Pallas Projects/Studios Gala Auction of Contemporary Irish Art Thursday 9th of October

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Mark Cullen was born in Dublin in 1972. Cullen works with various media.
He was artist in residence in the School of Physics, University College
Dublin in 2013 and his current solo exhibition is launching in the Science
Hub, ucd on the 14th Works include ark, Dublin Contemporary, maim
XI for Irish Museum Modern Art, Temporary Portable Reservoirs at
The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin and Siege House, London,
Cosmic Annihilator, an installation at Pallas Heights and Open ev+a
(curated by Dan Cameron) Limerick City Gallery.
Recent works in 2010–2014 include: mad Art Fair Madrid, curated
by Jim Ricks; Carpet, Difference Engine: Accumulator II, Oriel Myrrdin
Gallery, Wales; Probe, Difference Engine: Accumulator, West Cork Arts
Centre; Ark: I could sleep for a thousand years, Dublin Contemporary;
Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space, Triskel, Cork; Temporary
Portable Reservoirs, Dorm, Model, Sligo; and Difference Engine,
Substation, csv Cultural Centre, New York, Wexford Arts Centre,
The Black Mariah, Cork and soma, Waterford. He has several works
in the Collection of the Office of Public Works, and is also included
in the Chamber of Commerce Collection in the City of Hefei, China.
Since 2009 he is member of Difference Engine – a self determined
art group which instigates an evolving exhibition methodology, a model
of artist self organisation, with artists Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler and
Jessica Foley, featuring Gordon Cheung and Paul Green.
In 2005 he completed a Masters in Visual Arts Practices at dliadt
and was an award winner at ev+a 2005.
In 2007 he attended a residency at El Levante in Rosario and at
casleo Observatory, Argentina. Cullen was curator of Darklight Digital
Film Festival from 1999–2004.
In 1995 he was the co-founding partner of Pallas Studios, Dublin.
Pallas through their various guises and programmes have been key
exponents of experimental art practice in Dublin.
Gavin Murphy is an artist and curator based in Dublin, where he is co-
director/curator of the artist-run space Pallas Projects/Studios. He
works across a range of media including sculpture, text, film, and
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