9th – 22nd of February | Opening Thurs 6pm 9th of February | ‘Peripheries (Speaking Gorey)’ | Crawford Project Room, (old Tax Office) Sullivan’s Quay , Cork | The artists participating are from diverging art practices, many of whom are graduates of Gorey school of Art or have links in some way to the school. While the individual artists and their works are outwardly looking in terms of their practice and explore a range of topics, the work has been selected with the concept of Peripheries in mind, as many of the works can be geographical/historically located in and around the area of Gorey, while other works are more thematically linked to the notion of the peripheral | This exhibition is a project supported by Gorey School of Art and is hosted in Cork by C.I.T. Crawford College of Art and Design in association with GAIA PROJECTS. | www.gsa.ie | www.cit.ie |www.gaiaprojects.org

10th – 29th February | 47 Dominick Street, Galway | Roísín O’Sullivan is the current artist in residence under the Galway City & County Council’s Mentored Residency Scheme. Her work seeks to both determine and question our interests, but also seeks to explore the beauty in the familiar and unfamiliar. By examining and distorting images from nature and culture and reflect the natural and man-made influences between humans and the world around us. www.galwayartscentre.ie

9th February 2012 – 4th March 2012 | Opening: 7pm 9th February 2012 | ‘The Sentinel Project’ | Monumental contemporary sculpture with a core of glass and skin of Lego will be juxtaposed against 6 centuries of history in Christ Church Cathedral Crypt and Treasury.  The installation is opened by Dr. Audrey Whitty Curator- Ceramics, Glass & Asian collections at National Museum of Ireland. Sean Campbell won the Robinson McIlwaine Architects Original Vision Prize at the 130th RUA, Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum in 2011 for Sentinel (Belfast, Lego). He brings that work and new pieces together as an installation responding to the architecture, people and artefacts at Christchurch Cathedral | www.seancampbell.co.uk | www.christchurchdublin.ie |

On 8th-9th February 2012, the MA Art in Public students, staff and alumni Alice Burns, Ciara O’Malley, Julie Miller, Susanne Bosch and Fiona Whelan will attend the conference “radius of art” at the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Berlin. The MA Art in Public (Belfast) is invited to do two creative interventions and host a presentation session. Susanne Bosch will facilitate a workshop on ‘Evaluation criteria – How to measure art and culture projects’ and initiate a knowledge-sharing workshop with artists Alia Rayyan PALESTINE and Fiona Whelan DUBLIN on ‘Practice as Way to experience life: Artists engage in critical discussion about the primary issues that face their socially engaged practices’.  The conference will further launch the book ‘Comparison of Public Art’ with contributions from Rainer W. Ernst KIEL (ed), Mirene Arsanios BEIRUT, Susanne Bosch BELFAST, Elfriede Mueller and Martin Schönfeld BERLIN, Marcus Graf ISTANBUL, Jürgen Bock LISBON, Tina Sherwell RAMALLAH | Further information: www.radius-of-art.de/conference/index-e.php | www.masterartinpublic.wordpress.com | On 10th February, 8pm, Susanne Bosch and Democracia will discuss ¿Arte útil? [Useful Art?] in Matadero Madrid as part of the exhibition and conference MADRID ABIERTO 2011-2012 | The event will launch the Madrid Abierto 2009-2010 publication | Further information www.madridabierto.com

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Perfect Concussion (While You Dance) | 47 Dominick Street, Galway | February 10th – March 10th | Perfect Concussion (While You Dance) is a multimedia exhibition by Not Abel. Utilising the full spectrum of available media Not Abel re-evaluates and re-presents particular cultural references – practicing art as cartography of the collective unconscious. In Perfect Concussion Not Abel examines this collective unconscious from the perspective of mid-twentieth-century CIA experiments into induced amnesia and the possibility/impossibility of such a weapon. This dismantling of the spatial entirety, opening up the work to unknown and unforeseen associations, is exemplified in Not Abel’s close collaboration with the musician Vindacatrix. Offering the other part of the exhibition’s title, the track Watching You Dance is an audible counterpart to Not Abel’s arrangement of parts. Are some things not meant to be remembered? | www.galwayartscentre.ie

‘Drawing Studies: A Celebration’ (National Gallery of Ireland)

Opening: Friday 10th February at 6pm. Exhibition runs till Saturday 10th March
Location: The  Gallery, Siamsa Tíre, National Folk Theatre & Arts Centre, Town Park, Tralee, Co Kerry

The exhibition DRAWING STUDIES: A CELEBRATION is an exhibition of work, reflecting the artists’ studies in the National Gallery of Ireland. The resulting drawings are symptomatic of the joy and creativity that occurs when people of all ages engage with the collections of a museum. If you would like to learn more about the exhibition or are interested in organising some National Gallery drawing classes please contact Brian Casey, National Gallery of Ireland at bcasey@ngi.ie

Further information is available on www.siamsatire.com and bookings can be made on 066 7123055.

8th February to 10th March | Opening Wed 8th February at 1.00p.m | ‘Longevity, Not Immortality’ brings together for the first time a collection of rare artefacts with very unusual stories to tell. The ‘relics’ are accompanied in this exhibition by an extraordinary collection of exquisitely made composite photographs dating from the first half of the 20th century. Found in an old photograph album, the photographs have been enlarged, re-printed and presented in vintage picture frames evoking the era of early snap-shot photography | www.garterlane.ie

Location: The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim
Dates: 10th Feb. – 7th of April 2012
Opening: 5.30pm Fri 10th of Feb.

An exhibition exploring the diverse way in which drawing is used as a navigational tool in making, raising, thinking, dressing, testing, failing, designing, playing, running and living. Invited artists range from visual artists, animators, designers and architects. All will highlight the different guises to drawing. Some will use sketches, some doodles, others process work, ­all will show how drawing got them to the finishing line. Fergus Byrne will be artist in residence for the first three weeks of the run and will perform ‘May I Draw your Eyes’ on the evening of the exhibition opening.

Artists: Tinka Bechert, Úna Burke, Gordon Ryan, Fergus Byrne, Magnhild Opdøl, Sharon Kelly, Eamon O Kane, Brown Bag Films, Glenn Leyburn, Fergus Delargy and Olivia Irvine

Curated by Alice Lyons & Claire Mc Aree

www.thedock.ie

February 10 – 19th, 2012 | Opening 7pm Thursday February 9th 2012 | ‘Ninety Nine Percent for Art’, new work by Carol Anne Connolly and Jim Ricks. The artists are producing new work in an array of contemporary media spanning from sculpture, video and painting to photographic works. Their interest lies in what they describe as ‘unintended monuments’. The Galway Harbour Company has generously allowed the artists to use a large 4,000 square foot warehouse space located on the middle pier of the Galway Docks for this exhibition. www.therealjimricks.com

14 Jan 12 – 14 Apr 12 | ‘Super Vivere’ | These photographic portraits explore the lives of brothers and sisters in the UK and Europe who are over the age of 90. The artist examines how these remarkable individuals understand and experience their survival into old age. Some portraits are poignant and inspiring, others are humorous. The exhibition as a whole presents a compelling and emotive viewing experience | www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk