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Have you been in yet to see ‘an atom bomb in each morsel of life’, Katherine Sankey’s latest exhibition?

Open Monday - Saturday
10am - 6pm

Check it out!

Just a few shots of the brilliant performances from the LAB this weekend, all in response to our current exhibition ‘an atom bomb in each morsel of life’ by Katherine Sankey.

First up was David Donohoe and David Lacey. Utilising resonant metals, wood, objects and electronics, their music foregrounds space and texture, gesture and silence, flow and discontinuity.

Next was a physical theatre response to Katherine’s work by Andy Crook. Playing with the elemental and absurd, we witnessed the dark clown with a few words.

‘an atom bomb in each morsel of life’ open
June 15 - September 05, Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm

Opening tonight!

an atom bomb in each morsel of life
A solo show by Katherine Sankey

Exhibition opens at 6PM, we look forward to welcoming you!

Opening this Thursday!!

'an atomb bomb in each morsel of life'

A solo show by visual artist Katherine Sankey

Doors open at 6pm.. don't miss out!

'an atom bomb in each morsel of life'

The LAB Gallery is excited to present it's latest exhibition, 'an atom bomb in each morsel of life', a solo show by the artist Katherine Sankey and curated by Margarita Cappock.

Katherine Sankey’s material hand-making art practice embodies the construction of semi-organic apparatuses that wrest with the absurdity, humour and horror of our relationship with and perception of our planetary host, Gaia.

Her practice draws from a fascination with the dichotomy between the desperately precarious frailty of humans and our compulsive desire to ‘take over’ and persist.

Exhibition opening Thursday the 15th of June, 6-8PM

We hope to see you there!

Image credit: Katherine Sankey, 'Swallow' detail, 2023, wood, plumbing, hand basin. Photograph by Paul McCarthy.

P R O S C E N I U M

Kicking off today from 2 to 5 !

Proscenium is a group test event by current ARC researchers from IADT featuring several new and exciting installations and presentations.

Workshop 4, fourth floor of The LAB (1 Foley St, Dublin 1) with presentations starting at 3.30pm

FREE EVENT - All are welcome - See you there!

The LAB Gallery, Common Ground and Create are excited to invite you to the upcoming publication launches of Michelle Malone's 'O, to have a little house' and Kate O'Shea's 'How Much is Enough?' at The LAB Gallery next week.

Join us in Studio 1 at 5.30 on Thursday April 13th for a critical panel discussion with Michelle, Kate and community worker and sociologist John Bissett.

At the heart of this conversation, is the connection between the materiality of their combined writing, their critical reflection, art and activist practices. Chaired by Common Ground, they will explore their personal and public connections to social housing in Dublin 8 and the changing landscape of the city.

The evening will also include a reading of a poem by Michelle that was jointly written with her father and music from The Peoples Shed, artist Evelyn Broderick.

Free tickets available via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/critical-conversation-book-launch-event-tickets-608705072257

We hope to see you there!

Some final spots left on tomorrow's FREE workshop, 'Appearance, Inside / Out' with acclaimed performance artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti as part of their current exhibition at The LAB!

Free workshop for adults (18+)
2pm-5pm
All are welcome and loose clothing is recommended. Booking is essential.

Book your ticket on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/appearance-inside-out-tickets-566561178737

We can't wait to see you there!

'A World of Appearances / Walking In The Way'
Exhibition open at the LAB until Saturday March 18th

Walking in the Way

✨ ARC-LAB Gallery Curatorial Scholarship 2023 ✨

"Being awarded the ARC LAB Curatorial Scholarship gave me the opportunity to further my research and develop my practice in curation. I had the chance to learn from the best in the industry and collaborate with others, all whilst growing my own professional network. Opportunities such as this come few and far between and I can't recommend the programme enough. I am so grateful to have worked with such wonderful people on this scholarship opportunity."

- Shannon Carroll

The LAB Gallery at Dublin City Arts Office and IADT are excited to announce that they are once again partnering to offer a unique ARC-LAB Gallery Curatorial Scholarship in the context of curatorial education at postgraduate level.

The ARC-LAB Scholar will work with the Curator of the LAB Gallery on programming and research into curatorial strategies and develop a self-initiated curatorial project at the LAB Gallery.

They will be funded as a full-time student on the IADT MA in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) which is an 18-month practical masters programme taught in the LAB. The outcome of their curatorial project will be presented in the LAB Gallery as part of the gallery’s public events programme in 2025.

The application deadline is Thursday 16 March 2023, 4pm.

For more information on the role and how to apply, go to https://iadt.ie/courses/art-and-research-collaboration/

Image credit: Past, Present, Future: Iteration III, Catherine McDonald, installation detail, The LAB Gallery 2022. Curated by Shannon Carroll. Photography by Louis Haugh.

Our opening of 'A World of Appearances / Walking in the Way' is tonight, February 1st at 6 at The Lab Gallery, Dublin . Official opening by Amanda Coogan. Everyone is welcome.

A WORLD OF APPEARANCES | WALKING IN THE WAY

OPENING TONIGHT!! 6PM

Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti are feminist artists who challenge essentialist fixed identities, in their series of performances: ‘Walking in the Way’.

The performances take place in cities where the two female artists take on the mannerism, gestures and physicality of male presence in the public area that they have selected.

The focus of each piece develops from the general to the particular and each one is unique to that city.

The work is informed by key figures from the community, and an important part of the research process is informed by making connections with local individuals in each of the selected cities.

A new publication Walking in the Way: Performing Masculinity, Cummins & Mezzetti, will also be available for sale at the show, with four brilliant essays on performance, by eminent writers, art historian Catherine Marshall, Spanish artist, Nieves Correa, Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons and Dr Aine Phillips.

Event taking place as part of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women

The LAB Gallery is excited to present its upcoming exhibition, 'A World of Appearances: Walking in the Way'

Opening next Wednesday the 1st of February at 6pm, please join us!

Walking in the Way is a collaborative performance series by established artists Frances Mezzetti and Pauline Cummins. They explore control of space, stereotyping, masculinities, movement and presence. Walking in the Way was first performed in Dublin in 2009 and the artists continue to probe the possibilities to date.

This decade long collaboration in performance art, A World of Appearances, addresses cultural and social perceptions around gender, age and visibility through documentary images and video.

As feminist artists who challenge essentialist fixed identities, these Irish artists seek to make visible how gender intersects with society. They pay particular attention to how small acts and movements can be re-presented and performed in and through their “gendered” bodies.

OPENING RECEPTION AND BOOK LAUNCH | 6PM - 8PM, 1ST FEBRUARY

EXHIBITION DATES| 1ST FEBRUARY - 16TH MARCH

MEET THE ARTISTS | 5TH FEBRUARY & 14TH MARCH

This exhibition takes place as a part of the 2023 festival Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women 🌺

Join us at The LAB Gallery tomorrow evening, where the artist interviews from 'Speaking of Which, Series II - The Ecological Edition', will be on display!

Wednesday Jan 11th 6-8pm

The videos are on view as a part of our latest exhibition 'A Perambulation' and will be displayed until Saturday Jan 21st at 6pm

In this second series of interviews inspired by the current climate crisis, the artists reveal their reasons for making art, describe the methods they use to make their work but most importantly reveal what it means to them to be an artist during this pressing time and how they transform their desire to create and communicate into the work they produce.

Video installation curated by Shannon Carroll

The artists in the interviews are Mark Clare, Cathy Fitzgerald, Catherine McDonald, Rosie O’Reilly, Bassam Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Claire Donohoe, Laura Fitzgerald, The Project Twins - James and Michael Fitzgerald, Maria McKinney and Vanya Lambrecht Ward.

Produced in collaboration by The LAB Gallery and The Dock Arts Centre

FINAL few days left to catch 'The Swinging Pendulum' Joanna Kidney's solo show at The LAB Gallery 🎉

Don't miss out on this opportunity to relax and enjoy the paintings, to make your own movable drawing with and to get your own FREE copy of The Swinging Pendulum Publication!

Only 3 days left! ⏰
Closing this Saturday at 6pm

📸 Rós Kavanagh

Join us tomorrow evening for the launch of The Swinging Pendulum Publication, where writer Joanne Laws and artist Joanna Kidney will be in conversation at The LAB Gallery.

The Swinging Pendulum Publication is a 40-page full colour publication with a text by Joanne Laws. It is written in response to artist Joanna Kidney's current exhibition 'The Swinging Pendulum' in The LAB Gallery.

From 5.30pm
Free event, booking required via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-swinging-pendulum-publication-launch-tickets-463562356487

All welcome. We hope to see you there! 😊

Design by We Make Visual and photography by Ros Kavanagh.

Publication funded by Creative Ireland.

Brilliant workshop yesterday at The LAB led by artist Claire Halpin as a part of Joanna Kidney's current exhibition
'The Swinging Pendulum'

Thank you to all of the students and teachers from Central Model Senior School and St Vincent's Boys School for taking part and making their own movable drawings 👏

Make sure to get in and make your own drawing using Joanna's found objects, before it's too late!

Open Monday-Sat, 10am - 6 pm
Exhibition runs until Sat December 17th
Admission free & no booking required!

Have you been in yet to see our latest exhibition?

'The Swinging Pendulum' a solo show by Joanna Kidney
This series of paintings has evolved through multiple experimental processes in the studio by the artist, including automatic drawing exercises and the playful use of paper cut outs and found objects.

The paintings embody ideas of dualism...the minuscule and the immense, knowing and unknowing, planning and improvisation. They invite slow looking where meaning is open, existing in the interpretation.

📸Ros Kavanagh

Open Mon-Sat, 10-6pm
Exhibition runs until December 17th

Last day today, Saturday!

FINAL three days left to catch
'O, to have a little house'
the solo exhibition by visual artist Michelle Malone

Closing this Saturday at 6pm -
Don't miss out!!

📸 Louis Haugh

Have you been in to see Michelle Malone's solo exhibition,
'O, to have a little house' ?

In this exhibition there is a strong play between public and private space.

Expanding out of the domestic space into this large scale exhibition in a public gallery, a focal point of the exhibition, visible from the street, is a staircase.

Having originally grown up in the tenements, the staircase held a particular significance for Michelle’s grandmother. Despite the stairwell being a place for public access, it provided the space to have private chats outside the one room home of overcrowded tenements.

In the ‘own door’ house, where in theory the whole home is private, the staircase continued to hold this significance and its inclusion here references the artist’s memory of where the special conversations might happen with her grandmother.

2 weeks left to catch the exhibition
Closing Sat November 5th

Admission free, no booking required 🌟

The LAB Gallery is pleased to present the first major solo show by recent graduate Michelle Malone

'O, to have little house'

Previewing this Friday evening from 6-8 with a floor talk from the artist at 6pm.

Michelle’s work is rooted in a desire to explore working class histories through personal experience. This exhibition considers her childhood experience of home, including Oliver Bond flats and most particularly her grandmother’s house and experience of moving from the city centre tenements to new social housing in the suburbs.

Through sculpture, installation, textile and film, the exhibition celebrates her grandmother’s pride in her home, recalling specific details and drawing on the material nature of memories.

We hope to see you there!

Curated by Sheena Barrett

Dublin City Arts Office

The LAB Gallery and The Dock are delighted to share with you Speaking of Which Series II - The Ecological Edition, the second edition in a series of short filmed interviews with contemporary artists based in Ireland, designed to help connect young people with visual arts and culture.

This series presents ten videos highlighting the work of 12 very different and unique artists, who have an ecological aspect to their practice and artists who are making work in reaction to climate change. This series was made in response to growing concerns for the global climate crisis.

This resource is intended to act as a starting point for conversations with young people about their own creativity, ideas, inspirations and as a tool for educators to devise workshops and other practical activities for their classes.
The artists are Mark Clare, Cathy Fitzgerald, Catherine McDonald, Rosie O’Reilly, Bassam Al Sabah and Jennider Mehigan, Claire Donohoe, Laura Fitzgerald, The Project Twins - James and Michael Fitzgerald, Maria McKinney and Vanya Lambrecht Ward.

Produced by LAB Gallery and The Dock Arts Centre

The living plants as a part of Catherine McDonald's installation are thriving!

If you haven't been in yet, come check out these growing native Irish plants, alongside other curious colours and creatures emerging from the earth...
as a part of 'Past, Present Future' by visual artist Catherine McDonald

📸 by Louis Haugh

Curated by Shannon Carroll
and Sheena Barrett

Dublin City Arts Office

It's lovely and cool today at The LAB Gallery!

Why not pop in for some relief and surround yourself with the beautiful work on display by visual artist Rosie O'Reilly as part of her current exhibition
'idirlinn, shifting silence'

You won't regret it!

📸 by Louis Haugh

Dublin City Arts Office
Arts Council Ireland

Very excited about the shows we have opening next week Thursday 14th July 6pm
Solo shows by Rosie O'Reilly and Catherine McDonald
Can't wait for you to see them!!

OPENING THIS THURSDAY!
em-bracing
6pm-8pm, May 12th

This group exhibition ‘em-bracing’ explores our ever-evolving relationship to digital technologies. With newly commissioned works by Kate Fahey, Adam Gibney and Jonathan Mayhew, curated by Séamus McCormack

The exhibition is complemented by a website at www.em-bracing.com with new texts by and online works by the 3 artists

Supported by the Arts Council Ireland, Fine Art at TU Dublin and Dublin City Council

Image: Adam Gibney, Guru_Box_V1.1 says breathe that s**t into a vortex, 2022