This exhibition is the second in the second series of Futures, a sequence of exhibitions that endeavours to document and contextualise the work of emerging artists, around who exists a growing critical and curatorial consensus.

The artists in Futures 2010 are selected from a number of sources – from various artist-led initiatives and independent group shows, to a developing peer consensus that attempts an objective view of differ…ent artistic practices that have emerged in recent years.

The artists chosen for Futures 10 are Oisin Byrne, Rhona Byrne, Fiona Chambers, Niall de Buitléar, Damien Flood, Magnhild Opdol and Ailbhe Ni Bhriain.

A full colour catalogue documenting both Futures 09 and Futures 10 will accompany this exhibition.

The exhibition opens on thursday 2nd September and continues until the 24th October.

More info here.

Caline Aoun | Niall De Buitléar | Guestroom | Vera Klute

Curated by Shinnors scholar, Mary Conlon

Paperplane is the first chapter of the Six Memos curatorial project initiated by research scholar, Mary Conlon . The exhibition responds to recent negotiations between European editors and an internet search engine regarding a lucrative and legislated agreement on the digitization of the world’s books. Fears that the world’s ‘last library’ might be controlled as a commercial enterprise have sparked debate about the future of literature in light of the proliferation of virtual records as well as the simultaneous decline of readership. Digitization allows for more practical and accessible circulation of texts and for new life to be breathed into forgotten publications. Consequently, however, the book in its physical form becomes a rarefied object of obsolete function.

Venue: The Joinery Gallery, 6 Rosemount Terrace, Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7

Opening on Wednesday 3 February, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues until 9th February (before moving to Occupy Space, Limerick)

http://gallery.limerick.ie/Exhibitions/SixMemos/

http://www.thejoinery.org/events/paperplane

I have a piece in a group show called Paper Work which opens at Pallas Contemporary Projects on Thursday 3rd December. Here is a quote from the press release:

Paper Work explores the primacy of paper as a fundamental medium, a celebration at the core of the transformative essence of artistic production, and of the possibilities inherent in the simplest medium, intrinsic as it is to the facilitation of expansive contemporary artistic concepts.

The artists in the show are:

John Beattie / Mark Beatty / Anna Boyle / Gemma Browne / Niall de Buitlear / Karl Burke / Clare Cashman / Aoife Cassidy / Fiona Chambers / Garry Coyle / Mark Cullen / Anita Delaney / Vanessa Donoso López / Brian Fay / Alicia Frankovich / Mark Garry / David Godbold / Helen Horgan / Wendy Judge / Atsushi Kaga / Vera Klute / Nevan Lahart / Áine Macken, / Alice Maher / Bea McMahon / Clive Murphy / Christophe Neumann / Isobel Nolan / Magnhild Opdol / Sarah O’Brien / Garrett Phelan / Ruth Proctor / Linda Quinlan / Gerard Shanahan / Sonia Shiel / Ivan Twohig /Lee Welch

The exhibition opens on Thursday 3rd December and continues until 19th December.

www.pallasprojects.org