• 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…

  • 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…

  • Group Exhibition @ Kerlin Gallery

    July 6, 2017 - By 

    Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Snake Theory, 2017, Oil, nails, rope, and glass on panel with artist-made frame Opening tonight in Dublin’s Kerlin Gallery is a new exhibition featuring the works of four up-and-coming artists – three Irish (Marcel Vidal, Hannah Fitz and Áine McBride) and one American (Daniel Rios Rodriguez). The show is the first time any of the four have shown in the Kerlin Gallery, with McBride and Fitz presenting sculptural work, Rodriguez paint based pieces and Vidal a mixture of both. Hannah Fitz, Man, 2017, mixed media Fitz’s work makes use of both sculpture and video practices, with her…

  • Exhibition: Sea and Summer @ ArtisAnn Gallery

    July 5, 2017 - By 

    Opening tonight in Belfast’s ArtisAnn Gallery is a new exhibition featuring the work of Northern Irish painter Carol Graham. Graham, who’s portraits of Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson hang in Queen’s University and Trinity College respectively, is due to present a selection of works from the past decade as well as newly created pieces specifically for the show. These works will draw on the themes of the Sea and the Summer, and this lends itself to the name of the exhibition: Sea and Summer. The preview opens tonight from 6:30pm until 8:30pm, with the show set to continue until August…

  • Exhibition: Babel Unbound @ CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery

    June 13, 2017 - By 

    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…

  • Exhibition: Eamon O’Kane @ Butler Gallery

    June 7, 2017 - By 

    The work of Danish fairytale behemoth Hans Christian Anderson, and specifically his 1858 short story The Last Dream of an Old Oak Tree, provides the title for the latest exhibition by Irish artist Eamon O’Kane in Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery. The show, titled Does all the beauty of the world cease when you die?, features a broad range of mediums including on-site installations, print and photography, that have been combined to provide a multi-faceted and immersive exhibition. Anderson’s short story discuss the interaction between an old oak tree and a May fly. The tree feels pity for the fly as he views his ephemeral life…

  • Exhibition: Brigitte Zieger @ Void

    June 3, 2017 - By 

    Parisian based German artist Brigitte Zieger has a new exhibition of works, entitled Other Scenes, opening tonight in Derry’s Void gallery. The new show, which is curated by Gregory McCartney, see Zieger “explores virtual and spatial 3D images which relate to history and the integration of displacements between images, sculpture and space”. The opening is proceeded by an artist’s talk at 6:30pm, with the launch scheduled for 7:30pm until 9pm. Tonight also see the launch of Abridged’s 0 – 1979 issue, which can be picked up on the night. Other Scenes continues until July 29th, with full details on the exhibition available here, with info on…