January 2010 | Select - 10th Anniversary Show

The Peppercanister Gallery was ten years in existence last autumn. To mark the occasion we will stage an artist's choice exhibition in January 2010, titled SELECT. Fifteen gallery artists have been requested to invite an artist of their choice, and all have responded enthusiastically.

May 2009 | Anne Donnelly - Recent Paintings

Anne Donnelly is an Irish artist who has lived in Italy for over forty years. Although based in Italy, Anne has been a regular exhibitor in Ireland, including three successful solo exhibitions at the Peppercanister Gallery. Sun-lit farm yards, galloping horses, swans and sea gulls in flight and delicate female heads are just some of her favourite themes. These hauntingly beautiful heads are partly inspired by her talented four adult daughters, but also undoubtedly by ancient Italian frescoes with their chalky textures and subtle fresco colours.

April 2009 | Makiko Nakamura - Recent Paintings

Japanese-born Makiko Nakamura will hold her fifth solo exhibition at the Peppercanister Gallery in April 2009. An abstract painter with an international reputation, Makiko enjoyed a sell-out solo show at the gallery in 2007. In 2006, she held an outstanding exhibition comprising five large scale works at Farmleigh House, Dublin, in homage to Samuel Beckett in the centenary year of his birth.

March 2009 | Brian Ballard - Recent Paintings

Belfast-born Brian Ballard RUA will hold his second solo exhibition at the Gallery in March 2009. His contemporary approach to painting alternates between figurative treatment of nudes, landscape and expressionistic still life, all of which he practices in equal measure and intensity, and all of which are represented in this exhibition.

November 2008 | Deirdre McLoughlin - Recent Sculpture

Deirdre McLoughlin’s third solo exhibition will go on show at the Gallery in November 2008, consisting of sculptures in high fired ceramic and bronze. These new small sculptures are about themselves and no other thing - about how a line moves, how one volume pushes into another - or away and the presence of the whole - each with its own story resonating other stories.

June 2008 | Liam Roberts - Paintings

Antoinette and Bryan Murphy are very pleased to be hosting the first solo exhibition at the Peppercanister Gallery by Irish painter Liam Roberts. The artist was born in Bunclody, Co. Wexford in 1941, and studied at the National College of Art in Dublin, the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, before spending some considerable time in Rome.

February 2008 | Wall & Plinth - Sculpture Exhibition

The Peppercanister Gallery's new show, Wall & Plinth, features small-scale works by 13 sculptors. That's unusual because we rarely encounter shows devoted entirely to sculpture. More often than not, sculpture is regarded as an optional add-on to paintings.

February 2008 | Wall & Plinth - Sculpture Exhibition

They came from near and far, leaving foundries, quarries, studios and smithies to attend a show of their work, Wall & Plinth at Dublin's Peppercanister Gallery. The sculptors who are in a group show - including Eilis O'Connell ARHA, who came from Cork; Graham Gingles RUA, who came from Antrim; Adolfo Estrada who travelled from Spain; and Robert Janz who journeyed from the US - work with a range of materials, including bronze, glass, aluminium, marble and wood.

October 2007 | Fergus Bourke

'At one time I suspected he was colour-blind!" artist Brian Bourke said of his brother, photographer Fergus Bourke, at the opening of a posthumous show of the latter's work in Dublin's Peppercanister Gallery this week. Fergus Bourke, who documented Dublin and Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, worked almost exclusively in black and white over the course of his lengthy career.

January 2007 | Sarah Longley

The "strange juxtapositions" in the paintings of Sarah Longley "are her signature," said playwright Frank McGuinness . He cited examples, such as the "marble woman wearing a woollen hat, a cockerel in a scullery innocent of its end, its yellow feet touching the bloodcoloured tiles".

August 2006 | Robert Janz

The life cycle of flowers is explored in new work by Belfast-born artist Robert Janz, which went on view this week in Dublin's Peppercanister Gallery. This "very recent work" is a continuation "of what I've been doing for 40 years", said Janz. "I like doing time, and the time in a flower is very compact. It blooms for maybe 10 days."

August 2006 | Robert Janz

After a long absence, Robert Janz returns to exhibit once more in Dublin. Belfast-born Janz has been based in the United States and elsewhere, and latterly he completed a residency at IMMA and has worked in Belfast.

2004 | Deirdre McLoughlin

"Balance and harmony, poise and contrast in each of the individual forms as well as in the interplay of the two vessels determine the first impression here. With a powerful formal language as well as proportion and fragility of the vessel types, they present themselves as sculptural objects, spatial bodies".

February 2004 | Joseph O’Connor

The Peppercanister Gallery has an instinct for pinpointing interesting but relatively neglected artists, witness last year’s Graham Gingles exhibition, and now the gallery’s current show of work by Joseph O’Connor. Although he has a long history of exhibiting in various group shows in Ireland, notably the Independent Artists, and a few solo outings, and is highly regarded by many artists and a number of collectors, O’Connor has remained something of an outsider partly due to temperament, partly to the nature of his work.

October 2003 | Albert Irvin:

Underpinning Albert Irvin's paintings are grids. So far so standard for a particular kind of abstract painting. But Irvin's grids are usually skewed, given an enlivening tilt, one tactic among many in a repertoire devoted to energising the pictorial field. Others include an incredible level of sustained attack.

September 2003 | Graham Gingles

In sculpture, box-makers are a small and relatively neglected minority. They do not just make boxes, even minimalist boxes; they make boxes and contents. The boxes they make are often like small worlds of their own. Barrie Cooke, whose retrospective is showing at the RHA, has created many sculptural boxes, mostly during the 1970s and 1980s. Several are included in his show, which coincides with a rare appearance in Dublin by another prominent box-maker, Graham Gingles.

March 2003 | Deirdre McLoughlin

Deirdre McLoughlin is a ceramic sculptor with a cool, precise sense of elegant form. Her current show, at the Peppercanister Gallery, features two formal types: torso-like bands and vessel-like cups with appendages. The latter proliferate in big, relaxed families of various sizes and colours.

February 2003 | Liam Belton

Liam Belton's exhibition at the Peppercanister Gallery is thematically and formally concentrated. He is probably best known as a virtuoso painter of meticulously realistic still lifes with the occasional note of surrealism. But in this case art disguises art and he is carefully subdued and understated in his approach. His subjects are some of the megalithic stone monuments of Ireland, England and Wales. The most famous is Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, and that features in the show, but megaliths are plentiful in Ireland and there are many stunning examples.

September 2002 | Breon O’Casey

Breon O’Casey’s painting and sculpture at the Peppercanister Gallery make for an enormously enjoyable exhibition. His rhythmic, pared down, abstracted compositions are notable for their judicious though bold use of colour. He likes to set a cluster of earth hues alight with a vivid blast of red or yellow.

June 2002 | Anne Donnelly

The talented Irish painter Anne Donnelly was born in Belfast and grew up in County Carlow. After many years journeying through France, Spain and Morocco she now lives near Tivoli, with her Italian husband Carlo Mazzantini, who is a poet and a novelist.

May 2002 | Makiko Nakamura

In previous exhibitions, at the Ashford Gallery and Newbridge’s Riverbank Arts Centre, Makiko Nakamura has proved herself adept at handling imposingly large-scale paintings. A protracted process of making and erasing produces, in these large works, polished impassive surfaces that, with their residual grid-based compositions, and sheer, foliated layering, convey a sense of time lived and time lost.

September 2001 | Sarah Longley

Sarah Longley is a young representational artist whose subject matter is thoroughly conventional, even conservative. She shows still lifes, views of gardens, self-portraits and nude figure studies, making drawings and paintings with pencil, charcoal and oil. Yet there is nothing calculated or ingratiating about her choice of subject or the nature of her work. It comes across as truthful, direct and exploratory.

June 2001 | Makiko Nakamura

Makiko Nakamura, shows two large paintings, both untitled and one a diptych, and both exceptionally, even startlingly good. Her work, she remarks in a brief, thoughtful statement, is concerned, with “disappearance and erasing”, and the large subjects, of presence, loss and absence that loom behind the two things.

May 2001 | Sonja Landweer:

When Dutch-born Sonja Landweer came to Ireland in 1965 (at the invitation of the fledgling Kilkenny Design Workshops) she had already established her reputation as a ceramicist. She made elegant wheel-thrown, vessel-shaped pieces, and the typical Landweer form blossomed from an incredibly slim base. Though clearly employing a functionally inspired shape, these vessels were aesthetic rather than functional objects.