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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Return to Disintegration—Periodical Review 11
Close up documentation of a carpet piece with an abstract image of a dog-like person in pink and orange surrounded by various shapes in multicolured red, pink, orange and blue background

Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland.

Periodical Review
Katherine Sankey—Hydrozomes // water bodies

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
Dubliners—6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb

Pallas Projects are pleased to present ‘Dubliners’ – the international section of the 6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb, curated by Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy. The exhibition affords a unique opportunity to present together for the first time, an intergenerational grouping of painters who were born, bred, studied (and taught), or live and work in Dublin.

International
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín—trailblazer

“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

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
Róisín White—These Dark Shapes

Through sculpture and photography, White invites the viewer to imagine the shape of their feelings, the things they carry around with them day after day.Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Suzanne O’Haire—manic panic

Conjured from inert and defunct matter, Suzanne O’Haire’s work manifests itself through a series of initiations and metaphorical elements. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Juncture: a place where things join

Juncture is an exhibition that brings together the artwork of a group of Pallas workers and volunteers. Each artist, with their own distinctive practice and experience of the Pallas space, cohese to create a multifaceted entity bound by this shared common space.

Special
Florencia Caiazza—Mismatch

Florencia Caiazza’s work acts as a reaction to a space or a time (an exhibition space, a new studio, city, a season, a specific weather). Finding the right medium is the starting point to develop a dialogue/reaction. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Niamh Hannaford & Tara Carroll—Strike your offended senses:A modest exhibition of artistic frivolity

Niamh and Tara come together as an artistic duo to celebrate the strong sense of community within the auld heart of Dublin, the Liberties. Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
John Conway—Object Im/permanence

“I write this opening text and a subsequent exhibition essay to accompany Object Im/permanence, a solo exhibition by visual artist John Conway: an exhibition that I have not yet seen, at a time when gallery spaces have been closed for months.” Part of our 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Ark Life—A Celebration of Art, Biodiversity & Climate Action

Pallas Projects presents a major new visual art project Ark Life, a community-focused artist-led programme celebrating biodiversity in Dublin City during Spring/Summer 2021.

Learning & Research