Category: Leinster

The Nothing Of Everything | Fiona Carey at Signal Arts Centre

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9 to 22 October

Signal Arts Centre is delighted to present this body of work which explores not the opposing – seemingly incompatible – views of science, religion, theology, and spirituality, but the areas where they intersect and overlap. The exhibition consists of two bodies of work; drawings and watercolours, and encaustic paintings.

The drawings and watercolours series explores the connection of spirituality, science, and art. It draws on recurring themes in spiritually-influenced art, spanning different times and belief systems. From Tantric Hindu Art to Celtic Insular Art, from Islamic Golden Age architecture to 20th Century geometric abstract art, from Ancient Egypt to the European Renaissance religious paintings, geometry is used time and again by artists to explore and portray that which cannot be seen and can only be felt.

The series of encaustic paintings are multi-faceted, enchanting, and magnetic; representative of all things and no one thing. They capture the oneness of all existence, of creation, conception, birth, death, fleeting moments of absolute clarity and pure consciousness, epiphanies, brainwaves, awakenings. They simultaneously depict atoms, amoebae and galaxies. They are at once cellular and universal, capturing both divinity and flawed humanity.

Signal Arts Centre, 1 Albert Avenue, Bray, Co. Wicklow
T: 353 01 276 20 39
E: info@signalartscentre.ie
W: signalartscentre.ie

STRETCH | Group Exhibition at An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk

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12 October to 4 November

STRETCH: Creative Spark, Dundalk presents an exhibition of work from the Creative Spark Residency Programme 2017. Creative Spark Residency Programme Exhibition 2017 (funded by Create Louth) with supporting exhibition of work by Creative Spark Print Studio members.

The artists involved in the 2016 – 2017 Programme at Creative Spark were Michael Stafford (Louth); Thomas Brezing (Dublin); Olga Danilova (Russia); Chiara Leto and Giulia Vetri (Italy) and Hazel Egan (Dublin)

The exhibition will bring together new works completed during the residency programme in the medium of printmaking, mixed media and painting.

creativespark.ie

An Táin Arts Centre (Basement Gallery),
Crowe St, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth
T: (042) 933 2332
E: info@antain.ie
W: antain.ie/gallery

Group Exhibition at Courthouse Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow

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15 October to 10 November

Featuring artists: Niall Lynam, Karen Walsh, Alison Tubritt and Sean O’Rouke.

Four artists from our very successful Emerging Artists Exhibition 2016 have been selected for this group exhibition. Each one has a distinct style and all have a strong future ahead as an upcoming Irish artist to watch.

Courthouse Arts Centre
Main Street, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

T: 0402 38529

E: bookings@courthousearts.ie

W: courthousearts.ie

A Change in the Signal – Crystalline | Siobhan McDonald at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda

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7 October to 25 November

Highlanes Gallery is delighted to present a new exhibition by the artist Siobhan McDonald, first shown in Paris, in the Centre Culturel Irlandais, earlier this year.

Artist Siobhan McDonald reflects on the creative processes and formative energies in nature contained within atmospheres, molecules, sounds and seeds. Positioning her work within geological history, Crystalline explores our understanding of time and our relationship with a continually changing environment. The themes that animate Crystalline—the deep history of materials and their changing states and the fragility of bodies and landforms exposed to the elements continue through the exhibition.

McDonald’s research and preparatory work included an expedition to the Arctic Circle in 2015, collaborative work with the European Space Agency and an ongoing studio residency in the College of Science at University College Dublin.

For Highlanes Gallery, this new iteration of Crystalline brings together a customized selection of works related to the substance of ancient and historic natural forms, a set of Arctic plant pressings from the 1825 Franklin Expedition. This is a key work in this exhibition, drawing a thread to the past that is tangible and that predates the climate challenge of our times. This is complemented on film by the ghostly spectre of an expeditionary ship in the very waters where the Franklin ship sailed over 150 ago, with the retrieved sound of the glacier, with a score specially composed by Irene Buckley.

Highlanes Gallery
St Laurence St, Drogheda, Co. Louth
T: +353 (0) 41 9803311
E: info@highlanes.ie
W: highlanes.ie

A Place To Rest | Mario Sughi at Droichead Arts Centre, Co. Louth

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7 October to 19 November
Exhibition opening Saturday 7 October, 2.30pm

It’s like when you sit in a coffee shop and enjoy looking at the people passing by. Some of the people capture your attention. You follow them with your eyes and you reinvent their stories. And yet the only thing you know about those people and their lives is their image standing in front of you. And that is what you try to do when then you draw and paint: you try to capture and reproduce those interesting images. Nothing more nothing less, because the image seems already to have everything you need within it.

Ultimately the work is about the image and the image is made by colours, lights and volumes. It seems to me that digital painting, so naturally adapted to working with primary colours, large backgrounds and flat surfaces, allows for the creation of very elegant images that also have a great sense of depth.

Droichead Arts Centre, Stockwell St., Drogheda, Co. Louth.
T: 041 9833946
E: info@droichead.com
W: droichead.com

Be-Longing | Marta Golubowska at Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge

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22 September to 25 October

The project ‘Be-Longing’ is a result of feelings of alienation and isolation that Marta Golubowska has experienced as a result of moving away from the country of her birth. It is an exploration of the everyday experience of building a new identity and putting down roots in a country, language and culture that is unfamiliar and foreign.

Marta is particularly interested in the links between identity and people’s homes, their community and their language and how the boundaries of identity are altered when your affiliation with these fundamental elements is fractured. Her artwork is primarily collaborative and involves shared experiences with other people.

The exhibition is part of the This Must Be The Place Residency. Marta was the winner of KCC Art Service and Riverbank Arts Centre Emerging Artist Awards 2016.

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Riverbank Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
T: (045) 448327
E: info@riverbank.ie
W: riverbank.ie

PHOTOVOICES | Rosaleen Heavin at The Atrium, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

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2 to 13 October

PHOTOVOICES is a collaborative participatory photographic exhibition exploring the experience of having a mental illness in the Midlands of Ireland in 2017.

This body of work is the outcome of a collaboration between the HSE Mental Health Occupational Therapy Services in Mullingar and Longford, Mullingar Mental Health Association, and visual artist Rosaleen Heavin, with all collaborators taking an equal participatory role along with Mental Health Service users in exploring through the camera lens how mental health is actually experienced from the differing perspectives.

PHOTOVOICES uses the camera lens as a means of social engagement through which to examine how the participants feel we as a contemporary community regard mental illness,, seeking to create awareness and reflecting to the viewer, different perspectives and responses, questioning attitudes and preconceptions and asking have attitudes really changed.

The Atrium,
Mullingar,
Co. Westmeath

Twilight | Pat Collins at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow

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9 September to 28 January

Twilight was filmed by Collins over 2 years close to Baltimore in West Cork, with field recordings by world renowned sound artist Chris Watson. The film has twilight as its central subject and is an attempt to capture the colour and quality of light that is in flux, the fleeting and transient sensations, the sense of the world turning. At its heart is the notion of a film where the viewer is given time to contemplate the texture of the world and their own place in it.

The sound near where the film was make has few intrusions from the modern world. They could hear the gulls in the distance – though they seemed too far away to be heard. After the sun goes down, on the southern edge of Ireland, in mid summer, all sounds still and silent – not so much as if the world is holding its breath but as if it is breathing peacefully.

VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
Old Dublin Rd, Carlow
Phone: (059) 917 2400
E: info@visualcarlow.ie
W: visualcarlow.ie

Loping Towards Darkness | Saidhbhin Gibson at VISUAL, Carlow

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16 September to 21 January

This exhibition contains new and recent works, shifting the focus from our human-centric approaches to our environment, towards nature and the non-human. Gibson’s work questions society’s ceaseless cleansing and compartmentalisation of the outdoors. She explores this through sensory and material approaches and there is an element of “magpie” in her working process; shed or discarded matter – both natural and man-made – is gathered on a continuous basis and re-emerges in hybrids of sculptural objects and images, suggesting other potential balances in
our shared relationship with nature.

Associated Events: H U D D L E
H U D D L E is an art and art writing discussion group devised by Gibson. The inaugural season took place in Arthouse, Stradbally, Co. Laois in January 2017, supported by Laois County Council. The project is an inclusive and developing platform for the discussion around contemporary art and relative narratives. Please email hellohuddle@gmail.com for further information and to book your place.

VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
Old Dublin Rd, Carlow
Phone: (059) 917 2400
E: info@visualcarlow.ie
W: visualcarlow.ie

Culture Night Events at The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

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22 September, 6 to 9pm

Butler Gallery invites you to celebrate Culture Night 2017 with a special programme of after-hours events inspired by the exhibition The Way Things Go: An Homage, including talks, screenings, sonic experiences and creative activities for all ages.

All events are FREE of charge, but bookings are advised for certain events. More information here: butlergallery.com/culture-night-2017/

Exhibition: The Way Things Go: An Homage | 6 – 9pm

Activity: TWTG Challenge | 6 – 9pm
Our Culture Night Ambassadors dare you to complete their The Way Things Go Challenge. Explore the exhibition by solving cryptic clues and tackling brain-teasing games.

Activity Lab: Carefully Planned Chaos | 6 – 9pm
Artist Renata Pekowska invites you to play with light and shadow in her interactive installation deep in Kilkenny Castle’s Sallyport Cellar.

Film- Screening: Man Vs. Gut | 6pm – 7pm
Butler Gallery Director and Chief Curator Anna O’Sullivan will introduce the Irish premiere of Bompas + Parr‘s “Man Vs. Gut”, a short film exploring the relationship between human and hunger.
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Talk: Meet the Artist Aideen Barry | 7 – 7.45pm
Artist Aideen Barry will share her thoughts on Fischli + Weiss’ The Way Things Go, as well as discussing her work ‘and so it goes’ during this Meet The Artist talk in Butler Gallery.
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Performance: The Way Things Go – A Sonic Response | 8 – 8.45pm
Immerse yourself in atmospheric soundscapes, created by composer and multi-instrumental performer Rian Trench (Solar Bears) in response to Fischli and Weiss’ seminal film, The Way Things Go, with accompanying visuals by Double Edge. This event is free but bookings are advised.
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Memory Has A Pulse | Group Exhibition at Engage Longford

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21 to 30 September

This exhibition examines the use of language, literature and text in the visual realm. All three artists pay homage to words and language in their work and use it in diverse ways and at various stages during the work process. The exhibition will include installation, painting, print works, text and film.

For Brezing, words come before the work begins, they are the starting point in the incubating process; Robinson uses overheard conversations and his own mutterings which he moulds and moves from word to visual, while Cotter works with the written word directly applied to paper and canvas, addressing memories and thoughts that form as his work evolves.

What initially brought the three artists together aside from friendship was their interest in word and literature in the visual arts and their own use of text and language in their paintings, drawings, installations and sound work. At closer inspection, they realized memory is also a common denominator, and how everything slides from the present to memory in an instant. This memory is also attached to ‘things’ and ‘stuff’, these also change over time through use and misuse. They change when exposed to the elements and they change when you bury them. In one such act the three artists buried things dear to them to be dug up again for the exhibition, in their new form, with a new pulse.

Memory Has A Pulse is a touring exhibition previously shown at 126 Artist Run-Gallery and NUI Galway, during Galway Arts Festival, July 2017.

Engage Longford
Providers old building,
Main Street,
Longford
T: 086 8517595
E: fkennedy@longfordcoco.ie
W: visuallongford.ie/

What’s with the Apocalypse? | Paul Mosse at VISUAL, Carlow

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16 September to 12 January

What’s with the Apocalypse? looks back over 40 years of practice. It shows the importance of drawing, nature and the surrounding landscape on the development of Mosse’s work, and also reveals the importance of materials and the physical intelligence of his making; a responsive and instinctual process of finding and re purposing raw materials from the detritus of the everyday world that surrounds him. Throughout Mosse’s work themes of complexity; chaos and order; and surface and interior recur, as materials are layered, pierced, torn, peeled – and occasionally even shot.

What’s with the Apocalypse? traces the trajectory of Mosse’s journey as an artist over four decades, from initial responses to the external influences of nature, to the development of a darker and more complex internal vision, explored through his extraordinary approach to materials.

Paul Mosse was born in 1946 in Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny. He was elected to Aosdana in 2007 and his works are included in many private and public collections, including Allied Irish Bank, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Trinity College Dublin, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, the National Self-Portrait Collection and the
Office of Public Works.

VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
Old Dublin Rd, Carlow
Phone:(059) 917 2400
E: info@visualcarlow.ie
W: visualcarlow.ie

Elements | Group Exhibition at

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26 September to 13 October
Exhibition launch 26 September, 5.30pm with guest speaker Cllr. Liam Quinn, Cathaoirelach, Offaly County Council.

Hosted by Offaly County Council, the exhibition will feature three local upcoming artists, Elizabeth Lartey, Sandra Cole and Nikita Oakley graduates of Ceramic courses in LSAD and GMIT.

Although each artist begins with the same material, their work tells a unique narrative representing the individual personality of the makers. Working with ceramics combines all the four elements, Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.

Each element plays an important part in the process of creation. A careful balance of these elements is required to ensure a successful outcome. An understanding of this combination is acquired through feel, practice and patience.

Áras an Chontae
Charleville Rd,
Kilcruttin,
Tullamore,
Co. Offaly
W: offaly.ie/Arts-and-Culture/

‘I Watched the White Dogs of the Dawn’ | Els Dietvorst at Kilmore Quay

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22 to 24 September 2017

In association with The Wexford Documentary Film Festival 2017.

Els Dietvorst the Belgian visual artist, filmmaker and shepherd who lives and works in Duncormick, Co Wexford. Her work focuses on communication, collaboration and social conflicts. She collects scraps and fragments of the world and models them, films them, draws them, tells their story in images. As well as film, she uses other media, such as drawing, writing and sculpture.

Els’ new webdoc ‘I Watched the White Dogs of the Dawn’; will be installed in Kilmore Quay from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th September as part of the Documentary Film Festival. This gathers interviews, stories and impressions of Irish fishermen and women in Kilmore Quay, Duncannon and Dunmore East. Since the 16th century these villages on the South East coast of Ireland, are primarily fishing villages. Most fishermen are over 40 years old and the younger generation does not see fishing as an option. The pressures of quotas, industrial fishing and European rules and regulations make it no longer economically viable. The fisherman are disappearing and along with them the generations-old knowledge of the sea and its ecology. Small-scale commercial fishermen in Ireland cannot compete with the huge commercial trawlers. On these large ships you see hardly any Irish fishermen.

iwatchedthewhitedogsofthedawn.be

Stella Maris Centre
Crossfarnoge
Kilmore Quay
Co. Wexford
W: wexforddocumentaryfilmfestival.ie

Circular Breathing | Helen O’Connell, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow

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29 September to 28 October 2017

Helen O’Connell is a sculptor based in County Wicklow.

This exhibition is a very personal body of work, created by o’Connell while processing a deep sense of grief and loss. In the face of life’s erratic, and often cruel curveballs, O’Connell returns again and again to the circle and its symbolism. which has been a recurring trope in my work. The circle represents the divine, the unknowable, the immeasurable (a circle can only be measured by the arithmetical Pi or as an irrational number whose final decimal place can never be resolve). Circles offer us meditative spaces to contemplate the cycles of life and the fluid nature of energy, which is always in flux. In engaging with the work the hope is to create a contemplative space that evokes a tactile response to the materials.

Although primarily a stone sculptor, for this exhibition at the Mermaid O’Connell has been exploring the Japanese meditative practice of enso, a ritualistic daily ink drawing of the circle alongside photographic work in collaboration with artist Michael Durand.

More information.

Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
T: 01 2724030
E: marketing@mermaidartscentre.ie
W: mermaidartscentre.ie

Wexford Documentary Film Festival | Stella Maris Centre, Wexford

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22 to  24 Sept

The 5th Wexford Documentary Film Festival takes place in the working fishing village of Kilmore Quay, County Wexford.

Screening of main programme is in the Stella Maris Centre; however this year sees the addition of some interesting off site venues. The film festival has been gaining strength and popularity by providing the opportunity to see award winning national and international documentary films and 2017 is no exception, The 2017 theme is ‘Community’ with a strong emphasis on screening films that explore social, political and environmental concerns.

We are delighted to announce that the festival has secured an Irish premier of ‘We The Workers’ by award winning Chinese director Huang Wenhai, who will attend the post screening discussion on Friday evening. Other films highlighting social issues in the community are ‘The Grown ups’ (Downs Syndrome) and ‘Shot in the dark’ (Visually Challenged) ‘Loco Parentis’ (alternative style parenting) also ‘Tongue cutters’ a film about fishing related issues. Artists and filmmakers have had the opportunity to submit work to be included in the festival, through the open call earlier in the year. The 3 minute film challenge on Sunday 24th Sept is a selection of short films from public submissions. There are a number of categories within the challenge that receive awards.
New additions this year: Short films will be shown in unexpected off site venues; We will have a great Film Installation by Els Dietvorst; Workshops: film making, Dick Donaghue: pocket film making, Terence White: Acting, Conor Madden. Students from Aberystwyth University, Wales will visit with their films.

Wexford Documentary Film Festival
Stella Maris Centre
Crossfarnoge
Kilmore Quay
Co. Wexford
W: http://wexforddocumentaryfilmfestival.ie/

Wexford Documentary Film Festival 2017

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22 to 24 September

The Wexford Documentary Film Festival takes place every year in the picturesque fishing village of Kilmore Quay located in county Wexford on the south east coast of Ireland.

This dynamic film festival provides the opportunity to see award winning national and international documentary films.

The festival has a strong emphasis to screen films that explore social, political and environmental concerns whilst also including a number of artists films and a 3 minute film challenge submission.

All film screenings are free and open to the public.

The theme of this years festival is Community.

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A Trip Into The Unknown | Kasia Zimnoch and Pawel Kleszczewski

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2 September to 21 October

Discover magical animated worlds of St. Brendan and Dag and Daga in this wonderful exhition by Pawel and Kasia, a duo of visual artists and filmmakers.
Pawel has a background in painting and studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, in Poland, and Kasia studied Art History.

The exhibition includes two short animations: “The Voyage of Saint Brendan” and a ‘living illustration’ “Dag and Daga “.

The video works are accompanied by 2D works – paintings and monoprints which show how the animations are developed and present the original ideas and themes. The works and animations refer to folklore, legends and mythology and explore magical and sometimes spooky worlds of the past.

Riverbank Arts Centre
Main Street,
Newbridge,
Co.Kildare
T: (045) 448327
E: info@riverbank.ie
W: riverbank.ie

Military Manoeuvres Projected | Patricia Hurl Screening in Banagher Town, Co. Offaly

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22 September

Military Manoeuvres Projected is an open-air screening of a short film created by artist, Patricia Hurl, local school children, parents and the wider community of Banagher.

In 1891 artist, Richard Moynan created the painting “Military Manoeuvres” – illustrating a crowded street-scene depicting a group of children amusing themselves by pretending to be a regimental band. On Culture Night 2016, a re-imagined version of the original painting was created and documented through performance and film.

For Culture Night 2017, an open-air screening of this re-enactment will take place in Banagher Town from 8-10pm.

culturenight.ie/event/military-manoeuvres-projected/

Earthwatch | Mary Hickey at Signal Arts Centre, Bray

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25 September to 8 October 2017

Signal Arts Centre presents ‘Earthwatch’, the first solo exhibition for Limerick Artist Mary Hickey.

Mary Hickey is a Limerick artist who received her B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art and Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2015. For the past couple of years she has been working on abstracted forms influenced by her interest in what is happening in the natural world – from the gentle flow of nature, to its extreme weather conditions. ‘Earthwatch’ is Hickey’s first solo exhibition.

Her works involve pouring pools of water onto canvases prepared with many layers of gesso. These pools of water are then injected with acrylic colour pigment of various thicknesses. Her style is a fusion of colour. It has no obvious brush stroke, the colours flow and blend as forces that are in motion so that every painting is unique. Some of the work seems to float in limitless space, while other works appear to go beyond the boundaries of the canvas.

Painting watered down acrylics or watercolours entails a collaboration of the artist with a living medium that they cannot control or erase. Watercolour or watered down acrylic will flow, settle, blend, separate and invent on its own before it dries. It bears a resemblance to the unpredictable flow of nature.

Funded by Limerick City & County Council and Limerick Arts Office.

Signal Arts Centre, 1 Albert Avenue, Bray, Co. Wicklow
T: 353 01 276 20 39
E: info@signalartscentre.ie
W: signalartscentre.ie