Visual Arts Paintings by the great trumpeter and bandleader, alongside work by another great musician, John Lennon. Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. On until Saturday 30th April. Andrew Clarke : Miles Davis
Festivals JestFest returns this May Bank Holiday Weekend – Wexford’s Comedy and Street Theatre Festival is back in 2016, bigger and better than ever! This May Bank Holiday weekend the spirit of devilish revelry fills the Viking streets as Irish and … Margaret Stafford : JestFest 2016
Visual Arts CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery presents ‘Swimming to Inishkeel by Malcolm McClay. Inishkeel Island is a small uninhabited Island off the west cost of Donegal, accessible by foot at low tide. In the Celtic tradition “a thin place” is the name … Malcolm McClay : Swimming to Inishkeel
Visual Arts Material Witness is an exhibition of new works by Nollaig Molloy. Using the National Schools Folklore Collection from 1937-38 as a point of departure, Nollaig examines the many stories, material culture and folk customs of County Roscommon, as told by … Nollaig Molloy : Material Witness, Roscommon Arts Centre
Music Smock Alley Theatre plays host to four evenings of the aural and the visual, brought together. From March to July, InSight showcases 20 new musical works presented with visual interpretations, including dance, animation, projection, and simply the physical body in … Robbie Blake & Sorcha Coller : Insight
Visual Arts Artists Rhona Byrne and Yvonne McGuinness have worked in collaboration with a number of local senior and junior school groups to create Mobile Monuments which will begin travelling to Swords, Rush, Garristown and Castaheany during the month of April in … Rhona Byrne and Yvonne McGuinness : Mobile Monuments
Visual Arts Reflecting 1916 features photographs taken by eyewitnesses to this pivotal period in Ireland’s history, a number of which are being shown in public for the first time. A centrepiece installation of large-scale photos captures the destruction of Dublin and offers … Gallery of Photography : Reflecting 1916
Literature Summerhall Sessions Visual Arts Whitney McVeigh in conversation with Alice Thompson to discuss her exhibition Language of Memory and Alice’s new novel The Book Collector. The artist and writer address issues of motherhood and the parallel processes of writing and making. March 8th, 2016 … Whitney McVeigh and Alice Thompson : In Conversation, International Women’s Day
Festivals Visual Arts Anthea Hamilton’s free-standing sculptures, which function as formicaries or ant farms, ants move within intricate Art Nouveau patterns over images drawn from the artist’s previous works: a woman acting as a human clapperboard and a figure clothed in full-dress Kabuki … Anthea Hamilton : BAS8
Visual Arts Peter Fulop’s work in clay is heavily influenced by the Japanese Zen tradition. His experimentation with Raku reduction and wood firing techniques along with his use of calligraphic gesture is a culmination of experiences and time spent with traditional artists … Peter Fulop : NOBU
Visual Arts Pathos of Distance is formed around 42 images relating to Irish migration and diaspora, created between 1813 and 1912. Sourced from countries around the world, they have been photographed and reproduced to their original scale. Pierce presents them in a … Sarah Pierce : Pathos of Distance
Music Sonic Whispers returns as part of MusicTown 2016 with a night of musical experimentation and collaboration! On the 17th April at Whelan’s Live, Sonic Whispers will host three new bands from three diverse genres of music; Bitch Falcon (Rock), Wounded … Natasha Duffy & Maurane Ramone : Sonic Whispers
Theatre “What do you do when you fall off the bike?” A huge slice on his stomach gave him his name. How’d it happen? He has no idea and today it’s the least of his worries. Take what you want and … Jeda De Bri : Slice the Thief
Visual Arts Recreating The Pastoral draws the viewer through a series of installations which juxtapose elements of elaborate 18th and 19th Century European dress and courtly behaviour with contemporary political sensitivities expressed through Shonibare’s use of Dutch wax cotton cloth, itself a … Emma-Lucy O’Brien : Recreating The Pastoral
Summerhall Residents Visual Arts Lust in the Apple’s curator Paul Robertson in conversation with David Rushton. Rushton was a founder editor of Coventry-based Analytical Art and was subsequently a key member of Art & Language from 1972 to 1975, working on the various Indexes … David Rushton & Paul Robertson : Analytical Art, Art & Language and Thereafter
Visual Arts Date: 08 Apr 2016 – 25 Apr 2016 The Briggait 141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ Mooney constructs worlds populated by grotesque characters, strange animals, food, lurid flowers and morphed effigies of historical, mythical and religious figures. He likes to observe … Jock Mooney : Who are you and what do you want?
Visual Arts Date: 08 Apr 2016 – 25 Apr 2016 Hanson Street Project Space, Wasps Studios, 77 Hanson Street Glasgow, G31 2HF This exhibition is an attempt at a thesis for the world after the end of history, and in particular art … Andy Holden : Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (II)
Visual Arts Iwano is titled in recognition of Iwano Heizaburo, a master paper producer with whom Gorman worked closely until Iwano’s death earlier this year. Relying solely on traditional production techniques, the Iwano family has operated its paper factory in Echizen, western … Rosa Abbott : Richard Gorman – Iwano
Visual Arts Circadian, by Ben Readman, is a new body of work is made up of a collection of intimate two-dimensional works on traditionally prepared wooden panels or linen. Readman employs a number of traditional techniques and natural materials such as, silver, … Ben Readman : Circadian
Visual Arts Denis Kelly shows a series of abstract paintings which explore light, form and space in response to the built environment. The dlr LexIcon building and its proximity to the sea, in addition to the wider designed world, act as both … Denis Kelly : Edge
Visual Arts ‘Memento Mori’ is a solo exhibition by Breda Lynch at SOMA Contemporary Gallery. ‘Memento Mori’ means reminder of our death. Using the body as a ‘site’ Lynch has explored a variety of responses to this complex emotive issue. Autobiographical in … Jenna Whelan : Memento Mori
Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Dennis & Debbie Club, Fiona Anderson, Lewis Den Hertog and Kieran Curran (aka MC TRUE FACTS) explore the utopian and dystopian possibilities of life on planet earth and beyond in the ground floor galleries with group exhibition The Human’s Planet … Dennis Reinmuller : The Human’s Planet Earth
Visual Arts Exhibition runs until Thursday 28th April 2016 Waterford Arts Services & Greyfriars Municipal Gallery in partnership with The Association of Local Authority Arts Officers has pleasure in inviting you to 30 Years- Artists- Places. A touring exhibition marking 30 years … Conor Nolan : 30 Years:Artists:Places
Theatre A Moon for the Misbegotten is written by four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, this production features an international creative team and is directed by Theatre Royal Artistic Director and Former Artistic Director of the Abbey … Ben Barnes : A Moon for the Misbegotten
Visual Arts THE BACKWATER ARTISTS GROUP AND FRIENDS ARE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT DRAW. A unique opportunity to own beautiful art from well known established and exciting emerging artists for only €50. Click here to visit GALLERY An ideal gift for the art … Elaine Coakley : Draw
Visual Arts These drawings and paintings at Draiocht in Blanchardstown capture glimpses of cinema interiors and fleeting images of the facades of Irish picture houses. GLIMPSE is infused by Ruth McDonnell’s own passion for cinema and by the years she has spent … Ruth McDonnell : Glimpse
Visual Arts MART Dublin till April 13 Originally from Edinburgh Rhona Foster is one of several artists exhibiting at MART in Dublin as part of No Spacers, a show by London based artists currently studying and involved with the LIMBO art space … Rhona Foster : No Spacers
Visual Arts MART Dublin March 3 @ 6:00 pm – April 13 @ 6:00 pm No Spacer is a show by London based artists all currently still studying who are involved with the LIMBO art space in London. Looking to diversify and … Charlotte Lyndsey-Cook and Richard Magee : No Spacer
Literature Visual Arts The WORDS event is a spoken word event that takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at The Art Hand in Bunmahon, County Waterford. All are Welcome from writers and poets to literature lovers and storytellers. Have your … Seán Corcoran : Words at The Art Hand
Visual Arts MART is proud to present Primes, a new and evolving body of Jason Dunne’s recent wall-based sculptural work. In this exhibition, Dunne uses translucent images of body parts in combination with a wide variety of found objects and materials such … Jason Dunne : Primes – MART
