01 July — 08 August 2020
To mark the reopening of the Gallery, Mairead O’hEocha talks to Programme Curator, Michael Hill, about her exhibition Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes and its development during the lockdown period.
Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes originally opened in February but closed shortly after, as Ireland went into lockdown, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is hard to avoid the feelings of confinement and isolation that many of us experienced over the past months when looking at O’hEocha’s paintings of animals in museum display cabinets.
To acknowledge the unique circumstances and the reopening of the exhibition, O’hEocha has produced several new works on paper in a reconfigured installation, and will continue to add to and expand the installation. It is as if the animals have reproduced and now occupy more space, inviting urgent questions on how the animal kingdom might survive in a post-human world.
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22 April 2025, 6–7pm, 7:30–8:30pm
On the occasion of Music Currents Festival, TBG+S Studio Artist Jaki Irvine presents SHHh...Ow...emmM, an audio visual performance with Izumi Kimura, Joe O'Farrell, Sarah Grimes, Marco Colonna and Louise Phelan.
25 April 2025, 6:30–8:30pm
Join Queer Book Club in the Gallery to discuss April's pick Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy in the context of Katarzyna Perlak's exhibition Better a bare foot than none.
26 April 2025, 12pm
Exhibiting artist Katarzyna Perlak, independent curator Marta Czyż and Associate Director of the UCD Centre for Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Aleksandra Gajowy explore themes and ideas within Gallery exhibition Better a bare foot than none.
