The Exhibitionist | 21| Telling Lies

From the press release:

The exhibition takes as its jumping off point Martha Rosler’s Fascination with the (Game of the) Exploding (Historical) Hollow Leg – a multimedia installation from 1983 which included a simulated war room with altered maps, nuclear-weapons descriptive material, recruitment posters, military clothing, a slide show of U.S. and European protest marches and posters, giant newspaper collages, a video loop, an audio tour of North American Radar Air Defense, a library of books on war, and more — all topped by a giant cargo parachute. Here, for RUA RED, the work is re-imagined in 2015 where artworks by various artists engage in a dialogue beneath Rosler’s original cargo parachute.

www.ruared.com

Exhibitions opening this week

PM 66
21 April – 2 May | Opening: 21 April at 6pm
Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo

PM 66 – is based on the life of a visually impaired person.

“I have researched the condition through a family member who has gradually lost their sight over the past 20 years. Through mixed media and installation the exhibition will feature personal belongings and household items that have been adapted to adjust to everyday life and daily tasks. Displaying how the use of memory, touch and order become a way to adapt to life without sight. Other areas covered include the deterioration of sight as observed through the strength of reading glasses lenses, and change in familiar images and paintings. The loss of your own handwriting and ability to read. The use of other people to translate through description the things you can no longer see.”

The exhibition will be opened by Noelle McAlinden, artist, educator, arts adviser, curator, mentor and arts activist.

All are welcome.

The exhibition continues until Saturday May 2nd.

www.yeatssociety.com/future-exhibitions.html

Debussy In The Rain
16 April – 10 May | Opening: 16 April at 7.30pm
Custom House Studios, Westport, Quay, Co. Mayo

Custom House Studios are pleased to host an exhibition of paintings entitled Debussy In The Rain by Maurice Quillinan opening Thursday 16th April at 7.30 pm with guest speaker Brendan McGowan, Education & Outreach Officer at Galway Museum.

This project began seven years ago as collaboration between Nicholas Ross (pianist), Kent Holliday (composer) and Maurice Quillinan (artist). The project is an exploration of the ‘Golden Section’, which is a mathematical subdivision of a surface area or musical score, suggesting where the most important elements should be positioned. The paintings incorporate the structure of the music, placing the golden notes / moments as Lilly pads. The images endeavour to combine the physical and emotional response that is inherent in our experience of the music and a pond in a given moment in time. The canvases are constantly worked over many years, slightly altering the colour, tonal and textural values of each, to greater enhance the emotional experience of the music and the watery environment. The works are designed as meditative, emotional responses to the music and the water. It has been said that ‘A photograph records time, whereas a painting gives the viewer time’, because a photograph will suggest something and a painting is the place, like magnetic tape it draws in the physicality, the smells, sounds, colours, tastes of an observed environment. Hopefully the viewer can find him/herself in these works and incorporate their own personal emotions and experiences into these painted surfaces, taking in turn what is found inside themselves out into the landscape, thus initiating and amending open-ended conversations between our present and historical experiences, the music/paintings, and our environment.

www.customhousestudios.ie

Tablet
16 April – 10 May | Opening hours: 16 April at 7.30pm
Custom House Studios, Westport Quay, Co. Mayo

Custom House Studios are pleased to host an exhibition of paintings entitled Tablet by Fiona Burke opening Thursday 16th April at 7.30 pm.

Painting forms the basis of Fiona Burke’s practice. Concerns with the language of painting and the nature of perceptual experience are central to her work. In exploring the illusory and limited space of representation, from the portrait or still life to the space of museum display, Burke uses painting as a means to explore shifting relationships between surface and object, image and material, artifice and reality.

The work exhibited in Tablet comprises new paintings alongside earlier collage based work. Combining paint with found images, these collages convey a subtle shift between the painted and the photographic or printed. This work incorporates various aspects of collage, but eschews highly conspicuous modes of production, creating more subliminal line between organic seamlessness and the pictorial rupture of collage or montage. Burke’s new paintings attempt to build on the themes and processes found within this earlier work. A continued preoccupation with surface, illusion, and depth presents itself through paintings of flat surfaces broken by shallow recessed planes and protruding frames. Fiona received her BFA from Limerick School of Art and Design and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art. Through the manipulation of watercolours, historical paintings and photographic fragments, my work explores the layers of representational modes that generate perception.

www.customhousestudios.ie

Until 8 of May 2015
Open Daily 10am to 5pm

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats, artist Padraic Reaney is showing part of his graphic work based on Yeats’s poems Crazy Jane in the Coole Park restaurant. The work on show will be block prints and drypoint using CD discs as printing plates. Padraic has been working on the Crazy Jane poems by Yeats on and off since the late 1980s.
Coole Visitor Centre, Coole Nature Reserve, Gort, Co Galway
Further information:
E: [email protected]

Wednesday 22nd April at 2.00pm
Kathleen Lynch TD will launch the publication of Panchaea, a socially engaged art work by Denis Roche with Brian Maguire and Emma Finucane, working with the artists of the Dolmen Studios and Leighlinbridge Day Centre.

The Dolmen Studios, St.Dymphna’s Hospital, Athy Road, Carlow.

Chromatic Scales Beadwork Tapestry Exhibition
Until May 06 2015

Tia Vellani weaves tiny glass beads on a loom using an ancient technique. Drawing on her background in science and music, she creates her designs using a formula to translate music into colours. Beadwork tapestries of the compositions of Bach and Chopin are on display, along with several inspired by the artwork of her daughters. Tia Vellani is committed to the exploration of multi-disciplinary creative endeavours and she believes that communication and co-operation among people from diverse disciplines is the way forward for humanity.

Kilkenny City Library, John’s Quay, Kilkenny
Tuesday & Wednesday, 10-1, 2-8; Thursday & Friday, 10-1, 2-5; Saturday 10-1.30

Further Information:
E: [email protected]
T: 087 607 9748
www.tiavellani.weebly.com

Night Visions
30th April – 16th May | Preview evening: 30th April at 6pm.
The Pigyard Gallery, 13 Selskar Street, Wexford
Opening times: Monday – Sunday 11am – 5:30pm

A solo exhibition of paintings by Hanneke van Ryswyk at The Pigyard Gallery, Wexford.

This is the Bunclody based artist’s fifth Irish solo show. The exhibition is accompanied by a full colour catalogue featuring an essay by Selina Guinness, author of The Crocodile by the Door.

www.thepigyardgallery.com | www.hannekevanryswyk.com

Gallipoli and the Great War – Exhibition of contemporary paintings on WW1 by Paul Woods
7th April – 10th May
Leixlip Library Gallery, Co. Kildare

The years 2014-2018 mark 100 years since the First World War. Warfare and conflict are the predominant themes in the work of the artist Paul Woods. He believes that events of the past, though often unresolved or misrepresented, have a great influence on our understanding of society and community today. Through his art he deals with past and present traumas from history and tries to engage the viewers in the process of deconstructing generally accepted opinions. The exhibition “Gallipoli and The Great War” focuses on the commemoration of the Gallipoli landings and campaign in April 1915, in which many Irish men fought and died.

It also deals with the scars and wounds left on the land and on the people in the aftermath of WW1. The exhibition follows the trail of the main battles fought on the Western Front, including the Marne, the Somme and Verdun, taking a bird’s eye view of the pummelled landscape.

www.paulwoodsart.com

Romantic Land & Art Life
23 – 26 April | Opening: 23 April at 6pm
Steambox, School St., Dublin 8

Romantic Land & Art Life is taking place on Thursday the 23rd of April in Steambox, Dublin; with a wine reception at 6pm. The exhibition will then run until the 26th of April.

It is an exhibition by the Third Year Paint class in the National College of Art & Design, curated by past NCAD student Brendan Fox; showing work made throughout this year.

The exhibition is made up of the work of over 30 students, working in a variety of mediums, and promises to be an interesting show.

www.facebook.com/events/603592779778232

Against the Wind
Opening: 23 April at 6pm
SO Fine Art Editions, 10 Anne Street South, Dublin 2

SO Fine Art Editions invites you to a preview of a solo exhibition of German artist Johannes Eidt on Thursday 23rd April from 6 – 8 pm.

He is a member of the renowned Shun’Yo Kai Art Society, where Eidt was the first non-Japanese artist to win their prestigious 1st prize at their annual show in 1981. In 2012, he was awarded Germany’s ‘Federal Cross of Merit’ for his service in the arts. His work is known for its graphic nature portraying unusual subject matters and employing bright blocks of colour in whimsical settings.

The exhibition will showcase over 30 of his screen prints and will run until 23rd May.

www.sofinearteditions.com/johannes-eidt-against-the-wind/

23 April – 30 May | Opening: 23 April at 6pm
Project arts Centre, 39 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Jean-Luc Moulène (FR), Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan (NL), Katerina Undo (GR), Miklos Onucsan (RO), Tom Nicholson (AU), Phillip Warnell (UK), Jonas Staal (NL), Fabio Mauri (IT), Jacqueline Mesmaeker (BE), Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Project Arts Centre is please to announce the opening of our latest exhibition, A Breathcrystal, on Thursday 23 April from 6.00pm – 8.00pm. The exhibition is curated by Mihnea Mircan from Extra City Kunsthal and he will be in conversation with Tessa Giblin, Curator of Visual Art at Project Arts Centre, in the gallery from 5.30pm.

A Breathcrystal is concerned with ideas around contamination. The gallery will become a space for cross-pollination, symbiosis and infestation, uncovering intriguing connections and contradictions between a group of international artists and their artworks.

The exhibition will include works by a number of international artists, and is brought to you by guest curator Mihnea Mircan as an extension of his earlier project Allegory of the Cave Painting for Extra City Kunsthal in 2014.

projectartscentre.ie/event/breathcrystal

Form and Figure
21 – 25 April | Opening: 23rd April at 6.30pm
Gaelscoil Lios Na nOg, Oakley Road, Dublin 6
Opening hours: 1pm to 4pm Tuesday-Wednesday, 10am to 2pm Thursday-Saturday

Gaelscoil Lios na nOg is delighted to present an exhibition of work in oil and charcoal by Kerry-born artist Joan Coen. The selected artworks beautifully juxtapose the artist’s explorations of man?made forms and the human figure.

Joan Coen began her artistic journey as a self?taught painter. She describes herself as having been ‘startled’ into painting by experiencing the vivid beauty of a marsh marigold on the banks of the River Barrow, near where she lives in Carlow. In 2014 she completed a Masters in Fine Art in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Joan’s work has previously been exhibited at the Éigse Art festival, the Colbalt Gallery, Dublin, the Balmain Watch House Gallery, Wexford, and the Barbara Stanley Gallery, London, among others.

The exhibition will be on view from Tuesday 21 April until Saturday 25 April. The exhibition will be formally opened by artist Olivia Williams on Thursday 23 April at 6:30pm.

www.joancoen.com

A Breathcrystal
Friday, 24 April 6.30pm
IFI, Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

This dynamic and investigative screening programme is concerned with ideas around contamination, cross-pollination, symbiosis and infestation. It accompanies A Breathcrystal, an exhibition curated by Mihnea Mircan at Project Arts Centre. A Breathcrystal was originally inspired the Gwion Gwion/Bradshaw paintings, ancient Australian cave and rock drawings that are eternally regenerated by a fungus that inhabits them. By conventional standards these paintings would be considered contaminated but in this instance, through this constant transformation, they carry new meaning. This screening programme will show work from Pierre Huyghe, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll & Claire Loussouarn, Sven Johne, Susan Schuppli, Nicola Martini and Saskia Olde Wolbers.

A Breathcrystal runs at Project Arts Centre from 24 April to 30 May.
www.ifi.ie
www.ifi.ie/film/experimental-breathcrystal

FLUX
24 April – 16 May
Solomon Fine Art, Balfe Street, Dublin 2

From Friday 24th April to Saturday 16th May Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host a solo exhibition of new work by the renowned Irish sculptor Orla de Bri.

Flux celebrates fluidity of form and nature as a source of energy and stability. Orla de Brí works with each piece as it changes and melds into something entirely other. She catches her figures and objects as they are in the process of merging with branches, antlers or drops of water, indicating a desire for change, a conscious and dynamic evolution.

Working with bronze, Corten steel and a variety of patinas, Orla creates a series of stunning work that considers how we relate to our surroundings and how we adapt and change as a result. Among the many pieces on exhibit, we are introduced to the two monumental figures of the ‘She Stag’, both standing at over two and a half metres tall, with a vast antler spread and in polished bronze and welded steel, the She Stags takes centre stage. He/she represents changinging gender roles and is the embodiment of ‘no gender’; an interpretation of the combined best traits of both man and woman.

For further information please contact contact Tara Murphy +353 86 8142380

www.solomonfineart.ie

Thursday 23 April :1-2pm Studio, dlr LexIcon.

Áitiúil is a group exhibition exploring the works of 5 well known members of the RHA, all of whom have a connection with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County. dlr Municipal Gallery Learning Programme has an extensive arts programme for all ages to engage with as creators, spectators and participants.

A screening of Hands: Stone (1981) David and Sally Shaw Smith made ‘Hands’, a unique documentary series on Irish crafts, for RTÉ. They captured the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland, during the 70’s and 80’s. Join us for a very special screening of ‘Stone’ which captured the tradition of stone-working in the Barnacullia/Glencullen area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County.

No booking required.

www.dlrcoco.ie/arts

I Thought of Home
25 Apr – 23 May | Preview 24 Apr at 6pm
RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, D24

I Thought of Home, is a socially engaged project by Sinead Curran that investigates the role the home plays in contemporary everyday life, the ideology of home exploring themes of representation, social changes and social interaction. As part of the RUA RED residency, the project existed through workshops, clinics, interviews, meetings and talks with the ambition to document and create a body of work employing a variety of medium including photography, video, animation and installation.

www.ruared.com

Through Rose Tinted Glasses – A celebration of independent retail
Opening: 23rd April 2015 at 5pm, Opened by Tara Buckley, Director RGDATA
Larkin Bros. Victuallers, 18 Meath Street, Dublin 8

To celebrate the continuing rich commercial heritage of The Liberties, artist Rian Coulter is hosting Through Rose Tinted Glassesan exhibition of trade memorabilia from a contemporary perspective.

Over the last 20 years our social, economic and indeed spiritual complexion has been radically altered – demonstrated by the changing pace of working and leisure patterns, accordingly the changing face of our High Streets, towns and villages. ? The proliferation of “grab-all retail” supermarkets and industrial out-of-town shopping centres has played a major role in fragmenting both big urban and rural areas alike which are losing the charm, homeliness and familiarity of yesteryear. Architecturally and socially vibrant establishments, synonymous with their locality, from modest corner-shops to majestic department stores, have all too often been muscled out by generic corporate chain-stores.

The development towards an increasingly standardised / automated retail model eradicates the forum for autonomous face-to-face interaction and thus the creative endeavour that results in socially amenable relations, which have an artistic, cultural and social importance. The enthusiasm and diversity that we retain is frequently thanks to the determination, pride and passion of independent business people – from the pub to the pharmacy and everything in-between, who dispense their craft and knowledge along with a reassuring sense of camaraderie, conviviality and community-spirit so redolent of romantic Ireland, providing the ‘potential for a kind of spontaneous and elementary communism’ (Hardt & Negri)

www.coulter.ie

Telling Lies
Curated by Paul McAree.
25 Apr – 23 May | Preview 24 Apr at 6pm
RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, D24

Featuring Terry Atkinson, Alan Butler, Cliona Harmey, Eva & Franco Mattes, Theresa Nanigian, Jane Queally, Jim Ricks, Martha Rosler, Sean Snyder, Suzanne Treister

The exhibition takes as its jumping off point Martha Rosler’s Fascination with the (Game of the) Exploding (Historical) Hollow Leg – a multimedia installation from 1983 which included a simulated war room with altered maps, nuclear-weapons descriptive material, recruitment posters, military clothing, a slide show of U.S. and European protest marches and posters, giant newspaper collages, a video loop, an audio tour of North American Radar Air Defense, a library of books on war, and more — all topped by a giant cargo parachute. Here, for RUA RED, the work is re-imagined in 2015 where artworks by various artists engage in a dialogue beneath Rosler’s original cargo parachute.

www.ruared.com

SPACE/s
22 – 26 April | Opening: 22 April at 6pm
Pallas Projects/Studios, 115–117 The Coombe, Dublin 8

SPACE/s @ Pallas Projects/Studio is the first major group show from Qualia Dublin, with work from 5 of it’s 9 members. The opening night is Wednesday 22nd of April at 18.00, and will run until Sunday 26th April (11.00-18.00)

The artists exhibiting are Paul Rosser, Laura Skehan, Sarah O’Keeffe, Ciara Donnelly and Siobhan O’Connor. All 3rd Year Fine Art students, Qualia Dublin have been working together over the past year to bring together their ideas and curate a show which exhibits responses from researching how we engage, visualize, activate and re-create space. How do we define space? How definite or temporary is a space? How do we respond to the constant transition within a space? All are questions asked within Qualia Dublin’s work.

The artists work in a range of media, creating links between the works and the act of looking, attempting to engage the audience in a conversation surrounding contemporary ideas regarding space.

www.qualiadublin.wix.com/qualiadubart | www.facebook.com/qualiadublin/info

Burn After Inking
15 – 19 April | Opening: 15 April at 6pm
MART Galleries, 184 Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin
Gallery Opening times: 1.30pm – 6.30pm, Thurs – Sun

An illustration and painting exhibition from Gavin Fullerton, Christina O’Donovan, Melissa Malone, Patrick Semple, Fiona Meade and Daniel Spencer.

Contact: [email protected]

www.mart.ie/calendar/burn-after-inking/

NEW MATTERS
23 April – 1 May | Opening: 23 April at 6pm
The Copper House Gallery, St. Kevin’s Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8

The Copper House Gallery will launch NEW MATTERS, an exhibition of photographs by students studying on the BA Photography programme at the Dublin Institute of Technology, at 6pm on Thursday 23rd April 2015. NEW MATTERS presents 15 visual explorations of contemporary issues.

NEW MATTERS showcases the work of students in the their third year of study on the photography programme at DIT. A range of backgrounds in Colombia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Ireland is reflected in the exhibition’s diverse perspectives on how contemporary photography can speak to complex cultural messages about identity, consumerism, changing social landscapes, temporality and impermanence.

NEW MATTERS, a photographic exhibition by students in the third year of their four-year BA Photography programme at the Dublin Institute of Technology, runs at The Copper House Gallery from the 23rd April until 1st May 2015. Admission is free and all are welcome.

www.thecopperhousegallery.com

Centre
16 – 18 April | Opening: 15 April at 6pm
Pallas Projects/Studios, 115-117 the Coombe, Dublin 8

An exhibition of work by Joe Scullion and Sinéad Onóra Kennedy

This exhibition is concerned with the idea of the centre be it a geometrical point, origin, public space, or the self-centred “me”. Focusing on drawing the artists consider how we perceive and construct reality through images and systems of measurement. The work alludes to designed objects, architectural plans, plots and graphs, yet nothing entirely discernible appears, and although the drawings may initially appear precise and mechanical, a closer look reveals subtle discrepancies and contradictions implying an inherently distorted understanding of the world.

cargocollective.com/joescullion | cargocollective.com/sineadonorakennedy

Dulce Domun
29 April to 17 May 2015
Curated by Marie Brett and John McHarg

A house more than a diary, is the intimate glimpse … A life interrupted
Dulce Domun is a group exhibition of artworks in a variety of media produced by Masters of Art students from CCAD pondering ideas of home and displacement.

Wandsford Quay Gallery, Cork
Further Information;
T: (021) 433 5210
ccad-research.org/gallery/

Particle
23 – 28 April | Opening: 23 April at 7pm
Unit 1, Chapel Court, Cathedral Place, Limerick

The class of Year 3 LSAD Sculpture & Combined Media would like to invite you to the opening of their show, Particle curated by Linda Shevlin on the 23rd April 2015 at 7.00 p.m. at Unit 1, Chapel Court, Cathedral Place, Limerick.

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Gallipoli 1915 – 2015: A Local Legacy
25 April – 31 August
Mid Antrim Museum, The Braid, 1-29 Bridge Street, Ballymena, Co. Antrim

The reality and the mythology of Gallipoli that has grown over the last 100 years is very much contested it is for this very reason that I tried to bring to the project an artistic interpretation based on what I found there aligned with an awareness of the local men and the locations they served in. The panoramic landscapes are juxtapositioned with still life’s of artefacts in the hope that it could lead to a better understanding of the local legacy of Gallipoli 1915 – 2015.

As part of the launch historian Philip Orr will lead an informal discussion with James Hughes.

www.facebook.com/Gallipoli1915ALocalLegacy | www.thebraid.com

Unfolding the Archive
25 April – 19 July
F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Newry Road, Banbridge, Down BT32 3NB
Monday -Saturday 10.00 – 17.00 Sundays (June and July only) 13.00- 17.00

Edwin Aitken, Simon Burton & James Fisher, Glynis Candler, Sarah Carne, Diane Henshaw, Glenn Holman, Hidehiko Ishibashi, Elizabeth Kinsella, Niamh O’ Connor & Andy Parsons

Artworks created by the international artists’ collective Floating Worlds, inspired by archival material held in the National Irish Visual Arts Library, Dublin, and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery.

Contact: [email protected] or (028) 406 23322 for further details

www.femcwilliam.com

Back Alleys
14 April – 11 May
The Waterside Theatre and Arts Centre, Glendermott Road, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland BT47 6BG
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 9-5, Sun 10-4

Back Alleys revolves around the urban landscape, the artworks document emotive and dramatic visions that are accurate recollections of private worlds which are challenging, funny, intriguing and disturbing at the same time. The works bring into focus the contribution that back alleys make to the social experience of childhood, creating an energy that is both engaging and thought provoking. Back Alleys playfully explores and emphasises the traditions and freedoms of childhood and childhood environments that are in danger of disappearing. The title plays an important role as it directs the viewer into the work and gives an honest and frank insight into the train of thought at the time of creating it.

The traditional mediums of collage, fine print and drawing are key to generating the intricate visual representation that penetrates the memory of the observer creating unconscious and organic emotional reactions. The artworks have the power to form a personal relationship with the viewer because they are mischievous, nostalgic and thought provoking. Back Alleys has the capacity to instigate collective memory by encouraging the veiwer to recall their own childhood games and hideouts, this stirring recall devises alliances between the private and collective memories of artist and audience.

www.watersidetheatre.com | www.amandajanegraham.com

Wednesday 22 April 1pm

Artists Charlotte Bosanquet and Sheelagh Colclough will talk collaboration, community and other conundrums within the Northern Irish context. Audience participation invited, tangents may occur. All welcome. This event will be recorded.

Community as artist/workshop as exhibition is the key theme for PS2 in 2015/16. As a practical step, PS2 is handing over its space in Donegall Street to those who work with art as a tool for social and environmental change. For this project, PS2 asked the artist Sheelagh Colclough, to show some of her research material and visual work around one of her key subjects: the institutionalisation of community arts. She has created an installation and spatial framework in which meetings and conversations will take place; a provocative and stimulating office ambiente where additions and changes can be made and a piece of art in itself.

As part of PS2’s community as artist/workshop as exhibition, Sheelagh Colclough’s research material and visual work is available to view until 25  April 2015.
Further info
www.pssquared.org/community_as_artist_project.php
www.thesheelaghfoundation.com
www.charlottebosanquet.com
www.pssquared.org

Disrupting Reality
23 April – 16 May | Opening: 23 April at 6pm
Spectrum Centre, 331 Shankill Road, BT13 3AA

Disrupting Reality calls a spirit of nonsense, fantasy and physically unphysical imagery. An untouchable landscape incongruous with what makes us comfortable.

Can neurology explain it? Oftentimes myths of old rear their head, perhaps ancient symbols of human nature, perhaps a parallel world our psyche can only acknowledge through unconsciousness.

The exhibition does not seek to answer or inform, but to simply encourage the viewer to become curious.

Lest We Forget
21 – 30 April | Opening: 21 April at 6pm
Belfast City Hall

Belfast City Hall presents Lest We Forget, a body of work by Lise Mc Greevy created in memory of all those from Northern Ireland who died from here in First Great War.

The exhibition shall continue until 30th April.

www.facebook.com/LiseMcGreevyPhotographic

22 – 26 April
Belfast Harlequins Club, Clubhouse, 45A Deramore Park, Belfast

Belfast Harlequins Club celebrates 10 years of art exhibitions.

Exhibition of paintings by Northern Ireland Artists to include Neil Shawcross, Ross Wilson, Bill Gatt, Connor Maguire and many more.

www.belfastharlequinsrfc.com

Landscape & Memory
23 April – 22 May | Opening: 23 April at 7pm – Official Opening by Cathaoirleach Shane P. O’Reilly – Welcome by Marta Miranda.
Johnston Central Library Gallery, Farnham Centre, Farnham St, Cavan

Johnston Central Library Gallery Space will host an exhibition titled Landscape & Memory curated by visual artist Marilyn Gaffney. The exhibition comprises of 20 international artists work.

One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity, belonging and human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. Landscape therefore is not simply what we see, but a way of seeing. We see it with our eye but interpret it with our mind and ascribe values to landscape for intangible spiritual reasons. Landscape can therefore be seen as a cultural construct in which our sense of place and memories inhere. This group of artists gathered to talk in one shared language -as well as many tongues, on the matter of memory and landscape. Since the landscape changed in times for them, and as much as their eyes allowed, becoming their own. Many of them have come from other countries and cultures, adding to the personal voyage, the re- interpretation of the land by different experiences and tongues.

The landscape then changes, subtly transformed by memory, acquiring multiple forms: abstract digitized photos to fine painting; children playing in bucolic gardens that the artist eye turns sinister, portraits disintegrate to pixels, the human body as a textual form and repository for memories, human impact on the land, stating what matters is the personal voyage, the unique experience under the set point Memory and Landscape.

Exhibiting artists include: Malgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (Poland), Nikolas Lamplaos (Greece), Carly Zufelt (USA), Judith Mazzucco, (USA), Elena Feijoo (USA), Marilyn Gaffney (Ireland), Karen Esteves (USA), Madaline Walker (USA), Tomás Castaño (Spain), Sasha Romashko (Ukraine), Stuart Gibson (USA), Andrew Reid Wildman (Great Britain), Xiaohong Zhang (USA), Reyhaneh Afzalian Naini (Iran), Marta Miranda (Argentina), Yami (France), Klaus Pinter (Austria), Vera L.P. Cauwenberghs (Belgium), Rachel Lin Weaver (USA), Courtney A. Henderson (USA)

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The Table of Life – La Tavola Del Vivere Del Convivere
Monday 27 April to 15 May, 2015

The Exhibition celebrates the theme of Expo “Nutrire La Pianeta”. The Exhibition is curated by the eminent Art Critic and Scholar, Professor Stefano Crespi and exhibitors will include artists from de Chirico and Morandi to contemporary artists with still life as its subject.

Palazzo Bovara, Corso Venezia, Milan, Italy
Further information:
T: 087 248 4176   & 086 068 7236
E: [email protected] & [email protected]
www.johnkeating-art.com

24 – 27 April

Dublin based artist Brian Duggan will present a new solo project ‘391 Days’ with balzer art projects @Art Brussels DISCOVERY.

DISCOVERY is a new section for 14 young galleries presenting artists that are emerging within the European context.

www.artbrussels.com/en/Exhibitors/Discovery | www.balzer-art-projects.ch/