Projects

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

Artist-Initiated Projects (AIP) is a highly accessible open-submission programme, presented in a peer-led, supportive environment. It is designed to be dynamic, quick and responsive to reflect what artists are currently making. Periodical Review (2011–present) sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland to facilitate and encourage new readings, collaboration, crossover and debate.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative and international projects.

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05/10/23—21/10/23

Error: /undefined interrogates interlocking issues of our current conjuncture. Environmental and corporeal breakdown are examined against systems of never ending pressure and progress under capitalism. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme

Artist-Initiated Projects

Banbha McCann—Domestic Bliss

14/09/23—30/09/23

White wall gallery with wooden floor, a yellow table holds a kettle made from white cloth, two pieces of white cloth one with pink details and the other with green and yellow hang in the background.

Domestic Bliss reflects on the desire for a home, and how to make one. The work in this exhibition blurs the lines between the personal and universal, image and object, memory and desire. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects

‘Freebirds M.C.C. Project’—Biddy Mulligan

27/07/23—12/08/23

A band with two guitar players, a drummer and a singer playing outside under a shelter with a blue wall behind them.

The ‘Freebirds M.C.C. Project’ is a socially-engaged project that involves twelve male members of the Freebirds Motorcycle Club from County Longford along with artist Brigid Mulligan who is a club member and little sister of the group. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects

Collective Residue—off the clock

20/07/23—23/07/23

Exhibition documentation of a white wall gallery with wooden floors and low and red lighting, a textile piece of white fabric is drapped and hung from the ceiling, photographic prints and drawings hang on the wall and a sheet of fabric painted with black ink hangs from the ceiling.

Inspired by the common experience of wearing double hats as artists and art workers at Pallas Projects/Studios: ‘residue’ expresses the spaces in-between words, roles and processes; what is visible and yet still unseen.

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Staring at the Sea: Land art and reflection symposium

06/07/23—18/07/23

Photo of a stoney beach with a man-made trail of stones placed in a line

The Staring at the sea residency at Cill Rialaig foreground was studio activity, reflection and group work alongside exploration in the open landscape; exploring dry wall stone techniques as a tool for artistic expression and site-specific practice.

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Tanad Aaron—We’ll See You Now

05/07/23—15/07/23

A sculpture of a green shelf-like object, a cermaic white object ressembling a deflated ballon hangs over the edge and a fluorescent white light is attached to the back.

We’ll See You Now is the result of the cumulative research practice of Tanad Aaron, working within muddy approaches to furniture, space and object making. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects

Artist-Run Europe: Practice/ Projects/Spaces

22/06/23

An image of a grey book with 'Artist-Run Europe' written in white and 'Practice, Project, Spaces' written in black on a white background.

Part how-to manual, part history, and part socio-political critique, the second edition of Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society.

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Bog Cottage—Queer na nÓg: 4ever young

15/06/23—24/06/23

Detail image of the top of a sculpture that ressembles a tree, orange spikes stick out from a red centre.

“The Bogs tell me about Queer na nÓg: 4ever young over a voice note. They record as they walk around Berlin, and I listen as I’m walking to a mutual friend’s house in Belfast. As they talk in-depth about the creation of this new world within Pallas, it transports me to the entrance of a magical world” Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects

Art Works! 2023: Contemporary Art Auction

19/04/23—11/05/23

The Art Works! 2023: Contemporary Art Auction fundraiser will help the cutting-edge arts organisation continue their mission to support grassroots arts initiatives, emerging artists and maintaining artists studios in the city.

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Venus Patel—Monsters of the Apocalypse

13/04/23—28/04/23

A woman in a white dress with her arms raised shouting upwards in front of a white wall with green spot lights, a scroll hangs to the left and a photograph to the right.

Monsters of the Apocalypse acts as a queer reimagining of the end of the world, as well as a proposal for what a new one might look like. Using the language and presentation of radical preachers, Patel delves into the root of monstrosity. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects

Artist-Initiated Projects 2023

23/03/23—09/11/23

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2023.

Artist-Initiated Projects

Daniel Tuomey—Control Centre Charlois

23/03/23—08/04/23

projection screen in an exhibition depicting paintings with text written over them in green, grey and blue tones.

For this exhibition Daniel Tuomey gathers a body of work which uneasily layers role playing games with the alienation of life under bureaucratic biometric capitalism. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects