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Visual Arts - Past Exhibitions
Out of Sight, Out of Mind Conor O’Leary
From Mon 11-01-2010 to Fri 14-05-2010
D’Lush Café
11th January – 15th May 2010
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to present a photographic exhibition by Wexford born Conor O’Leary in D’Lush Café from Monday 11th January to Saturday 15th May 2010.
Symbiote by Juliana Walters
From Fri 12-02-2010 to Sat 13-03-2010
Public Talk, Saturday 6th March at 3.30pm
Catherine Marshall, Co-editor of Volume 5 Royal Irish Academy’s Art & Architecture of Ireland Project, in conversation with artist Juliana Walters. Followed by wine reception.
All welcome to attend.
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to host a solo show by artist Juliana Walters entitled Symbiote. Over the past eighteen months Walters has been developing a project entitled PLACE situated in Gorey, Co. Wexford; taking on a disused shop to create an intimate gallery/studio integrating a functioning shop. This came about through a need to find a new model to both live and sustain herself as an artist.
Annual Lions Club Exhibition
From Tue 23-03-2010 to Sat 10-04-2010
Official opening: Friday 26th March at 8pm
Opened by Anita Ryan, President of Wexford Lions Club
All welcome to attend.
Since its inception in 1990, the annual Lions Club exhibition has encapsulated the ethos of the organization and promoted the values of community development and support. The annual exhibition, aimed particularly at aspiring artists, will include paintings, mixed media and sculptural works from artists throughout County Wexford.
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From Thu 01-04-2010 to Fri 02-04-2010
Evolutionary Landscapes II - Eve Stockton
From Fri 16-04-2010 to Mon 17-05-2010
Evolutionary Landscapes IIOpening Reception: Friday 16th April, 7.30pmOpened by Aidan Dunne, Art Critic - The Irish TimesFeaturing a gallery talk by artist Eve Stockton
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to host an exhibition of prints by American artist Eve Stockton entitled Evolutionary Landscapes II. The title of this exhibition derives from the artist’s close observation of nature and an eclectic interest in science. The exhibition contains prints made during the past few years that are exemplary of the artist’s ongoing investigation of the natural world. Her woodcuts depict nature at different scales, and whether micro or macro in scope, nature’s energy is evoked by the abstracted shapes and chromatic layering in each print.
Perennial - Mark Swords
From Fri 16-04-2010 to Mon 17-05-2010
PerennialOpening Reception: Friday 16th April, 7.30pmOpening Speaker: Aidan Dunne, Art Critic - The Irish TimesFeaturing a gallery talk by artist Mark SwordsWexford Arts Centre is delighted to host a solo exhibition by Mark Swords entitled Perennial from Saturday 17th April to Tuesday 18th May. The title of the exhibition references the re-emergence of a sage plant in the artist’s garden, a tiny new growth emerging from what was the large and blackened remains of its previous body. This re-growth embodied some important contradictions for the artist – those of strength and weakness, death and life.
Abode
From Fri 14-05-2010 to Mon 31-05-2010
A collaborative exhibition between Art Alongside and The Irish Musuem of Modern Art's (IMMA) National Programme, at Wexford Arts Centre, from 1st to 15th June, 2010
Official launch: Monday 31st May at 7.30pm
Wexford County Council, in association with Wexford Arts Centre is pleased to announce Abode – a collaborative exhibition between Art Alongside and IMMA’s National Programme. Abode opens to the public at Wexford Arts Centre on Monday 1 June 2010.
A Helping Hand to Little Frogs and Periwinkles - Andrew Kenny
From Fri 14-05-2010 to Fri 28-05-2010
Ticket price: Free to visit
Andrew KennyA Helping Hand to Little Frogs and PeriwinklesWexford Arts Centre, The Annexe, 3 John’s Gate Street Opening Reception: Friday 14th May, 7.30pmOpening Speaker: Mary Grehan, Arts Director, Waterford Healing Trust
All welcome to attend.
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to present a solo show by artist Andrew Kenny entitled A Helping Hand to Little Frogs and Periwinkles. The exhibition will present a series of video pieces and a large interactive sculpture in an attempt to explore how concepts of reality, the occult and paranormal are formulated according to individual belief systems.
Ego - Robert Ballagh
From Fri 15-10-2010 to Sun 28-11-2010
Exhibition Opening: Saturday 16th October at 4.00pmOpening speaker: Billy Roche, Playwright Followed by wine receptionArtist Talk: Robert Ballagh will present a talk on 'EGO' on Saturday 30th October at 3pm in The Pillar Room.
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to host Ego, a solo exhibition by one of Ireland’s most distinguished artists, Robert Ballagh, to coincide with this year’s 2010 Wexford Opera Festival. With this exhibition, Ballagh will focus on the theme of self-portraiture, presenting a new series of paintings and drawings in the lower gallery with a selection of his more political portraits to be exhibited alongside in the centre’s upper gallery. This new body of work investigates the concept of the self-portrait from the perspective of an artist.
WALLACE & THOMAS …horses, cats, lemons, limes…
From Fri 15-10-2010 to Sat 30-10-2010
Official Launch: Saturday 16th October, 6.00pm
The Annexe at No.3 John’s Gate Street will host a collaborative exhibition of painting and sculpture by Wexford based artists Mary Wallace and Gilly Thomas.
Eileen Gray: Pioneer of Design
From Fri 15-10-2010 to Sat 30-10-2010
Lost Weekend & Wexford Arts Centre
Public Talk: Sunday 17th October, 4.00pm at Wexford Arts Centre
Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara, Directors, Grafton Architects will present a talk on the life & work of Eileen Gray.
Wexford Arts Centre, in partnership with Lost Weekend is delighted to be able to invite you to an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of one of the most remarkable Irish women and artists of the twentieth century, the highly acclaimed designer and architect Eileen Gray (1878-1976). Born in Co. Wexford, Gray has long been considered internationally as the finest designer to come out of Ireland. This exhibition will feature a collection of production displays and licensed designs of Gray’s work in Lost Weekend’s design store, and to accompany this, Wexford Arts Centre’s D’Lush Café will feature an exhibition of facsimile images showing aspects of her life and several project drawings.
GIFTED 2010- rescheduled dates
From Fri 10-12-2010 to Fri 24-12-2010
Ticket price: Free
An Exhibition of Applied Art - Curated by Mary Gallagher
Exhibition Opening: Friday 10th December, 7.00pm Recheduled date
Opened by Laura O’Hagan, Ceramist
Followed by wine reception - all welcome to attend.
This year’s fourth annual Christmas exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre presents applied artwork by a fantastic array of Irish and Welsh craft makers. Selected by Mary Gallagher, the show will feature work in a number of media, including ceramics, jewellery, textiles and wood as well as a selection of small Irish businesses, specialising in unique, handcrafted items that would not ordinarily be found in the shops.
Structures - Niall de Buitléar
From Tue 11-01-2011 to Sat 05-02-2011
Ticket price: Free
Emerging Visual Artist Award Winner 2009
A partnership initiative between the Arts Council, Wexford County Council and Wexford Art Centre.
Artist Talk: Saturday 22nd January at 4pm - Followed by a wine reception
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to host a solo exhibition by Niall de Buitléar from Tuesday 11th January to Saturday 5th February 2011. Niall de Buitléar was the recipient of the 2009 Emerging Visual Artist Award, a partnership initiative between the Arts Council, Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre. The initiative is aimed at recognizing and supporting the development of emerging artists with a monetary award and a solo exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre.
Utopia Ltd.
From Sat 12-02-2011 to Sat 12-03-2011
Group exhibition curated by David Mabb and Mary Ruth Walsh
Artists: Blaise Drummond, Brendan Earley, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, David Mabb, Lizi Sánchez, Mary Ruth Walsh
Opening & gallery talk with exhibitng artists: Friday 11th February at 6pm
All welcome to attend
Children Get Choosy with IMMA
From Tue 22-03-2011 to Sat 09-04-2011
Art Alongside Exhibition
Official opening: Wednesday 23rd March at 7.30pm
Opening speaker: Helen O’Donoghue, Senior Curator: Head of Education & Community Programmes - Irish Museum of Modern Art
All welcome to attend.
Children Get Choosy with IMMA opens to the public at Wexford Arts Centre on Wednesday 23rd March 2011. An initiative of the Arts Department of Wexford County Council, Art Alongside is a visual arts programme based in primary schools throughout County Wexford. The six schools involved in the 2010 / 2011 project are Barntown National School, St. Patrick’s National School - Craanford, Scoil Naomh Áine - Rathgarogue, Cushinstown National School, Kildavin National School and Courtnacuddy National School.
My Favourite Things - Annual Lions Club Exhibition
From Mon 18-04-2011 to Fri 06-05-2011
Exhibition Opening | Thursday 21st April at 8.00pm
All welcome to attend.
Since its inception in 1990, the annual Lions Club exhibition has encapsulated the ethos of the organization and promoted the values of community development and support. The annual exhibition, aimed particularly at aspiring artists, will include paintings and mixed media works from artists throughout County Wexford.
For the 2011 exhibition, artists were asked to respond to the theme My Favourite Things, which is taken from the popular musical The Sound of Music, in which Maria von Trapp sings about all the things she loves in the hope she will overcome bad times. As the songs goes, interested participants could draw inspiration for their work from the smallest to the largest thing or simply, something that brings any amount of comfort and joy.
Fiction or Framed - Degree Exhibition 2011
From Thu 19-05-2011 to Fri 27-05-2011
Wexford Campus School of Art (IT Carlow)
Official launch: Thursday 19th May at 6pm
Opened by Belgian artist and contemporary art curator Els Dietvorst
All welcome to attend.
Retrieval Systems - Matthew Denniss & Gail Cunningham
From Thu 09-06-2011 to Fri 29-07-2011
Wexford Arts Centre in association with Cow House Studios
Official launch: Thursday 9th June at 6pm
Opening speaker: Artist Blaise Smith
Wexford Arts Centre, in collaboration with Cow House Studios are delighted to host a two-person exhibition of recent 2010 artists-in-residence, Matthew Denniss and Gail Cunningham. Situated within the rural tranquility of Rathnure, Co. Wexford, Cow House Studios offers a valuable support structure for emerging visual artists as well as introducing critically engaging contemporary work to the rural community.
Vanitas - Patrick Redmond
From Thu 09-06-2011 to Fri 29-07-2011
Wexford Arts Centre in association with the Molesworth Gallery
Official launch: Thursday 9th June at 6pm
Opening speaker: Artist Blaise Smith
In his latest body of work, created for the Wexford Arts Centre, Patrick Redmond engages with the vanitas theme that has pre-occupied generations of artists stretching back through the Renaissance to medieval funerary art and further still to the classical art of ancient Greece and Rome. Vanitas is is a Latin word meaning ‘emptiness’ and when applied to painting is typically understood as a work symbolising the meaninglessness of earthly or temporal - as opposed to spiritual - life. Typically, vanitas paintings have included symbols such as skulls, smoke, watches, hour glasses and decaying fruit to remind us of the ethereal nature of our existence.
Difference Engine - Manifestation IV
From Fri 12-08-2011 to Fri 07-10-2011
Artist Talk with Mark Cullen, Gillian Lawler, Jessica Foley and Wendy Judge on Tuesday 4th October at 11am.
All welcome to attend.
Difference Engine is a model of independent artist curation and is a productive collaboration between artists Gordon Cheung, Mark Cullen, Gillian Lawler, Jessica Foley and Wendy Judge.
Evolution - Eamonn Doran Jnr.
From Fri 21-10-2011 to Sat 05-11-2011
D’Lush Café at Wexford Arts Centre
Evolution is a new body of work by Wexford artist Eamonn Doran. The work is informed by the artist’s observations of his immediate environment. Exploring patterns of human behaviour, Doran identifies how people react to and deal with the repetitive cycles of daily life. Despite the idea of a free will, people are to a great extent ruled by daily habits that have become automated over time. These patterns merge into habit, but they are essential to keep the individual functioning as they provide familiarity and comfort. In a satirical manner Doran’s paintings analyze and dissect the quirks and kinks of human behaviour, exploring how people learn to adapt and evolve to their surroundings depending on their economic, social or political environment.
The Good Room - Kate Murphy
From Fri 21-10-2011 to Sat 19-11-2011
Opened by Mr. Jimmy Deenihan, T.D. Minister of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and writer and columnist Medb Ruane.
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to host The Good Room, a solo exhibition by Wexford based artist Kate Murphy, to coincide with this year’s Wexford Opera Festival. The Good Room refers to what many Irish people may have commonly called a room in a house, such as a dining room or second sitting room which is reserved for use during special occasions such as Christmas, parties or when important visitors come to call; the room into which, throughout the rest of the year, young children may not be allowed and in which are kept the most treasured items of the house such as collections of dinnerware or expensive furniture.
...poppies, cherries, curving lines… Mary Wallace and Gilly Thomas
From Fri 21-10-2011 to Sun 06-11-2011
Official launch by Wexford playwright Billy Roche on Saturday 22nd October at 6.00pm.
Wexford Art Centre proudly presents ‘…poppies, cherries, curving lines…’ an exhibition by Wexford based artists Mary Wallace and Gilly Thomas showing a collection of new paintings and sculptures exploring the natural side of life – pure, intuitive shapes, simplicity of line and the beauty of colour found in nature.
Local Colour - Colin Thomson / Curated by Anya von Gosseln
From Fri 21-10-2011 to Sat 19-11-2011
Official launch: Saturday 22nd October at 4pm
Opened by Minister Brendan Howlin TD , and writer and columnist Medb Ruane.
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to host Local Colour, a solo exhibition by American artist Colin Thomson, to coincide with this year’s Wexford Opera Festival. The exhibition, which includes work from 2006 to the present day, presents brashly patterned and lively abstractions embodying two central themes of location and light that mirror the shifting tumult of images emblematic to our virtual age.
Schools Programme
From Sun 23-10-2011 to Sat 31-12-2011
Ticket price: Booking fee: €2.00 per child
The school gallery programme aims to introduce teachers and students to ideas, processes and materials used in contemporary visual arts practice. We offer guided tours and artist led workshops that are tailored to suit children of all ages, from early years to adolescents. Held in the galleries, the workshops focus on the work of the exhibiting artist using observation, discussion and a variety of practical and artistic techniques.
Our outreach programme enables us to bring our workshop programme into schools across the county and we offer this service for students from the age of 7-19 years of age. To book a tour and/or a workshop or for further information on our exhibition programme please contact catherine@wexfordartscentre.ie.
Destroy all Robots, Nick Roche
From Fri 25-11-2011 to Sat 03-12-2011
Ticket price: Free
Destroy All Robots
(A motto to live by, if not learn by)
Nick Roche
D’lush Café, Wexford Arts Centre
Artist's Talk on Saturday 26th December at 5pm - All Welcome
As part of Wexworlds Sci-Fi and Fantasy Festival, Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to present ‘Destroy All Robots’, an exhibition by Wexford born, award winning comic artist Nick Roche. Combining original pen and ink works with full colour prints, this show will open in D’Lush café on Friday, November 25th and run until Saturday, December 3rd, with an artist talk on Saturday November 26th at 5pm.
This is a chance to see some truly excellent illustrations, purchase some signed, limited edition prints and meet the artist who says . . . “Destroy all Robots is a motto to live by, if not learn by.
REVOLVER: Incarnation 1
From Tue 29-11-2011 to Sat 24-12-2011
Ticket price: Free
REVOLVER: Incarnation I
Group Show in Main Gallery: Tess Leak, Antonio Julio Lopez Castro, Sinead Rice and Allison Rudd Mumford
Solo Show in Upper Gallery: Oonagh Hurley
Saturday 26th November – Saturday 24th December 2011
Official Opening Friday December 2nd at 6pm
Public Talk Saturday December 3rd at 12 noon on Artists Initiatives with speakers Peter Prendergast, Fergus Doyle, Allison Rudd-Mumford, Ken Day and Elizabeth Whyte. Chaired by Sinéad K Rice
Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to present the first exhibition in its newly launched REVOLVER programme. Through this programme, artists and curators were invited to apply for solo and/or group exhibitions with particular emphasis placed in receiving submissions for curated group shows. A panel of suitable qualified persons oversaw the selection of exhibitions and submissions were considered on the basis of artistic merit and with consideration of the wider remit of Wexford Arts Centre’s visual arts programme. REVOLVER was also open to artists from South West Wales under the Coracle – Wales Ireland INTERREG collaboration project.
The Coracle programme aims to provide opportunities to exchange expertise and ideas between creative & cultural arts practitioners, academics and students. Coracle’s broader aim is to maximize the economic, social and cultural value of the creative and cultural arts to the regions of South West Wales and South East Ireland.
The first exhibition in the series comprises of a solo exhibition by Oonagh Hurley in Wexford Arts Centre’s upper gallery, and a group show with artists Tess Leak, Antonio Julio López Castro, Sinead Rice and Alison Rudd Mumford in the lower gallery.
Terry Dunne - A Journey Through Textiles
From Sat 03-12-2011 to Mon 02-01-2012
King Street Gallery in association with Wexford Arts Centre
One of the Ireland’s leading tapestry artists and rug weavers Terry ‘The Weaver’ Dunne will feature in a solo exhibition being hosted in the King Street Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales. This is part of the Coracle programme and will run from December 3rd 2011 – January 2nd 2012
Dunne is one of Ireland’s few full-time tapestry weavers. His studio is set in the rural countryside in a thatched cottage in Duncormick South Wexford, where he has worked for the past eight years. This traditional setting is part of the Wexford craft trail, which is developed by local artists and crafts people as a boost to the area. He has been weaving tapestries for more than 30 years as a full-time professional hand weaver.
John Busher, 'Night Without Clouds' The Annex
From Fri 09-12-2011 to Fri 23-12-2011
Ticket price: Free
'Night Without Clouds'
John Busher
Wexford Arts Centre, The Annex, No. 3 Johns Gate Street
09.12.12 – 23.12.12
Workshops for children aged 8-12 years Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th December
Official Opening by Tony Robinson (Pigyard Gallery, Wexford).
Friday December 9th at 7.30 pm
Local Artist John Busher will exhibit a selection of his paintings in Wexford Arts Centre’s Annex space this December. John Busher was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1976. He studied visual communications at the National College of Art & Design (NCAD) and graduated in 1999. Following a period of working as a commercial graphic designer, he resumed study at the National College of Art & Design (NCAD) in 2007 and qualified with a postgrad in Art & Design Education in 2008. Since then he has been working as a visual artist and educator, working with groups of primary children, adolescents and adults.
Lions Club 2012 Open Show Call for Submissions
From Thu 15-12-2011 to Tue 31-01-2012
Ticket price: €10.00 per applicant
Wexford Lions Club Show, 2012
Call for Submissions
Wexford Lions Club in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre are delighted to announce application details for its annual exhibition, Open Show and invite submissions from local artists.
In contrast with recent years, for the 2012 exhibition, the theme is left entirely open with the intention that this will result in a broader, more personal response from participants. So whether your muse is the land or the sea, figure or fauna, rural beauty, urban narratives, pure imagination, total abstraction or anything in between, the opportunity is there for artists young and old to rise to the challenge and create totally unique works.
We encourage children to get involved this year as there will be wall for ‘Young Lions’ in the final exhibition, dedicated specifically to the work of budding artists.
Bridget O'Gorman, Material Culture
From Tue 10-01-2012 to Sat 04-02-2012
Ticket price: Free
Bridget O'Gorman, Material Culture
Curated by Sinéad K. Rice
Technician: Andrew Kenny
Tuesday 10th January – Saturday 4th February 2011
Public Talk with Bridget O'Gorman and Sinéad K. Rice: Friday 13th January at 11am
Official Opening: Saturday 14th January at 4pm. Guest Speaker: Rosie Lynch
‘Material culture as we understand it is a direct consequence of the collecting traditions of the nineteenth century, liberal Enlightenment era notions of universality, colonial expansion, industrialization and the birth of consumerism’. (Buchli, Victor 2002)
For ‘Material Culture’, Bridget O’ Gorman, recipient of the 2010 Emerging Visual Artist Award, has produced a series of sculptural and video based narratives referencing a 19th Century ethos of imagination, anthropomorphism and collation. Informed by themes of historical mass production and consumption, her work explores elements of social commentary and wordplay particularly pertaining to 19th C culture in painting, experimentation and natural history.
Colin Martin, Artists Talk
From Wed 25-01-2012 to Wed 25-01-2012
Ticket price: Free
Colin Martin, Artists Talk
Wexford Arts Centre Theatre
11am – 12 noon, Wednesday, 25th January 2012
All Welcome, Admission Free
Wexford Arts Centre, in partnership with Wexford School of Art, Carlow Institute of Technology and Coracle are delighted to continue to facilitate free, public, artists talks and to welcome Irish Artist, Colin Martin to the theatre to discuss his practice.
