Amharcealaín | Visual Art
BALLINA ARTS CENTRE
Barrett St, Ballina, Co. Mayo.
T: 096 73593
Clea van der Grijn: CONFLICT (ambivalence)
5th April – 31st May.
Visual Art:The Right to Play a Clean Game: Behy National School
6th – 20th June
Official Opening: Friday 6th June, 11.30am.
The Right to Play a Clean Game is an exhibition of artwork by the students of BehyNationalSchool. In 2013, Ballina Arts Centre invited National Schools in the North Mayo area to design and plan an exhibition of visual art based on the concept of Climate Justice, in honour of the work undertaken by Ballina native Mary Robinson.
BehyNationalSchool was chosen as the successful applicant and had the opportunity to work with professional community artist Alice Dixon on the making of the multimedia exhibition. The works on display explore many of the strands of Climate Justice and offers a child’s-eye view on the state of the world.
The Right to Play a Clean Game runs until 20th June. Admission free.
Visual Art: Hinterlands: Liam Campbell
11th June – 2nd August
Official Opening: Wednesday 11th June, 8pm.
The history of the allotment in the British Isles can be traced back 1,000 years when the Saxons were able to clear land and hold it for common usage of the people. Hinterlands, by Liam Campbell, is an exhibition of allotments and the people who love them.
Liam Campbell was born in Northern Ireland he studied Photography at IADT Dublin 2001-05.
Before going on to complete his Masters at NCAD Dublin, 2006-07 in Art in the Contemporary World.
His work has featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is part of various collections including Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin. He lives and works in Northern Ireland.
Hinterlands runs until 2nd August. Admission Free.
Visual Art: Re-enactment: Niall Kerrigan
24th – 28th June
(As part of In Humbert’s Footsteps)
Le Garde Chauvin are a professional Napoleonic military re-enactment group based in the north of France who stage often long-forgotten battles at home and abroad. During the summer of 2013 this army travelled to Killala, Co. Mayo to take part in the re-enactment of the battle of 1798.
I tried to capture their unique relationship with the game of war. As boys, war is a game we play as distinct from the serious business adults understand it to be.
War re-enactors exist somewhere in-between the two. As students of history they understand the context of war yet they do this by, in effect, turning themselves into life-size toy soldiers. In this way they are playing both their part in the battle as men while indulging in the dress-up play of boyhood.
Re-enactment runs until 28th June. Admission free.
CUSTOM HOUSE STUDIOS
The Quay, Westport, Mayo
T: 098-28735.
Sheena Graham 5th June – 29th June 2014.
The Cillini Project will bring together works created in residencies in Kerry, Monaghan and Mayo with a series of wall based installations. The Stolen Child based on The Priest’s Soul by W B Yeats. Sweet Dreams, a wall mounted work of 100 children’s story books each housing a hand –stitched paper patchwork quilt. Knock - an installation exploring the official sacred space at the Marian Shrine at Knock and the unofficial holy places of the Cilliní within the parish of Knock.
End of Year Exhibition Art 6 Westport College Further education. June 5th - 27th July 2014.
Works by ; Aisling Cawley / Michelle Courtney / Alannah Feeney / Alexandra Galezowska /Jennifer Gallagher /Margariet Joyce / Siobhan Locke / Anne Mc Cabe / Roisin Mc Nally /Anne Mc Nulty / Tracy Mulloy / Sheila Murphy /Byron O’ Malley / Clare O’Sullivan / Christina Peterson / Owen / Piffaretti / Dermot Wickham.
Daniel Greaney 7th July – 27th July 2014.
A series of 2D wall based works using as their source material images from nature documentaries, wildlife magazines and the artists own photographs. The finished pieces will address the significance of the materials used (adhesive vinyl) , highlighting the contradiction of synthetic materials being used to represent the natural world. The artists work centres on contemporary concerns with the pursuit of painting and the concept of ‘traditional painting’ as set down by previous generations of artists. The use of non traditional materials to create works suggestive of landscape from art history is integral to the artists practice.
LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.
T: 094 9023733
E: linenhall@anu.ie
VISUAL ART
Friday 6th June - Saturday 12th July
Sarah Pfrommer - SHIFT
The inspiration and subject of Sara Pfrommer’s video work is Nature and herself. Acting as both actor and camera operator at the same time, she is interested in seemingly ordinary events of her immediate surroundings. By minutely shifting standard video conditions, she raises new questions. These shifts occur when she uses optical blur or repeats simple actions again and again. What she is looking for are events that occur on the borderline of control and its loss, and the intensity created by this tension.
SHIFT presents video and photographic work created during Sara’s 6-month stay on AchillIsland in 2013, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD.
Berlin-based artist Sara Pfrommer was born in Germany in 1980. She studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden under Monika Brandmeier, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and at the FinnishAcademy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. For more information please visit: www.sarapfrommer.de
Adm. free
Official opening on Friday 6th June at 7.30pm. All welcome.
The Linenhall Arts Centre acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council in making this exhibition possible.
ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE
Áisleann Bhéal an Mhuirthead, Belmullet, Mayo
T: 097 81079
Asylum Archive
This exhibition is directly concerned with the reality and trauma of life for asylum seekers in Ireland.
THE BALLINGLEN ARTS FOUNDATION
Main Street, Ballycastle, Mayo
T: 096 43184
E: baf@iol.ie
W: www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org
Education programmes continues at Ballinglen throughout June with a Master Class and print workshop for the schools in this area. Work for the Archive can be seen in the Gallery and our big event : “CountyMayo” an exhibition of paintings by Philadelphia artist Jeffrey Reed, takes place 27th June - 16th July 2014, The Ballinglen Gallery, is open 10 - 5 Monday - Friday and strictly by appointment at weekends. Official opening Saturday 28th at 7:30pm, everyone welcome.
Jeffrey Reed is a landscape painter showing at the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia as well as the George Billis Gallery in New York. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, MFA and The Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA. Many of these exquisite paintings were made during his recent fellowship and Residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland. His work is beautiful and his handling of light and atmosphere within these delicate, lyrical compositions is definitely worth seeing.
“When I am painting I feel a connection with the familiar and a sense of discovery at the same time. I tend to paint in locations multiple times. This allows me to focus on changes in the light and atmosphere. In many ways, I am more interested in the evocative than the literal nature of painting. Typically I will work outside for two to three hours on a painting until I get the essence of a particular light or atmosphere. I will then work on the painting back in the studio, developing the forms and trying to resolve the design.” http://paintingperceptions.com/landscape-painting/jeffrey-reed
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, T : + 353 (0) 96 43184
E : baf@iol.ie
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Claremorris Gallery
http://www.claremorrisgallery.com
Continues till June 6th.
John Philip Murray
The works in this exhibition cover a seemingly disparate group of subjects, made over a period of years, all linked to an inward search for an understanding of the world. The artist describes this as: Trying to explain the world to himself.
Murray is driven by the need to examine humanity and hold a belief in people, despite our obvious failings as a species. Inside himself he see a mirror image of what is outside him; the same hopes, aspirations and disasters of other people.
“For me, the purpose of drawing or painting is to order my thoughts, rather than simply to paint things as I see them.
As often as not, my starting point for a picture, or a series of pictures, will come from literature, poetry, music, history, mythology, etc.
I spend considerably longer in thinking, rather than making. The older I get, the more I find that I have become committed, unconsciously, to working ever more slowly. The urgency “to produce” being tempered by the knowledge that what I make will have to find its own way in the world and ought to be the best that I can make it…….and yet, the work is like some stubborn, disobedient child…..destined to be misunderstood!”
Arts Plan:
Mayo County Council Arts Plan 2018 - 2022
Mayo County Council Arts Office is currently developing a new five-year strategic arts plan for the county, which will be produced early next year.
We are actively seeking the views of those involved and interested in the arts, at all levels, within the county. This includes arts venues, festivals, artists, communities and people who use, or who benefit from our service.
We would welcome your contribution. Please complete our Arts Plan questionnaire, link below. (Alternatively you can write, email or phone the arts office. Or you can request a word document of the questionnaire)
Our current arts plan can be viewed here Mayo County Council Strategic Arts Plan 2011-2016
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Please send your contribution by Friday 24th of November 2017
Arts Plan Questionnaire
Thank you for your time and interest.
We also have a questionnaire specifically for young people: Young People Questionnaire
Contact Details: Arts Office, Mayo County Council, Áras an Contae, Castlebar, Co Mayo.
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Phone: 094 90 47558 / 47471
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