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
Visual Arts Ryan Gander Talbot Rice Gallery 13 February – 8 May Ryan Gander’s shape-shifting practice is grounded in his habit of compulsive collecting: ‘not just physical stuff,’ he explains, ‘but words and pictures and descriptions of situations.’ For British Art Show … Ryan Gander : Fieldwork
Visual Arts In the Flesh, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1 28th January to 12th March 2016 The LAB Gallery is pleased to present In the Flesh by Bridget O’Gorman. This is the first series of three exhibitions where contemporary artists have … Bridget O’Gorman : In The Flesh, The Lab
Visual Arts The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, presents ‘Water for the Tribe’, an exhibition of new painting by Jan Pleitner. Pleitner’s paintings are striking and expressive: an intense exploration of colour and energy. Characterised by fast lines and deep pigments that bleed into … Rosa Abbott : Jan Pleitner, Water for the Tribe
Visual Arts MAKE AS IF Charlotte Duffy – aka Waste of Paint Productions is putting on a show ‘Make As If’. She hopes to restore the den builder in all of us from our childhood days, challenging the way we look and … Charlotte Duffy : Make As If
Visual Arts Irish premiere exhibition of Ted Russell’s intimate, previously unseen, photographs of Bob Dylan in New York City. The photographs chronicle days in the life of the then unknown folk artist – backstage and onstage at the folk clubs, hanging out … Chris Murray and Carlotta Hester : Bob Dylan NYC 1961-64 + The Pure Drop
Visual Arts Dennis and Debbie Club are Dennis J. Reinmueller and Debbie Moody- their recent emergence on the Scottish art scene has been a breath of fresh air – merging digital trickery with humour and three dimensional sculpture, For LUST AND THE … Dennis and Debbie Club : OMA
Visual Arts The Butler Gallery has an extraordinary resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. It is a rich archive to which the inquisitive eye may turn and return. … Anna O’Sullivan : The Butler Gallery
Visual Arts The IDI Awards Exhibition is in Waterford from the end of January in the SOMA Gallery from January 29th and running for a month. The IDI Irish Design awards feature the best of furniture, product, interiors, architecture, fashion, textiles, app, … Marc O’Riain : IDI Awards Exhibition
Visual Arts Sven Warner makes intriguing animated mechanisms that are constructed to appear much like film. This interview introduces Sven’s current exhibition at Lust and The Apple on for three months through till April. Sven Werner : Title to be announced
Visual Arts Sinead McDonald often uses her practice to explore difficult and personal events and has contributed to the First Fortnight mental health arts festival in the past. info@riverbank.ie T: (045) 448 327 riverbank.ie Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare W12 D962 Sinead McDonald : Uchronia at Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
Visual Arts Lust and the Apple’s exhibition of Fiona Beveridge’s ‘Chalkstone Gateau + Goby’ introduced by Paul Robertson. Here is a collection of mixed media tactile forms compromised of found items that together assemble fragmented elements of a factory; a chalk factory … Paul Robertson : Fiona Beveridge
Visual Arts Shona Shirley MacDonald’s exhibition ‘Juniper’ in the Children’s Gallery at the Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge. Running from Jan 7th – Feb 16th. Shona Shirley MacDonald : Juniper at Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
Visual Arts TWO NEW WORKS Lust and the Apple, at Temple annouces the latest in the series of THE ARTIST IS NOT PRESENT exhibitions – the important neo-conceptual artist Jonathan Monk has instructed two new significant large scale outdoor works for January … Paul Robertson : Jonathan Monk
Visual Arts Project Arts Centre Till 19 March 2016 11am – 8pm FREE ADMISSION Artist Núria Güell has created an international fiscal disobedience consultancy against the Troika that will be the subject of her solo exhibition here at Project Arts Centre in … Tessa Giblin and Núria Güell : Troika Fiscal Disobedience Consultancy
Visual Arts Shona Shirley MacDonald’s exhibition ‘Juniper’ in the Children’s Gallery at the Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge. Running from Jan 7th – Feb 16th. Shona Shirley MacDonald : Former animation student, Edinburgh College of Art
Visual Arts Doug DuBois: My Last Day at Seventeen Till 5 March 2016 Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to present My Last Day at Seventeen by American artist-photographer Doug DuBois (November 10, 2015 – January 23, 2016). Combining portraits, spontaneous encounters, and … Dawn Williams : Doug Dubois: My last day at seventeen
Visual Arts Everything Must Go at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork explores the relationship between contemporary art, economics and value. Featuring works by Irish and international artists, the exhibition emphasises the ways in which monetary and historical value accrues through qualities … Chris Clarke : Everything Must Go: Art and the Market
Music Songs From The Parlour Labyrinth Management & Events Saturday, 23 January 2016 at 20:00 – Sunday, 24 January 2016 at 00:00 (GMT) Waterford, Ireland Beauty Team Studios and Labyrinth Management & Events return with another episode of Songs From The … Stephen Butler : Songs From The Parlour, Waterford
Music “Kaleidoscope Night is a unique salon music experience that happens on the first Wednesday of every month at the Bello Bar, 1 Portobello Harbour, Dublin. Now in its seventh year, the series has been described by The Irish Times as … Karen Dervan and Lioba Petrie : Kaleidoscope Night
Summerhall Residents Longstanding Summerhall resident Michael Pedersen of Neu Reekie outlines the background and expanding interests of this spoken word/music and publishing phenomena established over four years ago by himself and Kevin Williamson. Michael Pedersen : Neu Reekie
Summerhall Live Following their sell-out success in August, The One Ensemble have been invited back to Summerhall to perform ‘Saint Seven’. Performed in the round, the piece is a dramatic hybrid of voices and instruments that seamlessly interweaves elements of experimental, folk … The One Ensemble : Saint Seven
Theatre Creditors at The New Theatre, Dublin by August Strindberg in a version by David Greig C Company Jan 25th – Feb 6th Opens 26 Jan, Previews 25 Jan (Matinees Jan 30 & Feb 3) @ 7.30pm ( + @ 2.30pm … Aoife Spillane-Hinks and The Cast : Creditors
Summerhall Residents Lorna from Venture English shares the story behind her Language School and why Edinburgh and Summerhall is such an inspiring place for students. Part of the Summerhall Residents series by Summerhall TV. ventureenglish.co.uk Lorna Lythgoe : Venture English
Music DÚLRA was founded in 1998 in New York City by singer Caitríona O’Leary. Dúlra is the Irish word for “elements” and the name expresses the band’s mission of returning to the roots and performance practices of early Irish song, and … Caitriona O’Leary : DÚLRA
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
Music The Far Flung Trio, Katherine Hunka, Dermot Dunne and Malachy Robinson, play everything from classical music to folk: Baroque, South American, Klezmer, film classics and more. Their performances are very much enjoyed by audiences with whom they engage in an … Malachy Robinson : The Far Flung Trio Tour 2016
Books Summerhall Residents Visual Arts Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Fri 4 Dec – Sat 9 Jan An exhibition of artwork from An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures. Scottish fine artist Kate Leiper – and Summerhall Resident – exhibits the stunning artwork created for this new book, … Kate Leiper : SEA MONSTERS, SELKIES AND OTHER MYTHICAL CREATURES
Visual Arts ARTS-NEWS VERSION II Till Sunday 14th February. FOUND Collective (Ziggy Campbell and Simon Kirby) have been commissioned by Grampian Hospitals Art Trust to create new work for the exhibition Terra Nova. The project is a response to photographs taken by … Ziggy Campbell and Simon Kirby : Terra Nova