Music Visual Arts A music and live art performance devised by Donal Dineen, produced by The Dock and Siobhan O Malley. The Pipes, The Pipes is a homage to the singular magic of the Uilleann Pipes. Since it premiered with a sold out … Siobhán O’Malley : The Pipes The Pipes
Visual Arts Central Arts in Waterford presents Lens Flare, an exciting group photography exhibition. Lens Flare is the brain child of Ciara O Connell, Director of Central Arts, who was quoted as saying “I have a huge passion for contemporary photography and … Ciara O Connell : Lens Flare
Visual Arts “On the 23rd of May 2015 the people of Ireland made history by becoming the first country in the world to vote by popular mandate to change their constitution to allow for the introduction of same sex marriage. The joyous … Charlie Bird : A Day in May
Visual Arts As part of our look at Art in Ireland, here’s a recent clip from SOMA in Waterford. ‘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 … Jennifer Mehigan : Hard Girls
Visual Arts Experimental Film Society Exhibition at Triskel Project Space Experimental Film Society (EFS) is a group of experimental filmmakers and associated artists whose work is distinguished by an uncompromising devotion to personal, experimental cinema. They have in common an exploratory approach … Maximilian Le Cain : Luminous Void
Visual Arts Curated by Bairbe Sámh, Mary Crowe Trueman and Petrina Hanlon as part of the Creative Well Curation Project 2016. This Exhibition is free and open to the public. McKenna gallery is an art gallery situated down stairs at the Riverbank … Carolanne Courtney : In Courage
Visual Arts Two projects by Ciaran Burke, oneTree365 and Scoodoos celebrate the beauty and importance of trees. oneTree365 documents one year in the life of a tree, 365 photographs of a grey willow growing on a quiet country lane in Mayo. On … Eric Hennelly Flanagan : A Tree for a Scoodoo
Visual Arts Designed not to camouflage, but to distort a ship’s appearance when viewed through a telescope, ‘Dazzle’ was developed by the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson to counter the threat posed by German U-Boats. Using strongly contrasting blocks of colour, stripes … Ciara Phillips : Every Woman
Visual Arts Leitrim Sculpture Workshop and Print Studio recently ran a practical symposium on traditional print methods. This was followed with an exhibition of work and a celebration held on the 13th May 2016. Liz Byrne and Phoebe Dick : Evidence of Small Behaviours
Festivals Visual Arts Encouraging participation has been central to the British Art Show 8. Here National Community Coordinator Natalie Walton engages groups from Glasgow and Edinburgh in the BAS8 exhibition and activities during the final week of the touring show’s appearance in Edinburgh. BAS8 Outreach : Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens & Inverleith House
Visual Arts Vomit Apocalypse looks to ecological, technological and sci-fi futures, poking a cheeky finger at our role in the throes of the late-capitalist binge. The show brings together new installation and sculptural works by Dougie Laing, Jamie 3000, OMSK Social Club … OMSK Social Club with Silas Parry, Dougie Laing, Jamie Cooper : Vomit Apocalypse
Visual Arts Verne Dawson’s paintings typically display a preoccupation with history, collective memory and the measurement of time; he is fascinated by the attempts humanity has made to comprehend the mystery of our place on earth and to pass on inherited understanding … Rachel McIntyre : Verne Dawson at Douglas Hyde
Visual Arts Bill Lynch painted with oils directly onto plywood, the deft and often light marks belying the extensive deliberation afforded to his subjects. ‘He cared so much’, writes Michael Wilde in the publication accompanying this exhibition. He, like Verne Dawson, enjoyed … Rachel McIntyre : Bill Lynch at Douglas Hyde
Visual Arts No Zebra Crossing an exhibition by Co Waterford artist, Anna Moore. The large scale acrylic paintings are an emotional response to over three years the artist spent working with the San of Namibia, (previously known as ‘Bush men’). The deep … Anna Moore : No Zebra Crossing
Visual Arts ‘Following the success of our 2014 exhibition ‘Young’, SO Fine Art Editions is pleased to announce the next installment ‘Young II’. This multidisciplinary exhibition will feature printmaking, photography, painting, sculpture, bookmaking and applied arts by an exciting group of young … Catherine O’Riordan : Young II, SO Fine Art Editions
Visual Arts Rising is a major photographic exhibition which showcases the National Library’s rich imagery of the events and locations of 1916. Rising draws on some of the most important collections of photographs at the National Library. It includes images from the … Sara Smyth : NLI’s Rising and Signatories exhibitions
Visual Arts Commissioned by Larry Lambe, the exhibition will feature works by artists including: Alice Maher, Robert Ballagh, Rita Duffy, Michael Coady and David Lilburn. Varying in scale and media, from painting to poetry, the only instruction the commissioned artists received from … Dawn Williams : 1916 Ireland in Contemporary Art
Visual Arts A Different Republic (Nov 2016 – Jan 2017) A visual arts exhibition rooted and centered on the theme of ‘Equality’ for presentation in 2016, this exhibition will be a complex consideration of the notion of Republic, where ideas of difference … Sheena Barrett, Liz Burns, Pádraig Naughton, Suzanne Walsh & Aideen Barry : A Different Republic
Visual Arts Paintings by the great trumpeter and bandleader, alongside work by another great musician, John Lennon. Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. On until Saturday 30th April. Andrew Clarke : Miles Davis
Visual Arts CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery presents ‘Swimming to Inishkeel by Malcolm McClay. Inishkeel Island is a small uninhabited Island off the west cost of Donegal, accessible by foot at low tide. In the Celtic tradition “a thin place” is the name … Malcolm McClay : Swimming to Inishkeel
Visual Arts Material Witness is an exhibition of new works by Nollaig Molloy. Using the National Schools Folklore Collection from 1937-38 as a point of departure, Nollaig examines the many stories, material culture and folk customs of County Roscommon, as told by … Nollaig Molloy : Material Witness, Roscommon Arts Centre
Visual Arts Artists Rhona Byrne and Yvonne McGuinness have worked in collaboration with a number of local senior and junior school groups to create Mobile Monuments which will begin travelling to Swords, Rush, Garristown and Castaheany during the month of April in … Rhona Byrne and Yvonne McGuinness : Mobile Monuments
Visual Arts Reflecting 1916 features photographs taken by eyewitnesses to this pivotal period in Ireland’s history, a number of which are being shown in public for the first time. A centrepiece installation of large-scale photos captures the destruction of Dublin and offers … Gallery of Photography : Reflecting 1916
Literature Summerhall Sessions Visual Arts Whitney McVeigh in conversation with Alice Thompson to discuss her exhibition Language of Memory and Alice’s new novel The Book Collector. The artist and writer address issues of motherhood and the parallel processes of writing and making. March 8th, 2016 … Whitney McVeigh and Alice Thompson : In Conversation, International Women’s Day
Festivals Visual Arts Anthea Hamilton’s free-standing sculptures, which function as formicaries or ant farms, ants move within intricate Art Nouveau patterns over images drawn from the artist’s previous works: a woman acting as a human clapperboard and a figure clothed in full-dress Kabuki … Anthea Hamilton : BAS8
Visual Arts Peter Fulop’s work in clay is heavily influenced by the Japanese Zen tradition. His experimentation with Raku reduction and wood firing techniques along with his use of calligraphic gesture is a culmination of experiences and time spent with traditional artists … Peter Fulop : NOBU
Visual Arts Pathos of Distance is formed around 42 images relating to Irish migration and diaspora, created between 1813 and 1912. Sourced from countries around the world, they have been photographed and reproduced to their original scale. Pierce presents them in a … Sarah Pierce : Pathos of Distance
Visual Arts Recreating The Pastoral draws the viewer through a series of installations which juxtapose elements of elaborate 18th and 19th Century European dress and courtly behaviour with contemporary political sensitivities expressed through Shonibare’s use of Dutch wax cotton cloth, itself a … Emma-Lucy O’Brien : Recreating The Pastoral
Summerhall Residents Visual Arts Lust in the Apple’s curator Paul Robertson in conversation with David Rushton. Rushton was a founder editor of Coventry-based Analytical Art and was subsequently a key member of Art & Language from 1972 to 1975, working on the various Indexes … David Rushton & Paul Robertson : Analytical Art, Art & Language and Thereafter
Visual Arts Date: 08 Apr 2016 – 25 Apr 2016 The Briggait 141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ Mooney constructs worlds populated by grotesque characters, strange animals, food, lurid flowers and morphed effigies of historical, mythical and religious figures. He likes to observe … Jock Mooney : Who are you and what do you want?
