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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Awkward Interjection

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

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

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

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*

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
PhotoIreland–Recount of Conflict

The Recount of Conflict presents projects focused on the disruption of the everyday life of individuals, families, communities, organisations, countries, etc. The artists selected for the exhibition are Anna Ehrenstein, Demetris Koilalous, Jasper Bastian, Marcus Haydock, Mark McGuinness, Martin von den Driesch, and Sascha Richter.

Collaboration
Eve Woods—Smile

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

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

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

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
Derick Smith—Origins

Origins is a series of paintings investigating the physicality of paint as object and furthermore how it can be used to create the impression of form and movement without the means of a traditional perspective space.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Jules Michael—Nimmo’s Pier

“Nimmo’s Pier” is an exhibition of recent paintings by Carlow-based artist Jules Michael. Made in her rural studio over the previous eighteen months, the works consist of mostly large-scale, abstracted images, the paintings utilising ideas and sources derived from remnants in architecture and the built environment.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects