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exhibition Mandy O’Neill - Quiet at the Back gig
Mattiel Drawing on themes of youth, adolescence, community, environment and institutions, Mandy O’Neill has been engaging in the dynamics of school life for over a decade. Prompted by an interest in the transitional states of childhood and adolescence, over time complex questions have surfaced about how important and powerful ideas about having aspirations and access to opportunities can affect children and young people’s expectations. Quiet at the Back draws together previous work Aspiration [2005-2007] Promise [2012-2015], Champions Avenue [2017-2019] along with her latest output The Whole Room Went White [2019]. Gallery of Photography, Thursday September 12 until Sunday October 27 Atlanta artist Mattiel Brown and her band will bring a proper dose of garage-rock, guitar riffs and trucker cap lyrics into the saloon that is Whelan’s tonight. Jack White is a fan and signed them up as a support and they are signed to Jeff Barrett’s seminal Heavenly Recordings label so really the whole shooting gallery to success is lined up. Their tremendous new album Satis Factory should ensure Miss Mattiel will be spending less time working at Mailchimp HQ and using her set building skills for bigger stages in the next 12 months. Whelans, Tuesday July 9, €16.50 exhibition Linda Brownlee – Idle Topography exhibition RHA annual Brownlee is well known for her documentary approach to portraiture and fashion inspired by the likes of Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus. Linda’s inquisitive nature leads her to create personal and editorial bodies of work that focus on the real and intimate nature of people and their relationship to the environments they inhabit. Personal projects have included her award-winning series The Parkers, an intimate portrait of family life in Hackney and long-term project i Zii, a tender portrayal of family in the Sicilian village of Gangi. A recent campaign includes work on Sainsbury’s Tu ‘Summer of Love’ which features street-cast women. Hang Tough Gallery, Thursday September 12 to Saturday September 28 It’s the 189th annual RHA exhibition, yes the 189th, and the first to take place under the aegis of a female academy president – the artist Abigail O’Brien. The premise is artists can submit up to three works at a cost of €30 each. A selection is made from the 2700 works they received and if your work makes the final 10% or so and is sold, the RHA will take 35% commission and you will pocket the rest. As an exhibition, it enables everyone to decide what they may like or dislike with a broad sweep of the current canvas of the Irish art world. Does the world need another painted Coca-Cola bottle even by a distinguished artist such as Neil Shawcross? Hmm! Some stand-outs for us include: Jack Hickey’s Age of Innocence, Vera Klute’s bust of Eileen Gray, Lars Nyberg’s Winter Road, James Hanley’s David and Goliath, Charles Harper’s Maidens, Maria SimondsGoodings Salt Fields, Ishmael Clayton’s Fuzzy Future, Katherine Sankey’s Protist, Jeanette Lowe’s Skip Sculpture, Eddie Kennedy’s Bathers, John Rainey’s Flay 1, and Gabhann Dunne’s Pink Hare (pictured). RHA until August 10 85