Past Exhibition Archive

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David Godbold: The end of the beginning of the beginning of the end
Aug 8 - Oct 4, 2009

David Beattie: Remote Control
Jun 20 - Jul 26, 2009

Kilkenny Shift: Tim Davies
May 2 - Jun 14, 2009

Barrie Cooke: Portraits
Mar 14 - Apr 26, 2009

Gems from the Collection
Jan 24 - Mar 8, 2009

Sonia Shiel: The Brief Tremendous
Nov 29, 2007 - Jan 18, 2008

Austin McQuinn: Lammermoor
Oct 11 - Nov 23, 2008

Atsushi Kaga: I want to give love to socially neglected parts of you, that’s my mission
Aug 9 - Oct 5, 2008

Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent: Works On Paper
Jun 21 - Jul 27, 2008

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
May 8 - Jun 15, 2008

Gems from the Collection 2008
Mar 8 - Apr 27, 2008

Paul Doran
Jan 12 - Mar 2, 2008

Yvonne Buchheim: Song Archive Project - Borrowed Air
Nov 3 - Dec 21, 2007

Barry McGee
Aug 11 - Oct 21, 2007

Frances Hegarty & Andrew Stones: Tactically Yours
Jun 23 - Jul 29, 2007

Nevan Lehart: Static TV
Apr 28 - Jun 10, 2007

David Phillips and Paul Rowley: Gravity Loop
Mar 10 - Apr 22, 2007

Gems from the Collection
Jan 20 - Mar 4, 2007

Finola Jones: It’s why [blue] birds sing
Nov 18, 2006 - Jan 14, 2007

Louise Bourgeois: Selected Prints on Fabric
Sep 30 - Nov 12, 2006

Jeanne Silverthorne: Burning DNA
Aug 12 - Sep 24, 2006

Blaise Drummond: Sous le Soleil du Nord
Jun 24 - Jul 30, 2006

David Sandlin: Wonderfool World
May 13 - Jun 18, 2006

Freeform: An Animated Remix of the Butler Gallery Collection
Apr 1 - May 7, 2006

Mark Curran: The Breathing Factory
Feb 11 - Mar 26, 2006

Theresa Nanigian: tally
Dec 10, 2005 - Feb 5, 2006

Tony O’Malley: The Visual Diaries
Oct 15 - Dec 4, 2005

Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation: 89 Seconds at Alcázar
Aug 13 - Oct 2, 2005

Brian Fay: Web
Jun 11 - Jul 31, 2005

Michael Beirne: Darling
Apr 30 - Jun 5, 2005

The Butler Gallery Collection: A Selection
Mar 19 - Apr 25, 2005

Bernadette Cotter: and the greatest of these
Jan 29 - Feb 27, 2005

Paintings by Bernadette Kiely: Slow Time · Local Ground
Dec 11, 2004 - Jan 23, 2005

Paintings by Nick Miller: Genre
Oct 23 - Dec 5, 2004

Ernesto Neto: 4 Artists and I
Aug 7 - Oct 17, 2004

Eline McGeorge, Susan Collis, Ann Course, Vanessa O’Reilly: Free From the Itch of Desire
Jun 4 - Jul 25, 2004

Clare Cashman, Alan Keane, Colin Martin, Eoin Llewellyn, Eamon O’Kane, Tom Climent: Travelogue
Apr 16 - May 23, 2004

Michael Warren: Dispositions
Mar 6 - Apr 11, 2004

The Pleasure Principle
Jan 30 - Feb 27, 2004

Helen Comerford, Bridget Flannery, Sonja Landweer, Stephen Vaughan: Kilkenny 4
Dec 5, 2003 - Jan 24, 2004

Katie Holten: A Recent History of What’s Possible
Oct 20 - Nov 30, 2003

Ursula von Rydingsvard: A Psychological Landscape
Aug 9 - Oct 12, 2003

Fergus Martin: Pipe Dreams
Jun 28 - Jul 27, 2003

From Time to Time
Apr 12 - May 11, 2003

Lineage
Mar 8 - Apr 6, 2003

Selections, Omissions and Juxtapositions
Feb 1 - Mar 2, 2003

Once is too Much
Nov 30th, 2002 - Jan 26, 2003

Victor Treacy Award 2002
Oct 19 - Nov 24, 2002

Paul McCarthy
Aug 10 - Oct 6, 2002

Nigel Rolfe: Absence and Loss
Jun 22 - Jul 28, 2002

Charles Tyrell
May 11 - Jun 16, 2002

Susan MacWilliam: On The Eye
Apr 6 - May 5, 2002

Patrick Hall
Feb 23 - Mar 24, 2002

Acquisitions 1991 – 2001
Jan 15 - Feb 17, 2002

Various Artists: Victor Treacy Award 2001
Nov 24, 2001 - Jan 6, 2002

Donald Urquhart: Fields
Oct 6 - Nov 16, 2001

Roman Signer: Recent and New Work
Aug 11 - Sep 30, 2001

Fotografia Metafisica
Jun 1 - Aug, 2001

Alice Maher: The History of Tears
May 26 - Jun 24, 2001

2000
Tony Cragg (England)
Paddy Graham
Andrej Jackowski (England)

1999
ASTI Show
Janet Mullarney
RHA – First Look
Art For All Day K.S.P.
Permanent Collection
Arts Week – Petah Coyne
Victor Treacy Award Show
Christmas Show – Victor Perez Diaz

1998
Feargal Fitzpatrick
Tom Fitzgerald
Anne Madden
Brian Maguire
Arts Week – The 25 Year Anniversary Show
Victor Treacy Award Show
Christmas Show – Elizabeth Cope

1997
ASTI Show
Permanent Collection
Bill Woodrow
Janet Pierce
Tony O’ Malley
Mickey Donnelly
Permanent Collection
Arts Week – Eilis O Connell
AIB Collection
Victor Treacy Award Show
Christmas Small Works Show
Susan Butler

1996
Ronnie Hughes
Visiting Artists
Diana Hobson
Morgan Doyle
David Mabb
Arts Week – John Gibbons
Margaret Morrison
Victor Treacy Award Show
Christmas Group Show
Rosaleen Davey
Permanent Collection

1995
Spanish Prints
Permanent Collection
Michael Mulcahy
Contemporary Arts Society
May Prints
Ciaran Lennon
Arts Week – Patrick Heron
Limestone Symposium Works
Richard Gorman
Kilkenny Artists Christmas Show

1994
Finbarr Kelly
Bernadette Kiely
Permanent Collection
Graham Gingles
Sean Scully
Arts Week – Richard Wilson
Victor Treacy Award Show
Small Works by Kilkenny Artists

1993
Bernadette Kiely
Arts Week – Sol Le Witt
George Vaughan
The Victor Treacy Award Show
James Turrell
Joe Butler
C.I.A.S. Members Show

1992
Donald Teskey
Antoni Tapies
Takshi Yasuda
Tony O’ Malley
Arts Week – Alan Davis
The Victor Treacy Award Show
L.A. Artists
Charlotte Wilcox
David Lambert

1991
Barbara Freeman
The Victor Treacy Award Show
Vice Versa
Permanent Collection
Paul Mosse
Arts Week – Gillian Ayres
Kathleen Holohan
Clodagh Thornton

1990
Blackchurch Miniprint Show
Amelia Stein – Photography
EV + A
Martin Folan – Past, Present, Future
David Holohan
Arts Week – Marie Foley
Three in the Landscape
The Victor Treacy Award Show
Micheal Farrell

1989
Black Church Print Show
4 Artists from Ireland
Tony O Malley
Harrow Connection – Ceramics
Michael Cummins
Gwen O’Dowd
Alicia Boyle
Simon Moller
Arts Week – Ian Hamilton Finlay
Tom Fitzgerald
Nigel Rolfe

1988
Richard Hamilton
Based in Berlin
Arts Week – Fred Williams
Personal Choice
Jo Hanly
Nine Kilkenny Artists

1987
Ion Bitzan
Simon Moller and Jill Denis
Rose Barton
Arts Week – John Bellany
Kevin O Farrell Photography

1986
Six in the Sticks
Brian Bourke
Bursary Show
New Irish Architecture
Personal Choice
Arts Week – Bill Woodrow

1985
Art on Video
David Hendriks – Living with Art
Personal Choice
George Dawson’s Collection
Arts Week – Albert Irvin
10 Dutch Artists
Bursary Show

1984
Lanyon and Lanyon
David Crone
Personal Choice
Arts Week – Richard Long
Painterly Realism – Holland
Felim Egan
Marie Foley, Peter Wenger

1983
Making Sense (Project Arts Centre)
Independent Artists
Arts Week – Laser Vision – Hologaphy by Wenyon and Gamble
Silversmithing and Jewellery,
Loughborough College
Sidney Nolan
Four Kilkenny Artists
Conor Fallon

1982
Martin Gale
Limerick EV+A
Arts Week – David Nash.
5 Limerick Artists
Conor Fallon
Dialogue – Canadian Prints

1981
Miles Apart – Tony O’ Malley
Northern Printmakers
Die Neurschalchlichkiet (Goethe Institute)
Arts Week – Barrie Cooke – Boxes.
Handmade in Ireland. Crafts.
Drawing Towards
Barrie Cooke

1980
Work in Progress.
Arts Week – Patrick Scott and Charles Harper.
Robert Ballagh

1979
M.C. Escher
Mildrid Anne Butler
Arts Week – Georges Braques Graphics
Contemporary Yugoslav Art

1978
Arts Week – David Hockney, The Rakes Progress.
Fur, Feathers, Fibre – Skills of a Tribal Society. Images of Stone

1977
Arts Week – American Posters
Seven Canadian Painters. Tony O’Malley

1976
Arts Week – Bank of Ireland Collection of Irish Painters
Listowel Graphics Exhibition. Robert Andrew Parker

1975
Arts Week – Cecil King

1974
Arts Week – Camille Souter

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