Nathalie Weadick, Director of the Irish Architectural Foundation, introduces the buildings and architects that help tell the story of Dublin politics and culture. From its Georgian library and residential squares to its new canal and seaside developments, Dublin has become a focus for international as well as Irish architects, developing innovative and sensitive public and corporate buildings.
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
This year’s Summerhall Christmas market featured even more stalls than ever before to give you a huge range of gifts and treats for friends, family, and of course- you!
It wouldn’t be the Summerhall Christmas Market without welcoming back Summerhall Singers to entertain us with festive carols. Food vendors, Summerhall bar and cafe all added to the unforgettable Christmas atmosphere.
Love. Betrayal. Redemption.
Giselle is a haunting story of love and betrayal. Our modern re-telling of this romantic classic is a timeless tale about the redemptive power of love. Betrayed by Albrecht, Giselle dies of a broken heart but her spirit returns to protect and forgive her now repenting lover from death at the hands of the vengeful Wilis.
Choreographed by Ludovic Ondiviela, former Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer, this production of love that transcends death, will capture the hearts and minds of audiences today.
Project Arts Centre, Dublin: Sat 22 – Sat 29 April
The Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey: Wed 3 May
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan: Thurs 4 May
Civic Theatre, Tallaght: Fri 5 – Sat 6 May
National Opera House, Wexford: Sun 7 May
glor, Ennis: Thurs 11 May
Lime Tree, Limerick: Fri 12 May
Everyman Theatre, Cork: Sat 13 May
Town Hall Theatre, Galway: Thurs 18 May
Backstage Theatre, Longford: Fri 19 May
Draiocht, Blanchardstown: Sat 20 May
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray: Wed 24 May
An Grainan, Letterkenny: Sat 27 May
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
The Prix Pictet Prize aims to harness the power of photography – all genres of photography – to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, especially those concerning the environment. Centered round the theme Disorder The Prix Pictet Finalists’ Exhibition is the sixth cycle of the Prix Pictet Prize and the fifth Prix Pictet exhibition to be hosted by Gallery of Photography.
The exhibition features work by the twelve shortlisted photographers who are Ilit Azoulay (Israel), Valérie Belin (France), Matthew Brandt (United States), Maxim Dondyuk (Ukraine), Alixandra Fazzina (United Kingdom), Ori Gersht (Israel), John Gossage (United States), Pieter Hugo (South Africa), Gideon Mendel (South Africa), Sophie Ristelhueber (France), Brent Stirton (South Africa) and Yang Yongliang (China).
The French photographer Valérie Belin was announced winner of the sixth photography prize for her 2014 series ‘Still Life’. In his foreword to the Prix Pictet Disorder publication Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet writes:
“Our times are defined by disorder. Our mastery over manifold aspects of life has deluded us into thinking that we have bent the planet to our will. Yet the fragility of that assumption is exposed with each new pandemic, earthquake, tsunami or drought. With each passing day our illusion of order is shattered.”
Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group in Switzerland, the Prix Pictet has gained global recognition for showcasing leading photographers’ contributions to the debate about the most pressing social and environmental challenges of today. The five previous laureates were Benoît Aquin, Nadav Kander, Mitch Epstein, Luc Delahaye and Michael Schmidt.
Thursday 24 November 2016 – Sunday 22 January 2017
Gallery of Photography, Dublin
Parnell Square Cultural Quarter will be a landmark destination which will complete Dublin City’s Civic Spine at its northern end.
Work has commenced assembling and surveying the properties to house the new library and other cultural facilities. It is intended that Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane will form part of the overall Parnell Square Cultural Quarter offering and its role and impact expanded by the development of the new facilities. The project working groups are currently engaged in workshops with the successful Design Team to interrogate the functional brief issued for the Stage Two competition in 2013.
The Parnell Square Cultural Quarter is an ambitious project encompassing places for learning, literature, music, innovation and enterprise, inter-culturalism and design. It will create a new home for the City Library beside the existing Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane.
The target date for opening of the new cultural complex is 2020. Consultation with the many relevant stakeholders will be central to this work. We want to ensure that the strategy is well coordinated with the existing infrastructure of the city and meets the needs of local communities, as well as national and international needs and ambitions.
‘Ideas of Beauty’ is an exhibition organised by Edinburgh’s Democratic Camera Club. Beauty is a difficult word for many artists. It is associated with cliché, with the ‘chocolate box’ image. The notion of what is beautiful changes with time, and between different cultures. Taste in beauty is also influenced by social conditioning. Contemporary art sees beauty in ideas as much as the object.
This exhibition invites artists to investigate, subvert and celebrate ‘Ideas of Beauty’ in their own style.
Art works will be for sale.
7 December – 17 December 2016
Venue: Sciennes Gallery, Summerhall
‘Ideas of Beauty’ is an exhibition organised by Edinburgh’s Democratic Camera Club. Beauty is a difficult word for many artists. It is associated with cliché, with the ‘chocolate box’ image. The notion of what is beautiful changes with time, and between different cultures. Taste in beauty is also influenced by social conditioning. Contemporary art sees beauty in ideas as much as the object.
This exhibition invites artists to investigate, subvert and celebrate ‘Ideas of Beauty’ in their own style.
Art works will be for sale.
7 December – 17 December 2016
Venue: Sciennes Gallery, Summerhall
Acton Town to Cork City captures an arrested moment, a family in transit who attempt to find comfort in possession of the familiar. They return to their own country to find it has become unknown to them and which they must negotiate afresh.
It is an exhibition of photographs on the subject of the artist’s family return to Cork from London in the 1970’s.
“We were Irish emigrants, housed in a tower block called Charles Hocking House. It was a Utopian, but failed, social experiment. The building and the area declined rapidly. With this and events unfolding in Northern Ireland my parents decided to return to suburban Cork in 1972. “-Marcella Reardon
The work captured in these colourful and engaging images places a spotlight on the objects the artist came across while sifting through the various boxes that carried her family’s possessions as they embarked on their return journey to Cork.
In the artist’s first work using photography, we see a not only a change in form but also a breakthrough to a new frontier for Marcella- exploring identity, memory and the powerful charge of the found object; how these seemingly throw-away items create a weight when put into the context of personal connection, personal history.
This exhibition comes at a timely point here in St Peter’s Cork as we come to the close of the centenary year for the 1916 Rising, we have been closely examining the roots of our republic throughout the year. ‘Acton Town to Cork City’ is documenting another key period in Irish history and focusing on the artist’s own roots, which owing to the immigration story in our country’s history is a relatable topic for so many Irish families. It also shines a light on the current issue of global immigration, with so many lives in upheaval as they are uprooted from their homes and struggling to find security in new territory.
The exhibition runs from 11th November to 20th December.
Place: St. Peter’s Cork
Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall
Coup de Théâtre – a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture.
It investigates notions of the unexpected, the sudden and the unpredictable translated through visual, immersive and sensory experiences.
Featuring new work from Hans K Clausen, Clare Flatley, Despina Nissiriou, Paulina Sandberg, Kjersti Sletteland and Chloe Windsor
Preview: Friday 9 Dec, 7pm
Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall
Coup de Théâtre – a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture.
It investigates notions of the unexpected, the sudden and the unpredictable translated through visual, immersive and sensory experiences.
Featuring new work from Hans K Clausen, Clare Flatley, Despina Nissiriou, Paulina Sandberg, Kjersti Sletteland and Chloe Windsor
Preview: Friday 9 Dec, 7pm
This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape – an alchemy of colour into form and then gone again.
Alexander Mackenzie is a painter who seeks out the ineffable in thick oily azure blues, terracotta’s and alizarin crimsons, scuffed over with blunt-nosed mushy chalk, in gummy gouaches and in nearly invisible watercolours – and in the pictorial gaps that arise willy nilly in the spaces between.
This Christmas exhibition is an array of large oil paintings, a collection of small moments in time and some bright children’s book illustrations of a big hearted bear – accompanied by the contrapuntal ambience of the homeless depicted in gravestone glass panels placed randomly throughout both exhibition rooms.
3rd December 2016 – 3rd January 2017, Summerhall
Jonathan recently returned to Waterford from Florence, Italy where he studied full time at the Florence Academy of Art since 2013. Prior to that Jonathan attended Waterford Institute of Technology where he graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2013.
At the Florence Academy, there is a strong emphasis on drawing and particularly drawing the human figure as a means to gaining skill in painting and sculpture. Several of Jonathan’s academic drawing exercises will be on show at the exhibition displaying his development during his time in Florence. This is a route taken by other prominent Irish artists, notably Peter Curling, Fergus Ryan and the renowned sculptor Paddy Campbell.
This exhibition follows Jonathan’s journey as he searches for his preferred medium and subject matter. There are examples of pencil, charcoal and graphite drawings of human figures and portraits. Watercolours and ink and wash paintings explore the immediacy of this medium as he captures urban and landscape scenes in Florence, Ischia, Croatia and Dunmore East.
Whereas the academic method is confined to the studio and a controlled light source his oil paintings are all painted en plein air as he strives to capture the play of light on landscape forms. He refuses to paint from photographs preferring to battle the elements for the spontaneous image.
The cliffs on the coast of Dunmore East have provided wonderful inspiration as they are constantly changing with the light and are the subject matter of many of his paintings. More recently the autumnal colours of trees in the landscape and the play of light have created fascinating subject matter which he has attempted to capture in both watercolours and oils, the former often providing the initial study for the latter.
Exhibition runs from 19th Nov. – 24th Dec.
Mon. – Sat, 10am – 6pm
Sun. 2pm – 6pm
The Cliff Gallery, 36-37 Great Georges Street
Fine Roots Gallery at the Forest Café present a group show by Edinburgh-based emerging artists.
The exhibition shows new work by all eight artists, including painting, sculpture, moving image and
performance that form part of the wider practice of the exhibiting artists.
For the exhibition at Fine Roots the group have responded to concerns around materiality and our relationship to things; what it means to belong and what things are required to gain access; and to challenge the good intentions of a deep engagement that may only last a moment. Those exhibiting at Meaningful Objects are interested in ways to return to oneself through the use of personal possessions in the present. The work draws from contemporary concerns of futurity and our post-
internet plugged in selves.
The exhibition comprises of an intricately stitched textile based wall hanging; contemporary painting of acrylic spray paint on canvas; shiny sculptural vacuum formed objects that are raised; screen based moving image work; prints on paper of barren landscape; heavy, textural oil paint on paper, reminiscent of sample materials for kitchens; a gold tinselled screen leading to a series of black and white photographs; and, uncanny casts of often overlooked objects.
A happening will take place at 7.30pm at the opening Friday, 18 November 2016, by the artist Matthew Poland.
This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape – an alchemy of colour into form and then gone again.
Alexander Mackenzie is a painter who seeks out the ineffable in thick oily azure blues, terracotta’s and alizarin crimsons, scuffed over with blunt-nosed mushy chalk, in gummy gouaches and in nearly invisible watercolours – and in the pictorial gaps that arise willy nilly in the spaces between.
This Christmas exhibition is an array of large oil paintings, a collection of small moments in time and some bright children’s book illustrations of a big hearted bear – accompanied by the contrapuntal ambience of the homeless depicted in gravestone glass panels placed randomly throughout both exhibition rooms.
3rd December 2016 – 3rd January 2017, Summerhall
Open submission exhibition of work by local artists
Studio 20ten Gallery & Workspace, Waterford City
23 Nov – 23 Dec 2016
Marsh’s Library was founded in the early eighteenth century by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713).Designed by Sir William Robinson (d.1712) the Surveyor General of Ireland, it is one of the very few 18th century buildings left in Dublin that is still being used for its original purpose. Many of the collections in the Library are still kept on the shelves allocated to them by Marsh and by Elias Bouhéreau, the first librarian, when the Library was opened.
The Library was formally incorporated in 1707 by an Act of Parliament called ‘An Act for Settling and Preserving a Public Library for Ever’. The Act vested the house and books in a number of trustees known as ‘Governors and Guardians’ of Marsh’s Library.
The interior of the library with its beautiful dark oak bookcases has remained largely unchanged since it was built three hundred years ago. It is a magnificent example of a late Renaissance and early Enlightenment library.
Marsh’s Library is a charity. In recent years, thanks to an annual grant from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and to the generosity of corporate and individual donors, we have created improved facilities for readers and visitors; built a conservation bindery; computerised the catalogue and made it available on this website, as well as working towards making some of our most important manuscripts available digitally.
The Rogue Gallery presents ‘ A Crazy Man’s Utopia’, a solo exhibition by Denis Power.
18th November to 16th December
12noon to 5pm, Monday to Saturday
The Rogue Gallery, 25 Michael Street, Waterford
The Butler Gallery is delighted to present A Peening Sound, an exhibition of new paintings by Kevin Cosgrove.
Kevin Cosgrove makes representational oil paintings on linen that concentrate on the motif of the workspace, de-populated factory interiors, mechanic’s workshops, lumber-yards; places where manual work takes place.
The title of the exhibition A Peening Sound refers to the sound of someone striking metal – bright, pure and precise. A ringing hammer has been linked to ideas of truth, industriousness and Gods justice. In several of these paintings, a stark white light flows in through a rectangular opening. In speaking with the artist, Cosgroe mentions a spiritual consciousness happening in the workshop paintings, where this white light flows in. Of particular interest to him, is the cultural and spatial shift that occurred during the Reformation, where places of worship were re-defined and cluttered idolatry made way for an austere and minimalist aesthetic. It could be said that these workshop paintings are a hybrid of both of these aesthetic choices and their corresponding set of ethics.
The crispness of Vermeer might be an influence
[Peening is the process of working a metal’s surface to improve its material properties, usually by mechanical means, such as hammer blows, by blasting with shot, or blasts of light beams with laser peening. Peening is normally a cold work process (laser peening being a notable exception). It tends to expand the surface of the cold metal, thereby inducing compressive stresses or relieving tensile stresses already present. Peening can also encourage strain hardening of the surface metal.]
In this exhibition, Cosgrove explores the making of much larger scale works, something he has long desired. In addition, a selection of medium sized works will convey a different, more seasoned sense of artistic authorship, freer in style with time constraints imposed upon the process. Using a more casual painterly approach and drawing on work from painters like Norbert Schwontkowski, post-Fauve André Derain and Stephen McKenna, these works will be reflective companions to the lucid large-scale workshop paintings. This self-critique or re-picturing of this form-content driven material has opened up new creative avenues for Cosgrove as a contemporary painter to fresh and relevant modes of expression.
October 29 – December 18, 2016. The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Claudia Schwab is an originally Austrian fiddle player and composer, who lives and works in Ireland.
As musician of the world, in her music she amalgamates different traditions and styles such as traditional Austrian, Irish, Classical Indian, Swedish and Eastern European folk.
Her musical journeys brought her to Egypt, California, Italy, Slovenia, India, New York, Moldavia, Transnistria, Sweden, Germany and Hungary, as part of orchestras and bands as well as touring her solo project.
Since having completed her BA in music and psychology in 2012 and an MA in ethnomusicology at UCC in 2013, she works as a freelance musician.
Current projects include collaborations with Austrian string-trio Netnakisum (AUT), Irish Indie band Tucan(IRE), German Jazz legend Matthias Schriefl, Scottish Fiddle-Singer Kate Young (Kate&the Austrian), and the Cork Gamelan orchestra (IRE).
Her debut solo album ´Amber Sands´was released on April 26th 2014 and is available on itunes, amazon, CDbaby, bandcamp etc.
On October 21st 2016, Claudia launched a special edition of her forthcoming album “Attic Mornings” on vinyl (EP). The full album on CD is due to be released in February 2017.
Working in partnership with St. Columba’s Hospice, Edinburgh Printmakers’ member artists will work closely with staff, families and patients at the facility to explore how we find meaning in our own personal experiences, the love of family and friends, freedom and peace through contemporary art and printmaking practice.
Through a faith-neutral lens, we will explore the ways in which people in palliative care experience the value of life and relationships, and the importance and beauty of the everyday which might be overlooked. We will explore how the tragedy of terminal illness can be accompanied with hope and self-actualisation through acceptance and reconciliation.
St Columba’s Hospice was opened in 1977 in Edinburgh, as Scotland’s first modern hospice. They provide specialist palliative care for patients and support for their loved ones free of charge. They run a world-class education programme training specialist and non-specialist doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals and carers from across Scotland and beyond, in specialist palliative care.
Their aim is to improve the lives of people whose illness cannot be cured, working to allow people to live as actively as possible after diagnosis to the end of their lives, however long that may be. The highest value is put on respect, choice and empowerment.
28 October – 23 December 2016, Edinburgh Printmakers
A new album entitled Visionaries 1916 is the culmination of a remarkable traditional music project celebrating the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising through a cycle of songs using the poetry of Pearse, Plunkett and Connolly, while paying due homage to the Pipers’ Club founder Éamonn Ceannt.
Renowned sean nós singer and composer Lorcán Mathúna is the driving force behind the project, teaming with long-term collaborators Martin Tourish and Daire Bracken for the recording.
“The reason The Rising inspired so many Irish people, and indeed people throughout the world,” says Lorcán, “was that it was led by people with vision who could express their ideas so clearly and profoundly. They included artists, politicians, poets, authors, teachers, and visionaries. In this album I have used their words, and only their words, to explore their ideas and vision and do honour to their memory.”
February-March 2017 tours, Ireland
Two years in the making, CEIBA – Casa de Todos los Muertos is the result of photographer- artist Ross Fraser McLean’s research trips into Mexican culture, specifically exploring Mexico’s relationship with death and dying. Unlike most other parts of the world, death is embraced as part of life, with families gathering annually to remember their dead during Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
McLean’s experience of Day of the Dead inspired him to visit cemeteries and characters affected by death across the country. His images capture moments – sombre and quiet, vibrant and noisy – of everyday life, amplified in contrast by the iconography of death. McLean has also created Altares de Muertos (Altars of the dead), pairing photography with installation and sculpture for the first time in his work. The photographs and objects explore and question the Mexican viewpoint – that death is an equaliser; a reminder that we are all on the same journey.
28th October 2016 – 23rd December 2016, Summerhall
Curated by Holly Knox Yeoman
Two years in the making, CEIBA – Casa de Todos los Muertos is the result of photographer- artist Ross Fraser McLean’s research trips into Mexican culture, specifically exploring Mexico’s relationship with death and dying. Unlike most other parts of the world, death is embraced as part of life, with families gathering annually to remember their dead during Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
McLean’s experience of Day of the Dead inspired him to visit cemeteries and characters affected by death across the country. His images capture moments – sombre and quiet, vibrant and noisy – of everyday life, amplified in contrast by the iconography of death. McLean has also created Altares de Muertos (Altars of the dead), pairing photography with installation and sculpture for the first time in his work. The photographs and objects explore and question the Mexican viewpoint – that death is an equaliser; a reminder that we are all on the same journey.
28th October 2016 – 23rd December 2016, Summerhall
Curated by Holly Knox Yeoman
Compilation of recent arts-news clips from culturefox.tv.
Compilation of recent arts-news clips from culturefox.tv.
Compilation of recent arts-news clips from culturefox.tv.
Established in 2005, 126 Artist-Run Gallery s an artist led organisation integral to the visual arts culture in Galway. Run voluntarily by a board of professional artists, 126 curates and programmes an arts space including a contemporary exhibition programme, talks & workshops, residencies and research projects. Its focus is to support emerging contemporary practices & partnerships, by creating exhibition, commission & development opportunities.
126 was founded on a democratic structure, in which power flows from the membership to the Board of Directors. The Board promotes the ideology of the membership, as laid out in the organisation’s aims, through the activities of 126. The Board directly represents the membership and it is on the basis of this relationship that the projected success and longevity of 126 is based.
Membership provides a platform to individuals to connect with a larger network of professional artists. There are currently about 200 members. Opportunities include participation in annual members shows, artist talks, events and national and international residencies. By paying an annual subscription fee of €10 (students/concession) and €20 (waged) here you are supporting the core funding of the gallery programme and the sustainment of a vital visual arts organisation in Galway City.
TULCA 15: The Headless City, curated by Daniel Jewesbuy, on from 5 – 20 November 2016
The Junior Film Fleadh is the young people’s arm of the prestigious Galway Film Fleadh, featuring World Cinema, Documentaries and Irish language programming for young people, as well as Social Awareness Screenings, Workshops to develop filmmaking skills and a Story Pitching Competition that emphasises the importance of writing to the audio-visual industry. This year we celebrate 21 years of entertaining and educating young people through the power of film. Like our big sister festival, the Galway Film Fleadh, the Junior Fleadh is a festival for discovering new talent.
We place the work of young people themselves at the centre of its annual festival with a curated programme of student short films from all around Ireland, called Future Filmmakers. Also, we curates our cultural cinema programme with respect to school curricula in foreign languages, with an emphasis on French and German, along with hosting Irish language screenings as part of its ethos of Irish cinema education.
Each edition of the festival is put together in consultation with a Youth Council, comprised of film fans of different ages, schools and backgrounds, to ensure that the many workshops that take place during the festival are relevant and of interest to the young cinephiles taking part.
The JGFF annual Storytelling competition posits good writing as the backbone of the film and television industry. The Storytelling Competition encourages students to commit their ideas to paper through extremely open criteria which allows them to submit a story idea for any platform or genre – making young filmmakers and storytellers aware of the full opportunities of the modern transmedia landscape.
JUNIOR FILM FLEADH 9TH – 12TH NOVEMBER 2016
