During her extended residency at MERZ in Sanquhar, Dumfries & Galloway Julia Zinnbauer researched, filmed and edited a film on the Scottish Borders’ based architect Peter Womersley. Julia’s earlier films had connected modernist architecture in the United States with the … Julia Zinnbauer : Peter Womersley Architect
Visual Arts Gallery of Photography, Dublin Wednesday 15 November 2017 – Monday 22 January 2018 Danish artist Krass Clement’s photographic work emerges from two traditions: Scandinavian melancholy and the ‘flaneur’ tradition from the Parisian school. Clement’s work is concerned with reflecting interior … Tanya Kiang : Krass Clement | The Light Gleams an Instant
Visual Arts Thursday 7 September 2017 – Sunday 29 October Triskel Arts Centre, Cork The Yellow River is a joint exhibition by painter Seán McSweeney and poet Gerard Smyth responding to The Yellow River area in Co. Meath which unites their personal … Gerard Smyth – The Yellow River
Visual Arts LACUNA is a new photographic and audio/visual installation evoking contemporary experiences in the border village of Pettigo, County Donegal. Flowing through the centre of the village the River Termon marks the physical border between County Donegal in the Republic of … Kate Nolan : Lacuna
Visual Arts 12 August – 15 October 2017 Butler Gallery, Kilkenny The Butler Gallery, in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival, presents the influential film The Way Things Go (1987), by world-renowned Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b.1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012). This thirty-minute … Anna O’Sullivan : The Way Things Go: An Homage
Visual Arts 1 September to 8 October 2017 Dunamaise Arts Centre, Church Street, Portlaoise, County Laois Bennie Reilly presents Small Pieces of Precarious Life at Dunamaise Arts Centre, Church Street, Portlaoise,County Laois. Working from an accumulation of collected objects and images, Bennie … Bennie Reilly : Small Pieces of Precarious Life
Visual Arts Thursday, September 28th, 2017 to Sunday, October 1st, 2017 An annual event since 1979 the Cork Folk Festival brings a feast of folk events of all kinds to more than 40 venues around the city and county. There is something … William Hammond : Cork Folk Festival
Visual Arts Sun 10 Sept – Fri 6 Oct Court House Arts Lynne Foster Fitzgerald Lynne Foster Fitzgerald lives and works in Wicklow. Trained at IADTL and DIT (2006), her solo shows have addressed the possibility of psychological transformation through the act … Lynn Foster Fitzgerald and Émer O Laoghaire : Seeing comes before words
Visual Arts 9 September to 26 October 2017 The Source Arts Centre, Cathedral Street,Thurles, County Tipperary In this exhibition Marie Hanlon presents small sculptures, wall works and a moving image piece. Lines Tell Lies initially attempts to persuade the viewer to accept … Marie Hanlon : Lines Tell lies
Visual Arts Date: Friday 1st September – Sunday 15th October 2017 Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath Luan Gallery is thrilled to announce its autumn 2017 exhibition entitled: Jealous Wall. Curated by visual artist and curator Séamus McCormack, a London based Mullingar native, … Seamus McCormack : Jealous Wall
Visual Arts 31 Aug 2017 – 13 Oct 2017 Solstice Arts Centre, Railway Street, Navan, Meath ‘Simulations’, an exhibition of new paintings by Seán Molloy at Solstice Arts Centre, involves the construction of a series of capriccio-inspired landscape works that make tangential … Sean Molloy : Simulations
Visual Arts 25 August to 13 October 2017 Solstice Arts Centre, Railway Street, Navan, Co. Meath In this exhibition Cliona Harmey presents a number of archival works which engage with weather and atmosphere, all of which were made and stored using recent … Cliona Harmey : BEAUFORT ( “about the weather” )
Visual Arts August 10th – September 9th, 2017 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin Opening reception; 6pm Thursday, 10th August Written in Water, Shone in Stone, Lost in Light is comprised of work in various media – installation, painting, digital collage and audio, forming … Richard Proffitt : Written in Water, Shone in Stone, Lost in Light
Visual Arts 31 Aug 2017 – 13 Oct 2017 Solstice Arts Centre Solstice Arts Centre is delighted to present white line series, an exhibition of new paintings by Wicklow-based artist David Quinn. The white line series is an exploration of line, space … David Quinn : White line series
Visual Arts August 10th – September 9th, 2017 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin Opening reception; 6pm Thursday, 10th August Written in Water, Shone in Stone, Lost in Light is comprised of work in various media – installation, painting, digital collage and audio, forming … Richard Proffitt : Written in Water, Shone in Stone, Lost in Light
Visual Arts 5 May to 15 September 2017 Fairbrook House Gardens + Museum of Contemporary Figurative Art, Kilmeaden, Co.Waterford. The Dutch Connection shows Paintings, water colour, objects by Wout Muller, oil paintings by Tamara Muller and prints, pastels and oil paintings of … Clary Mastenbroek : The Dutch Connection | Group Show at Fairbrook House, Co. Waterford
Visual Arts Exhibition runs from June 29th – September 30th 2017 Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery, Greyfriars Street,Waterford. Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery major summer exhibition “MAINIE, EVIE, MARY AND GRACE – The Women Who Led the Modern Movement in Irish Art” Curated by … Ben Hennesey : Maine, Evie, Mary and Grace – The Women Who Led the Modern Movement in Irish Art
Visual Arts 26 August – 3 September Portlaoise, Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland The Kiki Theatre & Performance Group are proud to present The Kiki Origami Festival! The festival will run from Saturday, August 26th until Sunday, September 3rd. This is a great … Tom Cuffe : Kiki Origami Festival
Visual Arts 25 July – 27 August 2017 Dunamaise Arts Centre Co. Laois High Tide’ is an exhibition in response to climate change and global instability. Due to pollution and the excessive burning of fossil fuels, the natural balance of everyday life … Hazel Egan : High tide
Festivals Saturday 9th September 2017 | Sunday 24th September 2017 Dublin Dublin Fringe Festival is home to bold ideas, brave performing arts and adventurous audiences. Kris Nelson : Dublin Fringe Festival
Visual Arts June 16 – August 20 2017 The LAB Gallery, Dublin The LAB Gallery is pleased to present, Shrine For Girls, Dublin, the first solo exhibition in Ireland of New York artist Patricia Croinin. One of the critically acclaimed highlights of … Caroline Pi : Shrine for girls
Visual Arts 2 June to 30 September 2017 The Hunt Museum, The Custom House, Rutland Street, Limerick This summer we are featuring two of Ireland’s most important 20th century artists, Jack B. Yeats + Paul Henry, in the exhibition Contrasting Visions of … Naomi O’Nolan : Jack B Yeats and Paul Henry, Contrasting Visions of Ireland
Visual Arts 3 July to 25 August Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council Buildings The Arts Department of Wexford County Council in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre are delighted to present And Creatures Dream…A New Language, a group exhibition which reveals … Helen Gaynor : And Creatures Dream a New Language
Visual Arts 24 June to 11 August The Presentation Centre Convent Road,Enniscorthy, Co.Wexford This unique exhibition of Kustom Kulture artwork is a prime example of blurring creative boundaries. Ger utilises unusual objects and creates fantastic one off pieces based on a niche … Lisa Byrne : Kustom Kulture
Visual Arts 30 June to 27 August Isabella Walsh at Limerick City Gallery Carnegie Building, Pery Square, Limerick Who put Bella in the wych elm?” is a true story, a murder-mystery involving an unidentified female skeleton found inside a hollow tree in … Úna McCarthy : Who put Bella in the wych elm
Visual Arts 30 June to 27 August Limerick City Gallery Carnegie Building, Pery Square, Limerick The Space Between brings together large scale Open paintings derived from observation in mediation of the other, a monumental work – “a self portrayed as process”; Who … Úna McCarthy : The Space Between
Visual Arts 30 June to 27 August Limerick City Gallery Carnegie Building, Pery Square, Limerick Touring exhibition by Irish artist Ronnie Hughes, one of Ireland’s most dynamic abstract painters, Hughe’s elegant and poised works are executed with complex technical skill, yet retain … Úna McCarthy : Strange Attractors
Visual Arts Thursday 22 June –Sunday 13 August 2017 Gallery of Photography, Dublin ENGAGE is a new collaboration between Belfast Exposed Futures programme and Gallery of Photography. It highlights both organisations’ sustained support for photographic artists living and working across the island … Trish Lambe : Engage
Visual Arts 07 June – 03 September Visual Carlow Selected Artists: Kevin Gaffney, Lee Welch, Aisling O’Beirn, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Sarah O’Brien, Jonathan Mayhew, Vera Ryklova, Pádraig Spillane,Susan MacWilliam, Karl Burke, Martin Boyle, Robert Moriarty, Damien Flood, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair, Tom Fitzgerald, … Emma-Lucy O’ Brien – ART WORKS, The Hotron Open Submission and Art Prize
Visual Arts June 24 – July 30, 2017 Butler Gallery The Butler Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new gouaches and paintings by Eithne Jordan, one of Ireland’s leading painters. This body of work has been made during Jordan’s one-year … Eithne Jordan : When Walking
