Sarah Walker Gallery

Jim White and Marisa Anderson Friday Sept 6th 8pm "Ask the singers with whom Jim White has played during the last 30 years - Cat Power or Nick Cave, PJ Harvey or Bill Callahan - and they might agree no one else makes that battered snare (or, really, the drums) sound quite like White.” - The New York Times Sarah Walker Gallery is delighted to welcome Jim White and Marisa Anderson for what promises to be an exciting live collaboration between two brilliant musicians. Renowned drummer Jim White is surfing the crest of critical praise, not only for his debut solo record All Hits: Memories but also the first Dirty Three studio record in 12 years, Love Changes Everything. Jim will be performing an improvised music set with acclaimed American guitarist Marisa Anderson which will be inspired by Swallowtail, their lauded latest release on Thrill Jockey records. The collaboration between Jim White and Marisa Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. Find more information at https://lnkd.in/eYTfEb-J https://lnkd.in/evuPzJ7U Tickets €27 available online | Doors open at 7pm

Great piece by Marc O'Sullivan in The Irish Examiner on the exhibition In Parallel with Charles Tyrrell and Martin Gale "I was working in a pea factory that summer and I got word that two of my paintings had sold. One went for sixty quid, the other for forty. And that was it: I gave up the peas for the painting" Martin Gale #contemporarypainting #contemporaryirishart

Nice piece in the Indo by Niall McMonagle on Charlie's work. @independent.ie "I remember a breakthrough in my thinking when I realised that if I was painting say a tree, I was also painting the air between me and it." Charles Tyrrell In Parallel with Martin Gale continues until September 17th

In Parallel - ongoing until September 17th. Gallery open every day 11am - 6pm. Martin Gale and Charles Tyrrell Martin Gale’s encouragement of narrative and engagement from his viewer - the unpicking of mysteries and histories - may seem in contrast with Tyrrell, who looks for a different participant space, bounded by abstract structuring, animated surfaces, and containments. However, each artist’s work engages a dramatic core. Their art rewards close reading and, in parallel, both welcome reflection to reveal their stories. Curated by Fenton Projects and Sarah Walker Gallery. Image: Charles Tyrrell, SAR 19.22, Graphite on card, 41 x 30 cm, (with poster text overlay).

"Farmer" by Martin Gale from In Parallel with Charles Tyrell. Working from rural Co Kildare, Gale’s paintings directly engage with general landscape narratives, presenting subtle observations of land use changes, and their impact on human and animal day to day life. Exhibition runs until mid September Open every day 11 to 6

ESTHER BALÁZS May 3rd to 28th Gallery open every day 11 to 6 This exhibition shows a selection of Esther Balazs’ drawings and paintings. Balazs’ works are abstract and subtle with a very individual language. They have a poised strength, captivating the viewer with a gentle invitation into an aesthetic space that is both powerful and sensitive. They have a minimal and thoughtfully considered structure but are equally woven with intuition - these works make you very aware of the space that they hold. Esther Balazs is a visual artist and violinist. She was born in Munich and studied art education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. She then went on to study painting with Professor Dollhopf at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. She is a member of the Swabian professional association of visual artists, Fürstenfeldbruck artists' association, and Bavarian sound artists' association. Having been resident in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in 1997 and having lived and worked for some time in West Cork she has exhibited extensively in both Ireland and Germany. More recently she has exhibited in "Borders in Space and Time" Karl Trautmann Preis exhibition in 2022, and in 2021 in "In Motion" , 30 years of the cultural workshop HAUS 10, both in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany. "Perhaps one can see the works of Esther Balázs as a retreat of the artist into an aesthetic space. In this space she reflects the properties of color, its relationship to light and the reactions of green to blue, for example. There she balances with surfaces, plays with proportions. You feel and see the caution, the experiment, the feeling, the back and forth - but in truth it is a self-confident insistence on the autonomy of painting. Her pictures convey this claim. The image comes from the color, arises from the processual nature of the painting technique. Especially since her working stay on the west coast of Ireland, Esther Balázs has impressed people with her informal painting of undiminished high quality. Painting as an elementary experience, magnificent, sensitive, essential." - Anette Urban, Maxgalerie Augsburg, 2018 www.estherbalazs.de

May Day brings a new show to the gallery, we're delighted to be hanging a collecting of new paintings by Esther Balazs, shipped from her studio in Germany, a previous longtime resident of Beara. The show will hang until May 28th, meet the artist May 26th!

A great way of extending audiences for art is the use of IPUT's photo benches @carrickmines_park, where people come across it in an entirely different way. Featured here is 'All is Quiet', one of my paintings from the Mountjoy Square series about my grandfather's house, which was a secret meeting place for members of Dail Eireann during the struggle for Irish independence. #oiloncanvas #irishhistory @oliver.sears #sarahwalkerartist #livingcanvascarrickmines

I went to visit my work in Parknasilla Resort and Spa yesterday. Delighted to see all the paintings looking very happy in the beautiful dining room. This time last year the paintings were installed as part of the dining room transformation, such a lovely room with an amazing view!