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

Ó Cheann go Ceann – A Wave of Emotion - Willem Vermaase / Leah Durkan

In a change to their exhibition programme for the month of October, Ballina Arts Centre will present an exhibition of photographs by acclaimed Dutch photographer Willem Vermaase. ‘Ó Cheann go Ceann’ documents an art project in schools by sculptor Leah Durkan, during her tenure as Artist in Residence with Mayo County Council in 1997-98.

In 1998, Durkan worked with 108 Transition year students throughout the county on a project to commemorate the events of 1798, The Year of the French.

The artist directed one-day intensive workshops in each school, during which time each student carved a head from plaster and sand, expressing their own feelings and emotions as a reflection of their life in Mayo in 1998. The heads were then placed in the landscape around Bofeenaun, where they were subject to weathering and erosion and decay. Thus the changing features reflected both changing emotions and natural change through the ages.

The creative process and resulting artworks were recorded over the course of the project by Willem Vermaase. This involved photographing the students and the artist during workshops as they created their sculptures and the resulting placement of the finished work in the Mayo countryside. It is a selection of these photographs which constitute an exhibition which clearly illustrates the intensity of feeling that both students and artists gave to the project.

Willem Vermaase is a freelance photographer and photo editor of the magazine kM. He considers his work mainly as documentary photography, and prefers the use of black and white material. In addition to the series of artists portraits he makes for kM, Vermaase is working on a number of long term projects, both in Ireland and the Netherlands. The project was aptly named ‘O Cheann go Ceann – A Wave of Emotion’, in that it deals with interaction between people but also deals with change through time.

‘Ó Cheann go Ceann’ will be officially opened on Wednesday 6th October at 8pm.

Free admission. All are welcome to attend, exhibition runs until 30th October.

CUSTOM HOUSE STUDIOS

The Quay, Westport, Mayo

T: 098-28735

E: customhouse@eircom.net

W: www.customhousestudios.ie

An Elusive Light - Deirdre Walsh

Exhibition runs until October 10th 2010.

Paintings of landscape of South Mayo and Lough Cara. Deidre records the nuances of colour brought about by changing light. The light is often elusive and difficult to chase but leaves the artist in awe with each attempt to capture it.

Deidre Walsh studied at the Arts Student League in New York under Richard Goetz from 1988 -1991. She has had solo exhibitions in Linenhall arts centre, Castlebar, Co Mayo, Blue Leaf Gallery Dublin, Garter Lane arts Centre Waterford, Belmullet Co Mayo. Group exhibitions include R.H.A Dublin, Cork Arts Society, Ormeau Baths Belfast, Guinness Hop Store Dublin, Irish Arts Centre London, Boston College Mass, Wild Plum Gallery New York.

DOUBLE VISION

September 24th – October 10th.

A themed mixed media show of work by past and present students of GMIT Castlebar Art & Design Degree Course.

Christina Starzer - Mystic Revealing

October 17 – November 7th.

Opening by Karin Fichtinger-Grohe Deputy Head of Mission Austrian Embassy Dublin.

Benita Stoney

October 14th – November 7th.

Portraits in Egg Tempera Series of portraits of the very young – possibilities and promise, to the very old where the story of life is written on the face.

Opening by Siobhán Garrigan October 14 7.30pm.

LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE

Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.

T: 094 9023733

E: linenhall@anu.ie

W: www.thelinenhall.com

LINENHALL GALLERY

Friday 1st - Saturday 30th October

Vanessa Daws - Cascade

An exhibition that combines painting, sculpture, drawing and animation in a tumbling, energetic series of visual artworks by Vanessa Daws. Cascade does not only reflect Vanessa’s intuitive process, where one artwork triggers and shapes the idea for the next, it also refers to the artist’s ongoing fascination with water, as inspiration and source of creative energy. Vanessa has exhibited widely in Ireland and in London, and her work is engaging and accessible to all ages. Cascade promises to be no exception.

LINENHALL FOYER

Thursday 7th - Saturday 16th October

Lundbeck Art Exhibition

The annual visual art exhibition resulting from the Lundbeck Art Initiative, which was established to encourage artistic expression among those using the mental health services throughout Ireland, with the aim of creating an opportunity for a better understanding of mental illness in the community and allowing those suffering from such illness a greater means of self-expression.

Official opening on Thursday 7th October at 2.30pm. All welcome.

ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE

ÁISLEANN BHÉAL AN MHUIRTHEAD, BELMULLET,

T: 097 81079

‘Contemplating Flight’ Agnes Nyland

An exhibition by Agnes Nyland, from Castlebar, will be launched on Thursday, September 23. The works will be on display until October 19.

An exhibition documenting the process of creating the artwork - ‘In an attempt to find the right words..’

‘In an attempt to find the right words..’ is a new permanent public art installation by artist James Hayes at The Belmullet Arts Centre, Áras Inis Gluaire. There will be an official launch event to mark and celebrate the new artwork on Friday 22nd October at 1pm at Áras Inis Gluaire which is open to everyone to attend.

An exhibition documenting the process of creating the artwork, and the stories behind some of the donated pencils, will be exhibited in the gallery space from the launch date, 22nd October, until 10th November.