The Belfast artist Paul Doran features at the Zari Gallery in London. Doran’s inspiration for his solo exhibition ‘Web of Echoes’ comes from ‘an accumulation of experience – personal memories and history’. His work is also included alongside Jenna Harrison, Brian Ballard, Lisa Ballard and Ruairi Fallon in a group show ‘Consequences of Circumstances,’ that examines the consequences of human behaviour on the environment and on individual lives.
Web of Echoes: until 25 June; Consequences of Circumstances: 28 June – 23 July
Thirty-eight Irish artists have been asked to do a drawing a day of the same subject for a month and then select six of them for exhibition at Atelier Blanc in Lannion and Galerie Abstract Project in Paris. Artists included are Adrienne M Finnerty, Andy Parsons, Amanda Montgomery, Christine Mackey, Diane Henshaw, Elizabeth Kinsella, Lorna Watkins, Miriam Doran, Niall Walsh, Noelle McAlinden, Patricia Kelly, Sinead Smyth, Talie Mau, Tina Brooks, Hensey Maree and Emma Stroude. Image: Adrienne M Finnerty (detail).
One Subject/One Drawing a Day Project: Lannion: 1 – 31 July; Paris: 30 August – 11 September
The Kenmare-based landscape painter Aia Leu is part of an artistic dynasty that includes the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely. At the Museum Tinguely in Basel, ‘Leu Art Family’ features work by Aia and other artistic family members. Aia’s work draws directly from her multicultural upbringing, influenced by her childhood in India and the richness of the Irish landscape.
Leu Art Family: until 31 October 2021
Alan Butler is among the forty-one international artists participating in ‘How to Win at Photography’, at the Fotomuseum in Switzerland. Exploring the relationship between photography and games, the exhibition invites the viewer to consider the photographic act as a game and the photographer as a player. The show also explores the notion of image play, creating unexpected connections between the history of photography and playful strategies of screenshotting in computer gaming.
Alan Butler: 5 June – 10 October
Work by printmaker David Lilburn has been selected for the International Print Triennial in Krakow and also for the 120th Biennale International d’Estampe Contemporaine in Quebec. Map-making is a key part of Lilburn’s printmaking practice. ‘North South East West’ comprises of intaglio prints that consider two of Europe’s borders: between Poland and Belarus (East-West) and the Mediterranean Sea (North-South).
David Lilburn, Krakow: 20 June – 31 July; Quebec: 20 June – 12 September
‘The Work Life Effect’, an exhibition by Kerlin Gallery artist Liam Gillick is on at the Gwangju Museum of Art. The diverse forms of Gillick’s art, ranging across sculpture, installation, filmmaking, writing and varied collaborative projects, often allude to pivotal moments in the history of modern and postmodern art .
Liam Gillick: until 27 June
In response to the present limitations to exhibiting art, the Golden Thread Gallery has commissioned new works, to be shown online, from Graham Gingles, Joy Gerrard, Sharon Kelly, John Rainey, Chloe Austin, Ailbhe Greaney, Megan Doherty and Clare Gallagher. For ‘Not Alone’, each artist created a piece of art, tiny or portable enough to fit inside a glass bottle, which is sent to international curators to mount in their own homes as they see fit, thereby creating a new configuration and context for the work.
Not Alone: until July
