St Carthage Hall
02 Jul - 25 Aug, 2019
Lismore Castle Arts is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Niamh O’Malley at St Carthage Hall. The exhibition features a series of new works created especially for Lismore.
Niamh O’Malley works with drawing, sculpture, painting, video, and more recently glass. She is drawn to familiar materials that display traces of their own making, laboring the surfaces and edges of polished wood and graphite panels.
Originally trained as a painter, the artist’s interest in the construction and composition of images has extended spatially through the medium of glass. Rather than treating it as an invisible barrier, O’Malley emphasizes its physicality – its thickness, its surface, its opacity – giving attention to properties that might more usually be overlooked.
Her sculptures are partly reminiscent of furniture; shelves, canopies, panels, and bulk. They also function as ballast, solid weights to create a space of form and attention. Through her body of work, the artist continually reminds us of the directed and mediated image - from bench, to view, to landscape.
About the artist
Born Co Mayo, Ireland, 1975, Niamh O’Malley currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
O’Malley has made numerous solo exhibitions in recent years including Grazer Kunstverein, 2018, Bluecoat Liverpool, 2015/16, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2017 & 2015, a five venue solo show called ‘The Mayo Collaborative’ Ireland (2013), ‘Garden’, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2013) Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway (2012), ‘Model’, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2011), ‘Island’, Centre Culturel Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2010), ‘Frame, Glass, Black’ Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (2010), ‘Echo’, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2010), ‘No Distance’, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland (2009). A selection of group exhibitions include The National Gallery of Ireland, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, CAG, Vancouver, KARST, Plymouth, eva International, Biennale of Visual Art, Limerick, Eli & Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Galleria Civica di Modena, White Box, New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art & Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany.
From 2022
Stable Yard at Lismore Castle
Niamh O’Malley has been commissioned to create a new permanent artwork for the former stable yard at Lismore Castle.
Open to view on selected dates from 2022
Lismore Castle Stable Yard
This installation is now permanently housed at the Stable Yard at Lismore Castle.
02 Apr - 30 Oct, 2022
Lismore Castle Arts
A group exhibition curated by the celebrated Irish fashion designer, Simone Rocha
28 May - 03 Jul, 2022
St Carthage Hall
A solo exhibition of new work by one of Ireland's most celebrated artists.
28 May - 21 Aug, 2022
The Mill
The first installation at our new venue, The Mill.
16 Jul - 21 Aug, 2022
St Carthage Hall
A group exhibition curated by Mary Cremin and Paul McAree.
03 Sept - 02 Oct, 2022
The Mill
An exhibition featuring graduate work from artists across Ireland.
03 Sept - 02 Oct, 2022
St Carthage Hall
A group exhibition curated by Padraig Spillane.
23 Sept, 2022
Lismore Castle Arts
Join us for Culture Night and a tour of the girls girls girls exhibition.
Lismore Castle Arts
Monday to Sunday
10:30am – 5:30pm
March – October
St Carthage Hall
Saturdays and Sundays
12pm – 5pm during exhibitions
Other times by appointment
The Mill
Saturdays and Sundays
12pm – 5pm during exhibitions
Other times by appointment
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