Visual Art
Ballina Arts Centre
Ballina Arts Centre,
NEW WORK –
Official Opening: Wednesday 3rd September, 8pm
Galway-based artist, Selma Makela, explores the boundless location of memory and experience. Often using weather phenomena, she describes an area that resists easy definition. The work is a collection of distilled fragments that create endless suggested narratives and possibilities, both real and dreamlike. She recently graduated from GMIT 2007, and has exhibited at the Tulca Festival of Visual Arts (
LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE, CASTLEBAR
T: 094 9023733 email: linenhall@anu.ie website: www.thelinenhall.com
FEMALE ARTISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FROM THE NILAND COLLECTION. Monday 8th - Saturday 27th September
This exhibition, which is drawn from the Niland Collection, celebrates the work of female, Irish artists from the 20th century. The Niland collection features a large amount of work by female artists, and looked at together these works provide a comprehensive survey of the changing themes and practices of women artists throughout the century. The current redevelopment of the Model Centre has presented a great opportunity for many of the most significant of these works to be exhibited further afield, and this show features work by leading Irish artists including Mainie Jellet, Evie Hone, Mary Swanzy, Norah McGuinness, Nano Reid, Dorothy Cross, Kathy Prendergast and Alice Maher. This exhibition has been curated by Emer McGarry and organised in collaboration with the Model Arts and Niland Gallery,
LUNCHTIME ART TALK . Wednesday 24th September @ 1.00pm
Ann O’Mahony - Reading Women’s Art: A Web of Multiple Meanings
A fascinating talk by artist Ann O’Mahony on art created by women artists, presented in the context of the current exhibition in the Linenhall Gallery, Female Artists of the Twentieth Century from the Niland Collection . Adm: free