How We Got Here, an exhibition featuring the wok of 1st year MFA students from Belfast School of Arts, is due to end this week in Belfast’s Platform Arts. 12 artists feature in total, with the work exploring themes including memory and femininity. The exhibition is spread across both galleries within Platform Arts and includes collage, sculpture and painting. The gallery is open 12-6 Wednesday to Friday, before closing on Saturday 11-4. Full details are available here.
Eight, on Dublin’s Dawson Street, have announced details on an open call for artists to apply to for their 2017/18 programme. In recent years the gallery has hosted compact but expansive shows by a number of key emerging artists, including Eleanor McCaughey, James Kirwan, David Lunney and more. As well as these solo shows the space has worked in conjunction with other bodies, most notably with Basic Space Dublin for Culture Night last year, to host engaging group shows, INFRA in the case of Basic Space Dublin. Full details of the submission requirements can be found here, with an expressive…
Artist Steven Maybury returns with a new exhibition, entitled A Rhythm Exposed (Routines: 5-6), which is due to open this coming Thursday in The MART Gallery, Rathmines. While the series is a continuation of thoughts previously explore in his 2016 shows, Anicca (The Library Project, Dublin) and Dukka (Platform Arts, Belfast), this new work sees Maybury embracing new materials and approaches, all while further exploring the Buddhist Doctrines of existence and impermanence discussed in those exhibitions. Drawing is still a key language for the artist’s output, with the exhibition set to examine and challenge the processes of archiving and presentation. We chatted to Maybury last…
Opening tonight in Dublin’s Mother’s Tankstation is the latest exhibition from Irish artist Brendan Earley. The work, entitled Life after Buildings, is the result of Earley’s shift in focus over the last few years following the completion of a studio in the Wicklow Mountains. Taking ques from American poet Lew Welch, as well as the change in surroundings, Earley returns with a series of new drawings that seek to initiate rather than simply respond and record. This, coupled with his new more rural and less cluttered surroundings, has resulted in an intriguing and, on surface value, more minimal approach. The show…
Opening tonight in MART’s Rathmines gallery is Transmission, a new exhibition featuring the work of Sofie Loscher and Helen Mac Mahon. The exhibition explores the theme of light, looking at its use as an identifier of the risks we encounter in our lives, as well as its capability to challenge our perceptions regarding gallery spaces and their functions. The opening to this intriguing show starts at 6pm this evening, with the exhibition due to continue until May 4th and is open Tuesday to Saturday, 1pm to 6pm. Full details here.
Cléa van der Grijn – Reconstructing Memory (Image Courtesy of Heike Thiele) Cléa van der Grijn’s exhibition Reconstructing Memory has just finished in The Model in Sligo. The show is due to travel to Limerick and Dublin before heading stateside to Minnesota’s Rochester Arts Centre. If you didn’t get the chance to see van der Grijn’s exhibit before it’s closure you can view it below, and if you did you can relive it once more via a walkthrough an commentary by the artist. You can also read a response to the show written by Rebecca Kennedy here which discuss the main…
Opening today at 1pm and running until April 6th in IMMA is Symbiosis – the end of year exhibition for 1st years in IADT’s BA Hons. Art programme. The students are due to graduate in 2020 and Symbiosis marks a pivotal moment in their practices. This year also represents the 10th anniversary of IADT’s residency programme in IMMA, an iniative that encourages a research lead practice, and one that sees work and artist engage with IMMA and onsite creation. The exhibition will be open daily from 10:30am until 4:30pm with students present each day (the work is situated in Studios 5,9 and…
Basic Space are seeking a new Co-Director to help with “management, development and administration of the organisation with an emphasis on visual art and educational programming.” Based in Dublin’s Temple Bar, Basic Space work in conjunction with instiutions in both Ireland and the UK on exhibitions, residences and education al events – most recently in the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry ~ Londonderry with The Present Is Not Enough, Part I [The Edge of Things #5], as well as INFRA in Dublin’s Eight Gallery last year. Applicants are required to submit both a CV and a brief proposal with full details…
Alexandra Hopf – The Night Image courtesy of Heike Thiele What: The Night Where: The Model, Sligo When: 24th February – 16th April Words: Rebecca Kennedy It would be unwise to assume that the physical size of an exhibition space would act as a limitation to the quality of work it beholds. Seen as the majority of assumptions spring forth from our subconscious, it is oddly fitting to hold such presumptions when visiting Alexandra Hopf’s exhibition, The Night in The Model, Sligo. With motifs ranging from psychoanalysis, surrealism, modernism and the construction of art history & mythology, this capsule exhibition escapes it confines and embodies…
Returning for its sophomore edition to Dublin this weekend is the PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image. Due to run Friday 24th to Sunday 26th, the festival is a collaboration between LUX, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and the IFI. The latter provides the setting for the weekend’s film screenings, which see a number of artists, including Yuri Pattison, aemi and Sasha Litvintseva, present bodies of work that influence their outputs, while others are showcasing current or forthcoming work. The festival begins on Friday at 6:30pm with Abyss Film in the IFI, curated by James Richards. This is followed by Richards and LUX…