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Vukasin Nedeljković : Asylum Archive

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As Asylum seekers are increasingly under threat we show this from Art in Ireland TV.

Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Asylum Archive, an exhibition of photography, artefacts and found objects created by visual artist and researcher Vukasin Nedeljković. Asylum Archive is directly concerned with the everyday realities of asylum seekers in Ireland, drawing on Nedeljković’s personal experience of being an asylum seeker and living in direct provision centres throughout Ireland.

Thu 9 Feb – Sat 8 Apr
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford

The Glucksman, UCC : Gut Instinct

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Gutted, gutsy, gut feelings, gut wrenching, butterflies in your tummy, go with your gut – are all expressions used in everyday language, art and literature to portray a raft of human emotions. How we feel is driven by both emotional and visceral signals and while neuroscientists by training are conditioned to think of what is happening above the neck in terms of the regulation of our emotions, research at the APC Microbiome Institute is literally turning this concept upside down as scientists begin to realise the importance of gut function and the food we eat as critical to our mental well-being.

Food has long been the subject of works of art. In recent times, artists have also examined eating behaviours and the mechanisms of consumption as a way to comment on contemporary society. From artworks that explore the materiality of foodstuffs to creative provocations that test the boundaries of good taste and revulsion, Gut Instinct: Art, food and feeling draws on cutting edge research by John Cryan, Professor and Chair, Anatomy and Neuroscience, UCC, and his colleagues at the APC Microbiome Institute, to explore how digestion relates to our mental and emotional states.

25 November 2016 – 19 March 2017
The Glucksman, UCC, Cork

Brenda Carroll : Gaza, from the outside looking in

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February 3rd at 7pm until 18th of February.
Rogue Gallery and Studios, Waterford.

The Rogue Gallery and Studios is proud to introduce this years first exhibition for 2017 “Gaza, From the Outside Looking In”. A show by local artist/activist Brenda Carroll.Opening Feburary 3rd at 7pm untill 18th of Febuary.

“Gaza, From the Outside Looking In” is a exhibition devoted to giving a small insight into the hardship of the everyday life of the people of Gaza in the chaos of the 2014 War.

Through the use of various mediums such as sound installations, video and collage and paint, the artist allows the viewer to look through the looking glass and barbed wire that resonates the traumatic emotional turmoil of War that still cast a shadow on their day to day life..

Mick Fortune : The Graduates at GOMA

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GOMA Waterford, 19th January, 6.30pm (exhibition runs until 23rd February)

GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford formerly known as SOMA Contemporary Gallery is proud to introduce their first exhibition of 2017 The Graduates. A show of works by recent graduates from Waterford institute of Technology. Opening January 19th at 6.30pm till February 23rd. Located on Lombard Street

The Graduates is a exhibition consisting of three artists work: Michael Fortune, Maxine McDaid and Marie Lee. The show is curated by two past Graduates of W.I.T Jenna Whelan and Sandra Kelly. Each of the artists displaying their works has recently received BA in Visual Arts from W.I.T .

The Graduates is an eclectic mix of concepts and mediums. Fortune a native from Enniscorthy Co Wexford investigates the relationship between individuals and the space in which they exist. His work predominantly works with film, photography and installation. March of this year also sees the opening of Dystopia a solo show by Fortune in The Source Gallery Thurles. Having received a mentorship from RHA’s Colin Martin.

While the work of McDaid’s can be seen as autobiographical, working with found objects from her surroundings that are selected by a sub- conscious attraction to their nature. McDaid’s work is highly sought after having been purchased by Waterford City Council as part of the Municipal Collection. McDaid is currently on a 6 month residency in GOMA Waterford.

Lee’s work Luisne was selected by Waterford Healing Arts Trust in 2016 as part of the graduate awards. The work been displayed as part of the current exhibition in GOMA focuses on a rare treasure of Waterford the Bilberry Goats, this is the last of an ancient breed of wild goat. For this work Lee has worked alongside the South East Makerspace (SEMS) with a focus on digital art, coding, electronics and physics.

Yan Wang Preston : Mother River

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Mother River is a breathtaking photographic odyssey by the British-Chinese photographer, Yan Wang Preston. It takes the viewer on a journey along the entire length of the Yangtze, China’s ‘Mother River’. From the remote high Tibetan Plateau, through the Three Gorges and on to the river’s end at Shanghai, this stunning series of colour photographs captures the dramatic shifts in landscape and offers fresh perspectives on China’s present-day development.

The epic project follows a simple premise: to document the entire 6,211km length of the Yangtze river from source to delta. Yan Wang Preston used Google Earth to identify the coordinates of sixty-three locations marking every 100 km of the river’s course. It was these sixty-three ‘Y-points’ that she set out to reach and to photograph, come what may.

Over a period of four years, the artist made nine field trips into incredibly diverse and often remote terrain. Since the river source is 5,400 meters above sea level, and half of its length flows through some of the most majestic mountains on Earth, Mother River is a modern-day adventure, where the intrepid photographer faced a panoply of hazards including altitude sickness, mudslides, earthquakes, sandstorms, floods and wild dogs.

Wang Preston used a large-format field camera, the kind used by nineteenth century pioneering explorers. Although cumbersome and complex to use on location, the camera produces huge negatives, offering images with astonishing detail and resolution.

For Chinese-born Wang Preston, Mother River is in part an epic pilgrimage through her native country: an exhaustive exploration of a powerful symbol that reconnects her with the ancestral homeland. Closely associated with Chinese traditional paintings and an icon of the national landscape, the Yangtze represents the folklore of traditional China. However, with over 30 hydroelectric dams on its course, the river is synonymous with China’s rapid industrialization. Wang Preston’s epic, multi-layered work raises questions about the relationship between nature and culture, tradition and regeneration in one of the world’s most powerful economies.

Saturday 28 January – Sunday 5 March 2017
Gallery of Photography, Dublin

Anna O’Sullivan and Bairbre-Ann Harkin : Personae: Butler Gallery Collection featuring loans from the IMMA Collection

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The Butler Gallery has an outstanding resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. The gallery has an ongoing commitment to make sure this collection is exhibited and enjoyed by the public. Including loans from the Sir Basil Goulding Collection and from private collections, the Butler Gallery Collection is an eclectic catalogue of diverse genres that can be read and appreciated on many levels.

For our 2017 collection exhibition we are honored to include a very special group of works on loan from the Permanent Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). This group incorporates a seminal sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, self-portraits by Chuck Close and John Coplans, prints by Alex Katz and Paula Rego, and a photographic portrait by Thomas Ruff. The theme of Personae running through the exhibition focuses our eye on portraits, figures or other forms that either readily reveal or camouflage an identity. Narratives indisputably evolve upon viewing works as diverse as the openness and glamour of Diane Arbus’s Girl in a shiny dress, NYC 1967 to the enigma of Jackie Nickerson’s portrait of a woman in the Sultanate of Oman, whose identity is hidden by a headdress.

The works from IMMA have been selected in response to, or in sympathy with, the works chosen for this exhibition from the Butler Gallery Permanent Collection. The IMMA selection adds freshness and maintains currency in the viewing of beloved works in the ever-evolving collection we are fortunate to maintain here in Kilkenny.

With thanks to the Irish Museum of Modern Art IMMA for the loan of important works in their Permanent Collection.

Exhibition continues until February 26, 2017, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

Des Cullen : Mountains Move While Oceans Do Not

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Exhibition statement: Working primarily with discarded limestone Cullen distils a series of large-scale organic structures that emerge directly from his involvement with the properties of the material. These material transactions take account of the fragmentary patterns and shapes that the artist sees as potential tendency within the stone. Through a process Cullen describes as ‘evolutionary’ the works complex structure is revealed slowly over long periods of time using a variety of techniques such as grinding, carving and the use of found cut-stone. Inspired by the work of ancient cultures, as well as the structures suggested by fractal geometry, the resulting works illicit patterns that operate across different scales and origins in the natural world and which are repeated with varying degrees of intensity and gesture throughout the exhibition.

Des Cullen is an artist currently living and working in Manorhamilton North Leitrim. Cullen studied sculpture at GMIT where he graduated with honours in 1996. He completed a First Class Honours Degree in painting in Sligo IT and an MFA at Ulster University in 2014. Cullen has work in major collections across Ireland and more recent projects include a solo exhibition at LSC 2010; Group Show at the platform Arts Belfast, 2012; First Prize Winner at ‘Sculpture in Context’, the Botanic Gardens in Dublin, 2014 and a solo show at the Cistercian Abby Boyle County Roscommon in 2014.

27th January – 14th February
Leitrim Sculpture Centre

Alex Flett : Bird

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“For seventeen years now, my work has been mainly concerned with HIV/AIDS in an African context, and BIRD is only one of three bodies of work in that time not referencing that humanitarian problem. Africa alters one’s perception of a Western European art which has long lost itself in a visual pedantry by stripping joy in creativity out of the art making process. BIRD contains African elements of joy, abstracted colour and form derived from my home village on the Moray Firth, my pet seagull at age eight, birds in my studio garden, and a vulture I met in Botswana.” – Alex Flett

28th January, 2017 – 18th February, 2017
Sciennes Gallery, Summerhall

Morven Macrae : Autism Abstraction and Colour, John Black

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Garvald Artists present a vibrant collection of abstract artwork by John Black. John is Autistic and combines his innate understanding of colour with his intuitive active mark-making to create inherently beautiful and balanced works. John creates an exciting relationship between action and stillness in his work. Translucent layers build to solid walls of colour. Energetic marks meld into dense focal points. The intriguing titles of his pieces hint at the stories he sees unfolding in his works. Having worked at Garvald Edinburgh for 25 years this is John’s first solo show having previously exhibited in group shows.
Curated by Morven Macrae Art and Design Workshop Leader/ Exhibitions Co-coordinator, Garvald Edinburgh.

27th January – 16th February 2017
The Library Gallery, Summerhall

Joy Gerrard : shot crowd

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January 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

Drawing on over a decade of image-making and research on themes of protest and urban space, Irish artist Joy Gerrard archives and painstakingly remakes media-borne crowd images from around the world. This exhibition marks the latest development in this project, presenting an abstract film work alongside monochrome paintings and drawings of the Arab risings of 2011, anti-Trump demonstrations and ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests from 2016. Her crowds are viewed from above; suggesting the removal of media observation, while the fluidity and drama of their moment is expressed through precise, expressive mark making. The large paintings allow a shift in scale, disrupting the photographic schema of the smaller drawings and allowing greater freedom from the original mediation of the image. These are set alongside the film ‘shot crowd’, produced as a maquette in 2007 and remade in 2016. Here, Gerrard sets the historical specificity of her protest images against an abstract depiction of space and human movement. The perpetual flow of individual objects, apparently random and chaotic, is constrained and directed within a built environment.

The elemental simplicity of Gerrard’s Japanese ink drawings and paintings belies a more complex meditation on the contemporary circulation of images, the precarious freedom of protest and the contemporary relation between populism and representative democracy. In her work, the figure of the crowd comes to suggest the expression of collective agency. But these crowds are persistently contained within historical architectures that at once give them form and constrain them. The ephemeral imagery of news media is thus figured against more fundamental and enduring human conditions, while the rescaling of images into dramatic, painterly forms disrupts their everyday meaning to provoke reflection on the place of art, witnessing and the politics of representation.

Matthew Nevin : School Days

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TOMOKO SAWADA (b. 1977 Kobe, Japan) uses photography to explore the relationship between one’s inner life and outer image. Sawada’s works borrow compositional devices from familiar photographic formats such as the school portrait, weddings, and fashion photography, restaging them in a satirical mode to lay bare their various stereotypes and assumptions. Contemporary portraiture can communicate various attitudes towards identity, status, individualism, time, place, culture and other connected ideas of the self. Since the late ‘90s the artist has used her performative self-portrait as a means of opening up discussion or as an enlightening tool for personal discovery, evoking the essence of ‘real’ people within a controlled environment. Sawada’s work has a sense of familiarity, comforting but also unsettling in its realism and closeness. The digital manipulation of her work feels real and her characters, believable. All of these elements culminate in a photographic document of Japanese society and the individuals that encapsulate it.

Sawada’s filmwork ‘MASK’ {2006}, a performance to camera, is projected in large format demonstrating the artist’s ability to create striking transformations of her own identity. Her own facial integrity reconstructs through 60 altering faces, as she peels off each new personality one after another. Sawada explores the relationship between one’s inner life and outer perception from society, experimenting and highlighting the artist’s skill as a costume, make up, technical and theatrical artistry of identity manufacturing. The work acts as an exploration of social, cultural and personal assessment in a contemporary society that pushes female characteristic falsehood and stereotypes on a global interconnected society.

Courtesy of MEM, Tokyo, Sawada presents her 2004 work ‘School Days’, through a series of classically framed photographs depicting several large group class portraits. Sawada impersonates hundreds of students in the series along with the typical teacher either side of each group. Wearing identical school uniforms Sawada successfully creates a large volume of individual characters by altering each person’s attire, accessories, makeup, stance and facial expression slightly, creating a series of prevailing students. The series references a tradition of bi yearly photographs taken seasonally in school from Kindergarten right up to High School graduation in Japan. Sawada set out to homogenize both her education and teenage personalities, showcasing elements of times in her own and fellow students lives of taking a risk of breaking strict school regulations and attempting to become someone different from her own self.

Runs to: Feb 24th 2017
Location: The MART Gallery, 190A Rathmines Rd, Lwr, Dublin 6.

Craft Scotland in partnership with Visual Arts Scotland : Fly 2016

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The Royal Scottish Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh

3 – 27 December 2016

Visual Arts Scotland held their annual exhibition, FLY, launching on Saturday 3 December in the stunning upper galleries of the The Royal Scottish Academy Building on the Mound in Edinburgh. For 2016/17 they formed new exciting partnership with Craft Scotland, strengthened existing relationships with the art colleges, and as always extended an open invitation to all practicing artists – emerging and established, applied and fine artists, working in large scale or small, to demonstrate the level of talent out there via their open submission.

VAS were delighted to be partnering with Craft Scotland to bring together the first in a planned series of media specific showcases over the next few years to shine a spotlight on a different craft discipline each year.

VAS and Craft Scotland celebrate a mutual ambition to exhibit quality craft in a venue fitting of its stature, and in context alongside works of fine art.

Elizabeth Howard : Paint the Town Red

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Explore the unique relationship Red Kettle Theatre Company forged with Waterford through an exhibition of archival artefacts and film in Garter Lane Arts Centre, with support from Waterford Institute of Technology.

Red Kettle Theatre Company was founded in Waterford in 1985 and operated in the city until its closure in 2014. The company’s legacy survives in the extensive archive that was assembled throughout its twenty-nine years in existence and is currently housed in the Luke Wadding Library in WIT. In 2013, Red Kettle and its archive became the doctoral research project of Elizabeth Howard, a performer, director and researcher, originally from Tramore. Elizabeth worked with the archive’s gatekeeper and WIT Librarian, Kieran Cronin, to assemble an exhibition of archival material which reflects and celebrates Red Kettle’s intimate and unique relationship with Waterford.

In addition to printed artefacts such as photographs, letters and posters, the exhibition includes a film which features the recollections of people who were instrumental in Red Kettle’s development.

‘Painting the Town Red’ opens on Thursday 5th January 2017 at 7pm with a drinks reception and a ‘live addition’ which draws from the theatre-based origins of the archive and its latest research-based context.

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Admission Free

Garter Lane Arts Centre, O’Connell Street, Waterford

Fionnuala Moynihan : MOZART: THE COMPLETE SONATAS

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Dr Fionnuala Moynihan performing the complete cycle of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas in its entirety for the first time in Cork.

Fionnuala is widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s leading pianists. She has a particular affinity with the works of both baroque and classical composers. In February 2009 she performed Bach’s Goldberg Variations to critical acclaim in the John Field Room of the National Concert Hall, Dublin and in November 2012 was invited by the prestigious Ardee Baroque Festival to perform both the Goldberg Variations and the Aria Variata in A minor. Fionnuala performed the Complete Piano Sonatas of Mozart in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, in a series of five recitals which ran from February to June 2010. She is the only pianist to have undertaken the formidable challenge of performing this cycle in its entirety in Ireland. In February 2014 she completed another monumental project – to jointly perform ‘The Complete Piano Sonatas of Haydn’, a series of twelve recitals over two years.

Fionnuala has been awarded many prizes both at home and abroad including a Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholarship, the prestigious Maura Teissier Bursary and the Rena Menasche Award from the Tel-Hai Piano Masterclass series held in Israel. She was awarded the John Field Prize at the 2009 AXA Dublin International Piano Competition.

Programme for Recital No. 1

Sonata no.1 in C major K.279
Allegro. Andante. Allegro.

Sonata no.2 in F major K.280
Allegro assai. Adagio. Presto.

Sonata no.3 in B flat major K.281
Allegro. Andante amoroso. Rondeau, allegro.

Sonata no.4 in E flat major K.282
Adagio. Menuetto. Allegro.

Recital No.1: Fri 27 Jan – Lunchtime (1pm)
Recital No.2: Fri 17 Feb – Lunchtime (1pm)
Recital No.3: Fri 24 March – Lunchtime (1pm)
Recital No.4: Fri 14 April – Lunchtime (1pm)
Recital No.5: Fri 19 May – Finale evening concert (8pm)

Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

Jack O’Hare : The Pleasure of Painting in Watercolour

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Full of inspirational insights and information on the technique and art of painting in watercolour. ‘The Pleasure of Painting in Watercolour’ is a perfect gift for experienced and aspiring artists.

Jack is well known as an architect, artist and teacher. In his forward art historian Dr Peter Jordan describes Jack’s watercolours as being amongst the finest examples of their genre. Edited by Christine O’Brien, the book includes 160 photographs of Jack’s work spanning six decades.

The publication is supported by Waterford City and County Council

Available from:

The Book Centre Waterford, The Coastguard Cultural Centre Tramore & Gallery 20Ten, Lombard Street Waterford

Emma Lucy O’Brien : The Reading Room

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We have created a Reading Room between the season’s exhibitions, as a space to sit and read, think or respond to some of the different ways that we portray and remember war. As well as books, games and material to stimulate your thinking, the room will also host reading groups, lectures, debates and space for you to have your say. Coordinated in collaboration with Carlow Library Services and Carlow College. Visitors will find contributions from, Carlow County Library, Carlow College Library, Carlow Military Museum, Hughie O’Donoghue, Brian Hand, Blaise Smith, Helen Maher, Carlow College, Dr. Richard Mc Mahon, Trinity College Dublin, Elaine Callinan, Carlow College, the RTE News Room, and 11 Bit Studio.

01 November – 30 January
Visual Carlow, Carlow

Ann Mulrooney : Diary

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Tim Hetherington was a photojournalist, filmmaker, human rights advocate and artist, best known for his coverage of conflict in areas including Liberia, Afghanistan and Libya where he was killed in a mortar attack in April 2011. ‘Diary’, made in collaboration with Magali Charrier, is an experimental non-narrative film that powerfully communicates his subjective experience and the duality of his existence between life in the West and life in conflict zones. It is accompanied by images from his time in Afghanistan in 2007-2008 documenting the American campaign in the Korengal Valley. Delving beneath the ‘hardware’ of war to capture the humanity and vulnerability of the soldiers, this work received the World Press Photo of the Year in 2007 and led to the making of the documentary film Restrepo with Sebastian Junger, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010.

31 October – 05 February
Visual Carlow, Carlow

Emma Lucy O’Brien : The Reading Room

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We have created a Reading Room between the season’s exhibitions, as a space to sit and read, think or respond to some of the different ways that we portray and remember war. As well as books, games and material to stimulate your thinking, the room will also host reading groups, lectures, debates and space for you to have your say. Coordinated in collaboration with Carlow Library Services and Carlow College. Visitors will find contributions from, Carlow County Library, Carlow College Library, Carlow Military Museum, Hughie O’Donoghue, Brian Hand, Blaise Smith, Helen Maher, Carlow College, Dr. Richard Mc Mahon, Trinity College Dublin, Elaine Callinan, Carlow College, the RTE News Room, and 11 Bit Studio.

01 November – 30 January
Visual Carlow, Carlow

Emma Lucy O’Brien : Red Earth

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Reflecting on events, memories and the traces of evidence left to us from times past, O’Donoghue uses his family history to connect with and understand the wars that have shaped our histories; and reflects on the personal experiences of his grandfather Hugh O’Donoghue in the First World War and his father, Daniel O’Donoghue, during the Second World War. From his richly painted surfaces emerge fragments from the archive of his past, entwined with the disturbing resonance of war.

01 November – 29 January, Visual Carlow, Carlow