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This outstanding sale includes a further selection from the Jim O’Driscoll SC Collection featuring contemporary masters such as Francis Bacon, Barrie Cooke, William Crozier and John Shinnors; The James Cruickshank Collection of Grace Henry Paintings; a major Northern Ireland corporate collection including exceptional examples by J. H. Craig, Paul Henry, John Lavery and Frank McKelvey; the complete series of Louis le Brocquy’s Táin Tapestries and much much more.

Opening Reception Thursday 17 May 6-8pm • Presented by The LAB in association with Pallas Projects/Studios

Opening Reception Thursday 17 May 6-8pm

Opening Reception Thursday 17 May 6-8pm

General Practice highlights the vital role of GPs in contemporary Irish society, providing a glimpse into the usually private interactions between GP and patient. In colour and black-andwhite photographs, the photographer Fionn McCann captures the trials, tribulations and sometimes humour of these encounters. Through the sensitivity of McCann’s lens, the frontline work of GPs is revealed in all its diversity. In the consulting room or on home visits, the GP may be called upon to medicate, to perform procedures or simply to explain and reassure. Above all, the confessional quality of the patient-GP encounter, where listening to the patient’s concerns is of prime importance, is underlined.

Experimenting With Clouds comprises of an exhibition devoted to exploring the history, social impact and future of open source technologies. This exhibition celebrates the open source culture of sharing and collaboration, while examining the virtual and real spaces artists occupy within the realms of new media and technology.

LABYRINTHITIS is an interactive sound piece that consists entirely of sounds generated in the artist’s auditory organs and will cause audible responses in those of the audience. It relies on principles employed both in medical science and musical practice; when two frequencies at a certain ratio are played into the ear, additional vibrations in the inner ear will produce a third frequency. This frequency is generated by the ear itself: a so-called “distortion product otoacoustic emission” also referred to in musicology as “Tartini tone”.

What Do You See When You Look At Me?, an exhibition developed in partnership with the Burren College of Art and the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National Programme, opens to the public at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare, at 3.00pm on Saturday 12 May 2012. This exhibition comprises some 20 artworks from the IMMA Collection specifically curated for children and explores ideas around representation, both in the form of portraiture and in less conventional ways, posing questions about how we view ourselves and others. Artists featured include John Doherty, David Godbold, Brian Duggan, Robert Ballagh, Louis le Brocquy, Andrew Folan, James Hanley, John Kindness, Nevan Lahart, Alice Maher, Caroline McCarthy, Nick Miller, Tom Molloy, Isabel Nolan and Martin Parr.

Each year we programme a set of exhibitions, films, workshops and events to explore a particular theme. This year we are looking at artists who utilise both virtual and real spaces to create their work.

Opening Reception Thursday 10 May,  5:30 – 8pm • The exhibition will be formally opened by Frank X. Buckley

The Crawford Art Gallery is pleased to present, for the first time in Ireland, the British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara. In collaboration with Tate St Ives, the exhibition will showcase an ongoing installation, The Museum of Incest. This piece is considered one of Fujiwara’s most crucial works as it marks the beginning of his career. The Museum of Incest is Fujiwara’s fictive recreation of the story of mankind’s evolution, and the objects are archived and displayed in a museum-like setting. These articles and artifacts mix the personal and the fictitious to create a myth of human origins and explicit sexual archeology that starts at the footsteps of man to Fujiwara’s present family background. Fujiwara has described his work as a ‘journey of personal discovery.’

Through this initiative Black Church Print Studio will invite leading art practitioners from other art disciplines to work with the resources of the print studio. In 2012 the Studio plan to run three pilot projects. These first projects will involve Irish contemporary artists Brian Fay, Damien Flood, and Jesse Jones, all principal figures within their individual fields of drawing, painting and filmmaking. This programme will offer an insight into the potential of printmaking while promoting it within contemporary art practice.

This is a look at some of what is currently out there in commercial spaces in Ireland.

From sleek dining tables to screen panels and exotic desks, zelouf+BELL is showing their beautiful things in Farmleigh for 2 weeks.

7.42 was the moment in which life changed in the area of Lapua in Finland. The moment was frozen in time on the watch face of a survivor of a terrible tragedy. In April 1976, an ammunitions factory exploded and 40 women died – at 7.42am. This was a tragedy which left an indelible mark on the people of Lapua, and one which greatly affected four Irish artists who took part in an Artists’ Residency there in 2010. The artists, Abigail O’ Brien and Seán Cotter, both from Co. Louth, Thomas Brezing, from north Co. Dublin, and Mary Kelly from Co. Wicklow, have created work for the exhibition 7:42 which will have its Irish premiere as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival this May. The exhibition has been shown in Lapua in 2011, and at the Cable Factory, Helsinki in 2012, and will continue at Highlanes Gallery until September, 2012.

As part of our commitment to providing services and resources to visual artists, the National Sculpture Factory has programmed a series of technical workshops to support visual artists and their practice. These sessions aim to address the technical needs of artists working in a professional environment.