Amharcealaín - Visual Art

Ballina Arts Centre

Ballina Civic Offices, Arran Place, Ballina, Co. Mayo.

T: 096 73593

E: ballinaartscentre@gmail.net

W: www.ballinaartscentre.com

 

The Shape of Things: Susan Tiger

Official Opening: Friday 5th March, 8pm

Susan Tiger’s work comprises drawings consisting mainly of acrylic paint and graphite on watercolour paper. These intimate drawings of various objects, which recount the artist’s personal experiences and memories, are simple, yet meaningful. The images work together with their poetic titles to form an evocative narrative. Images appear to float on the white sheets of paper and instil a sense of quietude as the viewer encounters each of these works.

Recent exhibitions include Singing the Real, Contemporary Art from Ireland at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, The Square Root of Drawing at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin, Ireland, and some painting at Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Susan Tiger was born and raised in Philadelphia. In 1998 she moved to Ireland where she now lives with her husband and daughter.

Free admission. All are welcome to attend, exhibition runs until 27th March. 

 

 

CUSTOM HOUSE STUDIOS

The Quay, Westport, Mayo   T: 098-28735.              

E: customhouse@eircom.net

W: www.customhousestudios.ie

 

Jim Houston

An exhibition of recent paintings by Jim Houston will be formally opened by Liam Lyons on Thursday evening February 25th at 7.30pm. The exhibition will continue each day until 21st March 2010.

Jim Houston is an experienced painter having traveled and worked in many countries including  New Zeland, The Netherlands, Mexico and  The Midldle East.  For many years he has been resident in Westport. He is originally from Dun Laoghaire and studied in Trinity College, Dublin and at the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

He has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at The Stone Gallery Westport in 1998, Westport Library and Sligo Art Gallery in 1995, Kenny Art Gallery 1993, Municipal Art Gallery Omagh in 1990 and at Westport Arts Week in 1989. His group exhibitions include the RHA in 1988, 1989, 1992, and 1993. The Claremorris Open exhibition, The Iontas Small Works Exhibition, The Hibernian Insurance Centre Dublin, The Aimhirgin Gallery Louisbuigh in 1993 and 1994, Custom House Studios in 2004, and at Castlebar Hospital 2007. 

This exhibition includes recent largely abstract paintings on canvas and board. Writer Gerald Wilson describes these abstract works………  ” Jim Houston blurs the accustomed  identity the landscape with a primal haze that ultimately becomes a series of chromatic tones where one color, complimentary or contrasting, bleeds into another. These paintings exploit the emotive revelations of colour and the heart of this work is its capacity to be at once striking yet inwardly complex and to invite multiple interpretations.”

Jim Houston’s work is represented in collections nationally and internationally. He is represented by galleries in Ireland and the USA.

 

 

LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE

Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo. 

T: 094 9023733

E: linenhall@anu.ie

W: www.thelinenhall.com

 

Joe Wilson - High Landscapes

Friday 5th - Wednesday 31st MarchAn exhibition of oil paintings, drawings and monoprints by artist Joe Wilson. “This recent work is a result of walking in Ireland and Spain with most of the work from two residences at the Centre d'Art i Natura in  Farrera, a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees.” Joe Wilson was born in 1947 in Bolton, England and studied at Manchester College of Art and Design. He came to live in Ireland in 1979. He now teaches at NCAD and lives and works in Co. Wicklow.

 

 

ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE

ÁISLEANN BHÉAL AN MHUIRTHEAD, BELMULLET,

T: 097 81079

 

BELLACORICK ART EXHIBITION OPENS IN ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE, BELMULLET

Bellacorick: Impressions of a Place is the title of an exhibition of drawing, painting and photography by three Mayo-artists: Betty Gannon; Michael Gannon and Ian Wieczorek. The exhibition is the result of authorised visits to the decommissioned power station during 2008 and 2009, and the artists have created their own personal visual responses to the iconic building’s structure and former function.  Bellacorick: Impressions of a Place will be officially opened on Friday 5th March at 7.30pm by Mayo poet Ger Reidy. Admission free, all welcome. The exhibition runs until Wednesday 31st March.

 

 

BALLINGLEN ARTS FOUNDATION

Courthouse Gallery, Main St, Ballycastle, Mayo 

T: 096-43184

E: baf@iol.ie

 

Jo Gorner  - 'Erosion' 

'Erosion', an exhibition of work by Yorkshire artist Jo Gorner, opened in The Courthouse Gallery, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo on 10 February 2010 and runs until the 13 March. This exhibition was first shown in The Graphic Studio, Dublin just before Christmas and includes 13 prints which were created in response to a Residency in Ballinglen. The Exhibition can be seen by appointment only. Contact Una on 096 43315 Email baf@iol.ie

 

 

COE 2010 – Cuator Announced

Claremorris Arts Committee is pleased to announce the selection of Lisa Le Feuvre as Curator of Claremorris Open exhibition 2010. Lisa is a curator and writer based in London. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths. Between 2005 and 2009 she directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum, commissioning work by Dan Holdsworth, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Lawrence Weiner, Simon Patterson, Renée Green and Jeremy Millar. In 2009 she curated the exhibitions Joachim Koester: Poison Protocols and Other Histories at Stills, Edinburgh and Economies of Attention from the Arts Council of England Collection.

In 2010-11 she will co-curate British Art Show 7 (with Tom Morton), Jeremy Millar: Amongst Others at Plymouth Arts Centre and Alexander and Susan Maris: The Pursuit of Fidelity (A ‘Retrospective’) at Stills.

Her edited book Failure, published by MIT Press / Whitechapel Art Gallery, is published in May.