Amharcealaín | Visual Art
ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE
ÁISLEANN BHÉAL AN MHUIRTHEAD, BELMULLET,
T: 097 81079
Gems from the collection of Mayo County Council.
Áras Inis Gluaire will launch a selection of artworks from the Mayo County Council Collection in Áras Inis Gluaire on Thursday 31st May at 1pm. There will be some magnificent piece of art at the exhibition for the public to view. The Mayo County Council Collection is diverse, including works by well known and emerging artists in a wide range of Media. There will be works by artists Semla Makela, Camille Souter, Michael Wann, Dermot Seymour, Maria Tuffy, Rory Breslin, Margaret Morrison, Aidan McDermott, Carmel Greevy-McHale, Hughie O Donoghue, Niall Mac Cormack and Fabrizio Simeoni. The exhibition will be on display for the month of June.
BALLINA ARTS CENTRE
Barrett St, Ballina, Co. Mayo.
T: 096 73593
Exhibition : Otherwhere: Arno Kramer
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Official Opening: Friday 1st June, 8pm
Otherwhere sees Dutch artist Arno Kramer explore a number of his interests through drawing. Arno Kramer lives and works in Broekland, a small village in the eastern part of The Netherlands. He is currently the first curator of the Drawing Centre Diepenheim in The Netherlands. He writes on art for various publications, has curated a number of exhibitions and has had several collections of poetry published. He has taught for 20 years at the AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede, The Netherlands and has also lectured and given tutorials in the USA, England and Ireland.
Since 1995 he has participated several times as an Artist in Residence in Irelandwhere he has been very much inspired by Irish Poetry and by the image of a photograph he once saw in the Irish Times of Communion dresses in a shop window. He has used the image of dresses a lot in his work and related it to parts of the human body, like hands, legs, feet, the torso, etc. By using watercolors and different drawing materials, like charcoal, pencil and pastel, he searches for sensibility in the images. There should always be a “state of desire” in the drawing. Arno Kramer once wrote that he would like to make visible “the reconnaissance of the back of the soul, the spirit and the heart”.
Arno Kramer’s work is collected by several museums in Hollandsuch as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Teylers Museum Haarlem, Van Reekummuseum Apeldoorn, Rijksmuseum Twenthe Enschede, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and also by the Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland. His drawings are in private collections in Holland, Ireland, England, Belgium, Germany, Denmarkand the USA.
Admission free. All welcome. Runs until 23rd June.
CUSTOM HOUSE STUDIOS
The Quay,Westport, Mayo
T: 098-28735.
Ger Sweeney 31st May – 24th JuneIn recent years Ger Sweeney's paintings have focused on developing a synthesis of abstract and figurative referents. His balancing of the formal and compositional with elements of colour and light culminating in his "Terrain" series. From his smaller object like works to the epic scale pieces his practice is informed by a century of evolution and change in the language of painting. His work reflects the more progressive concerns of painting today.
Brid Danaher 31st May – 24th June. Brid Danaher has a passion for colour. She observes beauty in objects that have otherwise exhausted their usefulness, an old forgotten boat, or a rusted chain. She works in a intuitive rather than a calculated manner, using both oils and acrylics. She has a love of earthly colours and the use of thick rich impasto. Her works explores colour as reflected in the ever changing world of nature.
Helen O Leary 29th June – 29th July. I've always been most interested in the modest lyricism of the purely mundane, never feeling abstraction to be the sole province of the heroic and the cerebral. The "paintings" that emerge from this process know their family history, a narrative of greatness fallen on hard times. Yet, for all that, they remain remarkably un-defensive, wobbly, presuming no need to disavow the past or defy the present.
Cormac O Leary 29th June – 29th July. His current work explores the environment of the Northwest. Sketches of the coast line and mountains are suffused with atmosphere and weather conditions. IN the studio paintings evolve over months of work, building layers of colour into a textural surface. Cormac O Leary works to capture the essence of place from memory, the after glow of places haunted by the past.
LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.
T: 094 9023733
E: linenhall@anu.ie
Owen Walsh 1933-2002: Colour and Light -Friday 1st - Saturday 30th June
The art of Owen Walsh reflects a passionate commitment to painting throughout a life. From the early scenes ofWestportto the strong, almost abstract colour harmonies of his later work, Walsh’s career was one of intense attention to the visual world, to questions of representation, to the relationship between the different elements of a work, and to the act of painting itself. Walsh was born in 1933 inWestport, Co. Mayo. From his early training inDublin’s National College of Art, he was immediately marked as a student of promise, winning several prizes. He studied inSpain,ItalyandFrance, bringing the vibrant, rich colours of the Mediterranean back toDublinand Mayo. His paintings reveal a unique approach to the painting of landscape, of urban scenes and of the nude figure, and he is regarded as one ofIreland’s most important colourists. This exhibition aims to reposition Walsh’s work within the history of Irish painting in the twentieth century, and to celebrate and explore Walsh’s individual creative vision and achievement. Adm. free Official opening on Friday 1st June at 7.30pm. All welcome. The Linenhall Arts Centre acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council in making this exhibition possible.
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo.
Tel/Fax 096 43184
E: baf@iol.ie
W: www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org
"New Images from North Mayo", Ballinglen's 2012 group exhibition includes new work created during Fellowships in 2011. Their art is owned by private collectors, museums and public collections all over the World. This exhibition includes stunning work by artists from Ireland, England, USA, Spain& Italy. Take this rare opportunity to see new work by international artists. Here is a glimpse of some of the aritsts' showing.
Russell Crotty, has exhibited in his native California & internationally for a number of years. In his practice, he explores the very things he loves most: amateur astronomy, the natural world and surfing. The work in this exhibition is in direct response to his time spent at Ballinglen and based on his experience surfing in the North Mayo area.
Spanish artitst, Emilio González Sáinz, says a painting always tells a story. It might be a story he has invented, or the artist might have been inspired by a well-known story. Desolate landscape, atmospheric skies; all of his scenes make us wonder what's happened and what's going to happen next.
Vauney Strahan (Dublin), "As human beings we are continuously weaving our way in and around the physical spaces we occupy. As we do this we are consciously engaged with the feel and texture of our external world - our outer landscape." What interests her however is the simultaneous navigation of a world less tangible than this physical realm -- the inner landscape- the perceptual architecture of the mind, the emotional and the spiritual realms.
Nataly Maier (Italy), Nataly's work is very varied beginning with photography and at the end of eighties began developing as a visual artist. Today, Maier's work follows a conceptual sphere. Her work in this exhibition, View from Number 5, is painted with colours that represents the state of mind or the emotion expressed by the world chosen. During her time at The Ballinglen Arts Foundation her response to the landscape is very evident in the work which is now on exhibition.
Opening hours of The Summer Exhibition : "New Images from North Mayo" 12 - 4 Mon - Fri or by appointment.
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation was founded in 1992 to bring professional, established artists and emerging artists of recognised ability, from outside Mayo and from abroad, to live and work in North Mayo so as to benefit both the artists and the community. Its Programmes, a series of inter-related projects in the visual arts provide a direct socio/economic and educational benefit to the community whilst contributing substantively to the development of each artist's work.
The work of the Foundation (Irish Charity 11019) is supported by The Arts Council, The Ireland Funds, Mayo County Council & private contributors.
For further information please contact Úna Forde or
Margo Dolan, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo
Phone / Fax 096 43184, email baf@iol.ie