Visual Arts A4 Sounds is a interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Dublin but with members dotted across the globe. You will find us in Ireland, U.K, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and The Philippines. The mission of the A4 Sounds arts organisation … Andrew Edgar, Kate McElroy and Eimhin McNamara : A4 Sounds
Visual Arts The Metronome Bursts of Automatic Fire Seep Through the Dawn Mist Like Muffled Drums and We Know It for What It Is During the Cold War the FAL rifle was the most distributed weapon in non communist countries, and therefore … Michael Dempsey : Sven Augustijnen
Visual Arts A Galway Arts Centre National Tour, supported by The Arts Council. Claiming Space is a touring exhibition by Red Bird Youth Collective, a youth arts group based in Galway. Since its inception, Red Bird has been supporting creativity and claiming … Maeve Mulrennan : Claiming Space
Visual Arts The Ark presents The Beautiful Beasts Visit a weird and wonderful collection of animal sculptures curated by The Ark especially for children. Amongst these quirky, loveable animals, you will find a flying horse, a tortoise with a secret story and … Eric Hennelly Flanagan : The Beautiful Beasts
Visual Arts EXHIBITION: Works by John and Gary Coyle Sat 10 September – Sat 12 November, 2:00pm John Coyle will be showing a series of small scale oil painting’s, most of which have been made in the recent past, painting his every … Sarah Searson : Now Came Still Evening On
Visual Arts Would You Die for Ireland? presents a series of photographic works and installations by John Byrne exploring the artist’s childhood memories of growing up during the Troubles, exhibited alongside his iconic film, Would You Die for Ireland? The film, which … John Byrne : Would You Die For Ireland?
Visual Arts Pallas Projects/Studios provides a dynamic and nurturing working environment, based in a converted school building located at the bottom of Francis Street, Dublin 8, just minutes walk from the National College of Art & Design, Christchurch and the city centre. … Gavin Murphy & Mark Cullen: Pallas Projects/Studios
Visual Arts What happens when design and violence collide? How can an act of creative destruction surprise us with consequences both intended and unintended? One hundred years after the Easter Rising, it’s time to reflect but also look to the future and … Lynn Scarff : Science Gallery + Design and Violence
Visual Arts The Body Politic highlights the strength and diversity of contemporary photography in Austria. The work reflects the concerns of five established and emerging photographic talents: Karin Fisslthaler uses ‘found’ images to explore rituals and social conventions manifested in film and … Herman Seidl and Gabriele Wagner : The Body Politic
Visual Arts 51 Emerging artists from a broad range of arts disciplines will exhibit this Sept at the Courthouse Arts Centre. Works will include 2D: Contemporary fine art, print, photography and 3D ceramics, glass, textiles, sculpture, production design and model making. The … Maggie Gallagher : An exhibition by emerging artists 2016
Visual Arts 8 October 2016 – 15 January 2017 This exhibition will represent the Gallery’s principal contribution to the Decade of Centenaries. It will comprise some 50 paintings spanning the 17th century to the 1930s, depicting or inspired by episodes in Irish … Kathryn Milligan : Creating History: Stories of Ireland in Art
Visual Arts Cork City Council Arts office, Crawford Art Gallery and CIT Crawford College of Art and Design are building on the success of their 2013 Art of Inclusion exhibition. The artwork in Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship has been selected … Louise Foott and Maeve Dineen : Perceptions 2016 : The Art of Citizenship
Visual Arts Fergal McCarthy lives beside the filled-in harbour at the Guinness Factory in Dublin, the final destination until 1961 for thousands of barley-loaded barges that travelled from Carlow to Dublin along the Barrow and the Grand Canal. Using shipping palettes and … Fergal McCarthy : Take Me To The River
Visual Arts Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a contemporary art gallery and artists’ studios complex located in Dublin city centre and the Temple Bar cultural quarter. Performance video by Orla Barrys. International tour of Breaking Rainbows – a live performance/installation by … Temple Bar Gallery : Mary Cremin
Visual Arts The artists Tom Watt, Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch have created an artwork drawing on their mutual interest in architecture – built interruptions in the landscape and industry. Their structure – which they describe as ‘not a stage, … Project Arts Centre : Brute Clues
Visual Arts Soth has spent a significant part of two decades travelling around America, photographing quiet, strange, and offbeat corners of that vast country. Based in his home state of Minnesota, he studied at Sarah Lawrence College (under Joel Sternfeld for a … Michael Hill : Alec Soth and Eoin McHugh, Douglas Hyde Gallery
Visual Arts Kerlin Gallery announces Loose Ends, a historic new body of work by the world-renowned Irish artist Willie Doherty (b. 1959, Derry), comprised of a two-screen video installation and accompanying photographic diptychs. Loose Ends turns our attention to the passage of … Rosa Abbott : Willie Doherty, Loose Ends Exhibition
Visual Arts Paul Coleman has been a practicing artist for the past twenty years and works in many media including paint and sculpture. Whatever medium or material he uses however he is continually drawn to exploring the spiritual aspect of human experience … Temple Bar Gallery + Studios : Paul Coleman
Visual Arts Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Although he lived most of his life in London, Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909 and lived in Co. Kildare with his family. When … Barbara Dawson : Francis Bacon Exhibition
Visual Arts iNNOVATE is a showcase exhibition reflecting the resourcefulness, adaptability and avant garde practice key to contemporary makers in Ireland today, curated by CIT CCAD graduate Tina Darb. Innovation is an intrinsic part of craft practice whether it be in the … Tina Darb and Kathryn Moffat : Innovate
Visual Arts 6 looped video projections, silent Greg Hermanovic (Derivative) – TouchDesigner recording technology ©Michael Snow. Courtesy of artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and the Butler Gallery Photography by Roland Paschhoff, paschhoff.com Snow’s extensive and multidisciplinary career includes painting, sculpture, video, … Anna O’Sullivan : Michael Snow, The Viewing of Six New Works
Visual Arts Written and composed by 23 year old Dubliner Lauryn Gaffney, Big Shot received outstanding critical acclaim at the San Diego International Fringe Festival last year. Described as an ‘absolute success’ by the festival organisers, Big Shot the musical was awarded … Lauryn Gaffney : Big Shot
Visual Arts SOMA Contemporary Gallery, 11th August, 6.30. Exhibition runs until the 18th of September. Solo exhibition by Fiona Kelly. Fiona Kelly’s practice encompasses printmaking, drawing and sculptural installations and explores ideas of disposability and regeneration. Kelly’s current work… Fiona Kelly : Dust Breeding
Visual Arts Cork Craft & Design is a social enterprise representing craft makers in Cork City & County. We bring together the very best of Cork’s unique craftmakers and artists; ceramicists, jewellers, textile-workers, furniture-makers, woodturners and carvers, paper and felt makers, sculptors … Siubhán McCarthy : Cork Craft Month 2016
Visual Arts During the month of August the Courthouse Arts Centre will have an exhibition celebrating the versatility of Irish wool in both a practical and art context. Exhibitions by professional artists and Craft’s people will display examples of wool use. Also … Maggie Gallagher : All things woolly! A celebration of Irish wool
Visual Arts In 2017 the A-listed City Observatory complex on Calton Hill will open freely to the public for the first time in its history. In partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, Collective will save the site, which is on the … Kate Gray : Collective Gallery Vision
Visual Arts Local artist and WIT graduate, Denise McAuliffe Hutchinson, has recently completed a Masters in Fine Art Painting at NCAD Dublin. “The weight of attraction # 2” explores a number of concepts surrounding the theme of sensuality. In most situations we … Denise McAuliffe : The Weight of Attraction
Visual Arts Jacinta is a professional artist based on the Carlow/Wicklow border in Ireland. She has a deserved reputation as Ireland’s foremost contemporary canine and equestrian artist. She exhibits widely, her work being shown in the Gormley Gallery, Dublin; The Lee Gallery, … Jacinta Crowley Long : Butler House Exhibition
Visual Arts Award winning artist, Maeve Doherty will exhibit her paintings and ceramics at Butler House, Patrick St, Kilkenny during Arts Festival 2016. Her exhibition this year has a coastal theme influenced by the shores of her native South East. Exhibition from … Maeve Doherty : Exhibition of Paintings & Ceramics
Visual Arts Nicola is from Waterford and received the Garter Lane 6 Month Studio Award after graduating from Visual Art in WIT in 2015. Fragments of Dreams is an exhibition of watercolour illustrations with a fairy tale quality. During the process of … Nicola Chestnutt : Fragments of Dreams
