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PALLASADES
Imelda Barnard, Laura Carey, Fiona Chambers, Rachael Gilbourne,
Michelle Hall, Tracy Hanna and Sharon Murphy
An artist-initiated project at Pallas Contemporary Projects
Further information please contact:
pallasades7 [at] gmail.com / www.pallasades.blogspot.com

Preview: Friday 22nd August, 6 - 9pm, reception followed by live music.

Exhibition continues: 23rd – 30th August 2008, open daily 12 - 6pm

Emerging art collective, Pallasades, present their first collaborative
project; a site-specific installation that combines light with structure
and shape, directing human responses to spatial presence. Using the
gallery space as a temporary darkroom, low-tech photographic works
signify this active engagement with the making-process.Pallasades is
a group of young emerging artists, writers and curators,which has developed
out of the internship programme at Pallas Contemporary Projects.

Following Pallas Contemporary Projects' approach to onsite work, this
exhibition developed through a series of group cohabitations within
the gallery. Working at length together, in some cases overnight, the
experience of the space was intensified, highlighting it as an entity
in its own right. Sensory deprivation, amounting to feelings of
dislocation and unease, created an awareness of the absent; the lack
of daylight causing a disarming perception of Time, and encouraging
the innate human desire for natural light. Using materials primarily
found in, and sympathetic to, the gallery space, the work emerged out
of this shared experience. It is an attempt to invert perceptions of
the space - Pallasades say, 'Let there be Light!'

Pallas Contemporary Projects was set up to allow artists a space to
experiment and take risks with their practice. Most of our exhibitions
evolve in relation to the idiosyncratic specifics of our gallery space
and artists benefit from an extended period of on-site work in which
to test and try out ideas ahead of their public exhibition; as a result
of this approach the artists have the possibility of producing works
that would not have been generated within their own production context.

Pallasades is a group of young emerging artists, writers and curators,
which has developed out of the internship programme at Pallas Contemporary
Projects. In this instance the invited participants were given free
reign to develop an exhibition for the space.
Further information please contact:
pallasades7 [at] gmail.com / www.pallasades.blogspot.com

The Pallas Contemporary Projects curated programme continues in September
with Revolutionary Nostalgia, curated by Mary Cremin.

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Opening Hours: Thurs - Sat, 12 - 6 pm