Visual Arts Connolly’s practice encompasses process based sculptural works, objects and performative events both inside and outside the gallery space. In his most recent series of works the Belfast based artist distills across varying scales the causes and affects of risk and … Brian Connolly : “FRACTURED THINKING”
Books Festivals Number ten in the 2015 series of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Colin Macintyre and Julian Baggini
Visual Arts Eclectrc Panoptic teases back layers of cognition, reflecting New Zealand born artist Johnson’s interest in science fiction, alternative universes and the slippery nature of perception and reality. Comprised of a suite of drawings, tessellating patterns and virtual reality technology, the … Jess Johnson and Simon Ward : Eclectrc Panoptic
Visual Arts I Went to the Woods looks at how artists have experienced and portrayed their surroundings in the course of walks, journeys and aimless wanderings. Featuring works by Irish and international artists, the exhibition explores the artist as a drifter, nomad, … Chris Clarke : I Went to The Woods
Books Festivals Ninth in the current series of interviews with authors at the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Stephen Kelman and Ragnar Jonasson
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
Books Festivals Latest in the 2015 WriterStories TV series from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Kate Mosse and Nick Barley
Visual Arts A’ the Airts, the Crawick Multiverse and MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar recently hosted a conversation between Jeffrey Hoffman and Charles Jencks as part of the MERZ exhibition ‘Landscape of the Waves’, featuring the work of Alex Rigg and Charles Jencks … Jeffrey Hoffman and Charles Jencks : Astrophysicist & Astronaut, Artist & Architect
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
Performance Theatre A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling, Pulse is the story of Mairi Campbell’s quest to heal cultural wounds. Mairi Campbell : Pulse
Books Festivals Fifth in the 2015 WriterSeries of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Sergio Fajardo and Justin Cartwright
Events Sometimes we need a bit of a jolt to remind us our filmmaking started to present voices seldom heard and faces seldom seen on mainstream media. For decades those missing from TV’s news might just as well have never got … Tom Duda : Scotland Marches for EUrope / Edinburgh 2016
Visual Arts A native of Crosshaven, Luke Sisk draws on childhood folklore from Camden Fort Meagher as well as architectural and engineering details, to create a body of work that combines fact and fiction through the medium of glass and ceramics. Sisk’s … Luke Sisk : Pale Green Ghosts
Books Festivals Fourth in the 2015 series of WriterStories from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Etgar Keret and Matt Haig
Visual Arts Cré, an Irish Gaelic word meaning earthen or made of clay. This exhibition presents work by the 10 current graduates of the internationally renowned DCCoI’s Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Hosted in the prestigious location of … National Craft Gallery : CRÉ (Graduate Show)
Books Festivals Third in the 2015 series of WriterStories. WriterStories : Louise Welsh and Mark Billingham
Books Festivals Second in the 2015 WriterStories series for TV transmission. WriterStories : Michael Rosen and Rob Doyle
Visual Arts This twenty four minute programme is compiled from interviews with the artists and organisers of British Arts Show 8 staged in Edinburgh at Talbit Rice, Inverleith House and the Gallery of Modern Art throughout Spring 2016. BAS8 is touring throughout … Art in Scotland : British Art Show 8
Visual Arts Peter Murray, Éimear O’Connor, Anne Boddaert and Dawn Williams introduce the current exhibitions, Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age: 1900–1916, Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship and 1916 Ireland in Contemporary Art. Crawford Art Gallery : Summer Exhibitions
Books Festivals One of a series of broadcast programme length compilation of interviews from the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival. WriterStories : Andrew O’Hagan and Andrew Cockburn
Festivals Summerhall’s 2016 festival programme, a feast of theatre, performance, dance, visual art and music for audiences of all ages, is on sale now via the Edinburgh Fringe box office. Verity Leigh : Edinburgh Fringe 2016
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 Internationally acclaimed photographer Pieter Hugo engages with documentary and art traditions to create intense and challenging images. Blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, his portraits can be read as a comment on identity, belonging and self-expression in post-colonial Africa. … Trish Lambe : Pieter Hugo, Thirteen Works
Visual Arts Droichead Arts Centre presents ‘Who Gotta Match’ by Laura Gramzow. Laura’s studio space is filled with collages and maquettes, that she refers to as she moves onto canvas and assemblages, adding and subtracting till she gets to the point where … Laura Gramzow : Who Gotta Match
Theatre Conor is a boy on a mission. To get as far away from home as he possibly can. Part puppet show, part installation piece, part animated film, part immersive experience and part ballet, this sensory and aesthetic introduction to astrophysics … Dan Colley : Conor: At the end of the Universe
Visual Arts MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, is putting on an exhibit of the artwork of Charles Jencks and Alex Rigg, in conjunction with the Summer Solstice Festival at the The Crawick Multiverse, the weekend of June 24-26th. Exhibition open 24 June – 3 … Charles Jencks and Alex Rigg : Landscape of Waves
Visual Arts Artist in residence at Leitrim Sculpture Workshop Noah Rose trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and has worked as a practising artist since 1991. He has developed a specialised strand of practice around public art, seeking out the invisible threads that … Noah Rose : What Matter
Visual Arts Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous brings together some of the finest Surrealist works of art from four legendary collections, those of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. The ways that Surrealist art has been collected … Keith Hartley : Surreal Encounters
Visual Arts The exhibition, Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats, which has been described in The Irish Times as “one of the most important literary exhibitions yet staged internationally,” opened to unanimous acclaim on May 25, 2006. Since then, … Maeve Casserly : The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
Theatre Sacrifice at Easter, a new play by Pat McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, The Big Yum Yum) for 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Entitled Sacrifice at Easter, the production will take place … Mel Mercier : Sacrifice at Easter
