Copernicus; and other systems
Chanelle Walshe
FLOORONEGALLERY
Mar – Apr 2013
Opening reception: 5 – 7pm Fri 8th Mar 2013
Copernicus; and other systems is a new body of work by Chanelle Walshe that includes found object assemblage, peculiar arrangements, and painting.
Walshe’s sculptural strategy takes an elemental and molecular approach suggestive of DNA or planetary alignments. Her constructions find a precarious balance between a delicacy and intimacy, combined with the absurd and morbid. There is also an element of the internal revealed: skeletons, wires (nerves) and the ‘guts’ of things are her raw materials. It is this consistent way of seeing, or rather… sensibility, that connects her diverse strategies.
Walshe’s images move between a combination of death and re-birth. Life begins, remains or pauses in states of love and/or hardship. Walshe believes the possibility of these ‘pauses’ or times of limbo to be verified true by the evidence of extremophiles – organisms that can survive in extreme conditions that would otherwise be detrimental to most life on Earth.
Chanelle Walshe graduated from NCAD in 2010. This is her third solo exhibition since 2009. Previous group shows include ‘Future Perfect’, The Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery; The Royal Hibernian Academy 182nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin; and ‘On Departure’, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Walshe currently lives and works in Dublin and believes in oligotrophic environments, synchronicity, extraterrestrial activity and the existence of The Realm of Hades.
FLOORONEGALLERY is a curatorial project by Temple Bar Gallery & Studios member Jim Ricks. It will feature three exhibitions this spring on the first floor only. In keeping with theme ‘Generation’ and events celebrating the Studio’s 30th anniversary, this gallery will utilise the atrium space, an area of the building that was once used regularly for exhibitions. It follows an interest in activating unused and overlooked spaces, acting as agency for young artists and experimental projects, and encouraging uninhibited exhibition making.
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Cling
John Ryan
FLOORONEGALLERY
@ Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Apr – May 2013
Cling is a new installation by John Ryan. Having been granted the first floor atrium of Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, John will be exhibiting a large site specific installation alongside new studio work.
John is interested in oils and plastics as both subjects of conceptual consumption and as vibrant materials that act on their own accord. For this exhibition, John has created a large body of work that will consume the walls of the atrium. These works act autonomously while at the same time conceptually and materially clinging to one another. Collectively, they form one large work: Cling.
Previously, John’s practice has been built around one phenomenon: paint is a liquid when removed from a tube and then solidifies as a response to air and gravity. In this new installation, the paint remains wet. Captured and tamed to stay fluid, this awkwardly malleablesubstance is used to form rugged yet fragile objects, lush and disturbing in their materiality.
John Ryan is an artist based in Pallas Projects in The Coombe. Recent group exhibitions have taken place in Block T in Smithfield; The Drawing Project in Dun Laoghaire; Beerslambert Contemporary in London; The Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London and Basic Space on Vicar Street. His first solo exhibition Polyptych Subsets: Experiments With Paint took place in The Joinery in Stoneybatter in December of 2011. He is the 2011 recipient of The Gilchrist-Fischer Award. In August 2013 his work will feature in the University of Minnesota Press publication Prismatic Ecologies: Ecotheory Beyond Green by literary theorist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
FLOORONEGALLERY is a curatorial project by Temple Bar Gallery & Studios member Jim Ricks. It will feature three exhibitions this spring on the first floor only. In keeping with theme ‘Generation’ and events celebrating the Studio’s 30th anniversary, this gallery will utilise the atrium space, an area of the building that was once used regularly for exhibitions. It follows an interest in activating unused and overlooked spaces, acting as agency for young artists and experimental projects, and encouraging uninhibited exhibition making.
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1st Floor, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Still In Set
(in corridors, in words, in pictures)
Hannah Fitz
FLOORONEGALLERY
@ Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Aug – Sep 2013
Film Screening by Tanad Williams, Kevin A Freeney, and Hannah Fitz
and opening reception: 6 – 8pm Wed 7th Aug 2013
Still In Set is an exhibition of new sculptural work by Hannah Fitz. The show runs for one month in the FLOOR ONE GALLERY, opening on Wednesday the 7th of August with a video screening made in collaboration with Tanad Williams and Kevin A Freeney.
Hannah Fitz’s sculptures result from a process of multiplying and exhausting the properties of materials in an attempt to encase themselves. The resulting solidity of their image can, like all representation, be moved by a text or remark. Their material self-expression grows, or self-generates, like a crystal: reaching a point situated just outside the sphere of the figurative subject.
The collaborative video work gives an exhibition space to Fitz, Williams and Freeney’s intentions, each one concentrating solely on the medium of their choice, language, sculpture, and video. As viewers of the peripheral production of culture— the actors interview— the tourists document exhibitions— the group uses these as privileged spaces of intersection between production and autonomy.
Hannah Fitz is a founder and director of Basic Space, currently working in the Basic Space studio on Marrowbone Lane. She graduated from NCAD last year and began developing projects that re-situated the moment of artistic production. Curating an exhibition of proposed artworks for a building that no longer exists in A Proposed exhibition for the Irish House, Wood Quay, and creating a real exhibition to take place within an independent feature film An Exhibition Composed as a Location for a Film in Which The Protagonist Goes to a degree Show in John’s Lane on Tuesday and the Audience, Dressed Appropriately for the degree Show Context, Fills the Gallery Space as People Coming to See the Artworks and Most of the Work is Well Received. Recent group projects include Launch a handmade leisure boat launched into the Shannon for ‘Circling the Square’ for Gracelands as part of Eva International 2012.
FLOORONEGALLERY is a curatorial project by Temple Bar Gallery & Studios member Jim Ricks.This is the third and final of exhibition in the series. Although not part of the official program of TBG&S, it is in keeping with the theme ‘Generation’ and events celebrating the Studio’s 30th anniversary, this gallery will utilise the atrium space, an area of the building that was once used regularly for exhibitions. It follows an interest in activating unused and overlooked spaces, acting as agency for young artists and experimental projects, and encouraging uninhibited exhibition making.
The show runs through September 7th and is open by appointment only: +353 (0)86 8484120
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1st Floor, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
