• IN CONTEXT 4: Work Songs

    July 21, 2017 - By 

    Visual Artist Fiona Dowling and Composer George Higgs are currently seeking five South County Dublin business to part-take in their project Work Songs. The project sees the pair look to create a musical portrait of South County Dublin’s economic profile. The initiative is part of the wider IN CONTEXT 4: In Our Time programme which is part of the South Dublin County Council’s Public Art Programme for 2016-2019. The tradition of work place songs is a long and rooted one, but this practice has wained in recent years. Work Songs  is very much viewed as a collaborative effort with Dowling and Higgs consulting 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…

  • 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…

  • Arts Funding Information Clinic

    July 12, 2017 - By 

    Later this month a funding information clinic is due to take place in Dublin’s Wood Quay Venue. It is designed to provide assistance and guidance to applying for the Arts Council’s Strategic Funding programme in September this year. In order to attend the session on July 28th you must complete an inquiry form by this Thursday July 14th. The Arts Council have advised that “in the interests of achieving a good geographical and artform spread, places will be allocated amongst those who have expressed interest.” With those who have secured a place at the event being notified next Tuesday 18th July – the…

  • 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…

  • National Gallery of Ireland Re-opening

    June 15, 2017 - By 

    After six years of extension refurbishment, tonight sees the reopening of the National Gallery of Ireland’s Merrion Square wings. Starting in 2011 with The Dargan Wing (originally opened in 1863) and continuing with The Milltown Wing (originally opened in 1903) in 2014, the gallery at one stage had an estimated 80% of its floor space closed. This weekend sees the opening of the gallery’s much anticipated Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry exhibition, with the gallery’s main space open to the public from today. Access has been limited to the Clare Street entrance due to the refurbishments,…

  • Critical Bastards #14 Launch

    June 14, 2017 - By 

    Critical Bastards launch their new issue later this evening in Dublin’s Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. The latest release from the critical art journal is centred on the theme of ‘hope’ and its role within the creation and enjoyment of art – the open call for submissions earlier this year advised: “Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté… We are looking for critical responses to the idea of the hope that underpins the ceaseless endurance of existence, and of art.”  As we continue in 2017 with the current global and national social and political crises, this…

  • 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…