council have advised that “in the interests of achieving a good geographical and artform spread, places will be allocated amongst those who have expressed interest.” With those who have secured a place at the event being notified next Tuesday 18th July – the…