“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public-house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc. The more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither months nor dust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the more you have.”
Karl Marx, from ‘Marx and Engels on Literature and Art’

In Marx’s memoirs, written by his daughter, Eleanor Marx, he is portrayed as a great story-teller, who encouraged a politically-critical reading of literature from a young age, and put emphasis on the educational virtues included in stories.

This show is part of the Act series (sites.google.com/site/actseries/), an ongoing digital art project designed to encourage criticism of contemporary politics.

The original Act project included the development of five digital ‘tools’ or ‘guides’, which were then applied to political content to create artwork.

Artists were invited to use the tools created for the Act series for production/inspiration/objects of critique to generate artwork, with no limitation on creative language or genre.

Artists being exhibited:
Monica Flynn
Steven Maybury
Donna FitzSymons
Miya Ando

Bilu Blich
Blaithin Mac Donnell
Catherine Del Buono
Cathrine Harty
Donna FitzSymons
Efrat Gal
Ellen Mueller
Keren Zaltz
Khalil Charif
Mary McGrath
Moira Tierney
Parya Vatankhah
Shirin Divanbeigi

Format of the exhibition:
The show includes drawing, audio/video installations, and moving image reels.

Size of space required:
Best worked out in a space that includes at least 2 rooms, but the setup can be adapted to fit most locations. A wall of approx. 4 metres-wide wall is required for one of the pieces.

Are there technical specs available:
The show requires access to several devices that can play DVDs (can be computers/players), monitors and projectors, as well as speakers. The specific requirements depend on the particular space.

Is there a catalogue available:
The show has a website which includes details about the pieces and photos of the opening at The Market Studios.
URL: http://wakeupstories.wordpress.com/

Administration Fees required:
Negotiable, will vary depending on the amount of work required to adapt to the space.

A brief summary of the theme (keep it to a few lines)
- “I Love Petrol” is my last project about old classic cars. I use the car image as an icon to represents the metropolis and the individualism that dominates us. In the way the industry of transport has made to be able to use the car, bike, bus, train, plane, etc. to move and make our daily life easier and create the tempo in our life’s rhythm.

Format of the exhibition
- Boards and canvases hanged on the wall with normal nails

Size of space required
- Around 8 metres or 26 feeth

Are there technical specs available
- No necessary

Is there a catalogue available
- Yes, see attached link on issuu: http://issuu.com/martarevillas/docs/catalogo_7.1.13_-_web

Is there a worked out education / outreach programme
- No

In keeping with VAI policy, an artist’s fee is required for this exhibition

Title of exhibition
Stillness In The Periphery

Artist
Susan Buttner

Summary
Still In The Periphery is an exhibition of paintings and soft sculpture that references space within the contemporary rural landscape , where the periphery of representation and abstraction is explored. The artist focuses on tension between mutable and inescapable objects, rural outbuildings , troughs, iron gates.

Format of exhibition

Paintings various sizes 30x50cm, 68x 92, small
Sculptures to hang on wall.

Size and space required

Adaptable

Are there technical specs available.

No

Is there a catalogue available.

Yes

Is there a worked out education/outreach programme

No but interested in providing one depending on location.

Artists fees required

Negotiable.

Administration fees required

No

Contact details:

susan_buttner@hotmail.com

www.susanbuttner.com

087 2212449

The title of this Solo exhibition is A Longing and the artist is Carol O’ Connor.

This show is the culmination of 2 years work and reflects my view of the broad and accelerating changes both my own personal world and also in the world in general. Color plays a pivotal role in reflecting desires, fantasies and hope. Real and fantasy worlds collide in an effort to evaluate and draw some meaning from a chaotic world. Most of the show consists of small paintings 25x30cms and 10 drawings of a similar size. The spaces required vary and as there are over 20 finished pieces they can function in a small or large space. So far i have shows in signal arts centre Bray, Dunamaise arts centre in Portlaoise and Avenue Road Gallery in Dublin. There is now catalogue for the show just a list of titles and prices.

With the show in portlaoise I will be conducting a workshop and brief talk as part of their outreach programme and for Avenue road Gallery there will be a talk about the work.

• Dunamaise Arts Centre Portlaoise 16 feb-16 march 2013.
• Avenue Rd Gallery Dublin, 7-15 June 2013
• Toradh Gallery Duleek, 2 person show with Mette Roche, 30 July 2013

My contact details are as follows:
Carol O’ Connor, 12 reask drive, Navan, Co. Meath
E: carolchakra@yahoo.co.uk  | 0863274962.

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“The Death and Life of The Shankill”
1981-2011

A collection of over 40 paintings chronicling the redevelopment and changing face of the Greater Shankill area of West Belfast from the 1980′s to the present.

Award winning Artist Stephen Shaw has been painting and photographing the changes to his native area of Belfast for over 30 years and this Exhibition brings together much of this ongoing project to the public for the very first time.

Until shown in Red Barn Gallery, Belfast, then again as part of Feile an Phobail Festival, Falls Road, Belfast, in 2012; many of the paintings, some made over 25 years ago, had never been seen before. Others were familiar to collectors and admirers of his work.

This Exhibition will be of immense interest to anyone following the ongoing changes Belfast City is still going through and records in detail the effects the wholescale redevelopment of the Shankill area had on its landscape and life in these times.

It is most likely the biggest collection of paintings of the Shankill area, by a single Artist, ever assembled.

An important historical document, it also showcases Stephen’s skill as a painter in watercolour. A true “Labour of Love” bringing out the very best in his talent.

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This exhibition consists of a number of oil paintings first shown as a solo exhibition at the Ranalagh Arts Centre last yeat (since added to)and made since graduating from NCAD in 2007. As shown on my web page older materials and methods are examined and used but I consider my work to be “Contemporary still life”

The paintings are backed up by a number of the objects that were uses as subjects and as such tie in very well to create a unity and completeness.

There are thirty plus paintings and four or five 3D pieces available for display, depending on the space available.

This exhibition is very accessible the paintings being mostly 40x50cm and the 3Ds about the same size, (displayed on wooden plinths, which I can supply). Costs or expenses are totally negotiable.

Exhibition available from now.

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This is a solo exhibition of paintings, painting installations and digital media artworks by Shane Finan.

The artworks were completed as part of an analysis of people who live on islands, during studio time and residencies in Ireland and Iceland. The central theme is the metaphor of people as islands (insulated and separated from one another), with a comparison to a metaphor of society as an archipelago.

There is no artist fee required for exhibiting these artworks – I am hoping to exhibit a debut solo exhibition and am happy to self-fund the transportation of work to an adequate space. The exhibition is unfunded, and any funding is welcome. Works made as part of this series were funded by Sligo Arts Office – this funding covered creation of work but will have to be acknowledged in any exhibition.

The works vary from small to large format, but an exhibition can be arranged in most spaces or galleries, dependent on available space. A catalogue can be designed and printed at short notice, although this would depend on the circumstances of any exhibition.

I would be delighted to exhibit these works but will not pay to exhibit in a space. All artworks are available for booking from the current date until early 2013 – some of the works will feature in exhibitions later in 2013 outside of Ireland at different dates – this can be discussed further in further correspondence. A selection of the works available can be seen at http://www.shanefinanart.org/#!archipelago-2011—/cyn3

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Artist(s) being exhibited: Alexa Wright

A brief summary of the theme: ‘A View From Inside’ draws on the principals of 18th century portrait painting to give form to some of the unique realities encountered by different people during psychosis. Visual, auditory and other sensory phenomena that occur during a psychotic episode contradict accepted notions of ‘reality’, and yet for one person they are absolutely real. In each photograph the external appearance and the internal experiences of the subject are depicted within a single, formally structured portrait using Photoshop. The aim is not to exoticise the ‘unreal’ or bizarre perceptual experiences of the people portrayed, but to use digital media both to explore this notion of ‘reality’, and to find a visual language that will provoke discussion and add to our understanding of the experience of mental illness, and of psychosis in particular.

Format of the exhibition: Ten digital C-Type prints, 76 x 100cm, mounted on aluminium and framed + limited edition artist’s book

Size of space required: minimum 25 m wall space

Are there technical specs available: N/a

Is there a catalogue available: Artists book that doubles as catalogue

Is there a worked out education / outreach programme: No, but event(s) can be arranged in collaboration with mental health charity, Rethink

Artists’ Fees required: negotiable

Administration Fees required: return shipping from London

Dates that it is available from: January, 2013

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Title of Show: The Celtic Zoo

Description: This one-man show consists of twenty four mixed media drawings on paper.
The Celtic Zoo takes a satirical look at the absurdities of life in the contemporary world with particular emphasis on Ireland during the “Celtic Tiger” years.
The drawings are all A3 size and measure 46.5 x 56.5 cm framed.

Format of exhibition – An exhibition of drawings

Size of space required – Approximately 25 metres of wall-space in a self-contained space.

Are there technical specs available – No

Is there a catalogue available – No

Is there a worked out education/outreach program me – No, but I will do a talk on the show, if required

Artists’ fees required – Some assistance towards transport and publicity would be appreciated

Administration fees required – No

Contact details – Tom Fitzgerald, Kilmacat, Kildimo, Co Limerick.

Dates that it is available from – Nov. 01, 2012

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Ciara O’Hara- ‘Nowhere Here, Somewhere There’.

Everyday subjects enter a world similar to that of legend, folklore and mythology in an unidentified space. This results in an unexplained narrative of touching moments and decontextualised encounters in the relationship between man and nature. There is a sense of melancholic hope with the imaginary subjects, predominately children and animals, emerging with a strong knowingness of their existence in this unreal space. Like in folklore and legend, recognisable subjects from our world are involved in unlikely or impossible situations evoking an emotive or didactic response in the audience. This is a place removed from our world, where freedom of movement and restriction co-exist, people become semi-rooted plant-life and animals fight trees for territory.

Format: Wall hanging and free standing.

Outreach: Workshop available.

Fee: 50 euro per hour of workshop.

Available from: November 2012- November 2013

www.ciaraohara.com

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