Katrina Maguire: from Picture house;
courtesy Context Galleries
To mark Foyle Film Festival,
and its support for new filmmakers, Context Galleries, Derry,
present work by two young artists using video and film. Sarah
Kenny's artwork uses video to make biting critiques of life
in contemporary Ireland. Here came the summer will examine
the Irish domestic holiday - in which the urban centres (Dublin,
Belfast, Derry) migrate en masse to rural seaside resorts, caravan
parks and fairgrounds. Katrina Maguire's Picture house
studies a man recounting memories from his youth, using the rhythm
of film. Animated and expressive, the raconteur describes his
experiences of going to a rural picture house during the late
1940s, in Strabane. Runs until 4 December.
Brian Kennedy: Blue door, Sidi Bou
Saïd, 2002, colour photograph; courtesy the artist
Power of a Woman is a collection
of new works by Northern Irish artist Anne Scullin, portraying
images of women whose cultural, intellectual, political and economic
achievements have made history. The images represent a selection
of women from varying professions and nationalities and are depicted
as large-scale monochrome portrait paintings. Scullin's work has
evolved from exploring emotional qualities in women to her current
representation of powerful iconic subjects. The exhibition continues
until 20 December at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin.
Isabel Nolan: Besieged by sadness;
courtesy Golden Thread Gallery
Thinking of Ideas, a group
show at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, until 31 December
2004 features many well know 'cutting-edge' artists: Ian Charlesworth,
Martina Corry, Mike Hogg, Allan Hughes, Brian
Kennedy, Lisa Malone, Niamh McCann, Willie
McKeown, Susan MacWilliam, Darren Murray, Philip
Napier, Isabel Nolan, Aisling O'Beirn, Gavin
O'Curry, Gary Shaw, Dan Shipsides, Andrew
Vickery and Una Walker.
Portraiture, constructed still life, landscape and the
figure - while the genres Nick Miller paints are at the
heart of the tradition, his work is both contemporary and timeless.
In this exhibition of new work in the vaulted spaces of the Butler
Gallery, the artist displays the depth and breadth of his practice
and convincingly confirms his place among our most significant
contemporary painters. Until 5 December.
Nick Miller: Portrait of John Hogan,
2004, oil on linen, 183 x 168 cm; courtesy Butler Gallery
/ Rubicon Gallery
Anka Mierzejewsa: Playground series,
oil on canvas; courtesy Hillsboro Fine Art
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, hosts the
4th annual Association of Kildare Artists' exhibitionthat will take place from Monday, 15 November to Friday, 17
December. The AKA is the representative body for professional
artists living / working in County Kildare. The annual exhibition
is the focal point for the artists to show their work collectively
on an annual basis.
The Annual Christmas Exhibition, featuring
work by gallery and invited artists, takes place at Hillsboro
Fine Art, Dublin, from 18 November 2004 to 23 December 2004. Artists
include Sandra Blow, Samuel Walsh, Mike Fitzharris,
John Kindness, Noel Sheridan, Maurice Cockrill,
Pauline Flynn, Andrew Litten, Neil Shawcross,
Charles Brady, Eamon Colman, Anya Waterworth,
Clifford Collie, Eddie Kennedy, Anthony Frost,
Paddy McCann, Harry Reid, Peter Collis, Colin
O'Daly, Brian Gormley, Gerald Davis, Elizabeth
LeJeune, Anka Mierzejewsa, Elizabeth Cope, Anita
Shelbourne, Stephen Lawlor, Gwen O'Dowd and
Jean Duncan.
Annette McCormack: Fire of Dance,
bronze; courtesy Riverbank Arts Centre
The Contemporary Arts Review (www.contemporaryartsreview.com),
a new quarterly ezine of critical writings and comments, will
be launched in January 2005. The publication is directed to discussion
and comment on contemporary art practice and realisation both
in Ireland and on an international basis. This is an opportunity
for essayists, critics, theoreticians and audience to give voice
to topics that they feel strongly about and feel are underrepresented
in critical writings currently available. To submit for publication
contact submissions@contemporaryartsreview.com.
Sonia Suominen: Living in a cloud;
courtesy RHA Gallery
Eurojet Futures at the RHA Gallery,
Dublin, which continues until 9 January, 2005, is the fourth exhibition
documenting emerging Irish artists. Selected by RHA Director Patrick
T. Murphy and Exhibitions Curator Ruth Carroll, this year the
artists are John Gerrard, Martin Healy, Nevan
Lahart, Julie Merriman, Ciarán Murphy and Sonia
Suominen.
Nevan Lahart: Dürer's bunny;
courtesy RHA Gallery
Ursula Burke / Daniel Jewesbury: from
Archive: Lisburn Road; courtesy Belfast Exposed
From 1 - 12 February, Signal Arts Centre hosts
Labels and Beyond, an exhibition of paintings by
Ann Kennedy, animator, writer, and recipient of an Arts
and Disability Ireland Award in 2003. Kennedy had spent her working
life in the animation industry, including work on Watership
Down in 1976, and has written and illustrated six children's
books. Affected by a borderline personality disorder, she developed
a freelance career and in 1997 joined a studio with other working
artists. Kennedy says of her own work: "It wasn't until 1997 that
I finally knew the medium most suited to my temperament and I
found that painting in oils was a very real way of expression.
Because my history is in design, my work, though mainly abstract,
has its origins in design and graphics." The opening reception
is on Thursday 3 February.
Ann Kennedy: Monument to instability,
44.5 x 59.5 cm; courtesy the artist
Archive: Lisburn Road by Daniel
Jewesbury and Ursula Burke opens 2 December 2004 (7-9pm)
and runs until 14 January 2005 at Belfast Exposed Photography.
The show is intended as a photographic document of a middle-class
suburb of Belfast, produced during spring and summer of 2004 and
rendering visible a community that does not define itself as a
community, a people who have been content to be invisible. Burke
and Jewesbury employ a pseudo-anthropological gaze to capture
the material culture of a small neighbourhood, centred around
a half-mile stretch of the Lisburn Road. The accompanying publication
comprises a full sequence of images from the project (including
images not in the exhibition), as well as texts from Burke and
Jewesbury introducing their archive, and from Colin Graham, who
examines the contexts of post-Troubles representation and the
Belfast middle class.
James Kenny: Impossible bodies I;
courtesy the artist
Also at the Signal Arts Centre, Dumbfounding
by Greystones-based Goldsmith graduate James Kenny is an
exhibition of drawings and paintings described by the artists
as '"barely existing." Kenny writes: "The images I create...are
temporary, ephemeral by their very nature, lack the the robust
permanency of a painting on canvas but rather inhabit the same
landscape as a digital photograph..." Dumbfounding opens
6 January.
Linda Quinlan: installation, 2004;
courtesy the artist / Crawford Muncipal Gallery of Art; Quinlan
will be participating in C2
C2, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery,
11 December 2004 to 29 January 2005, is an exhibition celebrating
the diversity and quality of contemporary visual-arts practice
in the last decade by artists born in, resident in, or closely
associated with Cork city and county. The exhibition will include
paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, including work in
digital and other new media created over the past ten years. An
extensive catalogue will be published to coincide with the exhibition.
C2 is curated by Peter Murray, Dawn Williams and Anne Boddaert.
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