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Thu 05 May 2007Off the beaten paletteA lively art-gallery scene is sprouting up in unlikely spots outside of the existing exhibition network, writes Aidan DunneDirectly north of Smithfield in Dublin city centre, bits of old Dublin, including isolated Georgian and Victorian buildings, together with older fragments, are studded amid small businesses, lacklustre residential developments and neglected properties. There is a drab, utilitarian air to the fabric of the immediate environment, which is dominated by concrete, tarmac, railings, shutters and the through-flow of traffic. It's just the sort of place that one might expect to see the flowering of a marginal cultural enterprise such as Pallas Contemporary Projects.