← All events
arts · Friday 14 August 2026 · Various 
Many Movements Never Before Published - Ali Farrelly at The Kiosk
At The Kiosk Project Art Space · Barlow House, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
At The Kiosk Project Art Space · Barlow House, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Ali Farrelly spends twelve days in the window of The Kiosk Project Art Space using 507 Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brown as a personal instruction manual. She builds working devices from motors, pulleys and everyday materials such as cardboard and tape, filming each attempt on body-mounted action cameras as she goes.
The point of the residency is that failure counts as much as success. Mechanisms that jam or collapse are documented on the same terms as the ones that run, and the whole process is deliberately temporary, functioning both as an artwork and as research towards later work in steel. Farrelly’s practice pulls together sculpture, welding and engineering, usually from scavenged material, and treats mechanical failure as a starting point rather than a dead end. The residency closes with an open studio at which she shows the films and the physical results.
The Kiosk Project Art Space is at Barlow House on Narrow West Street, at the western end of Drogheda’s main street a couple of minutes past the Tholsel. Drivers from Dublin, Dundalk or Navan leave the M1 at junction 9 or 10 and follow the town centre signs. On-street parking is available on Narrow West Street and the surrounding lanes, with the Scotch Hall and Laurence Shopping Centre car parks a short walk east. Drogheda MacBride railway station is about 15 to 20 minutes on foot across the Boyne, and Bus Éireann and Matthews coaches serve the town from the Dublin Road and the Donore Road bus station.
Heading to The Kiosk Project Art Space in Drogheda? Louth has plenty more to see. Read the Drogheda area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.