Eight Gallery
Founded 2012
Closed 2018
Location 8 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Website eoin-odowd.com/eightgalleryarchive
Eight Gallery was located in the Georgian interiors of no.8 Dawson Street Dublin. It provided a space for early career artists and facilitated exhibitions in the independent Irish art scene. The gallery initially began in 2012 with Jenny Taylor, who began using this upstairs room in Sol Art Gallery to show work by recent graduates. For the majority of its incarnation, Eoin O’Dowd ran Eight Gallery. 1
It was voluntarily run and its annual programmes curated by Eoin O’Dowd from 2013 – until its closure in 2018. In this time the gallery held 34 solo and group exhibitions as well as several live events, student shows, artist talks and participated in contemporary art fairs. 2
Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
- 2012, 6th – 31st July, The Other Room, Ciara O’Halloran, Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Curated by PhotoIreland3
- 2013, July, Abroad, Aine Belton, Eoin Cumiskey, Kate Kelly Murphy, Billy Kenrick, Erin Quinn,Mark Murray, Louise Scott, Philip Sliney, Maureen Trainor, Curated by ESC Zine, Eoin O’ Dowd and PhotoIreland Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland,45
- 2013, September, The Earth rings in your ears, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, Kevin Gaffney & Sally-Anne Kelly, Ruth Le Gear Curated by Tracy Hanna, Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 6
- 2015, 12th September – 7th November, Apparently Inhabited, Thomas Tully, Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Curated by Eoin O’Dowd7
- 2015, 23 October – 5 November ‘Your ass protrudes toward the malaise’, Ann Maria Healy, Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 8
- 2016,December, Landing, Aliina Lindroos & Moran Been-noon, Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 9 10
- 2017, September 21st – September 28th, The dust carried me into the watchful summer, Bassam Al-Sabah, Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 11 12
Works
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- Exhibition Poster,2013, July, Abroad, Aine Belton, Eoin Cumiskey, Kate Kelly Murphy, Billy Kenrick, Erin Quinn,Mark Murray, Louise Scott, Philip Sliney, Maureen Trainor, Curated by ESC Zine, Eoin O’ Dowd and PhotoIreland Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
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- Exhibition Documentation,2013, July, Abroad, Aine Belton, Eoin Cumiskey, Kate Kelly Murphy, Billy Kenrick, Erin Quinn,Mark Murray, Louise Scott, Philip Sliney, Maureen Trainor, Curated by ESC Zine, Eoin O’ Dowd and PhotoIreland Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
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- Exhibition Documentation, 2013, July, Abroad, Aine Belton, Eoin Cumiskey, Kate Kelly Murphy, Billy Kenrick, Erin Quinn,Mark Murray, Louise Scott, Philip Sliney, Maureen Trainor, Curated by ESC Zine, Eoin O’ Dowd and PhotoIreland Eight Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
External links & References
- https://aidankellymurphy.com/2019/01/02/vai-temporal-platform-eight-gallery/
- http://www.eoin-odowd.com/eightgalleryarchive-home.html
- http://www.eoin-odowd.com/the-other-room—ciara-orsquohalloran.html
- http://www.eoin-odowd.com/abroad—esc-zine.html
- https://2013.photoireland.org/program/abroad/
- http://www.eoin-odowd.com/the-earth-rings-in-your-ears—kevin-gaffney-and-sally-anne-kelly-ruth-clinton-and-niamh-moriarty-ruth-le-gear—curated-by-tracy-hanna.html
- http://www.eoin-odowd.com/apparently-inhabited—thomas-tully.html
- http://www.billionjournal.com/time/AMH_at_Eight_Gallery.html
- http://moranb.art/projects/LandingHere.html
- https://landingproject.wordpress.com/
- https://aidankellymurphy.com/2019/09/01/vai-rose-tinted-nostalgia/
- http://www.eoin-odowd.com/the-dust-carried-me-into-the-watchful-summer—bassam-al-sabah.html
