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Protestimony : We Need To Talk About Calais…

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MAGINE – a small non-for-profit organisation based in London – ran art workshops in Calais in 2016, and Protestimony exhibition is the fulfilment of the commitment to use this artwork for political purposes: protest, advocacy and awareness-raising.

Protestimony communicates an alternative narrative about the “refugee crisis”. It challenges the dehumanising and depoliticising rhetoric of mainstream media using artworks and other material created by refugees who lived in the Calais Jungle.

The exhibition was developed by Lujza Richter, Marthe Chabrol and Hari Reed as a platform for refugees in Europe to represent themselves to their host communities. Protestimony reminds that refugees should be viewed as political beings, not just victims or perpetrators.

Protestimony both records something about refugees in the Jungle, and engages with the problem of representing them in the current political context. The exhibition is self-referential, and places different representational strategies alongside one another to demonstrate that there is no simple ‘truth’ about the refugee crisis.

It features documentaries, maps, poems, paintings, sculptures and illustrations. This work is displayed inside makeshift shelters, constructed just as they were in the Jungle. This provides an interactive experience, while emphasising the ethical limitations of this type of witnessing.

Protestimony is also a record of the work done by grassroots organisations in the Jungle. The role of volunteers is presented in a way that allows visitors to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of charity work in Calais, now that the camp has been destroyed. The iconic Refugee Info Bus will provide legal information about asylum, as it did in the Jungle. Most importantly, the exhibition reminds visitors that the refugees who formerly lived in the Jungle have not disappeared, but are stuck in limbo throughout France or sleeping rough in Calais.

Lujza Richter, Marthe Chabrol and Hari Reed taught French, English, music and art at the Jungle Books School in Calais during 2016.

Venue: Old Generator
Dates: 2nd August to 24th September

Trish Lambe : Engage

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Thursday 22 June –Sunday 13 August 2017
Gallery of Photography, Dublin

ENGAGE is a new collaboration between Belfast Exposed Futures programme and Gallery of Photography. It highlights both organisations’ sustained support for photographic artists living and working across the island of Ireland. The work by the seven selected artists reflects the vitality of the Irish contemporary photography scene. Each distinctive body of work is the result of a long term, sustained process of engagement by the artist with their chosen themes.

– Aisling McCoy’s ‘THF’ is a timely study of the Nazi-designed Tempelhof airport in Berlin, now used among other things as a refugee centre. The work is a meditation on this space, both physical and psychological – somewhere between arrival and departure.

– Alberto Maserin’s Interferences series is a thoughtful observation of the uncomfortable relationship between a US military installation and its sylvan Italian surroundings.

– Andrew Rankin’s Close to You explores the breathless world of celebrity fixation in a compelling interpretation of internet-fuelled fantasies of intimacy.

– Denis O’Shea’s Things Found in Books reveals strange synchronicities between bookmarks inadvertently left in library books. Like chanced-upon ‘readymades’ O’Shea’s images explore the mysterious interplay between private and public spaces.

– Jan McCullough – Home Instruction Manual charts the artist’s complete compliance with home-making advice given by self-styled experts she encountered in Internet chatrooms. With wry humour, this performative work questions the notion of the perfect home.

Located between photography and land art, Jill Quigley’s Rural Fluorescent is a playful, postmodern reflection on the use of high-vis materials in rural Ireland.

Ruby Wallis draws on Lauren Elkin’s re-evaluation of women as wanderers. In Contact II Wallis spent a period of time walking with her mother. Her quietly compelling images focus on tactile qualities in an attempt to reach beyond the limits of the visual.

Belfast Exposed Futures is an initiative dedicated to supporting new photographic talent in Ireland through solo exhibitions, residencies, mentorship and international opportunities. The programme actively supports the development and presentation of new work by six artists a year in a series of solo shows. With special thanks to Tracy Marshall and Hannah Watson and all at Belfast Exposed. belfastexposed.org

Emma-Lucy O’ Brien – ART WORKS, The Hotron Open Submission and Art Prize

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07 June – 03 September
Visual Carlow
Selected Artists: Kevin Gaffney, Lee Welch, Aisling O’Beirn, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Sarah O’Brien, Jonathan Mayhew, Vera Ryklova, Pádraig Spillane,Susan MacWilliam, Karl Burke, Martin Boyle, Robert Moriarty, Damien Flood, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Tom Fitzgerald, Lorraine Neeson and Saidhbhín Gibson.
Invited artists: Miguel Martin, Emma Haugh, Tonya Mc Mullan.
Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL present ART WORKS ‘17, the 38th Annual Open Submission exhibition and Hotron Art Prizes. Selected by Eoin Dara, Head of Exhibitions at DCA (Dundee) and Emma Lucy O’ Brien, Curator, VISUAL. The exhibition celebrates the energy, creative power and diversity of visual arts practices from emerging and established artists working in Ireland.
Commenting on ART Works ’17 Eoin Dara says
“The shortlisted artists form a really eclectic and exciting mix of approaches to contemporary practice. With artworks ranging from painting, drawing and photography, to experimental film, installation, and performance, this exhibition will be a wonderful opportunity for audiences to get a sense of some of the pertinent ideas and concerns both emerging and established artists across Ireland are exploring in 2017.”
ART WORKS, The Hotron Open Submission and Art Prize is presented by Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art

Eithne Jordan : When Walking

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June 24 – July 30, 2017
Butler Gallery

The Butler Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new gouaches and paintings by Eithne Jordan, one of Ireland’s leading painters.

This body of work has been made during Jordan’s one-year residency at the Tony O’Malley Studio on Bridge Street in Callan, County Kilkenny. Armed with a camera and intrepid walking legs, Jordan captured and recorded what she encountered on her frequent walks about Callan and the surrounding countryside. Carefully studying the assembled images back in the studio, tough decisions were made as to which to dedicate to painting.

Jordan was particularly struck by the vernacular architecture, both the remarkable and the unremarkable, encountered throughout the countryside. This eclectic miscellany of both public and domestic buildings is imbued with character and atmosphere. Familiar bungalows are made singular by their owner’s use of faux Georgian pillars or decorative stone cladding. A melancholic cottage sits abandoned and boarded up, just like so many others throughout this country. Jordan deftly captures a pink-hued sky just before the sun sets; a water tower, a church ruin, leafless trees, each are silhouetted against the late evening light. The unmistakable architecture of a local convent looms tall and makes its presence felt within the landscape. An empty football pitch borders a ghost estate, awaiting the animation of games to come.

Tony O’Malley’s early works captured the essence of his beloved Kilkenny. Eithne Jordan has taken her own path through his familiar landscape, tenderly responding in her inimitable way, distinguished by her particular eye and life experience.

Anne Maree Barry : Leisure with Dignity

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June 16 – August 20 2017
The Lab, Dublin

Anne Maree Barry’s most recent film work Otium cum Dignitate ~ Leisure with Dignity combines her own psychogeographic walking tours of the ‘Monto’ area to create a film and exhibition that reflects historical events, whilst at the same time presenting a complex portrait of female empowerment. Four characters : Madam May Oblong, Kitty D, Countess Aldborough and The custom House establish a dialogue between locality, history, architecture and the independence of women in a specific time.

“An archway with a feded green gate, residue of previous colours. Brick upon brick. Stone upon stone. 10 vertical white bricks four horizontal – an embedded white cross. Nighttown juxtaposed with a Magdelene. Circe. Circe who could turn men into animals. In her presence, the woods moved, the ground rumble, and the trees around turned white.”

Emma-Lucy O’ Brien : Costumes and Movement

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06 June – 10 September
Visual Carlow

Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s ‘Triadic Ballet’

A dress-up space in the Lobby Gallery for making a spectacle, informed by Bauhaus costume and puppet making. Come and stage your own performance – costumes are suitable for all ages, mix and match to create your own style!

Emma-Lucy O’ Brien : ART WORKS

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07 June – 03 September
Visual Carlow

Selected Artists: Kevin Gaffney, Lee Welch, Aisling O’Beirn, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Sarah O’Brien, Jonathan Mayhew, Vera Ryklova, Pádraig Spillane,Susan MacWilliam, Karl Burke, Martin Boyle, Robert Moriarty, Damien Flood, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Tom Fitzgerald, Lorraine Neeson and Saidhbhín Gibson.

Invited artists: Miguel Martin, Emma Haugh, Tonya Mc Mullan.
Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL present ART WORKS ‘17, the 38th Annual Open Submission exhibition and Hotron Art Prizes. Selected by Eoin Dara, Head of Exhibitions at DCA (Dundee) and Emma Lucy O’ Brien, Curator, VISUAL. The exhibition celebrates the energy, creative power and diversity of visual arts practices from emerging and established artists working in Ireland.

Commenting on ART Works ’17 Eoin Dara says
“The shortlisted artists form a really eclectic and exciting mix of approaches to contemporary practice. With artworks ranging from painting, drawing and photography, to experimental film, installation, and performance, this exhibition will be a wonderful opportunity for audiences to get a sense of some of the pertinent ideas and concerns both emerging and established artists across Ireland are exploring in 2017.”

ART WORKS, The Hotron Open Submission and Art Prize is presented by Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art

Christine O’Brien : Summer Collection

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21st June – 2nd September
Studio 20ten, Waterford

Visual artists from all across County Waterford are coming together to showcase their works over the summer months at Gallery 20ten.
Artworks in a wide range of media are displayed including: sculpture, paintings in acrylic and watercolour, mixed media and photography.
Members of the public are invited to visit the gallery on Lombard St, Waterford, around the corner from the Tower Hotel, between 1pm and 5 pm, Wednesday to Saturday.
It features work by 20ten members Pat Carri, Darragh Lyons, Christine O’Brien, Conor Rush, Milia Tsaoussis-Maddock and Beata Zakrzewska.
They are joined by Denise McAulliffe, Anna Moore, Michelle Bourke-Girgis, Denis Power, Maria O’Mahony, Sean Daly, Shauna Kinchella, Shona Shirley McDonald, Ciara Maher Langan, Solange Martel, Mari Lynch and Ranyoung Fewer among others.

Gallery 20ten is run by a group of locally based artists. Now celebrating its first anniversary and it has already hosted several well received exhibitions.

The gallery is supported by Waterford City & County Council. 20tenartgroup.com

Tina Claffey : Elements

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9 June to 21 July
Birr Theatre and Arts Centre

Tina Claffey’s fascination with our native bogs and wetlands continues with her new exhibition. In ‘Elements’ she delves deeper into our natural wilderness, encouraging the viewer to immerse into an underworld of fantasy and mindfulness. Using traditional photographic techniques, she conveys the mood of the twilight hours and the effect of the natural elements while also venturing beneath the water of the mysterious bog pools to reveal the treasures and inhabitants we cannot see.

The Glucksman, UCC : Set in Time

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14 April – 23 July
The Glucksman, UCC

From 1909 to 1929, Sergei Diaghilev commissioned artists from the School of Paris such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst and Henri Matisse, alongside prominent Russian painters to design sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes, one of great artistic movements of the early 20th century. Serge Lifar, principal dancer and eventual Director of the Ballets Russes, collected these works of art and the Serge Lifar Collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, is now recognised as invaluable evidence of the emergence of modernism in theatre and in Western art.

Through generous support from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Glucksman is proud to present a curated selection of the Serge Lifar Collection in Ireland for the first time. The exhibition SET in TIME includes 33 works on paper with set and costume designs by some of the most renowned artists of the 20th century, revealing how their creative responses to stage and performance gave expression to the modern sensibility in art.

Alison Hackett : The Visual Time Traveller

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17 June to 26 August 2017
Garter Lane Arts Centre, O’Connell Street, Waterford

The Visual Time Traveller encapsulates 500 years of history, art and science in a series of unique designs which emerged from a collaboration between author, Alison Hackett and Origin Creative. Most recently exhibited as part of the Global Irish Design Challenge, The Visual Time Traveller now travels to Waterford where 500 years of history will be told across two venues- from the artistic movements of the 16th to 18th centuries in University Hospital Waterford to the medical discoveries and historic milestones of the 19th and 20th centuries in Garter Lane Arts Centre.
The Visual Time Traveller opens in University Hospital Waterford on Friday June 16th at 1pm and in Garter Lane Arts Centre Waterford on Saturday June 17th at 2.30pm, with live illustrative performances by members of Illustrators Ireland and The Comics Lab from 3.30pm
Opening Hours: Tues- Sat 11am- 5.30pm and during evening performances.

The Visual Time Traveller book will be available from The Book Centre Waterford and Garter Lane Arts Centre.
Image reproduced by permission of 21st Century Renaissance. Copyright Alison Hackett, 21st Century Renaissance. Designed by Origin Creative, Dublin.

Margaret Anne Suggs : Without the Words

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17 June to 26 August 2017 | Opening: 17 June, 2.30
Garter Lane Arts Centre, O’Connell St, Waterford

In most circumstances, an illustrator will respond to a brief which is communicated either through written or spoken word. As supporters of visual literacy, Illustrators Ireland tell visual stories, putting the pictures first- without the words. Here they tell their stories; visually stimulating the imagination to respond by creating an individual narrative rather than a prescribed story.

Illustrators Ireland is a community of professional illustrators working together to actively raise the profile of Irish illustration as a dynamic and cutting edge art form. Over 30 illustrators feature in Without the Words including Steve Simpson, Alan Clarke and current Laureate na nÓg PJ Lynch.

Without the Words opens in Garter Lane Arts Centre on Saturday June 17th at 2.30pm with live illustrative performances by members of Illustrators Ireland and The Comics Lab from 3.30pm. The experience will be a fully immersive storytelling performance which combines music, sound design, projected illustration and live performance in what feels like a cross between theatre and animation. Featuring: Sarah Bowie, Eoin Coveney, Alan Dunne, Katherine Foyle, Debbie Jenkinson, Elida Maiques, Ale Mercado, David McClelland and Fintan Taite.

Sarah Rubalcava : River Derry Bubbles

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Courthouse Arts Centre
Thu 13 July 2017 at 8.00pm

Sarah from Rubalcava Heritage Services continues her series of the River Derry Bubbles events. July 13th sees the River Derry Bubbles Meeting The Aliens. Let battle commence…as the Bubbles describe some of the Alien species that are present in Ireland and indeed in our local river and woods, costing the joint economies of Ireland & Northern Ireland approximately 1/4 million euro.

As citizens we can help the authorities by learning to recognise these species and send in our sightings. During their travels the river Derry Bubbles see many of these species for example the rhododendron in Tomnafinnoge Woods, and the Himalayan Balsam along the River Derry. This informal talk/workshop is an introduction to some of these species and what’s been done!

Barry Edwards : A Better Place

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2 June to 18 August
University Hospital Waterford

The Waterford Healing Arts Trust is delighted to announce that Barry Edwards has been selected through a public vote to exhibit his paintings in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) in the second of a series of annual exhibitions entitled A Better Place.

Barry Edwards started working as a Porter at UHW in November 2016. Originally from Kent, England, he relocated to Waterford in 1990 where he has lived and raised his family for the past 27 years.

Both a painter and printmaker, Barry’s art education was completed in England and Ireland. Constantly seeking methods of enhancing and developing his skill set further he has regularly attended courses with Cork Printmakers and Blackchurch Printmakers, Temple Bar, Dublin. Most recently he has returned from England having attended the Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall, where he completed an Expressive Landscape painting course.

First exhibiting his work in a collaborative show with Hive Emerging Artists, Waterford in 2012, he also featured in the ‘Scratching the Surface’ exhibition which was part of the Imagine Arts Festival in 2012. Two successful solo shows followed, the first at the Signal Arts Centre, Bray in 2013 and the Old Market Arts Centre, Dungarvan in 2014.

Describing himself as a serial sketcher, he can be found making both small and large works usually impulsively, out in all conditions and environments.

The exhibition of artworks on show at UHW will follow Barry’s continued love and interest in the landscape of Waterford.

Kate Maloney : Sound Check

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Thursday, June 8, 2017 – 18:00 to 20:00
Science Gallery, Dublin

Break out your old mix tapes, swing your way to melodic bliss or rock up to our NOISE STUDIO to make your own synth. SOUND CHECK opens on 9th June at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin and promises a noisy cacophony that will make your hair stand on end and your stomach vibrate!

At SOUND CHECK, everyone can make music. Visitors will become performers alongside hackers, designers and scientists, inventing new instruments and collaborating to explore the outer edge of the sounds of the future.

Join us at the launch party to explore the moment between practice and performance, designs and reality, where new musical tools make us hear our world differently. There’ll be specially-chosen bites from our Science Gallery Café, music by Donal Dineen and Ableton instructor Martin Clancy will be joining us to teach 15-minute taster classes on making music from scratch using Push and Ableton Live.

The Glucksman, UCC : Enter Stage Left

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14 April – 9 July 2017
The Glucksman, UCC

Artists: Ella de Búrca, Lothar Götz, Aoibheann Greenan, Barbara Kasten, Gareth Kennedy, David Noonan, Alexandre Singh, and Althea Thauberger.

Curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney

The theatre is traditionally seen as a space of storytelling and illusion, where the spectator surrenders to the narrative. In Enter Stage Left, various dramatic devices such as sets, props, lighting and scripts, are used by Irish and international artists to explore and disrupt the enchantment of thespian conventions. The exhibition is a peek behind the scenes, a revealing look at the craft of theatre and the ways in which artists have reimagined the stage through the prism of art.

Enter Stage Left includes work by artists whose practice delves into realms of stagecraft. Drawing on influences from the worlds of design, ballet, and music, as well as performance, their works reveal the hidden mechanics behind the staged production and the ways in which the theatre itself reflects wider social and political ideas.

Chanelle Walshe and Betsy Stirratt : Nerve and Sinew

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15 June to 9 July
The Custom House Gallery and Studios
The Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo,

This exhibition presents a series of paintings by Betsy Stirratt (Indiana USA) and Chanelle Walshe (Dublin, IRE). The paintings focus on mystery, magnificence and intricacies within the human body. Stirratt presents a number of works from her series La Maladie and Walshe presents works from her recent series Beatland. Both artists spent extensive periods of time in medical museums and libraries in order to make the works.

Stirratt presents delicate and beautifully rendered sections, such as a hand or a torso on flat backgrounds, often gold-leaf or wax. The works address our underlying revulsion towards disease and decay and the inevitable progression toward old age and death that is the fate of each one of us.

Walshe also works from sections of the body, focusing in particular on internal organs such as the heart and the lungs. Her paintings depict the organs in various energetic states. Similarly to Stirratt’s works, the forms are isolated and offered up to the viewer like a gift or a sacrifice.

Leslie Mutchler and Jason Urban : Bable Unbound

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17 June to 8 July 2017
CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Clarke’s Bridge, Wandesford Quay, Cork

A multi-disciplinary exhibition by Leslie Mutchler + Jason Urban (USA) – part of a trail of shows accompanying the FIRST EDITION Print Symposium, initiated by Cork Printmakers and presented as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2017.
Babel Unbound, focuses on ephemeral editions, prints and printed multiples within the context of the library as a curated and performed space.
A series of printed works, risographs, xeroxes and screen-prints become a publication pulled apart, ephemeral and in-flux, lining walls of the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery. Photographs, 3D printed objects and large-scale digital prints break up the monotony of the splayed publication and help to loosely connect pieces of text, re-paginated essays, screen-captured images, and scans of book spreads. The gallery becomes a circular space without hierarchy; with no beginning and no end- babel unbound.

Brían Crotty: Stephen Murray – Layers and Lines

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23 June to 8 July
CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork
CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery presents Layers and Lines a solo exhibition by Stephen Murray, which is taking place in our gallery project space from.

Stephen Murray creates intricate and abstract drawings across the surfaces he uses. Using pen and ink, his drawings are often reminiscent of aerial mappings or architectural plans. It is exciting to see these works intuitively evolve over the course of weeks and sometimes months.

A selection of his work to date will be exhibited in Layers and Lines – from deeply detailed and layered perspex grids, abstract drawings and recent explorations into three dimensional, collaborative works.

Stephen Murray is an artist in residence at Mayfield Arts Centre and is a member of Cúig supported studios. Stephen has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at Gallerie Outsider Art in Amsterdam, Galway Arts Centre, Crawford Art Gallery in Cork and Imagine Arts Festival in Waterford.

Alison Hackett : The Visual Time Traveller

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16 June to 26 August 2017
University Hospital Waterford

The Visual Time Traveller encapsulates 500 years of history, art and science in a series of unique designs which emerged from a collaboration between author, Alison Hackett and Origin Creative. Most recently exhibited as part of the Global Irish Design Challenge, The Visual Time Traveller now travels to Waterford where 500 years of history will be told across two venues- from the artistic movements of the 16th to 18th centuries in University Hospital Waterford to the medical discoveries and historic milestones of the 19th and 20th centuries in Garter Lane Arts Centre.
The Visual Time Traveller opens in University Hospital Waterford on Friday June 16th at 1pm and in Garter Lane Arts Centre Waterford on Saturday June 17th at 2.30pm, with live illustrative performances by members of Illustrators Ireland and The Comics Lab from 3.30pm

Muireann Ni Chonaill : 30 Years, Artists, Places

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10 June – 15 July 2017
Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise

Dunamaise Arts Centre Portlaoise is proud to present the finale of the 30 Years Artists Places exhibition, after an extensive national tour, from Monday 10 June to Saturday 15 July.

Following an 18-month national tour to venues in Clare, Mayo, Waterford, Cork, Tipperary, Limerick, Cavan, Louth, Dublin and Donegal – the exhibition, curated by Muireann Ní Chonaill, Laois Arts Officer- is a must see at Dunamaise and features an extraordinary line up of Irish artists.

This exhibition is a collection of artworks owned by Local Authorities across Ireland and marks 30 years since the first local authority arts officer was appointed in Ireland. The works speak of places, people and home which reflect upon local authority arts development as just that, of a place and of a people, of rural and urban Ireland, of home in a changing island where we are bold with new ideas but rooted in our past. Renowned artists such as Tony O’Malley, Alice Maher, Robert Ballagh, John Kindness, Norah McGuiness, Seán McSweeney, Sean Lynch and John Shinnors alongside emerging artists Cora Cummins, Cleary Connolly, Seán Cotter, Lisa Fingleton, Jenny Brady, Vanessa Lopez and David Stephenson and many others feature in the exhibition.

On 29th June at 3pm at Dunamaise Arts Centre, a panel discussion to mark the exhibition, entitled Collecting Who for What, will be chaired by Cliodhna Ní Anluain with contributions by Cristín Leach, Jacquie Moore, Kevin Kavanagh and Seán Cotter. A musical response to the exhibition by Andreas Balke will also take place. Admission is free and all are welcome.

On the same day at 5pm, Liz Meaney, Arts Director (Performing & Local Arts, Arts Council of Ireland) is Guest Speaker at the reception to mark the conclusion of the exhibition.

This is a must see, not just for the extraordinary line up of Irish artists, but for the stories of how they each came to be purchased, commissioned or acquired by local authorities – therein lies the real narrative – the quiet, genuine and imaginative support for Irish artists demonstrated by local government for the past 30 years.

Irineu Destourelles : Unturning

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Sat 17 Jun 2017 – Sun 16 Jul 2017
11:00–18:00

Venue: Corner Gallery, Summerhall

Irineu Destourelles’ Unturning is an incubator exhibition, presenting two new video works exploring the legacy of Thatcherism policies on current political discourse and personhood. The exhibition is Destourelles’ second solo-show in Scotland, it follows Tainted Verbal, at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, (April – May 2017).

Destourelles was born in the Cape Verdian Islands, a colony of the Portuguese empire until 1975, as a child he emigrated to Lisbon, growing up in the aftermath of dictatorship (1926-1974). Mindful of dialectics and dichotomies of colonial narratives, Destourelles works across different media, using the interstices between painting, text and moving image to explore his experiences of place, observing, scrutinizing and reflecting on social practices and media culture, focusing on othering and desire.

From his home in Lisbon, he came to learn about UK politics, understanding Margaret Thatcher as a radical and mighty figure, modernizing Britain at whatever social cost to reinforce and expand market driven policies. Destourelles, now a resident of Scotland, who has also lived in London, observes the effects the Thatcher years continue to have on UK politics.

Individual recollection and opinion, are brought to the fore, in the film Mr Butterwick Remembers Mrs Thatcher, Destourelles interviewed a Fife ex-coalminer, about the harsh decline of industry during Thatcher’s premiership, and the effects on livelihoods, families and communities. The film is simple and direct, unmasking the artifice of governance, to address personal representation, memory and articulation. This interview-work informs the text-based video, Glossary of Political Words, displaying alternative definitions of political terms. The proposed definitions are often ironic, ethically problematic and play with the cyclical struggle between a currently weakened Left and a much powerful Right.

Curated by Holly Knox Yeoman

Gerry Davis : Canvas

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02 June – 29 July 2017
The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary

‘Canvas’ is the second iteration of a body of work Gerry Davis has been working on since late 2015. These paintings are an exploration of the spaces in the Wickham Street Studios in Limerick, where he works. Seeing the studios as a microcosm from which to explore his own context within a wider art community, the paintings are both autobiographical and outward-looking. Originally from Cahir, Gerry Davis graduated from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009 with a degree in Fine Art (Painting). Since then he has exhibited
regularly. He recently won the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery and received a Merit Award at the Golden Fleece.

Bryn Griffiths : Retina Scottish International Photography Festival

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Sun 18 Jun 2017 – Sat 15 Jul 2017
11:00 – 18:00

Venue: All Basement Spaces, Summerhall

Whether in the studio or on location, Bryn has been creating imaginatively conceived and wonderfully lit commercial and advertising photography for more than 30 years.

With an array of awards to his name, his approach ensures that his images stand out above the competitive crowd. Commissioned by many major brands and global corporations, his work can be seen in magazines, brochures, and on billboards, across the world.

He has recently added to his long list of achievements by becoming a Hasselblad Master Winner, a distinguished Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photography (FBIPP), as well as being awarded as a qualified member of the prestigious Federation of European Photographers (QEP).

Numerous Gold awards have followed, both nationally and internationally, including a clutch of International Apertures, International Loupe Awards, FEP Advertising Awards, twice Hasselblad World Master finalist and People Choice Winner PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris.

In recent years his experience has been in demand as an International Assessor and Judge, sitting on the panel for high profile competitions such as The World Photographic Cup 2017, Hasselblad Masters Global 2016, Federation of European Photographers Golden Camera Award. Bryn is also a Director, Assessor and Mentor for the British Institute of Professional Photography.

Following his success as a Hasselblad Master, Bryn was commissioned to produce a series of work for a book ‘Masters vol.4 Evolve’. This was a to be a defining project that contrasts his studio based product photography with location products found at Chernobyl, fulfilling the ‘EVOLVE’ brief by shooting in a completely different way to normal.

In the book Bryn contrasts a £12,000, state of the art, Condor bicycle with a rusted, bent wheel he found in Chernobyl, complete with a gas mask still hanging on its rim. A classic Morgan steering wheel against another corroded specimen in the former Ukrainian city; a Condor saddle and frame against an old bike carcass shot in a decomposing room; a pristine, clinical studio image of fresh paint pouring from a shiny tin – against a shot of a dilapidated stairway and a wall with decades old paint curling and falling away in its moribund final nod to an irradiated city and a shocking, devastating piece of history.

Noam & Rachel Libeskind : The Laniakea Supercluster at Cosmic Collisions

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MERZ Studio, Sanquhar

Cosmologist Noam Libeskind and artist Rachel Libeskind worked together to represent the Liniakea Supercluster at the Cosmic Collisions exhibition at MERZ in Sanquhar. Son and daughter of the architect Daniel Libeskind they are exhibiting alongside their father who is showing designs for the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University. From the Ogden Centre Carlos Frenk has installed two galaxy making machines which are a fun way to learn how galaxies form. The exhibition also features new work by landscape artist Charles Jenks with his designs and resin panels reflected on a larger scale in this year’s new work installed at the nearby Crawick Multiverse. The exhibition runs through to 10th September and is accompanied by a series of talks titled Cosmic Conversations at A’ the Airts, also in Sanquhar. For further details go to crawickmultiverse.co.uk and our Facebook Page facebook.com/MERZ-Workshop-188102691652257/.

To view the archive covering Cosmic Collisions and earlier exhibitions go to merz.gallery.

Diana Copperwhite : Crooked Orbit

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1 June to 1 July
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

Kevin Kavanagh presents ‘Crooked Orbit’, an exhibition of recent paintings by Diana Copperwhite.

‘In this latest exhibition, Crooked Orbit, these are large and at least initially discordant works. It seems as though no colour has been left aside, from lurid fuchsias and cobalt blues, to neon yellow and swatches of minty green. Recurring throughout the canvases, there is also a gradient effect achieved by loading the brush with different shades of paint; and this has a consequence of suggesting that these paintings have almost outgrown the tools of their creation, those tools then being forced to convey, through colour, as much as they possibly can’.

Extracted from ‘Awkward Angle of Perception’, by Rebecca O’Dwyer. The full essay will be available at the gallery from June 1st.

GET CREATIVE TAKEOVER

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Grow Wild invited young people aged 12-25 to apply for funding to produce creative works of art to raise awareness about the importance of UK native wild flowers and plants. Visit Summerhall this June to see how successful applicants interpreted the brief through different artistic mediums from poetry to embroidery, sculpture to steel band music…

To find out more about Grow Wild’s Get Creative takeover, click here;
growwilduk.com/content/get-creative-takeover-events

Grow Wild is the UK’s biggest-ever wild flower campaign, bringing people together to transform local spaces with native, pollinator-friendly wild flowers and plants. Supported by the Big Lottery Fund, Grow Wild is the national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Opening times: Sat 24 Jun 2017 to Sun 09 Jul 2017  11:00–18:00 (not open on Mondays)
Venue: Sciennes Gallery

GET CREATIVE TAKEOVER

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Grow Wild invited young people aged 12-25 to apply for funding to produce creative works of art to raise awareness about the importance of UK native wild flowers and plants. Visit Summerhall this June to see how successful applicants interpreted the brief through different artistic mediums from poetry to embroidery, sculpture to steel band music…

To find out more about Grow Wild’s Get Creative takeover, click here;
growwilduk.com/content/get-creative-takeover-events

Grow Wild is the UK’s biggest-ever wild flower campaign, bringing people together to transform local spaces with native, pollinator-friendly wild flowers and plants. Supported by the Big Lottery Fund, Grow Wild is the national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Opening times: Sat 24 Jun 2017 to Sun 09 Jul 2017 11:00–18:00 (not open on Mondays)
Venue: Sciennes Gallery

Claire Bennett : Grow Wild Teaser 2017

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24th June – 8th July 10am-6pm

Sciennes Gallery, Summerhall

Grow Wild invited young people aged 12-25 to apply for funding to produce creative works of art to raise awareness about the importance of UK native wild flowers and plants. Visit Summerhall this June to see how successful applicants interpreted the brief through different artistic mediums from poetry to embroidery, sculpture to steel band music…

To find out more about Grow Wild’s Get Creative takeover, click here: growwilduk.com/content/get-creative-takeover-events

Grow Wild is the UK’s biggest-ever wild flower campaign, bringing people together to transform local spaces with native, pollinator-friendly wild flowers and plants. Supported by the Big Lottery Fund, Grow Wild is the national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Orla Kelly and Kilian Waters : School Portraits

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School Portraits | Group Show at Draiocht Blanchardstown, Dublin 15

20 May to 24 June 2017 | Opening: 24 May, 6pm
Ground & First Floor Galleries, Draíocht, The Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15

School Portraits takes the viewer into the world of school to see contemporary artists’ representations of young people, school buildings and the wide range of activities and experiences that go on during a school day. The exhibition presents work by sculptor John Ahearn, photographer Mandy O’Neill and painter Blaise Smith who have immersed themselves, often for extended periods of time, to create bodies of work that capture the rich and varied moods and lived experiences of Irish school life. The exhibition will also include new work produced in a collaborative project between filmmaker Kilian Waters, Draíocht Curator-in-Residence, Sharon Murphy and Room 13 Dublin 15.

Gallery opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm
For more information please visit: draiocht.ie/events/school_portraits School Portraits | Group Show at Draiocht Blanchardstown, Dublin 15