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Jason Ellis & Eleanor Wheeler at Hillsborough Castle, Down

Laoise — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:09:34 +0000

14 May – 9 September | Recent works by stone sculptor Jason Ellis and ceramicist Eleanor Wheeler will be displayed at Hillsborough Castle. This is the first time contemporary artworks have been included as part of the visitor experience at Hillsborough. The Castle and grounds are open to the public via guided tours throughout most of the summer. Entrance fee applies. | www.discovernorthernireland.com/Hillsborough-Castle-and-Gardens-Hillsborough-P3186 | www.jasonellis.ie | www.elfireceramics.co.uk

Eddie Rafferty at Millennium Court Arts Centre, Armagh

Laoise — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:42:12 +0000

18 May – 23 June | Opening Thurs 17 May, 7-9pm | Eddie Rafferty: ‘Priest Made Me Black!’| Narrative, storytelling and personal connections are central to this exhibition by Eddie Rafferty – the work has been informed by conversations and everyday encounters, in streets, shops and hospitals, during artist residencies in South Africa since 2002. Amongst the installation are paintings but also found objects and ephemera from streets and dumps, these present fragments of the stories and recollections from Rafferty’s travels across South Africa. | www.millenniumcourt.org

Ulster Society of Women Artists Exhibiting at Castle Espie Gallery, Down

Laoise — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:34:07 +0000

19th May 2012 – 10th June 2012 | Opening 19th May at 2pm | Castle Espie Gallery, one of Northern Ireland’s premier environmental art spaces, will be opening the doors to ‘Natural Forms’, an exhibition by the Ulster Society of Women Artists (U.S.W.A.). The U.S.W.A. was founded in 1957 by the artist Gladys Maccabe. Today it has a thriving membership of over one hundred and twenty professional and semi professional artists, representing a wide variety of styles and media by painters, sculptors and other visual artists. All have shown exceptional skills over a period of time, and have been awarded “Diploma” status | www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/castle-espie/things-to-see-and-do/events-calendar/2012/05/19/ulster-society-of-women-artists-natural-images-exhibiton

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh at Millennium Court Arts Centre, Armagh

Laoise — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:28:44 +0000

18 May – 23 June | Opening Thurs 17 May, 7 – 9pm | Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s untitled series of paintings considers the intervening or liminal space between objects and forms. Dramatic use of colour contrasts against varying degrees of density within the new works, which explore the complexities of looking and examine the differences between how an image is made and what the image is. We thank the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda for their kind assistance in bringing the exhibition together | www.millenniumcourt.org

Blackshaw at 80 Exhibition at F.E.McWilliam, Down

Laoise — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:06:22 +0000

12 May – 13 October 2012 | Featuring over forty paintings, chosen by the artist from throughout his career, this exhibition coincides with Blackshaw’s eightieth birthday and promises to be one of the artistic highlights of 2012. The exhibition is accompanied by a hardback catalogue with forty colour reproductions and essays by Colin Davidson, Dr S.B.Kennedy, Dr Fionna Barber and Dr Riann Coulter | www.femcwilliam.com

Kenny McKendry at McKenna Gallery, Tyrone

Laoise — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:30:28 +0000

1 May – 10 June 2012 | 31 Castle Street Omagh, County Tyrone | Spring Exhibition : New Works By Kenny McKendry. The Spring Exhibition will feature a selection of Kenny’s Landscape, Still life and figurative works in oil. Two portrait paintings are for sale in aid of Save The Children Charity. Kenny spent two years painting 24 portraits of prominent figures who have made a difference to Northern Ireland in the last decade. Those who have sat for the Artist include politicians, sports personalities, writers, musicians and heads of business. His works hang in prestigious galleries and collections across the world including that of Brian P Burns, the American philanthropist who owns the largest collection of Irish art outside Ireland including pieces by Sir John Lavery, Roderic O’Connor and JB Yeats | www.mckennagallery.com

Polish Video Works at Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry

Laoise — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:22:43 +0000

5 – 19 May | Opening May 4th at 7 – 10 pm : Introduction of the exhibition by curator Monika Szewczyk and Marek Wasilewski, Professor at the University of Arts, Poznań, at 7 pm | 5-7 Artillery Street Derry-Londonderry BT48 6RG | Artists : Paweł Althamer, Kuba Bąkowski, Łukasz Gronowski, Jacek Malinowski, Kobas Laksa, Piotr Żyliński, and Józef Robakowski. Curated by Monika Szewczyk. CCA is pleased to present The Games Poles Play, a selection of video works from the collections of the Podlasie Association for the Encouragement of Fine Arts and Arsenal Gallery in Białystok. These works illustrate Polish conditions – a country where the process of political transformation, which started over 20 years ago, still remains open. A place where political arguments are alive and bitter and the question of identity causes more and more emotional responses. The Games Poles Play is part of VI Polish Cultural Week | www.cca-derry-londonderry.org

Ralf Sander at F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Down

Laoise — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:04:06 +0000

26 April – 31 July | Opening Thurs 26 April at 6pm | ‘Transformation’ is an exhibition of new work by Belfast and Seoul-based sculptor Ralf Sander. His aluminium sculptures are three dimensional riddles which play with human perception and expectation. The image seen depends on the position of the viewer. For example, ‘In The Man who Became an Aeroplane’, a portrait of the famous German artist Jospeh Beuys is transformed into an aeroplane | www.femcwilliam.com

Barbara Allen at Castle Espie Gallery, Down

Laoise — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:01:33 +0000

Sat 21st April – 13th May | Ireland’s only environmental art space, will be opening the doors to the watercolour exhibition ‘Feather and Fin’. This is the inspired title of an exhibition by artist, Barbara Allen who highlights, ‘I like using watercolour because it gives instant results. When watercolour is used in the true sense of the medium it gives spontaneous and fluid results. The trick is to create the illusion of detail and capture only the essence of any subject.’
Barbara Allen was born in Belfast in the 1950’s and graduated with a B.A Honours Degree in Graphic Design in 1982 and a Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in 1984. Four times winner of the John Ross Watercolour Prize at the RUA Barbara is best known for her rendering of vernacular architecture. However, in very recent years a chance visit to Portmore Harbour at Malin Head inspired Barbara’s quest to diversify | www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/castle-espie/things-to-see-and-do/events-calendar/2012/04/21/castle-espie-gallery-feather-and-fin | T: 028 9174 146 | Follow us on Twitter @WWTcastleespie

Inaugural Easter Exhibition at the Higher Bridges Gallery, Fermanagh

Laoise — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:17:02 +0000

5 April – 7 May 2012 | Opening speech will be by Noelle McAlinden Arts Council of Northern Ireland Board of Directors. The Arts Office this year received a huge response with close to 100 visual artists responding to an open call for exhibitors in January that invited artists to submit between 1 – 4 works for public exhibition. The show has attracted a very diverse selection of new, established, amateur, emerging & professional art from both Ireland, England + the USA, including many artists from County Fermanagh. In times that opportunities for artists to showcase and sell work are few and far between exhibitions such as this one are of great importance not only as a catalyst through which work can be sold but also it creates a platform through which the arts community can participate and exhibit together in a high profile gallery. Further info contact E: diane.henshaw@fermanagh.gov.uk | T: 028 6634 280 | www.fermanagh.gov.uk [1] [1] http://www.fermanagh.gov.uk

Helen G Blake at Marketplace Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh

Laoise — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:19:58 +0000

23 March – 22 April 2012 | ‘Self-assembly’ | Helen G Blake is a painter whose practice addresses questions about colour and rhythm, formalism and chance. Using a predetermined methodical process, she makes paintings where a dense pattern of the same endlessly repeated motif builds up through a process of accretion, allowing her to isolate careful decisions about colour only. In Blake’s paintings the mutating pattern structure becomes an interface where colour can react and communicate, and the repeating process dictates the selection and location of each colour’s form. This is overtly hand-made work about colour conversations within an evolving textural history, embracing accidents, flaws and discrepancies | www.marketplacearmagh.com

Lorna Hamilton at Castle Espie, Down

Laoise — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:52:37 +0000

22nd March – 18 April | The Director of RSPB Northern Ireland, Dr James Robinson, will be opening ‘Glimpse of Nature’ by wildlife artist Lorna Hamilton at Castle Espie Gallery, Ireland’s only environmental art space. Hamilton is a name you may be familiar with from the TV programme, BBC Wild Week Live, she was the resident artist at Castle Espie during the show and will be returning to the gallery with a new exhibition of wildlife art. The exhibition will include 24 paintings with varying price | www.wwt.org.uk/castleespie

Collaborative Exhibition at R-Space, Lisburn

Laoise — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:18:29 +0000

15th March – 28th April | Opening 15th March 6 – 9pm | 32 Castle Street, Lisburn | ‘ELEMENTALS Birds’ | Involving a unique collaboration between International and Northern Irish artists, the show features over 50 artists working in every medium; including sculpture, music and print. Watch out for small birds appearing in small spaces throughout Lisburn this month | Further info : www.rspaceatthelinenrooms.org.uk

Healing Through Remembering : Touring Exhibition

Laoise — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:50:37 +0000

From March 6th | ‘Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict’ | A multiple perspective exhibition of everyday items used during the conflict in and about Northern Ireland will go on tour around Northern Ireland and the border counties. The exhibition has been organised by Healing Through Remembering, the cross-community organisation that focuses on ways of dealing with the conflict, with the aim of achieving a peaceful future for all. Further info and tour info: Triona White Hamilton | exhibition@healingthroughremembering.org | T: +44 28 9023 8844 |

Rita Duffy at F.E McWilliam, Down

Laoise — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:07:39 +0000

25 February – 28 April 2012 | 200 Newry Road, Banbridge, Co. Down | This exhibition of new works by Rita Duffy is inspired by her three month residency in Norway and her travels to the Arctic Circle in 2010. The title of the exhibition ‘Arctic Circus’ references both the Arctic Circle and the famous Duffy’s Circus which Rita Duffy visited as a child. Duffy’s new drawings portray powerful women who appear as contortionists, acrobats and tightrope walkers | www.femcwilliam.com