Current Exhibitions
Maggie Madden
Site Line
The Lab, Ground Floor Gallery
Originally from Connemara, Co Galway, Madden is currently living and working in Dublin. She completed a Masters in Fine Art at NCAD in 2006 and received a BA in Fine Art Painting from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1998.
In 2011 she received a Visual Art bursary from the Arts Council and the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick award from the RHA, and also participated on the Artist in Residence program at Atlantic Centre for the Arts, USA. In Maggie Madden's recent work, a diverse array of collected materials are crafted into fragile sculptural formations with geometric affinities. The work is suggestive of architectural structures, but also reflects on our spatial encounters in both the urban landscape and the natural world. Her detailed constructions have the potential for endless expansion; to grow outward from densely ordered space and continue boundlessly. Madden's practice explores a combination of found, industrial and natural objects.
Nicki Wynnychuk
Conversations in:
The Lab, The Cube
Conversations in: is an ongoing project that considers the relationship between image & object within the dilemma of a contemporary art practice. Conversations in: (Dublin) is the third chapter in the series following on from Conversations in: (Sydney) 2011 & Conversations in: (Melbourne) 2010. Wynnychuk’s practice is based on the recuperation and transformation of found, familiar and banal objects. The intent is to convert, translate and reassemble the material so that it is imbued with a precarious new energy. The conceptual framework continues a sustained investigation into the theorist Herfried Munkler's concept of a post-heroic society. Melbourne based artist Nicki Wynnychuck is currently a resident artist at Fire Station Artists’ Studios. Since 2008 Fire Station Artists Studios and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, have been running an artist exchange programme that sees an Irish artist awarded a studio in Gertrude Contemporary, and on alternate years Fire Station reciprocates for a Gertrude artist with the additional opportunity of an exhibition and curatorial support from Pallas Projects/Studios.
Neil Carroll
Between Leaving and a Possible Return
The Lab, First Floor Gallery
Neil Carroll is an emerging Visual Artist living and working in Dublin. Since completing his Degree in 2010, achieving First Class Honours, he has been continuously exhibiting. Between Leaving and a Possible Return is centred around a painting process: sculpture and installation are incorporated and amalgamated so that painting can become expansive and very often site-specific. The manifestations of these media has ranged from the brutish: squat and broad (made from wood and plaster and house-paint) to the ephemeral and temporal: a painted room that was erased from existence almost as soon as it arrived.
His work searches for schematics, posing the logical conjecture that of if conceptually, architectural boundaries are representative of human potential and limitations and based on pre-defined and systematic solutions to existing problems, then, by stripping back and pulling apart, a framework or diagram can be exposed.
First Thursdays in Dublin
Inspired by First Thursdays carried out in London, First Thursdays Dublin is the name given to cultural spaces opening their doors after hours and offering an extra chance to see art, culture and events in a number of venues between 6 & 8pm on the first Thursday of every month from July onwards.