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Silver Tongued Deviance

Join us for Silver Tongued Deviance, an open mic poetry night hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty.

 

During the sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events. Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

Silver Tongued Deviance

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Art Centre in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

people sitting on chairs looking at a man high up on boxes. Behind are some gri bottles

Silver Tongued Deviance – spoken word evenings

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Gallery in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

RSVP via the link below.

 

 

Acknowledgements

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

Series of colour and black and white logos

people sitting on chairs looking at a man high up on boxes. Behind are some gri bottles

Silver Tongued Deviance

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Gallery in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

people sitting on chairs looking at a man high up on boxes. Behind are some gri bottles

Silver Tongued Deviance

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Gallery in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

Acknowledgement

 

Presented as part of NI Mental Health Arts Festival.

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

people sitting on chairs looking at a man high up on boxes. Behind are some gri bottles

Silver Tongued Deviance

In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland, come along to enjoy some live poetry and spoken word performances at Void, on Thursday 27 April at 6:45pm!

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Gallery in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

As part of NI Mental Health Arts Festival

 

Acknowledgements

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

ancient artwork depicting a scene of common life

Krunal Gohil – Vyang-Kath I MFA Award Winner

Void Gallery is delighted to welcome MFA graduate Krunal Gohil to present his exhibition, Vyang-Kath, in our education space between 21 March – 4 April. Krunal received the Void Gallery Fine Art Graduate Prize in 2022.

 

The collection of work is a response to his life experience, childhood, and the nature and domestic animals of Angadh, India, where he was born. His biggest interest and driving force has always been to be connected to nature. He sees animals as having personalities and personalities, as well as commonalities between them and people. This background served as the foundation for his body of work and captures the spirit of what he wishes to portray via his images. Animals, in his opinion, are “pure characters” with no overlapping complicated emotions; this purity is essential in producing characters with narratives. He finds inspiration in natural history and ancient mythology, believing that animals and their stories can elicit intense emotions. He applies both a metaphor and a psychological viewpoint to reinterpret natural processes, raises awareness about environmental issues, repairs damaged ecosystems, and demonstrates nature’s and wildlife’s strength and beauty.

 

Krunal Gohil Biography

 

Krunal Gohil was born in 1994 in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, and he completed his bachelors in painting and his Masters in Printmaking at M S University, Baroda, India. He completed a second masters in fine arts from University of Ulster, Belfast, UK.

 

The baroda printmaking atmosphere attracted him to become a full-fledged print maker. In India, he was the recipient of the national award in photography in 2014 by Centenary Celebrations All India Art Exhibition, Org. by New Delhi Municipal Council, New Delhi. In 2016 he participated in Kala Vart international art festival, Ujjain, India and received a national award. He was also awarded the state award by Gujarat Lalitkala academy in 2019. He participated in Baroda strikers International photography contest, Baroda, 2018; 3rd Macao Printmaking Triennial in Macao, China, 2020; International Virtual Engraves Printmaking Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, 2021; Polyphony 21|QSS gallery Belfast UK, 2022; Concurrence MFA fine art show at QSS Belfast, UK, 2022; NGXX Group exhibition at Noughton gallery, Belfast, UK, 2023; winter exhibition at D31 gallery, UK.

 

He has participated in national and state workshops in 2013 Youth Artist Photography Camp at Ambaji, organised by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad, 2013; Youth Artist Portrait Camp at Amreli, organised by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy; Ahmedabad, 2014 Youth Artist Photography Camp at Bhuj, organised by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy; Ahmedabad, 2014-15 National Wildlife Photography Workshop by Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad, 2015; Photography Workshop at CVM College of Fine Arts,Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2017; National Photography Workshop at Dang Ahmedabad, 2018; Inter-college Multidisciplinary Art Workshop, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, West Bengal.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

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Finissage event : Live performance by Autumns

Visitors are invited to listen to this performance by Autumns in response to Re_sett_ing_s.

Autumns Biography

 

Autumns  is an outlet for electronic post-punk, fused with elements of dub and sound experimentation. The project showcases a love of whip-cracked rhythms, heavily effected vocals and no-wave guitars, processed through dub techniques within the mixing desk. An obsession with freak sounds leads to a high-intensity live show, using minimal equipment for maximum results.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

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Print + Protein

Print + Protein is a peer-led philosophy reading group organised by Aphra Hill responding to the Void Gallery programme, using diverse theory to expand alternative understandings of contemporary art. It takes its name from Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers by Katherine Hayles which explores immaterial media and the affinity between books and bodies.

 

For its first edition, the group will discuss the essay The Intertwining by phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, selected to refract the collaborative exhibition Re_sett_ing_s by Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine running at Void Gallery from 4 March – 3 June 2023. The text considers sentient experience in relation with objective existence as a system of mutual expression. Attendees will have the opportunity to read the text in advance, with readings also taking place on the day.

 

The event takes place on Friday 14 April 2023, 6pm-7.30pm, is free and open to the public but advance booking is required.

 

Aphra Hill is a writer, researcher and recent graduate of Visual Culture at NCAD.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

three photos of three artists, the one on the left and the one in the center wearing sunglasses, the one on the right sunglasses

Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine in conversation with Anne Tallentire

On Saturday 4 March at 5:30pm, join artists Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine as they are joined in conversation with Anne Tallentire, to discuss the exhibition Re_sett_ing_s, which opens at Void Gallery on 4 March, and its origins. Book via our website at www.derryvoid.com. The event will also be live streamed on Instagram for those who cannot join in person. The exhibition opening will follow from 6-8pm.

 

For more about the exhibition, go here.

 

Jaki Irvine Biography

 

Jaki Irvine works with video installation, photography, music composition and writing. Her immersive video and sound installations tell stories through fragmented, elliptical and open-ended narratives informed by rigorous research. Irvine picks out evocative details from the landscape or cityscape, in particular honing in on Dublin and Mexico City, two cities that have shaped and informed her practice. Contested histories, sonic bricolage, the built environment, and the customs and communities of a city’s residents have all found their way into Irvine’s deep-reaching and polyphonic work: songs that filter through a city’s streets, overheard conversations, the flap of a hummingbird’s wings are given equal gravitas. Her attention is often turned to the peripheral or the undervalued: re-centring stories or figures written out of history, particularly female figures, or presenting an alternative approach to the present, making space for strangeness. Humans and nature become intertwined in her imaginative worldview, with plants, birds and creatures permeating her practice, and adding to the sense of the unknown and unknowable, and blurring the boundary between the real and the imagined.

 

Locky Morris Biography

 

Locky Morris was born in Derry City where he continues to live and work. Renowned for his early work that explicitly dealt with the conflict in Northern Ireland – most notably from a socially embedded perspective – he has gone on to develop another working vocabulary that moves fluidly between the personal, public and political. While still informed by the complexities and intricacies of his immediate landscape, this work extends across photography, video, gallery installation and incorporates the social media platform, Instagram. Morris’s practice, born in part out of a fascination for what confronts him in the often chaotic details of the everyday, is rich, inventive and marked by a visual playfulness that feels distinctly his own. Running parallel to this have been numerous large-scale works and interventions in the public realm. The work has also been influenced by his active musicianship.

 

Anne Tallentire Biography

 

Anne Tallentire (b. County Armagh, Northern Ireland) has lived and worked in London since the 1980’s. Her practice encompasses moving image, sculpture, installation, photography and performance. Through visual and textual interrogation of everyday materials and structures, Tallentire’s work seeks to reveal systems that shape the built environment and the economics of labour. In 2018 Tallentire was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award for artists. She is Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins, where she taught from the early 1990s to 2014.

 

Image credits:
1. Jaki Irvine
2. Locky Morris
3. Emilie Holba

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

1:1 – Belinda Quirke

1:1

Join Belinda Quirke and exhibiting artist, Isabel Nolan in this joint live performance in response to and concerning Nolan’s exhibition flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict. Together they will respond to and further explore related trajectories through sound improvisation and spoken word.

Belinda Quirke explores the universal geometric foundation, and nature of sound, through experimentation with electronic sound materials. The space between, how we listen, where we listen, and what we hear, is ultimately individually experiential, and species dependent. Quirke uses voice, vintage Juno 6 Synthesiser and stylophone combining palindromic medieval systems and inverted Tectractys structures in construction.

Belinda Quirke

Belinda is a curator, producer, musician, singer, and inaugural director of award winning Solstice Arts Centre in County Meath. Belinda is a graduate of NCAD, (MFA ACW), UCC Music and Crawford College of Art, Cork). An eclectic early performance career manifested through a number of bands and ensembles. Belinda is currently a trustee of the Golden Fleece Award; an independent artistic prize fund established as a charitable bequest by the late Helen Lillias Mitchell. In June 2021, Quirke returned to music making with the release of “The Black Hill”. 1:1 is scheduled for release Summer 2023.

Isabel Nolan

Isabel Nolan’s work includes sculpture, textiles, paintings, drawings, photography and writing. Her work responds to the fundamental question of how humans bring the world into meaning. How we make, (through science, politics, agriculture, religion, etcetera), reality happens. Whether examining the knees of a 17th C sculpture, perceptions of a Neolithic artefact, the shifting symbolic status of a donkey or images of distant galaxies, Nolan looks for the ways we can like, or even love, the difficult and complex human world we’ve made.

Images courtesy of Belinda Quirke.

This is a finissage event for Isabel Nolan’s exhibition flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.

 

Isabel Nolan logo strip

Painting

Isabel Nolan – flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict

Void Gallery is delighted to present flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict, a solo exhibition by Dublin-based artist Isabel Nolan. The exhibition comprises paintings, drawings and objects, reflecting Nolan’s ongoing interest in modes of human organisation, the shifting status of artefacts and images over long periods of time.

 

The preview will commence with an in conversation between Isabel and Declan Long, art critic and Course Director of the MA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD Ireland. Booking can be made by visiting this link.

 

The experience of lockdown during Covid-19 and the slowing down of time has a resonance in this exhibition. Often working at home, drawing, an important element of Nolan’s practice, became the sole conduit of how she made ‘meaning’ happen and manifested a response in a time of huge uncertainty.Drawing is integral to her studio practice, it is a means to conjure new representations of the world, of making it legible. Sketching, scribbling, note-taking, erasing and sometimes simply expending nervous energy is fundamental to the way Nolan draws. Often made without the intention of being exhibited, pages absorb ideas and begin to suggest material ways to formulate and give shape to often abstract ideas. The line, colours, patterns and forms are a starting point for her expanded practice; from there she transfers this mode of working to encompass painting, sculpture or tapestry.

 

The paintings have an ethereal and otherworldly quality stemming from years of reading and harvesting ideas from diverse fields; philosophy, archaeology, physics and theology. The figures in the paintings, such as shadowy St. Jerome, the patron saint of archaeology, known for his translation of the bible, and St. Columba, the patron Saint of Derry, who is credited with spreading monastic Christianity Christian culture in Ireland, and Scotland (and overseeing the emergence of an Irish historical record,) reflects Nolan’s love for elaborately honed narratives that become the channel for disseminating both troubling beliefs and great spirituality.

 

The paintings have an energetic quality to them, a hum, a liveness through her use of colour and motifs that recur throughout her work; suns, spirals, and waveforms give this sense of momentum. These forms also express the macro and the micro, the cosmic to the cellular.

 

Her works are revealing; representing the unseen, a fluid version of the world that continues to explore the periphery, the otherworld, and questions of ‘meaning’. As we have returned to the everyday, and things are as they were, and we are overloaded with quotidian concerns, those philosophical questions concerning the nature of the human condition have receded. This exhibition is a reminder that existence is delicate, unfathomable and our vocabulary often struggles to encapsulate the profundity and strangeness of being alive. In a time where the world feels as if it is teetering on a precipice of cumulative disasters Nolan provides a provisional space for us to occupy and ruminate on the nature and beauty of existence.

 

Isabel Nolan Biography

 

Isabel Nolan’s work includes sculpture, textiles, paintings, drawings, photography and writing. Her work responds to the fundamental question of how humans bring the world into meaning. How we make, (through science, politics, agriculture, religion, etcetera), reality happens. Whether examining the knees of a 17th C sculpture, perceptions of a Neolithic artefact, the shifting symbolic status of a donkey or images of distant galaxies, Nolan looks for the ways we can like, or even love, the difficult and complex human world we’ve made.

 

“The arc of almost every little thing I’ve proffered in public, in exhibitions or texts is quite similar. It goes as follows: Life is often hard and without meaning in any grand, a priori sense. Art is a good way to find meaninglessness beautiful. Meaning must be invented. And those inventions must be contested and questioned, and never taken for granted.” Isabel Nolan

 

Curling up with Reality, 2020, is a monograph featuring select work and writing from 2011 to 2020, published by Launchpad, London; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, in association with DHG, Dublin. Recent exhibitions include A delicate bond that is also a gap, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2021; Spaced Out, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 2021; a two-person show (with Stephen McKenna), Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China, 2019, and solos at Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2018; Grazer Kunstverein, 2017-18; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2017; London Mithraeum/Bloomberg Space, 2017; Mercer Union, Toronto, 2016; Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2014. Isabel Nolan represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition. Her work has featured in EVA International, Limerick; LIAF biennial, Norway; Artspace, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Beijing Art Museum, and Glasgow International.

 

Image credit: Eurydice (dead again…) and Orpheus, 2022 water-based oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm / 27.6 x 23.6 in

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.