Visual Arts The Model, Sligo Till 02 April Reconstructing Memory is a multifaceted experiential and textured exploration of the societal disparities in approaches to death in Mexican and Irish cultures. Film, photography, sculpture, painting and installation are all sensitively utilised in this … Clea Van Der Grijn : Reconstructing Memory
Visual Arts Monday 27th February to Saturday 25th March 2017 Wexford Arts Centre Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre are pleased to present I Wanted to Write a Poem, a new exhibition of work by Jonathan Mayhew, winner of the Emerging … Jonathan Mayhew : I Wanted to Write a Poem
Visual Arts Curated by Jon Blackwood This exhibition of new work by David Blyth, Derrick Guild and Alan Grieve has grown out of a long process of analysis and discussion of contemporary art in Scotland, and how it measures up against visual … Jon Blackwood : Archipelago
Festivals Literature 13th March 2017 Visual, Carlow The Carlow College Literary Awards brings together the entire college community to recognise and celebrate the very best of Carlow College literary talent. The awards gather together the college literary community in a spirit of … Derek Coyle, Thomas McGrath and Nicole Burke : Carlow College Literary Awards & Creative Writing Showcase
Theatre The Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise The Big Tree Players present Sive by John B Keane Since forming in 2005, The Big Tree Players have presented annual comedies locally including Cassidy’s Chair, Troubled Bachelor, That Family Feeling, Off the Hook and … Michael Lakes : Sive
Visual Arts IMMA has announced its programme for 2017. The full details of it can be seen on imma.ie. The announcement was followed a talk given by Brazilian artist Jac Leirner, of her exhibition “Institutional Ghost” which runs from 14th February to … Sarah Glennie : IMMA programme 2017
Theatre Greise Youth Theatre Riverbanks Arts Centre, Newbridge 10th and 11th March 2017 By Alistair McDowall performed by Greise Youth Theatre. The inmates at a bizarre summer camp are plotting a revolution. Or has it already happened…Spending a day watching their … Stephanie Hood, Ethan Allison, Donnacha Adams and Shannon O’Doherty : Zero for the Young Dudes
Theatre Wexford man Noel has advanced MS and decides to end it all. While waiting for his overdose to take effect he records an increasingly rambling message for his best friend. Noel has apologies to make and messages to send. He … Ben Barnes : My Real Life
Festivals The 28th Cork French Film Festival, coming up 5th to 12th March 2017, brings you the latest and best from France, with a strong emphasis on contemporary French cinema. The main programme is at the Gate cinema, packed with new … Nora Callanan : Cork French Film Festival
Visual Arts The highly anticipated exhibition Beyond Caravaggio opens in the National Gallery of Ireland on Saturday 11 February 2017. It brings together over 40 major works, including four master paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), complemented by other significant masterpieces … Adrian Le Harivel : Beyond Caravaggio
Visual Arts Beatland is an exhibition of paintings by Dublin based artist Chanelle Walshe. The paintings depict human organs, the heart and lungs, in various energetic states. The forms are isolated, unearthed from a nourishing ground, and offered up to the viewer … Chanelle Walshe : Beatland
Books 13th March 2017 Visual, Carlow The Carlow College Literary Awards brings together the entire college community to recognise and celebrate the very best of Carlow College literary talent. The awards gather together the college literary community in a spirit of … Derek Coyle, Thomas McGrath and Nicole Burke : Carlow College Literary Awards & Creative Writing Showcase
Visual Arts 11 February – 25 March 2017 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kerlin Gallery is delighted to present Deepdrippings, an exhibition of new paintings by Phillip Allen. The exhibition will open with a reception in the company of the artist on the evening … Rosa Abbott : Deepdrippings
Visual Arts 11th February until 22nd April 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is delighted to announce its first exhibition of 2017 entitled An Afterwards which will feature the work of leading contemporary Irish artist Mark Garry. The exhibition will … Mark Garry : An Afterwards
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 In the last two decades there has been a breakdown of the traditional distinction between a subject and an object, with an increasing focus on the ‘thing’ as a mediator in both human and non-human relationships. In this ambitious exhibition … Kate V Robertson : Object(hood)
Theatre 20 February – 25 February 2017 The Source Arts Centre, County Tipperary Thurles Drama Group presents the wonderful human drama by Seán O’Casey to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the group. The play is set in a tenement house in … Margaret McCormack : Juno and the Paycock
Visual Arts New Acquisitions from the University of Edinburgh Art Collection David Batchelor, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ilana Halperin, Jessica Harrison, Fabienne Hess, Daniel Hughes, Daisy Lafarge, Jonathan Owen, Katie Paterson, Isobel Turley, Luc Tuymans, JL Williams Including three tattooed Doulton figurines, a … Stuart Fallon : Between poles and tides
Visual Arts Inverleith House is currently closed to the public. PLEASE ENSURE IT RE-OPENS TO SHOW GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART !!! Inverleith House was designed in 1773 by David Henderson and built for Sir James Rocheid (1715-1787) as his family home and centre … Paul Nesbitt : 30 years of exhibitions at Inverleith House
Visual Arts Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Ray of Light, an exhibition of cityscapes by Gary Kearney. Kearney’s work examines aspects of the city and urban dwelling- its architecture and how the city space is shaped as vast amounts … Gary Kearney : Ray of Light
Visual Arts An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Ivan Daly In his first solo exhibition Ivan Daly presents a series of paintings and drawings made in response to the powerful coastal landscape of Co. Clare. Doonmacfelim is the particular stretch of … Ivan Daly : DOONMACFELIM
Visual Arts As Asylum seekers are increasingly under threat we show this from Art in Ireland TV. Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Asylum Archive, an exhibition of photography, artefacts and found objects created by visual artist and researcher Vukasin … Vukasin Nedeljković : Asylum Archive
Visual Arts Gutted, gutsy, gut feelings, gut wrenching, butterflies in your tummy, go with your gut – are all expressions used in everyday language, art and literature to portray a raft of human emotions. How we feel is driven by both emotional … The Glucksman, UCC : Gut Instinct
Visual Arts February 3rd at 7pm until 18th of February. Rogue Gallery and Studios, Waterford. The Rogue Gallery and Studios is proud to introduce this years first exhibition for 2017 “Gaza, From the Outside Looking In”. A show by local artist/activist Brenda … Brenda Carroll : Gaza, from the outside looking in
Visual Arts GOMA Waterford, 19th January, 6.30pm (exhibition runs until 23rd February) GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford formerly known as SOMA Contemporary Gallery is proud to introduce their first exhibition of 2017 The Graduates. A show of works by recent graduates … Mick Fortune : The Graduates at GOMA
Visual Arts Mother River is a breathtaking photographic odyssey by the British-Chinese photographer, Yan Wang Preston. It takes the viewer on a journey along the entire length of the Yangtze, China’s ‘Mother River’. From the remote high Tibetan Plateau, through the Three … Yan Wang Preston : Mother River
Visual Arts The Butler Gallery has an outstanding resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. The gallery has an ongoing commitment to make sure this collection is exhibited and … Anna O’Sullivan and Bairbre-Ann Harkin : Personae: Butler Gallery Collection featuring loans from the IMMA Collection
Visual Arts Exhibition statement: Working primarily with discarded limestone Cullen distils a series of large-scale organic structures that emerge directly from his involvement with the properties of the material. These material transactions take account of the fragmentary patterns and shapes that the … Des Cullen : Mountains Move While Oceans Do Not
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts “For seventeen years now, my work has been mainly concerned with HIV/AIDS in an African context, and BIRD is only one of three bodies of work in that time not referencing that humanitarian problem. Africa alters one’s perception of a … Alex Flett : Bird
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Garvald Artists present a vibrant collection of abstract artwork by John Black. John is Autistic and combines his innate understanding of colour with his intuitive active mark-making to create inherently beautiful and balanced works. John creates an exciting relationship between … Morven Macrae : Autism Abstraction and Colour, John Black
