Pallas Projects/Studios

Pallas Projects/Studios The new Pallas Projects/Studios is an open space dedicated to the making and showing of visual art to a wide and diverse audience.

Pallas Projects/Studios is a not-for-profit artist-run organisation dedicated to the facilitation of artistic production, presentation and discourse, via the provision of affordable artists studios in Dublin's city centre, and curated projects. The vanguard of a DIY art methodology, via an array of spaces and projects spanning over 15 years in Dublin’s City Centre, PP/S is now relocated to a long–

term studios & projects complex in The Coombe. PP/S aims to be a beacon of cultural excitement in the locality, with an internationally recognised programme of projects and events. All are welcome and encouraged to visit and engage with our programme of contemporary art and artist–led practices.

15/06/2026

Interview: Ciara Rodgers—Paper Facades make Tender Follies

Ciara sat down with us to answer a few questions regarding her recent exhibition and creative processes at large.

You can watch the full interview on our Pallas Youtube channel via the link in bio.

Biography:

Ciara Rodgers is a visual artist based between Cork and Waterford and works across drawing, installation, performance, and Polaroid photography. Her practice explores the entanglement of body and building, tracing how power, gender, and capitalism shape our physical and psychological experience of space. Through walking and material reconfiguration, she constructs fragile yet defiant assemblages and situations that expose the quiet contradictions and resistances embedded within urban environments. Looking between what shelters, confines or controls, Rodgers’ work occupies the threshold between the poetic and the political, the embodied and the architectural.

She holds a First-Class Honours MA in Art & Process from MTU CCAD (2018). A studio member of Backwater Artists Group and Cork Printmakers, she was awarded a Visual Art Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2020 and an Agility Award in 2021. Her work has been exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, and often unfolds through collaboration and site-responsive research. Solo presentations include Folly | Façade at GOMA, Waterford (2024), Green Mouth at SIRIUS, Cork (2023), A City of Beautiful Nonsense at Studio 12, Cork (2022), Monuments II at Garter Lane, Waterford (2020) and Monuments of Abandoned Futures at LHQ Gallery, Cork County Council (2019).

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14/06/2026

Ciara Rodgers—In Conversation with Aideen Quirke

Pallas would like to thank everyone who attended Ciara Rodgers—In Conversation with Aideen Quirke last Friday, as well as everyone who came to the exhbition launch of Paper Facades make Tender Follies.

The clip shows a short excerpt from the conversation.

For those who missed it, the full audio recording of the event can be found on the YouTube channel.

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11/06/2026

GALLERY OPEN: Ciara Rodgers—Paper Facades make Tender Follies

Pallas would like to thank for providing refreshments for all of our guests who came to the launch of Ciara's exhibition last Thursday.

The video shows a few moments from the exhibition's opening night.

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AA Bronson in conversation with Paul O’NeillThursday 25 June 2026, 6pmPeople’s Pavilion, IMMAFree event (booking essenti...
28/05/2026

AA Bronson in conversation with Paul O’Neill
Thursday 25 June 2026, 6pm
People’s Pavilion, IMMA
Free event (booking essential, see link in bio)

Pallas Projects are delighted to announce as the first event in our upcoming programme celebrating 30 years of Pallas: AA Bronson in conversation with Paul O’Neill, presented in association with IMMA Talks.

The talk will explore the role of collaboration, consensus, and collective working methods in shaping artistic practice, alongside the histories and futures of artist-run culture and self-organised spaces. Drawing on the long-standing dialogue between internationally renowned artist AA Bronson and Paul O’Neill (artist, curator, educator, director of PUBLICS, Helsinki), this rare discussion will survey his enduring influence over six decades.

AA Bronson was co-founder alongside Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, of the artist collective General Idea, presenting projects that embodied the spirits of punk protest, q***r theory, and AIDS activism. With General Idea he founded Art Metropole in Toronto in 1974, and he was the Director of Printed Matter, Inc. in New York, founding the annual NY Art Book Fair in 2005. As a writer AA has contributed several important essays on artist-run practice which were key references for Pallas Projects when researching their own publication Artist-Run Europe (first published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2016), for which AA contributed the essay ‘Notes from Berlin’.

Presented in association with the Paul O'Neill Archive at IMMA, and as part of Pallas 30: Pallas Projects/Studios 30th Anniversary programme, with the support of Dublin City Council and The Arts Council. This public talk and gathering is part of Dublin by Dusk series of events at IMMA. The talk will be followed by refreshments from Teeling Whiskey.

Pallas 30 is a programme of exhibitions, commissions, events and collaborations celebrating 30 years of the artist-run space Pallas Projects/Studios. Culminating in an exhibition Do it Together in September 2026, the programme explores the impact and legacy of artist-run community-making, with invited Irish and international artists, artist-run spaces and projects.

01/05/2026

Interview: Finn Nichol—Operation Transformation

Finn sat down with us to answer a few questions regarding his recent exhibition and creative processes at large.

You can watch the full interview on our Pallas Youtube channel via the link in bio.

Biography:

Finn Nichol is a multimedia artist based between Dublin and Offaly. He uses a playful, DIY language, rooted in history and folklore to explore cultural value systems and economic time. Recent work has seen him embody spirits of neoliberal Ireland- enacting strange, solitary rituals through homemade outfits, music and drawings. Characters and narratives reoccur across works, altered in each iteration, while conceptual elements are autobiographically integrated, grounding personal histories of chronic illness and economic instability within a broader Irish historical framework.

Nichol graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2021 where he was awarded student of the year and won the Taylor Art prize at the RDS Visual Art Awards. His 2024 MFA work from Belfast was awarded the Catalyst Graduate Award and longlisted for the RDS Visual Art awards. Other grants/ awards include the D/deaf disabled artist support fund (2025) by the university of Atypical, the Offaly Arts Office Professional Artist Support Grant(2025) and the Agility Award (2025). His work has been shown across Ireland as well as at festivals and exhibitions in Venice, Athens, Tokyo, and Barcelona.

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26/04/2026

A short glimpse from Economic Ritual II by Finn Nichol.

If you want to experience more, we’ve shared a 6-minute excerpt from the performance on our YouTube channel — link in bio.

A huge thank you to everyone who visited the exhibition over the past three weeks — your presence, support, and conversations made it truly special 🖤

Finn Nichol is a multimedia artist based between Dublin and Offaly. Working through a playful, DIY language rooted in history and folklore, his practice explores cultural value systems and economic time. His work often takes the form of rituals — blending performance, costume, music, and drawing — where recurring characters evolve across each iteration, grounded in personal experiences of chronic illness and economic instability within a wider Irish context.


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22/04/2026

EVENT TOMORROW: Finn Nichol in conversation with artist Day Magee

April 23rd, 6pm

The artist will be talking with artist Day Magee about the development of the show, art and disability.

Finn Nichol is a multimedia artist based between Dublin and Offaly. He uses a playful, DIY language, rooted in history and folklore to explore cultural value systems and economic time. Recent work has seen him embody spirits of neoliberal Ireland- enacting strange, solitary rituals through homemade outfits, music and drawings. Characters and narratives reoccur across works, altered in each iteration, while conceptual elements are autobiographically integrated, grounding personal histories of chronic illness and economic instability within a broader Irish historical framework.

Day Magee is a performance-centred multimedia artist based in Dublin. Since 2011, they have performed as part of live art organisations such as Livestock and the Dublin Live Art Festival, before pursuing a BA in Sculpture & Combined Media in Limerick School of Art & Design in 2017, during their time there staging group live art events with the collective Evil, and by their third year exhibiting work as part of Galway’s Tulca Festival 2019, group shows in Dublin and Manhattan, as well as being put forward for the Future Generation Art Prize 2020 by its Irish partner platform Pallas Projects Studios, and shortlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. They are most recently commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland and Live Art Ireland in 2021.

Magee’s work concerns the grieving of futurity as per the subjectivity of a q***r sick body - q***rness navigated via fundamentalist Christianity, and illness as manifest in chronic pain. Taking the form of performative multimedia, from live performance to image-making, the written word and music, they manifest and chronicle a self-mythology.

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19/04/2026

GALLERY RE-OPENS WEDNESDAY: Finn Nichol — Operation Transformation

A huge thank you to everyone who came out for the opening — the energy, conversations, and support meant a lot 🖤

This is the final week to experience the exhibition, so don’t miss your chance to see this incredible body of work.

Exhibition runs:
Until Saturday 25th April

Gallery hours:
1–6pm, Wednesday, 12–6pm Thursday - Saturday

About the artist:
Finn Nichol is a multimedia artist based between Dublin and Offaly. Working through a playful, DIY language rooted in history and folklore, his practice explores cultural value systems and economic time. Recent works see him embodying spirits of neoliberal Ireland through solitary rituals, homemade costumes, music, and drawing — blending recurring characters with autobiographical elements shaped by experiences of chronic illness and economic instability.

Nichol graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2021, receiving Student of the Year and the Taylor Art Prize at the RDS Visual Art Awards. His MFA (Belfast, 2024) earned the Catalyst Graduate Award and a longlisting for the RDS Visual Art Awards. Recent supports include the D/deaf Disabled Artist Support Fund (University of Atypical), Offaly Arts Office Professional Artist Support Grant, and the Agility Award (2025). His work has been presented across Ireland and internationally, including Venice, Athens, Tokyo, and Barcelona.


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15/04/2026

UPCOMING: Emma Brennan and Thomas Wells—The House of Atreus

Open Studio: Saturday 9th May 12–4pm
Performance: 12th–16th May, 10am–6pm
Exhibition Viewing: 20th–23rd May, 12–6pm
Closing Event: Saturday 23rd May 6pm (Last entry @ 7pm)

The House of Atreus* is a collaborative project by Emma Brennan and Thomas Wells exploring how working class architecture reflects contemporary social and moral systems. This partnering of experiences intersects gendered labour practices, working-class identity and the entanglement of domestic and industrial spaces.

Drawing on their collective social histories such as migrations of Irish workers across UK industrial cities, the housing crisis, tax incentives for tech giants, the post pandemic cost of living crisis and post Celtic Tiger recession, the project positions labour in all its forms as both subject and material. It engages with hierarchies that continue to shape cultural value systems in Ireland and the UK, while situating the live body inside architectures of gender, class, and capital.

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Pallas are delighted to once again be part of Culture Date with Dublin 8, returning from 4–10 May 2026 with a week-long celebration of culture, heritage and creativity across the neighbourhood.

As part of the programme, artists Emma Brennan and Thomas Wells will present an Open Studio as part of The House of Atreus.

Saturday 9th May 12–4pm

Full details can be found over on the page.

Celebrate D8: Our Culture, Our History, Our Stories

Culture Date with Dublin 8 is a neighbourhood initiative that celebrates the people, places, and stories that make Dublin 8 so unique. Embracing the area’s rich cultural, historical, and architectural heritage, it invites those who live, work, and visit here to discover and enjoy all that D8 has to offer.


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