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Sirius Arts Centre - Exhibitions

Sirius Arts Centre exhibits some of the finest national and international artists throughout the year.
   
Marie Brett - the Loan Bush                        Lana Slezic - Forsaken

With support of the Arts Council, Cork County Council and other organisations, Sirius Arts Centre has a long history of exhibiting a wide range of artists from photography to sound, painting to installation. For information on  upcoming exhibitions, please refer to the programme page of this website.

     
Imogene Cunningham                                                                                                                                  Paul Gofferje

Sirius Arts Centre opening hours:
11 AM to 5 PM - Wed through Friday.
2 PM to 5 PM - Saturdays and Sundays
(except when otherwise noted)

Please refer to the Programme for details of 2010 exhibitions.    

If  you are interested in applying for your work to be exhibited at Sirius Arts Centre please visit the
Artist in Residence page on this website for more information as criteria and deadlines are the same.
The deadline for submissions for 2011 Monday 17 May 2010.
please note that if you submit an application for a residency be sure to include return postage for your work. 
Applications without proper return postage will not be sent back to the artists!

Proposed exhibitions for 2010

Jan - Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody - Lost Souls, Pioneers & Long Distance Travellers (Photography & Natural History)
Feb - Open House 3/2010 - a group community exhibition
March - Jackie Nickerson - Photography
April - Mark Wheelan & Aisling Keeting - Painting
May - Cobh Community College - Mature Students
June - David Eisenlord - Photography
July - Robert Wilson - Local History - Photography
August - Jerry Cox - Painting & Printmaking
September - Charlotte Hug - Sound Installation
October - Sandra Minchin & Maleonn Ma - mixed media
November and December - Gilles Perrin, photography (in partnership with West Cork Arts Centre).

Exhibitions 2009
Feb                Open House 2/2009 - a group/community exhibition
March            A Tale of Two Cities/ Harry Moore & Malcolm McClay (Photography)
April              Athina Chroni - modern stereoscope portraits
May/June      Eithne Twomey - painting
June              Cobh Community College - Mature Students
July/August    Michael McSwiney - Painting
September    Stuart Coughland & Declan Rooney - Post - Mixed Media
October        St Raphael's - At The Edge of My Sky
November    RDS National Craft Competition 2009
December     Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody - Lost Souls, Pioneers & Long Distance Travellers (Photography & Natural History)

Exhibitions 2008
Feb                Open House - a group/community exhibition
March            Forsaken - Images of Afghan Women by Lana Slezic
April              Michelle Sank  - Tidal (from her residency in 2007)
May               Look Closer, Closer Look - works by the Cobh Community College Mature Students
June              Cobh Maritime Song Festival 30 May - 1 June
June              Aileen Lambert  - Tide
July               Art from the East - artists living and working in East Cork
August           Marie Brett - The Loan Bush
September     Cork Harbour Project - drawn from workshops with local, national and international artist in 2007
Oct/Nov         Sileziany "Onthe Wind's Wings"  international group textile exhibition

 

Exhibitions 2007
Feb         Double Vision - Photographs by Young Offenders from St. Patrick's Prison &  Klavdij Sluban
Mar         Imogen Cunningham, A Life's Work - In Celebration of International Women's Day
Apr         Death and Desire a group exhibition by contemporary artists, curated by Sandra Minchin
May        City Of Shadows - Photographs by Russian Artist Alexey Titarenko
Jun         Cobh Maritime Song Festival and Cobh Community College
Jun         Components - An installation by Irish Artist, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling
Jul          The Birthday Party photographs by Vee Speers, Australian artist based in Paris
Aug        Commemoration Photographs by the late Harry Thuillier Jr. Irish photographer
Sept       The Man in the Middle - Photographs by Paul Gofferje, Photographer from the Netherlands
Oct          Installation by Martin Simms, English Artist based in Australia
Nov         An exhibition of photographs by contemporary Polish photographers
Dec         New work by Cobh painter, Mark Hathaway

Exhibitions 2006
Feb      The CASA East Cork Every Child Project (Ireland)
Mar      "A Woman's Place" Group exhibition by emerging international artists: Lucia Nimcova (Slovakia),
            Silvia Saparova(Slovakia), Wendie Young (Ireland), Simona Barbeara (Italian) & Arja
            Hyytianinen (Finland).
Apr       "The Possibility of an Island" Photographs by Reiner Riedler (Austrian)
May       Installation by Brian Flynn (Canadian)
June     Cobh Maritime Song Festival,  Cobh Community College exhibition and Cork Midsummer Festival
July       Cork Midsummer Festival & Raymond Watson (N. Ireland)
Aug       Sculptural installation by Raymond Watson (N. Ireland) .
Sept      Sound installation by Viv Corringham (UK) & Danny McCarthy (Ireland)
Nov       Photographs by Harry Thuiller (Ireland) through mid December.

Exhibitions 2005
Jan/Feb  Trunk - American & Irish Group Exhibition
March     Breaking Boundaries - Cobh Women's Group &
               Time to stand And Stare - Artwork from Irish Prison & Detention Centres
April        Topography of Titanic by Kai Olaf-Hesse
May         Cobh Community College
June        Cobh Maritime Festival &
                Launch of Sticker book project by Hendrike Kuehne and Beat Klein
July         The Architect's Brother - Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
Sept         Hymn to Travellers and the Absent - Julie Bacon
October    Keeping Peace & Conflicted Landscapes - Simon Norfolk
Nov           Installation by Christian Maychack

Exhibitions 2004
Mark Hathaway - Home and Away
Art Trail Group Exhibitions - Selections
Patrick McCoy - Album and the People's Taxi Series
East Art - group exhibition juried by Julie Bacon
Cobh Community College - Yearlings
Cork Harbour Islands Project - War & Peace - Cobh during the war years
Cobh Maritime Song Festival - work by young people
Mick O'Shea - Translation
Decade II - a fundraising exhibition for Sirius Arts Centre
Soundwave - a one day sound art event of Installations, talks and performances
featuring work by, Danny McCarthy, Paul Hegarty, Una Quigley, Mick O'Shea and Alex Walsh
Jenny Matthews - Women and War
Hisao Suzuki - Distances in Europe
Cobh Youth Through the Lens 2  - community arts exhibition

Exhibitions 2003 (selection)
Kim Jones - Dressing Room
Simon Norfolk - Afghanistan:Chronotopia
East Cork Camera Group - group exhibition
St. Laurence Cheshire Home -  This is US TOO!
Gale Ritchie -arc
Mark Clare - Store My Time
Martin Parr - Small World
Frank Mansfield - works

Exhibitions 2002 (selection)
Hugh Davies - Soft Winds Do Blow
Maia Navariani - Singer/Songwriter Maia Navariani
Ann Wilson - works
Fiona Woods - Nurture
AKIN Galway Women Artists Collective
Andre Stitt - South of No North
Séverine Hubard, Stephan Weitzel and Joao Pedro Vale - Echo (from the Pépinéres Européennes pour Junes Artistes programme)
 
Exhibitions in 2001 (selection)