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22 January – 25 February 10
Vernissage 21 January 10, 18.30-20.00

J. M. Synge, Photographe
admission free
 

 
 

This unprecedented exhibition presents 46 photographs taken between 1898 and 1905 by one of Ireland’s most internationally celebrated playwrights. It was during his first visit to the Aran Islands, in 1898, that John Millington Synge bought a second-hand camera. Perceptive representations of people and aspects of daily life in Connemara, Wicklow and West Kerry, the photographs are undeniably of interest from a social documentary point of view and as visual evidence of the inspiration for J. M. Synge’s literary work. They also reveal Synge to have had a gift in the new artform of photography at a seminal moment in the development of Ireland’s national identity.
This exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Gallery Siamsa Tíre in Tralee.

The photographs are shown with the permission of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.


 
 

 




 
Thursday 28 January 2010, 19.30 
At Sea Gary Coyle
admission free, reservation recommended,
in English
 


  Gary Coyle At Sea
 
For over a decade Gary Coyle has photographically recorded his daily swimming ritual at the Forty Foot promontory in Dublin and has documented, in his notebooks and diaries, the mood of the sea and the idiosyncrasies of the characters who swim there regularly. This performance sees the artist sitting on stage behind a desk, projecting his photographs of the sea, telling stories, some funny and some sad. Gary Coyle, who was recently elected into Aosdána, is a member of the RHA. At Sea was originally commissioned by Project Arts Centre, Dublin with support from the Arts Council.

 
 






 
12 March – 23 April 10
Vernissage 11 March 10, 18.30-20.00

Frame, Glass, Black
Niamh O’Malley

admission free

 

 

Niamh O'Malley

 
 
Niamh O’Malley’s artistic practice is concerned with an investigation into the fabricated nature of the viewing experience. She uses complex framing devices as strategies for emphasising the distance from source to spectacle. The primacy of the apparatus of production is made evident.

This exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais consists of a major new video work filmed at the Humber Bridge in Northeast England, a series of sculptural works using two-way glass, mirror and oil paint, and a new suite of drawings. Niamh O’Malley’s most recent solo exhibitions have been in Ireland,
Sweden and Finland; her forthcoming exhibitions include venues in Korea and Spain.

This exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.

 
 

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