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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Aoife Cassidy & Anita Delaney—Of Men and Mountains

The exhibition Of Men and Mountains takes as its starting point the idea of human struggle and endeavor.

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Peter O'Kennedy—Skip Roll Bump Scratch/126, Galway

Skip Roll Bump Scratch features video, photography and mechanical sculpture, including a new kinetic installation consisting of two mobilised record players both playing the same record.

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2 films by 2 artists—Manon de Boer’s Resonating Surfaces and Lovely Andrea by Hito Steyerl

Syjuco’s installation of hand-made sculptures is based on a shared database of “artworks” created by users of SketchUp, a 3-D modelling software made by Google.

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Peter O'Kennedy—Situation

What does matter?, in times of flux what is fixed? what is important and what is not? what to focus on and what to ignore? are we lost or are we found? Pallas Contemporary Projects is delighted to present new and recent work from 6 artists specifically selected for SUB:URBAN Rotterdam.

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TIMBUKTU

Where the map of this world ends, that’s where the map of Timbuktu begins…” This curated exhibition will feature a selection of sought-after artists from Ireland and beyond.

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Margaret O'Brien—I Live in the Cracks in the Walls

I Live in the Cracks in the Walls featured a constructed corridor 50ft x 2.5ft x 7ft, a constructed room 8ft x 8ft x 7ft with ornately designed wallpaper, a myriad of dressmaking pins map the wallpaper in patches forming dense 3D structures of the 2D design.

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Arise! ye starvelings…

Arise! ye starvelings… is the opening line of the rallying song the Internationale, the anthem used as an expression of allegiance to revolutionary ideals. The appropriation and re-contextualising of revolutionary and political imagery and ideas is a tactic used by artists to comment on the present geopolitical climate, creating a link between the past and the present.

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Pallasades

Emerging art collective, Pallasades, present their first collaborative project; a site-specific installation that combines light with structure and shape, directing human responses to spatial presence.

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Sarah O'Brien—Very Common Glory

O’Brien looks to the work of Romantic painters, namely Caspar David Friedrich and W.M Turner: “the non-scientific nature of their work is relevant to me, when challenging the depiction of things quite… scientific”.

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John Lalor— Forward Pass

Lalor’s work contains video, installation, poster/text, maquette building, and painting in multiples (the democratic paintings series), which reveal a linear landscape to the expense of the singular image.

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Will Cruickshank— Wheelbarrow Piano

Wheelbarrow Piano is the first exhibition of work by UK artist Will Cruickshank in Ireland. Cruickshank’s practice involves finding ways of passing time, which moves between a kind of play or hobby and a more serious endeavour.

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Thirty Two Thousand Years Later

The exhibition Thirty Two Thousand Years Later involves a considered selection of artists who experiment with conventions of painting from diverse starting points.

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