Visual Arts Exhibiting artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel talk about the new work in their exhibition, and the themes that inspire their wider artistic practice. This launch reception celebrates Donovan & Siegel’s ambitious, organic and highly visible new artwork Rust Garden, … Hallie Siegel : The Rust Garden
Visual Arts 29 July – 22 October 2016 Location: Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR, Scotland, UK A UK premiere exhibition of new commissions and existing artwork by Toronto artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, that explores the enduring legacy … Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel : History Machines
Visual Arts Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art. We bring together the capital’s leading galleries, museums and artist-run spaces, alongside new public art commissions by established and emerging artists and an innovative programme … Sorcha Carey : Edinburgh Art Fest 2016
Visual Arts Ruth Duignan is a Leitrim based fashion designer. She graduated from the fashion department of the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. In 2008 she completed a 6 month internship in Tokyo at the Japanese menswear label, Aptform. … Ruth Duignan : Previewing ‘Future Makers 2016’
Visual Arts The Subject and Me tells the story of the turbulent events that shaped Alice Neel’s life, through a retrospective of drawings and selection of late paintings. Emphasising the psychological perception that would allow Neel (1900-1984) to produce some of the … Pat Fisher : Alice Neel, The Subject and Me
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”
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Visual Arts Orla is a painter whose work embraces the beauty of the natural world expressing its atmosphere of magic and enchantment. Inspiration for this exhibition has come from her most recent residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. The fairytale aspect of … Orla Barry : Otherworldly
Visual Arts In an attempt to approach the un-approachable and go where the faint-hearted don’t go, Brabazon opened a pot of Quink ink, took a deep breath and dipped into James Joyce’s famous novel. 18 small images emerged and like a scattering … Gay Brabazon : Ulysses
Visual Arts Interim is an exhibition at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, featuring work by first year students from the MFA/MA Contemporary Art Practice course at Edinburgh College of Art. Realised through a dialogue between students and gallery curators, it … James Clegg : Interim
Visual Arts Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Sauchiehall Street 9th – 19th June Tue-Sat: 11:00–18:00, Sun: 12:00–18:00 All ages Free Drop-in Do you know what causes a seizure? For two hundred years doctors have been trying to explain epilepsy. This art exhibition looks at … Rachel Hewitt : Beyond Epilepsy
Visual Arts The Land will feature Paul Woods’ work. Woods will show 6 new paintings also on the theme of the 1916 Rising, completed in an abstract expressionist fashion. Woods works look at the scars and devastation of the land caused during … Paul Woods : The Land
Visual Arts ”Where Is My Mind?” is the title and theme of a photo exhibition by Dave Hingerty of musicians and tour locations. The photographs represent the theme of duality which we all know, whereby people are engaged on one level with … Dave Hingerty : Where is my Mind?
Visual Arts The exhibition at SOMA, ‘HARD GIRLS’ is a celebration exhibition of surfaces and the superficial, the damaged and the disastrous. Fuelled by the aesthetics of ‘women-only gyms’, make-up tutorials, bodybuilder’s instagram feeds and a general sense of fatigue, this show … Jennifer Mehigan : Hard Girls
Visual Arts Brendan McCarthy from the Cork Mental Health Foundation introduces ‘Reflecting Through Art’. From 1st May to 8th June 2016 ‘Reflecting Through Art’ is an exhibition open to anyone using the mental health services. The project aims to encourage creative activity, … Brendan McCarthy : Reflecting Through Art
