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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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
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
Plot and Piece–Kerry O’Hare, Birgitta Horan, Sarah Farrell & Ciara Ward, Curated by Beth O’Halloran
22/06/17—01/07/17

The show Plot and Piece is a series of interconnections through both media and philosophical stance. The work spans painting, photo imagery, sculpture and installation and addresses ideas from fragility to trespass.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Ruaidhri Kelly—Upward Behind the Onstreaming it Mooned*
17/05/17—20/05/17

Upward behind… presents a new body of paintings formed loosely through the narrative of illusory constructs, a reality yielded and infinite abbreviations or associations.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Eve Woods—Smile
27/04/17—29/04/17

Smile is an exhibition of paintings about nightmares; teeth; anxiety; the ambivalence and possibilities of dreams contrasting with vividity and certainty.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Louis Haugh–Alien Architecture
12/04/17—22/04/17

Alien Architecture is a an ongoing response to both Henry’s advice and to the alien specimens found in the collection. Presenting work made over the past two years, this exhibition acts as a conduit for conversation, asking; What is a landscape when it is architected by industry?

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Sara French—The Pinch
04/04/17—08/04/17

The Pinch is an installation of wax rubbings, paper coins, a bench, and a bookwork followed by a performance. Paid for with money scoured from the streets of Dublin, the installation explores the potential of public funding, city mining, and social entrepreneurialism toward decelerated economic opportunities.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Anna Bauer and Sven Sandberg—Dos Amigos
29/03/17—01/04/17

Studio amigos during our time in Dublin, this exhibition is a chanceto reunite and continue our conversation about the formal, historicaland emotional aspects of painting.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects