Wandering Star - Mark Joyce

Wandering Star, a solo show by Mark Joyce, 11 april - 15 may 2026, at the Green On Red Gallery.

In the final week of Mark Joyce's Wandering Star exhibition, on Wednesday, 13th May at 7:00 pm, composer Fergal Dowling and guitarist Shane Latimer presented a live musical event as a response to the artist's acrylic on raw linen paintings. This has been the second occasion composer Fergal Dowling has done so.

Wandering Star is a reference to the physics of light and celestial mechanics, and also a nod to an artistic journey over the decades through the indeterminacy of painting. Joyce uses an arc motif, an elemental unit of human invention and expression, with oblique reference to early human structures, manuscripts and notations, or, as the artist likes to say, ‘stuff holding stuff up’. From a rhythmic and mechanical foundation, a bending of the light, familiar, like the Rings of Saturn, or the passing lights on the nearby orbital motorway, errors accumulate, an entropic unspooling, fragmenting towards chaos and disorder.

- VAI ( Visual Artist Ireland )

'In Conversation' with Fergus Martin and Sarah McAuliffe - at The LAB Gallery

Join us for a conversation on the exhibition Landscapes Formal and Wild with artist Fergus Martin and Sarah McAuliffe, Curator of Irish Art post 1900, National Gallery of Ireland.

The event will take place at 1.00pm on Thursday, 25 June in the LAB Gallery. 

Fergus Martin‍ ‍Tree 2014 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 159 x 106cm Edition 2 of 3

Fergus Martin is an Irish painter, sculptor and photographer, known for his post-minimlaist aesthetic. He’sjoining the curator Sarah McAuliffe, acurator of Irish art post 1900 at the National Gallery of Ireland. She is responsible for the display, acquisition and interpretation of the National Gallery’s Irish collection, specifically as it relates to work produced after 1900, for a talk about Fergus latest exhibition Landscapes Formal and Wild.

'In Conversation' - Oisín Tozer and Niamh Darling

On Saturday 13 June, 1-2pm Oisin Tozer will be In Conversation with Niamh Darling to talk and walk through Breathing in the Dark, Tozer's first solo exhibition at Green On Red Gallery.

"In all, the exhibition is a lesson in not taking things at face value. Things that seem definite on first glance are revealed as a complex constellations of meaning and non-meaning. The initial directness of the work, the quality that unnerved me, gives way to a fragile line of inquiry. In Oisin's work, I recognise my own compulsion to try and understand something correctly, to find its true meaning. This is a compulsion the work invites, while interrogating the epistemological frameworks that we take for granted. The split ends of Tozer's grass braids, the wood shavings littered on the floor, knowingly evoke a slow unravelling of the very idea of certanity; we are plunged into the glitching dephts of the unknown."
                                                     

  - Niamh Darling, Scratching the surface, 2026, for Oisín Tozer's solo show A Fragile Line, the LAB Gallery, Dublin City Council, Dublin 1

Breathing in the Dark will run in Green On Red Gallery until Friday 3 July

Oisín Tozer‍ Breathing in the Dark solo exhibition ( 2026 ) at Green On Red Gallery

Danus ( 2026 ) Foiled stained glass Perne ( 2026 ) Grass 458x100x10 cm Breathing in the Dark ( 2026 ) Stained birch plywood Lilith ( Mirrored ) ( 2026 ) Foiled stained glass 58x6.5x3.5 cm 230x425x0.6 58x6.5x3.5

“Oisín Tozer is showing strong, unapologetically minimalist art in 'Breathing in the Dark' at Green On Red Gallery. This exhibition contains only five artworks and yet the large space of the gallery feels like there is just the right amount of art in it.” — Review from Martin Shiel.

Drawing It Out

ANNEX   Kirstin Arndt   Alan Butler  John Cronin  Damien Flood 
Mark Joyce   Arno Kramer  Caroline McCarthy   Niamh McCann
Fergus Martin   Peter Piller   Bridget Riley   Nigel Rolfe   Xavier Theunis 

Opening Reception :      Thursday, 13th July     18:00 - 20:00 hrs

Dates :                                Thursday, 13th July - Friday, 25th August    2023

Drawing It Out, is the title of Green On Red Gallery's summer 2023 exhibition featuring new and recent work by gallery and invited artists in multiple media.  

While the title suggests the medium of drawing - the root and beginning of many artists' practices - it also can have nothing to with works on paper or even work that is hand-wrought. The viewer is invited to

' work it out ' to arrive at a clear grasp of the painting, photograph, drawing or installation in front of them. Typically in Drawing it Out the viewing is amplified and extended in a multitude of ways.

We are delighted to be showing for the first time in Ireland, new photographic work and drawings by German artist Peter Piller.

 For more information contact: jerome@greenonredgallery.com | www.greenonredgallery.com

Beyond Drawing - Arno Kramar

Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre   Uillinn   Marsh   Skibbereen    Co. Cork

23 July - 8 September   2022

Arno Kramer has acted as curator for a new group exhibition, Beyond Drawing, at West Cork Arts Centre. The exhibition includes work by three artists from Ireland and three from The Netherlands, including Felicity Clear, Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Kiera O’Toole, Marisa Rappard and Mary-Ruth Walsh. The exhibition at Uillinn will be accompanied by discussions and other events exploring this expanded field of drawing. The first iteration of Beyond Drawing, featuring work by these six artists, was presented at Ballina Arts Centre in 2020.

"Drawing is a speculative and exploratory process, and many contemporary artists are testing what the parameters of a drawing can be. Charcoal, pencil and ink have been supplemented with materials such as wire, tape, wood and steel. Artists are experimenting with materials such as smoke, water, light and air, and methods of presentation such as installation and film. This exhibition captures a moment in contemporary drawing practices, it invites the viewer to viscerally engage with drawing through an expanded field which opens up new possibilities. Several of the works are site specific and constructed on site over time and in relation to the physical building, all are experimental and explorative, while holding an authenticity and sensitivity to the core of drawing practice."

Link to exhibition page:

https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/beyond-drawing

Marisa Rappard Waves of whispers, traces, tidings pencil on paper and wood 2020

GAME UP - Opening June 2 in Berlin

Elaine Hoey, A Blind Eye, 2021

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce GAME UP, its first international exhibition at transmediale studio, Berlin.   

Preview: 18:00 - 21:00, Thursday June 2
Open: June 1 - 26
Wednesdays – Fridays 13:00 - 19:00
Saturdays & Sundays June 11:00 - 19:00 
Entrance: Free
Address: transmediale studio, Gerichtstr. 35, 13347 Berlin

GAME UP seeks to get under the skin of our increasingly digital planet as a springboard to new thinking and new action through the work of  artists, Alan Butler, Elaine Hoey, Conor McGarrigle, Rosa Menkman,  David OReilly and Paper Rad/Cory Arcangel. GAME UP is a reckoning, a rear mirror view and a look at the future of our hyper-connected world.  

What are the rules of engagement in this electronic superhighway and who is policing them?  What of our digital shadow and its instantaneous monetisation? How are race and gender played out in the digital space? By turning the technology on itself, the artists in GAME UP create ways to consider and expose this hidden world. The viewer is brought deep into virtuality by means of narratives and experiences that question and confront the digital contract.

Conor McGarrigle, practicing artist and lecturer in Fine Art in the Technological University, Dublin, reminds us in his Electronic Superhighway (2022) of the richness of historical material, even in the short decades since the internet was founded and early ‘70s telemental art.

Artist and  lecturer in Fine Art at The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Elaine Hoey’s walk-in VR installation/performance brings the viewer awkwardly face to face with an Oracle far removed from its Delphic forebearer who might predict a different kind of future.

Alan Butler represented Ireland at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021, as a founding member of the collective of artists and architects, Annex. GAME UP presents Alan Butler’s 20 minute video Mondo Cane (2018), a journey through a sumptuous John Berger-like sequence of images and sounds mined from Grand Theft Auto.

Rosa Menkman is an artist, lecturer and pioneer of glitch art. Her work Glitch Studies Manifesto promises hope for what glitch might offer by suggesting disintegration might democratize society.

LA-based David OReilly works with animation, Augmented Reality and gaming. For GAME UP, the artist presents 4004 (2021), a free-standing resin monolith in which an Intel microchip - The Intel 4004 originally released by Intel Corporation in 1971 – has been preserved, resembling a factice out-of-place. The sculpture also exists as an NFT.

Chiptuner Paper Rad and video and game artist Cory Arcangel’s work, Super Mario Movie (2005), is a 15-minute movie programmed onto a Mario Brothers cartridge, in which we see the plumber evolving in a chaotic, corrupt and glitchy world.

 This exhibition is supported by Culture Ireland and curated by Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, with assistance from transmediale Festival of Art and Digital Culture, Berlin.

 For more information contact: jerome@greenonredgallery.com | www.greenonredgallery.com

Gallery Update August 2020

David O'Reilly
Cor*na Voicemails - Quarantine Dreams, 2020
short film
11:08 minutes

REMOTE JOY REVIEW - PAPER VISUAL IRELAND

"There is something valuable about this provisionality, an improvisational meeting of expedience and emergency."

For those who may have missed our first virtual show, Remote Joy, Paper Visual Art gave an in depth review of the work, format and relationship between the gallery and the audience. The show marked an important link between our artists, audience and physical space. Featuring new work by artists Alan Butler, Aoife Shanahan, Caroline McCarthy, Constant Dullaart, Damien Flood, David O’Reilly, Fergus Martin, John Graham, Kirstin Arndt, Mark Joyce and Ronan McCrea.

The link to that review can be found below;
http://papervisualart.com/2020/07/09/remote-joy-green-on-red-gallery-dublin-1-and-online-14-may-28-june-2020/

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Niamh McCann
McCann’s the Upshot AKA The Awakening Man AKA The Vanquished One (masked), 2018
Taxidermy fawn, Latex, bitumen, Box Steel
Frame, Neon
From the exhibition Furtive Tears, Hugh Lane Gallery

Collection of the Arts Council of Ireland

NIAMH MCCANN SHORTLISTED FOR VENICE BIENNALE

Green On Red Artist Niamh McCann has been shortlisted for the Irish representative for the Venice Biennale. Niamh's work includes sculpture, installation, painting and video, explores philosophical riddles/conundrums through seemingly random visual juxtapositions and spatial relationships, looking toward themes of travel, globalization and urbanization.

For more info on Niamh's work please follow the link to her website below:
www.niamhmccann.com

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Mark Joyce and Fergal Dowling
Tyndall’s Blues - Exterior Photograph

TYNDALL'S BLUES - VISUAL CARLOW

Mark Joyce and Fergal Dowling
23 July - 18 October

Tyndall’s Blues is an artistic collaboration between visual artist Mark Joyce and composer Fergal Dowling which responds to the transparent skin of Visual Carlow.

Tyndall’s Blues uses blue light and intermittent ‘refracted' sound to explore the work of Carlow, Leighlinbridge born John Tyndall (1820-93), the brilliant nineteenth-century experimental physicist, alpinist, progressive public intellectual and gifted science educator. 

Mark Joyce explores the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from scientific and philosophical concepts of physical light. He studied Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK, and the USA, won awards from The British Council, Thomas Damman Trust, and the Georgette Chen fellowship in 2016. His work is in the collections of the IMMA and the Arts Council of Ireland. 
 

For more info on the exhibition, follow the link to the Visual Carlow website below:
https://www.visualcarlow.ie/exhibitions/info/tyndalls-blues

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John Graham
Kosmische
acrylic, pigment ink and pencil on paper
36 x 27 cm

STORIES FROM LISMORE AND BEYOND

Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford, Ireland
 31 July –  11 October 2020

John Graham is currently exhibiting in Stories from Lismore and Beyond, at Lismore Castle Arts. The show documents an extraordinary moment in society, since the Covid-19 pandemic has spread across the globe. As people have been in lockdown for several months, our lives have seemingly transformed beyond recognition, with a shared moment for contemplation unimaginable only a few months ago.

The exhibition has 3 distinct strands – invited submissions of images of daily life, mostly submitted through social media; and include artists such as Dervla Baker, Lee Behegan, Ella Bertilsson, Stephen Brandes, Susan Buttner, Clashmore Chairs, Carol Anne Connolly, Cronan Creagh, Fanny Currey, Francis Edmund Currey, Lucien Freud, John Graham, Breda Geoghegan, Elaine Grainger, Austin Hearne, Paul Henry, Michele Horrigan, Fiona Kelly, Arno Kramer, Valerie Lee, Victoria William Ley, Heather and Ivan Morison, David Nash, Peter Nash, Dennis McNulty, Katie Nolan, Deirdre O’Mahony, Alison Pilkinton, Philip Quinn, Jim Ricks, Ciara Roche, Carolyn Sergeant, Angie Shanahan, Superfolk, Emma Tenant, Aram Wahhoud, Louise Wallace – and many more

Upcoming Free Event- Screen Walk with Alan Butler, April 22nd at 18:00 GMT

Image: Alan Butler, 6B4J3f859UCQI0_jzFoXyw_0_0.jpg (Spooky timing that in the queue today is burning a taco truck), 2016, Giclée print on archival 100% cotton portfolio rag, Edition of 3, +1 AP, 90.5 cm x 61cm

Join our gallery artist, Alan Butler, for a live-streamed performance piece in partnership with Screen Walks, an online collaborative series created and hosted by The Photographers Gallery, London and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. The Screen Walks series seeks to explore the limits of creative online spaces and shine a light on our vibrant, but often overlooked, digital cultural scene. Butler will lead attendees in a tour of the game environment of Grand Theft Auto V, and focus his performance on topics of representation, simulation and the role of the in-game photographer. Interested parties can register prior to the event and find more information about the piece at this link- https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/talks-and-events/screen-walk-alan-butler