Dublin’s largest professional visual artists studios forced to close after 18 years Press Release from Broadstone Studios, Dublin1 July 2015 Broadstone Studios, currently the workplace of 34 professional visual artists, will close after 18 successful years, this coming Friday, July 3rd. During that time Broadstone has made an immeasurable contribution to the visual arts community. Its aspiration according to director Jacinta Lynch was simple: to provide affordable and suitable workspaces for visual artists. It has successfully done so providing exactly that to many of Ireland’s most dynamic,… Read More »
Crisis of Criticism
Just over a year ago, the newly appointed editors of Paper Visual Art, Marysia Wieckiewicz–Carroll and Nathan O’Donnell, invited four arts writers to respond, present, and discuss the question: “What do you expect from art criticism?” The following is my talk, re-presented now as it continues to be an entirely unresolved issue in Irish Visual Arts. The following is by no means all encompassing and is a bit schematic. And don’t think I’ll answer the question “What do I expect from criticism?” I’m not sure what my… Read More »
REVIEW: The Parallax View
The Parallax View Alan Butler, curated by Niamh Brown Ormston House, Limerick 12 December 2014 – 31 January 2015 Review by Jim Ricks As the end of Alan Butler’s solo exhibition, The Parallax View, loomed, on impulse I bought a same-day return ticket from Dublin to Limerick. Up far earlier than usual to catch a 10 o’clock, and in a half sleep, half caffeinated delirium, I decided to perform. The performance took place on Twitter. I declared a very self-reflexive, so much meta, self-aware, double… Read More »
Intervention to The Treaty Stone (It’s a wrap)
Intervention to The Treaty Stone (It’s a wrap)Artist unknownLimerickApril 2015Photos by Dave Upton
REVIEW: 6IX Degrees
6IX Degrees Curator, Naomi Sex/ Artist, Alan-James Burns/ Curator, Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll/ Artist, Linda Quinlan/ Curator, Sarah Pierce/ Artists Jan Verwoertand Federica Bueti.Conceived and facilitated by Naomi Sex Irish Museum of Modern Art 4pm – 7pm, 13 December 2014 Review by John Graham “I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world”. – Paul ‘Poitier’, Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare By 4pm the winter light was already leaving the courtyard separating the artists’ studios from the… Read More »
REVIEW: Out the hole, around the tree and back in again
Out the hole, around the tree and back in again, Graduate Exhibition 2014 Avril Corroon National College of Art and Design, Dublin 14 – 22 June 2014 Review by Eoghan McIntyre “There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”1 – Herman Melville Transgression alludes to a stepping over, going beyond, the breaking of a convention or boundary. In its most basic sense transgression is the rejection of perceived rationality, an… Read More »
REVIEW: Civil Occupation
The art a city absorbs says a lot about its inhabitants. What the city nurtures from itself, but also what is invited in. As waves of trends of collectives and movements come and go, people can become jaded. Every now and then a show comes along that makes you review your art intake. The Ellis King Gallery has been open just under a year, so for anyone who hasn’t visited I will describe the gallery. It’s located on the outskirts of Dublin city, but is… Read More »
REVIEW: Lacuna in Parallax
Lacuna in Parallax Lucy McKenna The Source, Thurles 12 September – 25 October 2014 by Jim Ricks “The thing about symmetry is that the beholder is positioned at the centre of the image”1 A train journey south towards Limerick on an overcast day brought me to Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Rising out of a wholly typical Irish place (and its pubs, takeaways, banks, butchers, Norman tower house, slow moving river, etc.) was the completely unexpected, substantial zinc-clad trapezoid edifice of The Source. Minus the apparently… Read More »
REVIEW: Patient Staring
Patient Staring Works by Anne Hendrick, Aileen Murphy, and Emma Roche. Curated by Paul Doran Wexford Arts Centre 19 October – 3 December 2014 Review by Susan Edwards Tucked upstairs in the Wexford Arts Centre was a group of some feisty, thought provoking little paintings. It consisted only of eight works of art and coincided with the Wexford Opera Festival. Even before looking at the body of art, one is met with the exhibition title, Patient Staring, and the connotations that statement brings to mind…. Read More »
REVIEW: Made by Whites for Whites
Two new bodies of works spanned the two Jack Shainman locations in Chelsea. Both formally related, but each very distinct in tack. For the purposes of this review I will focus on Made by Whites for Whites at 20th Street, although the contrast made by the other, Rescue, at 24th, is interesting. Nick Cave is primarily known for and has worked almost singularly on a body of work he calls Soundsuits. These are fantastic costumes that have their finger on the pulse of Dadaism at… Read More »
5 Ways To Build a Movement after Ferguson
5 Ways To Build a Movement after Ferguson The following is one in a series of posts dealing with the wave of protest sweeping the United States following the police murder of Mike Brown and Eric Garner re-posted with permission from Unity and Struggle. 1. Work to abolish police and prisons, not to reform them. President Obama has passed legislation to put body cameras on police officers, but this won’t stop the cops from killing black folks. Eric Garner’s murder was caught on camera like… Read More »
Pinochet Porn – The Dictator and the Maid
Pinochet Porn – The Dictator and the Maid Works by Ellen Cantor, curated by Dallas Seitz and The Black Mariah.The Black Mariah, Cork6 October – 7 December 2014 Review by Darren Caffrey The Dictator and The Maid by American video artist Ellen Cantor was made as part of her magnum opus entitled Pinochet Porn. Cantor describes the work: “Pinochet Porn, a feature length soap opera on super 8! A story of five children growing up during the Pinochet regime into adulthood.” In 2013 she died,… Read More »
A fictional response to Mark Swords
Every day Richard got up at 7am to make himself ready for work. For convenience sake he wore dark navy trousers, black shoes, black socks and a pale blue shirt. He had three pairs of trousers, 5 pale blue shirts, and 5 pairs of black socks which meant that for convenience sake he only needed to do his laundry once a week. It did make weekend dressing a bit more complicated and confusing as he had to figure out a weekend arrangement of… Read More »
These Immovable Walls: Performing Power
These Immovable Walls: Performing PowerPauline Cummins, Maurice O’Connell, Sandra Johnston, Philip Napier, Katerina Seda, Dominic Thorpe, and Carey Young. Curated by Michelle BrowneDublin Castle11 – 12 July 2014 Review by Darren Caffrey Black is all you see. It remains hanging in the mind long after. The work offered by Dominic Thorpe is set in darkness. Overall, the set-up for his performance Proximity Mouthcan be said to operate as a system. It begins outside. When the door opens, the previous viewer is released. Only then… Read More »
IMAGES: Baby Footprints Crow’s Feet
Baby Footprints Crow’s Feet Amalia Ulman August – October 2014 Ellis King Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Ellis King is pleased to present Amalia Ulman’s first solo exhibition at the gallery entitled Baby Footprints Crow’s Feet. Ulman’s practice is rife with interrogation of class and social stratification. Gender, sexism, and feminism are equally key components of her research and modus operandi. Investigated through various strands of audience engagement including online social media and performance, she examines social interactions, emotions, and the wider human condition. In Baby… Read More »
REVIEW: Agitationism – EVA International ‘Ireland’s Biennial’
The city of Limerick shares EVA 2014 between two main venues. The main gallery is Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA). The second space is a disused milk plant on the other side of the river. This latter site reflects the changing economics of the city, from an agricultural hub to one of culture. Indeed the plant once owned by Golden Vale shows the signs of disrepair. While LCGA’s white walls interiorise and vacate the space for the art work to be shown, the… Read More »
Images from Ultra
Images from Ultra Barbara Knezevic The Lab, Dublin 10 April – 7 June 2014 All photos by Darren Caffrey. Darren is supported by an Artlinks Bursary.
Images from (some) Dublin Degree Shows 2014
Images from (some) Dublin Degree Shows 2014 BA graduates from DIT and NCAD Various locations in Dublin /// NCAD Deberoh Hewson Eimear Walshe Eimear Walshe from the other side with one of Aoife Irwin Moore’s go-carts in use. Nicola Whelan Niall Cullen Chloe Phipps ? Diarmuid Corkery Fiachra Ó’ Súilleabháin Fala Buggy Mary-Kate Hardy Kieran Bollard Conor Horgan-Gaul Robert Carroll Stills from Avril Corroon, images courtesy the artist Avril Corroon and Kerry Guinan, image courtesy the artists Avril Corroon Kerry Guinan Saoirse… Read More »
What the devil is the Dublin Biennial?
The second Dublin Biennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Art closed its 12 day showing on Sunday. Seemingly coming from ‘nowhere’ (i.e. not from the expected channels of arts production and dissemination) in 2012, it was met by many members of the Visual Arts community almost universally with condemnation. “It’s a scam” was the most common reaction. But why? Actually, the answer is very simple. It’s not a Biennial. Yes, of course it is happening every 2 years, with plans for one in 2016. And in… Read More »
Images from ‘Representations’
Representations Tom O’Dea 126, Artist-run Gallery, Galway26 April – 04 May 2014 Data of the Physical Self Externally Published Data and Website Installation view The Datafied Individual The Externally Published Self The Externally Published Self The Externally Published Self The Insitutional Self The Insitutional Self All photos courtesy the artist.
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