Upcoming Exhibition Events
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 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 the modernist designs of Eileen Gray to the exploration of the interior of an uninhabited house, the house itself becomes the central character.Accompanying the films is 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 ...
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: May 5, 2010 20:00 To: May 29, 2010 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Overlap: Majella ClancyOfficial Opening: Friday 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 ...
Recent Exhibition Events
From: July 8, 2009 20:00 To: August 1, 2009 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Ethna Joyce’ s exhibition , 'The Wind Blows at Thee' showcases a collection of new work created while on residency in Reykjavik earlier this year. Ethna explains how this affected her work. “The silent vastness of Iceland’s beautiful and astounding landscape is aptly captured in these small collages and oil paintings, in a time when Ireland is increasingly likened to Iceland due to uncanny similarities in their financial difficulties, it seems appropriate to visually explore and present this country , which is closer to us in more ways than we imagine”
From: July 8, 2009 20:00 To: August 1, 2009 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Born in Pozna?, Poland, artist Katarzyna Tuzel-Nabzdyk moved to Ireland three years ago. Commenting on her work, Katarzyna states: “I treat the painting as a fluid concept – it is a permeation of drawing, texture, of space installation, glass etc.), either on a plain and in the space. I am interested at the texture and its extraction by means of light. My painting follows the nature and it is from the nature that abstraction emerges. I attach big importance to the lines (vertical, horizontal) that constitute the given situation. The compositions do not close themselves within the picture frames but ...
From: September 17, 2009 19:00 To: September 17, 2009 21:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Anne McCarthy (Arts Officer, Mayo County Council), Sally O’Leary (Arts Officer, South Tipperary County Council) Damien O’Connor (Disability Arts Co-ordinator, Mayo County Council) and Georgie Thompson (National Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art) will be joined by a number of the artists involved in the Altered Images exhibition, for this informative talk about how the exhibition was conceived and developed, as well as the many questions the exhibition raises about access and display. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Adm: Free.
From: August 13, 2009 20:00 To: September 30, 2009 20:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
An exhibition of works from the Collections of Mayo County Council, South Tipperary County Council, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, including words by Alice Maher, Caroline McCarthy, Abigal O'Brien, Thomas Brezing and David Creedon, as well as specially commissioned works by Amanda Coogan and Daphne Wright. Altered Images, the first exhibition of its kind in Ireland, aims to be accesible to all sections of the community, in particular disabled people. Each work will be displayed by conventional means and accompanied by audio and relief models. The exhibitin catalogue is available in multiple formats including audio and CD. There will also be ...
From: October 7, 2009 20:00 To: October 31, 2009 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Transience, layers, traces and the everyday are the major concerns of the work of Mary Foudy O'Halloran. The transience of human life is definitive. Our present will inevitably fade and become another layer in the landscape. The traces of the past and the threat of newness everpresent. Her work is a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Using mixed media, locating and recreating the ordinary, she builds up layers, making marks and balancing tones to make something new. She believes that it is in the process that the painting is found. Laura Brennan is a graduate of GMIT. She has ...
From: November 4, 2009 20:00 To: November 28, 2009 15:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Perspectives 4: Ballina Open Exhibition 2009 will feature work by a number of locally-based artists in the north Mayo region. The exhibition comprises a wide variety of media and styles. The exhibition is also a wonderful opportunity for early Christmas shopping! Perspectives 4: Ballina Open Exhibition is supported by Ballina Beverages. Free admission. All are welcome to attend, exhibition runs until 28th November.
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: December 17, 2009 19:00 To: December 17, 2009 21:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Vanessa Daws: Gallery Talk 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: December 5, 2009 20:00 To: December 22, 2009 17:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Volute: Vanessa DawsVolute describes a spiralling energy within us. How we use this internal energy is explored in Vanessa Daws’ new exhibition. Using ‘tornados’ and ‘water’ as a motif, Vanessa’s work creates stories that question the effects of our actions.Vanessa’s work combines different media of painting, sculpture and animation. She is inspired by art where the viewer can discover aspects of the work that they can manipulate, manoeuvre or peer into, all underpinned by the anticipation of the unexpected.Vanessa Daws explores possibilities of access to a magical world and invites the viewer to engage and temporarily escape the mundane.Gallery Talk: Thursday 17th December, 7pmVanessa Daws ...
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.
