Visual Arts Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh: Ardán at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. Show runs from February 4th to February 27th. Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh : Ardán, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Visual Arts In “Snap!” Martin Boyle makes connections between images by identifying sequences in banal everyday subject matter, dissolving notions of originality and ownership; instead projecting an absurd sense of order onto the visual chaos of daily life. Martin Boyle lives and … Martin Boyle : Snap! Droichead Arts Centre
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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