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.
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Patita Bourke Nicholson - Paintings of Memory and Imagination
The Ballinglen Museum of Art 7 September 2024 - 7 February 2025 Patita Bourke Nicholson, of Enniscoe House, painted family and country life in the late 20th century. She grew up in Ballycastle at Heathfield House, and while married to Jack Nicholson, she moved to Enniscoe House, Crossmolina. Her work is both personal and of historical significance as it documents the activities... Read more -
Lacuna
The Ballinglen Museum of Art 1 October 2024 - 4 February 2025 Ballinglen Permanent Collection This exhibition is part of a series of Permanent Collection Exhibitions selected in rotation by members of the team at The Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Artist fellow and part time Learning Curator Nuala Clarke selected this work. Lacuna - an unfilled space; a gap, from Latin, ‘pool’, from lacus ‘lake’. A... Read more
Past
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Thicket | Gail Meyer Grinnell
The Ballinglen Museum of Art 20 May - 29 August 2024 Special Exhibitions Opening Event: June 1 2024, 5pm-7pm 'While working at the Ballinglen Museum of Art, I will be creating and installing a large-scale, suspended, transitory installation meant to be disassembled and repurposed at the end of the exhibit. It will occupy the 1st and 2nd floor gallery and be comprised... Read more -
Kwaidan - Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn
The Ballinglen Museum of Art 20 April - 24 May 2024 Special Exhibitions An exhibition of prints by 20 Japanese and 20 Irish-based artists consisting of a sumptuous array of visual interpretations of Kwaidan, the well-known book of ghost stories published in 1904 by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo. Image: Kate MacDonagh, Ghostly Shades, 42x34cm, Mokuhanga Artists from Ireland:... Read more -
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
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The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art First Biennial Exhibition
International Open Call Exhibition in the West of Ireland 7 October 2023 - 10 January 2024 Special Exhibitions Works for the group exhibition were selected through an open call to visual artists worldwide working in paint, drawing, print, sculpture, and photography. It was selected by three established artists: Mick O’Dea PPRHA, artist and Ballinglen Arts Foundation board member, Carol Robertson and Rachelle Puryear. For 30 years The Ballinglen... 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 -
Being Empty | Chris Doris
The Ballinglen Museum of Art 10 June - 21 July 2023 Special Exhibitions Chris Doris’ work has explored the nature of consciousness and transformation for 35 years, through a distinctive interweaving of his psychotherapeutic, art and contemplative practices. In Being Empty he concludes a 15 year series of large scale Open Paintings.These layered elegant paintings instantiate the view that beyond the nihilistic ‘relative... 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 -
Norman Ackroyd, Painting with Acid
exhibition and launch of the publication ‘An Irish Notebook’ 1 June - 2 October 2022 Special Exhibitions An exhibition of work by Ballinglen fellow Norman Ackroyd CBE RA. Painting with Acid The Ballinglen Museum of Art, 1st July - 30th September. Works from Ireland made over the five decades of Ackroyd’s relationship with the west coast of Ireland. A celebration of major work, this exhibition aims to... Read more -
Currach & Stone
exhibition by James Edward Scherbarth 6 May - 12 June 2022 Special Exhibitions A posthumous exhibition showing a series of 72 images created during 39 days in the last year of James’s life; 'a period where he was fully blossomed as an artist, coming to grips with his own mortality, and feeling a sense of urgency to complete work while he still had... Read more
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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 -
the way that we went
Open by appointment after 18 December 5 November - 18 December 2021 Special Exhibitions Curated by Anne Mullee The rugged landscape of North West Mayo is a gift to artists concerned with capturing the light and connecting to the land. The Ballinglen Arts Foundation Permanent Collection, with over 800 works, is testament to this focus, and includes work by artists from all over the... Read more -
Stoney Road Press: 20 Years – A Survey
20th anniversary exhibition 2 August - 31 October 2021 Special Exhibitions Marking twenty years of making with Ireland’s leading artists, Stoney Road Press comes to the Ballinglen Museum of Art for an exciting exhibition. From Dorothy Cross to Brian O’Doherty, and Patrick Scott to Leah Hewson, Stoney Road Press has worked with a heady roster of artists since 2001, when a... Read more
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Na Cailleacha, The Age of Reason/Unreason
21 - 28 July 2021 Special Exhibitions Curator Statement: This exhibition marks Na Cailleacha’s (the Irish word meaning witches or divine hags) first year in collective practice. The group of 8 older women, 6 visual artists, I musician and I curator, came together to explore issues around creativity, visibility, isolation, health and collective practice from an older... Read more -
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 -
The Sacred Heart Lockdown Choices
Curated work from Ballinglen Arts Foundation 1 December 2020 - 17 January 2021 Ballinglen Permanent Collection on Tour This exhibition featured works from the Permanent Collection of the Ballinglen Art Foundation. The works were selected by residents, patients and staff at the Sacred Heart Home in Castlebar under the guidance of artist Tom Mescal and the support of Dr. Luke O’Donnell. This Westival / Ballinglen exhibition was presented... 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
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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 -
Ballinglen Permanent Collection Exhibition
18 January - 19 March 2018 Ballinglen Permanent Collection on Tour The RHA Gallery is delighted to present a selection from this rich collection of works all inspired by the Mayo landscape, curated by James Hanley RHA and RHA Director, Patrick T. Murphy. The exhibition will include works by Nuala Clarke, Lynne Clibanoff, Randall Exon, Martin Gale RHA, Elizabeth Magill, Pat... Read more
