Projects

Pallas Projects collaborates with artists and groups, placing a particular emphasis on early-career, emerging artists and recent graduates, experimental or overlooked practices.

Our gallery programming is centred around our open-submission Artist-Initiated Projects. Selected projects are presented in the context of a gallery space with a dedicated tradition towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment and are supplemented with artists’ talks, texts, workshops, performances, artists' interviews, and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative, curated, and international projects.

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Marc Guinan—Paint MF
23/08/18—01/09/18

Paint MF, is a show which brings together multiple ideas of presentation and recyclability. The works, which are partially made from recycled paint are produced from an ongoing developmental process which Guinan has nurtured for a number of years. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects
Robert Dunne–Revise
09/08/18—18/08/18

Robert Dunne finds materials and ideas for his work in everyday situations. The visual and physical memory of his environment influences everything he makes. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects
Bren Smyth—Substance Of Things
26/07/18—04/08/18

In his 1981 essay 'The End of Painting', Douglas Crimp poses the question ‘What makes it possible to see a painting as a painting?”. This is a question that Smyth is aware of in her work, as she explores both the subject of painting and the painting as an object.

Special Projects
A Setting—Imogen Brady, Cará Donaghey, Dáire McEvoy, Megan Robinson
18/07/18—21/07/18

The installations transform the exhibition space into a space of reflection. They rely on its physical dimensions and limits to create a moment of coherence. The diverse materials on display are linked together through the unity of place and time created within the confines of a setting.

Special Projects
apply direct pressure—Miguel Martin / Jennifer Mehigan
28/06/18—07/07/18

Miguel Martin and Jennifer Mehigan have developed practices that engage materially and metaphorically with dissecting notions of wellness, anxiety, and care. Infused with the clumsily seductive languages of advertising, cult recruiting strategies, and self-help books, the two explore the manner in which technology functions as a mechanism for establishing and undoing personhood, and how it may be possible to occupy the spaces in between person-ness (life) and de-person-ness (death). Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects
Emma McKeagney—Unstable Categories
14/06/18—23/06/18

In a time where the categories of ‘human’ and ‘object’ are blurring visibly due to technological advances, McKeagney is pointing to a blurring that has always existed. Our category of human is malleable; driven, directed and redefined by the artefacts, objects, minerals and materials we have ever had at hand. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects
Salvatore of Lucan’s Show of Himself
31/05/18—09/06/18

“I make work about my own life, mainly figurative domestic scenes. I always want to present myself as accurately as possible. Throughout my life, I have been asked where I am from; to which I have always replied ʻLucanʼ.” Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects
Róisín Lewis—Realtime
17/05/18—26/05/18

In the work exhibited in Realtime, Lewis draws on her experience of space and time at sea, the accounts of fellow marathon swimmers, and data gleaned from environmental and body-worn technology. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects
PhotoIreland Festival: Gerry Balfe Smyth—Last Breath
03/05/18—13/05/18

Gerry Balfe Smyth’s first solo exhibition Last Breath is a series of photograph’s documenting life in the south inner-city flats complex of St. Teresa’s Garden’s in Dublin’s Liberties area. Part of PhotoIreland Festival 2018.

Collaboration
Austin Hearne—Remains
19/04/18—28/04/18

“The visual and architectural apparatus of the Church is the embodiment of Catholic doctrine; promulgating the notion that one must submit oneself entirely, body and soul, to be a ‘good’ Catholic.” Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects
Future Generation Art Prize 2019—Deadline extended
10/04/18—10/07/18

Pallas Projects are happy to once again take part as a partner platform for the biannual Future Generation Art Prize – the only prize for the young generation of artists with a global dimension and guided by an open, free, and democratic application process.

Special Projects
David Lunney—Chrome Dreams
05/04/18—14/04/18

Chrome Dreams begins with a sculpture which is based around a sheet of ArtGlass™. This completely clear glass acts an invisible platform for a variety of reflective elements. This portable sculpture was brought to a forest in Ballyedmonduff (Dublin Mountains) where it was photographed in a variety of positions. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects