survivalism, but they’re also about the challenge of finding novel approaches to the figure. July 16 - September 15
Draiocht
Blanchardstown Centre, D15 ■ Playboys, Paycocks and
Playbills An exhibition of Abbey Theatre poster designs from the 70s and 80s, featuring the acclaimed artwork of Kevin Scally and Brendan Foreman. The exhibition represents a changing time in graphic design and the representation of the Abbey Theatre and also showcases different styles of printing and a broad range of productions, actors, directors, costume and set designers.
Gormley’s Fine Art
24 South Frederick Street, D2 ■ Francis McCrory New works by Francis McCrory, an emerging young Belfast artist. The works are set to explore the ways people, places and things are connected in ever increasing ways. September 23 – October 7
Grand Canal Theatre
Grand Canal Dock, D2 ■ Offset Visual media and design festival providing talks, workshops, screenings. October 1 – 3
The Grand Social 35 Lower Liffey Street, D1
■ Virtual Jukebox Globally dispersed performers separated by time zones, land and sea come together to dance to a unique playlist made up entirely of personal dedications. mouth to mouth invite the audience to select songs from the playlist they would like to listen and dance to – triggering both virtual and real performers and revealing personal dedications. It’s a chance for all involved to jump in and share a moment in time. Members of mouth to mouth | international performance collective, through a live web link, will take part in an intimate dance off; gestures and dance moves will be shared, embodied, and passed on in both live and virtual spaces. Without a trained dancer in sight, this is more about random responses and endurance rather than skill. Virtual Jukebox was originally performed as part of Now and Then at Gallery North (UK) as part of the Wunderbar Festival. Directed by Kate Craddock and Lynnette Moran. September 19
Green on Red Gallery
26-28 Lombard Street, D2 ■ ‘European Dream’ by Nigel
Rolfe September 2 – October 2
Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery 1 Parnell Square East, D1
■ Jonathan Lasker and John
Noel Smith August 26 – September 18 ■ Michael Warren: Kireji September 23 – October 16
September 6 – 24
Hugh Lane Gallery
Kerlin Gallery
Sir John Lavery: Passion and Politics
■ Stephen McKenna New paintings September 10 – October 16
Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, D1
John Lavery was one of the original supporters of Dublin’s Gallery of Modern Art when it was established by Hugh Lane in 1908. Lavery again donated a substantial number of works to the Gallery when his Americanborn wife Hazel died in 1935. His donation provides a unique visual record of one of the most significant periods of modern Irish history and is at the heart of Lavery: Passion and Politics. July 15 - October 31 ■ The Golden Bough:
Ronnie Hughes ‘Hybrid Cabinet’ Ronnie Hughes’ work has long been interested in this idea of studying ‘nature’; the search to uncover order or pattern within arbitrary phenomena, the setting up of complex hierarchies, classifications, models and conjectures – the quest, or perhaps yearning, for meaning. Hughes’s recent works allude to tensions between fate and accident, order and entropy, between the teleological and the merely random. August 5 – October 24
IMMA
Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, D8 ■ Graphic Studio: 50 Years
in Dublin Graphic Studio marks the gift of more than 30 fine art prints to the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of Graphic Studio Dublin’s 50th anniversary, which IMMA is delighted to receive to add to its holding of modern and contemporary prints as part of the National Collections of Ireland. September 8 – January 3 ■ Post-War American Art:
The Novak/O’Doherty Collection This exhibition marks the generous gift of works by art historian Barbara Novak and artist Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland to the IMMA Collection. September 8 – January 30
Inspirational Arts Gallery
■ Inspirational Arts Photog-
raphy Award Exhibition
An exhibition of the works of the three nominees for this year’s Inspirational Arts Photography Award: Kate Lynch, David Earl and Lisa Cawley. Each candidate is a graduating student from IADT. The winner will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on September 23. September 24 – October 15
Jorgensen Fine Art Gallery 16 Herbert Street, D2
■ Alexey Krasnovsky One of our longest standing gallery artists, Russian born, Irish resident Alexey Krasnovsky’s exhibition will encompass a broad range of subjects, from still life to landscapes and cityscapes, painted in his distinctive colourist style.
Poker September Fitzwilliam Card Club
Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street, D2
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
3a Chancery Lane, D8 ■ Douglas White September 2 – 18 ■ ‘The Yellow Series’ by
Amanda Coogan Includes a performance by Coogan for Culture Night on September 24 (4-8pm). September 23 – October 9
The Molesworth Gallery Molesworth Street, D2
■ Niall McCormack September
National Gallery Ireland Merrion Square West, D2 ■ Gabriel Metsu:
Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age One of the most remarkable painters of the Dutch seventeenth century, Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), will be the subject of the National Gallery’s autumn exhibition. Metsu died at the age of thirty-seven, having painted a large number of exquisite scenes of daily life that rank among the finest of the Dutch Golden Age. The Gallery is fortunate to have in its collection two outstanding companion pieces, which are arguably the artist’s most wellknown works. September 4 – December 5
ments in time unravel unexpectedly to reveal where paths cross and people change our lives, often unsettling the ground beneath us. Shake it like a milkshake, moves that’ll groove … all creamy and dreamy. A song might be sung. The dance will be danced. And please for a moment let there be quiet… September 13, €8-10 ■ There’s a hole in my heart
that goes all the way to China Mining the mysterious caverns of the human heart, this is an extraordinary live art multimedia piece. Combining visuals, movement and text, it is made up of many parts about holes that ultimately leaves one feeling whole. Carl Jung said, “I would rather be whole than be good”. This work digs down deep into the depths of loneliness and shame, but even in its darkest moments, the canary still sings. Stacy is an Artsadmin Associate Artist. September 14, €8-10 ■ My Husband is a
Spaceman A multi-media solo show, this is the third part of an absorbing trilogy from an incredible live artist. A Japanese office lady is content with her single lifestyle until she encounters Robin, an English University fellow, in Tokyo. They fall in love, get married, and move to England. But married life is not what Robin expects and the eccentric Englishman takes to locking himself in a room upstairs every night. Derived from an old Japanese folk tale of love between a peasant and a crane, this is a love story loosely based on Kazuko’s experience of a cross-cultural relationship, loneliness and how to survive it. One of the most personal and affecting performers you are ever likely to see September 15, €8-10
Oisin Gallery
■ Dance Double Bill:
Things
It ends with a mysterious bruise, a long-distance dance, and a swallow tattoo to guide you. It starts with the people you haunt, and the traces of those who left without explanation. It’s a live performance, with under-the counter true stories. It’s a blind date, with music to fill those awkward silences. It’s dance for people who don’t like dance. It’s a guilty pleasure. It will not be sentimental, but it might be beautiful. It could get a bit x-rated. There may even be a slow-set. But whatever happens, you will not go home alone. September 17-19, €12-15
44 Westland Row, D2 ■ The Natural Order of
A selection of new paintings by William Cunningham, focusing primarily on topics relating to the sea and also Irish landscapes. August 19 – September 11
Paul Kane Gallery
6 Merrion Square, D2 ■ Between Heaven and Earth A solo show of new works by Roisin McGuigan. It will run in parallel with WESTERN SKY; a solo show of large scale skyscapes at Siamse Tire, Tralee. For Between heaven and earth, Roisin will be showing a combination of figuraive skyscapes on canvas and paper and a selection of more abstract works on perspex. September 10 – October 2
Project Arts Centre
39 Essex Street East, D2 ■ My Body Travels Matthew P. Morris is exploring a new adventure. He’s hitching his heels high and daring to redress his first solo piece. A ‘he’ who transforms to ‘she’ in order to walk the wild side of a lopsided reality of assumed identity, he’s treading bare a silent world of desirable loneliness before finally surrendering to the natural order of serenity. A cycle of events; mo-
‘Paradise Dance Hall’ and ‘Hang On’
■ The Work The Work Life, say Fitzgerald & Stapleton, is both absurd and alluring, a grotesque practical joke constantly pulling away chairs from under dignity and reason. Their delight in the details of human existence struggles with their conviction of its futility. Nothing is sane, reality is a hall of distorting mirrors reflecting the grimness of our own pretensions. A piece involving dance, spoken text and film, it also features choreography by Deborah Hay, Michael Klein, DD Dorvillier, Xavier LeRoy and Lucy Guerin. September 20-22, €11-13
RDS
158 Shelbourne Road, D4
■ Irish Antiques Dealers Fair Now in its 45th year, Ireland’s premier antiques event, the Irish Antique Dealer’s Association Fair at the RDS brings together the cream of art and antique dealer’s from around the country. September 22 – 26
RHA
15 Ely Place, D2 ■ Futures 10 This exhibition is the second in the second series of Futures, a sequence of exhibitions that endeavours to document and contextualise the work of emerging artists, around who exists a growing critical and curatorial consensus. The artists chosen for Futures 10 are Oisin Byrne, Rhona Byrne, Fiona Chambers, Niall de Buitléar, Damien Flood, Magnhild Opdol and Ailbhe Ni Bhriain. September 3 – October 24 ■ Sinead Aldridge,
‘unattainable / joy’ Video projection with sound. September 3 – October 24
Keegan, Alessio Michelini, Julie Beinvenu, James Goulden, Fionn Kidney, Damien McGlynn, Richard Gilligan and Loreana Rushe Tuesday 14th September
Science Gallery Trinity College, Pearse Street, D2
■ Biorhythm: Music and the
Body Why does a minor cord sound sad? Why is pop music at 120 beats/minute? How does a DJ manipulate a crowd? BIORHYTHM - Science Gallery’s flag ship exhibition in 2010 will be exploring the physics, neuroscience and mechanics of music. July 2-October 1
Signal Arts Centre 1 Albert Avenue, Bray
‘Met With Elsewhere’ Group exhibition by Kathryn Ryan, Jonathan Curran and Laura Butler/ August 31 – September 12 ■ ‘Through the Looking
■ Cathal Curthin,
Glass’
‘Amplitude’
An exhibition of paintings by staff artist and Bray native Roisin Verdon. Verdon chooses movies and TV as her source to portray image. This exhibition explores the use of mirrors in film, and the distorted representation of the self they create. September 14 – 26
This project derives from a study of the possible physical consequences of supplying energy needs from Ireland’s un-harnessed wave-power. The project is a rhetorical, salutary proposition, a manifesto and an embodiment of the scale of generation required, to supplant our oil dependence and feed our centralizing grid. The research into current and future power needs and the potential provided by wave-power is diligently explored. The result is a visionary, speculative proposal, sublimating the periodic power provided by the waves into a fantastic infrastructure formed of dilated pumped storage vessels, resting on stone pylons extracted from the bedrock. September 3 – October 24 ■ Clare Langan, ‘The
Wildernness, Part I’ The Wilderness. Part 1, surveys a landscape of abandon, darkened by uncertain catastrophe. A requiem for a vanishing planet, The Wilderness, Part 1 is an examination of an extinct world that strangely resembles our own. Shot in infrared HD video and with the use of hand-made filters, the images of the Irish landscape echo graphite drawings. Movement in the film is subtle and minimal with the drama set by Jurgen Simpson’s music composition. Sepember 3 – December 19
Rathfarnham Castle
Rathfarnham Road, D14 ■ Original Prints An exhibition of contemporary works from the Original Print Gallery. Visitors can also explore the fine 18th Century interiors by Sir William Chambers and James Stuart. August 8 – September 12
The Workman’s Club ■ State.ie Photography
Exhibition Featuring work from State.ie Photographers: Kieran Frost, Sara Devine, Sean Conroy, Abraham Tarrush, Ian
■ Unusual House Guests An exhibition of paintings by Charmain Fitzgerald. The works are figurative and both realist and surrealist, using representational form to create a sense of otherness. September 28 – October 10
Sol Art Gallery 8 Dawson Street, D2
■ Yes’s Knife to No’s Wound An exploration of colour by Dan McCarthy September 10 – 23 ■ Group Show Featuring artists Paul Kerr, Stephen Penders, Philip Ryan and John Lane. September 24 – October 15 ■ ‘Sapphographs’ by
Donovan The exhibition features twelve pigment prints on watercolour paper from the Sapphographs series. Inspired by the poetry of Sappho (7th Centuary B.C.), Donovan captures in visual form the mythic beauty of an ancient artistic tradition. October 1 – 15
Stone Gallery
70 Pearse Street, D2 ■ David Cleary Solo exhibition by David Cleary, a multi-discipline artist who uses the mediums of drawing, photography and painting as ideas demand. In conjunction with Culture Night 2010 September 24 – October 2
Talbot Gallery
51 Talbot Street ■ Clare Henderson, ‘I Can’t
Go On, I’ll Go On’
September 24 – October 23
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