• the arts column: March 6th

    March 5, 2019 - By 

    In this week’s edition of the arts column we’ve details of exciting new exhibitions opening, a charity event, a pair of residencies and studio memberships. 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 | Jane Fogarty @ MART, Dublin This Thursday Jane Fogarty’s new exhibition opens in MART’s Rathmines space. The exhibition, titled slow motion, sees Fogarty explore themes of time, form, colour and composition through a new body of work. This new work from one of Ireland’s most exciting emerging artists is a combination of painting and sculpture.…

  • 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…

  • Ger Fox Sailing – Ger Fox Sailing

    August 21, 2017 - By 

    The self-titled, self-produced debut album from Wexford quartet Ger Fox Sailing is a richly-woven, nicely eclectic collection of songs from a band who have just set out their stall and then some. From the contemplative precision of ‘Nowhere Without You’ and the poppier tangents of ‘What It Is’ to blistering closer ‘Best Friend’ via a stream of scuzz-laden, occasionally prog-leaning rock, reverberations from the likes of Longpigs, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age, Grandaddy and, in parts, Northern Irish alt-rock band Pocket Promise (though we suspect the latter is something of a total coincidence) coalesce with the band’s own brand of deft,…

  • Exhibition: And Creatures Dream…A New Language @ Wexford Arts Centre

    August 21, 2017 - By 

    This week is your last to see And Creatures Dream…A New Language as its due to close this Friday, August 25th. The exhibition, which is spread across both the Wexford Arts Centre and the Wexford County Council buildings, comments on the visual arts in the county, with a focus on painting. The exhibition’s title is taken from American poet Susan Stewart’s 2011 piece A Language and references the artists’ perception and memory as they create their work. The artists on show (which include Robert Armstrong, Eamonn Carter, Aileen Murphy, Breda Stacey and Michael Warren) explore and present the medium of painting in diverse and ever challenging…

  • I Wanted to Write a Poem @ Wexford Arts Centre

    March 21, 2017 - By 

    This is the last week to catch Jonathan Mayhew’s latest show I Wanted to Write a Poem on in Wexford Arts Centre until Saturday 25th March. Mayhew, who was awarded Wexford Arts Centre’s 2015 Emerging Visual Artist Award, has presented a body of work that sees heavy links between the literary and visual arms of art. Both practices are intertwined by Mayhew in the exhibition, with the title itself being drawn from the autobiography of imagist poet William Carlos Williams. In I Wanted to Write a Poem Mayhew explores the ability of poetry to convey far deeper meaning through more simplistic collections of words.…