• the arts column: January 22nd

    January 22, 2019 - By 

    This week’s edition of the arts column looks at events in both capitals as we see a series of exhibitions, annual traditions, emerging artists, collections and opportunities. 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 | Turner Month @ National Gallery, Dublin While this time of year is normally synonymous with broken resolutions, one century old tradition remains: Turner Month at the National Gallery of Ireland. In 1899 Henry Vaughan donated 31 watercolours to the gallery, with a stipulation that they always be free and only shown in January, so…

  • Picture This: Dublin Gallery Weekend

    November 21, 2017 - By 

    This weekend sees the return of Dublin Gallery Weekend with events taking place across Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Now an established and vital part of the arts calendar in the capital, Dublin Gallery Weekend provides opportunities for one off events and tours, as well as linking longer running exhibitions into the weekend’s schedule. Below are a list of some of our highlights for the weekend. Thursday RHA Gallery Naomi Sex’s first major solo exhibition All this Surface and Surface is currently on in the RHA Gallery. 1pm sees a performance, titled Dealing Cars, Making Art, by Darina Gallagher. (This is repeated…

  • Exhibition: Static @ Pallas Projects + Studios

    September 6, 2017 - By 

    Tonight from 6pm to 8pm sees the preview of Rebecca Dunne’s Static in Pallas Projects + Studios. Dunne is an artist who focuses on sound art, with her exhibitions frequently taking on immersive and interactive roles with their audiences. In Static we are advised that Dunne will present “a feature length picture available in surround sound”, which promises to continue and extend this narrative within her work. The exhibition is due to continue Pallas’ recent pop-up show template and close this Saturday after a three day run – helping to firmly establish the immediacy and visceral nature of the works. Full…

  • In Conversation With… Eleanor McCaughey

    August 28, 2017 - By 

    Absinthe hour – oil on Canvas, 2017 I first encountered the work of Eleanor McCaughey in 2015 when I saw her solo exhibition Image is Everything in Dublin’s Eight. There McCaughey collated and presented an Americana she had fictionalised using found photographs that depicted American diplomats and their families during the Cold War years. In that show hints existed to the new shift in direction her practice was about to take, and in the intervening years I voyeuristically watched this evolution through social media – peppering it with real life contacts at various exhibition openings. It was at one of those recent…