Doireann Ní Ghríofa – Film-poems
Doireann Ní Ghríofa | Film-poems | 10 April-15 May 2018 Doireann Ní Ghríofa is one of the most original, exciting and brilliant voice in contemporary Irish poetry. Illuminations is delighted to showcase … Continue reading
Susan MacWilliam – Observations and Communications
Susan MacWilliam | Observations and Communications Susan MacWilliam’s videos, photographic works, sculptures and installations investigate obscure and overlook histories; and reflect on the research, experimental apparatus, and personalities of those … Continue reading
Bos | Maria McKinney
Maria McKinney’s exhibition for Illuminations gallery considers a possible co-relation between two seemingly disparate subject areas – genetics and pagan ritual. In pre-Christian Europe, people annually performed customs in relation … Continue reading
David Beattie | the distance between things
David Beattie | the distance between things | 16 October-17 November Assembled from a variety of everyday materials, David Beattie’s work attempts to provide a framework for assessing our … Continue reading
Becks Butler | Pushing Boundaries
‘Pushing Boundaries’ is an ongoing project which celebrates the institutional and intellectual empowerment of women. In 1842, Anna Atkins, the first recorded female photographer, began her investigation of British algae … Continue reading
Sean Lynch ‘For the Birds, For the Birds’
Sean Lynch’s exhibition at the Illuminations gallery considers the medieval myth of Buile Suibhne, an ongoing topic in his investigations of how folklore and history can be liberally inherited and … Continue reading
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s film installations depict archetypal or generic locations that have been transformed into a dream-like theatricality. Whether a flooded library inhabited by birds of prey or a disused … Continue reading
Aleana Egan
Illuminations is delighted to host a retrospective of the work of Aleana Egan. Aleana Egan’s art is predominantly intuitive and subjective; she uses simple materials, assembled or barely transformed, to … Continue reading
Niamh O’Malley ‘Views’
Curated by Aoife Tunney Niamh O’Malley uses video, drawing, painting and sculpture, to examine ways in which we try to access the world through images. Her works often act as … Continue reading
Kevin Kirwan – Deeps Removed
DEEPS REMOVED The word ‘remains’ can be traced back to the Latin word remanēr, which is the equivalent of ‘to stay’. Remains could be described as ‘the parts left over … Continue reading
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