Upcoming Exhibition Events
From: February 3, 2012 20:00 To: February 25, 2012 22:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
pareidolia — n : the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features. Pareidolia is seeing what appears to the individual to be a representation of a face, figure or form in clouds, woodgrain, marble, smoke, shadows or any non-homogeneous area. It can also be an auditory phenomenon. Ballina-based artist Caroline Casey’s practice takes in painting, photography and sculpture. Much of her work explores the effect of ‘subconscious interpretation’ of abstracted imagery – whether painted or otherwise. She explains: “I was taking photos of ‘faces’ in ...
From: March 3, 2012 14:00 To: March 31, 2012 17:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Bernadette Kiely is one of Irelands leading painters. Born in Co. Tipperary she attended theCollege of Art and Design at Waterford and the Slade School of Fine Art in London.She came to prominance as an artist through her detailed exploration of the seasonal and organic life patterns of the physical world. Often working on a large scale she is informed by her close connection to the land and waterways of her native county and her adopted county of Kilkenny. She paints spaces and places, refuges and prospects that are both steeped in personal significance for her and that explore ...
From: March 24, 2012 16:30 To: March 24, 2012 20:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Official launch of ‘Minefield’, a public art commission by Aideen Barry Artist’s Talk, 4.30pm Official Launch Event, 6pm Guest Speaker: Aidan Dunne, Irish Times’ Art Critic Official launch by Cllr. Peter Clarke Mayor of Ballina Aideen Barry’s ‘Minefield’ will be launched as the public art commission for Ballina Arts Centre. To celebrate the launch Aideen will give a talk on her practice at 4.30pm. She will discuss her extensive and multi versatile practice, which spans a range of art forms and approaches, including sculpture, performance, drawing and animation. She will discuss the Minefield commission and give an insight into the ...
Recent Exhibition Events
From: December 17, 2009 19:00 To: December 17, 2009 20:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Vanessa Daws will give a Gallery Talk about her work and her Volute exhibition. Vanessa has worked in community arts for over ten years, working with Macnas in Galway, and St Patrick’s Festival, Dublin. In 2007 she began to concentrate on her own visual art practice. Vanessa’s interest for using water in her art stems from her passion and enjoyment of outdoor swimming, but the use of water as a motif in her work also delves into deeper thoughts of nature and nurture, who we are and the effects of our actions. Adm: Free.
From: January 21, 2010 19:00 To: January 21, 2010 20:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
As part of the Jack B Yeats & the West of Ireland exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre throughout January and February, Emer McGarry, Assistant Curator from The Model, Sligo, will lead a guided tour of the exhibition on Thursday 21st January.The tour starts at 7pm and admission is free. This exhibition is drawn from The Niland Collection and is presented in association with The Model, home of The Niland Collection.
From: March 5, 2010 20:00 To: March 27, 2010 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
The Shape of Things: Susan Tiger Official Opening: Friday 5th March, 8pm Susan Tiger’s work comprises drawings consisting mainly of acrylic paint and graphite on watercolour paper. These intimate drawings of various objects, which recount the artist’s personal experiences and memories, are simple, yet meaningful. The images work together with their poetic titles to form an evocative narrative. Images appear to float on the white sheets of paper and instil a sense of quietude as the viewer encounters each of these works. Recent exhibitions include Singing the Real, Contemporary Art from Ireland at the Iziko South African National Gallery in ...
From: April 14, 2010 19:00 To: April 14, 2010 20:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Laura Gannon: Gallery TalkLaura Gannon will give a talk about her work and her World/interior exhibition.Gannon has worked as an artist filmmaker since 1996, using the media of film, digital video and drawing to create an ongoing body of work which explores the body, the subconscious mind and architectural space. Solo exhibitions include: Sketch Gallery London, 2009, Whitechapel Project space, London 2007,Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery, 2003 & Temple bar Gallery, 2000. Gannon has recently completed an associate artist programme with Lux, the artist’s film agency, London. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, London. Adm: Free
From: April 8, 2010 20:00 To: May 1, 2010 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
World/interior: Laura GannonOfficial Opening: Thursday 8th April, 8pmA series of new films and drawings explore Laura Gannon’s ongoing interest in the body and architecture. Ranging from an exploration of the interior of an uninhabited house (where the house itself becomes the central character) to a series of drawings and sculptures using the motifs of the body and the stage. Gannon is drawn to what happens to the body within architecture, the private rituals and traditions that occur within a building, how the building itself is a living entity and does not stay static when unoccupied, the gradual disintegration that takes place has a ...
From: May 5, 2010 20:00 To: May 29, 2010 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Overlap: Majella ClancyOfficial Opening: Wednesday 5th May, 8pmOverlap features work from Majella Clancy’s ongoing investigation into painted space/place. Working from an archive of photographic imagery taken from various sources, she is interested in creating ‘real and imagined spaces through the translation and miss-translation’ of the collected imagery. Through the process of digital manipulation and paint the images become removed from their original source allowing ambiguity to enter between the painted and photographic elements. Colour plays an important role in how the paint is applied to allow for various readings of pictorial space, blurring the distinctions between perceptions of reality and ...
From: June 17, 2010 19:00 To: June 17, 2010 21:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
NuisanceBears: Gallery Talk Thursday 17th June, 7pm Nuisance Bears (aka Nicholas Devaney) will host a discussion about his Bumpflakes exhibition. The discussion will also take in wider aspects of contemporary visual arts practise.Adm: Free. All welcome.
From: June 10, 2010 20:00 To: July 3, 2010 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Bumpflakes: NuisanceBears Bumpflakes is a major new exhibition by Nuisancebears, aka Sligo-born sculptor Nick Devaney. The work of Nuisancebears occupies a cultural geography inhabited by the likes of Jimmy Durham and Gabriel Orozco, a land where familiar, everyday objects and cultural references conspire to create glimpses of alternative possibilities that are both engaging and provocative. Concrete kerbing combines with the likes of cocktail umbrellas, cornflakes consort with speed bumps, an ice fishing hut provides a life-size studio-laboratory for the implied-but-absent ‘scientist/artist’ author of these works. The world of Nuisancebears is one that merges art and reality, blurring boundaries and posing ...
From: July 9, 2010 19:00 To: July 8, 2010 21:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Arne Witt: Gallery Talk Friday 9th July, 7pmArne Witt will give a Gallery Talk on his work and practise. Arne Witt was born in Germany and has been living and working in Ireland for the past three years. His practise embraces a variety of forms and media, but has an underlying interest in research. For this talk he will discuss his exhibition ‘Con: Structure’, and how it fits into the wider context of his practise and development as an artist. Adm: Free. All welcome.
From: July 8, 2010 20:00 To: July 31, 2010 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Con Structure: Arne Witt Official Opening: Thursday 8th July, 8pm Con Structure shows the view of a constructed world. Daily situations, things of daily life and media news are creating the pool Arne Witt develops this work from. With his work he questions and creates new connections and stories between what is so familiar to us.The artistic media by itself forms part of the questioning. Through a variety of visual arts media (including objects, paintings, drawings and video projections), Arne Witt tries to break barriers between the different disciplines in art. As an extension of this, he also combines techniques ...
