Visions in the Nunnery 2010 – Call for moving image and performance work

Applications sought for moving image and performance artists to apply to our international open submission event. This year promises to be more ambitious than ever before. Visions in the Nunnery is an annual event that showcases some of the most exciting British and International artists who are pushing the elements moving image and performance practice. It ...

Oonagh Young Gallery presents Daniel Canogar: ‘Scanner’

[ March 19, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Oonagh Young Gallery is pleased to present acclaimed artist Daniel Canogar in his first Irish exhibition entitled “Scanner”. Constructed from television, telephone and computer cables, this installation underscores the idea of mortality in relation to technologies, which become obsolescent with increasing rapidity and reflects on our own relationship with these technologies.  This elegiac installation can ...

Damien Flood’s Counter Earth extended until 20 March

[ March 9, 2010; 12:00 pm; 12:00 pm; ] Please note that the current exhibition in Green On Red Gallery, Damien Flood’s Counter Earth, has been extended until Saturday 20 March 2010. Gallery opening hours are as follows: Monday: By appointment only Tues – Friday: 10 – 6pm Sat: 1 – 4pm Sun: Closed If you would like any further information please contact Jerome or Mary at 00353 ...

DONE TO A DEAD END & THE DEAD OR ALIVE SALE

[ March 13, 2010; ] DONE TO A DEAD END & THE DEAD OR ALIVE SALE by Giles Bailey and Martijn in’t Veld (An Excerpt) onethousandandonenights.info SD&G Saturday 7-10pm ...

Why we need a ministry of joined-up thinking

‘With a Cabinet reshuffle and a realignment of departments on the cards, GRAINNE MILLAR argues that this is the ideal time to review how Ireland organises creative resources. AS THE world economy continues its inexorable shift to becoming knowledge-based, we have many competitive advantages,” wrote Dermot Desmond in this newspaper last December. “The combination of our ...

ArtDigest is back!

Greetings all! Just a quick note to let you know that the ArtDigest page is back online. Apologies for the disruption in service. We have recently migrated the ArtDigest from a 3rd party service to our own hand-coded effort – it took a while to code and test as we do this for free . We may ...

The march issue of the mutation arts and culture blog is online now

The March of The Mutation Irish arts and culture blog is out now so check it out The mutation arts and culture blog is produced by mutant space arts resource and publishes a range of articles and essays on everything from music to poetry, audio stories to performance art, food to literature, ...
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Vivienne Martin selected for the One Year On Exhibition

Published on March 5th, 2010one comment
Textiles Designer Vivienne Martin has been selected as one of the participants in the One Year On event that is part of the New Designers Exhibition in London. New Designers & One Year On has been running for the past 11 years and each year up to 50 designer makers who are either within one ...
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Books in the age of the iPad

Published on March 5th, 20102 comment
‘As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over? We’re losing the throwaway paperback. The airport paperback. The beachside paperback. We’re losing the dredge of the publishing world: disposable books.’ Great article on the future of books and the coming of graphically rich ...
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Monster Truck Mini Trunk Call for Submissions

Published on March 4th, 20102 comment
Monster Truck Gallery is looking for submissions for a project of minute proportions. Following the curious appearance of a miniature gallery within the gallery, Monster Truck are currently constructing at a scale of 1:20. Submissions to exhibit in the miniature gallery should include text – artist statement, cv/bio, and statement of intent (no ...
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Mick O’Dea – Black And Tan

Published on March 4th, 2010one comment
[ March 11, 2010 6:00 pm to April 3, 2010 6:00 pm. ] Reception 6-8pm Thursday 11 March Exhibition runs 11 March – 3 April 2010 This exhibition is a remarkable departure for Mick O’Dea and yet it is also a journey all the way back to his childhood home in Ennis, where, as a boy he played toy soldiers in the family bar in the unlikely shared company of ...
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The Class of the New

Published on March 3rd, 2010one comment
While looking for my copy of Richard Barbrook’s ‘The Class of the New’ today, I remembered that the publishers ‘OpenMute’, made it available for free to download as a .pdf, so I had a look to see if it’s still available and found that it is (here). ‘In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection ...
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New film screenings at Cake Contemporary Arts

Published on March 3rd, 20102 comment
[ March 6, 2010 5:00 pm to March 19, 2010 5:00 pm. ] Cake Contemporary Arts presents its first programme of new film by filmmakers and artists based in Ireland and the U.S. Cake aims to provide access to a wide range of filmmakers and film artists’s projects to the Kildare area through its gallery facility. The first screening programme will include films by Paul Rowley & Nicky Gogan, ...
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An Alternative Republic?

Published on March 3rd, 2010one comment
‘IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of Seamus Heaney and of the dead generations of bards, writers, sculptors, painters and actors from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom. Having organised and trained her artists through her secret revolutionary organisation, the ...
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Tibet’s Tibet & Mongolia’s Mongolia – The Douglas Hyde Gallery

Published on March 2nd, 2010one comment
[ March 26, 2010 11:00 am to May 19, 2010 6:00 pm. March 26, 2010 11:00 am to May 19, 2010 6:00 pm. ] Tibet’s Tibet & Mongolia’s Mongolia Video documentaries by Wolf Kahlen Wolf Kahlen is a multi-media artist from Germany who is well-known for his films and installations; he has also made some fine docmentaries about Tibet and Mongolia, a selection of which are being shown in this exhibition. Each week, for the duration of the show, a different ...
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Alfred Jensen – The Douglas Hyde Gallery

Published on March 2nd, 2010one comment
[ March 26, 2010 11:00 am to May 19, 2010 6:00 pm. ] Alfred Jensen (1903-1981), a largely self-taught artist born in Guatemala and brought up in Denmark, was influenced by the study of a broad range of esoteric subjects, including the colour theories of Goethe, the writings of Leonardo da Vinci, Pythagorean geometry, Mayan and ancient Chinese calendars, the I Ching, and Greek religious rituals. His work ...
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RHA Drawing Marathon Week

Published on March 2nd, 2010one comment
[ March 22, 2010 10:00 am to March 26, 2010 5:00 pm. April 26, 2010 10:00 am to April 30, 2010 5:00 pm. May 31, 2010 10:00 am to June 4, 2010 5:00 pm. ] The RHA School is delighted to present a call to artists to participate on one of our upcoming drawing marathons. Three drawing marathons will be held, one a month in March, April and May 2010. Each drawing marathon will take place in the new drawing studio in the RHA. Places are limited to 24 artists per ...
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