Solo Show - Brigitte Mulholland, Paris
 

A Place to Disappear

4th September to 10th Ocotober

Central to A Place to Disappear are formative encounters with Paris, a city that has repeatedly marked turning points in Damien Flood's practice. In Flood's first solo show in Paris, he will present a number of new paintings and ceramics that draw inspiration directly from and reflect on the influence Paris has had on his development as an artist. 

During a recent trip to Paris in January, Flood revisited Père Lachaise and encountered a series of mourning women memorials. Further investigation revealed that these figures are known as mournful muses. This encounter sparked the creation of a series of ceramic figures inspired by the sketches and images from his visit. In the exhibition, these figures can be seen to mourn the loss of a painted world, lamenting the promise of painting.

The paintings inspired by this experience view the cemetery as a site of contemplation. They reflect on its layered histories, weathered monuments, and organic encroachments, which are reinterpreted into richly treated surfaces that emphasise the material presence of paint. Each painting is approached uniquely, with visible fragments of certainty merging and disappearing into the raw canvas and hessian. Multiple materials are employed to evoke a weathered and textured surface.

This exhibition will be accompanied by an A5 screen-printed publication titled ‘A Painter and Paris’. It has been printed by Small Night Zine and is limited to 40 copies and will be available at the gallery for the duration of the show. You can access a digital version of the publication here: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/b3dc943a71.html

This exhibition has kindly been supported by Maurice Ward Art Handling and the Arts Council of Ireland. 

BRIGITTE MULHOLLAND
81 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

 info@brigittemulholland.com

07 77 65 18 41

Tuesday - Saturday

11h-19h

www.brigittemulholland.com

For a PDF of the exhibition please use the contact form. 

Unmade Painting - Call Out

James Merrigan and I are working on a new project title Unmade Painting, and we would like to invite any interested painters to participate. We are interested in what painting has become in a digital world that further commodifies its already commodified status in the artworld. Can language still sit beside painting without the proclamation of “Too many words” extolled by the audience.

You can follow this Substack post which t further outlines what we hope to achieve in my Link Tree. This endeavour will be leading towards an exhibition, publication and talk in Autumn launching in Green On Red for Dublin Gallery Weekend.

If you are interested, please register your interest at smallnightzine@gmail.com

Press release:

Unmade Painting, an ancillary project-exhibition, accompanies Damien Flood’s solo exhibition at Green on Red Gallery during Dublin Gallery Weekend, October 2026. Presented in the gallery’s Concrete basement space, it operates as both a legacy project and a speculative prompt to question the contemporary condition of painting.

For over twenty years Flood and James Merrigan have sustained a conversation around painting, bringing unwieldy language into the frame of unwieldy painting. That dialogue has taken many forms: Flood’s steady proliferation of printed publications accompanying exhibitions since 2010; and an unrealised film project (2016–18) in which Flood and Merrigan (with two filmmakers Saskia Vermeulen and Gareth Nolan) interviewed Irish painters, asking why they continue to paint. The footage, never resolved, left dormant on a hard drive, becomes here a point of return and screen-printed image.

Where Flood remained committed to painting both materially and conceptually within the commercial system, Merrigan drifted toward language, criticism, and the DIY art publishing framework of Small Night Projects. Unmade Painting brings these trajectories back into contact.

The exhibition will assemble screenprinted elements that awkwardly approximate painting: posters of legacy publications generated by Flood’s invitations to writers and critics; screenshots from the unmade film; and a new screenprinted zine, Tennis, which tackles painting’s relationship to its verbalisation and contemporary digital representation: philosophically, socially, theoretically. 

The objective is simple and direct: To ask what painting has become in a digital world that further commodifies its already commodified status in the artworld. Can language still sit beside painting without the proclamation of “Too many words” extolled by the audience. As Flood said in a recent Zoom with Merrigan: painters' noses were once forced towards the grindstone of theory. Today, against the backlit screens of our habitual vigil of the painting that is not the painting, what if the grindstone of theory reappeared in the basement of its exile. Not as a pedagogical learning outcome, but as a sign, a tool, to sharpen our conceptual relationship with material painting.

Some of My Favorite Things

Winter Group Show at Brigitte Mulholland Gallery, Paris

Featuring work from: Raphaëlle Bertran, David Byrd, Julie Curtiss, Hamish Chapman, HyeGyeong Choi, Lisa Corinne Davis, Damien Flood, Tamara Gonzales, Roxanne Jackson, Marcus Jahmal, Clinton King, Aliza Nisenbaum, Niamh O’Malley, Emily Orta, Rebecca Purdum, Emma Roche, Elizabeth Schwaiger, Andrew Sim, Abbott Stillman, Lisa Tiemann

Exhibition opens 10th January

Exhibition runs until 7th February

Brigitte Mulholland

81 rue de Turenne

75003 Paris

W: www.brigittemulholland.com
C:  info@brigittemulholland.com
T: 07 77 65 18 41

Opening Hours: 

Tuesday - Saturday

11h-19h

Green On Red Gallery at Vienna Contemporary 2025 

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to present new work by gallery artists at this years Vienna Contenporary.

Kirstin Arndt
Alan Butler
Damien Flood
Scott Lyall
Caroline McCarthy
Bridget Riley
Nil Yalter

From September 11 – 14, 2025, Austria’s leading fair for contemporary art will gather established galleries, exciting newcomers, and curated special exhibitions in the spacious Halle D of Messe Wien, inviting thousands of professionals, artists, collectors, visionaries, and communities to experience international encounters and unforgettable art world impressions.

September 11 - 14, 2025

Open: Friday to Saturday, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Messe Wien, Hall D, Vienna, Austria
Booth #C15 

W: www.viennacontemporary.at

W: www.greenonredgallery.com

E: info@greenonredgallery.com

Earthly Delights | Green On Red Gallery


Alan Butler
Mary FitzGerald
Damien Flood
Mark Joyce
Sorcha McNamara
Bridget Riley     
Oisín Tozer

Earthly Delights is in the title of Hieronymous Bosch's early 16th Century triptych The Garden of Eathly Delights.  This painting charts the Creation, the Birth and Fall of man and woman. It was painted in The Netherlands in the 1490s or early 1500s.  It is currently in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. It has captivated audiences and artists since that time, including some Irish artists and one or two in this show.   

The Garden theme is also continued in Green On Red Gallery's summer Earthly Delights exhibition looking at artists whose work looks at life and death and society, not to mention a world in crisis.   

Exhibition dates :  1 August - 19 September 2025
 
Opening reception :  Thursday 31 July  2025   5-8 pm 

Green On Red Gallery  Pakenham House  Park Lane  Spencer Dock  Dublin 1  D01 Y821
t. +353 87 2454282 

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www.greenonredgallery.com  

i. @greenonredgallery_dublin 

Art Brussels Solo Presentation

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to present a new solo presentation of work by Damien Flood at Art Brussels 2025.

     This exhibition of new paintings follows a show that began at Green On Red Gallery in Dublin. His seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, titled As Above, so Below ( 6 February – 11 April 2025 ), marked another step in his ongoing exploration of the history and materiality of painting.

     Culture is born of civilization, a tool to question the world around us. Art can bring us closer to understanding reality. This has been a core concern in Flood’s work since the outset. Using abstract and representational painting and sculpture is, for him, a way to dissect and upend the world, showing us a way to look afresh.  Eternal Garden is an installation showcasing new works that continue to delve into themes of death, rebirth, and belief. The exhibition and live installation will feature a series of framed, oil and mixed media on canvas paintings and evolving wall paintings that push Flood's boundaries further.  Images in glazed and painted ceramic and protruding canvas populate the surface of the paintings.

     The exhibition is set within an installation of watercolour botanical drawings made directly and live on the booth walls. They are inspired by the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript. These drawings sprout white ceramic foliage from the gallery walls. Throughout the duration of the art fair, the artist will progressively add more watercolour botanical drawings to the booth, gradually enveloping the space.

For a PDF of the booth please contact info AT greenonredgallery

Art Brussels 

Brussels Expo

Hall 5

Place de la Belgique 1

1020 Brussels

artbrussels.com

24th to 27th April 

Solo Show -Green On Red Gallery

Green On Red Gallery is pleased to present 'As Above, So Below', the 7th solo show by Damien Flood at the gallery.

This exhibition sees the artist further explore his interest in the history and materiality of painting. Culture is born of civilization, a tool to question the world around us. Art when used correctly can bring us closer to understanding reality. This has been a core concern in Flood’s work. Using the language of abstract and representational painting as a way to dissect and upend the world, shows us a way to look anew.

Flood has always been interested in image making, how images are read and what certain shapes and applications of paint can suggest and mean. Over the last few years ceramics have been added to this mix, creating definite moments in the exhibition space. In Floods new solo show these moments have been fused to the canvas plane.  Certain works sprout ceramic foliage while fabric theatrically flows and twists through the canvas plane. The white ceramic foliage also alludes to the plants atrophying in the air once they have left the two-dimensional plane. The paintings appear weathered and beaten, with fractured paint language scattered across their surfaces.

Some works feature Flood’s interpretation of the artists frame sewn together from scraps of linen and tacked to the edges, a canvas framing a canvas. Other works see Flood pulling raw linen through a hessian canvas plane or attaching old weather bits of canvas to the surface of the work. These works push his painting language in new directions. The paintings reward slow viewing. The ceramic foliage hides small gold hands, the paint reveals dashes of surprising colour, texture and application.

The exhibition runs from 7th of February to 28th March

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane

Spencer Dock
Dublin

For more information visit www.greenonredgallery.com

ART SG, Singapore

Green On Red Gallery is proud to announce their participation in ART SG 2025, representing 4 gallery artists from Ireland, Canada and Germany. They are Kirstin Arndt ( DE ), Damien Flood ( IRE ), Scott Lyall ( CAN, works New York/Toronto ) and Caroline McCarthy.

Taking place in January at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre at the heart of Singapore’s financial district, ART SG is the leading global contemporary art fair in Southeast Asia. The fair launched in 2023 and features a stellar line-up of international and regional art galleries alongside a curated program of large-scale installations, experimental film and moving image, thought-provoking panel discussions and performances.

Coinciding with Singapore Art Week, ART SG is from 17 to 19th January (Preview & Vernissage 16 January) with an exceptional line-up of international and regional galleries, bringing progressive concepts and curation to the Singapore art landscape, delivering a fair of international standard and best practices, with a distinctive identity. The fair fosters artistic excellence and cultural dialogue across Southeast Asia and the broader Asia Pacific region. Differentiated from other art fairs, ART SG is geared towards the interests of the globally minded collector and aims to expand these interests by promoting new discourse and connections; encouraging cross-border collecting. ART SG helps galleries to broaden and deepen their networks and make an impact within the city of Singapore and the wider region.

For more information:

www.greenonredgallery
https://artsg.com/

Group Show at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin

Tom Hunter's Lover Set on Fire in Bed ( 2004 ) from the gallery's archive is the starting point for the exhibition Lovers at Green On Red Gallery, opening Thursday, 15 February  2024.  The exhibition will continue until Friday, 8 March only.   

A theme in the exhibition is the pairing of two elements or two protagonists in intense proximity or juxtaposition.  

"Flood's paintings and his sculptures are characterised by an emotional coexistence : melancholy, as if generated by the impression of a continuous loss of something, and joy, as when that something is found or rediscovered or, better, when it turns out that it's not that important. "

Exhbititing Artists: Alan Butler   John Cronin   Damien Flood   Tom Hunter   Mark Joyce   Caroline McCarthy   Fergus Martin   Xavier Theunis   Nil Yalter   â€‹

Opening Reception :      Thursday, 15th February     18:00 - 21:00 hrs
Dates :                               Thursday, 15th February - Friday, 8th March   2024

Gallery Open :                 Monday - Friday    10:00 - 18:00 hrs     
                                            Saturday and Sunday by appointment

Solo Exhibition At Galleria Weber&Weber, Turin

A Place for Lost Things 
4th November 2023 - 20th January 2024

Curated by Valeria Ceregini

In Damien Flood’s new solo exhibition A Place for Lost Things, he continues to push and poke at the edges and boundaries of painting and image making. A central Question to Flood’s practice is how, in modern times, an artist depicts the world around him.

Over the last three years, ceramics have given Flood a new way of working. Folding in different and more direct meaning into his work. The working process of clay connects further to ideas of the past, digging down to unearth otherworldly artefacts. It also allows the paintings time to breath and follow their own path. 
 
In this new body of work comprising of new paintings and ceramics, Flood presents the viewer with mainly large paintings alongside intimate ceramic works. They fold together elements of various styles, approaches, and techniques. The paintings build a world that is still, paused in the middle of becoming undone. One that is emotive, reflective and asks questions of the viewer. The ceramics pose questions about the role of artifacts and how we culturally deal with the inevitable humorous tinge. 

These works are laboured and slow to make rewarding slow viewing. The paintings can be divided into interiors and exteriors. The interiors display anthropomorphic qualities. The lines between what is animate and inanimate are blurred. The exteriors bring new elements of life into Flood’s work.

A Place for Lost Things 
4th November - 20th January 2024

Preview:  Tuesday 31st October, 6 - 9 pm
Notte delle Arti Contemporanee in the presence of the artist:  Saturday 4th November, 4 - 11 pm  
Location: Galleria Weber&Weber, Via San Tommaso 7, Torino, Italy 

Kindly support by Culture Ireland

More infomration: http://www.galleriaweber.it/

Green On REd Gallery at The Armory Show, New York

Green On Red Gallery is excited to announce our return to The Armory Show in September 2023 with new work from Damien Flood, Scott Lyall, Niamh McCann and David OReilly. Booth 224

Working across multiple media and exploring a variety of themes, the artists are united in their ability to disrupt safe and easy readings of social, cultural, and historic signs. Flood interrogates the ontology of painting and sculpture through multi-layered works that oscillate between landscape, figuration, representation and abstraction. Referencing the pixel, Lyall’s colour-wave paintings are formed by mathematical interpolation that generates a unique and potentially infinite bitstream as he questions the informational fetish of the post-digital and their signs.  McCann playfully disrupts the world of cultural and historic signs as she upends the systems enabling their meaning. Poetic and political, the signifiers and symbols of hegemonic colonial power are reformed as a tool to question our underlying assumptions. OReilly seeks to disrupt and unsettle our understanding of contemporary cultural systems as he recontextualizes the revolutionary 4004 Intel microchip ( USA, 1971 ), offered as both an artefact and an icon through video and sculpture.

Re-started in 1994 in the Gramercy Hotel by four New York art dealers seeking to support their artists by attracting global attention, The Armory Show has become a groundbreaking cultural moment that is a vital aspect of the New York and American art market.  Since 2021 the fair has taken place in the newly expanded Javits Center and continues to link visitors to exhibitors at the fair as well as New York City with global galleries, museums, arts organizations, artists and collectors. The Armory Show launches the fall art season.
 

For more info: http://www.greenonredgallery.com

2023 VIP Preview:          Invitation Only
                                            Thursday, September 7

Dates :                               September 8–10, 2023
                                            Booth #224

Address:                           Javits Center
                                           Crystal Palace Entrance, 429 11th Ave,
                                           Between 35th and 36th Streets,
                                           New York, NY, 10001

Try a Little Tenderness, Group Show at Liminal Gallery, Margate.

Tender moments, tender flesh, tender touch, tender thoughts, tender heart, tender mind; try a little tenderness. 

A tender moment is encapsulated in an act of thoughtfulness; a cup of tea at the end of the day, a gift of flowers, a display of love. Tenderness is to give up one's time, attention, precious moments devoted to another. Tenderness is also pain, a moment of fragility, of weakness. It evokes skin which expands, shrinks, multiplies, and shivers to the touch. Skin which is a dying organism, for surely that is what we all are. A tender morsel of meat, deliciously melts in the mouth. 

Damien Flood’s work spans painting and sculpture and are recognisably traditional but steeped in surprisingly modern principles. Tender moments are captured, fleeting as if a dream, yet tactile enough for recognition. The experience of a lived experience and the fleeting moments we cherish and cling to. 

Exploring these themes in contrasting ways ‘Try a little Tenderness’ brings together the works of three artists whose practice is unified in the attempt to capture these fleeting moments. 

Liminal Gallery
34 Fort Hill,

Margate

CT9 1HD,

UK

Website:  www.liminal-gallery.com

REVIEW: James Merrigan reviews DIG at Green On Red Gallery. 

“There is something about the ‘last’ painting in the gallery that is suggestive of the last painting Flood painted in this body of work, or will ever paint. In the same way Stephen McKenna’s darkest painting “Large Night Interior” exhibited at the Kerlin Gallery is 2017 was literally his last painting, and looked it too.” 🏴

To read the full review Click Here.

Exhibition runs until 26th November.

Limited Edition Lathe Cut Vinyl Release

As part of Damien Flood's new Solo Show at Green On Red Gallery he is releasing a limited edition lathe cut vinyl.

The limited-edition lathe cut record comprises of three tracks written and performed by the artist going under the moniker of GUT. The record titled ‘For After Ever’ came about during the fracturing time of the pandemic. Many feelings and ghosts from the past resurfaced. Long forgotten personalities thought laid to rest made themselves known. As much as they were unwanted, they did bring with them a curiosity to revisit and reclaim passions of the past. The three tracks are not art and Flood does not consider himself a musician. GUT is a tool, a musical endeavour to examine a time when he made music with friends purely for the love and fun of it. It touches on a time, simultaneously celebrating and grieving the loss of a friend.  It examines the fugitive world building nature of writing, recording, and releasing and the desire to share emotions and feelings. It is a different part of Flood’s personality, one that ties into his practice and further develops the humour and melancholic undertone to his work.

Gut, For After Ever, lathe cut vinyl, Limited to 30 copies, numbered.

€35 + postage and packaging.

The record will be available at the gallery on the opening night and while stocks last.

To listen online please click here

To reserve or puchase a copy please click here

Dig, Solo Exhbition at Green On Red Gallery.

21 October -  27 November  2022
Monday - Friday  10:00 - 18:00
Saturday and Sunday by appointment


Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock
Dublin 1  D01 Y821

Green On Red Gallery is excited to announce an exhibition of new paintings,  ceramics and a new limited edition vinyl, For After Ever, by Damien Flood in its Spencer Dock gallery, opening on Thursday, October 20 next and running until November 27, 2022.

Flood continues to make paintings and ceramic works that are seen separately and, in the case of Hanging Garden ( 2022 ), where one medium seems to grow out of or is enmeshed with the other.  We are more used to this cross-fertilization with architectural embellishment, like the shrouded life-size sculpted figure in the Pére Lachaise cemetery, Paris ( illustrated in Flood’s 2018 book The Figure in the Carpet – Damien Flood :  p.2 ).  In Hanging Garden ( oil on linen, ceramic and moss ) sculpture grows out of painting.  In Evening Sand ( 2022 ) a live clematis climbs through a trellis-like plinth that supports a landscape hand-painted on a round unique ceramic vase.
 

Life and death are also intertwined.

These kinds of leaps and transformations are at the heart of Flood’s art.  As a title, Dig suggests a deathly or macabre action.  And mortality is never far from Flood’s brush.  But dig is necessary to grow and his oil on canvases are teeming with abundant life.    Even his “ indoor “ Design for a Living Room ( 2022 ) ( oil on reversed black-primed canvas with 22 carat gold leaf ) is full of atmosphere, passing clouds or ice-caps, and a chair sprouting green life, all defying an easy definition or understanding of these works.  

His series of richly glazed ceramic heads and popular Grinners hit home harder.  They confront the viewer in shiny, unsettling detail with uncomfortable truths about the facts of death and decay.  Their material and their form also rhyme with the idea of excavation and digging down through the layers of time compressed beneath the surface, to the ruins of past lives. 

This is an exhibition for our times, making us wonder just how much we have progressed and how much – or little – life has changed. The use of fired clay already suggests something classical and pre-historic and funerary.  His painted landscapes are vivid interior dream worlds posing more questions than answers.  The viewer has to dig deep.   

You dig deep, you plant deep.

A dig is also a goad to the viewer, a wound and a provocation.  This exhibition will not leave you unmoved but provoke a gut response to Flood’s new, visceral, sights and sounds.   

Accompanying the show is a three-track vinyl record in an edition of 30 called For After Ever. Each track is written, composed and performed by GUT ( Damien Flood ).  It is lathe-cut and available for purchase at the gallery.  

For further information or PDF of works fetaured in the show please email here

Or visit www.greenonredgallery.ie

Irish Arts Review Feature

In the Autumn 22 Edition of the Irish Arts Review, Damien Flood is the featured artist on view.

Cristin Leach discovers an artist who takes real pleasure in unexpected textures and fragmented compositions.

The feature is a 4 page overview of Damien Flood's practice written by Art Critic and Writer Cristin Leach.

For more information or to purchase a copy please visit www.irishartsreview.com

Green On Red Gallery at Vienna Contemporary

Green On Red Gallery will show a selection of new work including new oil paintings and ceramic figures.

Other artists exhibiting with the gallery are Alan Butler, Fergus Martin, Mark Joyce and Kirsten Arndt.

Art Fair runs from 2nd of September to 5th

Opening hours:

2 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
3 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
4 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
5 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Venue: Alte Post
Postgasse 10
1010 Vienna
Organizer VC Artevents GmbH
Siebensterngasse 46/1/44, 1070 Vienna
 

More information at:
www.viennacontemporary.at

TILT Monograph now on sale from RHA Gallery website

The new monograph published on the occasion of Damien Flood's solo show Tilt is now on sale on the RHA Gallery website.

The publication includes new comissioned texts by James Merrigan and Sue Rainsford with a forward by RHA Director Patrick T Murphy.

It features a compreshesive overview of the show, including installation shots of the exhibition.

Edition of 500

Designed by the artist

92 pages

Hard back with blind debossed cover.

To purchase a copy click here>

Solo Show TILT Opens May 10th at Royal Hibernian Academy. 

RHA Brown and O’hUiginn Gallerie will host TILT, the first institutional solo exhibition of Damien Flood's work, consisting of a new body of paintings and fired and glazed ceramic figures and vases, perched on customised plinths in concrete, brass and steel.  The exhibition will run from Monday, 10 May to Saturday, 1 August, 2021.

TILT shows a remarkable cross-fertilisation of ideas and imagery between the sometimes lush, sometimes spare painting on canvas and his new miniature squat figures with wrent expressions aimed directly at the viewer. Colourful glazed urns appear inside and outside the paintings, on an edge between this world and the next, with wit and humour, in the face of the unknown and the shocking uncertainty of our times. 

Throughout the exhibition we find a new group of what can best be described as flower paintings, anchoring us in this world.  These lush memento mori were made in part after seeing paintings from his deathbed of the same subject ( 1880s ) by Edouard Manet - father of modernism - while Flood was on a residency in the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, in 2018.   Foliage, seascape, gardens and horizon lines give us a footing and a fruitful starting point from which to explore TILT.

To book a viewing slot to see TILT please go to: 
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/rha-gallery-admission-tickets-152996383301 
 

𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶'𝚂 𝚂𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙴𝙽 𝙿𝙾𝙳𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚃 #3

James Merrigan invited Damien Flood to talk about his decade of self publishing for his new Thing's Screen Podcast. They discuss Flood's publications over the last 11 years in the run up to his latest publication which will be published to coincide with his solo show at the Royal Hibernian Academy this summer.

So… I went podcasting yesterday… In great hunger and appetite for Damien Flood's exhibition at the RHA Gallery Dublin in the coming months, and the launch of his sixth book, I asked him to chat about the decade-long self-publishing that has accompanied his exhibitions.

During that time Damien has confronted the relationship between "words and things", what Michel Foucault called "the entirely serious title of a problem". On canvas and in books, Damien's independent and stubborn painting project has always created & confronted problems privately (in the studio) & publicly (in the gallery). Proffering free reign to his collaborators, many "things" have happened amidst the "words". As a friend & collaborator I have always felt free to write with enmity; what Derrida described as the "politics of friendship" has always been tested.

                                                                                                                            -James Merrigan

To view the full Video Interview click here >

For more information on Damien Flood's solo show Tilt  click here>

Artist Feature Page by Green On Red Gallery

Green On Red Gallery have unveiled their new Artists Feature Page. For the inaugural feature they have chosen the work of Damien Flood. The feature gives an in-depth look at recent developments in his practice in the run up to his solo show Tilt at The Royal Hibernian Academy.

Culturally, decorative, but used for every occasion in life from birth to death, cut flowers in painting – a veritable industry in 17C. Netherlands - are also, of course, intended as a moral jolt, a memento mori. The French call it : “nature morte “. Dead nature.  The seed for these paintings was sown during Flood’s discovery while on a Centre Culturel Irlandais - Paris, residency in 2018 of late flower paintings by Edouard Manet. The French master painted the daily flower deliveries like Roses in Champagne Glass ( 1882 ), Tulips and Lilacs in a Crystal Vase ( 1882 ) from his deathbed. Flood paints Blooming Pint Glass ( 2020 ) and Bean Can Oak ( 2020 ) with a grittier realism.

On the Artist Feature Page you will also find videos of his new cermic works edited and soundtracked by the artist.

To view Green On Red Gallery's Artist Feature Page Click Here>

Further information on the show can be found on the Royal Hibernian Academy's website by Clicking here>

This show has been kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, The Wicklow County Council, and the Royal Hibernian Academy.

Royal Hibernian Academy

15 Ely Place, Dublin 2, D02 A213

Ph: 353 1 661 2558

www.rhagallery.ie

Email: info@rhagallery.ie

Exhibition dates to be confrmed due to Covid 19 restrictions.

For more infomation please contact: studio AT damienflood.ie

TILT

Solo Show at The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

Opening to be confirmed due to Covid 19 restrictions.

Tilt brings together a new body of work that juxtaposes paintings with a series of new ceramic works.

What has resulted from these two years of research and making is the solo show Tilt. The exhibition juxtaposes the new ceramic work against a series of new paintings. The ceramics sit upon handmade brass, cement, and steel stands, evoking delicate and industrial aesthetics.The heavily layered and sumptuous paintings fold together disparate elements that I have developed over the last 14 years. They are combined to create lush complex works that evoke spaces that flip between internal and external, macro, and micro. Flowers grown from paint feature heavily throughout the exhibition. The large paintings depict places in a permanent state of becoming, places to be inhabited by the viewer. The smaller works depict ethereal gardens or singular plants, recognisable moments in an ever-shifting landscape. A series of vases merge the ceramics with the canvases through their painted surfaces, balancing on thin rusted metal stands, contrasting their beauty, and skewing the exhibition space.  

The ceramic works pull on the tension exploiting the transition from the real world to the fragmented world of imagination and memory and the tension between a figurative and abstract language. The series of Crying Men and Grinners tug with dark humour at chords of association with primitive cultures and pagan offerings while juxtaposing the emotional landscape of the paintings.

This show has been kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, The Wicklow County Council, and the Royal Hibernian Academy.

More information can be found here>

Royal Hibernian Academy

15 Ely Place, Dublin 2, D02 A213

Ph: 353 1 661 2558

www.rhagallery.ie

Email: info@rhagallery.ie

For more infomation please contact: studio AT damienflood.ie

Remote Joy at Green On Red Gallery

Green On Red Gallery Presents : Remote Joy, our first Online and Gallery exhibition
 
We invite you to visit our debut online/gallery exhibition, Remote Joy, which will launch on our website at 6 pm tomorrow, May 14th, 2020.  See new work by Kirstin Arndt, Alan Butler, Constant Dullaart, Damien Flood, John Graham, Mark Joyce, Caroline McCarthy, Ronan McCrea, Fergus Martin & Aoife Shanahan. 

To view the show simply click here.  The exhibition is currently live and can be viewed there and/or in the gallery in Spencer Dock, until Saturday, June 28th, 2020. 

The stimulus to curate and to host Remote Joy is to maintain business, to show that art continues to be created, even in these trying and frightening times. It is to inspire and to provoke thought and pleasure through the continued enjoyment of the art being made by our artists, even in these restricting times, when most of us are working from home and some artists are locked out of their studios.
 
Remote Joy aims to bring some joy and art right into your homes for the duration of this exhibition where, at the touch of a few buttons, you can see new art that is being made because of or despite the uncertain conditions that prevail globally.  In fact, this exhibition shows that in many ways the pandemic Covid-19 can bring us closer together.  It can also give us more time to contemplate and to savour the important and challenging things in our lives, including new art. 

The exhibition is partly remote.  It is partly joyful.  It is sometimes both.  

In this online show you will find new work by some of the above-listed artists that is visible exclusively on your screen, wherever you are.  

You will also find images, including installation views, of a selection of the new artworks that are hanging in the gallery in Spencer Dock and “ opening “ on Thursday, May 14, 2020 until June 27, 2020.  
 

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane, Spencer Dock
Dublin 1
Ireland

www.greenonredgallery.com

Great Small Works

Stephane Simoens will be showing over 80 small works by 34 artists.

The exhibiting artists alongside Damien Flood are :

Philip AKKERMAN - ANONYMOUS - Laurenz BERGES - Udona BOEREMA - Michael CANNING -Walter DAHN - Laurent DA SYLVA - Raoul DE KEYSER - Matilde DUUS - Ivan Liovik EBEL - Damien FLOOD - Albrecht FUCHS - Ross HANSEN Tobias HANTMANN - Niek HENDRIX - Diango HERNANDEZ - Klara HOSNEDLOVA - Brad KAHLHAMER - Natasja MABESOONE - Jesper Skov MADSEN - Sally MANN - Lars MORELL - David MURPHY - James William MURRAY - Frank NITSCHE - Johan NOBELL - Jan SCHOONHOVEN - Maximilian SCHUBERT - Robin SEIR - Berend STRIK - Kei TAKEMURA - Luc VANDERVELDE - Keke VILABELDA - Masaaki YAMADA

The exhibition runs from 22 February - 31 March 2020

Stephane Simoens 
Knokke
Belgium

For more information visit: www.stephanesimoens.com

New Ceramics at Volta Basel, 2019

10  – 15 June 2019. Booth B01

Green On Red Gallery is proud to announce its participation in Volta 15, Basel, Switzerland for the 10th time with four of its gallery artists with the theme of Memory and Desire.  They include Alan Butler, Damien Flood, Caroline McCarthy and Xavier Theunis with new work completed for the exhibition at Elsässerstrasse 215, 4056 Basel.   

Damien Flood’s earthenware clay ceramic figures are shown in combination with oil on linen paintings from his recent The Figure in the Carpet exhibition at Green On Red, Dublin, in 2018/19.   This is not the first time his work has left the wall but it is the most explicit expression to date of the tension the artist likes to exploit in the transition from the real world to the fragmented world of his imagination and memory and the tension between a figurative and an abstract language. Crying Man (2019), Potter (2019), Metal Head (2019) and Moon Vase (2019) show off the artists considerable skill in this new medium. They also tug with dark humour at chords of association with primitive cultures and pagan offerings while echoing the emotional landscape of his oil on linens.   

Xavier Theunis’s curiously titled Vue d’Atelier #23 continues his impeccable use of sharply cut adhesive vinyl paper, this time in a rainbow of gently curving, perfectly contiguous strips arranged in 3 equal columns. The vertical columns oscillate and sway adding to the up and down dance of colour.  Colours range from fluorescent orange, yellow and pinks to sparkling white, sparkling gold and cerize over a 240 x 180cms expanse creating a luxuriant voluptuousness.  

In her trademark understated fashion Caroline McCarthy picks the most modest and unpromising of starting points, the disposable plastic drinking straw - the subject and medium of choice for her first solo show and installation in Green On Red Gallery in 2011 - and performs conceptual summersaults giving the viewer on one level a whimsical composition but on another challenging their very belief system.   Together Forever is the title of a new series of exquisite ink and gouache paintings on paper that will also be shown in her forthcoming solo show in Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn ( opening June 25, 2019 ).  The suggestion of permanence and unity is at odds with the bare facts of these trompe l’oeil renderings of a transigent condition or, in the words of the artist “ a dishevelled formalism “.  She adds: “ Together Forever is a joyful expression of a hedonistic party, a celebration drunk on colour and excess with no thought for the headache tomorrow “.   

Alan Butler’s cyanotypes and deskscapes continue to test and cross the lines between the digital and whatever we define as the real realm.  Butler mines that dichotomy in rich of ways employing manual techniques of early photography and painting.  

For more information please contact Green On Red Gallery here>

Or if you would like a PDF of the works you can email: studio AT damienflood.ie

Green On Red Gallery
Volta Basel 2019
Basel 
Switzerland 
10  – 15 June 2019

A Necessary Commitment to Mutation

The Green On Red Gallery invites you to its upcoming panel discussion A Necessary Commitment to Mutation, on the occasion of Damien Flood's extended solo exhibition The Figure in the Carpet and in response to texts by leading art critic Declan Long, Rawness and Rupture and Organalle by author Susan Rainsford.  Both texts are published in the new monograph on the artist to accompany The Figure in The Carpet exhibition.  

Flood has marked himself out as one of the most distinctive and original artists of his generation since he first exhibited in the gallery in 2010.  His paintings defy easy definition and reward repeated and extended viewing as they slowly yield up their half revealed, half concealed figures and narratives.   The eye is led along a dotted line or insistent painted edge before it ends up in a sumptuous thick build-up of paint, of pattern or of nothingness, akin to the floating world of figures and forms in a Francis Bacon.  The pressure of the descriptive force is equal to the lack of a clear and easy resolution.   

The talk with the two keynote speakers and the artist takes at the Green On Red Gallery on Friday, February 1st, 2019 at 13.10.  All welcome.  Booking advised.

The Figure in The Carpet exhibition will be extended to February 2, 2019. â€‹

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock ( Luas Stop to Rear of Apartments )
Dublin 1

More info: www.greenonredgallery.com

Solo Show: Shape of Things at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, LA

January 10 – February 2, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, January 12th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is happy to announce Shape of Things, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Irish-born artist Damien Flood. In the past decade, Damien Flood has distinguished himself as one of the most original painters of his generation, exhibiting recently in Dublin, London, Belgium, and Cologne. The paintings in this exhibition were made during recent residencies in Paris (Centre Culturel Irlandais) and Los Angeles (La Brea Studio Residency) and are a melancholic celebration of those experiences. A new monograph on the artist – The Figure in the Carpet - accompanies the show.

Damien Flood's oil paintings defy easy definition and reward repeated and extended viewing as they slowly yield up their half-revealed, half-concealed figures and narratives. They form a record of a myriad of thoughts and ideas, piecing together a new world in which the figure is fleeting and never fully whole. Flood mixes visual languages and motifs comprising of abstract forms, outlines, vases, hands and torsos that reoccur throughout his work. Some motifs bear a figurative semblance, while others are removed from any context. The experience is poetic.
The title – Shape of Things - alludes to the act of seeing imagined forms and shapes in the everyday. Silhouettes of objects creating a figure, intricate designs in a carpet conjuring up far off lands or faces appearing in hedges in low yellowing street light. The arrangements of disparate fragments within Flood’s paintings seem to form a similar function, allowing for multiple readings of new forms and tangential journeys.

This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. He previously exhibited in Los Angeles in 2017 in our group show, Wouldn’t it be nice if we could dream together? and Carrion Flowers, a solo show at The Cabin LA.
Damien Flood would like to thank the Arts Council of Ireland, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, and Danny First, Los Angeles, for their support.
The artist will attend the opening reception on Saturday, January 12th.

Diane Rosentstein Gallery 

831 N Highland Ave

Los Angeles

CA 90038

United States

For more information please visit www.dianerosenstein.com 

Or email: info@dianerosenstein.com 

The Figure in the Carpet, Hard-back monograph Now Available through the website's Publications section. 

The new hardback monograph The Figure in the Carpet is now available through the Publications section of this website. The monograph contains new work created of over the last year and two new essays responding to the artists work by Sue Rainsford and Declan Long. 

The new monograph is 64 pages, hardback, in an edition of 500 and designed by Damien Flood. You can see 15 images of the book in the publications section.

‘ Quickly, however, it became apparent that where meaning came away it came away in coarse and brittle fragments. It became apparent that ‘meaning’ was shards of rockface whose edges never realigned.
The feeling of these shards is the feeling of gums crowded and made sore by too many teeth. ’

                               The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood 'Organelle' by Sue Rainsford, pg 12

'Flood’s paintings — in some ways like Albini’s attitudes and effects — are questing experiments in achieving such transformative, destabilising encounters. There is ‘rupture’; there are ‘cuts’ and there is a necessary commitment to ‘mutation’. These paintings are the vigorous outcomes of urgent, intense imaginative processes, and the products of an insistently independent artistic spirit.' 

          The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood "Rawness and Rupture: Damien Flood"  Declan     Long, pg 32

It is also available from Green On Red Gallery, Dublin. 

It will soon be available online through the publications section and from Stephane Simoens, Knokke-Heist and Diane Rosenstein, LA. 

The Figure in the Carpet, Hard-back monograph launch November 2018

The Figure in the Carpet is a new hardback monograph on the artist. It contains new work created of over the last year and two new texts responding to the artists work by Sue Rainsford and Declan Long. 

‘ Quickly, however, it became apparent that where meaning came away it came away in coarse and brittle fragments. It became apparent that ‘meaning’ was shards of rockface whose edges never realigned.
The feeling of these shards is the feeling of gums crowded and made sore by too many teeth. ’

                               The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood 'Organelle' by Sue Rainsford, pg 12

'Flood’s paintings — in some ways like Albini’s attitudes and effects — are questing experiments in achieving such transformative, destabilising encounters. There is ‘rupture’; there are ‘cuts’ and there is a necessary commitment to ‘mutation’. These paintings are the vigorous outcomes of urgent, intense imaginative processes, and the products of an insistently independent artistic spirit.' 

          The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood " Rawness and Rupture: Damien Flood "  Declan     Long, pg 32

The new monograph is will be officially launched Thursday 29th November 2018 as part of the solo show ‘The figure in the Carpet’ at Green On Red Gallery. 

It will soon be available online through the publications section and from Stephane Simoens, Knokke-Heist and Diane Rosenstein, LA. 

If you would like an advanced copy please contact studio@damienfloo.ie

Solo Show The Figure in the Carpet at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin

Opening 29th November 6-8pm

Exbitions runs until 26th January 2019

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings, The Figure in the Carpet, by Damien Flood and the launch of a new hard-back monograph on the artist of the same title.  Flood has marked himself out as one of the most distinctive and original artists of his generation since he first exhibited in the gallery in 2010.  Flood's paintings defy easy definition and reward repeated and extended viewing as they slowly yield up their half revealed, half concealed figures and narratives.   The eye is led along a dotted line or insistent painted edge before it ends up in a sumptuous thick build-up of paint, of pattern or of nothingness, akin to the floating world of figures and forms in a Francis Bacon.  The pressure of the descriptive force is equal to the lack of a clear and easy resolution.

The Figure in the Carpet takes it’s title from the book of the same name by Henry James, first published in 1896. Told in the first person; the narrator meets his favourite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author's works. The author informs him that most critics, along with him,  have missed the point, his secret ‘like a complex figure in a Persian carpet’. ‘The Figure in the Carpet’ has become a short-hand or idiom for the ‘key’ to understanding a writer’s work. Yet the story in which the idiom was born, refuses to open itself up to easy interpretations or analysis. After the story was published Jame’s contemporaries set themselves on a quest for the Figure as an identifiable physical entity. Similarly Damien Flood’s paintings search for an understanding. They form a record of a myriad of thoughts and ideas, piecing together a new world -one that tries to understand the world we live in. This new painted world is not easily discerned, the figure is fleeting and never fully whole.

In the context of the exhibition the title also alludes to the act of seeing imagined forms and shapes in the everyday world around us. Silhouettes of objects creating a figure, intricate designs in a carpet conjuring up far off lands or faces appearing in hedges in low yellowing street light. The arrangements of disparate fragments within Flood’s paintings seem to form a similar function, allowing for multiple readings of new forms and tangential journeys. He uses a mixture of visual languages and motifs comprising of abstract forms, outlines, vases, hands and torso’s that reoccur throughout the work. Whereas some of these motifs bear a figurative semblance that allows for a certain degree of recognition, still others remain exempt from any obvious traceable traits and thus removed from any context. These primarily abstract pictorial marks appear to be puzzle pieces on a plain, floating in a void, loosely recalling a former composition or memory, a patch of paint, or conveying a fleeting impression of reality. They are left for the viewer to complete their narrative or meaning. This is apparent in the large raw linen painting ‘Cabin View’ (2018)(illustrated). In this work twisting twig-like curls of paint lead the eye through the fragmented picture plane. A harlequin patterned vase ornately floats behind the central panel of colour, alluding to a depth within the canvas. The painting teases the viewer with many different visual orientations, interior and exterior merge into a series of movements. The linear elements map out many visual possibilities, heads, arms, mountains, fluctuate within each one of the disparate lines. Everything is permitted but nothing is true. 

Artist's talk and events for  the exhibition will be announced in early January 2019.

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock (Luas Stop 100m to gallery)
Dublin 1

Full Press Release here>

More info: www.greeenonredgallery.com

Sea Change, IADT 21 years: 14th Sept – 4th Nov

Opening 14th September 

Sea Change IADT; 21 years of Art, Film and Animation

This anniversary exhibition includes contributions from alumni in the specialist fields of art, film and animation. The exhibition is curated by Oonagh Young and highlights the diversity of artistic practices that have been developed over twenty one years by graduates. The ‘sea change’ signifies a shift away from the traditional role of the creative industries, in-line with advancements in technology and is evident in the wide range of exciting and innovative professional artistic practices featured in this exhibition. 

The exhibition features art works and films by David Beattie, Jenny Brady, Alan-James Burns, Nina Canell, Anita Delaney, Damien Flood, Mark Garry, Adam Gibney, Jesse Jones, Vera Klute, Mateusz Lubecki, Bea Mac Mahon, Maser, Fiona Marron, Ciaran Murphy, Gavin Murphy, Isobel Nolan, Meadhbh O’Connor and Sonia Shiel, and books by Sarah Baume, Fiona Gannon, James Merrigan, Chris Fite Wassilack, Sue Rainsford and Ciaran Walsh.

For more information click here>

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Haigh Terrace

Moran Park

Dun Laoghaire 

Museum of Mythological Water Beasts

Ormston House is proud to introduce new artworks and events at the Museum of Mythological Water Beasts throughout the month of September.
 
Opening reception: Thursday 6 September, 7-9pm

The Museum of Mythological Water Beasts (2016-) began with an open research process, meeting with catchment custodians to learn about the wild spaces and species of the city. Grounded in community wisdom, the project returns indoors over the next six months with a series of artistic commissions. The evolving exhibition-environment will also feature an open call via a Membership Scheme, and objects and artefacts from the municipal collection, extracted through archaeological digs of the river.
 
Participating artists: Ann Blake, Chris Boland, Mary Conroy, Ceara Conway, Isadora Epstein, Cara Farnan, Emma Fisher, Damien Flood, Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Ruth Le Gear, Tom Watt and Tanad Williams

Events include: Trace by Ann Blake: 12, 13, 14 September, 6.30-7.30pm
Silent River Walk with Majella O’Donovan: Wednesday 19 September, 6-8pm
Culture Night with the Water Ensemble: Friday 21 September, 6-10pm
Medusa Lecture by Isadora Epstein: Thursday 27 September, 7-9pm

Curated by Niamh Brown and Mary Conlon

For more information click here>

Ormston House
Cultural Resource Centre
9-10 Patrick Street
Limerick City, V94 V089 
Ireland

Damien Flood and Herbert Warmuth at Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne

Damien Flood will participate in a two person show with Herbert Warmuth at Thomas Rehbein Galerie in Cologne. 

The show opens on Saturday 14th July from 2 until 6pm.

The exhibition runs until 18th of August. 

For more information please click here

This exhibition is kindly supported by Culture Ireland. 

Thomas Rehbein Galerie

Aachener Strasse 5

50674

Cologne

Email: art@rehbein-galerie.de

Solo Award

Damien Flood is a finalist for the Solo Award 2018. An exhbition and prize giving will be held at the Cello Factory, London on the 29th May from 6 -9 pm. The finalists exhbition runs until 29th June. 

Exhibiting finalists are: 

Flood, Damien 
​Harris, Kirsty 

Marguet, Antonio 
​Perach, Anna 
Sarnthein, Claudia 
​Saye, Ed 
​Suh, Shinuk 
Swift, Matthew 
​Thomas, Elly 
Tweed, Charlie 
Valtierra, Jaime 
Yoon, Ilkwon

The judges for this years Solo Award are: 

Sarah Martin (Head of Exhibitions, Turner Contemporary)

Alistair Hicks (Writer, Curator, former Senior Curator at Deutsche Bank)

Sarah Monk (Director London Art Fair)

Chiara Williams (Chair & Director Chiara Williams Contemporary Art)

For more info click here>

Cello Factory

33-34 Cornwall Rd, London SE1 8TJ.

Elevate: A celebration of contemporary Irish art drawn from the Arts Council of Ireland Collection 2008 -2018

Elevate opens on the 31st of may, presented by Luan Gallery in Collaboration with the Arts Council of Ireland.

The exhibition is a celebration of Irish Contemporary art drawn from the Arts Council Collection 2008-2018 and features my work Parting, 2016

Artists included in the exhibition are: Jennifer Brady, Willie Doherty, Damien Flood, David Godbold, Katie Holten, Jesse Jones, Eithne Jordan, Clare Langan, Eoin McHugh, Julie Merriman, Richard Mosse, Sonial Shiel and Daphne Wright.

The opening takes place at 6pm on May 31st 

Arts Council director Orlaith McBride will officially open the exhibition.

Exhibition continues until 29th July.

For more info click here>

Luan Gallery

Grace Park Road

Athlone

Co Westmeath

Ireland 

Golden Fleece Award 2018

Damien Flood has been shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award 2018

The Golden Fleece Award is an independent artistic prize fund established as a charitable bequest by the late Helen Lillias Mitchell. The panel for this years award comprises Patrick T. Murphy, Director of the Royal Hibernian Academy (Chairperson of the panel); jewellery designer, curator and educator Angela O'Kelly; graphic artist Robert Russell; painter Eoin Mac Lochlainn; and Dara O'Leary, who is Arts Programme Manager with the RDS.

The other shortlisted artists are: Magda Bethani, Ursula Burke, Paul Hallahan, Cecilia Moore and Natasha Rollinson.

The winner will be announced at a ceremony on the 15th of March at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

For more information please click here>

Known Unknowns

Works by Damien Flood, Nuala O’Sullivan and Daniel Greaney Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran

Exhbition opens 2nd November from 6-8

2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the “First Exhibition of Pictures” which opened on the 23rd of November 1937 in the Savoy Cinema, Limerick. This was the first significant move after the formation of a committee in 1936 of local citizens and artists such as Sean Keating and Dermod O’Brien to form a Municipal Art Gallery in Limerick, similar to those which existed in Dublin and Cork. The works in this exhibition would then form the “nucleus” of the Permanent Collection of Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA).

The exhibition, Known Unknowns takes the collection as it stands in 2017, a moment to pause and reflect on 80 years of collecting. Artists Damien Flood, Nuala O’Sullivan and Daniel Greaney have created new works of art which have been inspired by and are reactions to the connections, relationships, content and history of LCGA’s Permanent Collection.

Damien Flood’s paintings for Known Unknowns respond to the idea of collections and museums being a grouping of varying languages, approaches and disciplines of art. Gathered across time from acquisitions and donations a wide variety of seemingly unrelated artworks associate and argue with each other. A clashing of cultures, beliefs and emotions can be found, each piece having it’s own rhythm and dialect. Flood’s practice mixes many languages and motifs to create meditative narratives that walk a tight rope between abstraction and figuration. The paintings he has produced here combine different linear rhythms and motifs traced from various works from the collection. The paintings reflect on the slow time found within these works, the frozen spaces of ageless beauty. The viewer is set adrift in a fragmented retelling of the artist’s journey through the lesser known corners of the collection, mixing an emotional and cerebral response to the works.

Known Unknowns merges the old and the new, the known and unknowns forging new relationships and narratives which connect the artist’s three distinct practices to LCGA’s collection of 18th – 21st centaury artworks. These artistic responses produce an alternative way for LCGA to present its collection while acknowledging this significant anniversary. Known Unknowns is curated by LCGA’s Shinnors Scholar (2015-17), Simon Fennessy Corcoran as part of his MA through Research in Curatorial Studies, which explored the public’s engagement with the Permanent Collection exhibitions. Corcoran devised an open call and selection panel model culminating in the exhibition, Known Unknowns, with the featured artists, their response to the Permanent Collection.

“As we know, there are known known’s; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know” Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defence with George Bush's Cabinet in 2002.

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Carrion Flowers

Solo show at the Cabin LA

For the month of July Damien Flood has been working at the La Brea Artist Residency in Los Angeles. During this time he created a new body of work that sees new representational motifs appear in the work. The work has been inspired by his time in Los Angeles during the residency.

The work from the residency is on view at the Cabin LA.

To visit the show please contact Danny First at danny@thecabinla.com

or by phone 323 559 2346

For more information about the Cabin LA click here

Seattle Art Fair

Diane Rosentsein Gallery will be exhibiting the work of Gisela Colon, Eben Goff, Julian Stanczak, Dan Miller, Charles Fine and Damien Flood at this years Seattle Art Fair.

The Seattle Art Fair is a one-of-a-kind destination for the best in modern and contemporary art and a showcase for the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest. Based in Seattle, a city as renowned for its natural beauty as its cultural landscape, the fair brings together the region’s strong collector base, local, national, and international galleries,  area museums and institutions, and an array of innovative public programming. Founded in 2015 by Paul G. Allen, the Seattle Art Fair is produced by Vulcan Inc. and Art Market Productions.

Seattle Art Fair

Booth C14

August 3rd - 6th

For more information on the Seattle Art Fair and Diane Rosentein Gallery please click here

Theory of Two Centres

Solo show of new work at Stephane Simoens, Belgium.

Exhibition opens August 4th.

The Theory of Two Centres was proposed by St Augustine in the fifth Century AD to appose the theory of the earth having antipodes while keeping the supposed spherical form. This new theory suggested that the Earth was composed of two spheres, one of land and one of water, contained one within the other, but not concentric. This solved the problem of retaining the sphere while rejecting the antipodes. The terrestrial globe rose a little from the watery sphere with the northern part of the Earth centre stage.

In this exhibition the artist presents us with a body of new work that explores the dualism of belief faith and seeing. The figure looms more presently than in previous shows, occasionally appearing sharply and at times as a ghost or fading memory. In the large raw linen painting ‘Dimensions Variable (Boudoir)’ 2017 a blue hand with black manicured nails appears to measure the bottom left of the canvas. The painting jostles and sways in a freudian dream scape. Lines twist and turn on bare canvas in an effort to gain form as strips of graduated sky puncture and hold the space. The cold blue hand re-enforces the absence of a body, jarring the composition with it's formed definition.

kindly supported by Wicklow County Council, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland. 

The exhibition will run until 12th of September.

For more information please click here

Stephane Simoens

Golvenstraat 7,

8300 Knokke-Zoute,

Belgium

Volta 13, Basel

Green On Red Gallery at VOLTA Basel
Booth B09
June 12 - 17, 2017
Markthalle, Basel

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to present the work of gallery artists Alan Butler, Caroline McCarthy & Damien Flood at VOLTA Basel, ( Booth B09 ), Markthalle, Basel, between June 12-17, 2017.
 

Back in Basel, Damien Flood proves his considerable worth as a thinker and as an artist of real ability, capable of weaving new narratives that intrigue and draw the viewer.   The bare ground in each of his paintings is, at once, provocative metaphor and stage hosting existential marks, lines, encrustations, erasures and endless non-sequiters in a vast - or is it microscopic ? - universe riddled with phantoms of this painted world caught between figure and abstraction, between memory and projection.
 

More about Green On Red Gallery and Volta can be found here

Damien Flood awarded the 2017 Hotron Éigse Prize

The Hotron 2017 overall Art Prize for a work of outstanding merit has been award to Damien Flood. His single painting, Counter ( 2016) in the current Éigse 2017 curated exhibition at VISUAL, Carlow, as part of the Carlow Arts Festival, was selected from a long list of contemporary Irish and international artists by Eoin Dara, Head of Exhibitions, Dundee Centre for Contemporary Art and Emma Lucy O'Brien, Curator and Galleries Coordinator at Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow.  Counter was first exhibited in Damien's solo exhibition A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns in the Green On Red Gallery in 2016.

ART WORKS '17
VISUAL Carlow
7 June - 3rd September) 
11am-8pm daily

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Painting NOW

 A group show at Green On Red Gallery

May 25 - July 22, 2017

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Painting NOW, an exhibition of work in two dimensions by artists from the gallery including John Cronin, Mary FitzGerald, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce, Ramon Kassam, Fergus Martin, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy & Nigel Rolfe on Thursday, May 25, 2017, 6-8pm.  The exhibition runs until 27 July.

In Painting NOW the diversity of approaches is brought startlingly to light.  Different materials on different surfaces show how paintings can inhabit the architecture with variety and ingenuity.
 

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock ( Luas Stop 100m )
Dublin 1

More info: www.greenonredgallery.com

"Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?"

Group show at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, L.A

April 27 - June 10, 2017 

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 27th

Palace Hotel, San Francisco -- Over Christmas:  

In bed, lights out:

O: "Oh, oh oh...!"

I:  "What was that for?            

O: "I found your fifth rib."

In the middle of the night:

"Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?" O whispers. 

Diane Rosenstein is pleased to announce  "Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?" :  a group show of painting, sculpture, ceramics, and works on paper by eight contemporary artists who draw the viewer into alternate worlds. The title of the show is inspired by a memoir written by Bill Hayes, about his life with his lover, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks. "Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?" describes a yearning for shared experience, a non-Separate, transpersonal communion that transcends consciousness, such as the power of an artist to draw the viewer into his dream. 

Artists include: 

Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Charles Fine, Damien Flood, Daniel Gibson, Yassi Mazandi, Dan Miller, Shiri Mordechay, Joe Ray

Full press release here>

DIANE ROSENSTEIN GALLERY

831 North Highland Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90038

t. 323.462.2790 
 

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday

10:00am - 6:00pm

info@dianerosenstein.com

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Movers and Shakers interview on Whomyouknow.com

Damien Flood was interview by Peachy Deegan for Whom You Know Website.

About Whom You Know:

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The interview covers a wide range of topics from favorite artists and philosophers to desert island art picks. 

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Circa Art Magazine: Philip Kavanagh writes about 'A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns' at Green On Red Gallery.

Partings from Semblance:

Common to all the paintings in this series are forms that offer varying levels of withdrawal and distance from the memories that informed them. They appear like living fossils, symbiotically tied to each other and to the unconscious from which they seem to emerge. They give this unconscious a body and a life to populate, both inside and outside the frame, and in the lived experience the viewer brings to it.

In Simple Game, these forms float like quiet monuments, testaments to memory, to placelessness, and to a dignity beyond that which is certain. The same could be said of the objects in Parting. They emerge through a subtle violence, always orientated back towards an absence, yet simultaneously and optimistically persisting forward, like blossoming becomings, estranged yet content.

Read the full piece  here

A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns

Greee On Red Gallery

Dublin

19 October - 27 November

See the full exhibition in the exhibitions section >

FRIEZE Critics Pick for Dublin Gallery Weekend 2016

A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns at Green On Red Gallery has been selected by Gemma Tipton as a Frieze Critics pick for Dublin Gallery weekend.

Damien Flood’s enigmatic paintings tantalize and beguile. Like a forensic investigation of a Hieronymus Bosch, in which the earthly and unearthly delights have been atomised, Flood’s fragments of disembodied shapes and forms, hover and cluster on perfectly balanced canvases. There are recognizable elements: leaves, the edge of a jug, faces or masks, a match that smokes from its unlit end. But there are also less easily identifiable shapes that, begging for resolution, invite satisfying speculation

Read the full review here

A Root that Turns as the Sun Turns finshes this Sunday the 27th of November.

For more information on the exhibition visit: www.greenonredgallery.com

Green On Red Gallery

Park Lane,

Spencer Dock

1 Dublin

Talking in Brackets: Research and Reaction in Painting

A conversation between James Merrigan and Damien Flood

Saturday, November 26 at 1.15pm

On the penultimate day of Damien Flood's current exhibition at Green on Red Gallery, and almost three years on from their legendary discussion 'Painting in Parentheses (In Brackets!)', Damien Flood and James Merrigan return to the gallery to critically discuss Flood's current work and critically explore painting practice in general. 

The hook for the last discussion was: painting can no longer be just painting anymore, it also has to be an Idea, or at the very least, dress itself in an Idea. The hook for this discussion is: what is the difference between a painting born of research and a painting born of instinct? 

In this discussion we want to explore how research affects painting and the painter, from its compulsory adoption in art college to its necessary adaptation in the studio after art college. In the case of Flood's emotionally and physically reactive painting process, is research a lie, a mask, a case of painting fitting into a conceptual context that is "no longer its own"? Is painting's context instinctual rather than intellectual? Or does reactionary painting stem from research? When it comes to being a painter, are intellect and instinct two sides of a tossed coin? 

What complicates things further is, research and reaction also come into play in the verbal reception of painting, whether casually in spoken word or carefully in the written review. How do 'you' talk and think about painting? Do you embrace painting at the base level of the medium or the elevated stage of the message? Is painting just for painters, and for painters to discuss alone? If so, how do painters deal with the inadequate response, and in most cases, the silent reaction?

Like last time around we ask you to come armed with your own opinions and questions, because like you, we are looking for answers to the questions posed, and in some ideal cases, solutions. 

James Merrigan is an artist turned art critic. He has written for many art periodicals, art institutions and artist catalogues, but his role as art critic at billionjournal.com is where he has found the freedom to play with a more visceral, confessional, fun and sometimes polemical art criticism. Merrigan was selected for EVA International Biennale of Visual Art (2014) as a fugitive art critic; he was co-editor of the printed quarterly on Irish art, Fugitive Papers; and was Guest Editor of two issues of Visual Artists’ News Sheet in 2016. Current projects include DEEP-SEATED which takes as its starting point the psychoanalytic promotion of the ‘talking cure’; and All or Nothing, a film that looks at the current landscape of Irish painting told through his eyes as a lapsed painter. Most recently he was invited to curate PERIPHERIES 2017 at Gorey School of Art. He is co-ordinator and lecturer for the MPhil module Psychoanalysis and Art at Trinity College Dublin, and a tutor at Gorey School of Art. A collection of his art criticism was published in 2013 entitled Agents of Subjectivism. 

After this conversation the gallery will host a Listening Party of music that influenced and inspired the work, on Sunday, November 27 at 2pm as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend, 2016.  

This event is part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2016

More info click here

To Book a place for the talk please email: info@greenonredgallery.com

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane, Spencer Docks
(rear of the apartments)
Dublin, Dublin 1
Ireland

2116: Forecast of the next century at Broad Museum, Michigan, USA

On April 24, 1916, Irish Republicans led an armed rebellion, “the Easter Rising,” seeking to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic. The men and women of the uprising envisioned a new Ireland as a national democracy that, in the words of their proclamation, “guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights, and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and all of its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally.” The uprising was suppressed after only six days, yet it initiated a movement that resulted in Ireland’s independence six years later. In 2116, sixteen contemporary Irish artists offer a forecast of what lies ahead, from a vantage point rooted midway between the Easter Rising and the imagined Ireland of the twenty-second century.

Artists have long occupied the roles of visionaries, seers, and innovators, but predicting the future is a necessarily contingent and perhaps even impossible feat. Many of the works on display reflect the inherent uncertainty in long-term forecasting, while others present distinct images of what is to come. However, what links them all—and aligns them to the dreams that inspired many in the Easter Rising—are the artist’s vision, the sense of possibility, and the chance to look at the world around us differently than we did before.

One hundred years after the Easter Rising, as Ireland navigates its place on the periphery of a transforming Europe, this exhibition provides a platform for dialogue and conversation, and a way for Ireland to begin to imagine what its future might hold.

Exhibition artists: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Amanda Coogan, Maud Cotter, Gary Coyle, Eleanor Duffin, Damien Flood, Siobhán Hapaska, Ramon Kassam, Sam Keogh, Ruth E. Lyons, Eoin Mc Hugh, Mairead O’hEocha, Niamh O’Malley, Darn Thorn, and Lee Welch.

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum 
Michigan State University
East Lansing
5th November - 2nd April
For more information please visit http://broadmuseum.msu.edu/
 

A Root That Turns As The Sun Turns

Solo show at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin.

Exhibition opens on the 20th of October. 

A Root That Turns As The Sun Turns is a descriptive quote from Rafaello Magiotti describing Kircher’s Sunflower clock to Galileo who was imprisoned at the time for his scientific research proposing heliocentricism (the belief that the Sun is at the centre of our solar system).  The Sunflower clock was believed to be a heliotropic plant, a nightshade whose seeds allegedly followed the motions of the sun when affixed to a cork bobbing in water. Nicolas Claude de Peiresc a patron of Kircher believed that this plant could prove heliocentricism, which Galileo had failed to prove with his theory of the tides in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Throughout Kircher’s life and with persistent requests from Peiresc this Sunflower clock was never seen. Along with Kircher’s own beautiful illustrations of it only second hand reports can be found leading a lot of scholars of the time to question his legitimacy. This did not deter his wider world following choosing to believe in his unseen wonders of the world.

The work for A Root That Turns As The Sun Turns is not centred around this ‘root’ but the notions of belief, faith and seeing, that the story entails. These mainly large scale works reflect on how belief in something unseen can change our view of the world.  Art is often a self portrait, even if it is at times unintentional. These new paintings mirror a fracturing of the artists own beliefs, a stripping away of a childhood naiveté and a re-navigation of the world around him as the artist reflects on the passing of his Mother. Some works have a feeling of limbo and loss while others are celebratory in rhythm and tone.  

Damien Flood will participate in a formal conversation with art writer James Merrigan on Saturday, November 26 at 1.15pm in the gallery and on Sunday, at 2pm, November 27 their will be a listening party where people can come hear music that has inspired and influenced the work on show as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend, 2016.

The exhibition will run until the 27th of November.

For more information visit: www.greenonredgallery.com

Green On Red Gallery

Park Lane, 

Spencer Dock

Dublin 1

Aidan Dunne reviews 'Terra Incognta' for the Irish Times. 

Originally published 16h of August, 2016

The spare, formal grammar of the paintings in Damien Flood’s Terra Incognita, with linear flourishes and enigmatic, sometimes tear-shaped motifs against background expanses, has echoes of the great Joan Miró, though with a quite different palette

To read the full review online click here

The exhibition runs until 27th August. 

DLR LexIcon,

Haigh Terrace, Dun Laoghaire. 

For more info: at http://www.dlrcoco.ie/arts

Eamonn Maxwell, Director of Lismore Castle Arts shares his thoughts on Terra Incognita at dlr Lexicon.

Damien Flood is a painter. He’s not an image maker, a multi-media artist. He’s a painter. That may seem like a dumb thing to say, but it’s important. In a time when the validity of painting is under question, there’s a refreshing directness to the approach Flood takes.

You can read the full text on his blog Curatoronabike here

Terra Incognita at dlr LexIcon runs until the 27th of August.

Terra Incognita 

Solo Exhibition at DLR Lexicon, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire. 

Exhibition Opens on Friday the 8th of July and runs until the 27th of August

Terra incognita or terra ignota (Latin “unknown land”) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented.

Damien Flood started the DLR Visual Art Commission with a question: what is it to know a place? Recorded interviews of personal stories and historical research became a starting point for a series of new paintings which look at how we know a place through the people that live there. These works merge Flood’s perception and experience of the interviewing process with the histories gathered, to offer a unique retelling of Dun Laoghaire’s legacy through a contemporary lens. 

Terra Incognita examines the changing identity of the area as depicted by the vibrant and energetic contributors. A gestural line narrates multiple voices in the paintings and links present contributors to an abstract, psychological landscape. The palette used responds emotively to each encounter, and descriptive shapes, colours and motifs build a new view of Dun Laoghaire. 

The title of each work offers a key into a reinterpreted story of place and time, such as 70 year old friendships evoked in 'Playground' and a retiring Harbour Master in ‘Captain’. 'Engaged' teases out a duality between communication and society’s changing values, while ‘Cinder' reflects on the impact of a fire that destroyed a church is the 1960s. Terra Incognita mixes the universal and the personal, the life-changing and the everyday, and ask us to look at the places we know anew.

Damien Flood will be in conversation with Mary Conlon on Wednesday 3rd August. 

More info http://www.dlrcoco.ie

DLR Lexicon

Marine Road

Dun Laoghaire

County Dublin

Ireland.

A Fine Line

Group exhibition at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin. 

Opening Thursday 7th of April at 6pm. 

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of A Fine Line,  a group exhibition of mostly new works by gallery artists and a first time Green On Red exhibitor. The exhibition brings together works that can be seen to teeter on the edge, the artists' use of finely judged line or linear elements can, on its own, create a charge or an impulse.  It is promising to be a show with moments of elegant and finely wrought ideas and one with instances of extremes in opposition, if not on the edge of collapse.

Featuring new work by Bridget Riley, Fergus Martin, Caroline McCarthy, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce and Aoife Shanahan. 

Green On Red Gallery

Spencer Dock

Park Lane

Dublin 1

For more information email:info@greenonredgallery.com

or visit:www.greenonredgallery.com

2116: Forecast of the next century

Group show at The Lewis Glucksman Gallery

Opening 24th March by Mary McCarthy, Director, National Sculpture Factory, and Chair, Culture Ireland. 

Featruing work by: Amanda Coogan, Maud Cotter, Gary Coyle, Eleanor Duffin, Damien Flood, Siobhan Hapaska, Ramon Kassam, Sam Keogh, Ruth Lyons, Eoin McHugh, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, Mairead O'hEocha, Niamh O'Malley, Darn Thorn, Lee Welch, and the Centre for Genomic Gastronomy. 

Open and invited submission selected by Chris Clarke, Caitlin Doherty and Emma-Lucy O'Brien. 

2116 has been organised in collaboration with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Mi, U.S.A.

The Lewis Glucksman Gallery

University College 

Cork

www.glucksman.org

Call Out for Stories for Project With Dun Laoghaire Residents

Damien Flood invites people from or living in Dun Laoghaire to share their stories of the area for an upcoming exhibition at the dlr-Lexicon. He welcomes participants to share their personal histories of the area as well as any interesting facts or memories of notable or

colourful locals.  

These stories, combined with Damien’s additional research of Dun Laoghaire’s history, will create a painting exhibition which will weave a narrative of the area; merging fact, fiction, myth and lore.

Damien will be in meeting room 1 on level 3 at the DLR Lexicon on Saturday 13th and Saturday 20th of February 2016. Participants are invited to drop in anytime between 10am - 4pm to share their stories. 

As part of the project Damien is also looking for local writers or people with a particular interest in the area to submit short stories for a publication that will accompany the exhibition. These stories can be factual, personal or fictional, they can be about growing in the area or be dramatised histories. The only requirement is that the writing has a connection to the area. 

For additional information on the project and to email written submissions, or if you would like to get in touch with the artist at an alternative time, please contact Damien at flooddamien@gmail.com
 

New Works

Group Show at Green On Red Gallery. 

17th December until 20th February.

Featuring work by: John Cronin, Mary FitzGerald, Damien Flood, Arno Kramer, Fergus Martin, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy, Ronan McCrea, Bridget Riley, and Nigel Rolfe, with contributing artist Ramon Kassam.

An opening reception will take place on December 17th, 2015, 17:30-20:30. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served on this festive evening.

The Gallery will be closed from December 23, 2015 to January 5th, 2016. Normal Hours will resume on January 6th, 2016.

For further information:

www.greenonregallery.com

e: info@greenonredgallery.com

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to announce that the Visual Art Commission 2016 has been awarded to Damien Flood.

The theme of the commission is to create a new body of work that is responsive to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County. Each artist will receive a commission of €10,000.

For the dlr Visual Art Commission 2016, painter, Damien Flood (Born 1979) will create a new body of work that explores geographical elements of the area and investigate the cultural histories of the landscape, while also responding to the modern town and what it means to the local community. This exhibition will continue his interest in creating psycho-geographies of places, mixing verbal histories with personal experience. The research for this show will include interviews will local residents and retailers from the area as well as looking at Dun Laoghaire’s past, both historical and personal. The resulting paintings will aim to capture a psychological portrait of the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area and its people. They will give the viewer a new way to view a place known so well.

The resulting exhbition will be held at the dlr Lexicon in July 2016

For more information click here

FIAC OFFICIELLE 2015

Green On Red Gallery will be presenting new works by Damien Flood alongside works by Caroline McCarthy and Niamh McCann

at this years FIAC OFFICIELLE in Paris. 

OFFICIELLE will showcase new territories: young galleries and newcomers to the international art scene; emerging artists and those whose historic contribution has been overlooked. The event will provide visitors with the opportunity to discover galleries whose exhibition programs demonstrate a particular aptitude for decoding the language of contemporary creation and a gift for revealing talents, old and new.

OFFICIELLE, FIAC’s new event, will be held in Paris from Wednesday, October 21st through Sunday, October 25th , 2014 at Les Docks - Cité de la Mode et du Design. The Vernissage will take place on October 20th.
 

More information can be found at:

www.officielleartfair.com

www.greenonredgallery.com

Jyoti Kalsi interviews Damien Flood for Gulf News on the occasion of  his solo show 'Infinite Plane' at Grey Noise, Dubai.

"The titles convey my thoughts and feelings about the things I saw and experienced in Dubai, but they also reflect the metaphysical questions evoked by my experiences here."

You can read the full interview here:                                  

A Dubai-dérive on Damien Flood's Infinite Plane

Rachel Bennet on Infinite Plane at Grey Noise.

Flood's own gestures dashed on the canvas are both place and person, and neither. They're a conflation and invention as memory is wont to do. But there's magic in these sensory encounters; he recounts, almost reminisces, "a kind of alchemical process takes place when you first experience something. It cannot be restructured or recreated - those little sparks can only be alluded to."

You can read the full text on Fat Nancy's New Diet by clicking here.

INTER NATION ART
a groupshow of contemporary art @ HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia.
1st to 17th July 2015

art is truly universal
nations are artificial

If this claim holds true then we must examine the way in which art crosses borders, how styles and stylistics exist as codes that are bigger than any national territory and, as such, hold more importance than a passport representing a single nation. This undertaking is especially important today, with the emerging tendency of a re-nationalisation across the European continent.

Participating artists:
Arion Asllani (Serbia) - Marc Bijl (Netherlands) - Emmanuel Bornstein (France) - Anina Brisolla (Germany) - Joanna Buchowska (Poland) - Nick Crow and Ian Rawlison (UK) - Tjaša ÄŒuš (Slovenia) - Alexandre Farto aka Vhils (Portugal) - Damien Flood (Ireland) - Andreas Golder (Russia) - Giuseppe Lana (Italy) - Damian & Delaine Le Bas (Roma U.K) - Cathrine Lorent (Luxemburg) - Jaakko Mattila (Finnland) - Ekaterina Mitichkina (White Russia) - Admir Mujkic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Manfred Peckl (Austria) - Jovana Popic - Igor Rakcevic (Montengro) - Sara Riel (Iceland) - Mark Schovanek (Check Republik, Canada) - Stipan Tadic (Croatia) - Alex Tzannis (Greece) - Anton Unai (Spain) - Cem Ulug (Turkey) - Sahar Zukerman (Israel)

Curated by Jan Kage

Opening speech by Dr. Mark Terkessidis (Germany / Greece)
Musical performance by Thomas Mahmoud-Zahl (Germany / Egypt)

Being part of a generation that grew up with the transnational project of the EEC (the European Economic Community that became the European Union), and having witnessed the collapse of the iron curtain, history seemed to be moving inexorably towards diminished national control and a wider transcontinental identity. This identity was necessarily rooted in a commonly shared cultural history and, implicitly, the art styles of the 20th century which themselves came from diverse national backgrounds: Expressionism, Constructivism, Dada, Pop – the list is long.

Inter Nation Art shows a generation of European artists that shared this experience. We will bring their art works to Zagreb, a city that experienced quite the opposite some twenty years ago: The collapse of a multi-ethnic state.

http://www.hdlu.hr

The Studio Chronicles
June 11 - September 5, 2015.

Departing from the specificities of such model "The Studio's chronicles" is an exhibition that brings together a selection of talented artists particularly concerned with the possibilities of a painterly practice. The present project embraces the medium through the diversity of approaches and perspectives characterizing the artists involved. It imagines the exhibition space as platform for an organic dialogue among different authors and it folds the conversations initiated with them both in the conceptual and visual configuration of the show.

The show intends to explore ways in which the moments of exchange and conversation taking place in the studio varies from one artist to another. What roles they play in the development of each practice, how they're differently performed and how they manifest and infiltrate in the ultimate work. Here the term conversation takes on several different meanings, it has to be read in a more general sense as the reciprocity between the artists and the medium they explore, between artistic and curatorial practices, between the creative space of the studio and that of the exhibition.

Participating artists: Alessia Armeni, Damien Flood, Nicholas John Jones, Aurora Passero, Daniel Schubert.

RH Contemporary Art
437 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
https://www.rhcontemporaryart.com

PRODUCT RECALL

Galway Arts Centre

30 May - 4 July

Responding to the imagined 'recall' of an idea or a situation, Product Recall strives to eviscerate the meaning of the displaced, misfiring 'product'; whether real or imagined, and explore the credo of material culture (gone bad).

Prompted by the protocols adopted by global conglomerations to retrieve products that could maim or even kill the consumer, Product Recall invites four artists to respond to the implications of the necessity to rescind an invitation to consume, buy, assimilate or adopt.

The predominately new work shown in this exhibition spans installation, video, paintings, drawings and performance, each in its own way considering the implications of a system gone askew, where accepted norms break down, transform and reorder themselves into that which may no longer function as initially intended. The collective ideations around the temporal world challenge the viewer to confront their own relationship with the object- product, the apparent crux of 21st century Western society.

Participating artists: Damien Flood (IRL), Veronica Forsgren (SWE), Tom Watt (IRL), and Sarah Baker (USA)

Curated by Anne Mullee

Opening reception is 6pm on the 29th May 2015 at the Galway Arts Centre. For more information visit: https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/exhibitions/19-product-recall?lang=en.

Infinite Plane

Solo exhibition at Grey Noise, Dubai.

Opening 25th May. Exhibition runs until 31st June.

Guy, Lovers, Corset, from Flood's verbal leg-ups we find purchase on the painted stuff that make up the artist's very own cosmology. Deliberate squiggles drawn with the tip of a loaded paint brush give definition, perform perspective leaps, and knit the marvellous matter of Flood's nebulous universe together. We maybe underwater, in a dream, or wandering across the cornea of something other? Whatever the lens these freshly discovered new geographies challenge the capacity of the mind's eye to construct a safe vantage point from which to begin looking, anew.

For his exhibition at Grey Noise, Damien Flood undertook a two-week research trip to Dubai and the surrounding areas of Sharjah and the cost of Oman. This trip formed a starting point for the paintings in 'Infinite Plane'. Flood documented his time through drawing, photography and text, in particular examining the juxtaposition of the newly built landscape with the enveloping historical areas. The paintings tow a line between abstract and figurative, at points becoming artefacts of his journey or records of witnessed events. The work offers the viewer a mood and feeling of the landscape while delving into the psychology of being a spectator in a new land.

This exhibition was made possible by the kind support of the Arts Council of Ireland, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Award and Culture Ireland.

More information at www.greynoise.org.

NGORONGORO

During Berlin's Gallery Weekend, the vast studio complex of Lehder Strasse 34, in Berlin-Weissensee is the site for an extensive group exhibition featuring 100 Berlin based and international artists.

Echoing this primordial ecosystem, the exhibition sees a kaleidoscopic survey of artistic practise coming together in one event, staged within the creative crucible of art's origins - the studio. The combination of names such as John Bock, Mat Collishaw, Birgit Dieker, Martin Eder, Douglas Gordon, Asta Gröting, Stefanie Hillich, Pe Lang, Polly Morgan, Bruce Nauman, Anri Sala, Thomas Zipp, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, demonstrates the complex networks that artists build amongst themselves, a phenomenon that has, so far, been little explored. Therefore the artist list is not defined by the usual curatorial criteria of concept, form or discourse - but primarily based on intuition. The result is a dynamic confrontation of equally-weighted participants, illustrating the initiators' artistic reference system and the extensive diversity of their network.

EXHIBITION OPENING
30 April Preview 2pm, Party 8pm

OPENING HOURS
1 - 3 May 10am - 12pm

Press preview: 29 April 12 - 4pm, Please RSVP until 27 April 2015

www.artistweekend.com

Cú Chulainn Comforted

Group exhibition at Basic Space, Dublin.

A MAN that had six mortal wounds, a man
Violent and famous, strode among the dead;
Eyes stared out of the branches and were gone.

Exhibiting artists: Neal Tait, Damien Flood, Sanja Todorović, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Mathis Gasser, Billy Mag Fhloinn.

Curated by Joshua Sex

Opening reception: 5th March 2015. Basic Space, Eblana House, Marrowbone Lane.
Exhibition runs 6th - 13th March 2015. Opening hours vary. Please check our facebook.

www.basicspace.ie

Promise of Palm Trees

Group exhibition at Breese Little, London.

Exhibiting artists: Charlie Billingham, Benjamin Brett, Jack Brindley, Benjamin Cohen, Clem Crosby, Fiona Curran, Damien Flood and Aimee Parrott.

Private view: 15th January 2015
Exhibition continues until 21st February 2015

BRESSE LITTLE
30b Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DU

Open: Wed - Fri, 12 noon - 6 pm | Sat, 12 noon - 4 pm

For more information visit: www.breeselittle.com.

Renew

Group exhibition launching Green On Red Gallery's new space at Spencer Dock, Dublin.

Exhibiting artists: Gerard Byrne, John Cronin, Mary Fitzgerald, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce, Caroline McCarthy, Ronan McCrea, Alice Maher and Bridget Riley

Private view: 11th December 2014

Exhibition continues until 30th January 2015

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1

For more information visit: www.greenonredgallery.com.

Damien Flood will be exhibiting as part of Pull, Bite, Rally at NCAD Gallery in collaboration and partnership with the Black Church Print Studio. Exhibiting artists include Brian Fay, Jesse Jones, Isabel Nolan and Sarah Pierce.

Pull Bite Rally is the first exhibition to mark the Black Church Print Studio's dynamic initiative, Process. As part of the Studio's artistic programme, Process invites leading art practitioners to work with the resources and expertise of the Studio in the production of original artworks. For the Pull Bite Rally exhibition, artists Brian Fay, Damien Flood, Jesse Jones, Isabel Nolan and Sarah Pierce present their artworks and continued collaboration at NCAD Gallery. Through explorative processes, the artist's intent is facilitated by the skills and experience of a dedicated printmaking team of master print-makers and print coordinators. This collaboration between artist and the Studio aims to give practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the processes and concepts of printmaking leading to new directions in their practice.

Exhibition open view Wednesday 19th November 2014, 6pm, NCAD Gallery.
Performance by Sarah Pierce Wednesday 19th November 2014 at 7pm, NCAD Gallery.
Exhibition continues Thursday 20th November - Tuesday 16th December 2014.

NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
Gallery opening hours 1pm - 5pm. Admission is free.

More information at: http://www.ncad.ie/gallery-event/view/pull-bite-rally.