9 May – 3 June 2012 | jätkäsaari, Helsinki, Finland | MoA’12 : New spaces in collaboration with Helsinki World Design Capital. Space has been researched intensively during the last few decades in  philosophy, geography and sociology. It is understood that space is active and in process and it is seen like a verb whereas place is inactive referring to the past and seen as a noun. Space can be divided into private and public spaces or common / shared spaces. Today we speak about spaces of communication, in-between or interstice spaces, digital space or space of flows ( Manuel Castels) as well as third or hybrid spaces signifying, for instance, situations where elements of two different cultures encounter. The outcome is not the one or the other of the encounter but a hybrid or a third space | www.janehughes.ie | www.moa.fi

May 10 – June 2 2012 | Opening Thursday, May 10 at 7:00pm | 6 lombard Street, Waterford City | ‘Covered’; a solo exhibition by Jill Bouchier. Jill Bouchier is a Waterford based artist who studied painting at Chelsea School of Art. Her forthcoming exhibition will include geometric paintings and textile pieces. Jill’s work incorporates fabrics and found materials such as envelopes, blankets, buttons and textile samples. These everyday materials are transformed to create collages and sewn pieces that explore pattern and the associative power of fabrics that are reminiscent of traditional quilts. Her paintings fascinate through their cool elegance. In recent works, the exploration of textile processes and the aesthetics of design has become increasingly central to her practice | www.somacontemporary.com 

“Suddenly” is an exhibition by a new collective of four female, Monaghan based artists: Louise Loughman, Grace Brennan, Roisin Duffy and Niamh O’Connor. Each artists works in a different discipline encompassing mediums such as Batik and Textiles, Glass and Photography, Paint and Encaustic(wax). Runs from Sat 28th April – Tuesday 8th May 2012 at Iontas Centre Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan.

10 May – 30 July 2012 | 10 May 6.30-8.30pm | ‘Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea’ | Art at The Ivy House is delighted to present the first Dublin solo exhibition of Donegal based artist Damien McGinley. Several of the works to feature in this show were recently exhibited in Damien’s solo show ‘Eurekastraat’ in Antwerp which received very positive reviews. Damien’s mixed media paintings are strongly informed by a sense of place, relating to rural and more often urban environments. In a response to external and internal landscapes, over the last number of years he has been examining how the linear structure can enhance the composition of these landscapes. Whereas these compositions were deliberately rigid and regimented, he is now beginning to approach his work seeking a dissolution of boundaries | www.theivyhouse.ie

4 May – 29 June | Opening Fri 4th May 2012 6pm – 8pm | The American Irish Historical Society and Oliver Sears Gallery presents Radharc / Six contemporary painters from Ireland | You are invited to the opening reception at American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue (80th Street), New York, NY 10028 | www.oliversearsgallery.com/exhibitions/radharc-six-contemporary-painters-from-ireland

12 -19 May | Opening 11th May 6-8pm | Tallaght Dublin 24 | Kirkegaard is a Danish artist who focuses on the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound and hearing. LABYRINTHITIS is an interactive sound piece that consists entirely of sounds generated in the artist’s auditory organs and will cause audible responses in those of the audience. It relies on principles employed both in medical science and musical practice; when two frequencies at a certain ratio are played into the ear, additional vibrations in the inner ear will produce a third frequency. This frequency is generated by the ear itself: a so-called “distortion prod- uct otoacoustic emission” also referred to in musicology as “Tartini tone”. By arranging the tones from his ears in a composition and playing them to an audience, the artist evokes further distortion effects in the ears of his listeners | www.fonik.dk | Presented by RUA RED as part of the Glitch Festival, see www.ruared.ie/glitch_2012.html for more info

12 May – 16 June | ‘Shoots and Ladders’ : new paintings by Simon McWilliams | Skotia Gallery, 6144 Washington Blvd, Culver City CA90232 USA | Irish Artist Simon McWilliams takes his observations of the city around him and filters them through his bold, painterly imagination. What he delivers is a fictional developing city, housing mysterious forms cloaked with impasto paint, reminiscent of Christo’s wrapped buildings. Not a drab concrete city but a new optimistic metropolis, resplendent in abundant, tactile colours, promising, “a glorious morrow”. Sound drawing and painterliness combine to produce a unique vision that is part fact and part fantasy | www.skotiagallery.com

12 – 13 May | Ballymastocker Bay, Portsalon, Donegal | A Project Initiated By John Ryan And Tom Watt | Participating Artists: Sara Amido, Clare Breen, Ruth Clinton, Amanda Conrad, Peter Donnellan, Jane Fogarty, Sarah Gordon, Tracy Hanna, Tom Lawton, David Lunney, Niamh Moriarty, James O hAodha, Matthew Slack. RESORT is a 10 day long residency undertaken by artists on Ballymastocker Bay, Portsalon, Donegal, a beach near the furthest north point of Ireland. The idea to use a beach as the environment for this project was born from a show that some of us participated in last November, where all of the work was site specific and would no longer exist after the show had finished. Given that the beach is a public space, artists were invited to participate in the residency with the understanding that none of the work will exist in the phenomenal world after the project was over. Non participants are invited to the location on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of May to engage with artists through viewing of works created and discussion of outcomes of the experience | www.apopulardestination.wordpress.com

12th May – 9th June | Opening 11th May 6pm-8pm | Tallaght Dublin 24 | The theme of the main exhibition of Glitch will explore artists who conspicuously use virtual and real spaces to explore new media artwork. ‘Experimenting With Clouds’ comprises of an exhibition devoted to exploring  the history, social impact and future of open source technologies. This exhibition celebrates the open source culture of sharing and collaboration, while examining the virtual and real spaces artists occupy within the realms of new media and technology. Participating artists include: Alan Butler, Andreas, Fischer, Ellie Harrison, Lucy Kimbell, Joanna Kane, David McAllister. Presented by RUA RED as part of the Glitch Festival | www.ruared.ie/glitch_2012.html |

9th – 14 May | Opening Wed 9th of May 7 – 8pm | The National College of Art and Design is delighted to announce ‘NO PRESSURE’ an exhibition by second year fine print students. Exciting and original works by 16 emerging artists, working in a variety of media and print processes will be on display in the Joinery Gallery. The show will contain work exploring a range of vibrant themes and imagery.  ine examples of the techniques of etching, screen print and lithography will be shown alongside more experimental processes for an engaging and unique collection of works | www.thejoinery.org/events/nopressure | www.facebook.com/events/408390249182396/