The Eileen Gray exhibition realised one of Gray’s last ambitions – to have her work brought back to Ireland. Regarded as one of the most influential 20th Century designers and architects, the exhibition includes important items such as the adjustable … Audrey Whitty and Jennifer Goff : Eileen Gray Exhibition
Visual Arts This twenty four minute programme is compiled from interviews with the artists and organisers of British Arts Show 8 staged in Edinburgh at Talbit Rice, Inverleith House and the Gallery of Modern Art throughout Spring 2016. BAS8 is touring throughout … Art in Scotland : British Art Show 8
Visual Arts Peter Murray, Éimear O’Connor, Anne Boddaert and Dawn Williams introduce the current exhibitions, Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age: 1900–1916, Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship and 1916 Ireland in Contemporary Art. Crawford Art Gallery : Summer Exhibitions
Visual Arts Exhibition of Paintings & Prints by Lorraine Fenlon Artist & Tutor and featuring a special debut showing of the fine work of young students of Red Apple Arts. Raffle in aid of Carlow Regional Youth Services. “A ‘message’ may not … Lorraine Fenlon : A Brush with Summer
Visual Arts Droichead Arts Centre presents ‘Who Gotta Match’ by Laura Gramzow. Laura’s studio space is filled with collages and maquettes, that she refers to as she moves onto canvas and assemblages, adding and subtracting till she gets to the point where … Laura Gramzow : Who Gotta Match
Visual Arts Artist in residence at Leitrim Sculpture Workshop Noah Rose trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and has worked as a practising artist since 1991. He has developed a specialised strand of practice around public art, seeking out the invisible threads that … Noah Rose : What Matter
Visual Arts Orla is a painter whose work embraces the beauty of the natural world expressing its atmosphere of magic and enchantment. Inspiration for this exhibition has come from her most recent residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. The fairytale aspect of … Orla Barry : Otherworldly
Visual Arts In an attempt to approach the un-approachable and go where the faint-hearted don’t go, Brabazon opened a pot of Quink ink, took a deep breath and dipped into James Joyce’s famous novel. 18 small images emerged and like a scattering … Gay Brabazon : Ulysses
Visual Arts Interim is an exhibition at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, featuring work by first year students from the MFA/MA Contemporary Art Practice course at Edinburgh College of Art. Realised through a dialogue between students and gallery curators, it … James Clegg : Interim
Visual Arts Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Sauchiehall Street 9th – 19th June Tue-Sat: 11:00–18:00, Sun: 12:00–18:00 All ages Free Drop-in Do you know what causes a seizure? For two hundred years doctors have been trying to explain epilepsy. This art exhibition looks at … Rachel Hewitt : Beyond Epilepsy
Visual Arts The Land will feature Paul Woods’ work. Woods will show 6 new paintings also on the theme of the 1916 Rising, completed in an abstract expressionist fashion. Woods works look at the scars and devastation of the land caused during … Paul Woods : The Land
Visual Arts The exhibition at SOMA, ‘HARD GIRLS’ is a celebration exhibition of surfaces and the superficial, the damaged and the disastrous. Fuelled by the aesthetics of ‘women-only gyms’, make-up tutorials, bodybuilder’s instagram feeds and a general sense of fatigue, this show … Jennifer Mehigan : Hard Girls
Visual Arts Brendan McCarthy from the Cork Mental Health Foundation introduces ‘Reflecting Through Art’. From 1st May to 8th June 2016 ‘Reflecting Through Art’ is an exhibition open to anyone using the mental health services. The project aims to encourage creative activity, … Brendan McCarthy : Reflecting Through Art
Music Visual Arts A music and live art performance devised by Donal Dineen, produced by The Dock and Siobhan O Malley. The Pipes, The Pipes is a homage to the singular magic of the Uilleann Pipes. Since it premiered with a sold out … Siobhán O’Malley : The Pipes The Pipes
Visual Arts Central Arts in Waterford presents Lens Flare, an exciting group photography exhibition. Lens Flare is the brain child of Ciara O Connell, Director of Central Arts, who was quoted as saying “I have a huge passion for contemporary photography and … Ciara O Connell : Lens Flare
Visual Arts As part of our look at Art in Ireland, here’s a recent clip from SOMA in Waterford. ‘HARD GIRLS’ is a celebration exhibition of surfaces and the superficial, the damaged and the disastrous. Fuelled by the aesthetics of ‘women-only gyms’, make-up … Jennifer Mehigan : Hard Girls
Visual Arts Experimental Film Society Exhibition at Triskel Project Space Experimental Film Society (EFS) is a group of experimental filmmakers and associated artists whose work is distinguished by an uncompromising devotion to personal, experimental cinema. They have in common an exploratory approach … Maximilian Le Cain : Luminous Void
Visual Arts Curated by Bairbe Sámh, Mary Crowe Trueman and Petrina Hanlon as part of the Creative Well Curation Project 2016. This Exhibition is free and open to the public. McKenna gallery is an art gallery situated down stairs at the Riverbank … Carolanne Courtney : In Courage
Visual Arts Two projects by Ciaran Burke, oneTree365 and Scoodoos celebrate the beauty and importance of trees. oneTree365 documents one year in the life of a tree, 365 photographs of a grey willow growing on a quiet country lane in Mayo. On … Eric Hennelly Flanagan : A Tree for a Scoodoo
Visual Arts Leitrim Sculpture Workshop and Print Studio recently ran a practical symposium on traditional print methods. This was followed with an exhibition of work and a celebration held on the 13th May 2016. Liz Byrne and Phoebe Dick : Evidence of Small Behaviours
Festivals Visual Arts Encouraging participation has been central to the British Art Show 8. Here National Community Coordinator Natalie Walton engages groups from Glasgow and Edinburgh in the BAS8 exhibition and activities during the final week of the touring show’s appearance in Edinburgh. BAS8 Outreach : Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens & Inverleith House
Visual Arts Verne Dawson’s paintings typically display a preoccupation with history, collective memory and the measurement of time; he is fascinated by the attempts humanity has made to comprehend the mystery of our place on earth and to pass on inherited understanding … Rachel McIntyre : Verne Dawson at Douglas Hyde
Visual Arts Bill Lynch painted with oils directly onto plywood, the deft and often light marks belying the extensive deliberation afforded to his subjects. ‘He cared so much’, writes Michael Wilde in the publication accompanying this exhibition. He, like Verne Dawson, enjoyed … Rachel McIntyre : Bill Lynch at Douglas Hyde
Visual Arts No Zebra Crossing an exhibition by Co Waterford artist, Anna Moore. The large scale acrylic paintings are an emotional response to over three years the artist spent working with the San of Namibia, (previously known as ‘Bush men’). The deep … Anna Moore : No Zebra Crossing
Visual Arts Rising is a major photographic exhibition which showcases the National Library’s rich imagery of the events and locations of 1916. Rising draws on some of the most important collections of photographs at the National Library. It includes images from the … Sara Smyth : NLI’s Rising and Signatories exhibitions
