• Halftone Print Fair

    November 15, 2017 - By 

    This week is the last chance to catch the Halftone print fair in The Library Project, which is due to close this coming Sunday. The fair features work from over 80 artists, who make use of a variety of print mediums including: linoprint, risography, illustration and screen printing. Prices for work range from €10 to €10,000 – appealing to both the collector and enthusiast. As well as being a commercial endeavour, Halftone also represents an exhibition that showcases a cross section of current printing techniques and styles, so is an important resource for any print maker. Halftone closes this Sunday, and is open daily until…

  • Exhibition: Let Us Eat Cake @ Belfast Exposed

    November 14, 2017 - By 

    If you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Northern Ireland is the worst place to live, in terms of rights, in the whole of the UK or Ireland. Fundamental rights that exist throughout Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales do not exist in the North. Over the past decade homophobic hate crimes have increased year on year, and specific legislation for trans hate crimes is absence. When all of these are mixed in with the melting pot conservative ideologies, such as creationism, that still exist in Northern Ireland, it results in an atmosphere unconducive to the LGBTQ+ community. It is this community,…

  • Book Launch: The Giving Light

    November 10, 2017 - By 

    Tonight sees the launch of a new book featuring the photographic work of writer Gavin Corbett. The photobook is a collation of images captured by Corbett during his travels to Dublin, London, San Francisco, New York and more. Titled The Giving Light, the works trace the writer’s mood through the locations which is emphasised by the accompanying text, which is intended to run parallel to the imagery rather than be a direct interpretation. The photobook is launched tonight in Dublin’s Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, where Corbett is their writer-in-residence for 2017, from 6:30pm in Studio 6. More details are…

  • Picture This: High Winds Move Slowly @ The Model

    October 28, 2017 - By 

    One of the more interesting quirks of our society, as it moves through the ages, is the re-emergence of patterns that we often mistake as being innovative simply because they did not initially emerge during our lifetime. Fashion notoriously produces examples of this each and every season. The cultural polymath is another example of a re-emerging pattern disguised as a new facet. He or she is a photographer/artist/filmmaker – and it is not unusual to view a business card inundated with slashes to highlight this. While this may seem as a new trend, a short glance back in history reveals…

  • Picture This: Inspirational Arts Award @ The Library Project

    October 19, 2017 - By 

    Catarina Leone – Chrysalis Established in 2009, the Inspirational Arts Award, named after the Dublin printing studio of the same name, is an annual award open to recent graduates from the photography and lens based courses of Dublin IT, iadt Dun Laoghaire, Limerick IT and Griffith College Dublin. The award fulfils two briefs, firstly thanking the students over the years who have support Inspirational Arts with their custom, and secondly it provides a second chance for them to exhibit their graduation projects in an external gallery – further showcasing their work and beginning the transition from photographic student to artist. This…

  • Exhibition: This Was Our Scene @ Fumbally Exchange

    October 19, 2017 - By 

    Tonight’s sees the opening of a new photographic exhibition in Dublin’s Fumbally Exchange featuring the work of Gregory Nolan. Originally from Ireland, Nolan cut his teeth abroad rather than at home – making a name for himself through his blend of traditional music photography coupled with a documentary style to capture the London’s mid-2000’s indie scene, a fact reference in the exhibition’s title: This Was Our Scene. Nolan’s imagery captured the energy of the capital’s music scene, and encapsulated the hedonism and excitement emanating from his adopted hometown. When viewing his photographs of now established names like The Libertines and Frank Turner it is clear that the heartbeat of this resurgence were…

  • Drawing Workshop @ The Model, Sligo

    October 17, 2017 - By 

    The Model in Sligo have announced details of a forthcoming workshop with artist Arno Kramer. Artists of all disciplines are invited, and particularly those who make use of the medium of drawing. Kramer, who is originally from The Netherlands, has exhibited in Ireland extensively over the past two decades and was previously a lecture in the AKI (Academy of the Visual Arts and Design) in Enschede, the Netherlands. High Winds Move Slowly, a collaboration between Kramer and Henk Visch, is currently being shown in The Model as well. The class is due to take place from 10am to 5pm on Tuesday…

  • Exhibition: Project Cleansweep @ Sirius Arts Centre

    October 18, 2017 - By 

    While the threat of Nuclear war, and the fear of immediate death via a trigger happy world leader, has been trust to the fore of public consciousness in recent months, the threat and danger of chemical warfare via secondary means – the manufacture, storage and disposal of weapons – has been a real and constant concern for over a century. In America the issue over where to store nuclear waste has remail unresolved since the Manhattan project began, with initial efforts of dumping barrels into the waters around New Jersey so unbelievable in the context of modern knowledge that it borders…

  • Delirious Rhythm, 1936 – 2017 @ IFI

    October 9, 2017 - By 

    This week is the last to see the dual-exhibitions featuring the works of Vivienne Dick and Nan Goldin in IMMA. To coincide, aemi are presenting Delirious Rhythm 1936-2017, a personal selection of films that have influenced and inspired Dick’s oeuvre. The film will be shown in the IFI, with this one off event beginning at 6:30pm tomorrow. Artists whose works have been selected include Helen Levitt, D.A. Pennebaker, Len Lye, Sarah Pucill and Chantal Akerman, with the films chosen relating to ‘the street, the domestic and the unconscious.’  Dick will introduce the performance, with full details on the featured films available online here. Her 93% Stardust exhibition, and Goldin’s corresponding Weekend…

  • Basic Space Talk @ Hugh Lane

    October 10, 2017 - By 

    Basic Space Dublin continue their series of talk in Dublin’s Hugh Lane this coming Friday with a discussion with curatorial duo RGKSKSRG. RGKSKSRG is composed of Rachel Gilbourne (IMMA Ireland) and Kate Strain (Grazer Kunstverein, located in Graz, Austria) and over the last number of years they have been curating a host of intriguing and engaging shows, utilising a variety of mediums and spaces – notably 2015’s online installation love story featuring the work of Eilis McDonald and last year’s I like to eat with my hands in Wexford Arts Centre. Places for the talk, which begins at 1pm in Gallery 18, are free but limited to…