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UNDER A GREY SKY' IN PARIS The visual art programme at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris continues to impress.

Photographer Simon Burch's exhibition, 'Under A Grey Sky', is the culmination of work

made over four years that explores the rain-soaked peatlands of Ireland's central plain,

the most intensively industrialised landscape in the country. Although the landscapes are

vast and empty, they are intensely marked by human activity. Geographically, the work

concerns Ireland but conceptually, it addresses global concerns about depletion of natu

ral resources, ecology and sustainability of communities. Curated by Tanya Kiang,

Director of the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, the exhibition is scheduled to coincide

with the 30th anniversary of Mois de la Photo, an event that celebrates Paris as the world

capital of photography. Burch has exhibited at the RHA, Gallery of Photography, Glebe

Gallery and the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny. Simon Burch: until 17 December

IRISH ARTISTS AT THE LONDON ART FAIR Over 100 Modern British and contemporary art galleries have been selected for the 23rd

edition of the London Art Fair, the UK's

largest Modern British and Contemporary

art fair. Irish representation at the Fair

includes Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, and

the Cross Gallery, Dublin, which will exhibit

work by Cristina Bunello and Kieran Moore.

Bunello graduated from the CAD in 2009, but has already had two solo exhibitions this

year, at the Cross Gallery and at Cavanacor

Gallery in Donegal. She was also an invited

artist at the RHA Annual Exhibition this year. Now based in Berlin, Kieran Moore is a

graduate of the Crawford College of Art and

Design and NCAD. His main sources of

inspiration are to be found in the late 1960s

and early 1970s: the camp of Glam rock, the

self-styled 'King of the Witches' Alex

Sanders, and Aquarian age excess of Russ

Meyer's 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'.

Moore's most recent solo show was in the

Ashford Gallery in 2006. In 2010, his work was included in 'Backwater Twenty-10' at

the Crawford Art Gallery and in

'Papyrophilia' at Charlie Smith London. Also

exhibiting at the London Art Fair is Beaux

Arts Bath, which represents Conor Walton

and G?raldine O'Neill; and Purdy Hicks, which represents Claire Kerr, Pat Harris,

Felim Egan and Barrie Cooke.

London Art Fair 2011: 19-23 January

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TRAVELS WITH MARY SWANZY Mary Swanzy's Travel Drawings' will be

exhibited at Pyms Gallery in London this

winter. Regarded as one of the most impor

tant Irish painters of her generation, this

exhibition will feature 100 drawings from

Swanzy's journeys to the Balkans and the

South Sea Islands in the early 1920s.

Swanzy's The Opera Singer featured on the

cover of the Autumn 2010 edition of the Irish

Arts Review. Travel Drawings:

25 November - 20 December

EDGE OF EUROPE In what is probably the largest ever exhibi

tion of Irish contemporary visual art in

Norway, 'Europe's Edge: Ireland - The Artist

and The Island' will include work by Brian

Bourke, Maurice Caplice, Shane Crotty,

Charles Cullen, Rita Duffy, Adrian McAllister,

Dara McGee, Rosie McGurran, Jay Murphy,

Mick O'Dea, Eamonn O'Doherty, Bernard

Reynolds and Ger Sweeney. Europe's Edge

is being held in conjunction with the 7th

Biennial International Conference of the

Nordic Irish Studies Network. The exhibition

will be held at the Troms0 University

Library Gallery in Troms0.

Europe's Edge: 2 December - 13 January

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1 SIMON BURCH AT THE CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS, PARIS

2 MARY SWANZY AT PYM'S ART GALLERY

3 CRISTINA BUNELLO AT THE LONDON ART FAIR

4 KIERAN MOORE AT THE LONDON ART FAIR

5 MICK O'DEA IN "EUROPE'S EDGE', TROMS0, NORWAY

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NORTHERN IRELAND DIARY

CELTIC TWILIGHT Ireland was unique among European

nations in that it did not leap at a bound

from tradition to modernity. A New Year

treat at Strale Arts Centre in Omagh is The

Celtic Twilight, Art in Ireland 1900-1912'.

This intriguing exhibition examines the

tensions between the Celtic Revival of Irish

arts/literature and the birth of the mod

ernist movement. Due to its fractured

history, the relationship between the archaic

and the modern in Ireland has often been

highly antagonistic. This show explores the

way in which ideological tension manifested

itself along geographic lines. It looks at the

glorification of the image of the West among Ireland's artistic community. William

Orpen's prot?g? Sean Keating was

deeply opposed to modernism, and critics have argued that dur

ing his tenure at The Metropolitan he did untold damage to the

development of Irish art. The show

features work by artists from both

sides of this cultural clash includ

ing Yeats, Henry, le Brocquy and

Jellet. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with The Model,

Sligo. Celtic Twilight: 15 January

- 5 February

WINTER GROUP SHOW This year's Winter Group show at the

McKenna Gallery in Omagh includes a

variety of new work from gallery and

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invited artists. Check out new works from

Melita Denaro, Orla Egan, Christy Keeney,

Anne-Marie Keaveney, Paddy Lennon,

Derek Menary, Kevin McAleenan, Gavin

McCandless, Maura McGlynn and Cormac

O'Leary. A solo exhibition by Donegal artist

Damien M cG i ley follows in Spring 2011.

SOLO SHOW FROM MARTIN MOONEY Donegal artist Martin Mooney hosts his first

solo exhibition in over two years, with

Adam's at Clandeboye, in the Ava Gallery,

Clandeboye Estate, Co Down. Comprising over sixty new paintings and drawings, the

collection includes a number of Mooney s

most celebrated still life compositions as

well as drawings and

paintings from his recent

travels to Greece and

Morocco. His sojourns at

Clandeboye Estate,

together with cityscapes of Venice and Dublin will

be depicted too.

Martin Mooney:

1-15 December

NEW FOREST F E McWilliam

Gallery & Studio in

Banbridge presents

sculptural responses

to a 'Forest' Theme by

students from

Northern Ireland's

Post-Primary and

Special Schools,

Colleges of Further &

Higher Education and the University of

Ulster. The innovative and creative artworks

have been created by individuals and groups

ranging in size from 2 to 220. From the

diminutive in scale to the magnificence of

mass, the exhibition celebrates this key

aspect of the environment. Forest:

27 November - 15 January

BIG SMALL AT GORDON GALLERY Following on from last year's successful Big

Small show, the Gordon Gallery in Derry will exhibit some 300 works in paint, sculp ture, drawing, printmaking, photography and assemblage from artists of local,

national and international repute. All works

will be small, of quality and well priced. Artists include: John Behan, Cheryl Brown, David Crone, Melita Denaro, Brian Ferran,

TP Flanagan, Trevor Geoghegan, Graham

Gingles, Carolyn Mulholland, Michael Wann.

3-24 December

COMHGHALL CASEY'S STILL LIFES Comhghall Casey is perhaps best known for

his subtle and intricate still-life paintings. The sixteen new works in his exhibition at

the Mullan Gallery in Belfast depict his

interest in the study and painting of inani

mate, everyday objects such as children's

toys, food, musical instruments and plants.

Acclaimed for his exactitude and precision, a

series of life paintings painted in one day will be of particular interest.

Comhghall Casey: until 27 November

CULTURAL WATERSHED

'Watershed' is an exhibition of new work by both Chinese and Northern Irish artists at

the Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown. A project in MCAC's Other

Perspectives' initiative, this collaboration is

derived from the shared geographical, polit ical and historical positions that exist

between both Northern Ireland and Hong

Kong. The show opens at the Hong Kong

Graphic Fiesta and moves to the City Hall in

Hong Kong on 21 December. It will tour to

the MCAC, Portadown and return to the

Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong

Kong. Watershed, Millennium Court Arts

Centre: 12 January - 19 March

1 COMGHALL CASEY AT THE MULLAN GALLERY

2 MARTIN MOONEY AT AVA GALLERY

3 EVIE HONE AT STRULEARTS CENTRE

4 DEREK MENARY AT MCKENNA GALLERY

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CHRISTMAS AT THE GALLERIES

NORTH AND SOUTH Gormley's Belfast gallery showcases well

established artists alongside emerging tal

ent at its Christmas Exhibition. Participating

artists include Ian Cumberland, winner of

the Davy Portrait Award and Best Emerging

Artist in the RUA 2010, Frances McRory, J

Vallely, Rowland Davidson, Ken Hamilton,

Paul Donaghy and Julian Friers. Gormley's

Christmas exhibition in Dublin reflects the

eclectic range of styles and genres pro

moted by the gallery. Among the artists

included are Eileen Meagher, Carol Ann

Waldron, John Morris, Tony Lynch, and

Graham Kn?ttel. The exhibition will also

feature sculpture from John Behan, Leo

Higgins, Paddy Campbell and Ian Pollock.

Gormley's Belfast: 27 November - 1 January

Gormley's Dublin: 8 December - 1 January

COLLECTIBLES AT JORGENSEN Jorgensen's Fine Art Christmas Fair in

Dublin offers a veritable cornucopia of

Christmas cheer this year. Look out for work

from Liam Belton, Rose Barton, Caroline

Canning, Joe Dunne, James English, Penny

Graham, Evie Hone, Patrick Pye, Alison

Rosse, Conor Walton, Mary Swanzy, and

Colin Watson, with sculpture from Rowan

Gillespie, Caroline Mulholland, Vadim Tuzov,

Elizabeth le Jeune, Richard O'Meara, Fiona

Smith-Darragh, Mark Rode and Siobhan

Bulfin. An Aladdin's cave of antique furniture

and small collectibles (china, glassware,

lamps, candlesticks, tea caddies) and a

MAINIE JELLETT AT PEPPERCANISTER New work from Andrew Vickery features in the Christmas Group Show at Dublin's

Peppercanister Gallery. Currently working in Berlin, Vickery creates paintings with an

appealing immediacy - full of charm, yet with an underlying subversive element. The

gallery will also exhibit a collection of drawings and gouaches by Mainie Jellett. Jellett's

abilities in pencil and watercolour derived from the brilliant teaching of William Orpen at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, her time at the Westminster School in London, under Walter Sickert, and finally in Paris with Andr? Lhote. She produced an exceptional body of work in the period 1915

- 22, leading into her abstract gouaches, in the early 1920s. Fine examples from all periods are included (until Dec 17) in the upcoming show.

Christmas Group Show: 3-23 December. Mainie Jellett: until 17 December

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selection of quality art books, including first

edition copies of The Watercolours of Ireland

by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin

will also feature. Jorgensen's Fine Art

Christmas Fair: 27 November - 24 December

MODERN MASTERS 'Now And Then' at Oliver Sears Gallery in

Dublin features Irish artists currently repre

sented by the gallery alongside guest artists

and modern masters. Gallery artists show

ing include Hughie O'Donoghue, Stephen Lawlor, Joseph Walsh, Patrick O'Reilly and

Katherine Beug. Guest artists featured

include Se?n Hillen, Keith Wilson, Mark

Fairnington, Martin Brown, Peter Davis,

Conrad Botes, John Stark, Kate Davis, Oscar

Accorsi, Graziano Pompili, and Pat Conor. A

selection of secondary market works by

modern masters will also be available in the

ground floor rooms. These will include work

by David Hockney, Se?n Scully, Robert

Motherwell, Joan Mitchell, Tom Wesselman,

Anselm Kiefer and Leon Kossoff.

Oliver Sears: 26 November - 31 January

1 MAINIE JELLETT AT JORGENSEN FINE ART

2IAN CUMBERLAND AT GO RM LEYS FINE ART

3 LOUISE DARU AT JORGENSEN FINE ART

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THE MATRIX The term 'matrix' in printmaking means the printing surface, and this year the Graphic Studio's 'Little

Christmas' show features a suite of images based on this term, with a paper size of 20x25cm and lim

ited to an edition of 20. 'Matrix' is also understood in mathematics as a rectangular array of quantities,

in biology as the substance between cells, and in the environmental sciences as a material in which

something develops. This theme thus brings together art and science, and in turn the evolutionary and

transitional nature of printmaking. Over fifty gallery artists and studio members have responded, pro

ducing etchings, lithographs and monoprints. Graphic Studio: 9 December - 15 January

GALWAY IMPRESSIONS Galway Arts Centre celebrates the festive

season with two major print exhibitions.

Ireland's longest running open submission

print exhibition, 'Impressions' will feature

artists from all over the country including

Terry Gravett, Siobhan Piercy, Maeve Curtis

and David Lilburn. The GAC will also stage

an exhibition by Chris Orr in Galway City Museum. These exhibitions will be followed

by a retrospective of paintings by Rosie

McGurran, which celebrates work by the

artist since she moved from Belfast to

Roundstone, Connemara, a move that

marked a significant change in both her

research interests and her style.

Impressions: 3 December - 22 January

Chris Orr at Galway City Museum: 3

December - 22 January

Rosie McGurran: until 5 March

SHEILA RENNICK AT HILLSBORO Emerging artist Sheila Rennick has joined

artists such as John Gibbons, Eamon

Colman, Michael Canning, John Noel

Smith, Patrick Graham and Gwen O'Dowd

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Co Galway in 1983, Rennick graduated from

the National College of Art Design in 2004

and completed an MA in Fine Art Painting

and Art History at Byam Shaw School of Art

Central St Martin's in London. Rennick

received the CAP Foundation Award in

2004/5 and a painting prize at the Jerwood

Contemporary Painters in 2007. Her most

recent solo show was at the Ashford

Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin,

earlier this year. Rennick's work may be

seen in the Hillsboro Fine Art Annual

Christmas Exhibition (2 - 22 December)

alongside other gallery artists.

SECRETS AT BATTLETOWN The Winter exhibition at The Battletown

Gallery in Newtownards, Co Down will

showcase small works from R Killen,

Jonny McEwen and Robert McLearnon.

The gallery will also show new work from

Ross Stewart, who was nominated for an

Oscar for his work as art director on the

film The Secret of Kelts.

Battletown: 1 - 22 December

U VINCENT SHERIDAN AT GRAPHIC STUDIO

5 NORMAN TEELING AT KENNY'S LAHINCH ART GALLERY

6 NIALL NAESSANS AT HAMILTON GALLERY

7 ROSS STEWART AT BATTLETOWN GALLERY

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CHRISTMAS AT THE GALLERIES

CHRISTMAS HIGHLIGHTS AROUND THE COUNTRY Now celebrating its 40th anniversary,

Kenny's Lahinch Art Gallery will host a

Group Show (December) of work by Philip

Gray, Peg Quinlan, Kay Leonard, Liam

Jones, Honor Hales, Alan Bradshaw, Tom

Conneely, Marie Goonan McDermott,

Norman Teeling and J Miles. Anna St

George will show new large-scale work at

her gallery in Castleconnell, Co Limerick (9

9

- 18 December). Whitethorn Art Gallery in

Clifden, Co Galway will show new large for

mat pieces by Alexandra Van Tuyll

(December) as well as work by gallery artists. A book of coastal scenes by Van

Tuyll will be published in collaboration with

the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

(RNLD.with all proceeds going to the RNLI.

An exhibition and sale of the original art

works will be held in the Connemara

gallery in the New Year. Dublin's Keeling

Gallery, established by artist Vincent

Keeling, will celebrate its first full year in

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business this November with an extensive

exhibition (2 - 24 December) of new paint

ings and prints by gallery artists.

Participants include Brian McCarthy,

Vincent Keeling, Alan Kenny, Laura

Mulligan, Chris McMorrow, Paul Kerr,

Sharon McDaid, Jack Kirwan and Ludmila

Korol. Also in Dublin, the Christmas Show

(6 - 24 Dec) at Balla B?n Art Gallery brings

together a collection from Graham Kn?ttel,

Markey Robinson, Norman Teeling, Frank

O'Dea, John Skelton, J Rooney and oth

ers. The gallery was established by artist

Frank O'Dea to provide affordable works of

art from emerging and established Irish

artists. 'Big Vision.... small works' (13

November - 18 December ) at Kilcock Art

Gallery in Co Kildare marks a gathering of

gallery artists and invited guests. There

will be over 250 small artworks on view in

this diverse exhibition of sculpture, paint

ings, drawings, collage, original prints,

ceramics, stained-glass, textile, metal

work and enamel. The Hamilton Gallery

in Sligo celebrates the festive season with

an exhibition marking the 50th anniver

sary of Graphic Studio Dublin. Based on

the theme of 'Gold', the exhibition (9 December - 29 January) will feature

works by up to fifty artists from the

Graphic Gallery and Studio. New work

o from Mark O'Neill, A Maderson and Ken

Moroney will be exhibited alongside newly

acquired work from Percy French, Markey

Robinson and Jack Yeats in the

Christmas exhibition (December) at

Treasures Irish Art in Athlone.

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8 ALEXANDRA VAN TUYLL AT WHITETHORN GALLERY

9 BRIAN MCCARTHY AT KEELINGS GALLERY

10 GERALDINE McMAHON AT KENNY'S LAHINCH ART GALLERY

11 FRANKO' DEA AT BALLA BAN GALLERY

12 ANNA ST. GEORGE AT ANNA ST. GEORGE GALLERY

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DECEMBER

IRISH FACES AND OTHER STORIES A new body of work by Mark O'Neill can be

seen at the artist's recently opened Mill

House Gallery in Clonegal, Co Wexford.

O'Neill constantly draws inspiration from his

surroundings. However, this exhibition is a

departure for him, as he explores fresh

fields via neighbours and friends in Wexford

and Carlow. From these studies, the artist

has created a series of portraits for this

exhibition, entitled 'Irish Faces and Other

Stories'. In these paintings, O'Neill captures

the rural character of his subjects. The

technique employed has resulted in his

most detailed work to date.

Mark O'Neill: 4-5 December

IRELAND IN TURMOIL The 1641 Depositions (TCD MSS 809-841) are witness testimonies, mainly by

Protestants, relating their experiences

during the rebellion of the Catholic Irish in

1641. This unique body of material is

currently on view at the Long Room, Trinity

College Dublin, alongside the Book of

Kells. It contains vivid and often harrowing

accounts of murder, assault, imprison

ment, loss of goods and military activity across the country. The exhibition draws on

a rich collection of manuscript material,

original depositions, maps, contemporary

pamphlets and printed works. The material

documents sectarian tensions in colonial

Ireland, the course of the rebellion and the

fallout that shaped the course of Irish polit ical/social history over the following cen

turies. The 1641 Rebellion is likewise

discussed in the wider international con

text. 1641 Depositions: until 3 April

DISCOVERING ALICE 'Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival'

at the National Library of Ireland in Kildare

Street celebrates one of our hitherto largely

forgotten heroines. The range and extent of

this remarkable woman's interests was

quite extraordinary. She was heavily involved

in print culture, founding a journal, The Shan

Van Vocht, and publishing prolifically in the

press. Her play The Last Feast of the Fianna

was staged by the Irish Literary Theatre and

she worked with Maud Gonne in 1901 to

stage two major Dublin productions. Her

first volume of poetry, Hero Lays appeared in

1908. She promoted the Irish language in

accessible, democratic ways, including

magic lantern shows and tableaux vivants. A

political and community activist, she helped to organise the centenary commemorations

of the 1798 rebellion, travelled to London to

attend the trial of Roger Casement and later

helped found the Anti-Partition Union. Alice

Milligan: November - February

WEATHER WISE An exhibition showcasing the 'Lovely Weather' art and climate change residency

projects has been organised by the

Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal Co

Council Public Art Office and international

arts and science foundation

Leonardo/Olats. The five Lovely Weather

projects have been running throughout the

year with the aim of developing artworks

that raise questions about climate and its

changes on a practical level. Participating

artists are Peter d'Agostino (USA), Seema

Goel (Canada), The League of Imaginary Scientists (USA), Antony Lyons (UK) and

Softday (Ireland). Since 1999, visual artist

Sean Taylor and computer software

designer Mikael Fernstrom (aka Softday) have collaborated on a number of high

profile science/art projects. Both artists are interested in exploring 'the cracks'

between various media such as expanded

theatre, sound art, sculpture, music, dance

and the application of new technologies.

Softday s project examines data from the

Irish 'dead zones' - areas of seafloor with

too little oxygen for most marine life - and

collaborates with local traditional musi

cians, Met ?ireann and The Marine Institute of Ireland, to address the rela

tionship of climate and culture to sound.

Lovely Weather: until 29 January

1 MARK '

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2 JOHN TEMPLE AT TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY

3 ALICE MILLIGAN AT NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND

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DECEMBER

TWO FOLD Bea McMahon returns to the Green on

Red Gallery, Dublin for her second solo

show, entitled 'Two-Fold'. McMahon

studied mathematics at TCD and UCD,

before completing an MA in Visual Arts

Practice in Dun Laoghaire College of Art,

Design and Technology, and her work is

influenced by the thought processes she

learnt through the study of mathematics.

McMahon will use video, sculptures and

drawings to articulate her ideas in this

eagerly awaited exhibition.

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4 BRANDES' TUMBLEWEED Stephen Brandes specializes in splendidly absurd topographies. He is an inveterate fan

tasist, obsessively mapping imaginary territories ? his drawings chart elaborate

invented landscapes in a style that is chaotically comic. These visual fictions often seem

richly informed by myth and fable. See for yourself at the Rubicon Gallery in Dublin

where an exhibition of his works entitled Tumbleweed' is on view over the coming weeks. Stephen Brandes: until 17 December

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WARREN'S UNBROKEN LINE New and retrospective work by Irish

sculptor Michael Warren is on show at

Visual Centre for Contemporary Art,

Carlow. Entitled 'Unbroken Line', this

project is billed as one of the most ambi

tious this artist has ever undertaken -

see our feature on page 78 of this edition.

It brings together works stretching back

over forty years in one multi-part installa

tion. 'What is important is that space is

activated and the sense of being in the

space - and of Being, itself - is brought to

as high an intensity as possible', the artist

explains. Warren has secured the largest

timber tree butts he could find, the

biggest weighing in the region of two

tonnes. Michael Warren: until 16 January

RICHARD TUTTLE AT THE HUGH LANE Richard Tuttle is a figure of seminal impor

tance in the international art world. He has

staged one-person exhibitions at the

Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney

Museum of American Art, New York; and

ICA Philadelphia. Most of his prolific artistic

output since the 1960s has taken the form of

three-dimensional objects. Yet he commonly

refers to his work as drawing rather than

sculpture, emphasizing its diminutive scale

and idea-based nature. A selection of his

work can be experienced at Dublin City

Gallery The Hugh Lane over the coming

months. This will be

this artist's first

museum show in

Ireland. Richard Tuttle:

until 10 April

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5 BEA MCMAHON AT GREEN ON RED GALLERY

6 MICHAEL WARREN AT VISUAL

7 RICHARD TUTTLE AT HUGH LANE GALLERY

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SWEDISH INFLUENCE Jockum Nordstrom's drawings and collages may look like illustrations for children's

books, but they have a tough adult edge. His

work at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD has a

strong kinship with folk and outsider art.

Rather like a form of psychoanalytic free

association, it embraces memories, fantasies,

and thoughts. 'While the Mortar Dies' is the

Swedish artist's first solo exhibition in Ireland.

Watch out too for 'Boucherouite' at the same

venue. The boucherouite is a Moroccan Vag

rug' made by hand from all kinds of recycled materials, including plastic, nylon, and lurex.

Made for local use, these extraordinary weav

ings break away from traditional North

African conventions of design, texture, and

colour. They also raise intriguing questions about socio-economic conditions and the

impact of western culture on traditional soci

eties. Jockum Nordstr?m: until 12 January; Boucherouite: until 12 January

TCD AT THE RHA Initiated by George Dawson fifty years ago, the contemporary art collection at Trinity

College Dublin is celebrated in a series of

three major exhibitions at The Douglas

Hyde Gallery, The Royal Hibernian

Academy, and Trinity College's Science

Gallery this winter ? see our feature on

page 78 of this edition. Dawson, a former

Professor of Genetics at TCD, was the

initial driving force behind the College's involvement with modern and contempo

rary art but subsequent generations of

staff have managed and developed the col

lection. Donations from artists such as

Patrick Scott and Trinity graduate Richard

Gorman have also expanded the collection.

The exhibitions will include work by David

Godbold, Patrick Graham, Kathy

Prendergast, Patrick Collins, Micheal

Farrell and Clare Langan.

TCD Collection: RHA until 19 December

LCGA COLLECTION AT THE HUNT MUSEUM With the redevelopment of the historic

Carnegie Building now underway, work from

the Limerick City Gallery of Art's Permanent

Collection has been moved to The Hunt

Museum, where it will be on view until the

end of the year. Founded in 1937, with the

aim of securing 'examples of the work of all

well-known artists of Irish birth, or of those

who have worked in Ireland', the collection

at LCGA now includes 831 historic and

contemporary works by 56 artists. Work on

the Carnegie Building will be completed in

2011 : plans include the addition of new

facilities for the gallery and its collection,

and a reorientation of the building to give access to the People's Park on which it

stands. LCGA Permanent Collection at The

Hunt Museum: until 23 December

CORK ART ALIVE Fota House in Carrigtwohill in Cork is the venue for an exhibition entitled 'Cork Art

Alive', featuring a selection of paintings on

loan from the AIB Group collection. All

twenty-six works on display have a connec

tion with Cork. Based on the theme of how

a sense of place is expressed through art,

the exhibition will include work by artists

such as William Crozier, Charles Tyrrell

and Dara McGrath and highlight the

diverse use of materials by Dorothy Cross,

Marie Foley and Cormac Boydell.

9 Ireland. Richard Tuttle: until 10 April

8 JOCKUM NORDSTROM AT DOUGLAS HYDE

9 CLARE LANGAN AT THE RHA

10 RICHARD GORMAN TCD AT THE RHA

11 CHARLES TYRRELL AT FOTA HOUSE

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JANUARY

PORTRAITS AND PEOPLE Eamon 0'Kane's exhibition 'Twentieth of April Sixteen Eighty Nine' at the Crawford Art

Gallery addresses the overlapping histories

of his parent's home in Donegal and the siege of Derry by James li in 1689. The 'Portraits &

People' project undescores the important roles of psychology and memory in the inter woven histories of nature, country, family, art

and architecture. Continuing its screening programme of Irish and international artists, the Crawford Gallery also presents Cecily Brennan's 'Black Tears' digital video work, followed by 'All My Lovin', a survey of family, love and relationships through the work of

fifteen international artists including Doug Dubois, Anna Shteynshleyger and Jenny Matthews. Edward O'Kane: until 22 January

Cecily Brennan: 13 January - 26 February

'AU My Lovin': U February - 19 March

SNOW IS ON THE WAY 'Dress Up In You' at Signal Arts Centre,

Bray, Co Wicklow is an exhibition of

illustrations and sketchbook work by Sarah

Murphy. This artist's love for animals,

combined with a huge interest in research,

has led her to develop a series of work

based on Native American Indian myths and

legends. The end result may be derivative,

but it is nevertheless highly individual.

Signal, meantime, also presents 'Sneachta',

a new series of works by Fermanagh artist

Helen McNulty. Using sketches, video and

photographs from Ireland and the

Norwegian fjords, she explores the textures

of snowfalls probing how the light reflects

and refracts such landscapes and the

myriad of colours held within.

Sarah Murphy: 5-16 January

Helen McNulty: 18 - 30 January

TURNER PAST AND PRESENT The National Gallery of Ireland display of

watercolours by J M W Turner (1775-1851) comes but once a year. This year the theme

is 'Care of the Collection, Past and

Present'. Henry Vaughan, the

English collector who

bequeathed the collection to the

Gallery in 1900, was very aware

of how delicate and light sensitive watercolours are. He

thus stipulated that the

watercolours be displayed in

January only, when the natural

light levels are at their lowest.

Due to modern lighting

technology, it is now possible to

show the works in a suitably controlled

environment. However, the National

Gallery continues to adhere to the

traditional January exhibition. A series of

free talks will complement the exhibition

throughout the month. The Turner

watercolours will be complemented this

year by a display of silhouettes and

miniatures from the Mary A McNeill

Bequest. J M W Turner: 1 - 31 January

CHANGING LIGHT An exhibition celebrating the life and work

of Jenny Boelens ushers in the New Year

at the Civic Offices, Limerick Road,

Nenagh, Co Tipperary. 'The Changing

Light' marks the first anniversary of the

death of the Irish landscape painter. The

exhibition comprises a selection of

watercolour paintings spanning three

decades. Technically proficient, the artist's

work is notable for its attention to detail

and ability to explore the unique qualities of the prevailing light.

Jenny Boelens: 31 January - 18 February

U

1 EAMON O' KANE AT THE CRAWFORD ART GALLERY

2 SARAH MURPHY AT SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE

3 JENNY BOELENS AT CIVIC OFFICES. TIPPERARY

4 J M W TURNER AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

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BREAKING NEW GROUND

'And So It Goes' at Dublin's Graphic Studio

features new works by Philip Murphy. The

show incorporates innovative printmaking

techniques where Murphy uses plates made

from silicone or perspex and methods such

as encaustic. Encaustic is a highly

pigmented wax which is painted onto a

heated plate from which a monotype can be

pulled. More traditional printmaking

techniques are also exhibited. The

exhibition's title is after a phrase used

throughout Kurt Vonnegut's book

Staughterhouse-Five, an anti-war book set in

Dresden during the Second World War,

where the author was a prisoner of war. To

the artist, the phrase seems to express

Vonnegut's bewilderment rather than

judgement. The exhibition work is based on

past and present events which leave Murphy

bewildered. Philip Murphy: 3-26 February

WINNING WAYS Each year the Cork Art Society and Lavit

Gallery nominate a graduating student

from the Crawford College of Art and

Design as Student of the Year. The prize

includes an exhibition at the

gallery and a modest cash

award. This year the prize

was awarded jointly to Pam

Carroll and ?ine M?her. Pam

Carroll's sculptural work

explores the human con

science through a range of

materials and found objects.

In her recent degree show,

use was made of materials

IRISH ART MILESTONE The Royal Dublin Society celebrates the

150th anniversary celebration of the

RDS Taylor Art Award with a major

retrospective exhibition of Irish art. The

RDS Taylor Art Award is one of the

oldest awards of its type in the world,

tracing back to the will of Captain Archibald Taylor who died in 1854. The

forthcoming exhibition promises to be

an outstanding display of work by some

of Ireland's most established and well

known artists from the 19th - 21st

Century. Entitled 'Dearc', it features

noted works by twenty-five previous

winners of the award. Artists such as

Walter Osborne, Sir William Orpen, Sean

Keating, Melanie Le Brocquyand Louis

Le Brocquy will be represented. Work by

contemporary artists such as James

Hanley and Eamonn O'Kane will also be

exhibited, alongside recent award

winners like Robert Manson and Laura

Dowling. Many of these works are held

in private collections and have not yet

been seen by the general public.

as diverse as lead, wire, minx fur, latex and

pigment. Although the work of ?ine M?her

is lens based, it engages in a formal and

painterly language and is combined with

three-dimensional elements. Light, line

and plane are used to impart space and the

three-dimensional elements accentuate

the form. Student of the Year Exhibition:

1-12 February

OUT OF AFRICA Romuald Hazoum? is one of Africa's leading

/isual artists. Winner of the Arnold Bode

3rize at Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany,

ie has worked with many media throughout

nis career, from discarded petrol canisters,

Dil paint and canvas, to large-scale

nstallation, video and photography. His

forthcoming exhibition at the Irish Museum

3f Modern Art will focus on iconic

sculptures resembling the primitive tribal

masks so influential to early modernists

such as Picasso and Braque. Fashioned

from old plastic containers, the works

implicitly criticize the presence of

multinational oil companies in West Africa

where natural resources are remorselessly

exploited. Hazoum? equates this neo

colonialism with an unending form of

slavery, a point made explicit in his

ambitious work La Bouche du Roi, shown at

the British Museum during the recent

bicentenary of the abolition of slavery. Also

at IMMA, 'The Moderns' concludes this

month. The most extensive exhibition to

date from the museum's own collection,

'The Moderns' explores the development of

modernity in Ireland through the visual arts

in the period 1900-1975. Romuald Hazoum?: 9 February

- 15 May;

The Moderns: until 13 February 1 ROBERT MANSON AT RDS

2 PHILIP MURPHY AT GRAPHIC STUDIO GALLERY

3 PAM CARROLL AT LAVIT GALLERY

U ROMUALD HAZOUM? AT IMMA

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