Kerry Guinan—Our Celestial Sphere
On Friday 20th September 2019
Open late, 5 – 9pm
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Drop into the gallery for an evening viewing of Our Celestial Sphere by Kerry Guinan.
Giving guided tours, the artist will discuss the themes put forth by the exhibition, which establishes the art methodology of ‘relational socialist realism.’
This exhibition is part of Pallas Projects/Studios Artist-Initiated Projects programme for 2019
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Kerry Guinan is a visual artist and researcher based in Limerick and Dublin. Her site-specific interventions critique the interplay of art, place, and capital under neoliberalism. Guinan is a 2018/19 recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award and is also currently supported by Fingal County Council. Recent projects include The Limerick Soviet Shilling Project (2019), a public intervention curated by Ciaran Nash, STALKER (2019), an international retreat with Franko B and a/political, and Presenting the Cultural Quarter (2017), a residency, intervention and exhibition with A4 Sounds, Dublin. Kerry Guinan is the curator of this year’s TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: TACTICAL MAGIC, in Galway. http://kerryguinan.art/
Culture Night 2019 online catalogue
Kerry Guinan, Ann Ryan and Dr. Kieran Cashell
Time: 6pm Thursday 26th September 2019
Venue: Pallas Projects/Studios
Admission free - All welcome - No booking required
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To coincide with her solo exhibition Our Celestial Sphere, the artist Kerry Guinan will take part in a panel discussion with artist Ann Ryan, chaired by Dr. Kieran Cashell, to discuss their divergent approaches to relational art.
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For her exhibition Our Celestial Sphere, visual artist Kerry Guinan presents the art methodology ‘relational socialist realism,’ which has been a year in development with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award 2018. Guinan is proposing relational socialist realism as a contemporary style that recognizes the economics of social relations, the socialist potential of these relations, and the manner in which capitalism obscures this potential from view. Cues from orthodox socialist realism and contemporary relational aesthetics are merged, perhaps contentiously, to offer an ideological art strategy for the 21st century. The resulting three-part series of ambitious works engages workers from across the world in an incriminating critique of globalized capitalism and the uncertain role of contemporary art within it.
Kerry Guinan is a visual artist and researcher based in Limerick and Dublin. Her site-specific interventions critique the interplay of art, place, and capital under neoliberalism. Guinan is a 2018/19 recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award and is also currently supported by Fingal County Council. Recent projects include The Limerick Soviet Shilling Project (2019), a public intervention curated by Ciaran Nash, STALKER (2019), an international retreat with Franko B and a/political, and Presenting the Cultural Quarter (2017), a residency, intervention and exhibition with A4 Sounds, Dublin. Kerry Guinan is the curator of this year’s TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: TACTICAL MAGIC, in Galway. http://kerryguinan.art/
Ann Ryan is a socially-engaged artist and recent graduate of MA in Social Practice and Creative Environment at the Limerick School of Art and Design, 2018. She has been an activist for over 25 years working on a variety of political and social justice campaigns. Her recent project Continue in Their Refusal involves a long term collaborative project with the Limerick Youth Service to re-imagine The Limerick Soviet for its centenary year in 2019.
Dr. Kieran Cashell lectures in Critical and Contextual Studies at Limerick School of Art and Design (LIT) and is author of Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art (IB Tauris, 2009). He is currently completing a monograph on Richard Billingham.
Time: 2-5.30pm Wednesday 4th September 2019
Venue: Pallas Projects/Studios
Admission free - All welcome - Booking required
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To coincide with her exhibition Hyper- at Pallas Projects/Studios, the artist 1iing heaney hosts Experimental 3D scanning workshop.
Using clay, paper, wire, and other materials, participants are invited to make physical sculptures that will be 3D scanned using your phone, and placed in a digital replica of the Pallas Projects gallery space.
Laptops are not required, but if you would like to bring along your own computer, please download blender 2.79, VisualSFM, and Meshlab and bring a 3 button mouse.
This workshop is limited to a maximum of 12 people. Please book your place using the link provided.
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Hyper- is a new body of work by 1iing heaney. Using a range of mediums from 3D animation to riso print, this exhibition considers digital space as an extension of the geological world. Following a residency in the Burren College of Art, this work has been emerging since 2016. Further development continued during Lay of the Land’s RES 1 residency in Lauragh, Co. Kerry in March of this year. These remote landscapes have served as a vital backdrop for exploring the interface between the Digital Age and natural world.
1iing heaney is a visual artist experimenting with 3D modeling and animation from Bray, Co. Wicklow. She received her BA in Fine Art Media & Visual Culture from NCAD in 2015. With a focus on the material nature of digital life, her work explores geological timescales in parallel to human technological intervention. 1iing uses print, drawing, sculpture, simulations and 3D scans to consider the future of nature. 1iing has taken part in both group and solo exhibitions. Selected shows include solo exhibitions, Terrestrial/Satellite in 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway (2018) & World Geometry in MART, Dublin (2016). Group shows include Geological Cake, Burren College of Art Gallery, Co. Clare (2017), HIVE, Steambox Gallery, Dublin 8 (2017), Dancing Girl Emoji, Delta Sorority, Online (2016) and The stretch is better than the case, Upominki, Rotterdam (2015). 1iing has received support from the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award, Burren College of Art (2016) & Wicklow County Arts Office (2016 & 2019). She also facilitates workshops using the 3D software Blender in Block-T, Dublin.
Time: 1-2pm Saturday 17th August 2019
Venue: Pallas Projects/Studios
Admission free - All welcome - No booking required
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Drawing From Art is a drawing workshop run by the artists featured in the group exhibition Art Club—Concurrent.
This workshop interprets the range of image making techniques practiced by these artists where drawing is used as a means of discussing the core topics of this group exhibition.
All materials will be provided.
Press
The University Times, At Pallas Projects, an Art Exhibition Full of Surprises.
Kevin Gaynor - Jamie Gilroy Barrett - Niall Linton - Frank Prendergast
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Opening reception: 6–8pm Tuesday 30th July 2019
Exhibition continues: Wednesday 1st August – Saturday 3rd August 2019
Gallery hours: 12–6pm
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SHIFTINGS is a group exhibition that explores the confrontation between ideologies both past and present, and shows new work by Artists; Kevin Gaynor, Jamie Gilroy Barrett, Niall Linton, and Frank Prendergast.
This work documents the relationship between established social, and cultural systems in conflict with establishing structures that challenge their power. Through sculpture, installation, sound and video the exhibition reflects the tensions surrounding national, technological and cultural shifts in society today.
These four individual practices engage with cultural shifts, and systematic structures of power.
By bringing together these four pieces of work, a portrait is formed of the current geo-political shiftings taking place on the surface of this island, and the landmasses around it.
