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 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 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 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 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
Visual Arts 29 July – 22 October 2016 Location: Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR, Scotland, UK A UK premiere exhibition of new commissions and existing artwork by Toronto artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, that explores the enduring legacy … Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel : History Machines
Visual Arts Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art. We bring together the capital’s leading galleries, museums and artist-run spaces, alongside new public art commissions by established and emerging artists and an innovative programme … Sorcha Carey : Edinburgh Art Fest 2016
Visual Arts Ruth Duignan is a Leitrim based fashion designer. She graduated from the fashion department of the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. In 2008 she completed a 6 month internship in Tokyo at the Japanese menswear label, Aptform. … Ruth Duignan : Previewing ‘Future Makers 2016’
Visual Arts The Subject and Me tells the story of the turbulent events that shaped Alice Neel’s life, through a retrospective of drawings and selection of late paintings. Emphasising the psychological perception that would allow Neel (1900-1984) to produce some of the … Pat Fisher : Alice Neel, The Subject and Me
Visual Arts Connolly’s practice encompasses process based sculptural works, objects and performative events both inside and outside the gallery space. In his most recent series of works the Belfast based artist distills across varying scales the causes and affects of risk and … Brian Connolly : “FRACTURED THINKING”
Visual Arts Eclectrc Panoptic teases back layers of cognition, reflecting New Zealand born artist Johnson’s interest in science fiction, alternative universes and the slippery nature of perception and reality. Comprised of a suite of drawings, tessellating patterns and virtual reality technology, the … Jess Johnson and Simon Ward : Eclectrc Panoptic
Visual Arts I Went to the Woods looks at how artists have experienced and portrayed their surroundings in the course of walks, journeys and aimless wanderings. Featuring works by Irish and international artists, the exhibition explores the artist as a drifter, nomad, … Chris Clarke : I Went to The Woods
Visual Arts Irish-born photographer Enda Bowe’s work is concerned with story telling and the search for light and beauty in the ordinary. He is based in London and his first book Kilburn Cherry has recently been published by J&J Books. At Mirrored … Oren Little : At Mirror River
Visual Arts Remco De Fou, Annabel Konig, Rachel Joynt, Gwen Wilkinson, Michelle Byrne, Anthony Lyttle, Martin Lyttle, Cathy Fitzgerald and Jules Michael. The Nine Stones Artists was formed in 2004. Its members are professional artists who live and work in the foothills … Annabel Konig : The Possibilities of Place, Nine Stones Artists
Visual Arts A native of Crosshaven, Luke Sisk draws on childhood folklore from Camden Fort Meagher as well as architectural and engineering details, to create a body of work that combines fact and fiction through the medium of glass and ceramics. Sisk’s … Luke Sisk : Pale Green Ghosts
