Visual Arts 07 June – 03 September Visual Carlow Selected Artists: Kevin Gaffney, Lee Welch, Aisling O’Beirn, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Sarah O’Brien, Jonathan Mayhew, Vera Ryklova, Pádraig Spillane,Susan MacWilliam, Karl Burke, Martin Boyle, Robert Moriarty, Damien Flood, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Tom Fitzgerald, … Emma-Lucy O’ Brien – ART WORKS, The Hotron Open Submission and Art Prize
Visual Arts 06 June – 10 September Visual Carlow Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s ‘Triadic Ballet’ A dress-up space in the Lobby Gallery for making a spectacle, informed by Bauhaus costume and puppet making. Come and stage your own performance – costumes are … Emma-Lucy O’ Brien : Costumes and Movement
Visual Arts 07 June – 03 September Visual Carlow Selected Artists: Kevin Gaffney, Lee Welch, Aisling O’Beirn, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Sarah O’Brien, Jonathan Mayhew, Vera Ryklova, Pádraig Spillane,Susan MacWilliam, Karl Burke, Martin Boyle, Robert Moriarty, Damien Flood, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Tom Fitzgerald, … Emma-Lucy O’ Brien : ART WORKS
Theatre Following the success of three major productions at Visual in 2016, Carlow Little Theatre Society return to the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in April 2017 as part of this year’s Pan Celtic Festival with Marina Carr’s provocative and bewitching play … Paul Dunne : By the Bog of Cats
Visual Arts 11 February – 21 May 2017 Ground Floor Galleries, Visual Carlow For spring the ground floor galleries at VISUAL will be transformed into an indoor playground exploring play and a recent history of playgrounds. This exhibition has been realised in … Emma-Lucy O’Brien : The Playground Project
Visual Arts We have created a Reading Room between the season’s exhibitions, as a space to sit and read, think or respond to some of the different ways that we portray and remember war. As well as books, games and material to … Emma Lucy O’Brien : The Reading Room
Visual Arts Tim Hetherington was a photojournalist, filmmaker, human rights advocate and artist, best known for his coverage of conflict in areas including Liberia, Afghanistan and Libya where he was killed in a mortar attack in April 2011. ‘Diary’, made in collaboration … Ann Mulrooney : Diary
Visual Arts Reflecting on events, memories and the traces of evidence left to us from times past, O’Donoghue uses his family history to connect with and understand the wars that have shaped our histories; and reflects on the personal experiences of his … Emma Lucy O’Brien : Red Earth
Theatre Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time. The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through … Derek Egan : The Plough and the Stars
Visual Arts Irish-born photographer Enda Bowe’s work is concerned with story telling and the search for light and beauty in the ordinary. He is based in London and his first book Kilburn Cherry has recently been published by J&J Books. At Mirrored … Oren Little : At Mirror River
Visual Arts Remco De Fou, Annabel Konig, Rachel Joynt, Gwen Wilkinson, Michelle Byrne, Anthony Lyttle, Martin Lyttle, Cathy Fitzgerald and Jules Michael. The Nine Stones Artists was formed in 2004. Its members are professional artists who live and work in the foothills … Annabel Konig : The Possibilities of Place, Nine Stones Artists
Visual Arts Exhibition of Paintings & Prints by Lorraine Fenlon Artist & Tutor and featuring a special debut showing of the fine work of young students of Red Apple Arts. Raffle in aid of Carlow Regional Youth Services. “A ‘message’ may not … Lorraine Fenlon : A Brush with Summer
Visual Arts Gareth Kennedy, Post Colony VISUAL Carlow Till 19 June Post Colony (2014) explores the microcosm of natural, industrial and colonial histories through a specific project in Killarney National Park, Co. Kerry, focusing on the invasive species Rhododendron x superponticum. First … Ann Mulrooney : Gareth Kennedy
The Annual AAI Awards exhibition is Ireland’s longest running architectural awards programme, the only internationally peer-reviewed architecture awards in Ireland that publish the discussion which takes place among the adjudicators. As a result the awards give the public an unprecedented … Ann Mulrooney : VISUAL, AAI Awards Exhibition
Visual Arts Artist Rhona Byrne’s hand-made objects, installations and collaborative, event‐based, projects explore the interactions between people and their habitat. Bolthole invites visitors to construct and reconstruct the installation to make their own environments. The spaces can be individual shelters/dens or a … Rhona Byrne : Bolthole
Oren Little introduces the new season of events at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art. VISUAL is an iconic cultural space in Carlow, Ireland, presenting contemporary art, theatre, music, dance, cinema, talks, workshops and events. VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & … Oren Little : VISUAL Carlow
