Visual Arts Audiences can experience the works of acclaimed Belgian artist Eugeen Van Mieghem for the first time in Ireland next year, through an exhibition depicting the vibrant life of the Port of Antwerp at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Eugeen … Michael Dempsey : Port life
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Data Horizons is the result of a collaboration between the Extreme Light group at Heriot-Watt University and Lily Hibberd, Leverhulme Trust artist-in-residence at Heriot-Watt throughout 2016. Led by Prof Daniele Faccio, the Extreme Light group develops experiments in laser physics … Lily Hibberd : Data Horizons
Visual Arts A collaboration between Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina and C-EENRG at Cambridge University, UK, artist Sebastian Verea’s Sounds of the Anthropocene is a multimedia experience played by Earth´s rotation in real time, that shows the new geological epoch that … Sebastian Verea : Sounds of the Anthropocene
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Each year, since 2012, we hand over the keys to Summerhall to the Edinburgh International Science Festival, reuniting the former Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies back to its scientific foundations. They turn our multi-arts venue into their Festival hub, … James Howie : Science Festival 2017
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Sat 01 Apr 2017 – Fri 12 May 2017 Meadows Gallery, Summerhall From the Dark Ocean Comes Light is a new body of sculptural work by artist Hannah Imlach, resulting from a year-long residency within The Institute of Biological Chemistry, … Hannah Imlach : From the Dark Oceans Comes Light
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Genocentric is an exhibition of new and evolving work by artist Louise Mackenzie in collaboration with Northumbria University, Newcastle University and Edinburgh University, exploring affective responses to working with life as biotechnological material. Taking as a starting point the concept … Louise Mackenzie : GENOCENTRIC
Visual Arts In an automated world, is it nearly time to put humans out to pasture? Does the future resemble a leisure-time utopia or a robot-tended human-zoo? Will the notion of work become a thing of the past if machines really can … Aleksandra Amaladass and Ryan Coyne : Humans need not apply
Visual Arts The Solstice Lectures run each Summer in late June in Sanquhar’s Town Hall. Featuring a panel of international scientists with an interest in the scale, origins and nature of the universe, this year’s panel is being coordinated by exhibition curator … Charles Jencks : The 2017 Solstice Lectures, Town Hall, Sanquhar
Visual Arts The architects/artists Charles Jencks and Daniel Libeskind will be exhibiting COSMIC COLLISIONS with the cosmologists Carlos Frenk and Noam Libeskind at MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar from June 23rd till September 7th. Carlos Frenk is organising this year’s Solstice Lectures at Sanquhar … Charles Jencks & Daniel Libeskind : Cosmic Collisions at The Ogden Centre, University of Durham
Visual Arts WIT LúAC In The Library is the second exhibition of 2017 for the LúAC art collective. LúAC were invited by Kieran Cronin, Developmental Librarian at Waterford Institute of Technology to exhibit in the Library after he opened LúAC’s previous exhibition … Kevin O’Keeffe : LUAC exhibition at Luke Wadding Library
Visual Arts Sculpture cast from red hot lava, fin whale bones engraved with the whale’s final journey before beaching, a video installation layering endangered fish with a chorus of birds and prints of dinosaur skeletons; these are some of the intriguing artworks … Danny Osborne and Frieda Meaney : Landmarks and Lifeforms
Visual Arts Lorraine Neeson works primarily with lens based media, light, sound, video installation and architectural intervention, to create multi-sensory environments that disrupt and disorient a conventional sense of spatial and temporal logic. The combined series of works presented in Current in … Lorraine Neeson : Current
Visual Arts Sirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the … Miranda Driscoll : Activities at Sirius Arts Centre
Visual Arts The Model, Sligo Till 02 April Reconstructing Memory is a multifaceted experiential and textured exploration of the societal disparities in approaches to death in Mexican and Irish cultures. Film, photography, sculpture, painting and installation are all sensitively utilised in this … Clea Van Der Grijn : Reconstructing Memory
Visual Arts Monday 27th February to Saturday 25th March 2017 Wexford Arts Centre Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre are pleased to present I Wanted to Write a Poem, a new exhibition of work by Jonathan Mayhew, winner of the Emerging … Jonathan Mayhew : I Wanted to Write a Poem
Visual Arts Curated by Jon Blackwood This exhibition of new work by David Blyth, Derrick Guild and Alan Grieve has grown out of a long process of analysis and discussion of contemporary art in Scotland, and how it measures up against visual … Jon Blackwood : Archipelago
Visual Arts IMMA has announced its programme for 2017. The full details of it can be seen on imma.ie. The announcement was followed a talk given by Brazilian artist Jac Leirner, of her exhibition “Institutional Ghost” which runs from 14th February to … Sarah Glennie : IMMA programme 2017
Visual Arts The highly anticipated exhibition Beyond Caravaggio opens in the National Gallery of Ireland on Saturday 11 February 2017. It brings together over 40 major works, including four master paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), complemented by other significant masterpieces … Adrian Le Harivel : Beyond Caravaggio
Visual Arts Beatland is an exhibition of paintings by Dublin based artist Chanelle Walshe. The paintings depict human organs, the heart and lungs, in various energetic states. The forms are isolated, unearthed from a nourishing ground, and offered up to the viewer … Chanelle Walshe : Beatland
Visual Arts 11 February – 25 March 2017 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Kerlin Gallery is delighted to present Deepdrippings, an exhibition of new paintings by Phillip Allen. The exhibition will open with a reception in the company of the artist on the evening … Rosa Abbott : Deepdrippings
Visual Arts 11th February until 22nd April 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is delighted to announce its first exhibition of 2017 entitled An Afterwards which will feature the work of leading contemporary Irish artist Mark Garry. The exhibition will … Mark Garry : An Afterwards
Visual Arts 11 February – 21 May 2017 Ground Floor Galleries, Visual Carlow For spring the ground floor galleries at VISUAL will be transformed into an indoor playground exploring play and a recent history of playgrounds. This exhibition has been realised in … Emma-Lucy O’Brien : The Playground Project
Visual Arts In the last two decades there has been a breakdown of the traditional distinction between a subject and an object, with an increasing focus on the ‘thing’ as a mediator in both human and non-human relationships. In this ambitious exhibition … Kate V Robertson : Object(hood)
Visual Arts New Acquisitions from the University of Edinburgh Art Collection David Batchelor, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ilana Halperin, Jessica Harrison, Fabienne Hess, Daniel Hughes, Daisy Lafarge, Jonathan Owen, Katie Paterson, Isobel Turley, Luc Tuymans, JL Williams Including three tattooed Doulton figurines, a … Stuart Fallon : Between poles and tides
Visual Arts Inverleith House is currently closed to the public. PLEASE ENSURE IT RE-OPENS TO SHOW GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART !!! Inverleith House was designed in 1773 by David Henderson and built for Sir James Rocheid (1715-1787) as his family home and centre … Paul Nesbitt : 30 years of exhibitions at Inverleith House
Visual Arts Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Ray of Light, an exhibition of cityscapes by Gary Kearney. Kearney’s work examines aspects of the city and urban dwelling- its architecture and how the city space is shaped as vast amounts … Gary Kearney : Ray of Light
Visual Arts An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Ivan Daly In his first solo exhibition Ivan Daly presents a series of paintings and drawings made in response to the powerful coastal landscape of Co. Clare. Doonmacfelim is the particular stretch of … Ivan Daly : DOONMACFELIM
Visual Arts As Asylum seekers are increasingly under threat we show this from Art in Ireland TV. Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Asylum Archive, an exhibition of photography, artefacts and found objects created by visual artist and researcher Vukasin … Vukasin Nedeljković : Asylum Archive
Visual Arts Gutted, gutsy, gut feelings, gut wrenching, butterflies in your tummy, go with your gut – are all expressions used in everyday language, art and literature to portray a raft of human emotions. How we feel is driven by both emotional … The Glucksman, UCC : Gut Instinct
Visual Arts February 3rd at 7pm until 18th of February. Rogue Gallery and Studios, Waterford. The Rogue Gallery and Studios is proud to introduce this years first exhibition for 2017 “Gaza, From the Outside Looking In”. A show by local artist/activist Brenda … Brenda Carroll : Gaza, from the outside looking in