Library Forum

Burren College of Art in association with
GREEN ON RED GALLERY Dublin
Warmly welcomes you to the opening of the 7th Burren Annual

TIMESPACE

Opening Reception Saturday 31st July 6-8pm.
Opening Times: Mon-Fri 10am-4pm
1st August - 30th September 2010.

The exhibition will be opened by Jerome O’ Drisceiol director of Green on Red Gallery

Timespace is a multi-media show presenting a selection of contemporary artists associated with the Green on Red Gallery Dublin. This is the seventh exhibition in the Burren Annual Series, the intention of which is to showcase national and international, established and emerging contemporary artists of recognized excellence within the cultural environment of the West of Ireland. While the media range and topical interests of this group of artists are quite diverse; covering photography, video-installation, drawing and sound environments, the works share a common quest to express the nature of the visual, cultural timespace we currently occupy. This is a space where chronological sequence is often at odds with the sequential or logical. The redoubling or reflexive folding of time onto space, mirror onto subject, which many of the pieces contain, demonstrate what Victor Burgin describes as the impact of cinematic. The moving image has become the fluid stream of shared memory, an amorphous timespace of the collective cinematic unconscious.


Kevin Atherton
Kevin Atherton has exhibited internationally since the early nineteen seventies. He has performed his ongoing virtual reality performance ‘’Gallery Guide’ at SIGGRAPH 96 in New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and at the ‘Museum of Modern Art’ Stockholm. In 1998 the broadcast version of ‘’Gallery Guide’ was nominated for the ‘international Video Art award at the ZKM in Karlsruhe and was also selected for the ‘8th Biennial of the moving Image’ in Geneva in 1999. He has taught extensively in Art Colleges throughout the U.K. and was the Head of Fine Art Media at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, from 1990 – 1999. He is currently Head of Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

Damien Flood
Damien is a young Dublin based painter who graduated from NCAD in 2008. He was immediatley selected to exhibit in the John Moores contemporary painting exhibition in Liverpool followed by the Saatchi Space in London during Frieze '08. He has been in numerous other group exhibitions including Anopseudonymous in Five Hundred Dollars Gallery, Vyner St., London and the Mermaid Art Centre, Bray. Damien’s paintings are small, intimate visions of a landscape of elsewhere; a ‘counter-earth’ where the usual laws for time, space and gravity do not apply.

Tom Hunter
Tom Hunter is an internationally renowned photograher currently based in London. Born in 1965 and educated at the Royal College of Art, he has been awarded a number of prestigeous prizes including; the Tredou Arts and Culture Award (1995), the Royal College of Art First Year Award for Best Photography (1996), the Royal College of Art Painter-Stainers Photography Prize (1997) and the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London (1998). Often drawing inspiration from great works of painting, he constructs photographic tableaux inspired by contemporary media stories. In 2006 he was the first and only photographer thus far to be shown at the National Gallery in London, where he presented his series ‘Living in Hell and Other Stories’

Bea Mc Mahon
An artist who creates hybrid visions of often incongerouse juxtapositions, Bea Mc Mahon holds Masters Degrees in both Visual Arts and Mathematical Physics. A multi disciplinary artist, equally comfortable within drawing and video installation, Mc Mahon likes to create devices that assuage the upset our minds upon reaching a limit. Her moving-image works are staged slightly out of time and out of place. Her subject matter ranges from the epic to the romantic, from the scientific to the absurd. Her sculptures often deploy diagrams of invisible aspects of the world, or allude to the active force of individual intent in the face of a seemingly impenetrable constructions of reality.


Dennis Mc Nulty

Dennis McNulty is a Dublin based artist. His installation and sound performance work deals with the friction between the planned and the unplanned especially with respect to urban space. McNulty represented Ireland at the São Paulo Bienal in 2004 and returned in 2008 with the collaborative multidisciplinary project Weightless Days. He was awarded a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2005. Recent shows include, Nothing is Impossible at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2010 , The sound I'm looking for, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (October 2008), Encuentro de Medellin, Colombia (April 2007), Landscape 08, The Dock, Carrick On Shannon (July 2008), and Your position as much as your environment at the Model Arts and Niland Galleries, Sligo,(March 2007).

The show is curated by Jerome O’ Drisceiol director of Green on Red Gallery and Martina Cleary, Head of Photography and lecturer in Critical & Historical Studies at Burren College of Art.