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gig Mattiel 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 RHA annual 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