Projects

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

Artist-Initiated Projects (AIP) is a highly accessible open-submission programme, presented in a peer-led, supportive environment. It is designed to be dynamic, quick and responsive to reflect what artists are currently making. Periodical Review (2011–present) sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland to facilitate and encourage new readings, collaboration, crossover and debate.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative and international projects.

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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
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
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
Venus Patel—Monsters of the Apocalypse
13/04/23—28/04/23
A woman in a white dress with her arms raised shouting upwards in front of a white wall with green spot lights, a scroll hangs to the left and a photograph to the right.

Monsters of the Apocalypse acts as a queer reimagining of the end of the world, as well as a proposal for what a new one might look like. Using the language and presentation of radical preachers, Patel delves into the root of monstrosity. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Artist-Initiated Projects 2023
23/03/23—09/11/23
Artist-Initiated Projects Pallas Projects/Studios is formed out of the white negative space of bright blue dots, with Pallas square logo in the centre

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2023.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Daniel Tuomey—Control Centre Charlois
23/03/23—08/04/23
projection screen in an exhibition depicting paintings with text written over them in green, grey and blue tones.

For this exhibition Daniel Tuomey gathers a body of work which uneasily layers role playing games with the alienation of life under bureaucratic biometric capitalism. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Niamh Hannaford & Tara Carroll—Strike your offended senses:A modest exhibition of artistic frivolity
06/12/22—10/07/21

Niamh and Tara come together as an artistic duo to celebrate the strong sense of community within the auld heart of Dublin, the Liberties. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Frank Wasser—On Tenterhooks
03/11/22—19/11/22
Black and white image, the corner of a granite headstone with a grey concrete wall in the background.

Taking these histories into consideration as a starting point, this exhibition takes the form of an evolving and changing set of digressions, objects and materials which pose as voices that recount, contaminate, fabricate and complicate narratives constructed by the artist deployed through performance, images, sound and text.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Cóilín O’Connell and Michelle Doyle—Super Gairdín
13/10/22—29/10/22
An image of a man in garden centre kneeling down and talking to a large grey rock.

Super Gairdín is a new video work by artists Cóilín O’Connell and Michelle Doyle about divine spirits, landscape, language and nature. Taking cues from the folk horror tradition, the film is set in a desolate garden centre, a space where landscape is held indefinitely. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects