Paul Nugent & Sean Lynch invited artists at Black Church exhibition

02/12/2010

Invisible
curated by Oliver Dowling, John Graham, and Margaret O’Brien
12th February – 4th March 2010

Concerned with the unseen, overlooked, or hidden, Invisible is an exhibition that takes what we can’t see as its starting point. Artists, invited and selected from open submission, present work that investigates or challenges the dominance of our visual sense. Hosting a wide variety of materials and approaches, Invisible is an exhibition that explores the desire to look for the truth beyond appearances.

Invisible is presented in a network of locations around Dublin city, with the work of its twenty-seven artists existing in relation to each other and to the various spaces and events they engage with. An accompanying map will detail where the individual artists will be exhibiting.

AT: Irish Museum of Modern Art / The Project Arts Centre / Temple Bar Gallery & Studios / National Gallery of Ireland / Dublin Institute of Technology, Portland Row / Digital Hub / Independent Studio Artists / Original Print Gallery / The Back Loft

Stephen Loughman & Paul Nugent at IMMA

26/01/2010

What happens next is a secret
curated by Marguerite O’Molloy

26 January until 18 April 2010. Admission is free.

This is an experimental exhibition which attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks become part of a collection and are subsequently shown in many different contexts. Working from a potential list of works, the artworks will be changed during the course of the exhibition, with removal of artworks generating absences which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections. Additions of works will draw out new and perhaps unexpected associations, and new narratives will emerge within the overall structure of the exhibition. Other strategies such as repositioning works within the exhibition will be used to alter the pace of the exhibition.

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Killmainham

right: Stephen Loughman, Witness, oil on canvas, 2004

Nevan Lahart at the RHA

14/01/2010

A LIVELY START TO A DEAD END

Royal Hibernian Academy
Gallery 1

14 January - 27 February 2010

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to announce a major exhibition of new work by Nevan Lahart in the RHA's Gallery 1.

Ulrich Vogl in Tape Modern, Berlin

13/01/2010

Tape Modern No.13
In cooporation with Heidestrasse Galleries and Halle am Wasser openings
Opening: Friday, January 15th 2009 7pm-4am
Address: Heidestrasse 14, 10557 Berlin

For the last two years Tape Modern has presented exhibitions that begin after the openings in the Heidestrasse galleries, tackling the questions and technicalities of exhibiting art at night. What makes a night exhibition different than looking at art during the day and how to build and light an exhibition that parallels a club event? Continuing their investigation, this exhibition explores work that directly deals with nightlife: Including underground culture, clubbing, Glam and Disco. The architectural, material and stylistic facets of each of these aspects are considered, along with club workers, party goers and their fashion.

with: Guillaume Airiaud / Maxime Ballesteros / Patrick Cierpka / Dominique Faix / Will Handley / Marcus Knupp / Alexa Kreissl / Roman Kutzowitz / Melanie Manchot / Nik Nowak / Anton Stoianov / Tulip Enterprise / Ulrich Vogl / Kandis Williams / Christopher Winter

Invitation image - left - by Maxime Ballesteros

Oliver Comerford, Gary Coyle & Paul Nugent at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

20/11/2009

Terror and the Sublime: Art in an Age of Anxiety
features works by thirty-three artists, from the late eighteenth century to the present, whose subject-matter reflects the spirit of their times. Whether it is the nineteenth century painter Francis Danby, identifying in the mountains of Norway a metaphor for the challenges facing his survival as an artist, or contemporary sculptor Jim Sanborn, creating a replica of the first atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, the exhibition gives an insight into the way artists respond to the times they live in, but also how their works shape the way we look at the world.

The uncertainties and fears resulting from political and social upheavals such as the American War of Independence or the Revolution in France informed Edmund Burke’s political views, but it was his 1757 essay on aesthetics, "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" that directly inspired artists such as George Barret and James Barry, whose paintings form the starting point of the exhibition. Terror and the Sublime also includes dramatic and visionary paintings from the Romantic period, by James Arthur O’Connor, Francis Danby, and the Cork artist Samuel Forde. ese historic paintings are juxtaposed with works in a variety of media by contemporary artists, including Andreas Gursky, Cecily Brennan, Nigel Rolfe, omas Ruff and Clare Langan, artists who continue to address the same issues of human vulnerability and the tensions that exist between the individual and society.

Irrespective of the century in which they were born, the work of each of these artists resonates with a psychological intensity, drawn in part from uncompromising themes, but also from the spirit of their age. While the Crawford Gallery exhibition may not have the power to “transform human kind by unlocking the Ancient Mysteries”, it does allow visitors to view the world through the eyes of artists whose creativity, and responsiveness to concerns that have remained pertinent through the centuries, enriches and informs our world.

Artists: George Barrett, Aideen Barry, James Barry, William Bradford, Cecily Brennan, Oliver Comerford, Gary Coyle, Francis Danby, Michelle Deignan, Willie Doherty, Jonathan Fisher, Mary FitzGerald, Samuel Forde, James Forrester, David Godbold, Andreas Gursky, Clare Langan, Robert Longo, Fergus Martin, John Martin, Eoin McHugh, Theresa Nanigian, Paul Nugent, James Arthur O’Connor, Hughie O’Donoghue, George Petrie, Nigel Rolfe, Thomas Ruff, Jim Sanborn, Sean Shanahan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Paul Winstanley and the writer Edmund Burke.

A catalogue, artists talks and a full education programme will accompany the exhibition.

Michael Boran video work at the National Concert Hall & Wexford Opera House

13/11/2009

Snakes & Ladders

Music: Roger Doyle, Daniel Figgis, Brian Ó hUiginn, Tóirse Ó Riórdáin, Ktho Zoid Video: Michael Boran, Jennifer Brady, Cormac Figgis, Liam O;Callaghan, Alan Phelan Soundworks: Neil Bailey with Fint Nüsp, Vincent Doherty, R.G. Evans, Ross Evans, Mark O'Leary, Spectac, Funken Foal, The Jimmy Cake, twinkranes

From musique concrete to piano recital, free-improvisation to avant folk, metal to electronica, Snakes & Ladders is the pre-eminent Irish showcase for unique music and video commissions, collisions, connections, provocations and agitations. Central to this groundbreaking, artist-led initiative is a live concert featuring musical performances across a spectrum of disciplines accompanied by new video works and short soundworks commissioned by Daniel Figgis and presented as both a view of, and a gateway to, a constant stream of information and sensory overload. In other words... An Entertainment.

Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall Friday November 13
Book online at www.nch.ie or call box office (01) 4170000
Jerome Hynes Theatre, Wexford Opera House Saturday November 14
Book online at www.wexfordoperahouse.ie or call box office (053) 9122144

Nevan Lahart at Heaven's Full, London

07/11/2009

Heaven’s Full and the Fire Escapes are Locked

7 November – 5 December 2009
Reception Friday 6 November 2009

Nevan Lahart takes over London, artist-led space Heaven’s Full (project) with an installation offering his own irreverential blend of DIY baroque and social commentary.

Heaven's Full website

Paul Nugent, Amanda Coogan & Elaine Byrne at TULCA 09, Galway

06/11/2009

Our Need For Consolation Is Impossible To Satiate

Thursday 6th - Friday 12th November

TULCA - an annual Galway season of contemporary visual art. Featuring local and international exhibitions, unexpected live-art performances and discussions & talks with artists with admission free to all events.

Established in 2002, TULCA’s vision is to be accessible to a wide-ranging audience. The Festival engages and challenges audiences with new and fresh ideas, and art that audiences want to see. Attention is given to the finer details, such as programming work in interesting venues and ensuring the invigilators are well informed and enthusiastic.

Amanda Coogan
Yellow
Performance & Installation
Nun's Island Theatre
Performance: 2 - 6 pm Sun 8 Nov
Installation: 2 - 6 pm Sun, 9 - 14 Nov

Paul Nugent
Orpanage II
Galway City Museum
10 - 5 pm, Tues - Sat

Elaine Byrne
How Do You Just Live?
Galway University Hospital, Newcastle Road & Fairgreen Building 12 - 6 daily.

This year's curator, Helen Carey, describes some of the overarching ideas behind this years season:
"Perhaps this is something we need to accept as part of the Human Condition – perhaps this is something that before we live in society, we need to live with ourselves first, and then face the fact that the reality of being in the world means living together, accepting. So how do we recognise each other and how do we live together. Living in the public place of the world and striving to be true to the private and interior spaces in the individual entails honesty. When honesty is complicated and when the challenges of living in the world make no sense, the articulation of complexity is the breakthrough that allows recognition. That breakthrough is what Tulca 09 tries to cradle, to host. There are depths beyond which we try not to travel or imagine – but there are heights we can reach and imagination can bring us – oppositions are part of it. Thinking of Ted Hughes’ Crow, his place in the world depends on imagining the best and the worst, the survival of best needs recognition of both. The Artists in TULCA examine the armatures in which the Human Being tries to articulate what living in the world means."

TULCA 2009 will take place in venues throughout Galway City including: Galway Arts Centre | Galway Museum | Fairgreen Building | St. Nicholas Church | Galway University Hospital | 126

Tulca website

Diana Copperwhite at the Lyon Biennale

31/10/2009

Alchimie - Multiples - Papiers
{Alchemy - Multiples - Papers}

Reception Saturday, October 31 from 6pm

Show runs 31 October to 28 November 2009

Presentation of works on paper by thirteen artists in collaboration with the Paris-based American printer, Michael Woolworth. Stephane Bordarier, Daniel Clarke, Vincent Corpet, Marc Desgrandchamps, Jim Dine, Richard Gorman, Frédérique Loutz, Miquel Mont Stephane Pencreac'h, Jean-Baptiste Sécheret, Djamel Tatah and Otto Zitko.

Galerie Françoise Besson
10 rue de Crimée 10 Crimea Street
69001 Lyon 69001 Lyon
+33 478 296 205

Lyon Biennale website

Ulrich Vogl at Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto

03/10/2009

The technique of drawing is at the core of Ulrich Vogl's œuvre. Using a process-based and analytical approach however, he takes this technique into new spheres: drawings in the classical sense - works on paper - are the exception. Instead, his works are mainly films, objects or even installations. The expression "extension of drawing", already the title of an exhibition and a catalogue, epitomises Vogl's approach and can be considered the leitmotiv of his artistic practice.

Under the title Watching the Stars Ulrich Vogl now presents a new nucleus of work. In five works Vogl transforms the night sky, the stars and astronomical instruments into inventive and fascinating pieces. The artistic engagement with the stars is however not to be considered an illustration of astronomical facts. For Vogl, rather, the stars represent a metaphor for something inexplicable, romantic, sensual and unattainable. The technical apparatus, which appear repeatedly in watching the stars, form the rational antithesis to this. Magical and rational elements are played off against one another, whilst remaining in a state of equilibrium.

As in previous exhibitions by Vogl, the spectator is invited to directly interact with the pieces. Following the reception theory the works only become complete by means of viewer presence and interaction. With the artist's help the spectator slips into the role of an explorer, discovering the infinite vastness of the cosmos. Shimmering drawings, telescopes and seductive objects recalling a section of the firmament are permanent companions of ours whilst travelling through space and time.

Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery
Via San Giovanni Bosco
9 - 38068 Rovereto
Italy

Diana Copperwhite & Geraldine O'Neill at the Graphic Studio Gallery

01/10/2009

Visiting Artists 2009
1 - 24 October

The Visiting Artists Scheme, established since 1980 at Graphic Studio Dublin continues, with this show, to play an important role in Irish Art.

This visually challenging exhibition features iconic living Irish artists, acclaimed both nationally and internationally.

The other visiting artists are:
Martin Gale
William Crozier
Jane O'Malley
& Seán McSweeney.

For more information, check out the website:
Graphic Studio Gallery

Tadgh McSweeney & Amanda Coogan at VISUAL, Carlow

24/09/2009

Tadhg McSweeney & Amanda Coogan will both be participating in the inaugural programme of exhibitions at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art in Carlow.

With an area of 3,130m², VISUAL will provide a space to display temporary exhibitions of contemporary art of national and international standing. The scale of the Main Gallery is without precedent in Ireland, allowing the display of large contemporary art installations, being 29m long by 16m wide with a clear ceiling height of over 11m, providing an excellent space for the exhibition of large scale contemporary art.

VISUAL website

Tadhg McSweeney | Generator
24 Sept 2009 - 10 Jan 2010
McSweeney will create a specially designed stairwell installation which will focus on the architect's textured concrete wall, playing with light projection, colour and technology. Using these elements, a revolving drum which has many apertures will project flickering images and shadows, like live animation.

Amanda Coogan | Accumulator
Coogan will curate a series of live durational performance pieces between September and December 2009. There will be six performances by six artists, including the curator, who will open the programme. Each artist will be required to deal with the detritus of the previous artist's work, hence the title, Accumulator. Also part of the exhibition will be short audio-visual gallery works as well as recorded footage of previous performances as the show progresses over the three month period. This exhibition will bring together some of the exceptional practitioners in performance art from Ireland and abroad. Included are senior figures of Irish performance practice Alastair MacLennan and Brian Connolly as well as younger generation of practitioners Declan Rooney and Neva Elliot, both Carlow artists currently living in Berlin and London respectively. Completing the line-up is Yinmei Duan, a Chinese artist who has built a strong international reputation. The exhibition will serve not only as an overview of a potent practice in the visual arts but will be flagging new directions in presentation and collaborative practice in the visual arts in Ireland.

Thurs 24th Sept - Amanda Coogan, opening night performance from 6pm onwards.
Sat Oct 3rd - Neva Elliot, 2pm - 8pm
Sat Oct 17th - Declan Rooney, 2pm - 8pm
Sat Nov 7th - Yinmei Duan, 2pm - 8pm
Sat Nov 21st- Brian Connolly, 2pm - 8pm
Sat Nov 28th - Alastair MacLennan, 2pm - 8pm

Robert Armstrong website goes live

15/09/2009

Gallery artist Robert Armstrong's new website has gone live.

robertarmstrong.net

The site, designed by Alan Butler, offers a range of Robert's work to view from the last number of years, essays, info on publications, links etc.

The gallery recommend viewing this, our & in fact, all websites in the Firefox browser.
It can be downloaded here for free.

Mark O'Kelly at The Black Mariah, Cork

12/09/2009

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery is delighted to anounce Mark O'Kelly's solo show, Unconscious, at The Black Mariah.

16 Sept - 17 Oct 2009

O’Kelly’s work explicitly references mediated experiences and signifiers as opposed to the actual signified cultural or political context of the sources. His work is engaged in analysis of the experience of seeing, re-seeing, adopting and engaging with representations of culture.

The Black Mariah
First Floor
4 Washington St
Cork

OPEN WED - SAT / 12 - 6

Image: Mariah, oil on linen, 55x38cm, 2009

The Black Mariah website

Amanda Coogan & Sean Lynch in LCGA / Arts Council Touring Exhibition

10/09/2009

Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art
curated by Mike Fitzpatrick and Susan Holland

Limerick City Gallery of Art
10 Sept - 8 Nov 2009
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny
Donegal (2 Feb - 20 Mar 2010)
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
Meath (2 Apr – 8 May 2010)
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
Carlow (21 May – 3 Jul 2010)

Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art surveys the extensive terrain of art made in Ireland during the first decade of this millennium. This exhibition selects some of the most exciting contemporary master-works of the Noughties, including seminal works by leading Irish artists. Audience engagement is a central element of this exhibition; the selection includes high impact works in sculpture and on canvas juxtaposed with digital media, participatory and experiential works.

Surveying current practice from the brush stroke to digital media, Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art seeks to demonstrate the strength and energy of contemporary Irish art. The central focus determining this exhibition is visual and sensory excitement for viewers through the representation of a diverse selection of contemporary Irish practice. These works are juxtaposed together because they share an interest in playful exploration of human nature and the contemporary environment through an exciting diversity of mediums.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full colour catalogue. Other participating artists: Aideen Barry, Sarah Browne, Denis Connolly / Anne Cleary, Joe Duggan, Ciara Finnegan, Andrew Kearney, Tom Molloy, Caroline Mccarthy, Seamus Nolan, Eamon O'kane, John Shinnors

LCGA website

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh & Mark Swords at the RHA

07/09/2009

Futures
Reception Thurs 3 Sept, 6-8pm
Show runs 4 - 27 Sept 2009
Galleries I, II & III

The Gallery is delighted to announce the participation of Mark Swords and Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh in the Royal Hibernian Academy's upcoming Futures exhibition.

The original Futures series ran for four years, concluding in 2004. It documented a remarkable generation of artists many now in their early to mid thirties. It was decided to suspend the series until a sufficient amount of newer artists emerged. Now with the advent of such venues as Monster Truck, Four, the Lab, it has become evident that a new series can be sustained in quality for four years.

Futures is selected by the Director, Patrick T Murphy and the Exhibition’s Curator, Ruth Carroll.

Aideen Barry, Kevin Cosgrove, Maria McKinney, Seamus Nolan and John O’Connell complete the line-up of participating artists.

Ulrich Vogl at SAKAMOTOcontemporary, Berlin

06/09/2009

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery is delighted to announce Ulrich Vogl's solo show
SPIEGELUNG | ERWEITERUNG DER ZEICHNUNG
(MIRROR | EXTENTION OF DRAWING) at
SAKAMOTOcontemporary

Until the 31 October 2009

Oranienstrasse 164 (corner of Oranienplatz)
D-10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Open:
Tues - Fri 12 - 6 pm
Sat 2 - 6 pm
& by appointment

Stephen Loughman / Mark O'Kelly publication wins prestigious design award

11/08/2009

The publication for Stephen Loughman and Mark O’Kelly’s two-man show in Galway Arts Centre 2007 – 2008, has won a prestigious red dot award. The book, designed by Paris based Neil Gurry was published by Kevin Kavanagh, in association with Galway Arts Centre.

With more than 11,000 submissions from 61 countries, the international “red dot design award” is the largest and most renowned design competition in the world. The award-winning products are put before an international public in the red dot design museum.

Each year an international jury reviews and evaluates the submitted products according to criteria such as degree of innovation, functionality and the formal quality. This ensures the seriousness of the competition and its international acceptance. The group of jurors is made up of renowned designers and design experts from all over the world who reach their decisions on which designs are good enough to receive a red dot award independently and impartially. The constellation changes from year to year and guarantees a high degree of objectivity and reliability.

Gary Coyle at the Kilkenny Arts Festival

07/08/2009

At Sea performance:
Friday 7th August 2009, 9.00 pm Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th August 2009, 8 pm
ADMISSION FREE

Something Else group exhibition:
Rothe House, Parliament Street, Kilkenny
Fri 7th: 5pm-10pm
Sat 8th, Sun 9th, Thur 13th, Fri 14th & Sat 15th: 10am -9pm
Mon 10th - Wed 12th: 10am -7pm


Curator Aisling Prior: "Something Else is an exhibition of work by Ireland’s most interesting contemporary artists, whose practice is not confined to a singular mode of expression, or concerned with a definitive point of view. It defies expectations.
Unlike curators in previous years, I decided to centre the visual arts element of the Festival in one place. The interior rooms, courtyards and formal gardens of Rothe House, the magnificent 17th century Irish merchant's town house in the centre of Kilkenny city, are the tranquil venue for this year’s exhibition.
Something Else is an exhibition of surprises, with each artist showing two entirely different manifestations of their practice: live performances, sound works, film and digital work, sculpture, text or web-based work, music, paintings and drawings."

A 130 page, full-colour publication produced by Kevin Kavanagh will be available during the run priced at €20. Designed by Atelier, it includes texts by Patrick T. Murphy, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes & Maeve Connolly.
A limited edition (100) boxed book & print set priced €150 is also available from Kevin Kavanagh.

Over the past number of years Coyle has photographically recorded his daily swimming ritual at the Forty Foot in Dublin and has recorded, in his notebooks and diaries, the mood of the sea and the idiosyncrasies of the characters who swim there regularly. At Sea commissioned by Project, Dublin is a spoken word performance based on his daily swimming routine. He has exhibited in the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, the Tate Liverpool and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Coyle, who was recently elected into Aosdána, is a member of the RHA. He is working on a major solo exhibition, which will be held in the RHA Gallery, Dublin in March 2010.

"His style of prose is fully in tune with the imagery, each complementing the other with effortless synergy" The Irish Times

Festival website

Stephen Loughman at Galerie Bugdahm und Kaimer, Düsseldorf

29/07/2009

29 July - 29 August 2009

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to announce the participation of Stephen Loughman in Düsseldorf Galerie Bugdahm und Kaimer's summer group exhibition.
The selection, from his recent Our Victory work, will hang along side Robert Barry, Mary Kelly, Peter Hutchinson, Claire Corey, Ingolf Timpner, Abigail O'Brien and Aurelia Gratzer.

Galerie Bugdahm und Kaimer
Heinrich-Heine-Alle 19
D-40213 Düsseldorf

Hours:
Tues to Fri 12-6 pm
Saturday 12-4 pm
or by appointment

Diana Copperwhite | Kinsale Arts Week

11/07/2009

To Have and Have Not
Curated by Gemma Tipton at KAW Gallery 1
11 - 19 July 2009

When contemporary art is in the news, it is often to do with money and the market. Maybe a work has sold for a record-breaking price, been bought by someone famous, or else the news is of sales in the ascendant or in decline. But not all art is for sale, and there are fascinating reasons why artists hold onto their work, or else give it away. Inviting some of Ireland's most successful artists, including Brian O'Doherty, Martin Gale, Nick Miller, Alice Maher, Eithne Jordan, Diana Copperwhite, Donald Teskey and Stephen McKenna, To Have and Have Not shows some works for sale, and some that never ever will be.

Further information

SHOW CANCELLED Padded Cell by Gerrard Mannix Flynn at Dunamaise Arts Centre

10/07/2009

I, Kevin Kavanagh, support the decision of Mannix Flynn to cancel his exhibition, Padded Cell and Other Stories, which was to open at the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, on Friday 10th of July. Mannix Flynn is an important Irish artist whose work is both challenging and relevant to the times we live in. His installation Safe House, Safe Place at Liberty Hall, Dublin in 2005 was one of the most impressive exhibition that I have ever seen and dealt with the horrors of child abuse in a sensitive and intelligent way.
Mannix Flynn is an elected member of Aosdána and founder member of Farcry Productions. He recently served on the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art for five years.

As a native of Portlaoise and given my previous experience of curating a group show as part of the Laois Arts Festival in 2001 and presenting three solo exhibitions by represented artists Mick O Dea (2005), Geraldine O’Neill (2006) and most recently Ulrich Vogl (2009), I was invited by the director of Dunamaise Arts Centre, Louise Donlon, to advise on the on the programme for Visual Arts in 2009, the Arts Centre 10th Anniversary Year. Gemma Tipton was also invited and in conjunction with the director, the programme was made for 2009. I proposed inviting Mannix Flynn, having worked with him in the past on Not to be Read in Open Court (2004), an enthusiastically received exhibition.

Louise Donlon’s decision to remove work from the foyer of the Arts Centre to the exhibition area upstairs was unreasonable and unnecessary, especially as she was party to all correspondence at all times. At no point was it made clear that the foyer was not to be used or that there were content parameters. The director and the arts centre were provided copies of the texts in question far in advance of the exhibition. If such reservations were tabled in the first instance or within a reasonable timeframe, the layout of the exhibition and indeed the artist could have thought about the implications. The work in question is part of a body of work, State Meant (2005) which deals with child abuse and specifically testaments of victims of such abuse that is now in the public domain. To table this condition one day before the exhibition opening and with the considerable preparation and expense incurred by the artist in the first floor specific installation makes the exhibition unworkable. The artist had made considerable financial and conceptual preparations for the show and such a move would have interfered with the installation Padded Cell that was designed and built for upstairs.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my disappointment - having invited the artist in good faith - that the exhibition has been rendered unworkable by the decision of the director of the Dunamaise Arts Centre.

Geraldine O’Neill & Mark O’Kelly in Summer Group Exhibition at Cavanacor Gallery

27/06/2009

with Neil Shawcross, Michael Cullen, John Philip Murray, Gemma Anderson & Jill McKeown
Cavanacor Gallery
Ballindrait
Lifford
Co. Donegal
27 June – 30 August 2009

The Summer Group Exhibition at Cavanacor Gallery brings together seven unique artists with several common threads running through their practice.

Diana Copperwhite | Launch of New Publication

04/06/2009

West Cork Arts Centre, Highlanes Gallery and Kevin Kavanagh will launch Diana Copperwhite’s latest publication on Thursday 4th June in the Friends Room of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 6 – 7 pm.

The 130 page book - in an edition of 750, and printed by 1455 Belgium - was produced as a result of Diana winning the 2007 AIB art prize.

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh nominated for AIB award

03/06/2009

AIB Group has announced the four short-listed artists for The AIB Prize, an annual award for artists of promise. Now in its ninth year, the AIB Prize was launched in December 2000 to identify Irish visual artists of outstanding potential and to assist them in launching their careers. IB Group has announced the four short-listed artists for The AIB Prize, an annual award for artists of promise. The award will be announced on 3rd June. Now in its ninth year, the AIB Prize was launched in December 2000 to identify Irish visual artists of outstanding potential and to assist them in launching their careers.

The other short-listed artists and their nominating galleries are:
Sonia Shiel, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick Louise Manifold, Galway Arts Centre, Galway

The panel of adjudicators is comprised of Aidan Dunne, art critic; Gemma Tipton, writer and critic on contemporary art and architecture; Hughie O’Donoghue, artist and Dr. Frances Ruane, AIB art adviser.

The winner of The AIB Prize will receive €20,000 for the purpose of creating new work for an exhibition and for the publication of an accompanying catalogue. The three runners up will each receive an award of €1,500.

The winner will be announced on Wednesday, 3 June, 2009. The nominating venue will hold an exhibition of the winning artist’s work, with the accompanying publication.

RHA Annual Exhibition, 26 May - 25 July 2009

26/05/2009

Invited artists, Mark O'Kelly, Oliver Comerford, Margaret Corcoran,Ulrich Vogl,Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh,Geraldine O'Neill,Nevan Lahart, Michael Boran and RHA members, Mick O'Dea, Gary Coyle and Diana Copperwhite

Art 09

15/05/2009

Kevin Kavanagh will participate in the forthcoming Art 09 fair at the RDS, Dublin. 15 -17 May 2009 Fair Webpage

Gary Coyle elected to Aosdána

06/05/2009

Gary Coyle has been elected to Aosdána, the Arts Council's affiliation of artists and writers who have made an outstanding contributuion to the arts in Ireland.

Aosdána Website

Kevin Kavanagh at Art Cologne

22/04/2009

Kevin Kavanagh are pleased to announce its participation in Art Cologne.

The gallery will present a booth of works by Diana Copperwhite, Stephen Loughman, Tadhg McSweeney & Ulrich Vogl

April 22-26, 2009

Stand 42 / Aisle A / Hall 11.3
43. Internationaler Kunstmarkt

Art Cologne website

Paul Nugent at the Kerava Art Museum, Finland

01/04/2009

Remembrance

Nevan Lahart at Tucson Museum of Art (Group Show)

28/02/2009

Nevan Lahart at Tucson Museum of Art (Group Show) Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature and Society
Tucson Museum of Art
Arizona, USA
28 Feb – 28 June 2009

Artists are looking at the beauty and the terror in the forces of nature through their honest and emotional portrayals, while sending urgent messages to pay attention to the ravages society inflicts on the land through war and waste. This exhibition will examine a range of art in a variety of media that addresses extreme forces of nature in two basic categories: nature-based discord, such as lightning, tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and fire; and human-caused environmental discord such as pollution, over-population, global warming, oil field fires, atomic fallout, and destruction of land. The debate about how much of nature’s wrath is the result of human impact and interference is ongoing, but questions are posed through stunning visuals about the seemingly unstoppable cycle of cause and effect.

Many of the artists in this exhibition, including Edward Burtynsky, Richard Misrach, William T. Wiley, Mark Dion, and Joel Peter Witkin, imbue their work with haunting messages while objectively documenting the reality before them. Others exalt in the awesome beauty of the power of nature without judgment of its genesis or its conclusion. While offering a selected survey of powerful works that address the forces of nature, this exhibition is far from a “doom and gloom” portrayal of earth’s and society’s current situation, nor does it attempt to solve environmental problems. What emerges from these works is not only a revelation of the pressing environmental problems of our times, but how artists see the world and share that message with stunning beauty and poetic resonance.

Ulrich Vogl solo show at the Dunamaise Arts Centre

26/02/2009

26 Feb - 18 April 2009 Dunamaise Arts Centre Church Street Portlaoise Co Laois Monday to Friday: 10am to 5.30pm Saturday: 10am to 5pm dunamaise.ie/

Robert Armstrong, Amy O'Riordan & Mark Swords at Purdy Hicks, London

12/02/2009

Look Again: Recent art from Ireland Selected by Aidan Dunne 12 February - 9 March 65 Hopton Street Bankside London SE1 9GZ

Karin Brunnermeier in group shows at: Gallerie Ulf Wetzka, Berlin & Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico

24/01/2009

Zehn plus X | 24 Jan - 28 Feb 2009 with: Joachim Durrang, Florian Haas, Dorothea Hartmann, Birgit Hölmer, Ben Hübsch, Michael Kalmbach, Anne Kaminsky, Martha Keating, Norbert Kiby, Jürgen Kisch, Pia Linz, Christine Molis, Gunter Reski, Bernadette Rottler, Bertram Schüler, Uwe Sennert, Elke Ulmer, Arnulf Winterhoff and Tristan Wolski Gallerie Ulf Wetzka, Auguststr. 20, 2.OG 10117 Berlin Se Permuta | until 4 Feb 2009 with: Reza Afisina, Artemio, Delphine Bedel, Katnira Bello, Michael Blum, Bryan Boyce, Emilio Chapela, Marco Casado, Eder Castillo, Héctor Falcón, Carlos Garavito, Louis Hock, William Kentridge, Christoph Kern, M+M, Perka Montelongo, Krisna Murti, Eko Nugroho, Yoshua Okon, Rashid Rana, Oliver Ressler, Fernando Reyes, Józef Robakowski, Kentaro Taki Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico

Gary Coyle at the Project Arts Centre

12/01/2009

AT SEA
8.15PM, 2-7 February 2009

Every day for the past decade Gary Coyle has gone for a swim at the Forty Foot in Sandycove. During his 10 year swim-a-thon he has kept a record of his experience through detailed diaries and photographs.
At Sea explores one man's observations of places, obsessive swimming, death and performance art. Expect to see a bloke, sitting on stage behind a desk, projecting his photographs of the sea, telling stories, some funny and some sad.

A print and book set - published by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery & limited to an edition of 100 - is also available priced at €150.
The publication will include texts by Patrick T. Murphy, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes & Maeve Connolly.

"His style of prose is fully in tune with the imagery, each complementing the other with effortless synergy" The Irish Times

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Video of AT SEA performance

Image: Lovely Water No. 3245, January 2003

Diana Copperwhite at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

09/01/2009

Diana Copperwhite at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris eclipse of a title 11 Mar - 19 April 2009 Diana Copperwhite continues the tour of her show eclipse of a title. A catalouge with essays by writer Colm Toibin and Skye Sherwin, Deputy Editor, Art Review, will be available during the exhibition. The exhibition will include large paintings and large and small watercolours and Diana will make a site specific installation of an animated drawing.

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh at the Galway Arts Centre

09/01/2009

Paintings 22 January – 28 Febuary 2009 The Galway Arts Centre, in association with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh. (right: Untitled, oil on canvas, 2008)

Nevan Lahart at the RHA

07/01/2009

Nevan Lahart has been invited to present a major exhibition in the Royal Hibernian Academy in winter 2010.

Nevan’s effusive, aggressive work was first featured in Futures 2002. The Academy’ in pursuance of its policy of documenting individual artists from the Futures portfolio will work with Lahart on a thematic exhibition that will display his considerable skill in drawing, painting, installation, sculpture and media work. Futures is selected by the Director, Patrick T Murphy and the Exhibition’s Curator, Ruth Carroll.

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Karin Brunnermeier at Kulturhof Flachsgasse with Michael Kalmbach

30/11/2008

Betty und Paul 30 November 2008 - 18 January 2009 Karin Brunnermeier and Michael Kalmbach Kulturhof Flachsgasse 67346 Speyer Germany

Diana Copperwhite at the Highlanes Gallery

27/11/2008

Diana Copperwhite continues the tour of her AIB Award-winning show, Eclipse of a Title. Opening night: Thursday 27 November 2008 from 7.00pm-9.00pm The exhibition continues until 18 February, 2009 This exhibition will be opened by Stuart McLauglin, Cheif Executive, Business to Arts. A catalouge with essays by writer Colm Toibin and Skye Sherwin, Deputy Editor, Art Review, will be available during the exhibition. Diana Copperwhite will discuss her work practice in conversation with painter Graham Crowley on Sunday 18 January, 2009 The exhibition will include large paintings and large and small watercolours and Diana will make a site specific installation of an animated drawing. The exhibition is a collaboration with West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen and will tour to the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in spring, 2009.

Gary Coyle wins Third Prize in Davy Portrait Awards 2008

22/11/2008

The awards, in association with Arts & Business, were open to artists working in traditional and non-traditional media across Ireland. The judging panel comprised Royal Hibernian Academy President Stephen McKenna, Royal Ulster Academy President Rita Duffy and international art critic and writer Gemma Tipton. Portrait Awards exhibition which takes place at the Naughton Gallery in Belfast from Saturday 22nd November 2008 until 31st January 2009. The exhibition will move to the Farmleigh Gallery in Dublin in March 2009. Further Information

Dermot Seymour at the Glucksman

13/11/2008

An Eye for an Eye
Representations of Conflict in 20th Century Ireland

Curated by Professor Dermot Keogh and Ruth Osborne

14 November 2008 – 1 March 2009

Artists: Robert Ballagh, Rita Duffy, TP Flanagan, Paul Graham, Paul Henry, Seán Keating, Sir John Lavery, FE McWillaim, Sir William Orpen , Michael Power O’Malley, Dermot Seymour, Victor Sloan, and Jack Yeats alongside archive materials from Gael Linn, The Imperial War Museum, The Linen Hall Library, The National Library of Ireland and UTV.

An Eye for an Eye will illustrate the often contradictory ways in which visual images and artefacts represented the conflict in Ireland throughout the 20th century. The exhibition will present a series of visual oppositions, tracing different representations that artworks gave to the rise of constitutional and revolutionary nationalism, state-building and partition. The exhibition begins with a very different pair of perspectives on revolutionary commemoration with the personal moment of remembrance in Going to Wolftone's Grave by Jack B. Yeats in stark contrast to the grand scale of national grief in John Lavery's depiction of the funeral of Michael Collins.

Ulrich Vogl of islands and clouds in the Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art

12/11/2008

Ulrich Vogl - Artists’ Residency Programme
The Process Room
West Wing, First Floor Galleries
Irish Museum of Modern Art

Pieces of aluminium kitchen foil float slowly through space. Shadows wander over the floor. Piles of sugar form little islands on the ground. The natural flow of air keeps the mobile going. Every visitor’s movement changes the mobile’s pace, but it seems to keep going in its own cosmic way. A round mirror is leaning against the wall. Kitchen foil, sugar, thread and wire are everyday materials and the way they are used in this piece changes their context and content.

Kevin Kavanagh at Preview Berlin

30/10/2008

Preview Berlin
30 October - 2 November 2008
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in Preview Berlin, presenting a solo booth of work by Karin Brunnermeier.

Diana Copperwhite at West Cork Arts Centre

25/10/2008

eclipse of a title Diana Copperwhite 25 October - 19 November 2008 West Cork Arts Centre is delighted to present this ambitious exhibition of new work by Diana Copperwhite, WCAC’s nominee for the prestigious AIB Award 2007. The exhibition comprises large scale paintings, some smaller works and an installation / projection that uses animation, drawings and mirrors to explore ideas about infinity and reflections.

Kevin Kavanagh moving to Chancery Lane

22/09/2008

During September 2008 the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery will move to a new 135 m² premises in Chancery Lane in the centre of Dublin. The new gallery space has been designed by architect Philip Crowe of MCO Architecture, Dublin. The first show in the new gallery space, The world needs a narrative , opens Friday 26 September.

Geraldine O'Neill at Draiocht

10/04/2008

Luan an tSléibhe (Judgement Day) Geraldine O’Neill Ground and First Floor Galleries 4 October – 22 November 2008 Luan an tSléibhe is a major new body of work by Geraldine O’Neill. O’Neill is an artist whose practice is defined by a commitment to figurative and representational painting, a genre to which she brings a fresh and innovative approach. Song birds feature strongly in this series, each image provoking memory and familiarity, childhood, innocence, beauty and loss. O’Neill’s technique demonstrates her thorough knowledge of the art historical tradition of still life to which she adds a very modern twist and intelligent use of concept and allegory. A catalogue with texts by Brian McGuire and Medb Ruane has been published by Kevin Kavanagh and Draoicht to coincide with the exhibtion. Title: Geraldine O'Neill ISBN:978-0-9555164-9-8