Upcoming Exhibition Events

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Human Chain: Dutch Contemporary Drawings exhibition

Official Opening Thursday 7th September, 8pm Human Chain: Dutch Contemporary Drawings is an exhibition of drawings and works on paper by seven Dutch artists who at one point have been resident artists at the Ballinaglen Arts Foundation. Selected by Arno Kramer, the artists in the exhibition are: Arno Kramer, Hanneke Francken, Caren van Herwaarden, Anita Groener, Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, Erik Mattijssen and Jacobien de Rooij. The presentation of Human Chain in Ballina Arts Centre in September 2017 will show that there is a huge variety in content and also in technique and sizes of the drawing of these seven Dutch artists. ...

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Find Your Gods: ShelkyBean exhibition

Official Opening Thursday 14th September, 8pm Exhibition of digital illustrations by Kiltimagh based artist, ShelkyBean. Modern day gods take many forms; actors, musicians, artists, political figures. They are necessary to navigate through the world which is “dark and full of terrors”. ShelkyBean has created portraits based on her own collection of gods, tenderly arranging them in dream landscapes, existing somewhere between fan and allegorical art. They are an attempt to question many issues, while also keeping in mind, these individuals we raise to god-like status, are fallible human beings too. Supported by Mayo County Council Runs until 28th October. Admission free ...

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Here and Now: Diarmuid Delargy exhibition finished

Official Opening Friday 14th July, 8pm Diarmuid Delargy is a renowned Irish artist- a painter, print-maker and sculptor; he studied at the Slade School of Art. He is a member of Aosdana, The Royal Society of Painter/ Printmakers, London and of the Royal Ulster Academy. “This exhibition is a vignette of studio concerns of mine over the past nine years,” he says of Here and Now. “There are several main recurring themes based around the dominant motif of Art and Extinction. These works are a visual conversation, loosely referenced, informed by time spent in print-making, particularly intaglio, with all its richness ...

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Perspectives 11: Ballina Open Exhibition exhibition finished

Perspectives 11: Ballina Open Exhibition 2017 (as part of Ballina Salmon Festival) Ballina Civic Offices Official Opening Friday 7th July, 7pm Perspectives 11: Ballina Open Exhibition 2017 is presented this year in association with Ballina Salmon Festival , at the Ballina Civic Offices gallery space. The exhibition features work by artists from or living in the Ballina area and includes works in paint, photography, sculpture etc., and is a fantastic platform for any emerging local artist to showcase their work. Perspectives has, over the years, become one of the highlights on our calendar, drawing large crowds on not just opening ...

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Scratching the Surface: Jane Dunn exhibition finished

In 2015, Jane Dunn travelled from Naples in Brasilicata National Park, Southern Italy, to stay in Noepoli, a medieval hill top village. During that visit she experienced a sensual and visual journey through tastes and smells, colours and heat, ancient towns and mountainous landscapes, old doorways, bleached plasters, frescos and archways, siennas and umbers, olive groves and tiled roofs.Sumptuous delights filled those days and these works are her response to that journey. Paintings are on canvas, multimedia board and paper in oil, cold wax and mixed media.Jane Dunn graduated in 1995, with a BA Honours in Fine Art, and since ...

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Chris Doris: Who Goes There (two exhibitions in black and white) exhibition finished

Chris Doris: Who Goes There (two exhibitions in black and white) Official Opening Saturday 20th May, 2pm Ballina Arts Centre and Custom House Studios, Westport Who Goes There inquires into ideas of self and a rural society on an ambiguous edge between disintegration or renewal as old structures and resources give way and new potentialities arise. Large scale monoprints, Open paintings and a series of landscape works on paper utilize a balance of text and image to evoke the freedom in observing phenomenal reality as contingent and empty of permanence and inherent substantiality. This perspective is applied in black and ...

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Re: presenting the West exhibition finished

7:1 Collective: Re:Presenting the West Official Opening Thursday 4th May, 8pm The 7:1 Collective is a group of third year students from GMIT Castlebar Campus’ BA Contemporary Art Practices course. Members of the collective are: Aiga Blowick, Maggie Coggins, Lindsay McConnell, Catherine McLoughlin, Val McLoughlin, Sarah McNicholas, Una Morris and Mary Walsh. This is their first exhibition as a collective. Runs until 29th June. Admission free and all are welcome.

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Girlhood: Orla Sloyan exhibition finished

Throughout March and April, Ballina Arts Centre will present Girlhood, an exhibition by Mayo artist Orla Sloyan. Girlhood is the collaborate results of a photographic project between the photographer and the Maughan family that documents the family’s special and intimate occaisions from 2007 to 2016. The Maughans are members of the travelling community living in Castlebar town. The project began as a study on Irish identity and cultural diversity and has since evolved into a multidimensional body of work that has revealed a personal intimate story of cherished family milestones. Whilst the images offer the viewer with an opportunity to ...

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Interior // exterior exhibition finished

interior // exterior An exhibition of lens-based works from the Mayo County Council collection. interior // exterior is an exhibition of works from the Mayo County Council Collection. Featuring works by David Creedon, Yvonne O'Sullivan, Eamonn McCarthy, Jenny Brady and Jim Vaughan, the exhibition presents a number of approaches to making lens-based visual art. Runs until 4th March. Admission free. All welcome. Presented in association with Mayo County Council.

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Made in a Day exhibition finished

Made in a Day is an exhibition of work by over 20 local and North Mayo based artists. All the work was produced on one day (Nov 26th) in Ballina Arts Centre. The work included covers various media; oils, acrylics, watercolours, chalk and sculpture.