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visual arts in irelandfeb - mar 2014 | vol 19 no 3

exhibitions | art galleries | museums

CO. MAYOCustom House StudiosThe Quay, Westport, T: 098 28735; customhouse @eircom.net; www.customhousestudios.ie. Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm; Sat-Sun (Bank hol): 1pm-4.30pm. Feb 13-Mar 8 Mean / Appendices Will O’Kane. To con-sider the construction of meaning within a work, O’Kane uses various painting processes such as photographic referents, observational study, concep-tual analysis, memory and copying, portraiture and still life, with themes around identity, metaphor, dif-ference and ethical concerns. Also in the show, a series of Appendices, comprising photographs, objects, drawings, photocopies, "things", and con-cepts. Will O'Kane has exhibited at the Claremorris Open Exhibition; Glór Ennis; members' exhibitions in Ormston House, Limerick; RHA annual shows;

126 members' show, Galway; Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery; and Ballina Arts Centre. Further details avail-able from www.willokane.ie. From Mar 13 Stefan Luszczak. Works concerned with reflected light, colour, abstract forms and patterns. Luszczak studied sculpture at The Central School of Art in London (now Central Saint Martins). In recent years he has moved into print-making and painting, applying paint to the surface of the print to accent both colour and texture, and to strip away areas of the canvas to reveal earlier marks and ideas. From Mar 13 John Cullan Born in London but resident in Ireland since 1995, Cullen has had various solo and group exhibitions in Ireland. He now lives and works in Sligo, graduating from Sligo IT in 2009 with a degree in Fine Art.

National Museum of Ireland – Country LifeTurlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. T: +353 (0) 94 9031755; F: +353 (0) 94 9031628; tpark@museum.ie; www.museum.ie; https://www.facebook.com/NationalMuseumofIreland/; Twitter: @NMIreland. Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm; Sun: 2pm-5pm. Closed Mon (including bank holidays). Bookings (Tues-Fri, 10am-1pm) T: 094 9031751; F: 094 9031498; educationtph@museum.ie. Free adm. Permanent exhibitions: Romanticism & Reality; The Natural Environment; The Times (1850-1950); Trades and Crafts; Activities in the Home; Working on the Land and Water. Temporary exhibitions Straw, Hay and Rushes; Hair Hurling Balls.

CO. SLIGOHamilton Gallery4 Castle Street, Sligo. T: +353 719143686; F: +353 71910365; info@hamiltongallery.ie; www.hamilton-gallery.ie; Twitter : @HamiltonSligo. Mon-Sat: 10am-5-pm. Until Feb 22 Invited Artists Exhibition Works by Kate Buckley, Clive Bright, Jonathan Cassidy, Nuala Clarke, Miriam Doran, Annie Harrison, Vivien Murray, Kate MacDonagh, Brian McDonagh, Leonora Neary, Cormac O’Leary, Bettina Seitz, Marion Thomson, Deirdre Walsh, Michael Wann. Mar 6-29 Unheard Music Jonathan Hunter. “Rather than reproducing the appearance of a particular place, my intention is to use landscape painting as a medium with which to draw the viewer into a connection with memory.” Jonathan Hunter. Born in 1966 in Hexham, England, Hunter is a BA graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, and a MA graduate of National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He has been living and working in Ireland since 1999.

The ModelThe Mall, Sligo. T: 071 9141405; info@modelart.ie; www.themodel.ie; Twitter : @modelsligo; www.face-book.com/TheModelSligo. Tues-Sat: 11am-5:30pm; Thurs: open late till 8pm; Sun 12-5pm. From Feb 8 Winter Light Mark Garry.

Front cover: Michael Warren, Barbed Trefoil (detail) Limerick City Gallery of Art. Back cover: Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1827-1906), A Girl with a Rake 1859 (detail). Chester Beatty: The Paintings at the Hunt Museum..

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Work by Will O'Kane from the Mean / Appendices exhibition at the Custom House Studios, Westport.

Jonathan Hunter, Unheard Music (100 x 80 cm). Hamilton Gallery.

CO. CARLOWVISUAL Centre for Contemporary ArtVISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art and GB Shaw Theatre, Old Dublin Road, Carlow. T: 059 9172400; galleries@visualcarlow.ie; www.visualcarlow.ie; @VisualGBShaw. Tues-Sat: 11am-5.30pm; Sun: 2-5pm.

From Feb 16 Patrick Scott: Image Space Light Features Patrick Scott's works from the 1960s to the present. A concurrent exhibition at Imma, Dublin, will show early works from 1940 to1969.

CO. DUBLINChester Beatty Library Dublin Castle, Dublin 2. T: 4070750; fax: 4070760; info@cbl.ie; www.cbl.ie; Twitter: @CBL_Dublin. Tues-Fri: 10am-5pm; Sat: 11am-5pm; Sun: 1-5pm. Until Mar 30 Costumes Parisiens, Fashion Plates from 1912 to 1914.

Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity College Dublin 2. T: 01 8961116; F: 670 8330; dhgaller y@tcd.ie; www.douglashydegaller y.com; Twitter : @DHG_Dublin. Mon-Fri: 11am-6pm; Thurs: 11am-7pm; Sat: 11am-4.45pm. Until Mar 19 Andrea Büttner. Until Mar 19 Coptic Textiles.

Dublin CastleState Apartments Dublin Castle, Dublin 2. T: +353 (01) 6458813; dublincastle@opw.ie; www.dublin castle.ie, Mon-Sat: 9.45am-4.45pm; Sun and bank hol: 12pm-4.45pm. Guided/self-guided tour: Adult e4.50; Student/senior: e3.50; Child (over 7): e2. Free adm to The Morpeth Roll exhibition. Dublin Castle is an OPW-managed heritage property. Feb 3-Apr 4: The Morpeth Roll In 1841 Irish people responded to the call from Daniel O’Connell to sign a testimonial to present to Lord Morpeth on the occasion of his stepping down as Chief Secretary of Ireland. The result was the Morpeth Roll, a collection of 160,000 signatures on 652 sheets of paper. These were joined together to make a roll of 420 metres in length. It is not only a remarkable historic artefact, but also a unique record of a significant proportion of the Irish population at the time.

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh LaneCharlemont House, Parnell Sq. North, Dublin 1. T: 01 2225550; info.hughlane@dublincity.ie; www.hugh-lane.ie. Tues-Thurs: 10am-6pm; Fri-Sat: 10am-5pm; Sun: 11am-5pm. Closed Mon. Free admission. Until Feb 2 Dublin Divided: September 1913. From Feb 20 Sleepwalkers: Gavin Murphy. From Feb: Recent Acquisitions Includes Paul Seawright, Gerard Byrne, Eithne Jordan, Willie McKeown and Mark Francis. Ongoing: Francis Bacon’s Studio; Sean Scully Gallery; Stained Glass Room; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Irish Museum of Modern Art Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. T: 6129900; F: 6129999; info@imma.ie; www.imma.ie; @IMMAIreland. Tues-Sat: 10am-5.30pm, except Wed:10.30am-5.30pm; Sun/bank hol: Noon-5.30pm. Closed Mon. Last admission: 5.15pm. Free adm, except for special exhibitions. Ongoing: One Foot in the Real World: IMMA Collection Works based on the urban environment, the domestic arena and the everyday. From Feb 16 Patrick Scott: Image Space Light Features Patrick Scott's early works from 1940 to 1969. A concurrent exhibition at VISUAL Carlow will show works from the 1960s to the present.

Kerlin Gallery Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2. T: 6709093; F: 6709096; gallery@kerlin.ie; www.kerlin.ie; @KerlinGallery. Mon-Fri: 10am-5.45pm; Sat 11am-4.30pm. Until Mar 4 Remains Willie Doherty. Until Mar 9 Freestyle Merlin James.

National Museum of IrelandThree locations in Dublin: Archaeology, Kildare Street; Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks; and Natural History, Merrion Street. Archaeology: Kildare Street, Dublin 2. T: +353 (0) 1 6777444; F: 6777450; marketing@museum.ie; www.museum.ie; http://www.facebook.com/NationalMuseumofIreland; Twitter: @NMIreland. Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm; Sun: 2pm-5pm. Closed Mon (including bank hol). Bookings (Tues-Fri: 10am-1pm): T: 01 6486453 F: 6791025; bookings@museum.ie. Free admission. Permanent exhibitions: The Treasury; Ór – Ireland's Gold; Prehistoric Ireland; Kingship and Sacrifice Iron Age bog bodies; Viking Ireland; Medieval Ireland (1150-1550); Ancient Egypt; Ceramics and Glass from Ancient Cyprus; Life and Death in the

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Patrick Scott, Meditation Painting, 2006. Gold leaf & acrylic on unprimed canvas, 122 x 81 cm, Collection of the artist. VISUAL Carlow.

Giorgio de Chirico, Il Trovatore, c.1960. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 cm.

Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art Heritage Gift

Private Collection 2008.

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Roman World. Temporary exhibition: Rites of Passage at Tara – Excavation of the Mound of the Hostages. Decorative Arts & History: Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7. Free adm. Permanent: Asgard; Reconstructed Rooms: Four Centuries of Furnishings; Eileen Gray; The Way We Wore–250 Years of Irish Clothing and Jewellery; Curators' Choice; Out of Storage; Irish Silver; Airgead, A Thousand Years of Irish Coins & Currency; What's In Store?; The Easter Rising: Understanding 1916; A Dubliner’s Collection of Asian Art–The Albert Bender Exhibition; Irish Country Furniture; Soldiers and Chiefs. Temporary exhibitions: Franciscan Faith: Sacred Art in Ireland 1600-1750; Kildare Place Society and Schooling in the 19th Century 1913 Ongo ing : Lo ckou t : Impac t and A f t e r ma th . Natural History: Merrion Street, Dublin 2. Free admission. Permanent exhibitions: Ir ish Fauna; Mammals of the World.

Project Arts Centre39 East Essex St., Temple Bar, D2. T: 01 8819613; ga l ler y@projectar tscentre . ie ; www.pro ject ar tscentre.ie; @ProjectVisAr ts; facebook.com/PACVisualArts. Mon-Sat: 11am-8pm (excluding bank hol). From Feb 7 Eva Kotátková (CZ) and Dominik Lang (CZ) Newly commissioned work with a first-time collaboration between Czech artists Eva Kotátková and Dominik Lang, who built a joint installation on site after an Imma Production Residency. The work is derived from observations and histories of educational, psychiatric and artistic institutional activity. Opening night: Feb 6, 6pm-8pm.Cube: Until Feb 9. Sculpture installation in Cube theatre by Eva Kotátková.

Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2. T: 6612558; F: 6610762; E: info@rhagallery.ie; www.royal hibernianacademy.ie. Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri & Sat: 11am–5pm; Wed, late night opening: 11am–8pm; Sun:12–5pm. Free adm. Until Feb 23 Gallery I: The Works of Micheal Farrell. Ashford Gallery Deadweight Vera Klute RHA; Dr. Tony Ryan Gallery: RHA Recent Acquisitions; RHA Foyer: Gacaca Paul McKinley; RHA Atrium: Al13 Ciarán Lennon. Until Mar 12 Galleries II & III: The Enclave Richard Mosse. From Mar 13 Gallery I: Connemara Dorothy Cross; Ashford Gallery: Souvenirs James Hanley RHA.

Rua RedSouth Dublin Arts Centre, Civic Square, Tallaght, Dublin 24. T: 01 4515860; info@ruared.ie; www.ruared.ie; https://www.facebook.com/rua.red; Twitter : @RUARED. Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm. Feb: Art Trolley sessions. Parents and children interpret the gallery exhibitions with the help of an artist See www.ruared.ie/art_trolley_SD13.html. Foyer: Until Mar 7 Designist

The pop-up shop returns to showcase the latest in Irish visual arts and crafts. Galleries 1 & 2: From Mar 7 Must Go On... Moving images, photography, animation, painting and sculptural installations by Irish and international artists, based on ideas of the absurd, the failed and the humorous. The title refers to the final line of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable 1953 novel, which explores the human will to survive. This exhibition celebrates five years of Rua Red and its continued importance to the community in uncertain and hopeful times, and how this is reflected in the challenges facing artists today.

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2. T: +353 (0)1 6710073; info@templebargallery.com; www.templebar gallery.com; Tues-Sat: 11am-6pm. Free admission. Feb 7-Mar 29 Against the Enamel Priscila Fernandes.

Whyte'sFine Art & Collectibles Auctioneers & Valuers, 38 Molesworth Street Dublin 2. T: 00 3531 676 2888; F: 00 3531 676 2880; info@whytes.ie; www.whytes.ie; www.whytes.com; www.whytes.eu; www.whytes.net. RDS (Anglesea Road entrance): Mon, Feb 24 Irish & British Art Viewing: Sat, Feb 22-Mon, Feb 24; 10am-6pm. Catalogue: e10 or download free from www.whytes.ie. Whyte’s Auction App is now available–free download. Whyte’s first auction of the Spring season comprises paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculpture by artists including Basil Blackshaw, Patrick Collins, Edward Delaney, Percy French, Patrick Hennessy, John Lavery, Louis le Brocquy, Stephen McKenna, Colin Middleton, Daniel O'Neill, Walter Osborne, George Russell and Leo Whelan. Whyte's Galleries, 38 Molesworth Street: Sun, Mar 9 History, Literature and Collectibles Viewing: Wed, Mar 5-Sat, Mar 8; 10am to 5pm. Catalogue: e10 or download free from www.whytes.ie. Whyte’s famous auction returns for 2014 with an eclectic collection of manuscripts, maps, historical sporting and entertainment memorabilia, posters, autographs, militaria, weapons, medals, coins and banknotes. Mar 8 Rock & Pop Memorabilia Free valuations by experts at our galleries, 38 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. Mon-Fri:10am-5pm. Or send images and details to info@whytes.ie for a free appraisal and advice on selling. We will also travel to appraise large collections or valuable single items. Contact: Whyte's 38 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. T: 01 6762888; info@whytes.ie.

CO. KILKENNYNational Craft GalleryCastle Yard, Kilkenny. T: 0567796147; events@nationalcraftgallery.ie; www.nationalcraftgallery.ie; Facebook.com/NationalCraftGallery; @NCG Kilkenny. Tues-Sat: 10am-5.30pm; Sun: 11am-5.30pm; Mon: Closed (except bank hol). Free adm. Until Mar 19 Culture Craft As part of the 2013 Derry City of Culture programme, 37 makers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK were asked to create an object, reflecting their understanding of culture

and exploring how objects carry a community’s shared history and cultural perspective. Curated by Seliena Coyle. For further information on the exhibition, upcoming events, activities and tours, see www.nationalcraftgallery.ie. Gallery Tours are available to groups on request. To book, email events@nationalcraftgallery.ie.

CO. LAOISDunamaise Arts CentreChurch Street, Portlaoise. T: 057 8663355; info@dunamaise.ie; www.dunamaise.ie; Facebook.com/dunamaise; Twitter: @dunamaise. Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm. Until Feb 28 Recent Work Gavin Hogg. Reception: Wed, Feb 12, 7pm. A practising artist for 25 years, Hogg has exhibited widely in Ireland (EVA award winner 1993). His work is in many public and private collections. From Mar 7 Dídean/Home Eoin Mac Lochlainn. Reception: Fri, Mar 7, 7pm. Works examining the human dimension to the economic collapse and notions of "home".

CO. LOUTHDroichead Arts GalleryStockwell St, Drogheda T: 041 9833946; marketing@droichead.com; www.droichead.com; Twitter : @DroicheadArtz. Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Adm free. Until Mar 1 Panto Collaspar Mikala Dwyer. In partnership with the Project Arts Centre, this installation work brings together the artist's interest in the occult, the

natural world, science, maths, materials and objects, and a response to Ireland, its heritage, culture and current economic situation. The overall effect is of a ritualistic, close-knit body of mystical objects. Mikala Dwyer lives and works in Sydney, Australia She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture/Sound) at Sydney College of the Arts in 1983, and a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, in 1993. From Mar 15 Interconnectedness Robert Kelly. Process-led triptych and polyptych prints focusing on the perception of time and motion, and the interrelationships within and between the works. Kelly is member of Black Church Print Studio in Dublin. He has exhibited widely, with work in public, corporate and private collections in Ireland and abroad.

CO. CORKCrawford Art Gallery Emmet Place, Cork. T +353 (0)21 490 7852; info@crawfordar tgaller y. ie; www.crawfordar t gallery.ie. Twitter: @CrawfordArtGall. Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm; Late Thurs until 8pm. Ongoing: Our Choice Gallery staff members select works from the collec-tion. Ongoing: Landscape and Irish Identity; The Cooper Penrose Collection; Sculpture Galleries.

West Cork Arts CentreNorth St, Skibbereen. T: 028 22090; F: 028 23237; info@westcorkartscentre.com; www.westcorkarts centre.com. Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Until Feb 22 Practice.ie Exhibition & Event Tour Contemporary art made by artists and children.

CO. LIMERICKBourn Vincent GalleryFoundation Building, University of Limerick, Limerick. T: 061213052; F: 061330316; yvonne.davis@ul.ie. Feb 6-Mar 30 Synergy New work by Limerick artists: Tim Morris, Ester Barrett, Alan Ardiff, Jack Donovan, Donald Teskey RHA, David Lilburn, Charles Harper RHA, Ailbhe Barrett, Richard Slade, Paul O'Reilly, Jim Sheehy, Joe Wilson, Peter Blodau, Pat Fitzpatrick, Tom Fitzgerald.

Hunt MuseumThe Custom House, Rutland Street, Limerick. T: 061 312833; info@huntmuseum.com; www.huntmuseum.com; Twitter : @HuntMuseum. Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm; Sun: 2pm-5pm: Free adm. Historic Collection: Charges apply. Feb 1-Mar 30 Chester Beatty: The Paintings Selected works by 19th-century French artists, on loan from the National Gallery of Ireland. (See image on back cover and page 6.) Ongoing: Curator’s Choice: Twelve Limerick Artists. One artist selected from the collection each month. Ongoing: Limerick Printmakers at the Hunt Café.

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Detail of work by Stuart Cairns. Photo: Sylvain Deleu. From Culture Craft at the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.

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Limerick City Gallery of ArtCarnegie Building, Pery Square, Limerick. T: +353 (0) 61310633; helencarey@limerickcity.ie; www.gallery.limerick.ie; Twitter: @limerickgallery. Mon-Wed, Fri: 10am-5.30pm; Thurs: 10am-8.30pm; Sat: 10am-5pm; Sun: 12-5pm. Closed Bank hol. Free adm. Until Mar 21 Those Who Go/Those Who Stay Michael Warren. New work by one of Ireland’s pre-eminent artists. Warren creates new means of expression in steel and wood sculptures, absorbing diverse influences and informed by a love of the material, as well as a keen compre-hension and passion for art history, literature and philosophy. Recognised in Ireland and internationally for his dedication and achievements, Michael will select the LCGA permanent collection for a concurrent exhi-

bition. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, in which internationally respected art critic Mel Gooding writes: “These recent sculptures of Warren's constitute a remarkable creative leap: a shift into new possibilities of sculptural structure, the invention of unprecedented articu-

lations of forms and configurations that borrow with extraordinary insouciance and elegant economy from other arts ... This is a sculpture that reaches back beyond both the informal play and arbitrary ahistorical referencing of the postmodern and the formalist rigours of purist high mod-ernism to forms and presentations of other, older cultures. It does this with scrupulous intellectual principle, and with a characteristically unorthodox aesthetic economy. Informed by a richly historical imagination, these sculptures of Warren's enter the 'highly complex relationships' of Focillon's 'life of forms'; their 'free and exalted dreaming' partakes of the never-ending recurrence of artistic imagery and structure that Fritz Saxl called 'a heritage of images'." Mel Gooding (extract from Michael Warren: A New Body of Work).

CO. WATERFORDGarter Lane Theatre Gallery5 O'Connell Street, (beside Delaney's Florist) Waterford. T: 051 877153; gallery@garterlane.ie; www.garterlane.ie; @garterlane; www.facebook.com/garterlaneartscentre. Mon-Sat: 10am-5.30pm; Sun: Noon-5.30pm; Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm. Free adm. Feb 7-Mar 30 Tenmileradius John O'Regan. Waterford born O'Regan's 'tenmileradius' features a series of new landscapes, painted within a 10-mile radius of his home in Maree, Oranmore, Galway. " ... it's painting engaged in dialogue with itself. It's art coming from art coming from art. Each painting must create its own autonomous world and be a manifestation of a set of rules unique to itself. It is answerable to nobody and nothing but itself." John O'Regan. Official opening: Fri,

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John O'Regan, Darker Clouds. Tenmileradius at Garter Lane Arts Centre.

Michael Warren, Barbed Trefoil. Limerick City Gallery of Art.

Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1827-1906), A Girl with a Rake (1859). Chester Beatty: The Paintings at the Hunt Museum.

Michael Warren, Those Who Go/Those Who Stay. Limerick City Gallery of Art.

Feb 7, 6.30pm, with special guest Professor Victor Merriman. FOH space: Feb 7-Mar 30 From the Studios New work by the current Garter Lane studio artists: Mailo Power, Louise Flynn, Denise McAuliffe and Sharon Fleming. Diverse work in various media. FOH Space is an innovative project that showcases originality and experimentation. Supported by AIB Waterford.

CO. ANTRIMBelfast ExposedBelfast Exposed Photography, The Exchange Place, 23 Donegall St, Belfast BT1 2FF, N. Ireland. T: 0044 (0)28 90230965; www.belfastexposed.org; Twitter: @BelfastExposed. Until Mar 14 Men and Women Tom Wood.

Belfast Waterfront2 Lanyon Place, Belfast, BT1 3WH. T: 00 44 (0)28 9033 4400; www.waterfront.co.uk; enquiries@waterfront.co.uk. Feb 6-Mar 3 Introducing... Work by University of Ulster students, resident artists and recent graduates of its fine art course.

Catalyst ArtsGround Floor, 5 College Court, Belfast, N. Ireland, BT1 6BS. T: 00 +44 028 90 313 303; www.catalystarts.org.uk; catalystarts@gmail.com; @Catalyst_Arts. Mar 21-28 Catalyst Annual Student Show.

The MacMetropolitan Arts Centre, Exchange Street, Belfast, B21 2NJ. T: Booking +0044 (0)28 90235053 or administration 028 90892960; http://themaclive.com/art; Twitter : @TheMACBelfast. Mon-Sun: 10am-7pm. Ongoing: Kara Walker. Using characters drawn

from American popular literature, culture and history, Walker exposes racial and gender tensions in society, and the myth of cultural stereotypes.

CO. ARMAGHMillennium Court Arts CentreWilliam St, Portadown, BT62 3NX, N. Ireland. T: +0044 (0)2838394415; www.millenniumcourt.org; info@millenniumcour t.org; www.facebook.com/Millennium.Court.Arts.Centre; Twitter : @_MCAC. Mon-Sat: 10am-5pm. Until Mar 29 Presently Selected works from emerging artists in N. Ireland. Curated by Feargal O’Malley. Artists: Gordon Ashbridge, Christopher James Burns, Stuart Calvin, Ian Cumberland, Craig Donald, Fiona Finnegan, Eimear Friers, Ben Groves, Angela Halliday, Dorothy Hunter, Aisling Kane, Miguel Martin, Tim Millen, Brian J.Morrison, Blaine O’Donnell, Eamon Quinn,, Peter Spiers, Anne Marie Taggart.

CO. FERMANAGHHigher Bridges GalleryClinton Centre, Belmore St, Enniskillen, BT74 6AA. Contact: Arts Office, Fermanagh District Council–T: +0044 (0)28 6632 5050; diane.henshaw@fermanagh.gov.uk. Mon-Sat: 10am-4pm; Sat: 11am-3pm. Feb 7-Mar 8 Hirsute Kildare artist Grainne Bird. Sculptural installation of human-hair tapestries. Bird uses the traditional hand crafts of spinning, felting, crocheting, knitting, sewing and dressmaking to produce the works. Opening night: Feb 6, 7pm.

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Waiting for Summer Work From the Studios exhibition at Garter Lane Arts Centre..

Kara Walker, Auntie Walker's Wall Sampler for Savages, 2013. Cut paper on wall Installation variable, approximately 132 x

288 inches (335.3 x 731.5 cm) Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York. The Mac, Belfast.

Work by Grainne Bird. Hirsute at the Higher Bridges Gallery.

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