Irish Exhibition of Living Art scrapbook, 1943-1957. Collection National Irish Visual Arts Library, 2001.

To be opened by Barbara Dawson, Director, Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane on Thursday, 26^th April at 6pm, and continuing 27th April to 26th May 2012

DOCUMENT! is a chronological exploration of the materials used to document the arts providing a window into developments across the visual arts in Ireland from 1890 to 2010.  The exhibition features selected works from the collections at the National Irish Visual Arts Library that are representative of the physical and intellectual content of the library’s extensive holdings including printed ephemera, books and journals, exhibition catalogues, archives, Special Collections, audio-visual material and digital ephemera.  NIVAL is an initiative of the Library of the National College of Art and Design in partnership with the Arts Council.

The National Irish Visual Arts Library is a national public resource dedicated to the collection of information on 20th century and contemporary Irish visual art and design.  NIVAL’s collection policy covers visual art from the whole island as well as Irish art abroad and non-Irish artists working in Ireland.   Information is acquired on artists, designers, galleries, arts organisations, critics and other related subjects.

EXHIBITION

The exhibition is designed to promote the collections and services of NIVAL and to highlight the importance of producing and preserving documentation on the visual arts.  The items on display have been selected to encourage new ways of exploring and exploiting information resources in the service of art, design and history, reflecting the growing awareness, in art practice and understanding, of the importance of archives and archiving.

Contemporary and historic collections featured in the exhibition include the Artists and Galleries Files, Earley & Company Archives (1852-1974), the Friends of the National Collections (1924-present), the Mainie Jellett Collection, the Irish Exhibition of Living Art (1947-1971), Kilkenny Design Workshops Archive (1963-1989), the Rosc Collection, the Graphic Studio Dublin Archive (1960-present), the Records of the Sculptors’ Society of Ireland/Visual Artists Ireland (1983-present), the Records of the Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (1986-2000), Illustrated Books, Artists’ Books, and the Poster Collection.

PERFORMANCE

Artist Jennie Guy has worked with the librarians at NIVAL on the third iteration of her Reading Ensemble series. This new work involves both a video and a performance that will be staged within DOCUMENT! at the NCAD Gallery. The performance will take place at the exhibition’s opening view on Thursday, April 26th.

WEBSITE LAUNCH

At the opening view, NIVAL will be marking the 15th anniversary of its establishment with the launch of a new website at www.nival.ie, developed by Fluid Rock.  This project has been generously supported by a grant from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

PUBLIC DISCUSSION

Current Investigations into Irish Visual Culture: NIVAL resources in support of contemporary art and design research

Friday, 11^th May, 1:30 – 5:00pm

A public seminar delivered by a panel of academics, artists and curators highlighting the contribution of the NIVAL collections to their research practice during the past ten years.  The seminar will take the form of a series of 15-20 minute presentations followed by Q&A. Confirmed speakers include MaryAnn Bolger, Michelle Browne, Ciara Healy, Dr. Roisin Kennedy and Megs Morley.  The event will be chaired by Valerie Connor.

Discussion document: A specially commissioned leaflet with text by Valerie Connor and Dr. Catherine Morris will be launched at this event.

A Walk through the File with…

A series of public interviews between an artist and a cultural commentator, exploring the collection of artists’ documentation held in the NIVAL collection.  The commentator will present to the artist items from the library collection to stimulate dialogue around both the art work documented and the process behind the documentation.

Tuesday, 15^th May, 12:45 to 1:30pm  A walk through the file with… Alice Maher, moderated by Dr. Catherine Morris

Tuesday, 22^nd May, 12:45 to 1:30pm  A walk through the file with… John Byrne, moderated by Declan Long

For further information contact: Anne Kelly, Curatorial Coordinator, NCAD Gallery, 01.636.4390/ kellya@ncad.ie Donna Romano, Library Administrator, NIVAL, 01.636.4347/ romanod@ncad.ie

The National College of Art and Design Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
NCAD Gallery opening hours are 10am-5pm, Monday-Saturday.

All public events are held in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre and admission is free.

As part of the ‘New Ecologies of Practice’ programme in the NCAD Gallery BASIC SPACE Shop will open until 13th April!

Mementos from artworks, limited edition collectables, memorabilia from exhibitions, and the opportunity to be involved in our “Sq Ft of BASIC SPACE” will all be up for grabs.

Basic Space shop, install view at Ncad Gallery

from the continuing programme

New Ecologies of Practice: A short season of projects by
Catalyst Arts [Belfast] / Occupy Space [Limerick] / The Good Hatchery [Offaly] / Basic Space [Dublin]

New Ecologies of Practice: A short season of projects by
Catalyst Arts [Belfast] / Occupy Space [Limerick] / The Good Hatchery [Offaly] / Basic Space [Dublin]

Exhibition: Thursday 9th February – Friday 13th April 2012.
Opening view Monday 13th February 2012, 6pm

NCAD Gallery is presenting a series of new projects which will represent the work of a number of artist led initiatives, working throughout Ireland, which embodies a new approach and a challenge to institutional visual arts programming. In this programme NCAD Gallery would also like to highlight the National Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) housed at NCAD Library.

In recent years, and pre-dating recession in some cases, Catalyst Arts [Belfast]; Occupy Space [Limerick]; The Good Hatchery [Offaly] and Basic Space [Dublin] have established strong, coherent and critically significant presences in the Irish visual arts context and, in their strategic ideologies, argue for a reconfiguration of inherited thinking about the nature and purpose of art and the nature and purpose of art institutional practice. This aligns with other transnational artist led initiatives and ideologies which respond to ‘situations’.

For this project artist-led Catalyst Arts presents ‘Director’s Cut’ a selection of work sourced from the organisation’s archive symbolising a legacy of commitment from past members and directors. Transforming the gallery ‘Director’s Cut’ will display artefacts, past publications, a selection of posters, the re-exhibit of Art Rebels, a selection of slides with notes by the current Catalyst directors and the original Catalyst Arts neon sign designed by David Shrigley. In addition, a number of archive posters will be fly-posted in proximity to NCAD, re-contextualising them in light of this exhibition.
Catalyst Arts ‘Director’s Cut’ is open from 9th- 25th February at NCAD Gallery celebrated by an opening view on Monday 13th February 6pm. *Catalyst directors Rob Hilken and Alissa Kleist will give a talk on the Catalyst Arts archive to its present day function on 13th February 5pm in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

Occupy Space is a non-commercial gallery in the heart of Limerick City, established through the Creative Limerick Scheme in 2009. As part of the programme at NCAD Gallery they have invited Art Links Limerick (ALL) present their on-going research about Irish water to the public in the form of an Interactive Public Studio (IPS). ALL will disseminate their research to date while continuing to use the gallery as an open studio space over a three day period, encouraging interaction and dialogue within the space.
Occupy Space at NCAD Gallery is open to the public for participation from 27th February – 3rd March 2012. * Presentations by Aoife Madden, Creative Limerick Coordinator and by Noelle Collins and Kevin O’Keeffe of Occupy Space on Tuesday 28th February, 12 – 2pm, NCAD Gallery. * Presentations by Creative Limerick Spaces: Faber Studios; Ormston House and Raggle Taggle on Friday 2nd March 12pm – 2pm, NCAD Gallery.

The Good Hatchery is an artist-led initiative and space based in the remote bog lands of North Offaly. In its development, large portions of The Good Hatchery have been constructed from recycled artworks and salvaged materials from the exhibitions that its members have been involved in throughout the years. Its development is on-going. Through a series of collaborations, curated projects and free residencies it challenges methodologies of contemporary art making and often investigates relationships between site and resource.
A new installation, Good Hatchery, will be presented at NCAD Gallery. Opening view Monday 12th March 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until 21st March 2012. * The Good Hatchery directors Carl Giffney and Ruth E.Lyons will host a seminar on Thursday 29th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

BASIC SPACE located on Vicar Street, across the road from the NCAD Gallery has been running since August 2010 and during this time has existed as a space for exhibitions and projects. For the duration of a week BASIC SPACE Shop will open at the NCAD Gallery. Mementoes from artworks and performances, limited edition collectables and memorabilia from exhibitions, and the opportunity to be involved in “Sq Foot of BASIC SPACE” scheme, will all be up for grabs. Avoiding romantisization of BASIC SPACE while outlining the physical and ideological elements that structure the space, the visitor can ‘browse’ the shop, but will be immediately involved in accumulating a knowledge of BASIC SPACE that is recognisably estranged from the memorabilia.
* BASIC SPACE Shop opening view Monday 26th March 6-9 pm, it is open to the public from 26th–30th March from 10am-9pm and remains in situ at NCAD Gallery from Thursday 22nd March–Friday 13th April 2012. BASIC SPACE Artist talk Wednesday 28th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD. * Refreshments & Discounts available on the opening view night.

In addition to work by the artist-led initiatives the exhibition programme includes The Artist-led Archive – Sustainable Activism and the Embrace of Flux open to the public to view by appointment at the National Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) housed at NCAD Library. The archive was initiated by the artist and curator Megs Morley in 2006 as part of an on-going investigation into artist-led initiatives in Ireland. The project aimed to decipher the kind of cultural conditions that led to artist-led initiative’s birth, their economic independence (or lack of), their organizational structures and how all of these factors effected their activities and life spans.
For more information on The Artist-led Archive please see www.theartistledarchive.com. *NIVAL is open Monday-Friday 10am– 5pm Contact:+353 (0)1 636 4347 or +353 (0)1 636 1102 and romanod@ncad.ie.
For more information on NIVAL please see www.nival.ie

To coincide with New Ecologies of Practice exhibition What Do You Stand For Now? is a public seminar and discussion that looks at some artistic and curatorial practices from the last few decades in Ireland. In particular, they all proposed methods and models of display and distribution as alternatives to established mainstream and institutional practices. What Do You Stand For Now? is chaired by Francis Halsall and Vaari Claffey, speakers include Valerie Connor; Mark Garry; Garrett Phelan; Sarah Pierce; members of The Enquiry, Gradcam and others.
What Do You Stand For Now? Saturday 31st March, 2012, 12.30-5pm at the National College of Art and Design, (Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre), Dublin.

In currently redesigning its own provision, NCAD is an appropriate context in which to explore aspects of this increasingly visible dynamic in the visual arts, as articulated in the NCAD Gallery space and the accompanying events and discussions.

The National College of Art and Design Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8. NCAD Gallery opening hours 10am–5pm, Monday-Saturday. For more information please see gallery.ncad.ie or contact +353 (0) 1 6364390, gallery@ncad.ie

Artist websites
www.catalystarts.org.uk
www.occupyspace.com
The Good Hatchery
Basic Space
www.carlgiffney.com
www.ruth.ie
The Artist-Led Archive

Catalyst Arts logo designed by David Shrigley

New Ecologies of Practice: A short season of projects by
Catalyst Arts [Belfast] / Occupy Space [Limerick] / The Good Hatchery [Offaly] / Basic Space [Dublin]

Exhibition: Thursday 9th February – Friday 13th April 2012.
Opening view Monday 13th February 2012, 6pm

NCAD Gallery is presenting a series of new projects which will represent the work of a number of artist led initiatives, working throughout Ireland, which embodies a new approach and a challenge to institutional visual arts programming. In this programme NCAD Gallery would also like to highlight the National Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) housed at NCAD Library.

In recent years, and pre-dating recession in some cases, Catalyst Arts [Belfast]; Occupy Space [Limerick]; The Good Hatchery [Offaly] and Basic Space [Dublin] have established strong, coherent and critically significant presences in the Irish visual arts context and, in their strategic ideologies, argue for a reconfiguration of inherited thinking about the nature and purpose of art and the nature and purpose of art institutional practice. This aligns with other transnational artist led initiatives and ideologies which respond to ‘situations’.

For this project artist-led Catalyst Arts presents ‘Director’s Cut’ a selection of work sourced from the organisation’s archive symbolising a legacy of commitment from past members and directors. Transforming the gallery ‘Director’s Cut’ will display artefacts, past publications, a selection of posters, the re-exhibit of Art Rebels, a selection of slides with notes by the current Catalyst directors and the original Catalyst Arts neon sign designed by David Shrigley. In addition, a number of archive posters will be fly-posted in proximity to NCAD, re-contextualising them in light of this exhibition.
Catalyst Arts ‘Director’s Cut’ is open from 9th- 25th February at NCAD Gallery celebrated by an opening view on Monday 13th February 6pm. *Catalyst directors Rob Hilken and Alissa Kleist will give a talk on the Catalyst Arts archive to its present day function on 13th February 5pm in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

Occupy Space is a non-commercial gallery in the heart of Limerick City, established through the Creative Limerick Scheme in 2009. As part of the programme at NCAD Gallery they have invited Art Links Limerick (ALL) present their on-going research about Irish water to the public in the form of an Interactive Public Studio (IPS). ALL will disseminate their research to date while continuing to use the gallery as an open studio space over a three day period, encouraging interaction and dialogue within the space.
Occupy Space at NCAD Gallery is open to the public for participation from 27th February – 3rd March 2012. * Presentations by Aoife Madden, Creative Limerick Coordinator and by Noelle Collins and Kevin O’Keeffe of Occupy Space on Tuesday 28th February, 12 – 2pm, NCAD Gallery. * Presentations by Creative Limerick Spaces: Faber Studios; Ormston House and Raggle Taggle on Friday 2nd March 12pm – 2pm, NCAD Gallery.

The Good Hatchery is an artist-led initiative and space based in the remote bog lands of North Offaly. In its development, large portions of The Good Hatchery have been constructed from recycled artworks and salvaged materials from the exhibitions that its members have been involved in throughout the years. Its development is on-going. Through a series of collaborations, curated projects and free residencies it challenges methodologies of contemporary art making and often investigates relationships between site and resource.
A new installation, Good Hatchery, will be presented at NCAD Gallery. Opening view Monday 12th March 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until 21st March 2012. * The Good Hatchery directors Carl Giffney and Ruth E.Lyons will host a seminar on Thursday 29th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

BASIC SPACE located on Vicar Street, across the road from the NCAD Gallery has been running since August 2010 and during this time has existed as a space for exhibitions and projects. For the duration of a week BASIC SPACE Shop will open at the NCAD Gallery. Mementoes from artworks and performances, limited edition collectables and memorabilia from exhibitions, and the opportunity to be involved in “Sq Foot of BASIC SPACE” scheme, will all be up for grabs. Avoiding romantisization of BASIC SPACE while outlining the physical and ideological elements that structure the space, the visitor can ‘browse’ the shop, but will be immediately involved in accumulating a knowledge of BASIC SPACE that is recognisably estranged from the memorabilia.
* BASIC SPACE Shop opening view Monday 26th March 6-9 pm, it is open to the public from 26th–30th March from 10am-9pm and remains in situ at NCAD Gallery from Thursday 22nd March–Friday 13th April 2012. BASIC SPACE Artist talk Wednesday 28th March at 5pm Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD. * Refreshments & Discounts available on the opening view night.

In addition to work by the artist-led initiatives the exhibition programme includes The Artist-led Archive – Sustainable Activism and the Embrace of Flux open to the public to view by appointment at the National Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) housed at NCAD Library. The archive was initiated by the artist and curator Megs Morley in 2006 as part of an on-going investigation into artist-led initiatives in Ireland. The project aimed to decipher the kind of cultural conditions that led to artist-led initiative’s birth, their economic independence (or lack of), their organizational structures and how all of these factors effected their activities and life spans.
For more information on The Artist-led Archive please see www.theartistledarchive.com. *NIVAL is open Monday-Friday 10am– 5pm Contact: +353 (0)1 636 4347 or +353 (0)1 636 1102 and romanod@ncad.ie.
For more information on NIVAL please see www.nival.ie

To coincide with New Ecologies of Practice exhibition What Do You Stand For Now? is a public seminar and discussion that looks at some artistic and curatorial practices from the last few decades in Ireland. In particular, they all proposed methods and models of display and distribution as alternatives to established mainstream and institutional practices. What Do You Stand For Now? is chaired by Francis Halsall and Vaari Claffey, speakers include Valerie Connor; Mark Garry; Garrett Phelan; Sarah Pierce; members of The Enquiry, Gradcam and others.
What Do You Stand For Now? Saturday 31st March, 2012, 12.30-5pm at the National College of Art and Design, (Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre), Dublin.

In currently redesigning its own provision, NCAD is an appropriate context in which to explore aspects of this increasingly visible dynamic in the visual arts, as articulated in the NCAD Gallery space and the accompanying events and discussions.

The National College of Art and Design Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8. NCAD Gallery opening hours 10am–5pm, Monday-Saturday. For more information please see gallery.ncad.ie or contact +353 (0) 1 6364390, gallery@ncad.ie

Artist websites
www.catalystarts.org.uk
www.occupyspace.com
The Good Hatchery
Basic Space
www.carlgiffney.com
www.ruth.ie
The Artist-Led Archive

Proposals will be accepted from individual artists/makers, curators, writers or those wishing to organise a group exhibition. In the case of group or curated exhibitions, the curator/organiser and all proposed artists must have graduated from NCAD within the designated time frame 2009, 2010 or 2011.

All proposals must be accompanied by a CV and relevant visual support material including digital or printed photographs and should indicate clearly the nature of 
the work[s] and a rationale for showing in the context of NCAD Gallery.

Proposals must reach NCAD Gallery by Monday 15 January 2012.

Please post your proposal to Anne Kelly, NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
If you require further information please email gallery[AT]ncad.i

Preview on Thursday 24th November 2011 at 6pm at The National College of Art and Design Gallery. Exhibition continues 25th November 2011 – 21st January 2012.

NCAD Gallery presents the work of Xiaowei Zhuang, Professor of Glass at the Fine Arts College of the University of Shanghai, as part of a touring exhibition from the CIT/Crawford College of Art, Cork. The exhibition is an opportunity for a Dublin audience to see outstanding and inventive sculptural work in glass, by a lead practitioner and to experience a different sensibility at work.

Professor Zhuang was appointed Director of the Glass Museum of Shanghai in 2008. He is also a member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Glass of the International Council of Museums. His work is in private and public collections both nationally and internationally.

The exhibition, curated by CIT Crawford College of Art & Design lecturer Debbie Dawson, will continue at NCAD Gallery until 21st January 2012, as part of Year of Craft 2011, supported by the Crafts Council of Ireland

Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang is professor of glass at the University. He runs the Glass studio MA programme and is also opening a new Glass Museum in Shanghai next year. Prof. Xiao Wei Zhuang’s work can be found at:

http://www.glassart-studio.com/intro-en.htm

The Gallery remains open until 11pm for Culture Night 2011, Friday September 23rd.

The Institute of Designers in Ireland present

Best of Graduate Design 2011
Design work by graduates from over twenty two 3rd Level design courses in Ireland

16 September – 5 November 2011, NCAD Gallery

The Institute of Designers in Ireland is pleased to announce the Best of Graduate Design Exhibition 2011 which open at the NCAD Gallery on September 15th and run through November 5th.The exhibition will showcase a selection of the very best design work from graduates from more than 22 third level design courses in Ireland.The exhibition will promote the most innovative thinking and highest quality making skill in seven design disciplines, including craft, product, fashion, textiles, interior and architectural design, visual communication and new media.

Many of the exhibits are short listed for Institute of Designers in Ireland graduate design awards having been selected by design industry experts.The seven category winners, as well as the Grand Prix winner, will be announced at the Institute of Designers in Ireland annual awards night in late October.

The Best of Graduate Design Exhibition has been organised by Derek McGarry, Chair of the judging committee and Immediate Past-President of the Institute of Designers in Ireland.

Maurice MacGonigal

Harry Clarke

Noel Sheridan

Campbell Bruce

Robert Armstrong

Helen McAllister

Rob Smith

T.P. Flanagan

William Scott

William Orpen

Ollie Whelan

Darragh Hogan

Carey Clarke

Domhnall O Murchadha

E.C. Hayes

This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Collection of the National College of Art and Design. The Collection has been assembled over many years and reflects aspects of the history of art in Ireland by artists who have taught or are currently teaching at NCAD.

This particular selection of works focuses on painting with an emphasis on the historical, including a significant stained glass work by Harry Clarke.

Traditional skills predominate across the figurative and abstract languages of painting in works by important historical figures and in works produced in the recent past by artists on the College’s staff. The three dimensional works represent different approaches to object making.

The NCAD Gallery presents a mix of exhibitions and projects which reflect activity in the College by staff and students, but also activity in Dublin/Ireland and the international art context in one person and group exhibitions and themed retrospectives as well as site specific projects.

For further information contact:

NCAD Gallery

100 Thomas Street

Dublin 8

Telephone: 353 (0)1 6364390

Selected works from The NCAD Collection 8^th July – 10^th September, 2011

Maurice MacGonigal

Harry Clarke

Noel Sheridan

Campbell Bruce

Robert Armstrong

Helen McAllister

Rob Smith

T.P. Flanagan

William Scott

William Orpen

Ollie Whelan

Darragh Hogan

Carey Clarke

Domhnall O Murchadha

E.C. Hayes

This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Collection of the National College of Art and Design. The Collection has been assembled over many years and reflects aspects of the history of art in Ireland by artists who have taught or are currently teaching at NCAD.

This particular selection of works focuses on painting with an emphasis on the historical, including a significant stained glass work by Harry Clarke.

Traditional skills predominate across the figurative and abstract languages of painting in works by important historical figures and in works produced in the recent past by artists on the College’s staff. The three dimensional works represent different approaches to object making.

The NCAD Gallery presents a mix of exhibitions and projects which reflect activity in the College by staff and students, but also activity in Dublin/Ireland and the international art context in one person and group exhibitions and themed retrospectives as well as site specific projects.

For further information contact:

NCAD Gallery

100 Thomas Street

Dublin 8

Telephone: 353 (0)1 6364390

Archimedes Last Drawing

Francis Quinn and Fintan Ryan

Dates: 7th – 25th June
Launch: Friday 10th June (alongside NCAD degree show)

‘Archimedes’ Last Drawing’ is a collaborative drawing project and exhibition by recent graduates of NCAD Francis Quinn and Fintan Ryan. The project will take place over two weeks at the NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8. The project will be centred around a monumental drawing, which will be created throughout the run of the exhibition. Five recent graduates of the National college of Art and Design have been invited to take part in the project. Each artist will spend a day working on the drawing and all seven artist will return to work together on the final day of the project. The gallery will be open to the public during the entire project, giving visitors the oportunity to see the artists at work and witness the development of the drawing over time.

The subject of the drawing will be drawing itself, its history, development and current position within the contemporary worlds of art, craft and design.

Francis Quinn graduated from Fine Art (painting) at NCAD in 2008. Since then he has been developing his practice in drawing and painting, and has exhibited in Dublin and around the country.

Fintan Ryan Graduated from Fine art (media) at NCAD in 2008. He has exhibited in Dublin and Cologne. He works predominently in video, sometimes augmented with performative and /or interactive elements. His work focuses on the processes that go into the making of an artwork.

This is the third in the ongoing series of exhibitions by recent NCAD graduates since the NCAD Gallery opened in 2009, selected from open submission proposals.