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ART Kenny Morris - A Banshee Left Wailing ART PRI
SM INSIDE, by ÍOVA This visual experience from the ÍOVA collective brings fine art to Temple Bar. For the month of April, Steve Turner, Clodagh O’ Leary, John Foley, Ishmael Claxton (featured in this issue), Harry Phipps and a phalanx of other visual artists have commandeered the gorgeous Tøn Gallery, in Temple Bar. “An investigation through colour photography into contrasting textures and forms, showcasing a balance of opposing creative perspectives and inherent beauty that can emerge from today’s chaotic world”, as stated by the collective themselves, this exploration of colour and its relationship with narrative and composition promises to be an early highlight in another busy year for Claxton and his associates, and is surely a mandatory visit for anyone with a passing interest in the visual arts. TØN GALLERY, Temple Bar, from April 5th @tondublin | @iova.group Date Nite With Bláithín de Burca and Michelle McCormick! Dating HORATIO GOULD An often awkward, always uproarious and sassy, sultry good time brought to you by the debonair duo of Michelle McCormick and Bláithin de Burca. Audience participation is encouraged as the pair take Tinder profiles to task, ‘flanter’ with their guests and play matchmaker with the unattached in attendance. This months guest is UK London based writer/podcaster and comedian Horatio Gould. Sin E, April 20th, 7.30pm, €9.55 Now residing in Cork, Londoner Kenny Morris was at the epicentre of the creative maelstrom that was punk in the mid-1970s. In 1976, he was the drummer in Sid Vicious’s The Flowers of Romance, and he rose to fame as the drummer for Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1977 to 1979, imbuing their sound with his unprecedented technique. An attendee for one year at London’s Camberwell School of Art in 1976, Morris left to join Siouxsie for three whirlwind years before returning to his fine art cravings while also studying film. He worked with the video/ filmmaker John Maybury (Pet Shop Boys West End Girls and Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares To You videos and Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, The Jacket, The Edge of Love) before his own short film, La Main Morte, premiered at the International Berlin Film Festival in 1986 and was screened at many other European festivals. Since moving to Cork in 2010, Kenny has held several exhibitions there and in Waterford, including five of his short films and improvised musical performances with his group, The Modern Raze. The current show is his first in Dublin. A Banshee Left Wailing, the title of this exhibition, is also the title of Kenny’s forthcoming memoir, which is as much about art, music, and subculture as his life experiences from childhood to the present. GalleryX, 11 Hume Street, Dublin 1-23 March 2024 www.galleryx.ie 54