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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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
Rocío Romero Grau—Interregnum
13/10/22—29/10/22
Documentation of a live performance, a person drapped in white fabric standing in front of a large proejction of a shadowy figure in black and white in a dark room.

Rocío interrogates our present as a liminal space, an Interregnum between an unreliable past and an uncertain future. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Art Nomads—Karvansarai کاروانسرای
22/09/22—08/10/22
A large projection on a white wall in a dark room, the video depicts a pair of hands holding up a black and white image of a man.

‘Karvansarai’ a meeting and resting place for migrants from the long and tough journeys of life has come out of Art Nomads project ‘Souk/Bazaar’. This participatory process included others from academia, community development, activism and migrant solidarity from China, India, South Africa, USA and Ireland. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Kate Fahey—Mouthnotes
01/09/22—17/09/22
Exhibition documentation of a white wall gallery with a wooden floor and low ligthing, to the right a circular image is projected depicting a close up of a verticle mouth and to the left a sculpture of bent metal wire with two large grey rocks at the bottom.

Mouthnotes reclaims the stone's split, and reimagines it as a mouth from which a multitude of utterances and un/speakable things leak and spill.Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Camilla Hanney—Lament
30/06/22—16/07/22
Sculpture documentation of a white bust of a womans face with a floral headdress, silver tears are rolling down the cheeks from both eyes it sits on a white ceramic cake stand and a pair of ceramic cupped hands sits in front of the bust all on a white plinth with a dark background

Lament explores the tradition of Irish ‘keening’ and its deep-rooted relationship with catharsis, loss and care. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Deliverables
14/04/22—30/04/22
Exhibition documentation of a white gallery wall on the left s small white ipad displays a video work, in the centre a pile of large rusty metal screws tied together with twine and to the left a wooden embroidery frame with brown mesh stretched in the centre.

Deliverables is a remote collaborative exhibition project, the exhibition is the story of a postal package, an experiment in communal art making, and the celebration of a collaborative structure built over the course of one year, spanning across the Atlantic ocean. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Day Magee— Contraindications of the Cross
24/03/22—09/04/22
Performance documentation, a man lays in black underwear on a bright red sheet of fabric on a wooden floor, his hands hold a pair of scissors over his chest his arms and legs are tied with large black cable ties which stick out from his body, a white wall is behind him.

In Contraindications of the Cross, Magee presents a series of votive multimedia chronicling the lived intersections of queerness, illness and faith, prospecting the raw material of their experiences. Part of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Artist-Initiated Projects 2022
19/03/22—19/11/22
Infographic on a beige background above text reads 'Artist Initiated Projects 2022' in a mint green colour, with a light blue semi circle, the text is mirrored below in the same blue with the mint green semi circle, the Pallas Projects/Studios square black logo sits in the middle of the image.

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2022.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Katherine Sankey—Hydrozomes // water bodies
11/11/21—27/11/21

Katherine Sankey's sculpture uses living plant tissue and human supply lines to engage in the geo-feminist conversation about what we gouge and suck from the planet. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín—trailblazer
14/10/21—30/10/21

“Falling into lines and columns and sheets, He-trailblazer- carbon vanishing from the miniature curtain rail enclosure”. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Pat Curran—Home
23/09/21—09/10/21

Most of the subjects and ideas for my paintings come from my own lived experience and ideas surrounding social and political topics that are relevant to wider conversations on social justice and cultural expression. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects