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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In the making 2024
15/02/24—02/03/24
An image of a pile of various bones on a stone ground.

In the making presents a taste of the future. For three weeks in February-March 2024, Pallas Projects provides an exciting platform for emerging art practices, hosting three consecutive exhibitions of new work by degree year students from IADT’s BA in Art.

Part of Learning & Research
Brigid with the Liberties Weavers
01/02/24—02/02/24
Woven textile piece depicting a woman with long red hair dressed in green.

The Liberties Weavers showcases the creativity and skills of its members. The exhibition is centred around the revered figure of Brigid, Celtic goddess of fire, wisdom, and creativity.

Part of Special Projects
Periodical Review 13—Maslow’s Hammer
01/12/23—27/01/24
Sculpture documentation of drapped textile piece in blues and dusty tones.

Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland.

Part of Periodical Review
Aoibheann Greenan—The Ninth Muse
29/10/23—18/11/23
detail image of a grey and green symmetrical drawing ressembling a biological form.

The Ninth Muse speculates the creative and social ramifications of brain-machine interfacing, drawing inspiration from the Nine Muses of ancient Greek mythology.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
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05/10/23—21/10/23

Error: /undefined interrogates interlocking issues of our current conjuncture. Environmental and corporeal breakdown are examined against systems of never ending pressure and progress under capitalism. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Banbha McCann—Domestic Bliss
14/09/23—30/09/23
White wall gallery with wooden floor, a yellow table holds a kettle made from white cloth, two pieces of white cloth one with pink details and the other with green and yellow hang in the background.

Domestic Bliss reflects on the desire for a home, and how to make one. The work in this exhibition blurs the lines between the personal and universal, image and object, memory and desire. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
‘Freebirds M.C.C. Project’—Biddy Mulligan
27/07/23—12/08/23
A band with two guitar players, a drummer and a singer playing outside under a shelter with a blue wall behind them.

The ‘Freebirds M.C.C. Project’ is a socially-engaged project that involves twelve male members of the Freebirds Motorcycle Club from County Longford along with artist Brigid Mulligan who is a club member and little sister of the group. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Collective Residue—off the clock
20/07/23—23/07/23
Exhibition documentation of a white wall gallery with wooden floors and low and red lighting, a textile piece of white fabric is drapped and hung from the ceiling, photographic prints and drawings hang on the wall and a sheet of fabric painted with black ink hangs from the ceiling.

Inspired by the common experience of wearing double hats as artists and art workers at Pallas Projects/Studios: ‘residue’ expresses the spaces in-between words, roles and processes; what is visible and yet still unseen.

Part of Special Projects
Staring at the Sea: Land art and reflection symposium
06/07/23—18/07/23
Photo of a stoney beach with a man-made trail of stones placed in a line

The Staring at the sea residency at Cill Rialaig foreground was studio activity, reflection and group work alongside exploration in the open landscape; exploring dry wall stone techniques as a tool for artistic expression and site-specific practice.

Part of International Projects
Tanad Aaron—We’ll See You Now
05/07/23—15/07/23
A sculpture of a green shelf-like object, a cermaic white object ressembling a deflated ballon hangs over the edge and a fluorescent white light is attached to the back.

We’ll See You Now is the result of the cumulative research practice of Tanad Aaron, working within muddy approaches to furniture, space and object making. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Artist-Run Europe: Practice/ Projects/Spaces
22/06/23
An image of a grey book with 'Artist-Run Europe' written in white and 'Practice, Project, Spaces' written in black on a white background.

Part how-to manual, part history, and part socio-political critique, the second edition of Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society.

Part of Learning & Research
Bog Cottage—Queer na nÓg: 4ever young
15/06/23—24/06/23
Detail image of the top of a sculpture that ressembles a tree, orange spikes stick out from a red centre.

“The Bogs tell me about Queer na nÓg: 4ever young over a voice note. They record as they walk around Berlin, and I listen as I’m walking to a mutual friend’s house in Belfast. As they talk in-depth about the creation of this new world within Pallas, it transports me to the entrance of a magical world” Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects