Art in Ireland TV

Garter Lane Arts Centre till 26 March From Abstraction Back to Realism is a collaborative exhibition by three Waterford artists: Rosemary Higbee, John Cullinan and Lupita De Bhail. The three artists have been brought together by their common interest in …

Irish artist Jesse Jones continues the gallery’s 2016 theme of Artist as Witness, in her new work entitled No More Fun and Games. The artist transforms the gallery space into a cinematic experience through sound and architectural interventions. She has …

Amongst Other Things is an exhibition of new artworks by Felicity Clear and Helen Hughes, curated by Brenda McParland, and marks their first collaboration. The exhibition opens in the Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire on 30th January and runs …

A short documentary on recent and upcoming exhibitions at the Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar, Dublin.

As part of the 1916 commemorations, the RHA approached the photographer David Farrell to consider responding to the broader global situation of that time with the war in Europe raging on the Somme. As with many projects the point of …

There Is neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple is a play on words. This game reflects the way we have to juggle with expression when living in a foreign land rescuing unusual or invented terms. This show translates this circumstance …

The object has engaged with art’s historical and contemporary encounter with destruction, as well as more philosophical explorations of iconoclasm. When we witness destruction in the field of culture, such as the recent destruction of Palmyra in Syria, some societal …

A walk and talk through the exhibition with the four artists and curator will take place at 5pm on Thurs 11 February, followed by the opening at 6pm. “An indisputable fact: our towns are sexed. Look around you. It’s easy …

‘A Knowing Nature’ is a group show featuring Anita Groener, Phil Foley, Julie Merriman, Cliodhna Timoney and Chanelle Walshe. ‘A Knowing Nature’ brings together the works of artists at the middle and early stages of their careers. The common line …

Sirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the …

Mick O’Dea PRHA is known for his paintings of the War of Independence, images culled from found and researched photographs. The very act of painting and enlarging figures from the past redeems them from the chill of photographic documentation recalling …

Maeve McCarthy is known for her small scale rural nighttime landscapes executed in tempera and oils on traditional gesso panels, with ideas of place and home, leaving, longing and returning. Exploring memory, childhood and loss, she now changes scale with …

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh: Ardán at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. Show runs from February 4th to February 27th.

In “Snap!” Martin Boyle makes connections between images by identifying sequences in banal everyday subject matter, dissolving notions of originality and ownership; instead projecting an absurd sense of order onto the visual chaos of daily life. Martin Boyle lives and …

Gareth Kennedy, Post Colony VISUAL Carlow Till 19 June Post Colony (2014) explores the microcosm of natural, industrial and colonial histories through a specific project in Killarney National Park, Co. Kerry, focusing on the invasive species Rhododendron x superponticum. First …

In the Flesh, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1 28th January to 12th March 2016 The LAB Gallery is pleased to present In the Flesh by Bridget O’Gorman. This is the first series of three exhibitions where contemporary artists have …

The Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, presents ‘Water for the Tribe’, an exhibition of new painting by Jan Pleitner. Pleitner’s paintings are striking and expressive: an intense exploration of colour and energy. Characterised by fast lines and deep pigments that bleed into …

Irish premiere exhibition of Ted Russell’s intimate, previously unseen, photographs of Bob Dylan in New York City. The photographs chronicle days in the life of the then unknown folk artist – backstage and onstage at the folk clubs, hanging out …

The Butler Gallery has an extraordinary resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. It is a rich archive to which the inquisitive eye may turn and return. …

The IDI Awards Exhibition is in Waterford from the end of January in the SOMA Gallery from January 29th and running for a month. The IDI Irish Design awards feature the best of furniture, product, interiors, architecture, fashion, textiles, app, …

Sinead McDonald often uses her practice to explore difficult and personal events and has contributed to the First Fortnight mental health arts festival in the past. info@riverbank.ie T: (045) 448 327 riverbank.ie Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare W12 D962

Shona Shirley MacDonald’s exhibition ‘Juniper’ in the Children’s Gallery at the Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge. Running from Jan 7th – Feb 16th.

Project Arts Centre Till 19 March 2016 11am – 8pm FREE ADMISSION Artist Núria Güell has created an international fiscal disobedience consultancy against the Troika that will be the subject of her solo exhibition here at Project Arts Centre in …

Doug DuBois: My Last Day at Seventeen Till 5 March 2016 Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to present My Last Day at Seventeen by American artist-photographer Doug DuBois (November 10, 2015 – January 23, 2016). Combining portraits, spontaneous encounters, and …

Everything Must Go at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork explores the relationship between contemporary art, economics and value. Featuring works by Irish and international artists, the exhibition emphasises the ways in which monetary and historical value accrues through qualities …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

July’s twelve minute arts-news compilation for NvTv in Belfast and Cork Community Television.