25/07/2026—16/08/2026
OUTLET
Pallas Projects/studios
Opening day party:
2–9pm Saturday 25th July
Exhibition runs:
Wednesday 29th July–Saturday 15th August
Cristina Nicotra, Dámhín Mckeown, Emily Forster, Jowy Ahia, Lana May Fleming and Seán Kelly, Rita Byrne.
Pallas Projects/Studios presents OUTLET, as the name suggests OUTLET is an exhibition and yard party offering activities as a means of escape situated within a 2 week exhibition. OUTLET is hosted and presented by Pallas Projects/Studios staff, combining skills from their careers as Arts Workers, Artists and DJs.
Taking its title from both the idea of an emotional or creative outlet and the electrical outlet as a point of connection and activation, the exhibition and surrounding events explore the ways people seek release, recharge and community within the conditions of contemporary working life.
Bringing together painting, textiles, and video works by participating artists and expanding beyond the gallery format, OUTLET will host an opening party alongside a monotone painting workshop. Transforming the space into a site of exchange, the gallery becomes an active social environment: a temporary infrastructure for exchange, rest, and participation. OUTLET invites audiences to engage with art not only as something to observe, but as something to plug into and as a shared space for circulation.
Opening Day Party
Saturday 25th July from 2pm until 9pm
Come along to celebrate the opening of OUTLET hosted and presented by Pallas Projects/Studios staff in collaboration with local record label and party series Reasons to Dance.
OUTLET is also excited to be part of the Liberties Festival 2026.
Reasons to Dance is a Dublin/Galway based DIY label, a space for colourful, optimistic dance music. Set up by Dåser and Fionn, they cast a wide net over the contemporary club music world. The focus is less on singular genres, and more looks to mould together a universe of bright, playful and wiggly synthesis. The natural and synthetic world seem to overlap both in the labels music and artwork.
Line-up:
2-3 DJ Faggot b2b JWY (happy hour)
3-4 metalgomery b2b Hustler Barbie
4-5 Máthair b2b Mary Poppers
5-6 Fionn b2b Dåser
6-7 Lúnasa b2b Becky
7-8 JWY b2b Rory Sweeney
8-9 DJ Faggot b2b K8olo
BYOB, no glass
2-3pm happy hour with free drinks for the first to arrive
As this is a free event people who have booked will be prioritised for entry
Monotone Painting - Exploring Colour and Tone
Saturday 8th August 12-2:15pm
A workshop exploring form and tone through monotone painting, using acrylics in Blue and Orange. We will discuss how cool and warm tones affect painting and how complementary colours can help us create a variety of tones to paint in. Each person will get 2-3 brushes, a view finder, a palette, the paint colour of choice, a complementary colour and white.
2hrs and 45 mins workshop - first half an hour will be a talk on technical aspects - how to use a viewfinder, complementary colour and cool and warm tones.
2 hrs to work on painting with a 15 min break after the first hour
Closing reception
Saturday 15th August 6-8 pm
Join us on the last day of the exhibition for some light refreshments to mark the end of the exhibition
Your last chance to see the work!
Artist Biographies:
Cristina Nicotra is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator and curator based in Dublin. She explores the emotional, political, and ecological dimensions of human and more-than-human entanglements. Her practice reflects on novel, urban ecologies and the current polycrisis.
Recent practice includes the curatorial work in 2025, Earthbound Tales and the Entangled Life programme at Pallas Projects, Entanglement and Mint Tea itinerant gathering, 2026; Open fields participatory work at UCD, 2026; her Wild Cabbage performance at the Independent Fashion Designer Showcase, GalleryX, Dublin, 2024; Brigid with The Liberties Weavers, Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2024.
Dámhín Mckeown is an interdisciplinary artist and culture worker based in Dublin, Ireland. His practice brings communities on the margins into the arts space through installation, curation, and driving collaborative, socially engaged projects.
Awards include the Spirit of Fringe Award for Fully Automated Luxury Gender Oasis (2018), an Arts Council Agility Award (2025), and an Artist Mentorship Award with Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts (2025).
Emily Marie Forster is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Dublin 8. They graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2022 with a degree in Fine Art Painting.
Their work looks at the body as a landscape, grief, connection and transmutation. They work in mediums such as paint, digital techniques, text, sculpture and social engagement. Their work builds a mythology of the body through surreal imagery, humour and depression, blurring the line between sorrow and ecstasy.
Based in The Liberties, they create intimate, chaotic worlds that speak to pain, transformation and the messy sanctity of being alive. Forster was an Arts Council Agility Award recipient 2025.
Jowy Ahia is a Dublin-based DJ born in Amsterdam with roots in Ghana, India and Suriname. Known for high-energy, bass-driven sets and fluid genre movement, she has supported artists including Bakey, Conducta, Jeff Mills, Sammy Virji, Amor Satyr, Nick León and Teki Latex.
She has played festivals and platforms such as Other Voices, Open Ear, Project 6, AVA and ATN, including stages like Arcadia and Rave in the Woods at Electric Picnic. Jowy is a resident with queer collective Rathaus and one half of the B2B duo BK86.
Her sets pull from afro and Caribbean-influenced riddims, UKG, breaks, grime, 140, drums and baile funk. Alongside DJing, she runs foxgluv and co-founded AMPM, platforms focused on building community and highlighting female, non-binary and trans creatives in club culture.
Lana May Fleming is a visual artist based in Dublin, her multidisciplinary practice examines the societal pressures that drive individuals to physically and digitally alter their bodies. Utilising performance through video the work explores themes of identity, autonomy and the impact of ever evolving beauty standards. Through a combination of satire and surreal visuals, the work often blurs the boundaries between critique and participation, engaging the audience in a dialogue around the tension between personal agency and societal expectation.
Fleming is a co-director of Temporary Address, an experimental nomadic art project; recently funded by Culture Ireland and Kulturforum. She is a recipient of the Fingal Residency Award with Mart Gallery and Studios and the IADT and Pallas Projects/Studios Mentorship Award (2020), Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary recipient (2024), awardee in ‘you breathe differently down here’, Draíocht (2022) and a Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme recipient (2023-2025). Residencies: Kulturforum Witten, funded by Culture Moves Europe (2024), BEK, Norway (2022), and SíM, Iceland (2022). Solo exhibitions: Watering Hole, DIVA, Dublin (2022) and meat clown, aerial, Bergen, Norway (2022).
D7’s finest, Seán Kelly aka DJ FAGGOT aka [DJ REDACTED] is slaying traditional family values. As a high ranking member of both the Woke Mob and Rainbow Mafia, he has spent the last three years spreading the globohomo LGBTQIA+ agenda hard ‘n’ fast with his lubed-up all-inclusive multi-genre high BPM seleXXXions as far as London, Glasgow and Barcelona.
Once you enter his Safe Space no genre is off limits; expect jersey club, donk, speed dembow, footwork, ghettotech, and jungle arse-peelers from beginning to end.
With supporting slots for international sensations DJ YARAK, Eugene McCauley, Surgeon, DJ Fuckoff, Rory Sweeney, U.R. Trax, and jamesjamesjames as well as a weekly residency at Bump Dublin, recent appearances at Electric Picnic and Fuinneamh, and recent international gigs in Barcelona, Glasgow and London under his belt, DJ F*GGOT is sowing seeds of excellence set after set with no signs of stopping. He is The Future That Liberals Want and the Burke family are powerless to stop him!
Rita Byrne is an multi-disciplinary artist based in New York, Brooklyn. Her work involves using materials such woodstain, and chipboard to represent memory and human fragility. In 2026, Byrne started her street art project, “cigarettegirl2025”, where she repurposed an old fire call box in Brooklyn into a mini public gallery, where exhibited her own work and others in response to the commercial gallery system in New York. She is currently completing her BFA in painting at Pratt Institute, where she received her Associates in Painting/Drawing (2025).
