Projects

Pallas Projects collaborates with artists and groups, placing a particular emphasis on early-career, emerging artists and recent graduates, experimental or overlooked practices.

Our gallery programming is centred around our open-submission Artist-Initiated Projects. Selected projects are presented in the context of a gallery space with a dedicated tradition towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment and are supplemented with artists’ talks, texts, workshops, performances, artists' interviews, and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative, curated, and international projects.

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Natasha Conway—Paintings
18/10/17—21/10/17

Natasha Conway makes small scale paintings in oil on linen or board often featuring collaged elements. The work is an ongoing exploration of the language of abstraction.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Darina Meagher—RADIOACTIVE MEMORY
11/10/17—14/10/17

Introduced to Orson Welles’ iconic film, Citizen Kane, as a student at the National College of Art and Design in the 1980’s, artist Darina Meagher now revisits the film to explore the concept of ‘radioactive memory’. 

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Elizabeth Archbold—Stasis Race
04/10/17—07/10/17

Elizabeth Archbold’s practice is concerned with the experience of the viewer in looking at the painting, painting as an index of making over time in an open-ended thinking process, and painting as a reciprocal exchange of forms and references with the environment.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
David Turner—More Ordinary Leaders: Unofficial Portraits
20/09/17—23/09/17

This exhibition showcases David Turner’s portraits of famous world leaders as ordinary young people created using Lego bricks or Hama Beads.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Rebecca Dunne—Static
06/09/17—09/09/17

Interrogating one fixed visual point with one printed image, and multiple, layered projected images, there are six points of sound to connect to in the space.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Eleanor McCaughey—There is a policeman in all our heads; he must be destroyed
30/08/17—02/09/17

McCaughey’s work looks at self expression, the way we examine and present ourselves, our attitudes to fashions and our desire for instant approval through the distorting lens of social media.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
John Busher—Jostle
16/08/17—26/08/17

The show presents an ongoing practice that explores a bodily response to social spaces. Investigated via drawing and painting; it considers how paint can articulate the nuance of these experiences.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Nasty Women Dublin
03/08/17—12/08/17

Nasty Women is a global art movement that serves to demonstrate solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of threats to roll back women’s rights, individual rights, and abortion rights

Part of Special Projects
Elaine Grainger / Michele Hetherington—Time is not a line
27/07/17—29/07/17

The idea for this exhibition has materialised through a continuous dialogue on the areas of convergence within their practices. Both artists approach the subject of place and time through line.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Awkward Interjection
21/07/17—23/07/17

Awkward Interjection is a feminist collective consisting of recent NCAD graduates. Themes that permeate the work include the representation and roles of women, gender, bodies, intimacy, sexuality and female experiences in public and private spheres.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Aya Ito & Atsushi Kaga—It happens to be
13/07/17—15/07/17

This exhibition consists of collaborative paintings and some individual works by Ito. When creating these collaborative works, the two artists drew one picture.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Colm Mac Athlaoich—Traveling without Moving
05/07/17—08/07/17

This exhibition brings together large and small format paintings in which abstract scenes are loosely formed by the suggestion of foliage and puddles, grids and lozenges or prop-like objects and curtains.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects