Visual Arts The Royal Hibernian Academy offers residences to a select number of artists from all over the country. Bernadette Kiely, a painter from Kilkenny, has been working on a body of work for an upcoming exhibition while on her residency. Bernadette Kiely : RHA residency
Festivals Mark Thomas explores the importance of public spaces, how we work and relate to each other in his Edinburgh Fringe play, ‘Trespass Work in Progress’. Trespass carries on from where Mark’s previous show 100 Acts of Minor Dissent left off. … Mark Thomas : Trespass Work in Progress
Visual Arts Inverleith House’s exhibition Raoul De Keyser : Paintings 1967 to 2012 is on for one more week, culminating in a talk with art historian Professor Steven Jacobs on the 11th April. The show focuses on different elements of De Keyser’s five decade career, … Raoul De Keyser : Paintings 1967 to 2012
Nick Kavanagh introduces the Waterford Spraoi Parade. “Spraoi Festival has become something of an August Bank Holiday institution. For three days, the city devotes itself to a variety of street art and spectacle, featuring hundreds of performers, live music, and … SPRAOI : Street Theatre in Waterford
Visual Arts Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Christopher Baker, introduces the gallery’s newest commission, an abstract portrait of the famous Scottish actor, Alan Cumming. Painted by artist Christian Hook, the commission came about as a result of the Sky Arts Portrait … Christopher Baker : Alan Cumming Portrait
Visual Arts Reviewer in residence, Thibaut Clamart explores the work of Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, as they bring their first British exhibition to Summerhall since 2003. Often uncomfortable and occasionally shocking, the work delves into the idea of the nuclear … Thibaut Clamart : Genesis & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge
Visual Arts Swiss/Danish duo PUTPUT present their first Scottish exhibition, Fruitless, at Lust and the Apple. Situated in a greenhouse, in the garden of the gallery space, PUTPUT explore the perceptions of every day items and what context and environment can do … PUTPUT : Fruitless
Theatre The Gate Theatre in Dublin is seeped in history and strongly associated with the likes of Beckett Pinter and Oscar Wilde. We interview the Director of the Gate Theatre Michael Colgan and talk to others with an intimate knowledge and experience of … The Gate Theatre Dublin
Visual Arts 72 graduates from Scotland’s art colleges and architecture schools present their work at this year’s New Contemporaries show, held in the Royal Scottish Academy. This show displays a vast selection of work in a variety of disciplines such as painting, … RSA New Contemporaries 2015
Theatre Arthur Miller was a giant of 20th century American theatre. With a writing career that spanned over 50 years, he will be best remembered for the classics Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons and A View from … Arthur Miller : A View From The Bridge
Visual Arts This exhibition shows Gretchen Bender’s seminal Total Recall (1987), bringing again to life her concept of ‘electronic theatre’. We’re also delighted to announce a newly commissioned work in response by Oisín Byrne. A monumental 24-monitor multi-projection screen installation, Total Recall … Tessa Giblin : Gretchen Bender, Total Recall
TV Series John Byrne is a Scottish playwright and artist. As well as designing Penguin covers and sets for his own plays, Byrne has designed record covers for the likes of the Beatles, Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty. Many of Byrne’s paintings … Face to Face : John Byrne in conversation with Joyce McMillan
Visual Arts Aggregations is the first solo UK exhibition by the internationally renowned Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, and explores the traditions of making and Eastern philosophy with the his painterly interest in American Abstract Expressionism. Chun creates large scale works using … Kwang Young Chun : Aggregations
Visual Arts As part of Talbot Rice Gallery’s sonic art festival, Gap in the Air, Joe Banks presents the sound installation ‘The Analysis of Beauty’, based upon William Hogarth’s thesis of the same name. Hogarth was interested in ‘Serpentine Lines’, featuring them in his … Disinformation : The Analysis of Beauty
Music Performance This is a recording for Song of the Goat Theatre’s show Return to the Voice, which was performed at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Festival 2014. Return to the Voice
Visual Arts Since moving to the United States in 1975 and taking up American citizenship, Dublin-born Sean Scully has become established as one of New York’s leading contemporary artists. East Coast Light, an early work, was exhibited in Cork in 1973 during … Tina Darb and Marc O’Sullivan : Sean Scully
Cork City Ballet in association with Cork Opera House presents Swan Lake If you’ve never seen “Swan Lake”, now’s the time! Cork City Ballet is back, and the company’s full length production of this ballet lays claim to a legacy … Alan Foley : Swan Lake, Cork City Ballet
Theatre Fresh from the success of The Pillowman, Decadent Theatre Company returns with a show the Young Vic audience voted as one of the top 3 shows of the last twenty five years. Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan … Vernon God Little
Visual Arts Curator of Edinburgh’s St.Margaret’s House, Sophia Lindsay Burns, introduces The Neverending Glen, a new project featuring a carefully curated selection of contemporary artists and collectives in the grounds of Kelburn Estate. A series of site-specific installations, sculptures, performances & workshops … Sophia Lindsay Burns : The Neverending Glen
Visual Arts From Strachaire Fir by Joseph Higgins (1916) to the bronze head of her nephew Stephen Archer: Tight Head Prop (2014), Vivienne Roche RHA curates an exhibition of sculptures called Head to Head in the historic Sculpture Galleries. The exhibition will … Vivienne Roche : Head to Head at Crawford Art Gallery
Visual Arts Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential painters working today. For his first exhibition in Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, this provocative artist will bring together his work with that of the most significant of … Luc Tuymans : Birds of a Feather
Festivals In this edition of Writers Stories from the Edinburgh International Book Festival of 2003 Raj Chakraborti explores Don Delillo’s conceit that terrorists possess the place in our consciousness once occupied by novelists. Chakraborti’s interview with Tariq Ali draws insights into … Raj Chakraborti : Tariq Ali, George Monbiot and William Dalrymple
Visual Arts Tim Pomeroy, who lives and works on the Isle of Arran, attended Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, 1976–81. His sculpture is very diverse in its subject and style, material and technique. He carves in marble, slate, granite and sandstone … Tim Pomeroy : Contemporary Sacred
Summerhall Live A full performance of Clout Theatre’s ‘Various Lives of Infinite Nullity’ performed as part of Summerhall’s 2013 Fringe programme. A post-suicide support group meet to reflect upon their lives. Ignoring symptoms of their own deaths, three characters guide us through the … Clout Theatre : Various Lives of Infinite Nullity
Festivals Music Sounds from a Safe Harbour is a brand new festival of music, art and conversation, curated by Bryce Dessner of The National. Two years since its inception by Bryce and Cork Opera House CEO, Mary Hickson, Sounds from a Safe … Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Who did the Urinal? Not Duchamp! say Glyn Thompson and Julian Spalding in their Summerhall Festival exhibition titled ‘A Lady’s Not A Gent’s’. Thompson and Spalding claim the submission of the urinal (aka ‘Fountain’) to the Independents exhibition of 1917 … Glyn Thompson : A Lady’s Not A Gent’s
Books Iain Banks is a Scottish author of both mainstream fiction and science fiction, writing under the name Iain M. Banks for his science fiction work. At the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Robert Morgan talks to Iain Banks about his mainstream … Iain Banks : Edinburgh International Book Festival
Visual Arts A compilation of stories from Art in Scotland, Andrea Geile’s cortan steel sculpture for Mull, the Open House artists from Glasgow and Ellie Harrison’s before and after ‘take’ on the Scottish Referendum at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh. Art in Scotland
Visual Arts July’s twelve minute arts-news compilation for NvTv in Belfast and Cork Community Television. Culturefox : ArtsIreland
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
