my work
Above is a video showing drawings in the smaller of two gallery spaces at the Wexford Arts Centre where my solo exhibition Structures is currently on show. As well as this room of drawings the main exhibition space downstairs features six sculptures.
I'll be giving a talk at the gallery next Saturday, 22nd January at 4pm followed by a wine reception at 5pm.
More info on the gallery's site
Taken during the open studio day at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios on 27th November 2010.
There is a piece by Aidan Dunne about Futures 10 in the Weekend edition of the Irish Times. Below is a quote:
Niall de Buitléar’s accomplished sculptures and drawings present elegant, geometric, architectonic forms. They are composed of functional, usually humble materials – corrugated cardboard figures prominently at the RHA – and built up in a slow, methodical, even obsessive way. And they are algorithmic, with simple procedural rules producing big complex pieces. Their forms, materials and methodology refer us to mass production and consumption, and to the patterns underlying organic processes and industrial fabrication.
The full articles can be read here
The Show is also featured in the current issue of Irish Arts Review.
Also here is a short blogpost by Michael Farry about Lost and Found at Solstice Arts Centre which I also have work in.
Update 16 September 2010: There was a short review of Futures 10 by Gerry McCarthy in this weekse Sunday Times. Below is an excerpt:
"Niall de Buitléar's cardboard ziggurats and domes have a mathematical rigour and beauty. Made by repeating identical components in large numbers, they recall the early work of David Mach."
- Excerpt from
Curated by Patrick T. Murphy, Director of the Royal Hibernian Academy, the show brings together for the first time work made in a variety of media by Tadhg McSweeney, Paul McKinley, Maria McKinney and Niall de Buitléar. The exhibition showcases paintings, drawings and sculptural works made by the Irish Residential Studio Artists and highlights the value of the Award as a catalyst for the subsequent development of their practices at an important point in their careers.
Preview Thursday, 15 July 2010, 6 to 8pm
Continues until 21 August
Today I installed some (mostly) older work at the F.E. Mc William Gallery in Banbridge for the show 'Material Worlds' which opens on Friday evening.
I have a piece in a group show called Paper Work which opens at Pallas Contemporary Projects on Thursday 3rd December. Here is a quote from the press release:
Paper Work explores the primacy of paper as a fundamental medium, a celebration at the core of the transformative essence of artistic production, and of the possibilities inherent in the simplest medium, intrinsic as it is to the facilitation of expansive contemporary artistic concepts.
The artists in the show are:
John Beattie / Mark Beatty / Anna Boyle / Gemma Browne / Niall de Buitlear / Karl Burke / Clare Cashman / Aoife Cassidy / Fiona Chambers / Garry Coyle / Mark Cullen / Anita Delaney / Vanessa Donoso López / Brian Fay / Alicia Frankovich / Mark Garry / David Godbold / Helen Horgan / Wendy Judge / Atsushi Kaga / Vera Klute / Nevan Lahart / Áine Macken, / Alice Maher / Bea McMahon / Clive Murphy / Christophe Neumann / Isobel Nolan / Magnhild Opdol / Sarah O’Brien / Garrett Phelan / Ruth Proctor / Linda Quinlan / Gerard Shanahan / Sonia Shiel / Ivan Twohig / Lee Welch
The exhibition continues until 19th December.
A series of objects collected from between the pages of books in public libraries in Dublin during the summer of 2009. Each object is captioned by the title of the book in which it was found. This video was produced as a part of an installation at the National Library in Dublin as a part of the offsite exhibition Preponderance of The Small organised by the Douglas Hyde Gallery. More info at preponderanceofthesmall.blogspot.com/
These images are of the latest installment of my ongoing Found Bookmark Project which is currently on show at the National Library on Kildare Street in Dublin. The piece (which involves a collection of objects found in libarary books over the Summer) was made for Preponderance of The Small, "an off-site project which forms part of The Douglas Hyde Gallery's ongoing Gallery 3 initiative, featuring works by twenty-one younger artists working in Ireland."
Below is a series of video stills from a project which opens at the National Library on Kildare street in Dublin on 25th September. Each object was found in a book in a public library in Dublin during the summer and the captions are the titles of those books. The porject is a part of the off-site exhibition The Preponderance of the Small which is part of the Douglas Hyde Galerry's Gallery 3 programme.
My work is featured in a group exhbition at the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin which opens on Wednesday 8th July. The show is titled Dawning of an Aspect and also features the work of Damien Flood, Laura Lancaster and Sonia Shiel.
Green On Red Gallery presents Dawning of An Aspect, an exhibition of four artists whose work offers an exploration of our capacity for perception through painting and sculpture. ‘Dawning of an aspect’ is taken from both Wittgenstein’s and Wollheim’s philosophical writings on the fundamental distinction between our perception and plain seeing. While the writings on this subject are based on painting, in this exhibition it is also applied to sculptural objects that reveal themselves through the act of looking. This twofold nature of our perception involves both the surface and subject simultaneously.
Wittgenstein's aim was to dissolve the paradoxical appearance of aspect-dawning: when looking at a picture-object we can come to see it differently, although we also see that the picture-object itself remains unchanged. Wollheim’s writings view the expressiveness of depiction through psychoanalytic concept of projection in which we come to see a piece of the external world as corresponding to an inward state of mind which he referred to as the internal spectator. The experience of seeing resemblances within the pictorial representation is an essential aspect of this idea. More info here
Just got some images sent to me of the project I carried out for a group show at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. "The Found Bookmark Project" involved collecting objects from between the pages of books in the Library of the University College Cork (the gallery is on campus). Here are some of the photos.
The photo I got of the show aren't the best and I don't have a good enough image of the biggest piece I had in the show but I hope to have some better ones in a couple of weeks when the show finishes. The work on the walls is by Debra Bowden - more about the show here
A photograph I took in Wexford Town.
Taken at a cobbler's shop in Arklow
Exhibitions at the Wexford Arts Centre:
Histories Matter Debra Bowden & Niall de Buitlear
Paintings
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh
16th February – 14th March 2009
Exhibitions open on Wednesday 18th February at 6.00pm Opened by Patrick T. Murphy, Director – Royal Hibernian Academy
All are welcome to attend.
Gallery Talk
Tuesday 17th February, 1-2pm
Art historian Karla Sanchez in conversation with artists Debra Bowden and Niall de Buitléar
I'll be exhibiting the wall mounted piece pictured here and a freestanding sculpture in a group show called New Traditions at the Stone Gallery (15 Jan - 14 Feb).
