Maurice Blanchot wrote that the act of translating is not about making the difference disappear, rather it is about revelling in it.

Green On Red is proud to submit 'Suspended Particles' for Art SG 2024. Bringing together three artists who, in their unique approaches, and through various forms of expression, pose a profound challenge to the conventional understanding of artistic mediums, revelling in their differences, and blurring the boundaries that once defined them.

Aoife Shanahan’s work is driven by a scientific interest in camera-less photography. She creates unique images, often utilising labour-intensive techniques stemming from the 19th-century origins of photography. Her experimental approach towards traditional analogue materials allows her to explore their expressive possibilities and to question their contemporary relevance in a digital era. Her project 'BioTrace', translates the unseen presence of bacteria into striking photographic images. Initiated during the COVID-19 Pandemic, she exposed photographic film to bacteria, which feed on the particles of the film’s silver Gelatin emulsion, thus destabilizing it. The resulting negatives are scanned and printed creating mesmerising abstract vistas, caught between photography, sculpture and painting.

Also exploiting the area between painting and photography is Mark Joyce, who will produce a bespoke wall painting in the booth, along with a series of works on canvas. Joyce creates loose yet wonderfully balanced works in response to scientific and optical theory. Astutely aware of the materiality of the medium, where particles of colour swim suspended in pigment, Joyce works with representations of light; both physical and theoretical.  As part of his working process, he translates tangible observed reality into a form of abstraction, where he attempts to grasp the phenomenological strangeness of our optical experience.

The use of AI as a mode of translation is at the heart of Alan Butler's 'Deskscape' series. Butler’s heavily researched works draw from a complex web of cultural and contemporary histories, revealing depths between unseen layers.  His 'Deskscape' series consists of large, laboriously hand-produced painted works.  Oscillating between photography and painting, with 100s of hours of meticulous labour, the psychedelic abstractions are often mistaken for machine-fabricated, printed images. Butler’s 'Virtual botany' cyanotypes take their cue from 19th-century camera-less photography flora studies. The images document plant life that inhabits video games and VR environments. This virtual vegetation is then exposed through real sunlight onto photosensitive paper prepared using the original 19th-century cyan-blue photographic process.

Alan Magee

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"In Essence" is the title of an exhibition of new and recent work in a variety of sculptural, photographic, painted and performed media by 3 artists; Kirstin Arndt, Fergus Martin and English-born, Irish-based Nigel Rolfe. Each artist uses their materials in a stripped down, distilled or purified form to convey a fundamental message with the minimum of means.

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The gallery is proud to exhibit new work by Damien Flood, Mark Joyce, Fergus Martin, and Kirstin Arndt.

We are also exhibiting the work of Alan Butler who is last year's winner at the fair of the Museums Quarter WienQ21/EIKON Magazine/Vienna Contemporary Photography and Digital Media Artist-in-Residence Prize 2020 and includes Alan's solo exhibition at EIKON Schauraum, Q21 Schauräume / MuseumsQuartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, also opening to the public on September 02, 2021 and running to 4 October, 2021. EIKON #115 magazine launches same venue same night with main feature on the work of Alan Butler.

Mark Joyce is the recent recipient of The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Agility Award, 2021

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Green On Red Gallery is currently participating in Vienna Contemporary 2020 Art Fair, building on last year's success at the fair and the only Irish gallery present. Our participation, as always, is generously supported by Culture Ireland. Vienna Contemporary 2020 will be the first art fair in the world to reopen physically at its normal timeslot in a scant art fair calender, globally.

The gallery is proud to exhibit work for the first time in Vienna of artists John Cronin, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce, Niamh McCann, Ronan McCrea, David O'Reilly and Aoife Shanahan. We are also exhibiting the work of Alan Butler who is this year's winner at the fair of the Q21ViennaMuseums/EIKON magazine for Photography and Media Art 2020 Photography Prize.

Alan Butler

Recipient of VC/Museums Quarter/EIKON Magazine 2020 Artist-in-Residence Photography Award

Alan Butler has become the recipient of the Q21 Vienna Contemporary Artist-in-Residence Prize in cooperation with EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art.

Along with exhibiting his work at booth B06 in the Vienna Arts Fair, Alan will become the artist in residency of the MuseumsQuartier Wien for two months in 2021.

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Green On Red Gallery is proud to announce its participation in Volta 15, Basel, Switzerland for the 10th time with four of its gallery artists with the theme of Memory and Desire, Booth 01. They include Alan Butler, Damien Flood, Caroline McCarthy and Xavier Theunis with new work completed for the exhibition at Elsässerstrasse 215, 4056 Basel.

Damien Flood’s earthenware clay ceramic figures are shown in combination with oil on linen paintings from his recent The Figure in the Carpet exhibition at Green On Red, Dublin, in 2018/19. This is not the first time his work has left the wall but it is the most explicit expression to date of the tension the artist likes to exploit in the transition from the real world to the fragmented world of his imagination and memory and the tension between a figurative and an abstract language. Crying Man (2019), Potter (2019), Metal Head (2019) and Moon Vase (2019) show off the artists considerable skill in this new medium. They also tug with dark humour at chords of association with primitive cultures and pagan offerings while echoing the emotional landscape of his oil on linens.

Xavier Theunis’s curiously titled Vue d’Atelier #23 continues his impeccable use of sharply cut adhesive vinyl paper, this time in a rainbow of gently curving, perfectly contiguous strips arranged in 3 equal columns. The vertical columns oscillate and sway adding to the up and down dance of colour. Colours range from fluorescent orange, yellow and pinks to sparkling white, sparkling gold and cerize over a 240 x 180cms expanse creating a luxuriant voluptuousness.

In her trademark understated fashion Caroline McCarthy picks the most modest and unpromising of starting points, the disposable plastic drinking straw - the subject and medium of choice for her first solo show and installation in Green On Red Gallery in 2011 - and performs conceptual summersaults giving the viewer on one level a whimsical composition but on another challenging their very belief system. Together Forever is the title of a new series of exquisite ink and gouache paintings on paper that will also be shown in her forthcoming solo show in Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn ( opening June 25, 2019 ). The suggestion of permanence and unity is at odds with the bare facts of these trompe l’oeil renderings of a transigent condition or, in the words of the artist “ a dishevelled formalism “. She adds: “ Together Forever is a joyful expression of a hedonistic party, a celebration drunk on colour and excess with no thought for the headache tomorrow “.

Alan Butler’s cyanotypes and deskscapes continue to test and cross the lines between the digital and whatever we define as the real realm. Butler mines that dichotomy in rich of ways employing manual techniques of early photography and painting.

Xavier Theunis will have his first solo exhibition at Green On Red Gallery in 2019

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Vue Art Fair
National Contemporary Art Fair Dublin

Damien Flood
John Graham
Tom Hunter
Mark Joyce
Ramon Kassam
Niamh McCann

RHA gallery,
15 Ely Place,
Dublin 2

Green On Red Gallery are proud to present a selection of work by gallery artists including Damien Flood, John Graham, Tom Hunter, Mark Joyce, Ramon Kassam and Niamh McCann at Vue National Contemporary Art Fair 2018.

Damien Flood exhibits a selection of watercolours produced on residency at The Centre Culture Irlandais during the Summer of 2018, a prelude to his solo exhibition at Green On Red Gallery opening November 29th, 2018. John Graham brings a pair of beautiful new detailed drawings in acrylic and ink. (see image above) Tom Hunter's  atmospheric Hackney Marshes from his recent solo exhibition 'Figures in a Landscape' is on display. Mark Joyce shows Glissando and Bell from his current project Solas Salach | Dirty Light which is on display in Green On Red Gallery until November 24th. Ramon Kassam brings Night Painter from his most recent body of work and solo exhibition Study for a Studio by the Sea. Niamh McCann, whose solo exhibition Furtive Tears in on display in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane until January 6th, 2019 exhibits framed gold leaf and watercolour works. 

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June 11th –16th, 2018


Kirstin Arndt 
Alan Butler
Ramon Kassam
Caroline McCarthy
Xavier Theunis

ELSÄSSERSTRASSE 215, 4056 BASEL
adjacent to Novartis Campus
3 min walk from Voltaplatz

OPENING HOURS

Tuesday – Saturday, June 12th – 16th: 10 am – 7 pm

SATURDAY PUBLIC SOIRÉE: 7 – 9 pm

Green On Red Gallery is pleased to announce attendance at VOLTA 14, Basel. The gallery presents a booth with the work of Kirstin Arndt (DE), Alan Butler (IE), Ramon Kassam (IE), Caroline McCarthy(IE) and Xavier Theunis (FR).

Kirstin Arndt has an extremely keen sense for the aesthetics of ordinary things. Their materials are often sought after and found among commercial building materials and industrial materials. Throughout this the Düsseldorf artist references the historical sources of Concrete Art. Kirstin Arndt does not simply present the materials she uses, they are as it were “re-informed” by her: She releases the things from their original functional contexts, gives them form, and lends them a new purpose.

Arndt manages to bring increased sensitivity and attention to the everyday material found, both as an artist and as an observer. In her untitled tarpaulin pieces, she has taken industrially manufactured truck tarpaulins, complete with their functional hooks and eyes, and hung them on the wall. Quite profane, but composed most exactly to produce a charged effect. One half of the tarpaulin advances to the monochrome image surface, the other is positioned so that it encloses the image area on the right edge in a baroque fold. As a result, the work literally unfolds an inner dynamic that does not distract perception from the consideration of a mere "thing in itself" at second glance. The effect is astonishing - also because this art undermines the viewer's expectations with the simplest means.

Alan Butler's work often conceptually reflects and refracts the inner-workings of the internet, the implications of new media technology, and the politics of appropriation. He received his MFA from LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore (2009). and BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2004).

Recent activities include solo exhibitions Down and Out in Los Santos, Malmö Fotobiennal, Sweden (2017); HELIOSYNTH, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2017); We Were Promised Anarchy, But What We Got Was Chaos, Solstice Art Centre, Ireland (2015); Youth Outreach In N. Korea, Supermarket , Stockholm, Sweden (2015); The Parallax View, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland (2014); and group exhibitions As Above, So Below, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2017); Les Rencontres d'Arles,France (2017); Scissors Cuts Paper Wraps Stone, CCA Derry/Londonderry (2016) ; FUTURES: Anthology 2, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland (2015); Telling Lies, RUA RED, Dublin, Ireland (2015); Please return, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2015), among others. He lectures in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design. Alan Butler is represented by Green On Red Gallery, Ireland.
 

Ramon Kassam is an artist from Limerick City in Ireland, paintings forms the basis of his practice. Kassam’s recent work re-connects with the concept of the artist as creative subject, combining the thematic of the artist's workspace (canvas, studio, gallery and urban environment) with formal and conceptual references to the autonomous reality of modernist abstraction. Ramon is a graduate of the Limerick School of art and Design and has been exhibiting regularly since 2013. Exhibitions include: The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan (USA), The Green on Red Gallery - Dublin (Solo), The Lewis Glucksman Gallery - Cork, Limerick City Gallery of Art (2015 Solo), and EVA International Ireland's Biennale, Limerick (2014).

He has received a number of awards and residencies. These include The 16 x 16: Next Generation Bursary Award, a special initiative of the Arts Council and the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme, in recognition of the role of artists in the events of 1916. Residencies include The Embassy of Ireland in Addis Ababa - Project Residency, The RHA Tony O’ Malley Residency Award and Irish Museum of Modern Art. In addition to his practice Kassam founded and was a Director of both Wickham Street Studios, an artist studio complex and Occupy Space, a visual arts exhibition space in Limerick City from 2009-2011.

Caroline McCarthy: Crisps, toilet-paper, plastic bags, packaging, rubbish, furniture are some of the everyday materials brought into conversation with certain modes of art production and display, in work which explores the nature of representation, consumerism, visual hierarchy and ideas of value and taste.

Caroline McCarthy was born in Dublin and studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin; and Goldsmiths College, London. Her work has been exhibited widely, with solo shows including Green on Red, Dublin; Gimpel Fils, London; Hoet Bekaert, Ghent; Parker’s Box Gallery, New York; Limerick City Art Gallery; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Gasworks, London; Void Gallery, Derry; and Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf. Group shows include Europe Exists, curated by Rosa Martinez and Harald Szeemann, MMCA, Greece (2003); East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2004); To Be Continued, curated by The British Council, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland (2005); (Z)art curated by Jan Hoet, AbtArt, Stuttgart (2010); Group Coordination, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2014); and Dismaland, curated by Banksy, Somerset, UK (2015). 

She has also worked on a number of large-scale public projects including a commission for King’s College London with the Contemporary Art Society and a citywide project for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Her work is included in the collections of The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Allied Irish Bank, Arts Council of Ireland, Office of Public Works, Zabludowicz Collection, European Central Bank, Berge Madrid, and private collections.

The way in which Xavier Theunis formulates this question — his own plastic vocabulary, his visual singularities, his building process — are quite unique. Any reference to the window or the building process here above are very much intentional. As indeed, Theunis’ works strive to analyse the various ways in which to “construct” a painting. This is also true in his most recent projects — Vues d’atelier/Studio views and Paysages/Landscapes

The two abstract series mentioned follow a similar working pattern. Over large metal plates, colourful adhesive scraps - that have been sourced from a sign manufacturer — are gathered. A painting that is edified from scraps does naturally question the very finality of a work of art.  It questions as well the relation of fine art with decoration using a two-pronged approach, which can be perilous. First, it gambles with the sourcing of the scraps and finding ways to assemble them. Second, it plays with the ambiguity of colourism when the artist himself confesses to using shades “not always self-evident and not really chosen”. Shades that he doesn’t necessarily like but that enable him to accentuate some tensions in their interconnections to each other. The result could hardly be called an image.

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Green On Red Gallery

at VOLTA NY 2018

Niamh McCann – Furtive Tears

Thursday, March 8 – Saturday, March 10: 12 – 8 pm

                                     Sunday, March 11: 12 – 5 pm

Green On Red Gallery are pleased to announce attendance at VOLTA NY2018. The gallery presents a solo booth of the work of multidisciplinary artistNiamh McCann.

McCann considers herself a landscape artist, balancing portrayal of the view as subject with a primary concern in the culturally constructed. Works delve into the pivotal role of the architectural trope (the built) and the mediated environment (the status). The artist is interested in objects becoming the palimpsest of disparate influences and idealisms removed from original incarnation by time; layered repositories of various narratives and meanings. Explorations take the form of concise built-objects in multi-mediums, often presented within larger installations and site-responsive pieces.

Niamh McCann has recently taken part in Penthouse Arts Residency, Belgium including exhibition 'Lab: Gallery 20 {Furtive Tears}' at V2Vingt Brussels, Belgium. She is in preparation for her second solo exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, October 2018.

McCann is the recipient of various Arts Council of Ireland awards, and residencies at Cemeti Arthouse, Indonesia; HIAP, International Artists' Residency, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland, URRA Artist Residency, Argentina, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland; and of Perspective and EV+A exhibition awards


Her work is represented in the collections; Irish Museum of Modern Art, the OPW, Limerick City Gallery, Swansea City Council, The London Institute, Hiscox Collection, London as well as multiple private collections.

See our gallery news for more details.

VOLTA NY is a contemporary art fair comprised of solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The American incarnation of the original Basel VOLTA show, VOLTA NY has since its 2008 debut operated as a beacon for creative discovery and social engagement during Armory Arts Week.

Led by Amanda Coulson, VOLTA’s longtime Artistic Director, VOLTA NY showcases contemporary art positions in an approachable way accessible to younger art-lovers and seasoned collectors alike. By spotlighting artists through solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes their galleries’ exhibition styles “at home” while refocusing the fair-going experience back to its most fundamental point: the artists and their works.

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Supported by Culture Ireland

Art Düsseldorf 

17–19 November, 2017

Thursday | Nov 16, 2017 | Preview 12-4 pm
Thursday | Nov 16, 2017 | Opening 4-8 pm
Friday      | Nov 17, 2017 12-7 pm
Saturday  | Nov 18, 2017 11-7 pm
Sunday    | Nov 19, 201711-7 pm

Areal Böhler
Hansaallee 321
40549 Duesseldorf

Green on Red Gallery is excited to be exhibiting at the inaugural Art Düsseldorf Fair at the Areal Böhler. We are exhibiting new work by 3 gallery artists, Damien Flood, Fergus Martin, and Caroline McCarthy in a booth shared by the Cologne based Thomas Rehbein Galerie.

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VUE Contemporary Art Fair

2nd–5th November, 2017

Friday 3rd        11am-8pm

Saturday 4th    11am-7pm

Sunday 5th      12-6pm

VUE Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, D. 2 

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to share a selection, including new works, from Alan Butler, Damien Flood, Niamh McCann, Fergus Martin, John Cronin and Caroline McCarthy at VUE Art Fair 2017.

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VOLTA 13
Booth B09

Alan Butler
Caroline McCarthy
Damien Flood

Green On Red Gallery at VOLTA Basel
Booth B09
June 12 - 17, 2017
Markthalle, Basel

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John Cronin
VOLTA NY
TEN YEARS OF SOLO FOCUS

Green On Red Gallery at VOLTA NY
Booth A01
March 1 - 5, 2017
Pier 90, New York

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to present the work of gallery artist John Cronin at VOLTA NY, ( Booth A01 ), Pier 90, New York, between March 1-5, 2017.

A first time exhibitor in the United States, John will be showcasing paintings from his ZXX series. Cronin's works hover between form and dissipation, solidity and decay, with everything existing in an in-between state, with the translucent layers defining the plane as a screen rather than as a surface.

John Yau considers Cronin as being "too big for his pond", as his experimental expressionism places him "well outside Ireland's artistic seaboard". Donald Kuspit reminisces over the artist's pursuit, as he states: "the great abstract expressionist achievement is to make paint seem like a freshly discovered, magically mercurial material, even as it also looks exquisitely refined and precious. It is Cronin’s achievement; it suggests his total mastery of his material."

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Green On Red Gallery at VOLTA12, Markthalle, Basel June 13-18, 2016

Ramon Kassam
Fergus Martin
Niamh McCann
Caroline McCarthy
Bridget Riley

Green On Red Gallery

VOLTA12, June 13-18, 2016, Markthalle, Basel

Green On Red Gallerypresents the work of 5 gallery artists at VOLTA12, Markthalle, Viaduktstrasse 10, CH-4051 Basel between June 13-18, 2016.

We are delighted to present new prints byBridget RileyincludingBagatelle 3, showing her return to the mesmeric black and white compositions with the quiver.  Caroline McCarthy shows new acrylic on canvas, hazard tape paintings, pushing trompe l'oeil to further extremes.  For the first time, we will show new and early works byFergus Martinin Basel.  His minimal use of material and colour create moments of calm reflection.  Niamh McCann is also a first-time exhibitor in VOLTA with her multi-media wall works using neon, nature, and fabric to re-examine the narrative of the 20th century.  The gallery exhibits for the first time internationally new paintings by rising, Limerick-born artist,Ramon Kassam, who paints in the third person. Come to the booth, and all with be explained. 

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Green On Red Gallery 
at OFFICIELLE Art Fair, Paris

21 - 25 October 2015
www.officielleartfair.com

As part of OFFICIELLE 2015 Green On Red Gallery will be exhibiting new and recent works by Damien Flood, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy and Nigel Rolfe.

OFFICIELLE takes place from 21 - 25 October. 
We will be located at booth C21.
For further details about the fair visit www.officielleartfair.com

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Green On Red Gallery at VOLTA 10 | 16 - 21 June 2014 | Basel

Markthalle | Booth A1

Exhibiting new and recent works by:

Gerard Byrne
John Cronin
Caoimhe Kilfeather
Caroline McCarthy
Bridget Riley.

16 June: Press Preview, Collectors' Preview (by invitation), Vernissage (by invitation)

17 - 21 June: Open to the public from 12pm - 8pm

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Artissima 2014

Artists:
Gerard Byrne
Ronan McCrea
Bridget Riley
Alice Maher
Caroline McCarthy

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John Cronin
Damien Flood
Alice Maher
Fergus Martin

Green On Red Gallery

VUE Art Fair, RHA Gallery, Ely Place, D2

Green On Red Gallery is proud to present the work of 4 gallery artists at the next instalment of the VUE Art Fair opening Thursday, October 31, 6-9pm.  The fair continues until Sunday as follows : Fri. 11-8pm, Sat. 11-7pm and Sun.12-6pm.  All welcome.  No admission fee.

We hope to see you there for this presentation of new works by our artists. We are happy to announce the forthcoming suite of 9 new prints by Alice Maher. Come and see at VUE.

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Green On Red Gallery at Artissima 2013, Turin, Italy. 

Main Section / Stand no.6 / Hall: Light Blue

07 Nov: Press Preview, Collectors' Preview (by invitation), Vernissage (by invitation)
08 - 09 - 10 Nov: Open to the public from 12pm - 8pm

Artists:
Gerard Byrne
Damien Flood
Fergus Martin
Dennis McNulty

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Green On Red Gallery will participate at this year's VUE - The National Contemporary Art Fair, held at the RHA Gallery, Dublin 2. We will exhibit new and recent works from a selection of our gallery artists, including Niamh O'Malley, Fergus Martin and John Cronin. 

Thursday 31 Oct: 6 - 9pm (Special Preview)
Friday 01 Nov: 11am - 9pm 
Saturday 02 Nov: 11am - 7pm
Sunday: 03 Nov: 12pm - 6pm 

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NADA NYC 2013

Booth: 411

4-7 Mat, 2013

Artists:
Gerard Byrne
Paul Doran
Bea McMahon

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ARTISSIMA 19, 2012

9 Nov - 11 Nov, 2012.

Artists:
Caroline McCarthy
Niamh O’Malley

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ArtHK, 2012

Thursday 17 May - Sunday 20 May 2012.

Artists:
Alice Maher
Gerard Byrne
Tom Hunter
Caroline McCarthy
Niamh O’Malley
Mark Joyce

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Green on Red Gallery

VOLTA 5, Basel.
June 8th – June 13th, 2009
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Artists:
Alice Maher
Bea McMahon
Fergus Feehily
Niamh McCann
Niamh O'Malley

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Green on Red Gallery

VOLTA NY, 2009.
Booth B4

5-9 March, 2009

Artist: Dennis McNulty

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