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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 …

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 …

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 …

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.” …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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, …

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  

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Featuring modern and contemporary masterworks from the world’s leading collections by ABRAMOVIĆ, BRANCUSI, DALÍ, DUCHAMP, ERNST, GIACOMETTI, OPPENHEIM, PICASSO, WARHOL, YOKO ONO, and many more. What We Call Love is accompanied by an exciting programme of screenings, talks, events and …

E.gress is a filmic artwork that maps a world of loss and change, exploring how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to changing world. This multi-layered film, a portrait of living moments on life’s edge, invites us …

This new exhibition of photographs by Eamonn Farrell at the Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar examines the public image of Charles Haughey – the most controversial politician since the foundation of the state. With his Napoleonic manner, driving ambition and …

An exhibition of works of art influenced by dreams and the unconscious Encompassing strands of artistic expression ranging from early twentieth century Symbolism, to late twentieth century Photo-Realism, The Language of Dreams explores aspects of Irish art often overlooked in …

Galway Arts Centre presents DUALITY OF FUNCTION curated by Kate Howard & Rob D’Eath, featuring the work of Piet Stockmans (BEL), Alicja Patanowska (POL/GBR) and Isobel Egan (IRL). DUALITY OF FUNCTION features the work of three artists whose practices explore …

Artist Rhona Byrne’s hand-made objects, installations and collaborative, event‐based, projects explore the interactions between people and their habitat. Bolthole invites visitors to construct and reconstruct the installation to make their own environments. The spaces can be individual shelters/dens or a …

The installation, including sculpture, drawing and wearables, reflects on the desires and tensions experienced between private thought and public behaviour, feelings of isolation and belonging, connectivity and relating, distraction and attending and the fragile state between comfort and discomfort. Rhona …

“In the story politicians, intellectuals and artists are standing at a bus stop without realising that it is in fact, the final stop.” – Francis Fukuyama What if, as Fukuyama stated in his 1992 book, The End of History and …

Jessica Lloyd-Jones is a visual artist based in North Wales, with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art and MFA in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007. Merging art, science and technology, Lloyd-Jones investigates concepts of energy …

CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, 2 – 24 October 2015 An exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Thurloe Conolly. Thurloe Conolly’s paintings are not narratives, and not representational in the commonly understood sense of the word; but through the signs …

According to Dr. Gary Kielhofner, ‘Interests are what one finds enjoyable or satisfying to do. Interests reveal themselves both as the enjoyment of doing something and as a preference for doing certain things over others. Interests can infuse life with …

On June 21st 1975 the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue entered photographic history. This is where Stephen Shore, considered one of the leading protagonists of the New Colour Movement, took his legendary photograph in front of a …

Every year Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) joins forces with Garter Lane Arts Centre and the Waterford Library Services to celebrate the benefits of participation in the arts for everybody through the Well festival of arts and wellbeing. The festival …

MART is an arts organisation that provides studios, galleries and event spaces to foster and promote artistic endeavours. MART creates opportunities for artists through local and international exhibitions, creative workspaces and professional development workshops, while promoting the arts through public …

Pilgrim is an installation of new work by Andrew Carson developed as part of his time as Artist-In-Residence at Draíocht. Following on from his research into the use and effects of digital devices and social media as the modern ubiquitous …

This exhibition at Draiocht presents outcomes from Guinan’s current investigation into materiality. The painted forms are created using pva and various other types of paint, like gloss, metal paint, emulsions, industrial grade paints and oil paint. Layers of paint are …