VA + Exhibitions

PLASTIC: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It (Gallery 1)

PLASTIC, a touring exhibition, features the work of over thirty national and international artists, designers and scientists, as well as a newly commissioned work by Donegal based sound artist Ed Devane. Plastic has great power, and with great power comes great responsibility. It has changed our daily lives and our environment more than any other material. …

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The Yalta Game (Gallery 1)

This exhibition brings together works that engage with fragments of memory, truth and biography by filmmaker, artist and photographer:Myrid Carten’s WEB III (2019) reassembles her film Wishbone (2019) as a multi-screen installation for its first gallery showing, traces an encounter with obsession, authenticity and memory in the lives of young women today.Susan Mac William’s moving-image …

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Over Nature (Gallery 1)

This touring group exhibition curated by Valeria Ceregini has been shaped to activate a new vision of greater ecological awareness and responsibility. It offers a new optical experience, greater ecological awareness and responsibility towards landscape and environment which surround us. The exhibitions consist of a series of multimedia artworks and paintings from Shane Finan, an …

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Turas | Journey (Gallery 1)

This visual art ‘journey’ will traverse through Donegal’s cultural landscape via a multi-venue exhibition featuring Irish based artists exploring the societal shifts that shape our collective identity.   Turas will run from June to September 2021 as part of the national ‘Colmcille 1500’ celebrations and present current work from a selection of established and emerging artists, chosen to represent …

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Galleries With[out] Walls – NFTs: The next frontier for artists?

Galleries With[out] Walls Galleries Without Walls is a collaborative programme by the Gallery of Photography Ireland, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny and Nerve Centre, Derry~Londonderry. It aims to facilitate connections across multiple creative fields, allowing artists to experiment with innovative new formats for presenting work. Volume 1 – NFTs: The next frontier for artists? In March 2021, three letters …

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Frontier Work (Gallery 1)

Artists: Noel Connor, Janet Hoy, Sue Morris and Anna Marie SavageCurated by Garrett Carr As it is the centenary of Ireland’s border Donegal’s Artlink invited four artists and to create new work on and about the borderline. Frontier Work was originally just a working title for the show but it stuck, perhaps because fits well …

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