Pallas: Pallas for Palestine—Fundraising exhibition
📍 The Bank at the Digital Hub, 86 James Street, D08 C2PR
Opening event: 6pm Wednesday 1st May
We are delighted to have Tamara Alrifai, Director of External Relations and Communications for UNRWA will give a short address during the evening.
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Artists include:
Marian Balfe, Susan Buttner, Robyn Carey, Dominique Crowley, Mark Cullen, Karen Ebbs, Andrej Getman, Léann Herlihy, Garreth Joyce, Steffi Kelly, Barbara Knezevic, Gillian Lawler, Dave Madigan, Alan Magee, Lana May Fleming, Paul McCarthy, Ronan McCrea, Emma Mckeagney, Sean Molloy, Gavin Murphy, Blaine O’Donnell, Irene O’Neill, Eileen O’Sullivan, Leda Scully, Kym Tracey, Harry Walsh Foreman, Catherine Ward, Eve Woods.
Proceed to Medecins Sans Frontieres and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.
We’d like to thank The Digital Hub for hosting us at The Bank.
For more information or to purchase artworks, please contact info@pallasprojects.org
@thedigitalhub @unrwa @doctorswithoutborders @artscouncilireland
fundraising #contemporaryart #palestine
The catalogue is available: https://issuu.com/pallasprojectsissuu/docs/catalogue_pallas_for_palestine
& to link to info and the catalogue on the website: https://pallasprojects.org/project/pallas-for-palestine
So pleased to have two of my paintings included as part of the opening of Naas Library and Cultural Centre, thanks to Paula Barrett and all the team at Kildare County Council.
Difference Engine – Mark Cullen – Wendy Judge – Gillian Lawler – will give a talk about their group practice and shows to date at the RHA Gallery on the 28th of February at 530pm.
More info : https://rhagallery.ie/events/event/future-academies-difference-engine
Solo exhibition Edgelands at the Molesworth Gallery
I am pleased to announce my upcoming solo exhibition Edgelands at the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin.
Edgelands as a body of work, examines ideas about territory and boundaries and draws inspiration from existing edge lands and wastelands to create work which explores two worlds in transition.
Edgelands – 22/06/23 – 20/07/23
Accompanying catalogue with a new essay by Valeria Ceregini, Independent curator and writer.
More updates and information to follow at http://www.molesworthgallery.com
The former head of collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Marshall, has written of Lawler’s work that it is pervaded by unease. “It hangs like microscopic atoms of pollution in the air, lingers around multiple ‘blind’ windows, seeks to find a foothold under the high rises, only to collapse into the hollow grid-like like spaces that should be their foundations, and attempts to settle on ground that is subtly curved, billowing or cratered.” The work is marked by “strange blooms of faded colour, dusty pinks, yellows and greens that glow uncertainly against almost monochrome ground colours, surprised occasionally by more accentuated patchworks that remind one simultaneously of Colin Middleton and of illustrated children’s books.”
Yet Marshall also maintains that Lawler’s incredibly subtle treatment of colour, texture and scale, “makes her work a celebration of everything that is good in painting. The work is uplifting because it is always uplifting to find artists with the courage to address difficult issues. When they do it so subtly and effortlessly, we all benefit. The last words in relation to Lawler’s painting are a repetition of those attributed to the great German Modernist Mies Van Der Rohe on good architecture: ‘less is more’.”
Images:
Edgeland VI, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, 2023
Edgeland III, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, 2023
193rd RHA Annual at the RHA Gallery, Dublin.
Delighted to be involved in this years Annual Exhibition celebrating 200 years since it’s founding. More info at http://www.rhagallery.com
Image: Transition, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, 2021.
Finding Form – Group exhibition at the the McKenna Gallery, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
Finding Form – Selected Works from Kildare’s Municipal Art Collection
Friday 21st April, 2023 – 09:30 – Saturday 27th May, 2023 – 17:00
Come along and explore artwork from Kildare County Council’s Municipal Art Collection (MAC) established in the 1970’s. The collection normally displayed in public buildings across the county, has been revisited, and a selection of work has been especially curated for this exhibition.
A municipal collection is a body that is in the process of becoming and so, is not easily defined. The works chosen from the collection echo this feeling of flux, of taking form, the momentary becoming monumental through time and context and medium. Included among the selection are artworks by Niamh O’Malley, Isabel Nolan, Gillian Lawler, Shane Hynan, Emma Stroude, John Minihan, Seán Cotter, Rebecca Peart, John Behan, James Nolan, Derek A Fitzsimons and Dominic Turner.
This exhibition has been curated by Paula Barrett, the newest member of our Kildare Arts Service team. “This has been a great opportunity to get to know the works in the Kildare MAC, to take time to reflect on the purchasing policy and what it means to care for and interpret a municipal collection.”
Official opening Friday 21 April, 6:30pm – all welcome
As part of this exhibition there will also be a Free Panel Discussion on Thursday 11 May at 7pm and a Finding Form Art Workshop for adults on Thursday 25 May at 7pm. More details to follow.
McKenna Gallery
Friday 21 April – Saturday 27 May
Monday – Friday 9.30am-5pm | Saturday 10am-1pm
Visual Artist Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland
Many thanks to the Arts Council and selection panel for awarded me a Visual Artist Bursary 2022.
Portrait of my Mother
This is a recent painting I made of my mother Mary Lawler who died in late 2017. It was quite an emotional journey for me as it is the first painting I have made of her since she died. I wanted to capture her beauty and poise, something she never lost even up to the end.
She is pictured wearing her bridesmaid dress at her sister Helen’s wedding in the 1970s.
Here she exists forever at the Edgelands.
Graphic Studio Dublin – 60 Year Retrospective at the RHA Gallery
192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
Thank you to the RHA Gallery for choosing my work Edgelands III for this years Annual Exhibition, congratulations to all the artists and winners.
https://rhagallery.viewingrooms.com/artworks/categories/6/212-gillian-lawler-edgeland-iii/
Golden Fleece Award Exhibition 21 Years
Thank you to the Golden Fleece and Aisling Prior for choosing my painting Transformation III for this exhibition. The exhibition opens on the 24th of April and continues until the 4th of June 2022. Congratulations to all the Award Winners.
https://solsticeartscentre.ie/event/the-golden-fleece-award-21-years
192nd RHA Annual Exhibition
Thank you to the RHA for choosing my painting Edgelands III for the Annual Show 2022.
Opening the 23rd of May and continues to the 24th of July.
http://www.rhagallery.ie for more info
Parenting Residency Award at the Cow House Studios
Myself and Mark Cullen both received the Parenting Residency from the Cow House Studios in Wexford during April 2022. More info at http://www.cowhousestudios.com
Interview with Giulia De Sanctis for Artribune Magazine, March 2022.
Solo Exhibition Edgelands opening at the Weber and Weber Gallery, Turin, in January 2022
Delighted to announce that my solo exhibition Edgelands curated by Valeria Ceregini, will be opening on the 13th of January at the Weber and Weber Gallery in Turin. The exhibition will continue until the 12 of March 2022 and is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland.
http://www.galleriaweber.it for more details
New paintings for the Winter Exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery
The Winter Exhibition opens at the Molesworth Gallery on the 2nd of December and continues until the 23rd of December showing work by gallery artists. For more information visit www.molesworthgallery.com
6th Biennial of Painting, HDLU Zagreb
Honored and delighted to have been invited to take part in this group exhibition, curated by Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy from Pallas Projects, in Dublin. More details and information can be found at http://www.pallasprojects.org
191st Annual Exhibition at the RHA Gallery Dublin 2021
Thank you to all involved at the RHA Gallery for choosing my painting Transition for this years Annual Exhibition in Autumn 2021. Updates to follow.
Lecture series ‘Artists Beyond the Studio’ from the Graphic Studio Dublin
The lecture I gave about my award and residency at the Graphic Studio Dublin is now available to view through their YouTube channel, see the link above.
Group exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery
I will be participating in Chrysalis, a group show at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, opening the 7th to the 30th of May. www.molesworthgallery.com for more details.
I recently gave a lecture about my most recent work and my Residency Award at the Graphic Studio Dublin. For those who didn’t see it a recording will be available through the Graphic Studio Dublin You Tube channel, details below.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0D9SwjqPO4ntaLSjBB78tA
Feature in The Irish Times by Sara Keating, February 2021
Visual Arts Bursary 2020
Delighted to have received a Visual Arts Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Thank you to all involved at the Arts Council. This bursary will fund the development of new work for a number of exhibitions internationally and at home, including a solo exhibition at the Weber and Weber Gallery, Turin, in September 2021.
Painting Acquired for the Arts Council of Ireland Collection
Thrilled to announce that my painting Urban Mountain has been acquired by the Arts Council of Ireland for their collection.
New work for the Annual Exhibition RHA Gallery 2020
My new painting, Relocation, was selected for this years 190th Annual Exhibition at the RHA Gallery in Dublin.
Visit www.rhagallery.ie for updates and info
A film documenting the solo exhibition by Gillian Lawler at the Molesworth Gallery, March 5th to the 30th of May 2020
Film by Darren Bolger
Visits / Revisitations
Vasco Ascolini Elisa Bertaglia Fausto Bertasa
Rodrigo Blanco Davide Di Taranto Chiara Dynys Bruno Fantelli Federico Guerri Horiki Katsutomi Gillian Lawler Bruno Lucca Colm Mac Athlaoich Marcovinicio Angelo Molinari Daniele Monarch Aldo Mondino Gioacchino Pontrelli Sylvie Romieu Stefan Sehler Chloe Swopshire Antonio Violetta
The Weber and Weber Gallery, Turin.
May 21 – July 25, 2020
from Tuesday to Saturday 3.30pm – 7.30pm
Current: Solo exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
5/03/20 – 31/03/20
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words
Futuristic sublime is psychologically explored in these new paintings through concepts of place, ground, organisation, location/relocation, transformation, the spatial, and intangible voids. The work presents my own unreliable recollection of futuristic, free-floating, anthropomorphic habitats. The use of abandoned places as back drops, empty and laid bare create a vista which allows me to imagine an alternative timeline or dimension and takes an engaged perspective of nature, reduced and reconstructed as a series of indefinite structures: systems in-flux, uncertain and reduced to conceptual visions of space, time, and existence.
My previous ’eminent domain’ exhibitions, based on my visit to Centralia, an abandoned disintegrating mining town in Pennsylvania USA (2014), referenced the reality of a desolate, post polluted landscape and the forced relocation of its inhabitants to a nearby borough. Sinkholes, ventilation systems, remnants of abandoned homes, overgrown streets and barren inaccessible areas became re-imagined elements within the work.
My new work explores related ideas which surfaced while negotiating the grief I experienced upon the death of my mother in late 2017. These elements revisit my use of platforms and scaffolds and incorporate new forms based on paper air planes, diving boards and the bones of architectural structures. These forms are at times grounded, moving, suspended, tethered, hovering, unfolding and at other times standing apart from the surrounding landscape. They capture an ephemeral quality, a fleeting moment which bears witness to a momentary leap of faith. They invoke their ghostly inhabitants and act as sentinels, observing at a distance, travelling perhaps to another place, appearing conspicuous at times or camouflaged by elaborate patterning, adding a surreal, dreamlike sense of discomfort, where what appears to have been planned according to a perspectival logic is withheld and subverted. At times the canvas is split into two territories with a boundary line providing a means of transition and transformation. For me these territories resonate with the passing of my mother and I try to understand the process of corporeal transformation as an intangible connection to this same presence.
Gillian Lawler 2020
New print, Plantation, at the Winter Show, Graphic Studio Dublin
Following my Dublin City Council Residency Award 2019 at the Graphic Studio Dublin I am pleased to exhibit this new print at this years Winter Show at the Graphic Studio Gallery.
I hope you can make it along. Please find the details below.
Graphic Studio Gallery is delighted to announce its annual Winter Show, featuring new work by members of Graphic Studio Dublin and selected prints from our visiting artist scheme.
You are invited to a private viewing on
Saturday 7th December 2019, 2.30pm
Join us for mulled wine, with music by Ria Czerniak Le Bov
Exhibition continues until 11/1/2020
Gallery Closed from 3pm on 24/12/2018, reopens on 5/1/2019
Graphic Studio Gallery, Through the arch, Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Open Decmber, Mon – Fri: 10am – 5.30pm, Sat: 11am – 5pm
Tel: +353 1 679 8021
email: gallery@graphicstudiodublin.com
web: http://www.graphicstudiodublin.com
Image: Plantation, 45 x 50 cm, 2019.
189th Annual Exhibition at the RHA Gallery 2019
I will be showing Transition as part of this years RHA Annual Exhibition at The RHA Gallery, Dublin. Please visit www.rhagallery.ie for more details.
JULIET ART MAGAZINE
Gillian Lawler. Paintings through its poetical emotions
Interview with Valeria Ceregini
21 NOVEMBER INTERVIEWS
How important is time in your artistic process?
Gillian Lawler: Time is an essential component of my work that is evident through a process of mutilayered images. I give myself about a year before an exhibition to realise a new body of work. The work evolves slowly at first, building up imagery and association layer by layer. These layers are very subtle and enrich the work with a depth of meaning only perceptible through the act of prolonged observation. I use the canvas in its preliminary form as a research vehicle, experimenting with various geometric forms, line, mood and projection of mind. The motifs I reuse are based on the concept of form, my daily interactions on a human level and my own personal feeling in this moment. I believe the painting is finished when I feel form and atmosphere/mood are balanced.
How do you consider your art practice? And how do you describe it?
GL: I am primarily a painter however over the last couple of years I have experimented with sculpture, photography, slide projection and drawing. My painting in the past has been described in sculptural terms so it was a natural transition using other media to describe what I do. My work describes my place in the known world and beyond, past experiences and feeds off of current thinking concerning our environment, climate change and prevalent existential unease.
Currently, what is the title of your solo exhibition in Turin and how does it fit with the main concept of Painting through its poetical emotions?
GL: My exhibition for the Weber and Weber Gallery in Turin is entitled This entropic order. Entropy is a measure of uncertainty or randomness and suggests the universe is moving towards a state of maximum entropy – this is countered by theories of complexity and growth. With this in mind my new work infuses the idea of place, organisation, relocation and transformation through different states of being. This approach allows for an application and juxtaposition of imagined forms directly painted onto the canvas, a free flowing stream of unconsciousness so to speak, which through the process of time is erased and reworked until it finally resembles a clear point of thought. Order is applied according to the balance of shape, line, colour and empty space. The liminal space is important as a place of transition, and allows for a multifaceted approach to image making, a kind of order precariously poised on a rising tide of disorder.
Which emotions do you try or not to arouse in the observer?
GL: I am interested in the idea of architectural unease, recurring checker board motifs accentuate a definite but skewed anti-perspective, which herein add to a surreal, dreamlike sense of discomfort, where what appears to have been planned according to a perspectival logic is withheld and subverted. In more recent paintings I have explored the idea of transition, moving from one state of being to another, an earth bound state moving towards perhaps a more spiritual untethered form. My colour palette is broad but greyed in tone so it imbues the work with a sense of sadness at times. Within the most recent work the image of a platform acts as a vehicle for this transformation and creates a sense of weightlessness which inspires a sense of hope.
How you create these alternative universes, extra cosmos where geometrical elements settle the space?
GL: I am interested in abandoned places, empty and laid bare, a vista which allows me to imagine an alternative timeline or dimension free of the clutter of once concentrated human civilisation.
The addition of hypothetical architectural structures are multifaceted and can be grounded, floating, tethered or expansive. They act as sentinels, observing at a distance, travelling perhaps to another place, appearing conspicuous at times or camouflaged by elaborate patterning. They are I hope, a point of crossing between two places, a place in ones mind and a hook which pulls us through. My use of a chequer board pattern creates a skin which can be pulled and stretched in many directions giving the forms a sense of movement through time.
The exhibition project Paintings through its poetical emotions (20th September 2018 – 2nd February 2019, Galleria Weber & Weber, Turin) curated by Valeria Ceregini is kindly supported by Culture Ireland (cultureireland.ie)
Valeria Ceregini is art historian, critic and independent curator based in Turin and Dublin (Ireland).
Solo exhibition at the Weber and Weber Gallery, Turin
I am delighted to announce my first solo exhibition in Italy with The Weber and Weber Gallery in Turin. This exhibition is the second installment of a series of exhibitions curated by Valeria Ceregini entitled “Painting through its poetical emotions”. Please find the invitation below.
Gillian Lawler
This Entropic Order
curated by Valeria Ceregini
The Weber and Weber Gallery, Turin.
30 October – 8 December 2018
Opening reception
Tuesday 30 October, 6 – 9 pm,
This Entropic Order
Lawler’s new work infuses the idea of place, organisation, relocation and transformation through different states of being. The work incorporates the platform as an entity which is at times grounded, moving, suspended, tethered, hovering and at other times standing apart from the surrounding landscape. Recurring checker board motifs accentuate a definite but skewed anti-perspective, which herein add to a surreal, dreamlike sense of discomfort, where what appears to have been planned according to a perspectival logic is withheld and subverted.
Her previous ’eminent domain’ exhibitions, based on the abandoned mining town of Centralia in Pennsylvania, USA, referenced the reality of a desolate landscape and the forced relocation of its inhabitants to a nearby borough. Suspended, grounded and hovering structures invoke these ghostly inhabitants, confronting the viewer with a wasteland, suggesting a vast and fragile future or past. These hypothetical architectural structures act as sentinels, observing at a distance, travelling perhaps to another place, appearing conspicuous at times or camouflaged by elaborate patterning.
‘This entropic sense of order precariously poised on a rising tide of disorder characterises her fine-grained arrangements of grids, fault-lines, slippages, extreme perspectives and smoke plumes It’s a visual language that is rich in associations. She manages to suggest great scale – shifting tectonic plates, the earth’s atmospheric envelope – without making vast images. ‘
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, May 2018.
‘In This Entropic Order this type of physical suspension turns into a kind of spiritual, abstract and metaphysical suspension. In Lawler’s paintings everything is blocked, immobilized, as in the most perfect idea of still-life. And it is precisely on this temporal category placed on the threshold of life and death, in that instant of eternal present, in a place idealized by the mind of the artist on which the figuration dwells. The artist challenges the limits of perspective with a multiplicity of planes and with the articulation of shadows through an executive minutiae that introduces us to the many components of an abstract space geometrically constructed in which time is infinite’.
Valeria Ceregini, 2018.
More information at The Weber and Weber Gallery http://www.galleriaweber.it
Valeria Ceregini https://valeriaceregini.com/about/
Exhibition catalogue available through the gallery or on request from the artist.
The exhibitions are supported by / Le mostre sono sostenute da Culture Ireland
The exhibition catalogue “Painting through its poetical emotion” is supported by / ll catalogo della mostra “Painting through its poetical emotion” è sostenuto da Kildare County Council
A special thanks to / Un ringraziamento speciale all’Ambasciata d’Irlanda e all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Dublino
Resort Revelations
2018 Annual Public Art Programme, Lynders Mobile Home Park, Portrane, North County Dublin
Launch 7th of September at 7pm
Exhibition 7th – 15th 10-5pm Lynders Mobile Home Park
Fingal County Council’s Arts Office are delighted to present new works by artists who have been participating on our award winning residency programme at Lynders Mobile Home Park from the 7th to the 15th of September. We will kick off on Friday 7th September with a special launch evening where guests will be invited to experience this beautiful part of North County Dublin through art. Councillor Anthony Lavin, Mayor of Fingal will officiate on the opening night where visitors can expect a locally organised card game of will animate a limited edition card deck by artist Bennie Reilly which features her artworks created from objects found while collecting along the local beaches and inspired by the Cabinet of Curiosities at Newbridge House and Farm, Donabate. Jessica Foley of Difference Engine will bring us on a journey to the coast for a live performance of a text and sound work created on while on residency which weaves topographical, anecdotal and fictional narratives which reflect her experience as a visitor to the area.
Engage in the art of disorientation with Difference Engine artists Mark Cullen & Gillian Lawler’s On & on & on & on and inversion I/II/ a site specific sculptural maze created from a complex windbreaker system at the park. Adjust your eyes to view Wendy Judge’s Land Grabs – a photographic sculpture series where a familiar landscape becomes fantastical.
Following the years hosting artists at the mobile home park through the collaboration with Fingal arts office on Resort Residency. Gerry Lynders, proprietor at the park has built a studio and exhibition space at the park where renowned Irish painter Ciaran Murphy will show his
collection of new works which have observed a dreamlike holiday sequence like images from a non-digital camera roll he gives us insight into the artist’s eye and the power of the image to influence or thinking about place. Marie Farrington reveals the unremarkable to be monumental; her work See Level transforms the surface patterns of the mobile home vernacular into beautiful sculptural forms, plaster cast and mixed with seawater material is mixed with the site.
There are a number of special events over the programme Bennie Reilly’s Souvenirs of Portrane will be installed in the Cabinet of Curiosities room at Newbridge House Donabate, the visit will include course a free tour of the house for those booking to see the work, Jessica Foley of difference engine will deliver a writing workshop at the residency space and Difference Engine artists will give an exciting creative workshop titled Image Engine a must for anyone interested in thinking differently. There will be a rare chance to work with Ciaran Murphy where he will take participants through a process of looking at landscape with an outdoor workshop.
Limited Edition playing card decks Souvenirs of Portrane by Bennie Reilly will be available exclusively to those visiting the exhibition at Lynders all welcome to the Launch on the 7th of September at 7pm exhibition continues at the park until the 15th of September.
Workshop Schedule
Saturday 8th September
Difference Engine – writing workshop Jessica Foley 11- 1pm
Difference Engine – Image Engine Drawing Workshop 2.30 – 3.30pm
Bennie Reilly, – Souvenirs of Portrane at the Cabinet of Curiosities Newbridge House and Farm, Donabate includes house tour 2pm & 3pm
Saturday 15 th September 11am – 1.30pm
Drawing workshop with Ciaran Murphy, outdoor exploration, all materials provided meet at The Studio at Lynders Mobile Home Park Portrane.
Saturday 15th September
Bennie Reilly, – Souvenirs of Portrane at the Cabinet of Curiosities Newbridge House and Farm includes house tour 2pm & 3pm
All workshops are free of charge. Booking Essential.
For details & booking:
Caroline Cowley
Public Art Co-ordinator
Caroline.cowley@fingal.ie
01 870 8449
Getting There:
From Dublin head North Bound to M1, Exit Junction 4/left 2 lanes to Skerries/Rush Donabate & take 2 exit at roundabout onto R132 signposted Donabate, continue down and Newbridge House & Farm is on your left for Portrane continue into Donabate Village, keeping left over bridge at junction take the right and continue all the way out to Lynders Mobile Home Park, the coast and Lambay Island will be in view.
By Public Transport: Dart from Connolly every hour, bus 33B from Donabate Centre (opposite church)
The Boyle Arts Festival | Invited artist
MAIN EXHIBITION: GATHERING
19th July – 26th August, King House
11am – 6pm daily and at times of events at King House
Now in its 29th year, the magnificent setting of King House is again be the centrepiece for the Boyle Arts Festival, bringing established and emerging Irish artists together under one roof in this most gracious of surroundings.
Gathering features over 140 acclaimed artists and rising stars from across the island of Ireland. The diversity of approaches and practices will include works in painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, ceramics and photography,
The exhibition has been curated by Paul McKenna and will be officially opened on Thursday 19th July at 8pm in King House by Brent Pope
The List of Artists:
Neisha Allen, Laura Angell, Brian Ballard, John Behan, Tinka Bechert, David Begley, Helen G. Blake, Sahoko Blake, Katherine Boucher Beug, Ronan Bowes, Cormac Boydell, Patrick Bradley, Thomas Brezing, Tina Brooks, Cornelius Browne, Ken Browne, Patricia Burns, Peter Burns, Anne Butler, Anna Campbell, Comhghall Casey, Fiona Cawley, Nuala Clarke, Tom Climent, Eamon Colman, Emma Connolly, Paula Corcoran, Malachy Costello, David Crone, Aidan Crotty, Frances Crowe, Mark Cullen, Cecilia Danell, Orla de Bri, Diarmuid Delargy, Mary Donnelly, Bernadette Doolan, Mollie Douthit, Liz Doyle, Naomi Draper, Mags Duffy, Felim Egan, Eileen Ferguson, Brian Ferran, Denise Ferran, Philip Flanagan, Samantha Ellis Fox, Annette Gaffney, Martin Gale, Conor Gallagher, Matthew Gammon, Graham Gingles, Cara Gordon, Catherine Greene, Neal Greig, Ronan Halpin, Pat Harris, Karen Hendy, Diane Henshaw, Redmond Herrity, Sean Hillen, Trina Hobson, Carol Hodder, Oonagh Hurley, Craig Jefferson, Josephine Kelly, Paul Kelly, Mary Theresa Keown, Bernadette Kiely, John Kingerlee, Vera Klute, Gillian Lawler, Stephen Lawlor, Paddy Lennon, Maria Levinge, Philip Lindey, Daniel Lipstein, Kaye Maahs, Patrick MacAllister, Kate MacDonagh, Bernadette Madden, Ciaran Magill, Selma Makela, Susan Mannion, Francis Matthews, Kevin McAleenan, Mary McCaffrey, Shauna McCann, Eleanor McCaughey, Peader McDaid, Brian McDonagh, Philip McFadden, Kenny McKendry, Jasper McKinney, Sean Molloy, Peter Monaghan, Martin Mooney, Billy Moore, Zoe Murdoch, Noel Murphy
Olivia Musgrave, Niall Naessens, Leonora Neary, Heidi NguyenLeslie Nicholl, Seamus O’Byrne, Beatrice O’Connell, Hughie O’Donoghue, Cormac O’Leary, Patrick O’Reilly, Eileen O’Sullivan, Helen O’Sullivan Tyrrell, Helen O’Toole, Kate Oram, Vida Pain, Jack Pakenham, Michael Quane, Ann Quinn, Laurence Riddell, Gary Robinson, Vivienne Roche, Frances Ryan, Robert Ryan, Una Sealy, Bettina Seitz, Neil Shawcross, Niall Sheerin, Mark Shields, Blaise Smith, Sinead Smyth, Emma Stroude, Cara Thorpe, Dominic Turner, Hanneke Van Ryswyk, Lorcan Walshe, Conor Walton, Michael Wann, Colin Watson, Ian Wieczorek, Chris Wilson, Kate Wilson, Keith Wilson, Ross Wilson.
Review of Hiraeth at the Molesworth Gallery by Aidan Dunne at The Irish Times, May 2018
Hiraeth, solo exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, May 2018
The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Hiraeth, a solo exhibition of new work by Gillian Lawler. ‘Hiraeth’ is a welsh word that describes the pain of loving a place, the pain wrought by distance, a yearning for a home you cannot return to or no longer exists – or perhaps never was. The work draws on memories of Lawler’s childhood home, which was surrounded by old trees, tall and imposing but simultaneously safe and protective. Well-trodden footpaths led the way to fields beyond, dotted with cherry and beech coppices, where the artist regularly lost herself in an immersive fantasy world. She left this home many years ago, but its early impressions are deeply rooted in her art-making. Her interest in abandoned places echoes the loss and longing to reconnect with her formative years growing up in this rural landscape.
Her previous eminent domain exhibitions, based on the abandoned mining town of Centralia in Pennsylvania, referenced the reality of a desolate landscape and the forced relocation of its inhabitants to a nearby borough. Suspended, grounded and hovering structures invoke these ghostly inhabitants, confronting the viewer with a wasteland, suggesting a vast and fragile future or past. These hypothetical architectural structures act as sentinels, observing at a distance, travelling perhaps to another place, appearing conspicuous at times or camouflaged by elaborate patterning.
Lawler’s new work infuses the idea of relocation and transformation through different states of being. The work incorporates the platform as an entity which is at times grounded, moving, suspended, tethered, hovering and at other times standing apart from the surrounding landscape. These platforms act as after-images, recalling the ritual of the Tibetan sky burial, where the placement of the body on a platform high in the Himalayas, cleaved of life, represents the movement of the body/spirit from one state to another.
The former head of collections at IMMA, Catherine Marshall, has written of Lawler’s work that it is pervaded by unease. “It hangs like microscopic atoms of pollution in the air, lingers around multiple ‘blind’ windows, seeks to find a foothold under the high rises, only to collapse into the hollow grid-like like spaces that should be their foundations, and attempts to settle on ground that is subtly curved, billowing or cratered.” The work is marked by “strange blooms of faded colour, dusty pinks, yellows and greens that glow uncertainly against almost monochrome ground colours, surprised occasionally by more accentuated patchworks that remind one simultaneously of Colin Middleton and of illustrated children’s books”.
Yet Marshall also maintains that Lawler’s incredibly subtle treatment of colour, texture and scale “make her work a celebration of everything that is good in painting. The work is uplifting because it is always uplifting to find artists with the courage to address difficult issues. When they do it so subtly and effortlessly, we all benefit. The last words in relation to Lawler’s painting are a repetition of those attributed to the great German Modernist Mies Van Der Rohe on good architecture: ‘less is more’”.
Lawler was born in 1977. She received a BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2000. She has won numerous awards, including the Hennessy Craig Award, RHA Gallery Annual exhibition in 2007, the Whytes Award, RHA Gallagher Gallery in 2007 and was the overall winner of the Open Selection Exhibition Award at the Éigse Arts Festival in 2009. Other awards include a Kildare Arts Services Award 2015/2013/2011/2009, an Arts Council Bursary Award 2009, and Culture Ireland Award 2018/2017/2011. She was shortlisted for the Beers Lambert Contemporary, Thames and Hudson publication, 100 Painters of Tomorrow in 2013, the Celeste International Art Prize in 2012 and a Merit prize from the Golden Fleece Award in 2013.
- Delighted to have been invited to take part in this exhibition in Belfast curated by Ciara Hickey and Nora Hickey, details below.
House Taken Over
A weekend of artist responses, talks and performances
Curated by Hickey + Hickey
At ‘Heathcote’, South Belfast, Friday 20th April – Sunday 22nd April 2018
For full details of the house location, please email hickeyandhickey2018@gmail.com http://www.housetakenover.com
Exhibiting Artists Sighle BHREATHNACH-‐CASHELL, Joseph BEUYS, Declan CLARKE, John D’ARCY, Irina GHEORGHE, Allan HUGHES, Tom HUGHES, Dorothy HUNTER, Alexey KRASNOVSKY, Gillian LAWLER, Julie LOVETT, Roseanne LYNCH, Colin MARTIN, Lorcan McGEOUGH, Una MONAGHAN, Maeve O’LYNN, Tullis RENNIE, Penelope WARD, AMINI (Artists Moving Image Northern Ireland)
House Taken Over is an exhibition of work by nineteen artists in ‘Heathcote’ an historic private home in South Belfast, with an accompanying programme of events, inspired by a recent unexpected discovery about the house. Last year, sister curators Ciara Hickey (Learning Producer Hillsborough Castle) and Nora Hickey M’Sichili (Director, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris) became aware that during World War Two their family home had been the Northern Irish Intelligence Headquarters for a covert operation involving a network of secret listeners who tuned in to their radio sets in homes across the province listening to enemy communications. The logs recorded by the listeners were forwarded to ‘Heathcote’, where they were transferred directly to codebreakers in Bletchley Park to be decrypted. The exhibition takes its name from a short story by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, (b.1946 Brussels – d. 1984 Paris), in which a family home is gradually taken over by some unknown element, leading the inhabitants to eventually abandon it completely. There is never any explanation as to what takes over the house; one is left with more questions than answers and the reader is obliged to imagine what has happened.
Events Programme – Friday 20 – Sunday 22 April 2018 Friday 6pm – 8pm
Opening Reception Friday 7pm Opening Performance: HIVE Choir Saturday 2pm Reading: Julio Cortázar’s ‘House Taken Over’ followed by new exhibition response by Maeve O’Lynn Saturday 3pm Performance: Tullis Rennie ‘Muscle Memory’ Sunday 11am Lecture: Penelope Ward Sunday 1pm
Screening: Presented by AMINI with talk by Jaqueline Holt
Sunday 3pm Performance: Tullis Rennie ‘Muscle Memory’ Opening Times for exhibition (viewing by appointment only) Saturday 21 April, 11am – 5pm Sunday 22 April, 11am-‐ 5pm
Sonorities House Taken Over is presented as part of the Sonorities Festival organised by the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and includes work that draws on core festival themes: forms of listening, techno-‐human encounters and matters such as machine-‐listening and audio-‐coding. www.sonorities.org.uk For more information, to book an event or to view the exhibition please email us at hickeyandhickey2018@gmail.com and consult www.housetakenover.com This project is generously supported by the British Council
With thanks to Irish Art Courier and Golden Thread Gallery House Taken Over is part one of a project which will result in a group exhibition on surveillance in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris (September – December 2018) and in Solstice Arts Centre Navan in 2019. Hickey + Hickey is the collaborative curatorial practice of sisters Ciara Hickey (Learning Producer at Hillsborough Castle since 2017, Co-‐Director of Household Belfast and former Curator at Belfast Exposed) and Nora Hickey M’Sichili (Director of the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, Ireland’s International Arts Centre, since 2013 and former Director of Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray). You are invited to House Taken Over, a weekend of artist responses, talks and performances. Curated by Hickey + Hickey this exhibition will take place at a secret location in Belfast from Friday 20th April – Sunday 22nd April 2018 as part of the Sonorities Festival.
To book an event or to view the exhibition please email us at: hickeyandhickey2018@gmail.com and consult http://www.housetakenover.com
Gillian Lawler With Difference Engine, ALTERN_ATORS At HDLU Zagreb
DIFFERENCE ENGINE IX
ALTERN_ATORS
HDLU, ZAGREB
19th of April – 3rd of May
2018
Wendy Judge
Mark Cullen
Jessica Foley
Gillian Lawler
…here, earth will appear open and from fissures will fly sweet rhizomatic vapours… Where grounds separate, aperiodic patterns will emerge… Images of distant, fractured architectures will assert themselves against an horizon of faraway geologies… The way will seem at first unclear… but listen… voices will speak out and there will be bright shelter and you will not be alone…
Altern_ators is a collaborative composition that generates and performs differences within a gallery context, drawing audiences into relation with them. The mood of Altern_nators is charged with a consciousness of worldly and other-worldly agency and change.
Increasingly, we feel and know that we are living through a moment of rapid technological and environmental change, pervasive wars and intellectual, emotional and political inertia. We live and work in societies and contexts increasingly conditioned by anti-democratic politics, predictive policing algorithms and grotesque technological consumerism, irresponsibility and waste. More than ever, we feel the necessity of art.
Difference Engine IX stages an Altern_ators assembly for the audience of HDLU to encounter, think and become with. We imagine Altern_ators as a context where differences and tensions can be produced, inhabited and explored personally and collectively.
Difference Engine Statement
Difference Engine is both an evolving exhibition and a model of artist-led curation by Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler, Mark Cullen and Jessica Foley. We have been working and touring together since 2009 with other guests.
Our collective name is lifted from the 19th century work of Charles Babbage, the world’s first mechanical computational machine and forerunner for the modern computer: The Difference Engine. Babbage was a cantankerous English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, mechanical engineer and notorious collaborator with the world’s first computer programmer, Lady Ada Lovelace. We have adopted the name Difference Engine as a kind of poetic motto for working together creatively, pragmatically and critically. We particularly enjoy Babbage’s aphorism that “Jamming is a form of Error Detection,” and take this as something of a slogan for our collective experimentation and collaboration.
As Difference Engine we play with the idea of ‘jamming’ as both a way of making art and a way of life together. In one sense ‘jamming’ signifies stasis, shock, or rupture, but in another sense it signifies change, growth, improvisation and invigoration between players. We understand this ambiguity as reflective of the capacity we share for generating creative politics from where and when we live. We often combine painting, video, sculpture, objects and props, as well as words, sounds and language. We summon each other and our audiences to generate relations, associations and stories from the pieces composed within the space and place of exhibition. For us, Difference Engine operates as a metaphor and model of radical politics and aesthetic experiment that allows us to generate critical counterpoints between personal and artistic concerns and broader social, political and environmental matters of living and dying on this earth, now.
Difference Engine exhibitions are devised over months and years. Our works change and morph through conversation with each other, with some works disappearing and reappearing from one show to the next. In preparing for the show at HDLU, we engaged in a series of workshops together, playing with visual and verbal languages through collage and writing. The traces of this collaborative process have led to the ANNEX pages in the accompaning publication.
ANNEX
The Annex was conceived of as a passage way to the Difference Engine exhibitions. It’s prototype emerged during the Manifestation III exhibition in New York (USA), when we displayed some of the results of a paper-folding workshop we had played together in preparing the exhibition. In our next exhibition, we constructed the ANNEX more fully as a space where we and the audience could find tangential routes into and out of the works of Difference Engine, by displaying research materials and objects that were relevant to our individual and collective processes. The first ANNEX was composed in Waterford (IRL), at SOMA:
“The annex was filled with many curios and I felt most intrigued. A mountainous outcrop centred the grouping of assorted objects. It’s isolated form reminded me of a book I read about a distant planetary out-post awaiting some kind of contact. Along the shelves were laid books from all our childhoods, stories of futures to come, places to see and evolved life-forms.”
Subsequent ANNEX’s were installed as part of ACCUMULATOR I and II in West Cork (IRL) in 2012 and Carmarthen (WAL) in 2013. For HDLU, we have re-composed the ANNEX as a series of collaged images reconfiguring traces of research materials and ideas we have been working with together in preparation for ALTERN_ATORS 2018.
Difference Engine ALTERN_ATORS is kindly sponsored by Culture Ireland
http://www.differenceengineartists.org
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The Hermione Exhibition 2018 curated by Aisling Prior
Tuesday 6 March 2018 at 6.30 p.m. followed by
The Hermione Lecture
at 8.00 p.m. which will be given by distinguished artist UNA SEALY, RHA, who will discuss her work.
Exhibition opening times 7 – 15 March 2018
Mon – Fri 11.00 – 5.00
Sat & Sun 1.00 – 5.00
Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm.
Alexandra College, Milltown, Dublin 6.
Tel + 353 1 4977571 http://www.alexandracollege.eu
Including work by artists
Rachel Ballagh, Tinka Bechert, Leah Beggs, Michelle Boyle, Peter Bradley, Molly Brown, Ursula Burke, Cecilia Bullo, Megan Burns, Susan Buttner, Pat Byrne, Faolan Carey, Mark Cullen, Michael Cullen, Jennifer Cunningham, Cora Cummins, Gerry Davis, Cecilia Danell, Stephen Dunne, Aoife Dunne, Melissa Ellis, Cara Farnan, Fiona Finnegan, Niamh Flanagan, Salvatore Fullam, Joy Gerrard, Barry Gibbons, Paul Hallahan, Sean Hanrahan, Clare Henderson, Karis Hopkinson, Oonagh Hurley, Eithne Jordan, Orla Kaminska, James Kirwan, Gillian Lawler, Mateusz Lubecki,
Kaye Maahs, Sabina MacMahon, Colin Martin, Steven Maybury, Sean Molloy, Fuchsia Macaree, Niamh McCann, Eleanor McCaughey, Roisin McGuigan, Lucy McKenna, Elva Mulchrone, Janet Mullarney, Mick O’Dea, Will O’Kane, Mark O’Kelly, Mandy O’Neill, Sean O’Rourke , Eileen O’Sullivan, Holly Pereira, Emma Roche, Sven Sandberg, Una Sealy, Donald Teskey, Kathy Tynan, Saoirse Wall, Marcel Vidal.
Culture Ireland Award 2017. Difference Engine group exhibition at the HDLU Zagreb in April 2018
Ramon Kassam presents a survey of Irish Contemporary Landscape Painting in Ireland
http://visualartistsireland.com/tag/ramon-kassam-presents, Visual Artists Newssheet, Sept/Oct 2017.
RESORT Residency | Difference Engine artist group
The selected artists, curators and academics have been invited to spend week long periods through August and September in Lynders Mobile Home Park and to use the time to explore the area, its unique geography, history and community. It is hoped that the information given will evolve into a more developed project for the area and open up some interesting conversations with the local residents about where they live.
For further information please contact Caroline Cowley, Public Art Co-ordinator,Ph: 01 870 8449, E:caroline.cowley@fingalcoco.ie
ONONO
Difference Engine: Travellator
Preview 6-8pm
8th – 23rd September 2017
Open Monday – Saturday by appointment
Contact: tracy.hanna@gmail.com
Wolphaertstraat 41C, 3082 BL Rotterdam
Difference Engine (DE) presents Travelator the tenth collective experiment of the evolving work of Gillian Lawler, Jessica Foley, Mark Cullen and Wendy Judge.
DE invited by artist/curator Tracy Hanna to install a context-sensitive exhibition at ONONO gallery, Rotterdam within the constraints of a small shower room in a 20th century apartment located in the Old Charlois district of Rotterdam.
Difference Engine is noted for installations that respond to context. The defunct shower room of ONONO offers intriguing conditions that will place their work in a confined and overtly domestic sphere. Travelator offers DE an intersection between the realities of artistic production in this contemporary city against the jostling of its own mechanisms as a group. The renovated apartment is an enticing context to develop new improvisations together and to open up conversations at close quarters through the force of compression.
Difference Engine is both an evolving exhibition and a model of artist-led curation by Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler, Mark Cullen and Jessica Foley who have been working and touring together since 2009.
Their collective name is lifted from the 19th century work of Charles Babbage, the world’s first mechanical computational machine: The Difference Engine. Babbage was a cantankerous English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, mechanical engineer and notorious collaborator with the world’s first computer programmer, Lady Ada Lovelace.
Adopting the name Difference Engine as a kind of poetic motto for working together creatively, pragmatically and critically, they particularly enjoy Babbage’s aphorism that “Jamming is a form of Error Detection,” and take this as something of a slogan for collective experimentation and collaboration.
Difference Engine play with the idea of ‘jamming’ as both a way of making art and a way of life. In one sense ‘jamming’ signifies stasis, shock, or rupture, but in another sense it signifies change, growth, improvisation and invigoration between players. Their work combines model-making, painting, multi-media installation and performance. The tight space of the shower room will force a compression, ramping up the tensions inherent in creative collaboration. They expect some sparks to fly.
ONONO is a project space and studio co-founded by Cihad Caner, Raluca Croitoru, Daniel Fogarty, Tracy Hanna and Clara J:son Borg. It was established in 2016 and hosts exhibitions, screenings and other events.
Previous exhibitions include, Accumulator III, Limerick City Gallery, 2013, Accumulator II, Oriel Myrrdin Gallery, Wales, 2013, Accumulator, West Cork Arts Centre, 2012, Manifestation V, SOMA Contemporary, Waterford, 2012, Manifestation IV, Wexford Arts Centre, 2012, Manifestation III, CSV Cultural Arts Center, New York, 2011, Manifestation II, ESB Sub-Station, Triskel Arts Centre and Black Mariah, Cork, 2010, Manifestation, Cake Contemporary Arts, Kildare, 2009.
Upcoming exhibitions include Altern-ator, HDLU, the Centre for the Association of Croatian Artists, Zagreb, Croatia, April 2018.
http://www.differenceengineartists.org for more info
Nasty Women
Events:
Thursday 3rd: Opening Event 6–9pm, performance 6.30pm.
Saturday 5th: Nasty Women Telephones Special: Tickets
Tuesday 8th: FINDING CREATIVITY workshop with Catherine Barron (16+)
Saturday 12th: ‘A glove is a gift’ performance, Léann Herlihy 3pm
Nasty Women Dublin is part of a series of international Nasty Women exhibitions that were prompted by the first fundraising exhibit in NYC at the Knockdown Center. (www.nastywomenexhibition.org) All works have been kindly donated by the artists and will be for sale for €100 or less with 100% of the profits going to support the Coalition to support the 8th Amendment. You are also able make a donation on the Facebook page or at the opening.
Image: Nasty Women Dublin Logo. Design: Agatha Veale, 2017.
Exhibition hours:
Friday 4th to Saturday 12th August 12:00-6:00pm (excluding 6th +7th).
Please contact Eve Woods at NastyWomenDublin@gmail.com for purchase and press enquiries.
187th RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, invited artist, 2017
May 23rd to the 12 August 2017. www.rhagallery.ie for more information
Image: Breaker III, oil on canvas, 100 x 106 2017.
The Hermione Exhibition
2 March 2017 at 6.00 p.m.
The Hermione Lecture at 8.00 p.m. which will be given by London-based, internationally renowned artist and Alexandra College past pupil, Joy Gerrard, who will discuss her work.
Exhibition opening times 3 – 16 March 2017 Mon – Fri 11.00 – 5.00 Sat & Sun 1.00 – 5.00
Alexandra College, Milltown, Dublin 6. Tel + 353 1 4977571 http://www.alexandracollege.eu
Including work by artists
Valerie Alford, Robert Armstrong, Jean Bardon, Ailbhe Barrett, Leah Beggs, John Behan, Liam Belton, Shane Berkery, Sahoho Blake, Michelle Boyle, Peter Bradley, Lydia Brow, Megan Burns, Susan Buttner, Michelle Byrne, Tom Climent, Barrie Cooke, Diana Copperwhite, Margaret Corcoran, John Cronin, William Crozier, Mark Cullen, Michael Cullen, Cecilia Danell, Gerry Davis, Amanda Doran, Mollie Douthit, Blaise Drummond, Gabhann Dunne, Joe Dunne, James English, Brian Fay, Fiona Finnegan, Roxanne Fitzmaurice, Aileen Fitzsimons, Damian Flood, Richard Forrest, Martin Gale, Joy Gerrard, Richard Gorman, Pam Harris , Brian Henderson, Romy Hogan, Eithne Jordan, Orla Kaminska, Allan Kinsella, James Kirwan, Nevan Lahart, Katharine Lamb, Peadar Lamb, Gillian Lawler, Stephen Lawlor, Mateusz Lubecki, Alice Maher, Colm MacAthlaoich, Francis Matthews, Steven Maybury, Eleanor McCaughey, Brett McEntaggart, Marie Louise Martin, Sean Molloy, Elva Mulchrone, Janet Mullarney, John Philip Murray, Cora O’Brien, Siobhan O’Connor, Mick O’Dea, Hughie O’Donoghue, Gwen O’Dowd, Helen O’Higgins, Will O’Kane, Eileen O’Sullivan, Jane Rainey, Martin Redmond, Geoff Rhind, Philip Ryan, Sven Sandberg, Norman Scott, Pat Scott, Una Sealy, Clare Sexton, Jacqueline Stanley, Rory Tangney, Jennifer Trouton, Kathy Tynan, George Walsh, Lorcan Walshe, Brenda Wilkes
Dear Friends,
I would like to invite you to view some of my work at the Winter group show at the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin from the 10th to the 23rd of December.
The exhibition will feature work from my ongoing project based on the abandoned coal mining town of Centralia in Pennsylvania.
The former head of collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Marshall, has written of Lawler’s work that it is pervaded by unease. “It hangs like microscopic atoms of pollution in the air, lingers around multiple ‘blind’ windows, seeks to find a foothold under the high rises, only to collapse into the hollow grid-like like spaces that should be their foundations, and attempts to settle on ground that is subtly curved, billowing or cratered.”
Opening the 10th of December 2 – 4pm.
http://www.molesworthgallery.com http://www.gillianlawler.org for more details.
Image, eminent domain no. 35, mixed media on slide, 2014.
 The Molesworth Gallery is participating at VUE – Ireland’s National Contemporary Art Fair will take place at Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin from Thursday 3rd November to Sunday 6th November 2016. 18 of Ireland’s leading contemporary art galleries will participate in this year’s fair, representing some of the best-known names in Irish visual art. Galleries participating in Vue 2016 include Cross Gallery, Molesworth Gallery, Stoney Road Press, Hillsboro Fine Art, Green on Red, Eight, Peppercanister, Graphic Studio, Fenderesky, Kevin Kavanagh, Gallery of Photography, Solomon, Olivier Cornet, Gormleys, Jonathan Ellis King, Gibbons and Nicholas, Oonagh Young Gallery and Art Box. Ireland’s most talented visual artists will compete for the biggest prize in Irish contemporary art at Vue 2016. The €5,000 Vue Contemporary Art Prize presented by Savills will be awarded to the artist who has produced an outstanding body of work in the last year or made some other substantial contribution to the visual arts in Ireland. Opening hours are 6-8pm on Thursday, November 3, 11am-8pm on Friday, November 4, 11am-7pm on Saturday, November 5, and 12-6pm on Sunday, November 6. |
Pallas Projects 20 Year Benefit Auction of Contemporary
Hope you can join us on Thursday 15th September 2016 at The City Assembly House for a 20th anniversary fundraising auction for Pallas Projects/Studios. Please see details below, and please do forward on to anyone you think might be interested.
Come along and help celebrate 20 years with us, as well as the 90 works by Irish and international contemporary artists, there will be great food from Coppinger Row & Ukiyo, drinks from Teeling & Galway Bay Brewery, and even if you don’t put a bid in there’s a raffle to get involved in, as well as music by Antifreeze and drinks after the auction.
Hope to see you there!
Pallas Projects/Studios
20 Year Benefit Auction of Contemporary Art
The City Assembly House,
58 South William Street
Thursday 15th September 2016
6 – 11pm
View Auction catalogue online here
Previews: Friday 9th – Wednesday 14th September, 12– 6pm (closed Sunday)
Venue: City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2 (Map)
Participating artists: Alice Maher, Sean Scully, Brian Maguire, Gemma Browne, Sheila Rennick, Eva Rothschild, Anita Groener, Kathy Tynan, Sean Hillen, Niall de Buitlear, Vera Klute, Aleana Egan, Orla Whelan, Gillian Lawler, Lucy McKenna, Mick O’Dea, Caroline McCarthy, Isabel Nolan, Sean Grimes, Gavin Wade, Sam Keogh, Brian Fay, Karl Burke, George Bolster, David Beattie, Barbara Knezevic, Mark Cullen, Stephen Loughman, Stephen Dunne, Aisling Ní Chlaonadh, Joanna Kidney, Alison Pilkington, Denis Kelly, Albert Weis, Daniel Lipstein, Paddy Graham, Mollie Douthit, Eleanor McCaughey, Shane Murphy, Brian Duggan, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Wendy Judge, Lesley-Ann O’Connell, Siobhan O’Callaghan, Alan Phelan, Paul Hallahan, Ann Quinn, Glenn Fitzgerald, Gabhann Dunne, Keith Wilson, Joan Coen, Mark Joyce, Des Kenny, Eimearjean McCormack, Derick Smith, Steven Maybury, Ciaran Murphy, Jordan McQuaide, Breda Lynch, Sean Lynch, Gavin Murphy, Eve Woods, Dennis McNulty, Caroline Doolan, Jesse Jones, Mark Garry, Linda Quinlan, Nina Canell, Miranda Blennerhassett, David O’Kane, Martin Healy, Atsushi Kaga, Mark O’Kelly, Sean Molloy, Chloë Nagle, Fergus Byrne, Roxana Manouchehri, Grainne Tynan, Róisín Power Hackett, Bartosz Kolata, Ciaran Doyle, Gareth Kennedy, Lee Welch, Perry Ogden, Kevin Francis Gray, Anita Delaney
Pallas Projects/Studios is marking its milestone 20 year anniversary by staging a special fundraising auction of Irish contemporary art, with the support of the Irish Georgian Society and Whyte’s auctioneers. Taking place at the magnificent City Assembly House on South William Street on Thursday 15th September, the auction will feature largely Irish contemporary artists working in painting, print, photography and sculpture, with a number of international colleagues of the art space also contributing work.
A follow up to our groundbreaking ‘New York style’ auction house/non-profit space collaboration in 2014, this year will again see a huge number of Pallas’ colleagues take part, and a widened selection (almost twice as many works as 2014) will feature many more of our best emerging artists and affordable works, as well as the work of several previous Irish representatives at the world’s biggest art event, the Venice Biennale. Internationally renowned artists include Eva Rothschild, Alice Maher, Atsushi Kaga, and Isabel Nolan, and Ireland most famous living artist, Sean Scully, considered to be one of the world’s leading abstract painters. All involved have donated their work for this benefit night, which stands testament to the goodwill generated by Pallas Projects, as a leading supporter of the development of Irish art practice at the grassroots, over the last 20 years.
This year the event will take place over the entire City Assembly House building – with theauction itself taking place in one of Dublin’s hidden gems, the incredible ‘Octagon’ room – and will be open to the public for previews in the week running up to the auction. As in 2014 – when Ardal O’Hanlon took the reigns as master of ceremonies (handing over to the expert Ian Whyte to run the bids), the event promises to be a gala affair, with pop-up food and drinks circulating over the course of the evening.
With many affordable works (guide prices range from 50–5000 euro), and always the chance to grab a bargain by a major Irish artist, it will be a great opportunity to enjoy theauction experience for the first time, support Irish artists, and start a collection of your own with a unique artwork.
The Auction, run by Whyte’s (who have graciously offered to forgo fees and commission for this event in support of the non-profit sector), will take place in the home of The Irish Georgian Society, who have donated the use of the hugely apt City Assembly House (one of the first public galleries in Europe, set up by artists in for the event. Special thanks to: Whyte’s, Irish Georgian Society, Teeling Whiskey, Galway Bay Brewery, Coppinger Row, and all our supporters, sponsors, and of course the contributing artists.
For more information, or to arrange a private viewing in the days before the auctionplease do not hesitate to contact us at: info@pallasprojects.org
More information on Pallas Projects/Studios here
Image: Ian Whyte in full flight at our 2014 auction in the Octagon Room of the City Assembly House.
Imago Mundi Ireland 2016
Included in this catalogue of Irish artists www.imagomundiart.com for more details
Review of eminent domain at the Molesworth Gallery by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, April 2016
Eminent Domain – Gillian Lawler
The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
Bill Bryson’s reference to Centralia, Pennsylvania, in his book A Walk in the Woods drew Gillian Lawler to the town in 2014. Centralia fell victim to a still unfolding environmental disaster in 1962, when a vein of coal deep beneath it was accidentally ignited. It is burning still. The underground conflagration generates fissures and sinkholes and spews out toxic gases. As the years passed many residents opted for relocation, others hung on, until in 1992 the state governor issued the American equivalent of a compulsory purchase order – eminent domain – on all property in the borough.
Centralia is more a starting point than a conclusion for Lawler. She has taken photographs on site, but documentation is not the point of the exercise. Relatively few dwellings remain on an abandoned network of roads, as trees and other vegetation gradually reclaim the space and smoke curdles in the air. Lawler positions various orderly, geometric, patterned structures against these vistas. As she puts it, they seem to hang there, scrutinising the conditions beneath. These elegantly poised motifs appear delicately balanced against huge energies that simmer within and occasionally erupt through the earth: dreams and glimpses of order precariously won from chaos. The paintings’ finely tuned surfaces reflect that state of momentary, uncertain but beautiful stability.
Until April 30th, molesworthgallery.com
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/going-out-the-best-of-what-s-on-this-week-1.2602025
Representation by the Molesworth Gallery
Delighted to be represented by the Molesworth gallery in Dublin. Please visit http://www.molesworthgallery.com for more details.
eminent domain
April 8th to the 30th 2016.
You are invited to a Private Viewing of the exhibition on Thursday, April 7th, from 5.30-7.30pm.
The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of recent work by Gillian Lawler, opening on April 7th. The work forms part of her ongoing investigation into the abandoned town of Centralia in the US state of Pennsylvania. The town began to burn deep under its foundations in the 1960s when a seam of coal was accidentally set alight. The coal seam burned so fiercely that sinkholes appeared on the surface and noxious gases began to spew out through cracks in the town’s streets. Finally abandoned by all bar a couple of inhabitants in the 1980s, the fires still burn beneath the town to this day.
The former head of collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Marshall, has written of Lawler’s work that it is pervaded by unease. “It hangs like microscopic atoms of pollution in the air, lingers around multiple ‘blind’ windows, seeks to find a foothold under the high rises, only to collapse into the hollow grid-like like spaces that should be their foundations, and attempts to settle on ground that is subtly curved, billowing or cratered.” The work is marked by “strange blooms of faded colour, dusty pinks, yellows and greens that glow uncertainly against almost monochrome ground colours, surprised occasionally by more accentuated patchworks that remind one simultaneously of Colin Middleton and of illustrated children’s books.”
Yet Marshall also maintains that Lawler’s incredibly subtle treatment of colour, texture and scale, “make her work a celebration of everything that is good in painting. The work is uplifting because it is always uplifting to find artists with the courage to address difficult issues. When they do it so subtly and effortlessly, we all benefit. The last words in relation to Lawler’s painting are a repetition of those attributed to the great German Modernist Mies Van Der Rohe on good architecture: ‘less is more’.”
Lawler was born in Kildare in 1977. She received a BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2000. She has won numerous awards including the Hennessy Craig Award, RHA Gallery Annual exhibition in 2007, the Whytes Award, RHA Gallagher Gallery in 2007 and the overall winner of the Open Selection Exhibition Award at the Eigse Arts Festival in 2009. Other awards include a Kildare Arts Services Award 2015/2013/2011/2009, an Arts Council Bursary Award 2009, and Culture Ireland Award 2011. She was shortlisted for the Beers Lambert Contemporary, Thames and Hudson publication, 100 Painters of Tomorrow in 2013, the Celeste International Art Prize in 2012 and a Merit prize from the Golden Fleece Award in 2013.
Preview some work online at http://www.molesworthgallery.com or http://www.gillianlawler.org
Opening times during exhibitions:
Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm; Sat 11am-2pm
the molesworth gallery, 16 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
tel: + 353 1 679 1548 e-mail: info@molesworthgallery.com
186th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, 2016
Delighted to be selected for the RHA’s latest Annual Exhibition.
22 March – 11 June 2016, All Galleries
The Royal Hibernian Academy was founded in 1823 and the original purpose-built building, designed by its second President, Francis Johnson (1760-1829) in 1825, was situated on Lower Abbey Street. Academy House, most its contents and the entire annual exhibition were destroyed by fire during the Easter Rising in 1916. To commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising, the 186th RHA Annual Exhibition will return to its original time of the year and will be open to the public from March 22nd until June 11th.
http://www.rhagallery.ie for more details.
Winter group exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, January 12th – February 3rd, 2016.
Review of ‘the Future is Self-Organised’ at Limerick City Gallery by Gemma Tipton, Artforum, January 2016.
http://artforum.com/picks/section=ie#picks56971
Solo exhibition at the Molesworth Gallery April 2016
I am delighted to have been asked by the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin to hold my first solo exhibition with them in April 2016. More details to be announced closer to the date. http://www.molesworthgallery.com.
Review of ’eminent domain II’ at Pallas Projects by Aidan Wall, Totally Dublin, November 2015
The Future is Self-Organised – Artist-Run Spaces
Curated by Pallas Projects.
13 November 2015 – 15 January 2016
Spaces: 126, Galway; The Black Mariah, Cork; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; E.S.P. TV, New York; Occupy Space, Limerick; Pallas Projects, Dublin; Suburban Video Lounge, Rotterdam
Projects: The Artist-Led Archive, Real Art Project (RAP)
Artists: Fiona Chambers, Mark Cullen, Brian Duggan, Blaithin Hughes, Gillian Kane, Gillian Lawler, Breda Lynch, Eimear Jean McCormack, Gavin Murphy, Mark O’Kelly, Jim Ricks, Kathy Tynan
The Future is Self-Organised is an exhibition looking at artist-led practice and the role and contribution of artist-run spaces to contemporary art, culture and society.
The exhibition is the first of a series of projects to take place throughout 2016 that will mark the 20th year of the artist-run space Pallas Projects/Studios (PP/S). These projects will look at the role of artist-run spaces and artist-run practice today – and looking towards the future – with a number of cooperative exhibitions and ancillary events taking place, foregrounded by a major publication ‘Artist-Run Europe – Practice/Projects/Spaces’, due in early 2016.
Incorporating artworks, installations, documentation and ephemera, the exhibition features invited contributions from artists who have been associated with or helped run PP/S over the last 20 years, as well as contributions from the many artist-run spaces that PP/S has initiated collaborations with during that time.
Founded in 1996, Pallas Projects/Studios is a non-profit artist-run organisation dedicated to developing opportunities for Irish contemporary visual artists, encouraging exchange and discourse via curated projects, and collaborations with Irish and international arts organisations. PP/S addresses the necessity of providing space for artistic production, and foregrounds the role of the exhibition/project as a constant agent of discourse and cultural transformation within both the visual arts and society.
The artist-run model and ethos, is one which perpetuates non-hierarchical modes of organisation, and economies of exchange (knowledge and resources); a non-commercial approach to producing art and culture, it proposes a model of social and cultural interaction that eschews the roles of producer and consumer. Artist-run spaces play a vital role in supporting artists’ practices at the early stages of their careers, and often have a key stake (albeit a precarious one) in the (re)vitalisation of derelict urban areas.
The exhibition The Future is Self-Organised engages with the recent history of artist-run groups and independent spaces to produce a highly visual group exhibition including artworks, documentation, ephemera, artist-run presentations and collaborative installations. Its aim is to show to the public how artist-run practice manifests itself, how artist-run spaces are a distinctive and central part of visual art culture, and how they present a necessary alternative to the art institution, museum or commercial gallery. It is the first gallery manifestation of a 4-year research/publication project undertaken by PP/S into artist-run practice and spaces around Europe.
“…while we remain subject to a system geared towards squeezing cash even out of the rubble it generates, the task, as we see it, is to remind ourselves that this rubble might offer a relative but significant opening: namely an awakening sense that there is no neoliberal future to build, and that we’re no longer compelled to compete as individuals for a piece of the free market world. Against this backdrop, we can measure those in the art system as it stands and by what it is they have to offer in the preparation of a post-capitalist society.”
There is no Alternative: The Future Is (Self-) Organised, Part 2 – Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen*
Included in the exhibition:
A curated installation of new and re-presented/reconfigured work by artists who have been involved with PP/S, and a number of invited artists: Brian Duggan, artist and co-founder of PP/S; Fiona Chambers, artist and formerly part of the PP/S team; Kathy Tynan, former PP/S studio artist; Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy, artists and current PP/S co-directors; Gillian Lawler, artist and PP/S Studio & Intern Coordinator; Gillian Kane, whose drawing of ‘Pallas Heights’ is included; Jim Ricks, artist and sometime PP/S collaborator; and invited contributions from artists: Mark O’Kelly, Eimear Jean McCormack, Breda Lynch, Blaithin Hughes.
A screening-room installation will present artists’ films selected by Suburban Video Lounge. Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (in the basement of an Espresso Bar), Suburban Video Lounge was founded by Toine Horvers in 2004 as space for presenting artists’ moving image, and has been programmed by Toine Horvers 2004–2014 and Kathrin Wolkowicz 2011–2014. For The Future is Self-Organised the space’s intimate, comfortable and subterranean setting has been recreated in the gallery.
The Artist-Led Archive, initiated by Megs Morley, and presented for the first time in Limerick, is an artist-led initiative that was begun in 2006 as an attempt to intervene into a perceived and pressing lack, or ‘gap’ in collective knowledge, about the contexts, histories and developments of artist-led culture in Ireland.
The exhibition features video presentations of E.S.P. TV; FIX Festival, the oldest Live Art biennale in Europe run by Catalyst Arts since 1994; and a selection of work from the Limerick-based initiative Real Art Project (RAP). Also on show is documentation and ephemera relating to several artist-run spaces including: Catalyst Arts, 126 Galway, Occupy Space, and The Black Mariah, Cork. A reading room of Artist-Run publications and material will also be presented.
*The exhibition title The Future is Self-Organised is taken from the essay ‘There is no Alternative: The Future Is (Self-) Organised, Part 2’ by Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen, reprinted in Self Organised, Stine Hebert, Anne Szefer Karlsen (Eds.), Occasional Table/Open Editions, 2013. The text can be distributed freely and printed in non-commercial, no-money contexts without the permission of the authors.
The Artist-led Archive is presented with thanks to NIVAL: The National Irish Visual Arts Library, and NCAD Library
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VUE Art Fair, Dublin.
I will be showing new work with the Molesworth Gallery at the VUE Art Fair at the RHA Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2.
The VUE Art Fair opens on the 5th of November and continues to the 8th of November 2015.
For more information: http://www.vueartfair.ie and http://www.molesworthgallery.com
eminent domain II
A solo exhibition by Gillian Lawler
Pallas Pallas-Projects, Dublin.
15/10/15 – 31/10/15
Opening 14/10/15 from 6 – 8pm.
Centralia
I first came across the town of Centralia in Pennsylvania upon reading Bill Brysons book ‘A Walk in the Woods’ where I immediately felt drawn to his vivid description of this abandoned place. In my minds eye I imagined an area devastated by environmental disaster but strangely preserved within the aftermath of its abandonment.
Centralia began burning deep under its foundations in the 1960s where a vein of coal was accidentally set on fire. This vein burned intensely, so much so that the town began to form sinkholes and poured out toxic gases. Centralia was declared unsafe in the 1980s and the residents were relocated to another area. Centralia is now a floor plan of empty overgrown streets and remnants of buildings long removed. Unexpected interruptions among its remains, making it seem like fragments of skeletal, emptied presence. Its emptiness only adds to its strangeness and among its streets hovers the memories of another time. In my work I create structures which hover motionless and insistently above the wastelands, anxiously scrutinizing the existing conditions for the possibilities of survival.
I traveled to Centralia in March 2014 and using this research opened my solo show at the Galway Arts Centre in June 2014 entitled ’eminent domain’. This work initiated a continuing interest in abandoned places where economic and environmental factors have forced inhabitants to relocate. My interest in science-fictional landscapes including computer generated cyber-scapes have led me to draw parallels with these abandoned places. Much sci-fi imagery within film and gaming imagine a future of devastation and desolation. I endeavor to position my work within these ideas, the reality and the hypothetical and create works which hint at environmental crisis but propose architectural solutions e.g., floating, suspended structures. These constructions and recurring checker board motifs play with notions of architectural unease accentuating a definite but skewed anti-perspective.
’eminent domain II’ is my second exhibition based on my research trip to Centralia. This work references the reality of this mining landscape and employs fictional notions of escape and adaptation through the use of hypothesized architectural structures. These fabrications assume an autonomous vitality, investing the atmosphere with a cosmic fear. This desolate landscape once destroyed by mining now lies in silence, sunlight blocked by smoke filled fissures, roads vanish and crack under the pressure, trees stand deadly still, the ordered and composed verses the shapeless, unexpected and unstable.
Gillian Lawler 2015.
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Lawler was born in Kildare in 1977 and currently lives in Dublin. She received a BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2000. She has won numerous awards including the Hennessy Craig Award, RHA Gallery Annual exhibition in 2007, the Whytes Award, RHA Gallagher Gallery in 2007 and the overall winner of the Open Selection Exhibition Award at the Eigse Arts Festival in 2009. Other awards include a Kildare Arts Services Award 2015/2013/2011/2009, an Arts Council Bursary Award 2009, and Culture Ireland Award 2011. She was shortlisted for the Beers Lambert Contemporary, Thames and Hudson publication, 100 Painters of Tomorrow in 2013, the Celeste International Art Prize in 2012 and a Merit prize from the Golden Fleece Award in 2013.
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A booklet entitled ’eminent domain II’ will accompany the exhibition with essays by Dominic Stevens (architect), Daniel Lipstein (visual artist) and Linda Doyle (Professor of Engineering and the Arts, Trinity College Dublin).
Pallas Projects/Studios,
115-117 The Coombe, Dublin 8.
Opening hours, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12 – 6pm.
http://www.pallasprojects.org
http://www.gillianlawler.org
This exhibition is supported by the Arts Council, Kildare County Council and Dublin City.
Wavelength at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
Forthcoming Exhibition
Wavelength
Helen Blake, Gillian Lawler, Bridget O’Rourke & Tom Phelan
September, 2015
http://www.molesworthgallery.com
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2015 | Jonathan Swift Gallery
William Crozier, Tony O’Malley, Gwen Wilkinson, Colin Martin, Clifford Collie, Gwen O’Dowd, John O’Reilly, Louis le Brocquy, Judy Hamilton, Ciarán Lennon, Richard Gorman, Irene Barry, Charles Tyrell, Donald Teskey, Gillian Lawler, Anthony Scott, Barbara Rae, David King, Diana Copperwhite, John Kindness, Mark Cullen, Hughie O’Donoghue
Launch of the Kilkenny Festival exhibition on Saturday the 8th of August, from 3.30-5pm.
74 High Street, Kilkenny (adjacent to the Post Office)
Open Daily: Monday – Saturday 10am – 6.45pm
Sunday 12 noon – 6.45pm
The exhibition is previewing now, and continues until August 16th.
This group show presents the work of 22 artists, in a variety of media, that expresses their diverse practices. Although not strictly a themed exhibition, the use of strong colour, or luminous tones, are prevalent in most of the selected artworks.
The Jonathan Swift Gallery first began exhibiting at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2003. This year marks our 13th festival exhibition. We are delighted to be right in the thick of the action again, with our temporary space adjacent to the post office on High Street.
Contact Peter Brennan.
email: peter@jonathanswiftgallery.com
tel: +353 (86) 8035771
Awarded a Kildare County Council Arts Award 2015
Recent Review
Widen the circle. Emerging artists rival big names at the RHA annual show. Review of the 185th RHA Annual Exhibition 2015 by Cristin Leach. Culture Magazine, the Sunday Times, June 2015.
185th RHA Gallery Annual Exhibition
Exhibition open to the public from the 26th of May to the 9th of August 2015.
RHA Gallagher Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2.
PANORAMA
11-15 March 2015
Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin.
Panorama is a group exhibition which brings together the paintings of thirteen women artists who are affiliated with Dublin. The exhibition offers an acknowledgment of the variety and wealth of painting being produced by these artists.
Panorama has been initiated in a spirit of celebration and support, featuring work by artists who are at varying stages of their careers. Each participant has a unique approach to painting as process and medium. Style and subject matter range from real and imagined landscapes to dreams and memory, the animal kingdom, anatomy, architectural space, everyday objects, still life and pure abstraction. While the scope of this exhibition is truly vast, there are also some remarkable consistencies. The intrigue of the exhibition lies within particularities and novelties, but also within subtle similarities between artists and artworks. Panorama aims to look beyond its own boundaries, to a greater territory of painting and to a potential for encounter and discourse, especially between women artists.
The selection for Panorama has been made by Kathy Tynan and Chanelle Walshe.
Artists include Joanne Boyle, Diana Copperwhite, Mollie Douthit, Anne Hendrick, Gillian Lawler, Ruth E. Lyons, Niamh McCann, Aileen Murphy, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Lesley-Ann O’Connell, Sanja Todorovic, Kathy Tynan and Chanelle Walshe.
Opening reception Wednesday 11th of March, 6 – 8pm /// Artist talk Friday 13th of March at 6pm /// Accompanying literature by Ingrid Lyons /// Open 12-6 pm daily ///115-117, The Coombe, Dublin 8.
Review of Difference Engine, Accumulator II at Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2013 by Michaele Cutaya, 2014.
Please go to Reviews and Essays for the full text.
The Winter Art Studio 2014
2nd – 11th of December
Presented by: The Ark and The LAB Gallery/Dublin City Council Arts Office
Featured Artists: Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Paul McKinley, Maria McKinney, Gabhann Dunne, Maggie Madden. Simon English, Gillian Lawler, Eithne Jordan from Mason Hayes and Curran’s Visual Arts Collection. Barbara Rae, Oliver Comerford, Martin Gale from The Ark’s Visual Arts Collection
Wexford Arts Festival, 2014.
Gillian Lawler, Frances Ryan, Colin Martin, Bartosz Kolata, Judy Hamilton, Irene Barry, David King, Clifford Collie, Louis le Brocquy, Gwen Wilkinson, Alison Kay, Mark Cullen, Liam Flynn
22nd October – 2nd November
Jonathan Swift Gallery
Gallery Venue: Redmond Square, Wexford
(Opposite vehicle entrance of Dunnes Stores, close to the Wexford Train Station)
See www.jonathanswiftgallery.com for further images.
PALLAS PROJECTS/STUDIOS Gala Benefit Auction with Whyte’s at the Irish Georgian Society, 2014.
Participating artists: Richard Gorman, Gillian Lawler, Michael Canning, Diana Copperwhite, Keith Wilson, Brian Maguire, Colin Martin, Nick Miller, Robert Ballagh, David Godbold, Gabhann Dunne, Alison Pilkington, Nevan Lahart, Sonia Shiel, David Eager Maher, Blaise Drummond, Amanda Coogan, Fergus Martin, Mark Garry, Gary Coyle, Padraig Spillane, Anna Rackard, Ann Quinn, Stehen Loughman, Beth O’Halloran, Aoibheann Greenan, Kathy Tynan, Peter Burns, Kevin Mooney, Ronnie Hughes, Niall de Buitlear, Mark Cullen, Gavin Murphy, Fiona Chambers, Jim Ricks, Bea McMahon, Ramon Kassam, Mark Swords, Colm Mac Athlaoich, Brian Fay, Wendy Judge, Brendan Earley, Mark O’Kelly, Orla Whelan, Gemma Browne, Brian Duggan, Daniel Lipstein
Pallas Projects/Studios and Whyte’s auction house are proud to announce a Gala Auction Night
Time: 6–9pm Thursday 9th October (auction begins at 7pm)
Venue: The Irish Georgian Society, City Assembly House, South William Street, Dublin 2
Viewing: Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th October, 12–7 pm
The event will be opened on the night by Ardal O’Hanlon
The non-profit art space Pallas Projects/Studios has been breaking new ground for art projects all over Dublin since its inception in 1996, recent cuts however have cut deep at this artist-run institution’s capacity to continue developing opportunities for Irish contemporary art and the work of new artists.
In light of this, Pallas has enlisted the support of its friends and colleagues in the Irish art world – a vast reservoir of goodwill built up over 20 years – to hold a New York style gala fundraising auction with the help of Whyte’s Auctioneers and The Irish Georgian Society. With pop-up food and drinks circulating over the course of the evening, to the backdrop of the faded grandeur of the Octagonal room of the City Assembly House.
The fundraising auction will feature renowned Irish painters, already familiar to the auction house, while introducing emerging artists, alongside internationally-established mid-career artists, who are already selling work through the leading Irish contemporary and international galleries and art-fairs (such as Frieze, Basel, Miami Basel, and Art Rotterdam), and exhibiting at home in museums such as IMMA and The Hugh Lane, and far and wide in art biennales and international institutions. All involved are donating their work for this benefit night.
It will demonstrate the huge variety of work being produced by Ireland’s contemporary artists, and show how much contemporary art is connected to the continuum of art history, dealing with aesthetics, style and concepts that can often be seen to channel and chart a line from the old masters – through Vermeer, Fragonard and Braque, to 20th century Irish painters Mary Swanzy, Mainie Jelltet, Louis le Brocquy, and Patrick Scott – right up to today.
The Auction, run by Whyte’s Auctioneers (who have graciously offered to forgo fees and commission for this event in support of the non-profit sector), will take place in the home of The Irish Georgian Society, who have donated the use of the hugely apt City Assembly House. Situated on the corner of Dublin’s South William Street, the City Assembly House was the first purpose built public art gallery in either Britain and Ireland (and possibly in Europe), built by the Society of Artists in Ireland between 1766 and 1771 with the expressed aim of promoting the work of Irish artists and providing an academy for the arts.
The evening will be a chance to introduce contemporary artists’ work to auction-goers and the public at large; demonstrate the range and diversity of contemporary art practice in Ireland today; and encourage Irish people to engage with and invest in the work of our living artists. At the same time, it will promote and help sustain a pillar of the grassroots non-profit sector – Pallas Projects/Studios.
ART FOR GAZA Oonagh Young Gallery, 2014.
Art for Gaza
All proceeds of sales go to Unicef: Gaza Appeal https://www.unicef.ie/Emergency/Gaza-Appeal-75-49.aspx?gclid=CKqui6WJ_78CFWZj2wodclQAYw
This is a benefit exhibition in response to the situation in Gaza. We feel that this crisis is a humanitarian issue and want to make some effort to support the people and, in particular, the children. We invited a group of established Irish artists to generously donate a work to the exhibition, the sales of which go directly to the Unicef: Gaza Appeal.
KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL Jonathan Swift Gallery, 2014
Jonathan Swift Gallery, 8th to the 17th of August 2014.
Gillian Lawler, Frances Ryan, Colin Martin, Ann Quinn, Myra Jago, Bartosz Kolata, Judy Hamilton, David King, Irene Barry, Clifford Collie, Gwen Wilkinson, John O’Reilly
83 High Street Kilkenny
(next to Town Hall)
Opening Hours:
Monday – Saturday 10am – 6.45pm
Sunday 12 noon – 6pm
ENTROPY Claremorris Gallery, 2014
Group show at Claremorris Gallery, opening the 26th of July, continues until the 26th of August. Gillian Lawler, Aidan Crotty and Michael Wann. www.claremorrisgallery.com.
EMINENT DOMAIN Galway Arts Centre, 2014
LACUNA [02] Taylor Gallery, 2014
Lacuna {02} at the Taylor Gallery opening on the 8th of May 2014, continues to the 31st of May.
LACUNA [ ] is a curatorial project at Taylor Galleries co-curated by David Quinn and Sabina Mac Mahon. Situated in the first floor exhibition spaces of the gallery at 16 Kildare Street the occasional, on-going series of exhibitions runs alongside the gallery’s main programme and embraces experimental and enquiring practices in image- and object-making. When an empty space is encountered it can evoke a desire to fill it with something; to make it complete. In addressing this compulsion LACUNA [ ] both asks and answers the question, ‘With what?’.
Rather than asking invited artists to respond directly to a theme, LACUNA [ ] embraces the diversity of their current practices, processes and concerns, offering them a space in which to show new and recent work that encompasses sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installation, painting and photography.
Artists who have participated in the series to date include Lucy Andrews, Neil Carroll, Cora Cummins, Sarah Jane Finnegan, Gillian Lawler, Maggie Madden, Seán Molloy, Eveleen Murphy, Shane Murphy, Helen O’Leary, Sonny Ortolano and Gwen Wilkinson.
For information on current and past iterations of LACUNA [ ] please visit the website www.lacunae.info
JUST MAD ART FAIR Jim Ricks Projects, Madrid, 2014.
19-23 February, Madrid, project space curated by Jim Ricks.
PRESENTS MARK CULLEN, HANNAH FITZ, GILLIAN LAWLER, DAVID EAGER MAHER, MARIE MCKINNEY, JIM RICKS AND MARCEL VIDAL
UNEARTH Block T and Roscommon Arts Centre, 2014.
BLOCK T OFFSITE IN COLLABORATION WITH ROSCOMMON ARTS CENTRE
14th November 2013 – 5th January 2014 | centre opening hours
Group exhibition featuring
Gillian Lawler | Shane Murphy | Caroline Le Méhauté | Clodagh Emoe | Patrick Hough | Jane Fogarty | Alex Synge
BLOCK T in collaboration with curator Mary Cremin present BLOCK T OFFSITE, which brings together an exhibition and a series of events for Roscommon Arts Centre.
UNEARTH – a group exhibition encompasses a selection of artists who have previously exhibited or worked with BLOCK T over the past three years. Examining aspects of transformation, experience and architecture, the artists respond to objects, their environments and explore how subconscious encounters can lead to the creation of new and authentic experiences. Through their work, the artists orchestrate narratives that explore the impact of encounters with materials, environments and cultures. Each of the artists work is personal and particular to specific encounters; but speaks to broader cultural concerns. Creating tension through the visual impact of their practice, they draw the viewer into moments imbued with anticipation.
UNEARTH invites the viewer to experience these perspectives and view the exhibition as an establishment of meaning that is opened up through encounters with the work. www.blockt.ie
DIFFERENCE ENGINE ACCUMULATOR III Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2014.
Limerick City Gallery of Art, featuring Mark Cullen, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler, Jessica Foley and Gordon Cheung. Exhibition continues to the 23rd of December 2013.
Difference Engine is an evolving touring exhibition, a model of autonomous artist curation, by artists Mark Cullen, Wendy Judge Gillian Lawler & Jessica Foley, featuring Gordon Cheung, whose works infiltrate the grouping with the Portrait of Charles Babbage, the early founder of what was to become the ‘computer’. Cheung’s work is the only piece that is a constant through Difference Engine’s ensemble installations. For Limerick City Gallery of Art, Difference Engine bring existing work, but they also work with the spaces to make something that is particular to LCGA – theirs is a collaborative practice that is highly individual – an ambiguity that works for each artist, for each place and yet has a distinct character.
- Review of Black Country at the Lion and Lamb Gallery by Andy Parkinson at http://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com
BLACK COUNTRY Lion and Lamb Gallery, London, 2013.
September 12th – 5th October
Opening 11th September 6.30
Rob Brown
Nancy Cogswell
Julia Hamilton
Christopher Hanlon
Richard Hoey
Reece Jones
Gillian Lawler
Curated by Nancy Cogswell
This exhibition by six artists from the UK and Ireland, presents works that broadly relate to the term Black
Country, a term more commonly used to refer to an area in England that was known for metalworking and the
extraction of iron ore and coal during the industrial revolution. The use of the term here, as an idea, has more
to do with a resonance and an association with questions about memory, uncertainty and confrontation
through a physical, metaphorical or psychological framework – an exploration of the dark subconscious, a
duplicitous unnerving, and the buried and hidden.
Rob Brown’s works examine the way virtual reality contaminates the ‘real’ world.
Nancy Cogswell’s paintings involve scenarios with objects such as tables and drawers that are given an
emblematic character to produce uncertainty and intrigue through abstracting the figurative.
Julia Hamilton’s ‘decisive’ paintings have a solidity that counterpoints personal memories and evoke a nostalgic
longing.
Christopher Hanlon’s works of pared back fragments of objects and spaces engender a still, enigmatic
atmosphere and a sense of something lost or forgotten.
Richard Hoey’s works explore an undercurrent of conflict between sex and religion through the manipulation
of images from the broad pool of popular culture.
Reece Jones’ process driven, dark drawings carry an intense and absorbing psychological charge that have a
fiction reminiscent of cinematic locations.
Gillian Lawler’s paintings explore ideas concerning architectural unease, referencing imaginary, fictional
landscapes that explore a dystopian science-fiction terrain.
The Lion and Lamb is a unique opportunity for painters to curate painting shows: visual essays or a kind of platform where
artists can examine current practices in painting, take works from their usual contexts and experiment with new juxtapositions.
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Shortlisted for 100 Painters of Tomorrow, a new publication by Beers Lambert Contemporary, visit
www.beerslambert.com for more details. - Merit prize from the Golden Fleece Award 2013. Visit www.goldenfleeceaward.com for more details.
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OPW 40/40/40
International touring exhibition with the OPW in 2013, 40/40/40, exhibition of contemporary art celebrating Ireland’s 40 years in the European Union, exhibition touring to Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, (March – April), Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Warsaw, (May – June) and Palazzo Della Farnesina, Rome, (June – July).
Shortlisted for the Celeste International Art Prize 2012
Recently shortlisted by Risa Shoup, curator based in New York, for the Celeste International Art Prize 2012, visit www.celesteartprize.com for more details.
Gillian Lawler 