January 31 – February 21, 2019
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY | JANUARY 31, 2019 | 6-8pm

 

Burren College of Art is pleased to host Interplay, an exhibition of work by our 2018 Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award recipients: Conor Coady, Phoebe McDonogh, Matthew Mitchell, and Olivia Normile.

Interplay features a display of each artist’s explorations and pursuits of the multidimensional facets around their direct environment. Through the extraction of hidden qualities and processes in physical responses, these actions result in the creation of a collective visual dialogue and language.

The Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award is an annual award offered by the Burren College of Art in conjunction with artist-led gallery G126 in Galway. Each year four emerging Irish artists are selected from an open submission and given the opportunity for a focused period of producing work during a one month residency at BCA. This group of artists then work collaboratively with G126 to produce a large scale show that takes place in both galleries at a later date. EIARA started in 2014 during the Burren College of Art’s 20 year celebrations, and was conceived as a way of discovering and supporting emerging talent in Ireland’s contemporary art scene.

 

Contact: Lisa Newman lisa@burrencollege.ie or +353 65 7077200

Top Image : Phoebe McDonogh

December 8, 2018 – January 18, 2019
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY | DECEMBER 8, 2018  6-8pm

Tanya de Paor | Kelly Klaasmeyer

Perrin Duncan | Katie Kramer | Morgan Madison | Kaitlynn Webster

 

Burren College of Art is pleased to host the PhD|MFA Interim Exhibition, Strange Bedfellows, along with the Study Abroad undergraduate end-of-year exhibition and postgraduate Open Studios.

In Strange Bedfellows, six artists from Ireland, United States and Canada will be presenting works-in-progress on a variety of different perspectives and themes such as the environment, narratives, and painterly abstraction.

Works will be exhibited by second year MFA students Perrin Duncan, Katie Kramer, Morgan Madison and Kaitlynn Webster. Tanya de Paor and Kelly Klaasmeyer are current PhD students and will be showing work reflecting their research practice.

The exhibition will be opened by Michaële Cutaya who is a writer, researcher and editor on art living in County Galway.

Contact: Lisa Newman at lisa@burrencollege.ie or +353 (0)65 7077200

 

October 25 – November 23 | 2018

Opening Reception | Thursday, October 25 | 6-8pm

Opening remarks by Frank Golden

 

IN REGARD OF THE DISREGARDED

A Dutch Perspective on Remainder, Scrap and Traces

Els Mikx | Ank Lauvenberg | Willem van Goor

 

In Regard of the Disregarded brings together the work of three Dutch artists Els Mikx, Ank Lauvenberg, and Willem van Goor – long-time residents in the West of Ireland, where the relatively isolated communities and environments in which they live have informed their collective work over the last twenty years.

Recent drawings and paintings by

TIMOTHY EMLYN JONES

13^th September to 19^th October 2018

Opening Reception, 6 – 8pm Thursday 13^th September 2018

The exhibition will be opened by the composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

The opening will feature the premiere performance of For Here There Is No Place, a composition for sarode and electronics by Matthew Noone, inspired by a painting by Timothy Emlyn Jones.

Please note: The gallery will be open 14^th September to 19^th October 2018, 10am – 5pm, Monday – Friday, except 20^th-21^st September when the gallery will be closed to the public for a private seminar.

      EVENING CONCERT

Joe Henry, Lisa Hannigan and Glen Hansard

Saturday | October 13 | 8pm (doors 7:30pm)

The Gallery |Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare | Ireland

SOLD OUT

 

SONGWRITING  MASTERCLASS

Led by Joe Henry, Lisa Hannigan and Glen Hansard

Saturday, October 13 from 11am – 3pm

Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare | Ireland

Fee €120 (includes evening concert) – limit 25 places

SOLD OUT

 

BURREN CONNECTION 

Early Marks | Keith Payne

July 26 – September 7, 2018

PLEASE NOTE: The Gallery will be closed from Mon 27/8 – Thurs 30/8 and reopening on Friday the 31 at 9:00am.

The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare 

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JULY 26, 6 – 8 PM

Opening remarks by Louise Janvier

 

THIN PLACES

MFA/MA Graduate Exhibition 2018

The Gallery, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
14^th April – 27^th April, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, 14^th April  6pm-8pm

Burren College of Art is pleased to host the 2018 MFA/MA graduate exhibition opening on Saturday, 14^th  April at  6pm. In THIN PLACES, MFA Melissa Cayford explores how the external environment affects the body through her innovative, mixed-media studio practice. Additionally, the Post Baccalaureate, MFA 1 Exhibition and the end of year Undergraduate Exhibition will run concurrently with the Graduate Exhibition.

May 17 – June 15, 2018

Opening Reception Thursday, May 17, 6.00 – 8.00 PM

The Gallery | Burren College of Art

Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare

 

Burren College of Art is pleased to announce NSK State Reserve: Crisis Currency. The exhibition will feature works by NSK State Reserve (Charles Lewis & david K. Thompson), NSK citizens, and members of IRWIN, one of the founding groups of the Neue Slowenische Kunst collective.

THE BURREN ANNUAL 2018

The Celtic Image | Sir Sidney Nolan OM, RA

June 21 – July 20, 2018
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare 

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 6 – 8 PM

 SYMPOSIUM: Friday, June 22
The Lecture Hall |Burren College of Art

9:30am-3:30pm

FREE and OPEN to ALL

Please RSVP to reserve your place: lisa@burrencollege.ie

 

The Burren Annual is supported by funding from Clare County Council.

Midsummer’s Eve Bonfire Festival

 

Saturday | June 23 | 2017 

8pm-Midnight

 

Burren College of Art

Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare

 

Admission: €12 in advance, €15 at the door. Children under 12 FREE

Purchase tickets online HERE

PLEASE NOTE: ADVANCED TICKETS WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AFTER 5PM ON JUNE 23, BUT WE WILL HAVE TICKETS ON THE DOOR FOR €15.

Food and beverage available for purchase.

Costume and Summery dress encouraged!

 

The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare

LIVE PERFORMANCE: THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 6 – 8 PM

EXHIBITION/INSTALLATION: MARCH 1 – 29, 2018

 

Burren College of Art is pleased to host a live art performance and installation, ‘Breath and Blood’, by Irish artists, Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Corrigan Breathnach.  The performance will take place in the Gallery from 6pm onward on Thursday, March 1 and the installation will continue in the Gallery and Newtown Castle from March 1-29.

‘Breath and Blood’ is an exhibition/installation of drawings, video, sound and live art performance, looking at the cyclical nature of life and regeneration that occurs within it.  The audience is invited to view this as a possible aspect of mind, where nurturing growth and new energies can allow one to expand and renew one’s awareness of being.

February 1 – February 23, 2018
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, February 1, 6 – 8 PM

Burren College of Art is pleased to host Barnacle– a joint exhibition between the Burren College of Art and Gallery 126 featuring work by recipients of the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award in September of 2017.

The exhibition will be opened by Clare-based writer and artist, David Donohue.

Barnacle features the work of the four recipients of the Award: Ciarán Doyle, Laura McMorrow, Helena Gouveia Monteiro and Sarah Wren Wilson. Last October, these four artists took up a month’s residence in the Burren College of Art and the village of Ballyvaughan.