Visual Arts - Past Exhibitions

Out of Sight, Out of Mind Conor O’Leary

From Mon 11-01-2010 to Sat 15-05-2010

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.

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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.

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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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Evolutionary Landscapes II - Eve Stockton

From Sat 17-04-2010 to Tue 18-05-2010

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.

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Perennial - Mark Swords

From Sat 17-04-2010 to Tue 18-05-2010

Wexford 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.

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A Helping Hand to Little Frogs and Periwinkles - Andrew Kenny

From Sat 15-05-2010 to Sat 29-05-2010

Ticket price: Free to visit

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.

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Abode

From Sat 15-05-2010 to Tue 01-06-2010

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.

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