Salon 99 at Pallas Studios is an art exhibition in excess of 40 of Ireland's professional artists - a last flourish at the end of a millennium where space has become premium (6 billion and counting), 40+ of these artist will cram their oeuvres into the limited space provided by the newly refurbished studio gallery condensed on the walls from floor to ceiling will be many of Ireland's most creative artistic endeavours, vying for space with the unknown quantities of Ireland's emerging talent.

This exhibition is based on the salon shows that were held in Paris at the turn and start of this century, where a variety of artists with differing styles exhibited together en masse in condensed spaces.

Our last show 'PMT' was a late modernist/ post-modernist show in terms of spacial allocation for the work i.e. ideas of negative and positive space were accounted for relative to where the work was hung, breathing space and eye lines were considered along with compatible or complementary stylistic groupings.

The intention of Salon 99 would be to move away from the process of presentation in favour of the up front display methods of the early 20th century Parisians. A chorus of condensed images will replace the cool space of the modernist gallery.

To this end artists have been invited to present 3-6 works for display in Salon 99. It is intended that the space will become a very lively mixture of styles and concerns.

Salon 99 opens on Saturday the 11th of December '99.

ADF, Darren Bolger, Karl Burke, Sinéad Burt O'Dea, Sara Caaoll, Colin Carters, Declan Clarke, Nichola Coleman, Alan Crosby, Gavin Corcoran, Regina Corcoran, Mark Cullen, Aoife Desmond, Brian Duggan, Gabhain Dunne, Clodagh Emoe, Antony Hackett, Cormac Healy, Katie Holten, Anne Kelly, Antony Kelly, Mary Kennedy, Breda Lynch, Michael McLoughlin, Alan Lambert, Owen Llewellyn, Siobhán O'Leary, Vanessa O'Reily, Namara Lindsay, Colin Martin, Deirdre McKenna, Sandra Meehan, Gavin Murphy, Clive Murphy, Noel O'Callaghan, Cristophe Neuman, Patrisha Robertson, Jason Roche, Joyce Tansey, Cathy Taylor, Kieran Tierney, Naomi Walsh, Orla Whelan