Past On-site Exhibitions

09 Jul 2018 - 31 Aug 2018

Meetings

9 July-31 August 2018

The Irish Guild of Embroiderers return to dlr LexIcon this summer with a wonderful new exhibition focusing on the theme of ‘Meetings’, meetings of sea and shore, of people, of colours, of stitches, of media, of home and abroad. Members’ work encompasses all styles of embroidery and textile work from the traditional to the innovative, from handwork to machine embroidery. The selection of textile work on display embraces fabric manipulation and embellishment, dyeing, printing and stitching and is presented in a variety of forms including framed work, wall hangings and 3D sculptures.

19 Jun 2018 - 30 Jun 2018
St John of God Community Service Willowvale Active Retirement Day Centre has an art room with a gallery wall and has a thriving creative programme in an environment where older people with different interests and abilities can develop their creativity. Refreshingly, these artists make art purely for the purpose of enjoyment and the artists' subject matter is individual and of personal interest. Making art has become an essential component of activity in the centre.   19 June - 30 June
08 May 2018 - 30 Jun 2018
ADIFF Photography Exhibition: Celebrating Irish Talent 8 May-30 June Level 4 dlr LexIcon   After the resounding success that was Hugh O’Conor’s first solo exhibition of black and white portraits featuring Irish talent in 2017, the Audi Dublin International Film Festival is delighted to continue this creative strand for a second year.   Returning to dlr LexIcon, you are invited to appreciate a new series of wonderful portraits featuring new and well known faces from Irish film as featured in the 2018 ADIFF programme. Shooting 120 film on his Hasselblad, Hugh’s approach utilising only natural light, yields stunning results. We would eagerly encourage you to pay this exhibition a visit   www.hughoconor.com   We will also display posters designed for the Festival by students of NCAD

Photo: Orla Brady by Hugh O'Conor

07 May 2018 - 29 Jul 2018

Banned Books - Censorship in Ireland, 1929-1967

7 May - 29 July

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The Irish Free State worked to create an Ireland that it believed reflected the values of the majority of its people. Censorship of books was an important means to this end. The Censorship of Publications Board established in 1929 banned the works of many Irish and international writers among them, Kate O'Brien, Brendan Behan, Aldous Huxley and Marcel Proust. It was only with the Censorship of Publications Act of 1967 that the bans on these books were finally lifted. This display will show how wide and varied were the books denied Irish readers during that time.

24 Apr 2018 - 31 May 2018

Ghostlight: An exhibition of photographs by Mark Granier 24 April-31 May 

Mark Granier is an awardwinning photographer and poet. According to Peter Sirr, “Granier is an accomplished photographer drawn to urban scenes, often to the overlooked or underappreciated –overhead wires, bus shelters, the aftermath of a parade, people in all their astonishing variety. The same quality of attention filters through to the poetry.” Granier has published  5 poetry collections, most recently Haunt (Salmon Poetry, 2015) and Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2017). A talk by Mark Granier will be held at 7.00pm on Tuesday 15 May in the Studio Theatre.      Image "Cloud Crossing" by Mark Granier ©
23 Apr 2018 - 04 May 2018
Champion of the Child:Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) A travelling exhibition in association with the Museum of Childhood Project and the Irish Jewish Museum   23 April-4 May Level 4 dlr LexIcon   The moving and inspirational story of Janusz Korczak who devoted his life to establishing the rights of the child, regardless of nationality or religion. Korczak hosted a children’s radio programme, founded the first children’s newspaper and testified on behalf of children in juvenile courts. He worked with the children of Warsaw and died, along with many of these orphaned children, at the hands of the Nazis in 1942. We’re hosting the exhibition to mark 25th Anniversary of Ireland’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.     Image courtesy of Korczakianum Centre for Documentation and Research, Warsaw 1938
12 Apr 2018 - 14 Apr 2018

The ASIAM Autism Experience Exhibition 12-14 April

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PRISM Dlr in association with Triple A Wicklow are delighted to present the ASIAM Autism Experience Exhibition at dlr LexIcon. The aim of the exhibition is to engage the general public in gaining a greater insight into what it is like to live with autism. How would you feel if you couldn’t communicate with your own voice or were unable to filter out surrounding noise? What if you couldn’t cope with the feeling of certain textures or odours of certain foods. At this exhibition, we will answer these questions and let you experience some of these challenges!

School visits on 12 & 13 April. General admission on 14 April. Talk on ASD, Anxiety and Mental Health will be held in the Studio Theatre, Sat 14 April at 10am (Eventbrite booking only) followed by Autism support and advice drop-in session for families hosted by PRISM...

15 Jan 2018 - 30 Apr 2018

Maid of Erin, a display of political cartoons by John Fergus O’Hea from the Weekly Freeman, 1887-1889

15 January-30 April The later part of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of new mass movements in Irish social and political life. Taking aselection of illustrations by John Fergus O’Hea in particular, from the Local Studies Collection, this display explores the highlypoliticised imagery used to influence opinion in a period of increasing national awareness. Level 5 dlr LexIcon

16 Oct 2017 - 13 Nov 2017

16 October - 12 November

'Street Feast' is Ireland's annual day of street parties and community lunches. Communities were invited to host a party with their neighbours and feast together as a wonderful celebration of community. These phots, documenting dlr's Street Feasts were taken by final year students from the IADT Film and Media Department and the Exhibtion is funded by Creative Ireland 

Note: from 9-13 October, the exhibition will be hosted in the Concourse, County Hall, to mark Social Inclusion Week 2017. 

11 Sep 2017 - 16 Oct 2017
UCD Architecture Project:The Metals   11 September-15 October  

Final-year architecture students from UCD School of Architecture have generated a series of design projects connected by The Metals. These range from artists’ studios to a local recycling centre on the fringes of the railway line, a Camphill Community garden scheme and a co-housing project on sites in the gardens of existing houses backing on to The Metals, a project for modular emergency housing on the edge of Dalkey Quarry, and two projects on the harbour, a proposal for a public space on Carlisle Pier and a new harbourmaster’s office beside the Irish Lights. Aspects of these seven diverse and speculative proposals may be viewed until Open House Dublin 2017 which takes place from 13-15 October.

 

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