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VAN: May/June 2011
The Visual Artists News Sheet Contents: Sean Lynch 'Me Jewel & Darlin' installation view. O'Connell Street, Dublin (featuring a reproduction of Harry Clarke's 'The Last Hour of the Night' 1922). 1....
View ArticleSergei Sviatchenko, ‘Mirror by Mirror’ West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen – 23...
Sergei Sviatchenko’s Mirror by Mirror is a tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror. The installation takes up three gallery spaces; two for the artist’s 14 large printed photo-montages and one for...
View Article‘Collective Consciousness’ Galway Arts Centre 29 July –27 August 2011
Galway’s oldest and most established artists collective, Artspace, marked its 25th birthday at the Galway Arts Centre, with ‘Collective Consciousness’ a month-long exhibition of selected members work,...
View ArticleHarin Farocki ‘Recognition and tracking’ The Model, Sligo 2 July – 21 August...
The Model, Sligo has a good track record of introduc- ing Irish audiences to important international artists and Harun Farocki, once described as “Germany’s best known unknown filmmaker” is a good...
View ArticleNiall De Buitlear ‘out of order’ The lab, Dublin 8 July – 19 August 2011
FROM afar, on a window, the drawing looks like a tribal pattern of circles and white contour lines. It is so smooth it could be a transfer or a large window sticker. When I come up close I can see that...
View ArticleIan Burns ‘supreme Fiction’ Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 6 August – 9 October 2011
How did he do that? All nine pieces in ‘Supreme Fiction’ – Ian Burns’ show of works from 2005 to 2011 at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny pose that question. Each is an assemblage of wires, video screens...
View ArticleJim Ricks ‘Death and Sensuality’’ Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco 4...
The recent exhibition ‘Death and Sensuality’, shown this fall at the Mina Dresden Gallery in San Francisco, succeeded in its intended purpose: to promote Irish culture within an American context....
View Article‘In Other Words’’ Lewis Glucksman Gallery 22 July – 30 October 2011
‘In Other Words’, the group exhibition at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, transforms the 26 letters of the alphabet into fugitive non-conformists. Neon letters cling indecipherably to a wall, three-...
View ArticleDermot Seymour ‘Fish, Flesh and Fowl’ Golden Thread Gallery 15 December – 4...
‘Fish Flesh and Fowl’ at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast is a retrospective of Dermot Seymour’s painting, spanning four decades. The show is large, with over 50 paintings and to see his work en...
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VAN: November/December 2011
The Visual Artists News Sheet Ailbhe NÃ Bhriain. Stills from Great Good Places II 5. Column: Emily Mark-FitzGerald. Renaissance Realities 5. Roundup: Recent exhibitions and projects of note 6....
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VAN: January/February 2012
The Visual Artists News Sheet Fiona Mulholland Reflections on Things to Come 2011. 5. Roundup. Recent exhibitions and projects of note. 5. Column. Jonathan Carroll. Smells like Postmodernism. 6....
View ArticleSylvia Grace Borda ‘Churches’ belfast Exposed 20 January – 2 March 2012
‘Churches’ is an exhibition by Canadian photographic artist Sylvia Grace Borda. What is usually an open plan exhibition space has been radically altered to accommodate this show, transformed literally...
View ArticleJohn Ryan ‘Polyptych Subsets: Experiments with Paint’ The Joinery, Dublin 15...
As an exhibition, ‘Polyptych Subsets’ questions whether an artist can allow an artwork to ‘cause’ itself. John Ryan outlines his own practice in terms of contingency, what might or might not happen,...
View ArticleBen Reilly ‘Cyclops’ Fiona Woods ‘Terrascope’ Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon...
Two shows opened at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, in the new year. Inside the main gallery were the prints and sculptures of Ben Reilly, and in the Red Couch Space upstairs, the ceramics of...
View Article‘The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.’ Solstice Arts, Navan 19...
Dreams typically take us into the realm of wonder, horror, or a mixture of both. They leave us feeling elated, pensive, gasping for breath, or shortchanged when we wake. The selection of paintings,...
View ArticleIsabel Nolan ‘A Hole Into the Future’ The model, Sligo 10 December 2011 – 12...
A dignified brown donkey greets the viewer at the entrance to Isabel Nolan’s solo exhibition at The Model, Sligo; its seductive implacable eyes gaze out from the large-scale photograph presaging the...
View ArticleRichard Gorman ‘Kozo’ Kerlin Gallery, Dublin 20 January – 25 February 2012
‘Kozo’, currently showing in the Kerlin Gallery, comprises a body of work created by Richard Gorman on textured paper, handmade by the artist himself in Japan, after which the show is titled. “Just...
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VAN: March/April 2012
Isabel Nolan, Eventually Into Darkness, 2011 The Visual Artists News Sheet 5. Column. Emily Mark Fitzgerald. 5. Column. Jonathan Carroll. 6. Roundup. Recent exhibitions and projects of note....
View Article‘Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions’ Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 16...
‘Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions’ Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 16 June – 6 August 2011 Curated by Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, ‘Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions’ attempts – and I would...
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VAN: May/June 2012
Brendan Earley, A Million Years Later, 2011, bronze and silicon, 20 x 30 x 150cm 5. Column. Emily Mark Fitzgerald. 6. Column. Jonathan Carroll. 7. Column. Mark Fisher. 7. Roundup. Recent exhibitions...
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