The opening-night event at the Abbey Road Artist’s Studio introduced “IN HOUSE,” Architecture Republic’s traveling exhibition. The exhibition explores a variety of refurbishments, extensions, conversions and new-build housing on urban-infill sites. The theme of the exhibition is the act of making domestic space; investigating innovative ways of housing the modern family in all its variants. As society develops and evolves, the accepted standard of the family house is no longer as relevant as it once was, and as a society we must adapt and grow our housing stock in ways which meet the challenges of this new orthodoxy. The exhibition will run until March 2nd from 1-4pm Mon-Sat, Abbey Road Studios, Athlone. Info at www.architecture-republic.com or contact Athlone Art and Heritage at info@athloneartandheritage.ie

2- 30 March 2012 | Opening Thurs 1 March, 6pm | ‘Irish Writers’ By Ursula Burke | Curated by Karen Downey | A series of contemporary photographic portraits of Irish women writers. Writers photographed include Moya Cannon, Marina Carr, Anne Enright, Rita Anne Higgins, Jennifer Johnston, Paula Meehan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Medbh McGuckian, Sinéad Morrissey and Mary O’Donnell. Originally commissioned by Cavan Arts Office to accompany a literary festival dedicated to women’s writing, the portraits stand as a contemporary visual record of significant women writers of fiction, poetry and drama working in Ireland today | Further info contact E :artsoffice@cavancoco.ie

Live Performance Installation & Presentation. | Granary Theatre, March 3rd 8pm. | Free Event, Pre-Booking is Advisable. ‘Returning to Jamais Vu’ gathers traces of a past event to compile a score to generate new actions and ideas. The event to which we return is Jamais Vu a performance/installation by the artist Anne Seagrave, which was premiered in the Granary in January 2005. Seven years on, audience memories of Jamais Vu are re-activated in the theatre through sound, movement and text. The live performance installation will be followed by a presentation on research into sensations of memory and strategies of re-enactment in contemporary art. See www.granary.ie for further information.

Sat 25 February – Friday 16 March | Opening Fri 24 February, 4.30pm – 6.30pm | West Cork Arts Centre presents ‘Young Makers’, an international exhibition of work by young contemporary artists and will tour Ireland through 2012. WCAC will exhibit work from Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia | www.youngmakers.net | www.westcorkartscentre.com

24th February – March 21st | Opening 23rd February 6pm – 8pm | 186 South Circular Road | An exhibition of recent paintings by Bridget Ryan | www.noshington.wordpress.com

23rd February – 31st March 2012 | Opening on Thurs Feb 23rd at 6.30pm | The Old Market House Arts Centre, Lower Main Street, Dungarvan cordially invites you to the official launch of ‘The Tiger in Autumn’ New paintings by Anthony Hayes | ‘Witness’ A series of drawings & paintings by Margo Banks | ‘A Quiet Kingdom – Recent Paintings from Kerry’ An exhibition of new paintings by Cora Murphy.

24 February – 13 April 2012 | Garrison Chapel, Beggars Bush. Dublin 4 | The National Print Museum is delighted to announce the opening of Ireland: Alphabet Series, A Cork Printmakers Travelling Exhibition on Thursday 24 February 2012. This exhibition consists of 26 prints by 26 artists, each work taking a letter of the alphabet as a starting point. Artists: Dave Connolly, Zoe D’Alton, Deirdre Delamere, Tom Doig, Aisling Dolan, Shirley Fitzpatrick, Marion Gilroy, Valerie Gleeson, Sean Hanrahan, Catherine Hehir, Heike Heilig, Mae Holland, Marianne Keating, Jo Kelley, Eileen Kennedy, Brian Lalor, Paul la Rocque, Aoife Layton, Peter McMorris, Donna McNamara, Claire Nagle, Noelle Noonan, Shane O’Driscoll, Antonia O’Mahony, Georgina Sutton and Sylvia Taylor. Participating artists were invited to investigate what a specifically Irish alphabet should look like. Artists were encouraged to be humorous, confessional, subtle, ironic, iconic or controversial; and to take on cultural and economic challenges that are relevant to contemporary Ireland. The exhibition first went on display in the Irish Arts Centre, New York | www.nationalprintmuseum.ie | E : info@nationalprintmuseum.ie

11 Feb – 1 Mar 2012 | CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork |  ‘DrawnOVERdrawn’ is a new exhibition of drawings by four American based artists; Chicory Miles, Malcom McClay, Rian Kerrane and Eric Waldemar. Curated by James L Hayes, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design Lecturer & Visual Artist. His aim was to have four very different contemporary artists engage with Ireland’s physical and economic landscape through the medium of drawing. DrawnOVERdrawn is presented by CIT Crawford College of Art and Design Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork in association with The Drawing Project, IADT | www.ccad-research.org/gallery/

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