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
Overlap: Majella Clancy
Official Opening: Wednesday 5th May, 8pm
‘Overlap’, an exhibition of new work by Majella Clancy opens on May 5th in the Gallery. Working from an archive of photographic imagery taken from various sources, Majella is interested in creating ‘real and imagined places through the translation and mistranslation’ of the collected imagery.
Colour plays an important role in how the paint is applied to allow for various readings of pictorial space, blurring the distinctions between perceptions of reality and memory, technology and technique. The notion of what can be considered ‘real’ changes with the shifting sense of focus and perspective dependant on the viewer’s physical and figurative point of view.
Admission Free. Exhibition runs until May 29th.
Guided Tour of Majella Clancy: Overlap exhibition
Thursday 27th May, 10.30am
Overlap features work from Majella Clancy’s ongoing investigation into painted space/place. Working from an archive of photographic imagery taken from various sources, she is interested in creating ‘real and imagined spaces through the translation and miss-translation’ of the collected imagery.
Through the process of digital manipulation and paint the images become removed from their original source allowing ambiguity to enter between the painted and photographic elements.
As part of Bealtaine 2010, Sean Walsh, Director of Ballina Arts Centre will give a guided tour of the exhibition to members of older age groups (Ballina ARA, Ballina Over-55s club etc.). Adm: Free.
CUSTOM HOUSE STUDIOS
The Quay, Westport, Mayo
T: 098-28735.
E: customhouse@eircom.net
W: www.customhousestudios.ie
Sculpture by Verona Stellet. April 25th - May 16th
The current exhibition has its roots in a collaborative installation project that evolved during a joint residency, with my friend and fellow artist Kirsten Lorenz, in the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island. The installation involved the use of driftwood, and other detritus found along Achill’s beaches, and resulted in a collection of photographs, entitled “Deserted Places”. This in turn gave me the impulse for my new work and since then many beaches along the Irish coast have become the main location for sourcing material.
Exhibition by Alison Pilkington. May 21st – June 13th .
Through paintings Alison Pilkington continues to explore her preoccupation with themes of placement and journeys, both psychic and physical. Influences for this show are loosely drawn from the anonymous Islamic artists whose work she has seen many times in Southern Spain and Morocco. Her paintings explore the possibility that shape, colour and abstract symbol can have diverse interpretations and the unlimited concepts of what can be expressed through them, ranging from searching the heart to mapping the stars.
Illustrated Lecture by Catherine Marshall – Imagery of the Famine in Irish Art. 8.00pm. May 12th
LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.
T: 094 9023733
E: linenhall@anu.ie
Marie Padden - Tombs Friday 7th May - Saturday 5th June
The first solo show by recent GMIT graduate Marie Padden, comprising works in oils, acrylics and mixed media. According to the artist, “This work portrays the uneasy relationship between death renewal and immortality. There is a deliberate ambiguity in order that the viewer can complete the cycle. Is there hope or sadness to be found here?” The exhibition is supported by an Exhibition Assistance Award from Mayo County Council.Adm.: free
AUDIO/VISUAL PERFORMANCE
Denis Buckley - BRIGHTNESS: a Live Performance with Harsh Words.Monday 17th May @ 8.00pm
“BRIGHTNESS is a 21st century Aisling: a vision text for the next one hundred years of the Republic.” A live performance with video and original sound, by artist Denis Buckley, BRIGHTNESS questions the role of past vision in Ireland’s current self-defining and asks what tangible part could imagination play in the countries future consciousness. Using a mixture of original free verse in English, ancient/contemporary poetry, popular song in both Gaelic and English, Denis explains that “this performance demands to know how a country first imagined in poetic minds could turn out how it has, and if indeed it was those very visions that were to blame.” Provocative and intriguing, this promises to be a unique and stimulating multimedia experience. Denis Buckley was born in Kerry and has lived in London for 25 years. A former member of the influential multimedia performance company The People Show, he has presented his own brand of site specific interventions within the UK, Ireland and America. Adm.: €10 / €7 (concessions)
The performance runs uninterrupted for 40mins and is followed by an open discussion on the themes of the work with the artist.
CLEW BAY HOTEL
“Unspoilt” PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITON
James Street,
Westport
Award-winning photographer Paul Mealey photographic exhibition - called Unspoilt - will be opened by Michael Duffy, editor of the Mayo News, on May 7 at 8pm at the Clew Bay Hotel, James Street, Westport. It will run for the entire month and admission is free.