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
Nick Kavanagh introduces the Waterford Spraoi Parade. “Spraoi Festival has become something of an August Bank Holiday institution. For three days, the city devotes itself to a variety of street art and spectacle, featuring hundreds of performers, live music, and … SPRAOI : Street Theatre in Waterford
Theatre The Gate Theatre in Dublin is seeped in history and strongly associated with the likes of Beckett Pinter and Oscar Wilde. We interview the Director of the Gate Theatre Michael Colgan and talk to others with an intimate knowledge and experience of … The Gate Theatre Dublin
Theatre Arthur Miller was a giant of 20th century American theatre. With a writing career that spanned over 50 years, he will be best remembered for the classics Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons and A View from … Arthur Miller : A View From The Bridge
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 Since moving to the United States in 1975 and taking up American citizenship, Dublin-born Sean Scully has become established as one of New York’s leading contemporary artists. East Coast Light, an early work, was exhibited in Cork in 1973 during … Tina Darb and Marc O’Sullivan : Sean Scully
Cork City Ballet in association with Cork Opera House presents Swan Lake If you’ve never seen “Swan Lake”, now’s the time! Cork City Ballet is back, and the company’s full length production of this ballet lays claim to a legacy … Alan Foley : Swan Lake, Cork City Ballet
Theatre Fresh from the success of The Pillowman, Decadent Theatre Company returns with a show the Young Vic audience voted as one of the top 3 shows of the last twenty five years. Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan … Vernon God Little
Visual Arts From Strachaire Fir by Joseph Higgins (1916) to the bronze head of her nephew Stephen Archer: Tight Head Prop (2014), Vivienne Roche RHA curates an exhibition of sculptures called Head to Head in the historic Sculpture Galleries. The exhibition will … Vivienne Roche : Head to Head at Crawford Art Gallery
Festivals Music Sounds from a Safe Harbour is a brand new festival of music, art and conversation, curated by Bryce Dessner of The National. Two years since its inception by Bryce and Cork Opera House CEO, Mary Hickson, Sounds from a Safe … Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival
Visual Arts July’s twelve minute arts-news compilation for NvTv in Belfast and Cork Community Television. Culturefox : ArtsIreland
Visual Arts An introduction to the exhibitions running in the Garden Gallery at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and running into 2016. The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) aims in all its activities to create for the public an enjoyable … IMMA : The Garden Gallery
Visual Arts The Solas Awards Exhibition features the work of nine artists selected as winners by the international jury. This major new award for contemporary photography is a collaboration between Source Magazine and the Gallery of Photography Ireland. Source is a photography … Tanya Kiang : The SOLAS Photography Prize 2015
Visual Arts Don’t miss out on exciting exhibition showcasing Ireland’s leading established artists and the best of emerging Irish artistic talent at Joan Clancy Art Gallery. Located in the Irish-speaking area of An Rinn (Ring), 10k from Dungarvan, the area is a … Joan Clancy Art Gallery : Christmas Magic
Visual Arts Sandra Kelly introduces the SOMA gallery in Waterford as it embarks on a new phase of development. “Our mission is to foster within society, an awareness, understanding and involvement in the visual arts through policies and programmes which are excellent.” … Sandra Kelly : SOMA Gallery, Waterford
The seventh compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art in Ireland TV. ArtsIreland VII
The sixth compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art in Ireland TV. ArtsIreland VI
Visual Arts Triskel Arts Centre was founded in 1978, and moved to its current home in Tobin Street in 1986. Triskel celebrated its Thirtieth Anniversary in 2008. As Cork’s principal Arts Centre our mission has always been to commission, present, and promote … Triskel Arts Centre
Music For the 100th anniversary of the formation of Ireland celebrated bass guitarist and composer Ronan Guilfoyle introduces a musical project to celebrate the life of his grandfather, Joe Guilfoyle, a teenage volunteer during the 1916 Rising. The finished composition will … Ronan Guilfoyle : Work in Progress
Visual Arts ‘all things considered’ is an exhibition featuring new works by forty artist members of Cork Printmakers, which will be displayed at the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, from Thursday 3rd until the 23rd December 2015. The artists explore a wide variety … Valerie Byrne : all things considered
Visual Arts Articulating the Value of Artist Led Organisations in Ireland FOOTFALL is a national research project devised by 126 Artist-Run Gallery to explore the position of small arts organisations in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The aim of the research programme is … Lucy Elvis : Discussing Footfall
Visual Arts Gavin Porter’s practice uses the mediums of drawing and etching to create a visual language exploring the territory between the real and the imagined, the sublime and the absurd. Referencing techniques observed in historical engravings, Porter’s work exploits the linear, … Gavin Porter : Journey of a Fruit Fly
Visual Arts Matthew Nevin introduces Conor Ferguson’s Photography Exhibition opening in November 27 @ 6:00 pm and running to December 5 and work resulting from Jane Tagg’s International Residency at MART in Dublin. www.mart.ie Matthew Nevin : MART November to December Programme
Visual Arts Ulster Museum 10:00 – 17:00, Friday 10 October 2014 – Sunday 10 January 2016 This exhibition, largely drawn from the Ulster Museum collection, looks at the role of nature in the work of Irish and International artists over the past … Anne Stewart : New Art New Nature
Visual Arts An exhibition of portrait paintings by Colin Davidson (born 1968), reveals the stories of eighteen people who are connected by their individual experiences of loss through the Troubles – a turbulent 30-year period in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s … Kim Mawhinney : Silent Testimony by Colin Davidson
Visual Arts Sir John Lavery is best known as a society portraitist and for a remarkable series of formal portraits of politicians and prelates. This small exhibition looks instead at the private world of Sir John Lavery, and brings together portraits he … Anne Stewart : Lavery’s World
Music The world’s most prestigious record label ECM arrives in Cork this November to Triskel Christchurch who are proud to stage the inaugural ECM Weekend Festival from Friday 27 until Sunday 29 November. Four Concerts featuring well known artists including June … Tony Sheehan : ECM Weekend Festival
Literature The third C.S. Lewis Festival, which takes place from Thursday 19th – Sunday 22nd November 2015 throughout Belfast, marks the 52nd anniversary of the death of the renowned author, theologian, academic and creator of the incredible Chronicles of Narnia series. … Jacqueline O’Hagan : C.S. Lewis Festival
Visual Arts Two printmakers from Seacourt Print Workshop, Catherine and Deirdre were students together at Belfast College of Art. With a background in printed textiles, they share an appreciation for design, pattern and colour. Catherine, a printmaker and painter, and Deirdre, a printmaker … Catherine Thompson and Deirdre McCrory : Near and Far
Literature Visual Arts Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
