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| 2008 9 August - 5 October  Image of Kaga’s studio featuring: I want to give love to socially neglected parts of you, that’s my mission. Courtesy the artist and mother’s tankstation. |
Atsushi Kaga Atsushi Kaga is a Japanese artist living and working in Dublin. Kaga’s practice is steeped in popular culture and includes drawing, painting, sculpture and animation. Kaga’s work is disguised in whimsy, yet astutely addresses the complexities of life in the twenty-first century. When Kaga was eighteen he wanted to be a comedian, and it shows. His use of humour is the methodology he employs to take us to interesting places. While not eliciting the belly laughs of a stand-up comedian, Kaga’s work conspires to make us smile and ultimately question. |
| 2008 21 June - 27 July  Sinead Fahey, Leaves In The Shadow, Ink & Graphite on Paper, 28 1/4 x 33 cm, 2006 |
Works On Paper KCAT is a vibrant organisation located in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, where creativity exists in abundance. It is a special place to work and also to visit. The artists, the mentors and the energy that filters through this building are a dynamic force. Such a source of creativity could not be overlooked, and it was time that the impressive work of this collective was acknowledged and honoured by the Butler Gallery. While there is remarkable painting on canvas at work in the studio, most notably from the talented Thomas Barron, ultimately it was decided to concentrate on a selection of works on paper - the immediacy of this output proving so fresh and joyful in nature. The work of eight KCAT artists included in this exhibition displayed enormous confidence, with an inventive use of pure colour. A full-colour catalogue published by Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent, 2008 and funded in part by an Arts Act Grant from Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office and the Butler Gallery accompanied this exhibition. |
| 2008 8 May - 15 June  |
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain An exhibition of photographs and video works by Cork based artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain. … Ailbhe Ní Bhriain makes extraordinary photographs and videos of constructed imaginary places. Composed of details from many different photographs and video shots, taken in and of real places from her travels, her work creates other worlds - fictional, impossible, yet strangely evocative of places we sense we might know of from afar or vaguely recollect from dreams or memory. Ailbhe Ní Bhriain was born in 1978 and lives and works in Cork and is represented by Domobaal Gallery, London. In addition to our regular funding, this exhibition was gratefully supported by Cork City Council Artist's Development Bursary & Cork Film Centre Artist in Residence Programme. |
| 2008 8 March - 27 April  |
Gems from the Collection The Butler Gallery has an extraordinary resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. It is a rich archive to which the inquisitive eye may turn and return. Including loans from the Sir Basil Goulding Collection, the Graphic Print Studio and private collections, the Butler Gallery Collection is an eclectic catalogue that can be read and appreciated on many levels. The annual exhibition Gems from the Collection continues to explore this valuable resource and features works that have not been viewed in recent times along with revisiting beloved favourites. The selection reflects the broad character of the collection itself and embraces a variety of genres from landscape to seascapes, from portraiture to figuration, from still life to abstraction through painting, drawing and printmaking. The 2008 Gems from the Collection exhibition includes newly restored works on paper by May Guinness (1863-1955) and George Russell (1867-1935), work which was carried out through grateful funds received from The Heritage Council. In keeping with our commitment of collecting works by artists featured in our artistic programme, we are delighted to include two new additions to the collection of paintings by Nevan Lahart and Paul Doran, both artists who have exhibited recently in the Butler Gallery. This diverse collection exemplifies the best of Irish art and we are most fortunate to have its home base here in Kilkenny. |
| 2008 12 January - 2 March  |
Paul Doran Paul Doran is one of Ireland’s finest painters. He makes complex paintings of great beauty and intensity that are celebrations of paint itself. His paint is exceedingly rich and luscious – in its texture and in its implications of high virtuosity. “For me, practical and conceptual concerns are inseparable. We live in a world that is more easily defined by technology, but I am interested in ideas about the handmade, how human existence can be communicated through the handmade in a more meaningful way. There is a real difference between process paintings and paintings that emphasise the presence of the human hand. For me, the latter is a more conceptual approach. I think that ideas about the handmade have an important role to play in a contemporary context.” Paul Doran |
| 2007 3 November - 21 December  |
Song Archive Project: Borrowed Air Yvonne Buchheim’s art practice examines contemporary song culture in a visual art context. Initially, her focus on song began during a residency program in 2003 at the ACC Gallery in Weimar, Germany in response to Johann G. Herder’s song collection from 1773. His theory proposed that the cultural identity of a people is reflected through their song tradition. In response, Buchheim began a project in which she invited people from different ages and social backgrounds to perform a song of their choice in front of a video camera. A site-specific piece has been created from filming undertaken during the summer of 2007 inviting Kilkenny Castle staff to participate in the Song Archive Project. This video portrait reflects a multifaceted picture - one of an Irish institution embracing both its past and its present along with welcoming a celebration of local, national, and international culture. While historical and contemporary distinctions of a place shift, in Ireland as in many places and cultures, singing still remains an integral and illuminating vibrancy in our lives. Yvonne Buchheim’s work celebrates such a spirit and questions the boundaries between art and life, and between artist and audience. |
| 2007 11 August - 21 October  © Barry McGee, 2007 |
Barry McGee Barry McGee is an internationally renowned artist celebrated for his work in the street as a graffiti artist, and for his painted installations in galleries and museums around the world. This was his first exhibition in Ireland. McGee draws on a range of influences including the Mexican muralists, tramp art, the graffiti artists of the 70’s and 80’s and the San Francisco Beat poets to create a unique visual language. He approaches the gallery space like a living breathing entity and inhabits it’s nooks and crannies. McGee created a new installation for the Butler Gallery and what evolved was a raw multi-media synthesis of pure energy. Large-scale wall murals are made up of old and new multi-coloured geometric panels that include clusters of framed drawings and snapshots, glass bottles, light boxes, ‘wall pimples’ and much, much more. |
| 2007 23 June - 29 July  |
Tactically Yours A new installation with video and audio for the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Twenty-four CCTV monitors (in three of the Butler galleries) show a left-handed woman and a right-handed man hurling rocks along the paths and avenues within a forest. Short ‘training’ actions are repetitively looped, playing continuously, creating a field of tireless on-screen combatants. Distant traffic and birds form the backdrop to a close-up cacophony of footfalls, crunching branches, swishing coats, and exhalations. In a separate (fourth) room a video projection shows a left hand and a right hand drawing simultaneously within the one frame. In rapid, noisy bursts, thirty-two drawings appear, each immediately erased to make way for the creation of the next. The hands seem at turns cooperative, competitive, combative; the viewer may identify with the left or the right, or with some conflicted entity wrestling to integrate the work of both. As with the action in the forest, no words are exchanged. Each drawing emerges from a shower of percussive blows, audible throughout the installation. |
| 2007 28 April - 10 June  |
Static TV Nevan Lehart Butler
Gallery was proud to host STATIC TV by Kilkenny native Nevan Lahart. |
| 2007 10 March- 22 April  |
Gravity
Loop The Butler Gallery was delighted to host Gravity Loop by Memphis born David Phillips and Dublin born Paul Rowley who have been working together since 1998 in film, video and sound. This was their first major exhibition in Ireland since their Glen Dimplex Artist Award at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2000. Their work takes us on incredible visual journeys of beauty and technical precision. Four singular new works that demonstrate a continued interest in the convergence of science and art were presented. These works examine and contrast the visual vocabularies of distinct disciplines—the visual language of science, as it relates to contemporary art, cinema history, visual culture, educational films and art history. A full biography and bibliography is available upon request or please visit their website at www.condensate.net |
| 2007 20 January - 4 March  |
Gems
from the Collection The Butler Gallery has an extraordinary resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift and purchase. It is a rich archive to which the inquisitive eye may turn and return. Including loans from the Sir Basil Goulding Collection, the Graphic Print Studio and private collections, the Butler Gallery Collection is an eclectic catalogue that can be read and appreciated on many levels. This exhibition included a new loan to the collection of a previously un-exhibited watercolour by Mildred Anne Butler, entitled Kilmurry, c.1911. Two new works that entered the collection in 2006 were also featured - Victoria, a tiny rubber figurative sculpture by Jeanne Silverthorne and Mind’s Eye, a video work that focuses on the traditional medium of drawing, by New York based Irish artist Simon Reilly. |
| 2006 18 November - 14 January 2007  |
It's
why [blue] birds sing Finola Jones The Butler Gallery was delighted to present It’s why [blue] birds sing, a new installation by Finola Jones especially designed for the Butler Gallery. This work represents another stage in Jones’ ongoing investigations into the structures of audiovisual installation, audience engagement strategies and emotional manipulation. Finola Jones lives and works in Dublin where she received her MA in Fine Art from the National College of Art & Design and an MA in Curatorial Practices from the College of Fine Arts, the University of N.S.W., Sydney and undergraduate degree from the Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania. |
| 2006 30 September - 12 November  |
Selected
Prints on Fabric Louise Bourgeois World-renowned artist Louise Bourgeois is in her 95th year and is still constantly at work. Born in 1911, Bourgeois grew up outside Paris and in the south of France, the middle child of parents whose business was the restoration and resale of 17th and 18th century tapestries and other decorative textiles. As a child, Bourgeois helped repair these tapestries, drawing in the missing parts, primarily feet, to be rewoven. Bourgeois moved to New York in 1938 with her husband, art historian and curator Robert Goldwater, and became an American citizen in 1955. This exhibition will focus on these extraordinary prints on fabric including Ode â l’Oubli, 2004 (Ode to Forgetfulness), a magnificent 36-page fabric-on-fabric book individually framed, Lullaby, 2006 a suite of 25 silkscreen on fabric prints and a selection of important prints on fabric from 2000-2004. |
| 2006 12 August - 24 September  |
Burning
DNA Jeanne Silverthorne Burning DNA was an exhibition that addresses the literal and metaphorical implications of DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid), the molecule that encodes the genetic information that is passed from one generation to the next. In mad-scientist fashion Jeanne Silverthorne traces the twists and turns of the double helix in search of the answers to the old questions of where we come from and where are we going. |
| 2006 24 June - 30 July  |
Sous
le Soleil du Nord Blaise Drummond Sous le Soleil du Nord was an exhibition of selected works from 1998-2006 by Blaise Drummond from his recent solo exhibition at Musée de L’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, France. Drummonds refined paintings celebrate his great love of the natural world and its relationship to modern culture. His work attempts to excavate hope of an abiding natural world, amidst the debris of civilizations relentless progress. Drummond injects the empty canvas with elements of landscape and modernist architecture where they act as a physical manifestation of where we stand in relation to everything else. He employs distinctive elements in his paintings such as the use of carefully created dripping, both copied and real, collage and flat colour. These paintings transport the viewer to contemplative isolated places of beauty. Distinguished little birds are often in residence while the human form is only occasionally sighted. |
| 2006 13 May - 18 June  |
Wonderfool
World David Sandlin David Sandlin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1956. In 1972, at the age of fifteen, he moved with his parents to Hanceville, Alabama. In 1980 he moved to New York City, wher he currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Sandlin's art first appeared in New York on the streets of the Lower East Side, in the form of hand-screened political posters and prints advertising local art and music events. In 1983 he joined the Gracie Mansion Gallery, a pioneer of the East Village art scene. Sandlin's comics have appeared in RAW, Strappazin, Blab, Nozone, Zero Zero, and other publications. He has also published illustrations in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Sandlin has exhibited his prints, paintings, books, and installations throughout the United States and in Europe, Japan, and Australia. |
| 2006 1 April - 7 May  |
Freeform:
An Animated Remix of the Butler Gallery Collection Freeform brought elements of the Butler Gallery's fine permanent collection to life in a way that has never been considered or seen previously and served as a learning tool for museums, art galleries and art centers in a national and international context. Freeform is a new concept that allows children and young people to interact with and learn about the visual arts. Freeform uses the innovative 'Squideo' animation software developed by Saffron Pictures. Digital photographs of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings from the Butler Gallery Collection were used as source material with the kind permission of: Robert Ballagh, Brian Bourke, Barrie Cooke, Tom Fitzgerald, Marie Foley, John Gerrard, Peter Jones, Brian Maguire, Janet Mullarney, Peter Power and Patrick Scott. |
| 2006 11 February - 26 March  |
Mark
Curran - The Breathing Factory Presented in collaboration with Belfast Exposed Photography and the Gallery of Photography, The Breathing Factory was a multi-media installation by Mark Curran. Curran critically surveys the working environment at the multinational corporation Hewlett-Packard Manufacturing and Technology Campus, located on the former site of a meatpacking factory in Leixlip, County Kildare. It is two million square feet in size, with almost 2,500 workers and has a single corridor three-quarters of a kilometre long running through the centre of it. It is HP’s only inkjet manufacturing plant in Europe and one of only three global sites. The South of Ireland never experienced the Industrial Revolution and yet is now defined as the 'most globalized economy in the world' and thus has been propelled from an agricultural-based economy to one defined as post-industrial. The Breathing Factory is a compilation of photographs, digital video, and sound archival material taken over a twenty month period, recording both the transient spaces and the workers within this highly policed conglomerate environment. |
| 2005-2006 10 December - 5 February  1 ice storm, 2005, video still |
Theresa
Nanigian - tally |
| 2005 15 October - 4 December  |
Tony
O'Malley - The Visual Diaries Almost every day for fifty years Tony O'Malley drew and painted in his sketchbooks. These visual diaries, as he called them, are a record not only of what he saw in front of him but of what he remembered from the distant past, often with startling clarity. Portraits of himself and his wife Jane; of friends, of poets and painters, of people in streets and shops; landscapes of Kilkenny, Clare Island, Cornwall, the Bahamas, Switzerland, the Isles of Scilly; pictures of flowers, of animals, especially cats and birds, as well as experiments in pure abstraction and colour – all of these, and more, are to be found in these stunning visual diaries. This exhibition was selected by the poet, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Brian Lynch. |
| 2005 13 August - 2 October  |
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Seconds at Alcázar |
| 2005 11 June - 31 July  |
WEB Brian Fay Web was an exhibition of new work by Brian Fay. Web is a drawing installation comprised of a series of wall mounted graphite drawings on paper, as well as a large-scale drawing made directly onto one of the gallery’s walls and an animated digital drawing projection. An artist and lecturer in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology, the central concern in Brian Fays' art practice is the continuing relevance of obsolete modes of communication in a contemporary art context. To date Fay has worked in a variety of disciplines including drawing, installation, print and digital video to investigate how these forms work, and to explore the role of art as a meaningful vehicle for communication. Brian gave an Artist’s Gallery Talk on 29 June 2005. |
2005
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Darling |
2005
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The
Butler Gallery Collection: A Selection The Butler Gallery has an extraordinary resource in its fine permanent collection. Acquired over a period of sixty-two years, through gift and purchase, it is an archive to which the inquisitive eye may turn and return. Including loans from the Sir Basil Goulding Collection, the Graphic Print Studio and private collections, the Butler Gallery Collection is an eclectic catalogue which can be read and appreciated on many levels. This current selection embraces a variety of genres from landscape to seascapes, from portraiture to figuration, from still life to abstraction through painting, drawing and printmaking. |
2005
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the greatest of these Bernadette Cotter's exhibition is a journey from childhood to maturity, a narrative of love and loss, life and death. The exhibition comes full circle with an over-riding message "…faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is …" The artist gave a public talk on this exhibition on 10 February 2005. |
2004-2005
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Slow
Time · Local Ground The artist gave a talk on this exhibition on 11 January 2005. |
2004
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Genre Portraiture, Still Life, Landscape and the Figure - while the genres Nick Miller paints are at the heart of the tradition, his work is both contemporary and timeless. In this exhibition of new work in the vaulted spaces of the Butler Gallery, the artist displays the depth and breadth of his practice and convincingly confirms his place among our most significant contemporary painters. |
| 2004 7 August - 17 October  |
Ernesto Neto - 4 Artists and I Ernesto Neto, Brazilian sculptor, exhibited a site responsive installation in the Butler Gallery with sculptures that take into account the specific appeal of the space along with a perception that includes all the senses, transforming his exhibition into an intense experience. In his installations the choice of materials is quite crucial. Lycra, a textile typically used for women's hosiery, polyamide fabrics, sand and styrofoam produce a soft and fantastic impact, where volume is balanced with the impression of ethereal lightness. |
2004
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Free
From the Itch of Desire The Platonic phrase Free from the Itch of Desire refers to art that does not overtly offer blatant emotional content. This mantra was often used by the formalist’s tradition in modern art to describe what they believed to be the true art form. This tradition reacted against art that they claim was overstated in its expression. Each artist in this exhibition explored desire through the medium of drawing, often considered understated in its expression. It also demonstrated the devices used to expand the traditional notion of drawing. |
2004
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Travelogue Travelogue was a group exhibition of winners of the Tony O'Malley Travel Award over the past 6 years. The Tony O' Malley Award for Painters, sponsored by Waterford Crystal, was established to honour the late Tony O’Malley, a painter for whom travel was an important factor in his work. The Butler Gallery invited the artists back to the gallery to explore how their work has developed through their interest in travel. The exhibition will encompassed installation, video, photography and painting. Exhibiting were Clare Cashman, Alan Keane, Colin Martin, Eoin Llewellyn, Eamon O Kane, and Tom Climent. |
| 2004 6 March- 11 April  |
Michael Warren - Dispositions Warren is a leading established Irish sculptor, who has received much acclaim internationally for his public commissions. Examples are his impressive sculptures outside the Civic Offices, Dublin and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and abroad in Japan, USA and Spain. His exhibition at the Butler Gallery presented a site-specific installation where Warren manipulated the very distinctive 4-chambered gallery to display sculptures, painting and photography. His influences are eastern philosophy, the traditional ancient conventions of architectural scale and balance, and the musical harmony and dramatic possibilities of colour. |
2004
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Hughie O'Donoghue - Crucifixions Two spectacular paintings by Hughie O'Donoghue were displayed simultaneously in two different sites in County Kilkenny during Easter Week 2004, presenting a unique opportunity to see O'Donoghue's work in particularly significant settings. Blue Crucifixion, a monumental piece over 11ft high and 27ft wide was installed in Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh specifically for the Easter period as part of the celebrations of the Abbey's 800th year. A similarly scaled Red Crucifixion was installed simultaneously in the de-consecrated Franciscan Friary in Callan. A desire for symmetry and his conception of the installation of these works as one connected project led the artist to remake the large carborundum print 3 Studies for a Crucifixion (1996) in the form of a new painting for the Callan site. 'Crucifixions' was the third in a series of off-site projects for the Butler Gallery, followign on from 'Anam á Deoraí' by Alanna O Kelly and 'Stations', which involved placing works from the Butler Gallery Collection into people homes in Kilkenny. |
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2004 21 January - 4 February  |
VITAL - An Exhibition at the Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny from the Butler Gallery Collection As part of our offsite lending scheme, Butler Gallery was delighted to present VITAL, an exhibition from our Collection, in conjunction with the Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny. In recent years, the Presentation has organised loans for the school from the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. This year, for the first time, a special exhibition was curated from Kilkenny's own Butler Gallery Collection, a collection spanning two centuries and containing important works by international, Irish and local artists. |
| 2004 30 January - 27 February  |
The Pleasure Principle - from the Butler Gallery Collection, selected by Anthony Cronin |
2003
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Helen Comerford - Bridget Flannery Sonja Landweer - Stephen Vaughan The Butler Gallery was pleased to exhibit the work of four artists resident in the Kilkenny and Carlow area. Each of these artists has amassed an impressive career in the arts in Ireland and abroad. Each, in their own way, has become integral to the creative fibre of the area through their involvement in advancing the professional arts in Ireland. |
2003
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A
Recent History of What's Possible - Katie Holten |
2003
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anam
a’deóraí - Alanna O'Kelly This was a live art event including recorded and live sounds and images, based on a series of work by Alanna O'Kelly. Happening over two nights as part of the Butler Gallery off-site projects programme, in Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny and The Workhouse, Callan, County Kilkenny. The performances were connected to themes of journeys of identity and displacement. |
2003
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A
Psychological Landscape - Ursula von Rydingsvard A Psychological Landscape represents work especially made for exhibition in the Butler Gallery. Von Rydingsvard found it an exciting challenge to create new work for such a distinctive space. "Essentially all of the large pieces, 'stairs with floating skin' and 'bowl with mounds' are brand new and have never been exhibited before. In part the impossible passage ways of the castle, forced me to make these new larger pieces that break up into sizes that can actually fit through the castle doors. Both of these works were made for those rooms at the Butler Gallery. Obviously the only important thing is that it presented an opportunity for me to make new work and to reach out to a place that goes off on a tangent in relation to some of my past work. And the opportunity is what felt most exciting." |
2003
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Fergus
Martin - Pipe Dreams Pipe Dreams addressed the distinctive architecture of the Butler Gallery and incorporated the installation of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks. "For the past number of years I have been having tests to check my field of vision. In these tests, I look into a dark space in which I see one lighted speck at a time. The eye fixes on a central point while it takes in the periphery. This shifting between the central and peripheral has affected my sense of scale and made me more aware of a continuum between the two – like one unbroken line." |
2003
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Stations Five artworks from the Butler Gallery Collection were placed in five Kilkenny homes over a period of five months. At the end of each month, we visited the 'art-stations' where we listened and recorded the ideas and responses that were unfolding. The final exhibition showed the works as well as items from each home and the filmed interviews. |
2003
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From
Time to Time Works from the Butler Gallery Collection From time to time we show our Collection in the Gallery and offsite spaces. Time is usually measured as a line from history to the present and collections aof art are often similarly treated. The Butler Gallery Collection has been built up over time since 1943, including artworks from the eighteenth century up to the present day and it is noted as being representative of the chronolgy of Irish art history. This exhibition challenged that linear idea of time, putting forward multiple meanings and suggestions as to what time is and can be. The individual artworks interptreed the theme of time by their mood or subject matter and also ideas about time were explored through the dialogue between the artworks. |
2003
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Lineage Last year the Butler Gallery invited Christopher Banahan and Tom Molloy to exhibit. Both artists had never met, nor were they very familiar with each other's practice. The gallery made the connection based on the work they have both done in relation to portraiture, in terms of the history of the oeuvre and how they have both re-examined the art of portraiture, but in different ways. Lineage is the result of many months contact between both artists and their corresponding and contrasting insight into the notion of ancestry, history, inheritance, power, society and politics. Tom Molloy, exhibited a series of paintings entitled colleagues - portraits of RUC police officers killed during the course of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Christopher Banahan reworked images from the past; drawing influence from the style of Vermeer, Chardin and Velazquez. |
2003
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Selections,
Omissions and Juxtapositions Portraiture from the Butler Gallery Collection Two Irish artists, Tom Molloy and Chris Banahan, were invited to select artworks from the Butler Gallery Collection around the theme of portraiture. Both artists use portraiture in their own practices and exhibited together in the Gallery after this show (see Lineage - above). The artists take on the role of curators involved in a creative process opening up new possibilities and interpretations of a traditional form. Identity and personality are not just contained in the individual portraits here but are in the open spaces in between, created by the artists' selections, omissions and juxtapositions. The Butler Gallery Collection of over 400 artworks has been built up through donations and loans as well as purchases and it also holds in trust the Basil Goulding Collection. The artists chose 28 artworks for this show which open up interpretations outside of their own frames. |
2002/2003
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Once
is Too Much Once is too Much was a compelling project and exhibition facilitated by the Education and Community Department of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and involving the women from St. Michaels Resource Centre, Inchicore.Once is too Much was one part of an eight year strategy by the family Resource centre, St Michaels Estate, to develop the first community based model of practice addressing violence against women Ireland. Throughout the planning stages and the duration of the exhibition the Butler Gallery worked closely with local community networks such as the Kilkenny Women's Refuge, Rape Crises Centre, the Local Area Network and the Loughboy Resource Centre, to focus on the subject of violence against women. |
2002
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Victor
Treacy Award 2002 Victor Treacy is a Kilkenny local businessman and art collector. The four artists exhibiting in 2002 were Gail O'Reilly, Kristina Hoppe, Kate Byrne and Jessica Jones. The winner of the Victor Treacy Award 2002 was Jesse Jones. |
2002
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Paul
McCarthy In the Butler Gallery he exhibited projections of well-known performances Painter 1995, Rocky 1976, Sailor's Meat, Sailors Delight 1975, Black and White Tapes II. The exhibition brought together work from the past thirty years and gave an overview of his performances on video. |
2002
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Nigel
Rolfe 'Absence and Loss' was the first showing of work made over the past ten years by acclaimed artist Nigel Rolfe. These are all ambient works, many in motion and not in full focus. They are in some way psychological studies of mood and sentiment. Abstract social realism perhaps, but always taken from real events and photographed conventionally although using digital means. Some are still lives, some portraits and some both urban and natural landscapes. Most are made here but also some are places far away. There are always two important stages with art photography - to take a picture and then to make a work with it - input and output. The input is always from observation and the output chooses a metaphoric juxtaposed construction that is political or socio-political about absence and loss. A catalogue Absence and Loss is available. |
2002
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Charles
Tyrell The Butler Gallery presented new work by Irish painter Charles Tyrell. The exhibition was a follow-on from Tyrell's exhibition at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, in November 2001. The body of new work for the Butler Gallery included 4 large canvases, 4 smaller paint on aluminium pieces, 11 new works on paper and a piece consisting of 10 ink drawings hung as a unit. Tyrell is committed to the rigorous exploration of what paint/ink can do on the two-dimensional surface, whether it would be paper, canvas or aluminium. We as spectators are prompted to negotiate the manipulation of the surface, which in turn pushes us toward something else. Something we cannot articulate but are drawn into none-the-less. |
2002
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Susan
MacWilliam On The Eye presented new lens based work by Belfast artist Susan MacWilliam. Using video footage, shot during residencies in New York and Trinidad, projected images of a lightning storm, ceiling fans and mountain mist flicker, strobe and stutter. In contrast to the moving images MacWilliam showed a series of still stereoscopic (3D) images. These were observed through special lenses and created an intimate viewing experience. The artist's interest in photography, visual perception, after image and how we read depth and movement were explored. Susan MacWilliam (born Belfast 1969) lives and works in Belfast. |
2002
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Patrick
Hall Comments from the Sunday Times Culture Section, Sunday 10th March, 2002, on the Patrick Hall exhibition at the Butler Gallery: "Hall's mastery of scale has never reached this level before. The large canvases are man-sized but intimate. They leave behind the temptation to include the overt drama that sometimes characterised his earlier work. The small drawings, sensitively grouped together by Butler Gallery director Nathalie Weadick, talk as straightforwardly about rural life as about parables of space and time. The gallery's room-on-room shape lets them breathe and encourages visual surprise......We see what we see: simple motifs claiming no more nor less than what they are, yet invitations to thoughtfulness gently nudge you along." |
2002
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Acquisitions
1991 - 2001 The concept of building a collection was originally created by the Kilkenny Art Gallery Society, borne out of a need to stimulate artistic interest in the area. It is appropriate that Kilkenny artists are represented in the collection and that the geographical location of the gallery is communicated. This exhibition aimed to showcase Butler Gallery recent acquisitions and to highlight how they came into the collection. A talk by Catherine Marshall, Curator of the Collection IMMA, took place as part of the project. Works from Butler Gallery Collection on view included Tony Cragg, Janet Mullarney, Eilis O'Connell, Brian Maguire, Tony O'Malley and others. |
2001
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Various
Artists - Victor Treacy Award 2001
The
2001 Victor Treacy Award is dedicated to the exploration of the
prolific activities of artists under thirty and its origins grew
from the need to encourage the development of emerging art. The
exhibition is profoudly informed by the selectors, who seek out
the nominees with a creativity that breathes life into the award. 2001 nominees were Neva Elliot, Claire Halpin, Daniel Jewesbury and Eamon O'Kane. The 2001 winner, Daniel Jewesbury, was selected by adjudicator Jeremy Millar on Saturday November 24 2001 at the Butler Gallery. |
2001
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Donald
Urquhart - Fields Fields was an exhibition of paintings and installation especially created for the Butler Gallery, following Donald Urquhart's residency on the Artists Work Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2000. In this significant body of work, Urquhart addresses the western landscape tradition and the role of art in shaping this genre. |
2001
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Roman
Signer - Recent and New Work Swiss artist Roman Signer (born 1938) has been a key figure in the Swiss art world for the last thirty years and is one of the most important contemporary artists on the international scene. Following his most recent exhibitions, including a broad retrospective at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, an exhibition of drawings at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, new work in Galerie Hauser & Wirth in May, the Butler Gallery will be focusing on new installations and sculptures. |
2001
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Various
Artists - Fotografia Metafisica Fotografia Metafisica represents a small but important fraction of artistic activity in Finland. Jorma Puranen, Stefan Bremer, Magnus Scharmanoff, Oliver Whitehead and Bonk Business Inc., are to the fore of the Finnish Art Community and outstanding influences on the younger, emerging generation of photographers both in Finland and elsewhere. This exhibition displays a mix of styles and extends the possibilities of photography beyond any perceived parameters. |
2001
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Alice
Maher - The History of Tears The Butler Gallery was delighted to host its first solo exhibition of International Irish artist Alice Maher. This has been a long awaited exhibition of her new work and is strengthened by the fact that Maher has spent many months researching ancient effigies in the Kilkenny, Tipperary and Carlow area. Maher grew up in County Tipperary and we see this exhibition as a sort-of homecoming. Her work contains imagery of myth, legend, history and fairytales. An outpouring of melancholy mourning the forgotten dead - the sleeping dead. |
The Butler Gallery hosts approximately 10 shows a year. The following is a brief selection of past exhibitions pre 2001: 2000 |
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