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Exhibition runs until 1 March | Mermaid gallery, Main Street, Bray | ‘Infra’ offers a radical rethinking of how to depict the complexities of war in the mineral-rich eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Irish photographer, Richard Mosse employs Kodak Aerochrome, a discontinued infrared film originally developed for US military aerial surveillance, to challenge the orthodoxies of documentary photography and photojournalism. | ‘Infra in Context’, a series of conversations with invited speakers, takes place in Mermaid on Fri 10 February 2012 | To reserve a place, contact Mermaid’s Box Office on T: 2724030 | www.mermaidartscentre.ie
Lythosphere by Eileen MacDonagh
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Old Dublin Road, Carlow
Dates: Feb 5th 2012 to May 7th 2012
Opening: 11am to 5.30pm Tuesday to Saturday / 2pm to 5pm Sundays
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow is delighted to announce a forthcoming exhibition of work by Irish artist Eileen MacDonagh. Working locally to Carlow for the past 21 years MacDonagh has made a tremendous contribution to the arts nationally and internationally. LithoSphere presents new work by the artist and surveys a career that has been dedicated to the tender command of elements; stone, timber and the geometries found in nature.
This exhibition is for VISUAL the most ambitious installation of an artist’s work to date. Echoing MacDonagh’s Medusa Tree (2009) which sits in the forecourt of VISUAL and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, the artist has created a forest of 8 metre high trees, taking on the scale the Main Gallery, the largest white gallery space in the country. Alongside this installation other works will illustrate the breadth of her career to date. This is a unique opportunity to experience sculpture in facilities that were designed to showcase the immense affect of large scale work.
‘Wind Swept Trees’ – Emma Barone.
Opening: The Arthouse & Library, Stradbally, Co Laois, on Tuesday 7th February at 1pm.
The exhibition can be viewed from 2.00pm-4.00pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday until 24th February or by appointment.
‘Wind Swept Trees’ is a project which aims to deliver a series of site specific tree paintings. Emma has long been fascinated by the shape trees adopt on the West Coast of Ireland. This shape, or form, presents as a distinctive windblown profile, one that is sculpted by the elements. The proximity of the Atlantic Ocean is a major determining factor in terms of influencing and moulding the shape of the trees. ‘Wind Swept Trees’ promises to be as diverse (due to the many layers it will explore) as it is unique. The ultimate intention will be to provoke and challenge while at the same time, providing spiritual comfort.
The exhibition will be launched by Artist-in-Residence Vera McEvoy. Vera Mc Evoy is the NCAD Graduate Artist who was awarded the first Laois County Council/NCAD Bursary to work at the Arthouse Stradbally. She conducts weekly workshops with a group of women on a community art project using recycled materials.
‘Passing Through’
Dates: 31st Jan – 12th Feb 2012
Opening: Sunday 5th February 3 – 5pm
‘Passing through’ is the work of artist Hilary Williams who will be doing a performance artist piece which will culminate in a solo exhibition in the Signal Arts Centre Bray. The concept behind the show is the idea of ‘Passing through life.
For more information:
http://www.signalartscentre.ie/2012_press_release/press_release_hillary_williams.html
Bravo Serotonin is a project taking place at the Good Hatchery from the 30th January to mark the beginning of 2012, the last year in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. The project involves 24 national and international cultural practitioners from varied disciplines who will be constructing a boat. A South American styled canoe will be carved from a large tree felled by Hurricane Katia over the course of a fortnight. Bravo Serotonin is timetabled to take place in winter conditions. The vessel will then voyage to various locations using the Irish canal network. Although all participants are confirmed, visitors are welcome. If interested in doing so please first contact Carl Giffney due to insurance reasons.
Samuel Walsh: The Coercion of Substance
January 20 – February 29, 2012
Highlanes Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of a new exhibition of work by senior Irish artist Samuel Walsh.
This Friday 20 January there will be an Artist’s Talk by Samuel Walsh at 6.15pm followed by the formal exhibition opening and reception at 7.00pm, which will be performed by Medb Ruane, Writer and psychotherapist, UCD
The Coercion of Substance is a new body work by the artist Samuel Walsh who describes his practice as one that emerges “from endless dualities: drawing and painting, line and colour, art and audience, seeing and drawing and poetry and prose.”
The exhibition is accompanied by a full colour catalogue with a text by Gemma Tipton.
This solo exhibition has been co-ordinated in association with VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, where it was first exhibited in autumn, and Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny where it will tour to following its viewing at Highlanes Gallery. This exhibition has been gratefully supported by Arts Council of Ireland Touring Grant.
Highlanes Gallery Public Programme:
Samuel Walsh will lead a drawing class for young people and adults on Saturday 21 January from 11.30am- 1.00pm.
Please go to the homepage and click on Workshops at Highlanes Gallery for more information.
Places are €5.00 per person, concessions apply
Booking is advised, as space is limited, please contact the gallery’s main reception.
‘SHAPING THE VOID’
Dates: Friday 20th January – Wednesday 21st March, 2012
Location: The National Craft Gallery, Castle Yard, Kilkenny
Opening: Friday 20th January 2012 at 6 pm, Preceded by an artist’s talk at 5 pm
Irish Sculptor Deirdre McLoughlin is to have her first major solo exhibition in Ireland, opening this month at the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny. ‘Shaping The Void’ is the outcome of 3 years work for this Dublin-born artist whose unique world-class ceramic sculptures have gained her international renown.
Exhibition Events:
Late Date – Friday 27th January at 6.30 pm
Informal tour with Tina Byrne, Lecturer and Editor of Ceramics Ireland
Late Date – Friday 24th February at 6.30 pm
Informal tour with Heart Specialist and gentleman historian, Michael Conway
Gallery Tours: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am (booking required).
www.nationalcraftgallery.ie
www.deirdremcloughlin.com
PLAN Ireland 75th Anniversary Photo Exhibition
DATE: January 9th to February 5th
Plan Ireland is celebrating its 75th Anniversary and has produced a set of canvas prints to mark the occasion. Taken from a variety of projects in
countries where Plan operates, the photographs reflect the diversity and positivity of Plans work with children in fifty countries in the developing
world.
‘MAKE. BREAK. MAKE’
Location: Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny
Dates: Jan 21 – Mar 4, 2012
Opening: Jan 21, 2.30 – 4.30pm
The Butler Gallery is delighted to present ‘MAKE. BREAK. MAKE.’ an exhibition of new work by the Kilkenny-based artist, Paul Mosse. Highly inventive and idiosyncratic, Mosse uses the natural world around him for inspiration. Drawing is at the heart of his work and is the foundation from which all else follows. Mosse uses a variety of mixed-media to realise his works. His practice involves his own very particular set of interior guidelines to construct, deconstruct and restructure. Works that seem complete and resolved may over time be revised beyond recognition or entirely cut up and laid in a box to be reconstituted in another work. Prised from Mosse’s studio, ‘MAKE. BREAK. MAKE’ is a compelling body of work that demonstrates the great skill and authority of the artist.
‘Reconstructions’ by Claire Halpin
Location: Droichead Arts Centre Gallery
Dates: Jan 14 – Feb 25
This exhibition takes its imagery from a number of sources from media photos of areas of conflict, to paintings from the canon of art history from Byzantine and early renaissance, employing a wide range of techniques from the traditional form and materials of icon
