Major exhibitions are curated using the entire pool of Ballinglen Fellows, many in response to invitations from institutions such as The RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Kildare, The Contemporary Art Society, London, The Art Institute of New Hampshire, Manchester, The Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, The McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, The U.S. Ambassador's Residence, Dublin, The List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, Concord Art Association, Massachusetts, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Mayo. Catalogues documenting works by Ballinglen Fellows, that accompany these important exhibition opportunities for Ballinglen Fellows, are often produced. In addition, an awareness of the unique qualities of North County Mayo is fostered abroad, encouraging cultural and green tourism in the area.
Past
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Seasons, Sea, Sheep, and Cat, all the Directions and the King
Upstairs at The Ballinglen Museum of Art 14 February - 10 April 2024 Ballinglen Permanent Collection As part of our education programme, we invited children and young people from Ballycastle and the surrounding areas to curate two exhibitions from The Ballinglen Permanent Collection, guided by our Learning Curator. Upstairs of the museum has been curated by fourth, fifth, and sixth classes, and is entitled: 'Seasons, Sea,... Read more -
You're on the Spectrum Now
Downstairs in The Ballinglen Museum of Art 14 February - 19 May 2024 Ballinglen Permanent Collection A group of young people from a local Foróige group , with the help of our Learning Curator, curated an exhibition from The Ballinglen Permanent Collection downstairs in The Ballinglen Museum of Art. The theme that they chose was rainbow, and they decided to call the exhibition ‘You’re on the... Read more -
RHA: Ballinglen Fellows Exhibition
The Ballinglen Museum of Art 28 July - 25 September 2023 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Works from the Ballinglen Permanent Collection and new work. Artists include: Eithne Carr, Diana Copperwhite, Gary Coyle, Joe Dunne, Martin Gale, Richard Gorman, James Hanley, Pat Harris, Eithne Jordan, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Maeve McCarthy, Colin Martin, Mick O’Dea, Una Sealy, Dorothy Smith, Amelia Stein, Donald Teskey, Charles Tyrrell. Read more -
Early Years at Ballinglen - Permanent Collection Exhibition
10 June - 21 July 2023 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Artists: Norman Ackroyd, Eric Aho, Mary Armstrong, David Brewster, Eamon Colman, Alston Stoney Conley, Randall L Exon, Conor Fallon, Bill Freeland, David Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Jane Goldman, Richard Gorman, Jason Hicklin, Catherine Kernan, Robert Keyser, Sean Mc Sweeney, Shirley Moskowitz, Edward O'Brien, Caitriona O'Leary, John O'Leary, William Packer, Wally Reinhardt,... Read more
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New Acquistions
New Works in the Ballinglen Museum of Art Permanent Collection 16 March - 4 June 2023 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Since 1992 Artist Fellows have been donateing a piece of work made in response to their first fellowship to The Permanent Collection. The works in this exhibition have generally been made since 2017 and have not been shown before. Artists: Kim Abraham; Gail Baar; Sandow Birk; Peter Brooke; Kathleen Buchanan;... Read more -
Abstraction: Landscapes and Otherscapes
An exhibition of work from the Ballinglen Permanent Collection curated by Ruth Fine 28 October 2022 - 11 March 2023 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Work by artists: Roger Ackling; Alice Austin; Squeak Carnwath; Nuala Clarke; Hilary Elmes; Yizhak Elyashiv; Patrick Michael Fitzgerald; Richard Gorman; Jo Gorner; Gail Grinnell; Pat Harris; Harriet Mena Hill; Jeffrey Hirst; Eva Isaksen; Paul Kenny; Joanna Kidney; Arno Kramer; David Lilburn; James Lumsden; Norman McBeath; Paddy McCann; Linn Meyers; Ann... Read more -
Paul Kenny: Seaworks
8 April - 1 May 2022 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Paul Kenny has been creating and developing photographic works for half a century and has works in some of the world's major public and private art collections. Never shy to seek out new ways to express his unique artistic vision, over fifty years he has moved seamlessly from monochrome to... Read more -
SEEN and FELT
4 - 29 March 2022 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Notes from Christie Taylor, Curator: How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape. -John Marin American modernist painter John Marin always sought “things seen and felt”... Read more
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Working between Colour and Tone
35 artists use of colour and black and white 14 May - 17 June 2021 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Open daily, 12 - 5pm Read more -
Architecture at the Edge - Without Boundaries
Eleven at The Archive Room 2 - 30 October 2020 Ballinglen Permanent Collection Museums are usually boxes bounded by walls on which to hang works of art. Each work is a window into another space, emotion, sensation, story transcending boundaries in spite of being confined to a stark wall. One of our goals in working on the design of this Museum was permeability:... Read more -
28 Years Rambling through the Landscape
Inaugural Exhibition Ballinglen Museum of Art 10 July - 9 August 2020 Ballinglen Permanent Collection This exhibition includes thirty artworks from the Permanent Collection celebrating the landscape around Ballycastle with the work made by artists visiting The Ballinglen Arts Foundation on residency for the last twent-eight years. Each work poignantly reflects presence and time, cyclical returns, old places, light and its absence and of course... Read more
