Visual Arts 24 November – 19 December 2015, Talbot Rice Gallery. A naïve exploration through the affects of our relationships with the pervasive digital technologies we surround ourselves with. As a being unable to swim, both the glossy surface of my MacBook Pro … Jordan Pilling : Life Source Code
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Till 9 March 2016 11:00-18:0 Venue: Laboratory Gallery, Summerhall Choreographer Riccardo Buscarini and visual artist Richard Taylor work together for the first time, transforming the glass cabinets in Summerhall’s Laboratory Gallery into living archives to explore memory, intimacy and exposure. … Riccardo Buscarini and Richard Taylor : In Parting Glass
Visual Arts Sandra Kelly introduces the SOMA gallery in Waterford as it embarks on a new phase of development. “Our mission is to foster within society, an awareness, understanding and involvement in the visual arts through policies and programmes which are excellent.” … Sandra Kelly : SOMA Gallery, Waterford
Books Festivals Seventh programme in the 2015 WriterStories series from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Dorthe Nors and Caroline Criado-Perez
Visual Arts Artist Andrea Geile unveils her permanent artwork, The Chlorophylls, for the newly-restored FANK in Lettermore Forest on Mull. Produced by the Summerhall TV team with additional contributions from Alasdair Satchel, Sarah Darling and Angus Stewart. Andrea Geile : Chlorophylls
Visual Arts Triskel Arts Centre was founded in 1978, and moved to its current home in Tobin Street in 1986. Triskel celebrated its Thirtieth Anniversary in 2008. As Cork’s principal Arts Centre our mission has always been to commission, present, and promote … Triskel Arts Centre
Music For the 100th anniversary of the formation of Ireland celebrated bass guitarist and composer Ronan Guilfoyle introduces a musical project to celebrate the life of his grandfather, Joe Guilfoyle, a teenage volunteer during the 1916 Rising. The finished composition will … Ronan Guilfoyle : Work in Progress
Visual Arts ‘all things considered’ is an exhibition featuring new works by forty artist members of Cork Printmakers, which will be displayed at the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, from Thursday 3rd until the 23rd December 2015. The artists explore a wide variety … Valerie Byrne : all things considered
Visual Arts The Rose Street Project is a public ‘exhibition’ in a central city location, open to everyone visiting Edinburgh, day and night until early January. The invited artists are from a range of disciplines including illustration, ceramics, textiles and printmaking. The … Karl Finn Graham : Rose Street Artist Christmas Project
Visual Arts Articulating the Value of Artist Led Organisations in Ireland FOOTFALL is a national research project devised by 126 Artist-Run Gallery to explore the position of small arts organisations in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The aim of the research programme is … Lucy Elvis : Discussing Footfall
Visual Arts Gavin Porter’s practice uses the mediums of drawing and etching to create a visual language exploring the territory between the real and the imagined, the sublime and the absurd. Referencing techniques observed in historical engravings, Porter’s work exploits the linear, … Gavin Porter : Journey of a Fruit Fly
Visual Arts Matthew Nevin introduces Conor Ferguson’s Photography Exhibition opening in November 27 @ 6:00 pm and running to December 5 and work resulting from Jane Tagg’s International Residency at MART in Dublin. www.mart.ie Matthew Nevin : MART November to December Programme
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts WHO RUN THE WORLD The candy pink beat that permeates a number of Liz Waterston’s text based video works hypnotically pulse out fluoro lights reminiscent of the flickering neon that underpins midnight strolls through dark places: karaoke evenings where we … Alan Holligan : Liz Waterston, Edinburgh College Residency Artist 2015
Visual Arts 18 September 2015–28 February 2016 Exploring Glasgow Museums Contemporary Art collection through connections with Glasgow School of Art, this exhibition includes artists such as Christine Borland, Jim Lambie, Roderick Buchanan, Victoria Morton & Simon Starling. In 1996 Douglas Gordon became … Martin Craig : Devils in the Making
Summerhall Residents ‘Locked In Edinburgh’ opened at Summerhall for the 2015 Festival, making it the fifth escape game in the city – but this one is unique! It’s the nly one themed and built around a real room. Discover for yourself the … Jackie Jack : Locked in Edinburgh
Visual Arts Ulster Museum 10:00 – 17:00, Friday 10 October 2014 – Sunday 10 January 2016 This exhibition, largely drawn from the Ulster Museum collection, looks at the role of nature in the work of Irish and International artists over the past … Anne Stewart : New Art New Nature
Visual Arts An exhibition of portrait paintings by Colin Davidson (born 1968), reveals the stories of eighteen people who are connected by their individual experiences of loss through the Troubles – a turbulent 30-year period in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s … Kim Mawhinney : Silent Testimony by Colin Davidson
Books Festivals Edinburgh welcomes back one of Scotland’s most ferociously-talented writers. Andrew O’Hagan’s fifth novel, The Illuminations, weaves two linked stories together: the older woman, Anne Quirk, is a Scottish photographer struggling to keep hold of her memories, the younger man is … Andrew O’Hagan : The Illuminations
Archives European Local TV Institute of Local Television Local and Community TV Summerhall TV journalist Anastasia Kharchenko reports on new movements in independent film distribution. Interviewing a film distributor Manuela Buono (‘A Good American’) and filmmaker Paulo Toledo (‘Waiting for B’) at the Copenhagen Documentary Festival, these industry-insiders explain how best to engage … Summerhall TV at CPH DOX : Copenhagen Documentary Festival
Visual Arts Generator Projects are proud to present Small Gate, Infinite Field; a solo presentation of new work from emerging artist Christopher Macinnes. Small Gate, Infinite Field, a space of concealment and exposure, an immersive generated environment consisting of industrial substations meshed … Aaron McCarthy : Small Gate, Infinite Field
Visual Arts Sir John Lavery is best known as a society portraitist and for a remarkable series of formal portraits of politicians and prelates. This small exhibition looks instead at the private world of Sir John Lavery, and brings together portraits he … Anne Stewart : Lavery’s World
Literature The third C.S. Lewis Festival, which takes place from Thursday 19th – Sunday 22nd November 2015 throughout Belfast, marks the 52nd anniversary of the death of the renowned author, theologian, academic and creator of the incredible Chronicles of Narnia series. … Jacqueline O’Hagan : C.S. Lewis Festival
Visual Arts The Koestler Scotland Exhibition, Selected by artist Ruth Ewan 7 – 29 November, 2015, 11:00 –18:00 183 More Sleeps is an exhibition of artwork from prisons, secure hospitals, secure children’s homes, immigration detention centres and community justice services in Scotland. … Sarah Grainger-Jones: 183 More Sleeps
Visual Arts Two printmakers from Seacourt Print Workshop, Catherine and Deirdre were students together at Belfast College of Art. With a background in printed textiles, they share an appreciation for design, pattern and colour. Catherine, a printmaker and painter, and Deirdre, a printmaker … Catherine Thompson and Deirdre McCrory : Near and Far
Books Ricky Brown interviews Doug Johnstone about his crime novels, writing process and the importance of setting at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Once a nuclear physicist, Doug Johnstone is now a successful writer and freelance journalist (and blogger) based in Edinburgh. In … Doug Johnstone : The Jump
Literature Visual Arts Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Polish Contemporary Art Organisation present their first annual group exhibition ‘WAVES’, showcasing artists from Poland and of Polish descent at different stages in their practice, working in various mediums – photography, written word, painting, installation, collage and film. Waves is … Polish Contemporary Art Organisation : Waves
Visual Arts Featuring modern and contemporary masterworks from the world’s leading collections by ABRAMOVIĆ, BRANCUSI, DALÍ, DUCHAMP, ERNST, GIACOMETTI, OPPENHEIM, PICASSO, WARHOL, YOKO ONO, and many more. What We Call Love is accompanied by an exciting programme of screenings, talks, events and … Rachael Thomas : What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now
Visual Arts E.gress is a filmic artwork that maps a world of loss and change, exploring how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to changing world. This multi-layered film, a portrait of living moments on life’s edge, invites us … Marie Brett : E.gress
Books Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
