Community Climate Action Programme
Exploring Language as a Resource for Sustainability
Friday 22nd September 2023
Newtown Castle, Burren College of Art
You are warmly invited to join a creative gathering at the ReSource centre at the Burren College of Art (BCA) on Friday 22nd September to explore how we can access and share the rich reservoir of ecological wisdom which is carried in the Irish language and tradition.
Register HERE
contact@burrencollege.ie | T: +353 65 7077200
MA in Art & Ecology degree exhibition
DeAnna Boyer
Veronika Constantinou
August 17-September 8, 2023
Opening Reception | Thursday | August 17 | 6-8pm
Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan | H91 DX2N
Gallery Hours | Mon-Fri | 9:30am-5:00pm
contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 65 7077200
The Gallery will reopen for a short exhibition from July 10. Please check back for further updates.
contact@burrencollege.ie | 065 7077200
Opening Reception | Thursday, January 19 | 6-8pm
Gallery Hours | Mon-Fri | 9:30am-5:00pm
contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 65 7077200
Sunday | December 11 | 10am-5pm
Mon-Fri | 9:30am-5:00pm
Gallery will be closed from December 22, reopening January 3
contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 65 7077200
Sunday | December 11 | 10am-5pm
Mon-Fri | 9:30am-5:00pm
Gallery will be closed from December 22, reopening January 3
contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 65 7077200
November 3-25 | 2022
Opening Reception | November 3 | 6-8pm
Gallery Hours
9:30am-5:00pm | Monday-Friday
Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare | H91 H299
contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 65 7077200
PhD Exhibition
September 15 – October 28, 2022
Opening Reception: September 15, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9:30am-5:00pm
Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare | H91 H299
contact@burrencollege.ie
+353 65 7077200
dia thomas
aster reem david
brandon lomax
august 18-september 9 | 2022
opening reception | thursday | august 18 | 6-8pm
opening remarks by maeve stone
burren college of art | ballyvaughan | H91 DX2N
gallery hours | mon-fri | 9:30am-5:00pm
contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 65 7077200
Thursday, July 28:
5:00-6:00pm Artist Talk
6:00-7:00pm Opening Reception
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:00pm
Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan | Co, Clare H91 H299
contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 (0)65 7077200
9:00am-5:00pm CET/8:00am-4:00pm GMT
To reserve a ticket to join us in person on the Burren College of Art campus please click HERE
To book your place online, please visit:
BURREN COLLEGE OF ART | BALLYVAUGHAN | CO. CLARE
contact@burrencollege.ie 065 7077200
The Burren Annual is supported by funding from Clare County Council.
contact@burrencollege.ie | 065 7077200
January 27-February 25 2022
Gallery open to the public from February 1
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri – 9:30am-5:00pm
Please observe covid safety protocols when visiting the Gallery
PhD Symposium February 9 11:00am-12:30pm GMT
Discussant : Dr. EL Putnam, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway
Please join the symposium through the Zoom link below on February 9:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81776647692?pwd=RU02ckJnbTkzM2pCRzRnTFdKa3R3UT09
Meeting ID: 817 7664 7692
Passcode: 816458
contact@burrencollege.ie
+353 65 7077200
MFA Interim Exhibition
Elizabeth Bleynat | Tiffani Love | Francine Marquis
December 11, 2021 – January 21, 2022
Gallery Hours: Sunday: December 12 – 10am-5pm
Monday-Friday 9:30am-5:00pm
Note: The Gallery will be closed for the holidays from December 20 and reopening on January 4
ATTENDANCE SUBJECT TO COVID REGULATIONS.
Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
Also showing:
Wild With Foam and Glitter – Undergraduate Study Abroad Exhibition – December 11-16, 2021
If I Were Ewe – Installation by Verneri Salonen and PhoebeTohl – December 11 – 16, 2021
Postgraduate Open Studios – December 11-16, 2021
Contact: Lisa Newman, lisa@burrencollege.ie or +353 (0)65 7077200
Work by PhD Students from Burren College of Art
Qi Chen | Tanya de Paor | Kelly Klaasmeyer | Robbie E. Lawrence
Art Gallery, NUI Galway Quadrangle
Exhibition Run: November 15 – November 26
11.00am – 4.00pm, Monday – Saturday
contact@burrencollege.ie
October 28-November 26, 2021
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 28 6-8pm
7pm – Artist’s Conversation with Kevin Kavanagh
Gallery Hours:
9:30am-5:00pm Mon-Fri
Please observe current covid safety guidelines when entering the gallery.
contact@burrencollege.ie
065 7077200
Gordon D’Arcy
Miriam de Búrca
Frank Golden
Eileen Hutton
Timothy Emlyn Jones
Conor McGrady
Áine Phillips
Ruby Wallis
Gallery hours: 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday
Following current government guidelines, we are pleased to announce that we are able to open this exhibition for public viewing from May 10-14, 2021. Please do follow safety protocols, including the wearing of face masks in the gallery, and using hand sanitizing stations. Attendance is limited to 15 at a time.
Contact: Lisa Newman, lisa@burrencollege.ie
+353 65 7077200
Zoom OuT: BCA PhD Symposium 2021
Wednesday, March 10, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Presenters:
Qi Chen
Kat Cope
Tanya dePaor
Kelly Klaasmeyer
Robbie Lawrence
Ling Liu
The event will be moderated by BCA faculty: Dean, Conor McGrady and Dr. Áine Phillips.
Discussant:
Rod Stoneman, Emeritus Professor, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway
Topic: PhD Symposium 2021
Time: Mar 10, 2021 11:00 AM Dublin
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89830630341?pwd=UlhydXNDVUVPWVFaclE3MG1sNUhRQT09
Meeting ID: 898 3063 0341
Passcode: 466068
Contact: Lisa Newman lisa@burrencollege.ie
(UPDATE: Due to Level 5 restrictions in place fron December 31, 2020 – February 1, 2021, this exhibition will not be open to the public.)
Tairseach, the Irish word for threshold, indicates a point of convergence and crossing over. Here in the heart of the Burren, land meets sea, past meets present, and mind meets body. It is in this place that six artists came together: Brittany Baldwin, Shannon Castor, Ellen Ferrier, Letitia Hill, Aisling Jelinski, and Sam Kahn.
The permeability of boundaries is exemplified by the threshold – that thin veil between ‘here’ and ‘there’. Including themes of mind and body, place and space, and temporality and materiality, tairseach / threshold explores the merging of six diverse practices through the lens of the Burren.
In 1975, world renowned sculptor Richard Long created “A Circle in Ireland” on Doolin Point at The Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare. Over the years the stone circle has fallen into disrepair. Burren College of Art students and staff collaborated with Galway 2020, Clare Arts Office and Creative Ireland to restore the circle during a performative event that was filmed on location during February 2021.
“Coming Full Circle”, the film of the event was premiered on Galway 2020’s online platform and Clare County Council Arts Office’s website in the summer of 2021 and has since been selected for screening at international Film Festivals:
Toronto 4th Multinational Film Festival, Ontario Canada, 23 – 28 September 2021
https://torontomulticulturalfilmfestival.com/
Cucalorus 27th Annual FIlm Festival, Wilmington North Carolina, 10 – 14 November 2021
https://www.cucalorus.org/festival/
Roma Shorts Film Festival, Rome Italy, December 2021
https://www.romashortfilmfest.com/
Images: Burren College of Art students performing Coming Full Circle February 2021, photographs by Tom Flanagan
Please wear masks and observe safety measures and social distancing within the gallery.
Presence out of Place brings together the work of graduating Burren College of Art MFA students Chetan Bhakuni, A.S. Dutton, Nell O’Leary and
Jenette (Jet) Rodriguez.
This exhibition was scheduled to take place in April 2020, though due to COVID-19 has now been rescheduled to September when we hope to welcome audiences to the BCA Gallery to experience their work in person.
Contact: Lisa Newman lisa@burrencollege.ie
February 27 – March 27, 2020
Paintings by Trudi van der Elsen
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday | February 27, 2020 | 6-8pm
Gallery Hours : Monday-Friday | 9:30am-5:00pm
Burren College of Art is pleased to host an exhibition of paintings by Clare-based artist, Trudi van der Elsen, which analyses digitization as a source for new abstraction in painting.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, February 27, with opening remarks at 6:45pm by Úna McCarthy, Director/Curator at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Contact: Lisa Newman T: (0)65 7077200 e:lisa@burrencollege.ie
Practice Based Research at Burren College of Art
Qi Chen | Tanya de Paor | Kelly Klaasmeyer | Robbie Lawrence
January 30 – February 21, 2020
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle
Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare | H91 H299
Opening Reception: Thursday | January 30 | 6.00 – 8.00 PM
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday | 9:30am – 5:00pm
Chetan Bhakuni | A.S. Dutton | Nell O’Leary | Jet Rodriguez
December 7, 2019 – January 24, 2020
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY | DECEMBER 7, 2019 | 6-8pm
Gallery hours:
Monday – Friday, 9:30am – 5:00pm
Please note that the Gallery will be closed over the holiday break from December 23 – January 2
Tara Carroll, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín,
Siobhán O’Callaghan, Blaine O’Donnell
October 24 – November 22, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 6 – 8 PM
Opening remarks at 6:45 by Simon Fennessy Corcoran of Gallery 126
The Gallery | Burren College of Art
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday, 9:30am – 5:00pm
Image: Tara Carroll
Sean Cotter, Gary Robinson and Thomas Brezing
September 12 – October 18, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 6 – 8 PM
The Gallery | Burren College of Art
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday, 9:30am – 5:00pm
Please note: The Gallery will be closed for a private event for the dates of September 19 and 20, and will reopen the following Monday, September 23.
THE BURREN ANNUAL 2019
Saeri Kiritani and Dario Solman: Far From Home / The Way of the Heart
June 20 – September 6, 2019
The Gallery | Burren College of Art
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY JUNE 20 | 6 – 8 PM
GALLERY HOURS
Monday – Friday 10.00 AM – 5.00 PM
Please Note: The Gallery will be Closed August 26 – 29, 2019
East Meets West
Paintings by Anne Korff
May 16 – June 14 | 2019
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday | May 16, 2019 | 6-8pm
Opening remarks by John Behan at 6:45pm
Gallery Hours: 10:00am – 5:00pm, Monday – Friday
12:00pm – 5:00pm Saturdays
Image: Loss and Hope by Anne Korff
Saturday | June 22 | 2019
8pm-Midnight
Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
Admission: €12 in advance, €15 at the door. Children under 12 FREE
TICKETS ARE NOW ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
Food and beverage available for purchase.
Costume and Summery dress encouraged!
MFA Exhibition
Perrin Duncan | Katie Kramer | Morgan Madison | Kaitlynn Webster
April 13 – 26, 2019
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY | APRIL 13, 2019 | 6-8pm
Burren College of Art is pleased to host the MFA Exhibition, Periphery, along with the Study Abroad undergraduate end-of-year exhibition and postgraduate Open Studios.
Works will be exhibited by graduating year MFA students Perrin Duncan, Katie Kramer, Morgan Madison and Kaitlynn Webster.
In Periphery, the Burren College of Art’s 2019 Master of Fine Arts graduates will exhibit notions of the natural environment, time, meditation, and the collective. This diverse exhibition offers a culmination of two years of these students’ work, created on the periphery of the Burren.
The exhibition will be opened by author, Claire-Louise Bennett.
One by One till Many are Heard
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 8pm
Lecture Hall | Burren College of Art | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
Admission: €10
“One by One till Many are Heard”
What happens when you take radio storytelling into a live setting where the audience creates the musical score? Using looping technology and recorded words from their residency in Ireland, Kelley Libby and Wes Swing, in association with the HearSay International Audio Festival, present an interactive experiment in sound, storytelling, and collective interpretation.
Tickets can be purchased online HERE
Watching A Cow Die From Natural Causes
pages from an unfinished comic by Malcy Duff
February 28 – March 29 | 2019
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY | February 28, 2019 | 6-8pm
Burren College of Art is pleased to host an exhibition of work by Scottish comic artist, Malcy Duff. There will also be a launch of a new comic book by Duff at the Opening Reception.
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
13th September to 19th October 2018
Opening Reception, 6 – 8pm Thursday 13th 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 14th September to 19th October 2018, 10am – 5pm, Monday – Friday, except 20th-21st 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
14th April – 27th April, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, 14th April 6pm-8pm
Burren College of Art is pleased to host the 2018 MFA/MA graduate exhibition opening on Saturday, 14th 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.
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY | DECEMBER 9, 2017 | 6-8pm
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
September 28 – October 27 | 2017
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, September 28, 6 – 8 PM
August 10 – September 30, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, August 10 | 6-8pm
FREE and open to ALL
June 22 – July 28, 2017
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 6 – 8 PM
23rd June 2017 | 8pm – Midnight
Admission: €10
Blazing bonfires, food, wine, song, story, and more await you in the courtyard of Newtown Castle to celebrate St John’s Eve bonfire night!
DOING WHAT WE ARE TOLD MAKES US FREE
MAY 4 – JUNE 16, 2017
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, MAY 4, 6:00pm-8:00pm
April 15 – 28, 2017
The Gallery | Burren College of Art | Newtown Castle | Ballyvaughan | Co. Clare
OPENING RECEPTION April 15, 6-8pm
The Burren Annual
The 2nd NSK State Folk Art Biennale: Folk Art Rising 1916-2016
June 30 – August 5
Burren College of Art
Opening Reception & Performances Thursday, June 30, 6.00 – 9.00 PM
Symposium Friday, July 1, 10.00 AM – 5.00 PM
Terrain (En) Actions Saturday, July 2, 10.00 AM
Burren College of Art is pleased to announce The 2nd NSK State Folk Art Biennale as this year’s Burren Annual exhibition. The 2nd NSK State Folk Art Biennale will bring together over 30 international artists and collectives including special guests and NSK founding members, IRWIN.
