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Jenna Whelan : Memento Mori

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‘Memento Mori’ is a solo exhibition by Breda Lynch at SOMA Contemporary Gallery. ‘Memento Mori’ means reminder of our death. Using the body as a ‘site’ Lynch has explored a variety of responses to this complex emotive issue. Autobiographical in nature, Lynch examines the conflicting interplay between reality, subjectivity, and imagination in response to death. The show features work made from selected found-materials/objects/images.

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Dennis Reinmuller : The Human’s Planet Earth

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Dennis & Debbie Club, Fiona Anderson, Lewis Den Hertog and Kieran Curran (aka MC TRUE FACTS) explore the utopian and dystopian possibilities of life on planet earth and beyond in the ground floor galleries with group exhibition The Human’s Planet Earth.
Summerhall, Saturday 26 March — Friday 13 May.

Conor Nolan : 30 Years:Artists:Places

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Exhibition runs until Thursday 28th April 2016

Waterford Arts Services & Greyfriars Municipal Gallery in partnership with The Association of Local Authority Arts Officers has pleasure in inviting you to 30 Years- Artists- Places. A touring exhibition marking 30 years of Local Authorities supporting the arts in Ireland featuring the work of 30 artists and 30 places.

The Artists
Robert Ballagh / Jenny Brady / Sean Cotter / Cleary Connolly / Cora Cummins / Padraig Cunningham / Micky Donnelly / Naomi Draper / Lisa Fingleton / Jan Voster / Ronnie Hughes ….

Ben Barnes : A Moon for the Misbegotten

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A Moon for the Misbegotten is written by four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, this production features an international creative team and is directed by Theatre Royal Artistic Director and Former Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Ben Barnes.

The play at its core is a stark look at humanity in its basest and loveliest form.The play is a sequel to O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night.

The jaded James Tyrone is on the edge of despair, and the fiercely passionate Josie Hogan is lonely beyond endurance. But on this night, when they meet on a barren patch of earth in the glow of an autumn moon, hope sparks between them.

In Josie Hogan, O’Neill has created one of the great female characters of contemporary American theatre.

The cast is drawn from both Ireland and the USA and includes Broadway actress Kate Forbes (The School for Scandal, for which she received an award for Outstanding Broadway Debut), Irish actors Mark Lambert and Michael Quinlan and American actor Don Mackay (Modern Family, Elementary).

The production is designed by Joe Vanek who designed the Tony Award Winning Dancing at Lughnasa on Broadway. Ann G. Wrightson was a Tony nominee for her work on Tony Award-winning August: Osage County (2008).

A co-production between Theatre Royal Waterford and Geva Theatre Center, Rochester New York. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council, Waterford Council and the Waterford Rochester Business Community.

Theatre Royal Waterford March 10 – 12,
Lyric Theatre Belfast, March 15 – 19
Geva Theatre Center Rochester, New York, March 29 – April 24 2016)

Elaine Coakley : Draw

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THE BACKWATER ARTISTS GROUP AND FRIENDS ARE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT DRAW.

A unique opportunity to own beautiful art from well known established and exciting emerging artists for only €50.

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An ideal gift for the art lover in your life, the person who has everything or those who love a real surprise.

How it works?

Buy a ticket from Backwater Artists Group office on Wandesford Quay or here on our website backwaterartists.ie

See the donated works on our web gallery backwaterartists.ie/draw-2016 or at CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery in Cork City from 12 noon – 6pm Thursday 31st March 2016 and 11 am – 6pm Friday 1st April.

All donated work is either 5” x7” or A5.

Attend DRAW on Friday 1st April at 6pm at CIT Wandesford Gallery for a fun raffle where every ticket holder gets an original piece of art. If you cannot attend the DRAW you will be contacted and informed which piece of art you have won.

It’s the luck of the DRAW!

Ticket Price: €50

Venue: CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Wandesford Quay, Cork

Viewing from 12 noon – 6pm Thursday 31 March & from 11 am – 6pm Friday 1 April | The DRAW kicks-off 6pm sharp on Friday 1 April!

All works are worth a lot more than the ticket price. So buy your ticket!!

A huge thank you to our donating artists to date:

Susanne Leutenegger, Lorraine Cooke, Zohar, Tomi Ungerer , Jo Kelley, Terry Searle, Norma Walsh, Patrick Graham, Jessica Dessner, Brigid Delahunty, David Lilburn, Eileen Healy, Fionnuala Kelly, Paul Mosse, Ray Lawlor, Patrick Horan, Dominic Fee, Helen Horgan, Lucy Buckley, Joe Healy, Roseanne Lynch, Alice Maher, Pauline Gibbons, Gerry Clancy, Charles Tyrrell, Éilis Ní Fhaoláin, Johnny Bugler, Vivienne Roche, Jim Cummins, James McCreary, Debbie Godsell, Angela Gilmore, Michael Quane, Siobhan Gillies, Emer Kelly, Sean Fingleton, Geraldine O’Reilly, Wendy Dison, Leanne Mc Donagh, Helen Lynch, Conall Cary, Marie Simmons Gooding, Kieran O’Donovan, Annette Hennessy, Brian Connolly, Ita Feeney, Andrew Carroll, Martha Swierad, Brían Crotty, Elayne O’Connor, Megan Eustace, John Kent, Tracy Fitzgerald, Eimear Jean McCormack, Tommy Ungerer, Derick Hegarty, Paul Colmán, Maire Cullen, Elaine Quigley Ahern, Christine Mc Auliffe, Deirdra Nolan, Paul drohan, Róisín Foley, Sean Hanrahan, Ray Murphy, Valerie O’Sullivan, Sean Clarke, Susan O’Leary, Elizabeth Lyne, Kim Curtis, Eilís O’Connell, Donal Moloney, Damaris Lysaght, Claire Lambert, Claire Halliday, Sarah Iremonger, Lucy Phelan, Bernice Corcoran, Geraldine O’Riordan, Frank Mc Grath, Sinéad Rice, Nikki Tait, Julie Forrester, Connal Cary, Maeve Lynch, Cóilíni Murray, Cassandra Eustace, Helen Farrell, Bridget Flannery, Eva Maher, Mary Mackey, Pearl Prendergast, Magda O’Driscoll, Joseph Hurley, Charles Neilson, Elisa Feiriteàr, Brendan Butler, Ciara P. Langan, Agnieska Krym, Anne Marie Stanley, Susan Holland, Simon Bennett, Regina Carbayo, Darn Thorn, Tom Campbell, Kevin Holland, Sean Mc Carthy, Jackie Raftery, Brian Lalor, Tonia Kehoe, Donna Mc Namara, Laura Wade.

Ruth McDonnell : Glimpse

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These drawings and paintings at Draiocht in Blanchardstown capture glimpses of cinema interiors and fleeting images of the facades of Irish picture houses. GLIMPSE is infused by Ruth McDonnell’s own passion for cinema and by the years she has spent working in film and television.

Ruth McDonnell studied at NCAD Dublin; Medway College of Design, Kent; Dún Laoghaire IADT; and DIT Dublin, where she was awarded a Degree in Fine Art. Her residencies and awards include Royal Dublin Society Printmaking Award; Arts Council bursaries in 2004 and 2008 and Cavan Arts Awards in 2004 and 2013 and a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship 2014. Ruth has exhibited at the RHA, Dublin; the RUA, Belfast; Éigse, Carlow; VUE, Dublin and in group shows across Ireland. Ruth’s work is held in the Irish Government Art Collection and other public and private collections. This is Ruth’s seventh solo exhibition.

Rhona Foster : No Spacers

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MART Dublin till April 13
Originally from Edinburgh Rhona Foster is one of several artists exhibiting at MART in Dublin as part of No Spacers, a show by London based artists currently studying and involved with the LIMBO art space in London. Looking to diversify and create international links the artists have decided to stage a show in Dublin. The range in styles and approaches hopes to offer a preview of a shared ethos or perspective towards art making.

No Spacers includes work by: Ben Brown Charlotte Lyndsey Cook Joe Davies Rhona Foster William Glass Joe Highton Richard Magee Nina Porter Ginte Regine Victor Ruiz-Colomer Isabel Yon
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Charlotte Lyndsey-Cook and Richard Magee : No Spacer

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MART Dublin March 3 @ 6:00 pm – April 13 @ 6:00 pm
No Spacer is a show by London based artists all currently still studying who are involved with the LIMBO art space in London. Looking to diversify and create international links the artists have decided to stage a show in Dublin. The range in styles and approaches hopes to offer a preview of a shared ethos or perspective towards art making.

Ben Brown Charlotte Lyndsey Cook Joe Davies Rhona Foster William Glass Joe Highton Richard Magee Nina Porter Ginte Regine Victor Ruiz-Colomer Isabel Yon

Seán Corcoran : Words at The Art Hand

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The WORDS event is a spoken word event that takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at The Art Hand in Bunmahon, County Waterford. All are Welcome from writers and poets to literature lovers and storytellers.

Have your say or sit back and be transported to exotic places!

The WORDS event founders include the poet and writer Tom Power, Sean Corcoran of The Art Hand and Róisín Power Hackett, poet and artist. The event began back in July 2013 as a performance based writers group but has evolved since then to become a monthly celebration of literature and creativity.

We encourage dialogue with performers and general conversations about subjects that are raised but we rarely engage in critique unless a writer has specifically asked for feedback on their work. Nobody is put under pressure to perform and we like to think that the event creates a stimulating and nurturing environment. It’s great to catch up each month with each others latest endeavors and to encourage each other to be creative.

Jason Dunne : Primes – MART

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MART is proud to present Primes, a new and evolving body of Jason Dunne’s recent wall-based sculptural work. In this exhibition, Dunne uses translucent images of body parts in combination with a wide variety of found objects and materials such as animal bones, wool, iridescent plastic beads and human hair. The resulting amalgamations attempt to articulate hard to fathom aspects of human experience such as emotion, aspiration or awareness of senses. The work can be seen as a response to the privileging of rational understandings of the body. The artist aims to open up a world beyond and beneath the ‘skin’ of the image; subordinating surface appearances and instead visualising through gesture what is normally unseen.

Sarah Kelleher : Affective Entities

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CIT Wandesford Gallery 5th – 26th March

In collaboration with MAKE 2016 Symposium: Objects and Revolution, this exhibition features art objects created by recent graduates of CIT Crawford College of Art and Design (CIT CCAD) as well as the artist Marie Brett, who have been invited to explore how their engagement with materials can manifest ideas of loss, absence and trauma.

Affect, in Brian Massumi’s definition, is less a feeling or emotion, but an intensity – a sensory impression which can act as a trigger for profound thought. This exhibition seeks to engage the viewer by incorporating visual, tactile and haptic dimensions to address our fraught histories, endeavouring to create an impression which compels us to look, an encounter which provokes us to interpret, an expression which forces us to think.

Jim Nolan : Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye

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Garter Lane Arts Centre till 26th March

Coming hot on the heels of Dreamland, and directed by the author, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is a topical and provocative contribution to the forthcoming Easter Rising Centenary Commemoration.

Set in a provincial newspaper office in the Irish Midlands in the run up to Easter 2016, the privately owned Inishshannon Chronicle has just been acquired by a media conglomerate and the new brush is about to sweep clean. As the newspaper’s staff adjust to radical changes in its structure and ethos, the town it serves prepares to celebrate a tenuous connection to the Easter Rising. The revelation that this connection is not quite what it seems puts the Chronicle’s editor on a collision course with both his new bosses and the local business and political community.

“A richly layered drama to be stored in the memory and revisited time and again to retrieve its subtle wisdom.” (The Salvage Shop) Irish Times

“Hugely courageous… a deeply serious work of soul-raking big-stage literature.” (Blackwater Angel) The Guardian

“A stunningly beautiful, deeply uplifting play” (Brighton) Arena, RTE Radio One

“Enormously courageous… A reminder of a shameful era and mindset in our country, by those of every political allegiance.” (Dreamland) Sunday Independent

Michael D’Arcy : Three Sisters, City of Culture 2020?

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Ahead of his performance with Corner Boys, Michael D’Arcy outlines one of the ways the counties of Waterford, Kilkenny and Wexford have united to represent their communities in competition for the European City of Culture for 2010. Corner Boys are performing at Castalia with In the Willows and John Murry.

Lupita De Bháil : From Abstraction back to Realism

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Garter Lane Arts Centre till 26 March
From Abstraction Back to Realism is a collaborative exhibition by three Waterford artists: Rosemary Higbee, John Cullinan and Lupita De Bhail.

The three artists have been brought together by their common interest in art and in particular their interest in painting. This friendship begun over forty years ago and over the intervening years a strong bond has been forged between them. All three have been professionally trained albeit in different eras, producing three very different styles.

Susanna Murphy and Cristina Spiteri : Brightside

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Summerhall Residents Brightside use their skills in Film, 3D & storytelling & harness new technologies to craft creative, interactive environments that help brands build relationships with their consumers. The immersive environments and interactive experience we create drive brand awareness through unforgettable, sharable experiences that people want to talk about. Curiosity is key – we explore new and exciting ways to connect with people via a shared experience. Our collaborative approach and network of specialist partners promote innovation and creativity.

For more information: brightsidestudios.co.uk/

Elli Kontorravdis : Nourish

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Based at Summerhall, Nourish Scotland is reconnecting producers, growers, retailers, consumers and all who care for local, sustainable food in Scotland.

Nourish works to create a stronger food culture to make healthy, local, seasonal, and organic food available everywhere in Scotland.
For further information: nourishscotland.org/

Jesse Jones : No More Fun and Games – Hugh Lane

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Irish artist Jesse Jones continues the gallery’s 2016 theme of Artist as Witness, in her new work entitled No More Fun and Games. The artist transforms the gallery space into a cinematic experience through sound and architectural interventions. She has commissioned a new composition from renowned American film composer Gerald Busby, who created the score for Robert Altman’s 1977 film 3 Women. In her installation Jesse Jones turns our attention to feminism in Ireland, exploring how individuals share, understand, or experience collective memory. Working with a collaborative curatorial team to create a Feminist Parasite Institution within the exhibition, she explores how art by women has been valued historically. A series of workshops, performances, tours and writings address the question of gender equality in the construction and commemoration of history.

Brenda McParland, Helen Hughes, Felicity Clear : Amongst Other Things – DLR Lexicon

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Amongst Other Things is an exhibition of new artworks by Felicity Clear and Helen Hughes, curated by Brenda McParland, and marks their first collaboration. The exhibition opens in the Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire on 30th January and runs until 2nd March.

Felicity Clear and Helen Hughes are interested in urban space and architecture, drawing on the modern architecture of dlr Lexicon and the urban environment of Dún Laoghaire as inspiration. Both are important mid-career artists from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown who received their MA in Visual Arts Practice from IADT in 2007. They have exhibited their work in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland and internationally.

The Exhibition Learning Programme includes lots of free workshops, tours, a talk and a special film screening. There is a ‘How to Crochet’ workshop open to all ages with artist and crochet maker Gemma Gore and a workshop for 7-10 year olds with Felicity Clear and Helen Hughes where children will have fun making temporary sculptures. There is also a tour of the exhibition with the curator Brenda McParland and a special film screening of ‘Talking to My father’ about the celebrated architect Robin Walker

David Farrell : Before, During, After… Almost – RHA

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As part of the 1916 commemorations, the RHA approached the photographer David Farrell to consider responding to the broader global situation of that time with the war in Europe raging on the Somme. As with many projects the point of departure becomes just that and through the process of discussion and reflection a very different vision for the exhibition began to form.

For Farrell, the period of Irish history since the 1966’s 50th anniversary of the Rising marks the greatest period of social and political transition since the founding of the State. He sees the ‘inevitable delayed aftershock’ of the War of Independence and the Civil War, together with the isolationism associated with neutrality during the Second World War as only reaching its thaw in the late sixties.

Farrell has mined his own archive of a quarter of a century of his photography to compile a provocative and complex suite of images. Though made in what the great American photographer Walker Evans describes as the ‘documentary style’ these images are open to metaphorical or allegorical readings well beyond their surface content.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated book with an introductory essay by the poet Theo Dorgan, which will be launched at the RHA on the 28th March.

Vanessa Donoso López : There Is neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple – Instituto Cervantes

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There Is neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple is a play on words. This game reflects the way we have to juggle with expression when living in a foreign land rescuing unusual or invented terms. This show translates this circumstance into a multicolored experiment. From foreword by Sean Kissane, curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Vanessa Donoso López is a studio member at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. Her most recent solo shows are Eye before E except after see (Limerick City Gallery) and Daily disagreements over small things (Kevin Kavanagh Gallery at the Barcelona Contemporary art fair SWAB, Barcelona, Spain). She is currently working on her new solo shows for the SUPERMARKET art fair with The Ormston House, Limerick, in Stockholm, April 2016 and in the LAB, Dublin, September 2016.

Julie Merriman : Revisions – The Hugh Lane

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Revisions is the culmination of a year-long engagement within Dublin City Council departments, meeting with staff in Housing, Architects and Engineering who draw or read drawings as part of their everyday work. Merriman looked at project drawings and had conversations with staff around the role of drawing within the City Council, and how the drawings, old and new, are used, handled and stored. The impact of computer aided design programmes, which rendered manual and older mechanical drawing methods obsolete, was also considered and evaluated.

After viewing the archives in both Engineering and Housing Maintenance, she began working with typewriter carbon film, discovering that it is a medium that creates a ‘slippage’ in the drawing information. Pinned to a paper or canvas surface and drawn upon, these 16mm wide lengths of carbon film exert a controlling force on the drawing process. Under these restrictions the artist allows the artwork to emerge. Merriman is interested in the constraints and frustrations involved in setting up a procedure to produce a drawing that inevitably goes awry. There is an uncertainty to the outcome in the drawing process but also expectation and surprise when the carbon film strips are removed and the finished drawing contains unexpected marks and nuances that transfigure its original function. The visual language of the engineer and architect is still present but its functionality has been disrupted and the potential now exists for new perspectives to emerge.

Hilary Murray : Object Wars – ArtBox

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The object has engaged with art’s historical and contemporary encounter with destruction, as well as more philosophical explorations of iconoclasm. When we witness destruction in the field of culture, such as the recent destruction of Palmyra in Syria, some societal breakdown has inevitably occurred:

“News footage of museum looting in times of civic unrest and revolution, seem particularly powerful, functioning almost metonymically for the breakdown of civilized society as a whole into anarchy” (1)

Object Wars explores the rich history of object making, collecting and the place of the object in fine art today. Museum collections and the objects therein, are often seen as the vehicle of historic human narrative. Depicting scenes from World events, these objects often reduce the complexity of human suffering into a simplified mark or decoration. Through the contemporary art object, artists challenge the framing of history through cultural institutions, whilst acknowledging the delicate balance between the preciousness of the object and the precariousness of life.

“The sense of something irreplaceable at stake in each example is matched by the paradoxical way this reverence is reawakened by the sound of its own disintegration, whether we actually hear it or not.”(2)

1. Laura Grey ‘No Construction without destruction’: Ceramics, sculpture and iconoclasm. Art and Destruction, Jennifer Waldon (Ed)
2. Cornelia Parker, ‘Thirty Pieces of Silver’. Art and Destruction, Jennifer Waldon (Ed)

This exhibition is curated by ArtBox Director Hilary Murray. Tadhg McSweeney is represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. ArtBox is supported by Dublin City Council.