Friday, 17th September, 4 pm - 8 pm
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Join artist Róisín White in the gallery where you will be invited to explore the exhibition and spend some time making your own miniature sculpture, and add to the installation. White's exhibition "These Dark Shapes", as part of the Artist-Initiated Projects (AIP), explores the catharsis in making totems to intense emotions and how building your feelings and living with them as tangible objects has helped her navigate grief and a complicated year. Róisín invites you to take a look at that feeling you're holding in your chest, that tension in your shoulders, and make a physical object to represent it. AIP is an open-submission, annual gallery programme of exhibitions with a dedicated tradition towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment.
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Róisín White is a visual artist based in Dublin, working primarily with photography, in addition to sculpture and drawing. Róisín holds a BA(hons) in Photography from DIT, and certificates in Ceramics and Sculpture from NCAD. Róisín is also an arts facilitator for young people and children.
Róisín White’s work often draws from archival materials and seeks to create a dialogue with our forgotten histories through the use of found photography and ephemera. She has an interest in exploring lore and the fictional narrative that can be discovered in discarded imagery, previous understandings agitated, and new meanings drawn out. Roisin’s sculptural work brings her photographic work into the three-dimensional and builds on means of photographic reception.
White has exhibited her work in Ireland and across Europe, with her debut solo exhibition at The Library Project in August 2018. She was selected to represent PhotoIreland at Futures Photography platform, and was selected for the Parallel European Photography Platform in 2018/9.
Her project “Lay Her Down Upon Her Back” was selected for the third edition of New Irish Works in 2019 and will be showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Photography project during the PhotoIreland Festival in July 2019. White was selected to take part in residency programmes, How To Flatten A Mountain residency at Cow House Studios in 2017, In-Between Shores residency with Ardesia Projects and JEST Gallery in Italy in 2018, and was the artist in residence at The Darkroom in Dublin (2018/2019). White has received funding from the local and national Arts Council in Ireland. She was selected as the recipient of the Blow Photobook programme FUSE in March 2019. Recent exhibitions include, “The Light from Our Side Shines Differently” Parallel Review, Lisbon, Portugal; “Zeitgeist” at the Robert Capa Centre, Budapest, Hungary; “New Irish Works” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Dublin Castle, Dublin; and “Out of Sight, Picturing the Unseen” at Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland.
Pallas Projects/Studios Artist-Initiated Projects is funded by The Arts Council
Wednesday, 4th August, 12 pm - 1.30 pm
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In this playful and experimental making-workshop lead by Natalie Pullen, participants will spend time with the work on show before leaving the gallery space to respond to, reconstruct, or re-imagine a chosen piece from memory through a variety of materials and methods - including paint, drawing, and collage with paper and fabric.
This will be a fun and creative afternoon aimed at ages 8 - 12. Materials provided, participants are welcome to bring a pad of paper and pencil.
Through the Ark Life Auction we raised just under €8000 which will go directly to artists and eco-focused groups:
Artist payments: €3714.75
Donations of €3738.31 shared among:
Ebid fees : € 174.39
Ebid Subscription: €13.98
Paypal fees : € 232.05
Sincere thanks to all who contributed to the Ark Life exhibition & auction, the buyers who supported, and our designer Simon Sweeney for creating the Ark Life site.
We'd like to especially thank the artists who participated in the exhibition which is viewable here:
Áine Phillips, Andrew Hopkins, Ann Quinn, Chanelle Walshe, Daire Mc Evoy, Dave Madigan, David Lunney, Deirdre O'Mahony, Denis Kelly, Dragana Jurisic, Elaine Grainger, Eleanor McCaughey, Eve Woods, Florencia Caiazza, Gavin Murphy, Gemma Browne, Gillian Lawler, Harry Walsh Foreman, Helen Hughes, Hoax Projects, Jennifer Smith, John Busher, Katherine Sankey, Kathryn Maguire, Kathy Tynan, Katie Holten, Kerry Guinan, Léann Herlihy, Lee Welch, Liliane Puthod, Louis Haugh, Mark Cullen, Méadhbh O'Connor, Melissa O'Faherty, Michaela Nash, Natasha Conway, Niamh Hannaford, Ruth E Lyons, Sean Molloy, Siobhan O’Callaghan, Steffi Kelly, Stephen Loughman, Susan Connolly, Tadhg O Cuirrin
& Tara Carroll.
Thursday 22nd July
5 pm to 6 pm
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As part of her exhibition at Pallas, Argentinian artist Florencia Caiazza has invited one of The Mothership project founders, artist and lecturer Seoidín O'Sullivan to join her in conversation to talk to and think about her work before and after having a child. She will discuss what her attentions are currently drawn to through this experience of becoming a mother and how she is thinking about materiality, touch, time and interruption in her new circumstances. The audience is invited to converse and discuss their own responses in relation to these themes. Children are welcome.
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Biography
Florencia Caiazza lives and works between Buenos Aires/ Dublin. Studied Visual Arts at Regina Pacis Art School (Buenos Aires), and was part of the Program for Artists at Torcuato Di Tella University, (Buenos Aires). Recent solo exhibitions: Color Municipal at HILO Gallery (Buenos Aires, 2019), ¿Cómo se conocieron? at Luis Adelantado Gallery (Valencia, Spain 2017). florenciacaiazza.com | @florenciacaiazza_
Seoidín O’Sullivan is an artist, arts educator, and interdisciplinary researcher. She has a MA in Fine Art Media from NCAD, and is Art Lecturer in NCAD's department of Visual Culture. Seoidín’s projects are collaborative and focus on people joining together in action to protect and develop an aspect of their local commons. She was awarded an Artist Bursary Award 2021 and the Next Generation Arts Council Bursary in 2018, and the Chicago Hyde Park Residency Award with IMMA and CREATE in 2017. Seoidín and Common Ground partnered with UCD’s School of Geography in Mapping Green Dublin (2019-21), an action project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency to map the territories of trees and green space across Dublin 8 by identifying their location, local identity and future creation. She is one of the founding artists of The Mothership Project. "The Mothership Project is a network of parenting artists in Ireland. We aim to support parenting artists in the development of their practice and to encourage arts organisations to make the art world a more inclusive place for artists with children. "
https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/about/
www.seoidinosullivan.com
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Artist-Initiated Projects at Pallas Projects/Studios is an open-submission, annual gallery programme of exhibitions taking place in the context of a gallery space with a dedicated tradition towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment. This unique programme of funded, artist-initiated projects selected via open call is highly accessible to artists, with a focus on early career, emerging artists and recent graduates. Projects are supplemented with artists' talks, texts, workshops or performances, online events and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.
Pallas Projects/Studios Artist-Initiated Projects is funded by The Arts Council
Meet at the Pallas Projects Gallery and the artists will guide you to a Performance site in The Liberties. Following this you will return to Pallas Gallery to take part in Play Sessions.
Taking place from 2pm on:
Saturday, 26th June
Friday, 2nd July
Saturday, 3rd July
From 3pm on:
Friday, 9th July
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The performance will take place within a 10 minute walk of Pallas Projects. Please dress for the weather as you will travel offsite. The duration of this event is approximately 90 minutes.
Stay tuned for the announcement of an extra special closing performance on Saturday 10th July.
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Biography
Niamh Hannaford and Tara Carroll are two colourful friends who have come together to produce art that is vibrant, energetic and celebratory. Individually, and together, they have interdisciplinary practices which encompass performance, print, sculpture, installation, textiles and painting. Their work complements each other, as there are a number of parallels within both their mediums and concepts. Ideas discussed in their work include femininity, community, Irish history and the self.
Tara Carroll is a visual artist based in Dublin. Her art practice is predominantly performance, which transcends into other mediums such as textiles, installation, video and photography. Her artwork explores the fetish as a metaphorically enigmatic intersection of religion, mythology and sexuality. Tara has exhibited and performed extensively throughout Ireland in galleries such as BCA Gallery, The Complex, Mart, 126 Galway, An Táin and RHA. She received the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award from the Burren College of Art in 2019. She was also recently awarded a bursary from Kildare County Council to produce her new project 'Art as Pilgrimage'.
Niamh Hannaford is a visual artist based in Dublin. Her practice is rooted in self-reflection which she visualises through a combination of self portraiture, spoken word and object making. By documenting and publishing herself she has found others keen to share similar stories of doubt, fear, and joy. It is this sharing of experience, and thus, promotion of mental wellbeing that deeply interests her. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally including the 189th RHA Annual Exhibition, The Art Market Budapest and the Fringe Festival. Niamh recently received funding from the Arts Council Professional Development Award.
https://www.niamhhannaford.com/
@niamh_hannaford
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Artist-Initiated Projects at Pallas Projects/Studios is an open-submission, annual gallery programme of exhibitions taking place in the context of a gallery space with a dedicated tradition towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment. This unique programme of funded, artist-initiated projects selected via open call is highly accessible to artists, with a focus on early career, emerging artists and recent graduates. Projects are supplemented with artists' talks, texts, workshops or performances, online events and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.
Pallas Projects/Studios Artist-Initiated Projects is funded by The Arts Council
Image: The show image is documenting the performance 'Praising our Liffey water.' Photography by Ishmael Claxton.
