• 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…

  • Exhibition: VERA @ Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

    September 12, 2017 - By 

    This week recent NCAD graduate Julia Dubsky is having a preview of works in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Dubsky has had a studio in the building since April of this year as part of Temple Bar Gallery + Studio’s Graduate Residency Programme. A multitude of influences exists in the artist’s work, and recent months have seen her complete “a term at the Royal Drawing School in London; three months studio practice in Berlin; [and] a short artist residency in Tehran;” The preview is titled Vera and is open daily to viewers until this Saturday 16th September from 2pm to 6pm. Enterance to Studio 16…

  • Autumn @ The RHA

    September 7, 2017 - By 

    Vera Klute, Cloud – Courtesy of the Artist This Friday sees the launch of the RHA Gallery’s Autumn programme with four new exhibitions opening. In Gallery I is Vera Klute, Ronnie Hughes’ work is displayed in Galleries II and III with Janet Mullarney in the RHA Foyer; and finally, the work of  Susan Connolly is on show in the RHA’s Ashford Gallery. Klute presents Plunge, a multimedia exhibition that makes use of both video and sculpture. Her work sees her discuss the everyday rituals and habits of people, and the transmutation of the normal to the abnormal. More details on Plunge can be found online…

  • Exhibition: Käthe Kollwitz: Life, Death and War @ National Gallery of Ireland

    September 5, 2017 - By 

    This Wednesday sees the opening of a new exhibition featuring the work of German printmaker Käthe Kollwitz. Titled Life, Death and War, the show consists of 40 prints selected from the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart art museum. As alluded to in the show’s title, the exhbition features pieces from Kollowitz’s Death series (1934-37), her two war series: Peasant War (1902-08) and War (1921-22) as well as her two other major art cycles Revolt of the Weavers (1893-98) and Proletariat (1924-25). During the opening decades of the 20th Century, Kollwitz (1867-1945) established herself as one of the finest and highly regarded printers of the era, achieving this during a period…

  • Open Submission: Junior & Gallery of Photography

    August 30, 2017 - By 

    Details have just been announced of an open submission to coincide with the opening of the Gallery of Photography’s new Osman Suite. Named after the gallery’s founder John Osman, the space is located in the newly extended bookshop. To celebrate the gallery has teamed up Irish photography magazine: Junior. Launched last year, the duo behind the publication released issue two earlier this summer and so far the magazine has featured the works of emerging and acclaimed Irish photographers including Mark McGuniness, Darragh Soden, Cait Fahey and Thérèse Rafter. Junior and the Gallery of Photography’s brief for this open submission is ‘Irish-ness’, and have advised…

  • Exhibition: HAMMER | ANVIL | STIRRUP @ Wexford Arts Centre

    September 1, 2017 - By 

    Edgardo Rudnitzky – VanishingMusic, 2014 (Wood, Brass, Paper, Music Box – CourtesyOfTheArtist) Opening this Saturday in Wexford Arts Centre is HAMMER | ANVIL | STIRRUP – an exhibition featuring local, national and international artists. The work that has been included in this exhibition focuses on the role of sound in art and, taking leave from Salome Voegelin’s Listening to Noise & Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, looks at the idea “that sound art must remain a strategy of listening rather than an instruction to hear”.  The practices of the four artists presented in this show, David Beattie and Richard Carr (both Ireland), Edgardo Rudnitzky…

  • 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…

  • Exhibition: Signs and Ciphers @ Golden Thread

    August 29, 2017 - By 

    Described as less of a retrospective into his work and more of an investigation into certain prevailing themes and characteristics, Signs and Ciphers is a new dual location exhibition and features the work of Northern Irish artist Alistair Wilson. The first two parts to this four-part exhibition are on show in Belfast’s Golden Thread Gallery and features newer work from Wilson. The remaining two parts open later this year in Portadown’s Millennium Court Arts Centre, and feature older works stretching back to the 1970’s. Wilson, who represented Northern Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale, is an investigative artist, exploring the materials he surrounds himself with,…

  • Exhibition: Observations @ Belfast Exposed

    August 31, 2017 - By 

    Celestograph by August Strindberg, 1894. Image kindly provided by the National Library of Sweden Outside of his native Sweden August Strindberg is predominantly known as a playwright and a poet, such was the high regard his was held in within these disciplines. Strindberg was in fact a polymath who explored painting (he was friends with Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin) and the photographic arts. It is the latter, and specifically his late 19th Century experiments in capturing he might sky, that severs as the departure point for Observations, the current show in Belfast Exposed. For his ‘Celestographs’, Strindberg placed sensitised plates…

  • Exhibition: Collected Shadows @ Void

    August 25, 2017 - By 

    Established twenty-five years ago, the original brief for the Archive of Modern Conflict was to collect and preserve materials relating to the First and Second World War – this saw the AMC primarily archive photographs but also manuscripts and materials. Over the course of the next quarter century this initial premise was expanded on and the AMC is now best viewed as an archive of the world, amassing photographs from multiple centuries on a wide variety of themes and topics. In conjunction with the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Touring, an initiative which organises touring exhibitions through the UK and NI, the AMC…