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Aoife Giles as part of St. Patrick’s Festival Art Trail

March 12, 2010 — March 17, 2010

Pieces of Cake

As part of The St. Patrick’s Festival 2010 Art Trail

OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2010, 6:30-8:30pm

Exhibition Continues thru Wednesday 17 March, open daily 2-6pm

2010 is a year of new beginnings for Thisisnotashop as we have let go of our gallery space to present a series of independent exhibitions in Ireland, New York, and Internationally. This series began in New York with The Writing Workshop at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center last month and we are now delighted to announce the next exhibition opens this Friday in Dublin as Thisisnotashop presents new work by Aoife Giles at the Crow Gallery in Temple Bar as part of the St. Patrick’s Festival Art Trail.

Aoife Giles (1980, Dublin) is a visual artist currently based in Dublin. She works in a variety of media including, photography, performance, video and installation. Her work explores the relations created between spaces and activities that we deem sacred or profane, the crossover between our public and private lives and the challenges of representing subjective experiences. This will be her third show with Thisisnotashop. She has exhibited and worked in Ireland, Brazil, England and Sweden.

For more details visit www.stpatricksfestival.ie

The Crow Gallery is located on the 1st Floor at 6 Crow Street (above Shan Indian Restaurant) in Temple Bar, Dublin 2. For a map visit www.crowgallery.net

Writing Workshop Exhibition at P.S.1 MOMA

February 11, 2010 — February 27, 2010

Glass I…

The Writing Workshop will exhibit an installation of work by four of its members in the vitrines at the cafe in P.S.1 MOMA from February 11th to 27th 2010.

Based in Dublin, Ireland since 2007 and supported by Thisisnotashop Gallery, The Writing Workshop has become an open hub for people to explore & develop writing. The Workshop is catalysed by a shared desire to explore the expansive & pervasive possibilities of text & words, particularly when expanded through transdisciplinary arts practices. Each of the Vitrines at P.S.1 Cafe will contain individual work specifically developed in response to the particular space of exhibition (the glass vitrine) by Áine Ivers, Jessica Foley, Susan Thomson & Jessamyn Fiore.

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Opening Hours Thursday through Monday, 12-6pm
Address: 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
www.ps1.org

Behind the glass you will find…

Free Energy City by Áine Ivers. Through text and drawing an imaginary ecological town is depicted. A lost lover guides us through streets where houses photosynthesize and wolves roam freely…

Allegory for Occupation by Jessica Foley sketches rough outlines of an experience in a crumbling workhouse in the midlands of Ireland, agitating currents of history & myth…

Susan Thomson’s The Swimming Diaries, excerpts from a 25,000 word book where each word corresponds to a stroke swum during the month when her mother was dying

Jessamyn Fiore’s remnants and text memory from a month spent living in the wilds of Patagonia, Chile, as well as A Play About Lee Lozano.

For more information please see:
www.thewritingworkshop.wordpress.com
www.aineivers.org www.jessicadfoley.com www.susanthomson.co.uk

The exhibition is supported by ArtBOOK and Culture Ireland.

3rd Annual Christmas (Art) Fair

December 17, 2009 — December 19, 2009

Thursday December 17th, 2-9pm
Friday December 18th, 2-10pm (Canabrism performs 8.30 pm)
Saturday December 19th, 12pm-7pm

This end of year tradition is where we throw open the doors to every artist who fancies putting their work on the wall and see what happens! We provide a suitably lively holiday atmosphere with fairy lights, mulled wine, music, and Christmas films galore…

Artists: bring down your work during the designated times* and claim your spot on the wall- first come first serve. We don’t curate, we don’t take a commission – it’s totally up to you!

Everyone Else: Come down to the most unique Christmas Fair in Dublin that includes a massive variety of different work by different artists- from paintings, to jewelry, to toys, to much much more!

*Artists can bring work for inclusion on Wed Dec 16th from 2pm-8pm.
It MUST BE COLLECTED on Sunday Dec 20th between 12-7pm (after that we are no longer in the gallery and cannot take care of your work!)

Plus on FRIDAY DECEMBER 18th 8.30 pm Live Music by Canabrism

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