Art exhibitions in Athlone

Here we look at the some of the upcoming art exhibitions in Athlone, as well as past exhibitions.

CAST

6 October - 30 November 2018

Luan Gallery is presenting CAST, featuring the sculptural works of Cecilia Bullo, DonCronin, Gabrielle Sampson, Katherine Sankey, Kevin Killen, Martina Coyle and Mel French. The exhibition which opened on 6 October 2018 continues until 30 November 2018.

This group sculpture exhibition will feature the work of seven artists based in Ireland exploring new ideas using traditional and new mediums, showcasing figurative and abstract works in a range of media. The exhibition focuses on the pull of online demands and our normal lives. The exhibition is open Tuesday – Saturday from 11:00 to 17:00 and Sundays from 12:00 to 17:00. Entrance is free and guided tours are available.

Art and the Vote: The Visual Culture of the Irish women’s suffrage campaign

16 – 30 November 2018

fabulous art exhition

To commemorate the centenary of the first granting of votes to women in 1918, Athlone Castle and Luan Gallery are exploring the Irish women’s suffrage campaign through the art it produced.

Throughout the Irish campaign for votes for women, suffragists used many forms of visual culture to demonstrate their demands, using posters, pamphlets, cartoons and illustrations that challenged their critics and persuaded the public of their right to vote. These art works helped significantly the first granting of the vote to women, and to women’s participation in the general election vote in 1918.

Luma by Helen Mac Mahon

1 July – 26 August 2018

gorgeous art gallery white

In the Library Gallery over the summer were hung digital paintings by Italian-born, Dublin-based Mario Sughi, alias nerosunero, these large scale, bold digital paintings presented snapshots of strangers’ lives in glorious technicolour. As though ‘people watching’ on a summer’s day, some of the works in Encounters seem as if viewed from a park bench or street side café, while other more intimate scenes appeared to be more sinisterly captured through a key hole or hidden camera.

Encounters by Mario Sughi (AKA nerosunero)

1 July – 26 August 2018

library art exhition

In the Library Gallery over the summer were hung digital paintings by Italian-born, Dublin-based Mario Sughi, alias nerosunero, these large scale, bold digital paintings presented snapshots of strangers’ lives in glorious technicolour.

As though ‘people watching’ on a summer’s day, some of the works in Encounters seem as if viewed from a park bench or street side café, while other more intimate scenes appeared to be more sinisterly captured through a key hole or hidden camera.

An Afterwards by Mark Garry

11 February - 22 April 2017

mark garry afterwards

The first exhibition of 2017 at the Luan Gallery featured new work by Mark Garry, which responded directly to the architecture and design of the Luan Gallery. A native of Mullingar Co. Westmeath, Garry is renowned for creating delicately considered site specific installations and his Luan Gallery show reflected on time spent visiting relatives in Athlone as a child.

Garry was one of the artists who represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale and more recently has exhibited at London’s Serpentine Gallery, RHA Dublin, Whitebox Gallery New York, Galleria Civica di Modena Italy and Dublin’s Hugh Lane and Douglas Hyde Galleries. Garry’s work is held in many private and public collections including The Arts Council of Ireland.

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