Mark Swords

The exhibition’s title is taken from a 1992 album by Lou Reed. The album consists of a sequence of gritty, downbeat songs, which may account for its relative obscurity. But...

The title I must walk toward Oregon comes from Walking, a lecture by Henry David Thoreau. Amongst other things the lecture extols the virtues of a slow and sustained movement...

To mark 25 years as a gallerist in Dublin, I have put together a special exhibition, SILVER. It is a personal selection of art works, each by an artist associated...

Sean Lynch, Elaine Byrne, Mark Swords, MIck O'Dea, Richard Proffitt, AileenMurphy, Geraldine O'Neill High Day is a celebration of the accomplishments and diverse processes of a selection of gallery artists...

There is a song on “repeat play” in the studio. It is late. I am wallowing in my thoughts, my focus drifting between the music and my own ideas, surrounded...

Sonia Shiel, Kathy Tynan, Marcel Vidal, Mark Swords, Salvatore of Lucan, Joe Scullion, Robert Armstrong, Julia Dubsky, Lesley-Ann O’Connell, Pat Byrne, Stephen Loughman, Cecilia Danell, William O’Neill and Stephanie Deady  ...

The Hinterlands brings together a body of disparate artworks from 2009 to the present day. This work has not been made with any single unifying theme or goal in mind....

Book launch and exhibition by Mark Swords. Tesserae is a term for the individual units which together comprise a mosaic. The individual artworks in Mark Swords’ recent work could be...

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to present Building Sights. An exhibition of new work featuring Robert Armstrong, Tadhg McSweeney & Mark Swords For me this part is interesting cause this is...

Concurrently to this show, Mark is participating in the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Futures exhibition. RHA Gallagher Galleries, Ely Place, 4 – 27 September. Mark Swords’ current work displays an increasingly...