🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MART Members show 2024 - The MART Gallery, 190A Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin, Ireland, D06 R9F9 - Saturday, January 20th, 2024 at 1pm. 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MART Members show 2024🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception Saturday 20th January at 1pm.

Runs Jan 20th – 2nd Feb 2024

Open Wed – Sat: 1-6pm

The MART Gallery, 190A Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin, Ireland, D06 R9F9

I am delighted to have work featured in the MART Members Show coming up next Saturday the 20th of January

For our annual Studio Members Exhibition, the Directors of MART Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin are delighted to present a curated selection of Visual Artists working in our MART studio network in Dublin/Galway and MART Membership Artists. 

MART is the largest supplier of independent, affordable space for the arts, cultural and creative community in Dublin city. We now support over 120 members in 6 studio buildings across Dublin. MART firmly believes in the self-determining artist and art organisation as vital societal and cultural catalyst. It is also a provocation on the role of action in the production of identities; individual and collective, local and global.

Supporting the professional development of our artists is a key part of our remit. Our artist members work across a diverse range of practices which encompasses painting, sculpture, print, drawing, illustration, digital art, photography, film and performance art. Providing the members with an opportunity to exhibit their work publicly gives MART a chance to showcase the expanse of artistic output we support while also allowing the artists to raise their profile, widen their access to audiences and sell their work.

Seanán Kerr, Paul James Kearney, Marina Karysheva, Naoise Sheridan, Valerie Swan, Edel Corrigan, Oleg Brazhnyk,  Lina Cekanaviciene, Anthony D Kelly, Austin Ivers, Catherine Mwase, Conor Burke, Rose McGowan, Jessica Checkley, Lisa Gealbhan, Denise Kevany, Colleen Keough, Brady Izquierdo Rodríguez, Conor Burke, Louise Newman, Joseph Doyle, Colette O’Connell, Eavanna O’Reilly, Irene Uhlemann, Martin Yelverton, Louise Newman, Jillian Murphy, William Kwaku Amo, Sarah Walsh, David Whelan, the Ljilja, Deirdre Hayes, Sarah Edmondson, Bob Campbell, Peann Luaidhe, Billy Dante, Greta Levins, Kata Kukla, Leonie Connellan, Liam Murray

Percentage of profits go to the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance.
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For More About MART Click Here.

This exhibition has kindly been supported by The Arts Council of Ireland.

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: "MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2023" -THE LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE, CASTLEBAR, CO.MAYO, IRELAND- Friday the 17th of November at 6pm 🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2023🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: TONIGHT : Friday the 17th of November at 6pm

Exhibition Running from: Friday the 17th of November – Saturday the 6th of January 2023

Venue:
THE LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall Street,
Castlebar,
Co Mayo,
F23 AN24
www.thelinenhall.com

I am always delighted to have my work selected for exhibition at The Linenhall Arts Centre. Their upcoming “MAYO ARTISTS SHOW 2023” exhibition opens tonight Friday the 17th of November at 6pm, and promises to be a visual treat showcasing work from artists based throughout the County. This years exhibition was curated by none other than the great Ian Wieczorek. I am really looking forward to seeing this show!

About the gallery:
”Arts for All at the Linenhall - we believe that everyone in the community should have the opportunity to access excellent arts experiences.Located in the heart of Castlebar, Mayo’s county town, the Linenhall Arts Centre presents a series of live events and arts experiences throughout the year for audiences of all ages. On a most basic level we believe that art has the potential to improve the lives of those who engage with it. Our eclectic and high-quality programme includes music, theatre, visual arts, literature, cultural cinema, creative learning and RoolaBoola, one of the leading children’s arts festivals in Ireland. ”

For more from the fantastic team at The Linenhall Arts Centre and the Mayo Artists Show 2023 click HERE.

Upcoming Exhibition - "COURAGE & HOPE" From June 18 – September 25, 2022- at Königs-Galerie Kassel, Ob. Königsstraße 39, 34117 Kassel, Germany

☀️🌎🌍🌏 "COURAGE & HOPE"🌏🌍🌎☀️

From June 18 – September 25, 2022

At Königs-Galerie Kassel, Ob. Königsstraße 39, 34117 Kassel, Germany

I am delighted to have been invited to take part in the upcoming exhibition "COURAGE & HOPE" which features amazing work by other international artists as well as students from HBK Braunschweig, Moving School and Universität Kassel, and is taking place in Kassel during Documenta #15.

Each participant was invited to create two pieces of art in response to the words “Courage” and “Hope”, and to also write a short text to accompany these pieces describing where they find courage and hope in their own lives.

These images and texts are meant as seeds and offerings to others in our communities and cultures, to spark conversations about how we find the vitally important qualities of meaning, courage and hope within ourselves and the wider world.

This event is being hosted by the fantastic Moving School details below:

Moving School e.V. is an experimental educational program and artistic research that is the foundation for lifelong learning and creative processes. It is a complement to traditional academic education. Traditional education has a linear design: participating, learning, studying, checking knowledge, going to the next level.

Moving School is more like a learning algorithm and artistic research. Experience, intuition, critical thinking and design logic shape the skills that are necessary to navigate through the challenges and uncertainties of the future. This is rarely found in traditional learning.
Moving School unfolds potentials for positive changes in personal life, in work and in society. Moving School is a worldwide network of students, trainers, professionals, entrepreneurs and artists from different fields and educational centres. It is led by an international board of directors.

For more about Moving School click here.

Poster Image Credit: Elham Hemmat

Upcoming Exhibition - Mayo Artists Exhibition @ The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar,Co. Mayo

Friday 6th December 2019 - Saturday 11th January 2020

I am very happy to announce my participation in the upcoming Mayo Artists Show 2019 which will be taking place at two locations, The Linenhall Arts Centre (Castlebar) and The Ballina Arts Centre (Ballina).

The official opening of the Mayo Artists Show takes place on Friday 6 December (6.00pm at the Linenhall Arts Centre, and 8.00pm at Ballina Arts Centre) There will be a free return bus departing the Linenhall Arts Centre for Ballina Arts Centre at 7.15pm on Friday 6 December. Seats are limited and pre-booking is essential.

Here is a statement from the Gallery:

The show presents a cornucopia of work in all manner of media and offers a fascinating snapshot of the breadth of visual arts practice in the county. And with something for all tastes (and prices), this might just be the ideal opportunity to find that elusive and unique Christmas gift.

For more from The Linenhall Arts Centre visit: www.thelinenhall.com

And The Ballina Arts Centre: www.ballinaartscentre.com

Upcoming Festival - Collagistas #6 @ Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Parvis Saint Gilles 39, 1060 Sint-Gillis, Belgium, Brussels

Its almost time for Collagistas Festival #6. It is a pleasure to have an opportunity to participate once again in this fantastic festival of Collage Art. This years edition takes place in Brussles, Belgium at the amazing venue of Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles. This years theme is that of The Universal Language, a fitting and important topic during this time of division and strife. Check out the statement below:

Collagistas Festival is a celebration of contemporary collage. Our primary purpose is to create an opportunity where collage artists from all over the world can come together to share ideas and thoughts about their collage practise and to disseminate this information through workshops and presentations. We provide a platfom to explore and discuss how collage is made and the role of collage in contemporary visual culture. We do this through the organisation of an annual exhibition and the facilitation of workshops and presentations. Our aim is also to engage the general public and the wider art community in these discussions. Our principle objectives are to maintain an international network of collage artists and to bring collage to a wider audience.

Opening Night: Thursday September 5th 2019 18.00- 22-00
With a Full Programme of Workshops, Presentations and Short Movies running Friday 6th -Sunday 8th.

For More On The Festival: www.collagistas.com

Upcoming Festival - Collagistas #5 @ Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland - From 13th - 16th of September 2018

I feel privileged to be able to participate in this years Collagistas #5 The International Festival of Collage. It is fantastic news to hear that the Collagistas Festival #5 will be held in Dublin this September 13th-16th 2018. So if you are in Dublin on these dates do pop along and join us for a wide array of talks, workshops and a fantastic exhibition of Collage Art. Check out the festival statement below:

Collagistas Festival is a celebration of contemporary collage. Our primary purpose is to create an opportunity where collage artists from all over the world can come together to share ideas and thoughts about their collage practise and to disseminate this information through workshops and presentations. We provide a platfom to explore and discuss how collage is made and the role of collage in contemporary visual culture. We do this through the organisation of an annual exhibition and the facilitation of workshops and presentations. Our aim is also to engage the general public and the wider art community in these discussions. Our principle objectives are to maintain an international network of collage artists and to bring collage to a wider audience.

Collagistas Festival ≠5 will be held in Dublin, from 13th - 16th of September 2018 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

For More On The Festival: www.collagistas.com

For More On The Venue: www.templebargallery.com