To Never Look Away – TØN Gallery Dublin/ 7-31 March 2024 – Exhibition Opening
To Never Look Away at TØN Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin
The artists: Rachel Fallon, Joy Gerrard, Claire Halpin, Myra Jago, Paul Mac Cormaic and Amna Walayat
The poets: Fióna Bolger and Nasouh Hossari
Curated by Claire Halpin
Opening conversation with Clíodhna Shaffrey, Director Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
We had an absolutely wonderful launch of the exhibition at TØN Gallery in March, with opening conversation by Clíodhna Shaffrey responding to the exhibitions themes, subjects, forms and materials. Inviting each of the participating artists to speak briefly about their work in the exhibition. It was very moving experience for many in the packed gallery. Many of the themes evoked poignant responses and very timely as we find ourselves in a time of war raging in Palestine and racist riots on our streets….as artists questioning our role as artists to bear witness….to never look away.
It was important for me as the curator to programme a series of different events, tours and conversations to reach a wider audience. The opening night was testimony to the artists and poets and the power and resonance of the work in the exhibition, the connections between the works and the opening up of cross disciplinary dialogue.
Huge thank you to Clíodhna Shaffrey for the opening conversation, to our guest of honour, Palestinian artist Emily Jacir and to all who joined the artists and poets to launch the exhibition To Never Look Away at TØN Gallery on 7th March 2024.
To Never Look Away at TØN Gallery, 25a Temple Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin until 31 March 2024.
Winter Newsletter 2023 – Happy Christmas and New Year!
Welcome to my Winter Newsletter 2023 and what a year it has been! A huge thanks and appreciation to all the galleries, museums, artists, curators, writers, patrons, podcasters, viewers and buyers who have supported my work throughout the year and made 2023 a great year. Here’s a look back to some of the highlights from this year. Looking forward to very exciting exhibition plans being hatched with TØN Dublin in early 2024…watch this space!
Happy Christmas and New Year to one and all!
Claire
2023 brought many international exhibition opportunities, most significantly my first international solo exhibition – Primo Piatto at Galleria Cabaret Voltaire in Rome in March. Such an honour, experience and opportunity to exhibit in the Monti in the great city of Rome! The exhibition was very well received and reviewed and included paintings from the Augmented Auguries series. newly created Migrant Souvenir plates and a site specific historic sculpture – The Lost Heart of Daniel O’Connell.This intriguing work, through a sequence of events was bequested to the Church of St. Agata dei Goti, Rome for permanent exhibition in the church…My Body to Ireland, My Heart to Rome…. Donal Fallon, historian chats with me about it in his great podcast Three Castles Burning.
During the summer my work was exhibited in Summer Salon at Red Sheep Gallery, Klockestrand, Sweden, In the Cross Fire at SEAS Brighton as part of International Refugee week. Other group exhibitions included Mermaid 21 at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Chaos/ Order at dlr Municipal Gallery, Dún Laoghaire, Here and Now at TØN Dublin. Another brilliant collaboration with Madeleine Hellier at Sculpture in Context 2023 – this year Glassophere a three part large scale installation across the Botanic Gardens. I am delighted also to have new work selected for the Winter Exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin currently on exhibition until 13th January 2024.
Another huge honour in 2023 was the inclusion of my work in this seminal publication –
LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH ART
by YVONNE SCOTT, published by CHURCHILL HOUSE PRESS
This book identifies a representative selection of compelling and intriguing artworks by a range of around one hundred of the most challenging and vibrant artists from, or working in, Ireland or whose work addresses Irish landscapes and environments. Examining them both individually and collectively, this book reveals primary motivations behind strategies of representation.
New Paintings at Winter Exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art Dublin 30th Nov – 13th Jan
Delighted to have new paintings selected for the Winter Exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art.
Wonderful show with great line up of artists –
Cecilia Bullo, Sandro Chia, Peter Cleary, John Albert Duigenan, Patrick Graham, Claire Halpin, Marcelle Hanselaar, Gottfried Helnwein, Jonathan Hunter, Eddie Kennedy, Melanie le Brocquy, Kevin Mooney, Paul Mosse, Adrian O’Carroll, Gwen O’Dowd, John Noel Smith, Orla Whelan, George Warren.
Annual Winter Exhibition, Hillsboro Fine Art, 49 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1 continues until 13th Jan.
View artworks online at Hillsboro Fine Art Dublin and @hillsborofineart
Here and Now, Group Exhibition at Tøn Gallery Dublin
Here and Now
36 artists
TØN Dublin
Curated by Helen Kirk and Mark Redden.
TØN Dublin, 25 Temple Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin
3 November – 1 December 2023
A menagerie of works in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and fibre arts.
Curated by Helen Kirk
“When grouped together this selection of work shapes a debate around the elasticity of artistic philosophy. Where does creative passion originate? What is driving production today? What ideas are new? From what we can see, these artists are working in the Here and Now. It’s do or die.”
Artists:
Suzanne Dolan, Moezee, Lorraine Lawlor, Pablo Marín Garcia, Sinead McKillican, Tina Poole, Maree Hensey, Nikki Foster, Ciaran Meister, Anna Marie Savage, Aisling Dunne, Kelan Molloy, Kevin McSherry, Richard Coghlan, Elize de Beer, Ishmael Claxton, Shane Hynan, Christopher Banahan, Julianne Guinee, Daria Ivanishchenko, Claire Halpin, Maree Hensey, Kam Catala, Kevin Judge, Paula Lemaine, Emily McGardle, Sheila Flaherty, Cynthia Fanning, Rachel Kenny, Desmond Kenny, Eva Vitkute, Sorcha McNamarra, Francesc Ruiz Abad, Tom Campbell
Artwork:
Libricide Ukraine II,
Oil on gesso, 20cm X 25cm, 2022
Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art by Yvonne Scott
Very proud and honoured to have my work included in this beautiful new publication:
LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY ART
by YVONNE SCOTT, published by CHURCHILL HOUSE PRESS
This book identifies a representative selection of compelling and intriguing artworks by a range of around one hundred of the most challenging and vibrant artists from, or working in, Ireland or whose work addresses Irish landscapes and environments. Examining them both individually and collectively, this book reveals primary motivations behind strategies of representation.
The artwork is explored through a series of focused essays generated by the images created by major artists, both established and emerging, carried out over the last two to three decades, reflecting the experience, observations and understanding of their landscape environment in an era of unprecedented change. My work is included in the chapter LANDSCAPE AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY including stellar line up of artists including Richard Mosse, Wille Doherty, Paul Seawright, Alice Maher, Rachel Fallon, Rita Duffy, Maria Simmonds Gooding and Dermot Seymour to name but a few…
Landscape has always been vital important in Ireland, as might be expected given the country’s history and geography and this field of representation has never been more vital and expansive that it is now in the first quarter of the twenty first century in the face of climate change.
Yvonne Scott is a fellow emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. She was the founding director of TRIARC (TCD Irish Art Research Centre). Her research focuses particularly on modern and contemporary art, specialising in the representation of landscape, nature and environment.
Published in association with Churchill House Press in association with Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Available from The Irish Georgian Society and IMMA
https://churchillhousepress.com/landscape-and-environment-in-contemporary-irish-art
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