Daily Archives: June 8, 2017

17 June to 30 August 2017
dlr Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum Dublin 16

Jam Art Factory has been bringing the wild imaginings of Irish artists to your living room wall for a while now. Prints from emerging designers and illustrators based over the country adorn their city centre walls and they are always seeking out the newest, freshest images.

The Blind Elephant Collective are a group of Dublin based illustrators who formed a group in 2009 to set themselves bi-weekly illustration challenges. Inspired by their approach, Jam Art Factory asked them to create illustrations inspired by the writing of of everyone’s fantasy granddad Roald Dahl. The humourous and beautifully sensitive illustrations of Quentin Blake which marked most of our childhoods are difficult to forget, but the Blind Elephants are definitely up to the challenge.

This exhibition is a culmination of their work curated and produced by Jam Art Factory. Each illustration is signed by the artist and limited to only 30 prints. They can be purchased for a piff-whiffling €30!

www.milltheatre.ie/exhibition/elephants-roald-jam/

15 and 16 June 2017 | Opening: 15 June, 6pm
The Copper House Gallery, St Kevin’s Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8

The Copper House Gallery will host So Alive 365 – Going Full Unicorn, an exhibition of works by Cat Cronin.

International artist Cat Cronin is back in her hometown of Dublin and is excited to relocate her working studio and open up a select collection of her work to the public.
Learn about what drives her work and what sparked her ongoing So Alive 365 project.
Cat will also explain her meaning of the phrase “going full unicorn” #SoAlive365

www.catcronin.com |  www.facebook.com/events/

16 June to 15 October

Irish artist Vivienne Dick is an internationally-celebrated film-maker and artist. Dick was a key figure within ‘No Wave’, a short-lived avant-garde scene in the late 1970s in New York led by a collective of musicians, filmmakers and artists including Nan Goldin, Lydia Lunch, Arto Lindsay, James Chance and many others. Dick has gone on to develop an extraordinary body of work which has been shown in cinemas, film festivals and art galleries around the world. Dick’s work is marked by an interest in urban street life, social and sexual politics, and the history of ideas.

93% STARDUST is a survey exhibition of Vivienne Dick’s work comprising selected films from the ‘No Wave’ period including Guérillère Talks (1978), Beauty Becomes The Beast (1979) and Liberty’s Booty (1980). Recent film works include The Irreducible Difference of the Other (2013) and Red Moon Rising (2015). Dick also premieres her new film work Augenblick made while on IMMA’s Residency Programme in 2017.

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
T: 01-612990
E: info@imma.ie
W: imma.ie

16 June to 15 October 2017

Nan Goldin is one of the most compelling and internationally renowned photographers working today. Sweet Blood Call features both iconic and as yet unseen works by Goldin, ranging from the 1970s to 2016. These include the ground-breaking 1985 slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; photographs of friends, family and lovers; sixteen recent and rarely exhibited drawings; and a series of images taken in Ireland in 1979 and 2002, which have never been shown before.

Goldin’s work shares highly personal stories about her own life and those close to her, revealing a deeply sensual world of friendship, love, and transgression. Arresting in their intimacy and sheer honesty, the artist has stated, “I photograph directly from my life. These pictures come out of relationships, not observations”.

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
T: 01-612990
E: info@imma.ie
W: imma.ie

3 June to 13 June

This exhibition, a fleeting ‘intervention’ into nag Gallery’s usual contemporary art programme, is a selection from the many images and objects that the artist has collected. Not valuable, seldom beautiful, usually rough and vernacular. They are the residue of other people’s life journeys, either plainly useful or the representation of beliefs that may be different but which have enough in common with the artists own experience to resonate and expand in his imagination.

The spiritual things may seem somewhat strange and mysterious, but actually they embody ways of exploring and coming to terms with familiar and deep aspects of life, such as fear, death, love, and transcendence. In the main they are optimistic, fortified by faith and hope.

Nag Gallery
Basement, 59 Francis Street, Dublin 8
T: 01 473 8978
E: mark.nagallery@gmail.com
W: nagallery.ie

17 June 2017, 1pm
IFI and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2

IFI + aemi are delighted to welcome Peggy Ahwesh and Julie Murray to Dublin and to present a programme of their work at the Irish Film Institute followed by a conversation with them both at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. This programme examines the distinct and overlapping interests of these two acclaimed filmmakers, both of whom will be in attendance for the screening.

Over several decades of practice Peggy Ahwesh has created one of the more heterogeneous bodies of work in the pantheon of experimental cinema. From early films shot on Super8 to recent forays into digital animation, Ahwesh’s work powerfully addresses questions of feminism, cultural identity and performance. Ahwesh is a major figure in the field of visual arts-based and experimental moving image work and this event presents a unique opportunity to engage with her work with the artist in attendance. It is a unique privilege to welcome both Julie Murray and Peggy Ahwesh to Dublin for this event.

aemi.ie/event/films-peggy-ahwesh-julie-murray/ | ifi.ie/ifi-aemi-ahwesh-murray

16 June to 20 August
Preview Friday 16 June, 6pm.

Anne Maree Barry’s most recent film work Otium cum Dignitate ~ Leisure with Dignity combines her own psychogeographic walking tours of the ‘Monto’ area to create a film and exhibition that reflects historical events, whilst at the same time presenting a complex portrait of female empowerment. Four characters : Madam May Oblong, Kitty D, Countess Aldborough and The Custom House establish a dialogue between locality, history, architecture and the independence of women in a specific time.

The LAB Gallery
Foley Street, Dublin 1
T: 01 222 5455
E: artsoffice@dublincity.ie
W: dublincityartsoffice.ie/the-lab

16 June to 20 August

The LAB Gallery is pleased to present, Shrine For Girls, Dublin, the first solo exhibition in Ireland of New York artist Patricia Croinin. One of the critically acclaimed highlights of the 2015 Venice Biennale, this site-specific installation is a meditation on the global plight of exploited girls and women.

Moving from the sacred altars and architecture of Venice’s sixteenth-century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular urban gallery context of The LAB, in the heart of Joyce’s Nighttown and built in the shadow of the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland in 1996, Cronin gathers hundreds of articles of women’s and girls’ clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies. Brightly-colored saris symbolize two Indian cousins who were gang-raped and lynched in 2014; somber hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 (109 of which are still missing); and pale aprons symbolize those worn by “fallen women” in forced labour at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States to act as relics of these young martyrs.

The LAB Gallery
Foley Street, Dublin 1
T: 01 222 5455
E: artsoffice@dublincity.ie
W: dublincityartsoffice.ie/the-lab

18 June to 1 July 2017 | Opening: 18 June, 2.30pm
Inniscarra Art Gallery, Rathcoole, Dublin

Kildare artist Heidi Morrison in conjunction with Inniscarra Art Gallery, Rathcoole, will be presenting a series of new works. Her first solo exhibition in five years -entitled ‘The Meeting’ will present a collection of mainly Irish seascapes and landscapes oil paintings. The new works identifies the meeting point between two distinct, powerful yet simple elements experienced in nature. These works amplify the drama experienced in this relationship, such as the sea meeting the shore, the lights of a horizon touching the earth or sea.

For further details contact Inniscarra Art Gallery +353 01 4589466/Tel: 0870605553,  E: framing@inniscara.com. for more details go to www.facebook.com/heidimorrisonart