Archive ArtsIreland TV Programmes ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. This feature is a compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art … Culturefox : ArtsIreland IV
Visual Arts One Million Years of Laughter is a new series of performances and paintings finding humour in the contradictions that exist within commonplace actions and experiences. Using what is known about the early ‘Homo’ as the basis for this body of … David Sherry : One Million Years Of Laughter
Archive Visual Arts Emer McGowan introduces the range of locally focused work undertaken at Draiocht in Dublin. The centre has a strong commitment to working with young people in the community. Draiocht is currently showing upon becoming aware of our Self by Sally-Anne … Emer McGowan : Draiocht
Visual Arts Emma Finn’s darkly humorous videos transport us to uncomfortable liminal places that sit somewhere between reality and invention, spaces where real people have drawn-on faces, and babies are sent in the post. All of Finn’s work is driven by ‘the … Emma Finn : Double Mountain
Visual Arts Curator Gavin Wade walks-through the opening of the exhibition Display Show. The artists maintain that “Art is not exhibited, art exhibits”. Display Show initiates a set of artworks embedded with, and reliant upon, explicit conditions of display as a combination … Gavin Wade : Display Show
Dublin 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
Archive Visual Arts Karla Black is regarded as one of the pioneering contemporary artists of her generation. A Turner Prize nominee in 2011, she practices a kind of lyrical autonomous sculpture, influenced by psychoanalysis, feminism and its impact on visual art. Black’s work … Karen Sweeney : Karla Black at IMMA
Archive Visual Arts A native of Cork, Leanne McDonagh is a 24 year old graduate of Crawford College of Art & Design, a contemporary mixed media Artist and a member of Visual Artists Ireland. Leanne is also a proud member of the Travelling … Leanne McDonagh : Reminiscence
Archive Visual Arts From protest banners to embroidered passports, abstract fabric designs to narrative tapestries, Stitch in Time demonstrates how artists employ textiles and its associations of a popular, vernacular culture to shape and comment on contemporary life. Beginning with the groundbreaking work … Lewis Glucksman Gallery : Stitch in Time
Archive Visual Arts This exhibition borrows its title from Philosopher Walter Benjamin’s comparison of the work of translation to re-assembling fragments of a broken vase – the individual fragments must come together, but need not be like each other. This could also be … Marguerite O’Molloy : Fragments
Visual Arts “Boole’s system of logic is but one of many proofs of genius and patience combined. … That the symbolic processes of algebra, invented as tools of numerical calculation, should be competent to express every act of thought, and to furnish … Marie Foley : Aesthetic Logic
Archive Too Soon, Too Late features the work of four artists, the first occupants of Mart’s new Project Space. The artists, Jason Dunne, Paul Hallahan, Jennifer Kidd and Sarah Wilson were paired with curator, Jonathan Carroll. The artists were given the … MART : Project Space
Visual Arts Graphic Studio Gallery, opened in 1988 in Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 and has become an essential cultural feature of the city and is Dublin’s oldest exclusive fine art print gallery. Mary Toal : Graphic Studio Gallery
Archive “Lorem Ipsum” is a new body of work about ambiguity of information and the limits of language as a tool for communication. The work considers identity and the self, whilst addressing the artist’s personal experience of dyslexia. The work challenges … Paul Moore : Lorem Ipsum
Visual Arts A short documentary on recent and upcoming exhibitions at the Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar, Dublin. Profile : Gallery of Photography
Visual Arts Senior curator Rachael Thomas, introduces the work of artist Etel Adnan, which is currently on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Adnan works across many outputs of creativity including writing, art, poetry and tapestry and all aspects of … Rachael Thomas : Etel Adnan
Archive Visual Arts The Old Croghan Man is one of a number of 2,000 year old ‘bog bodies’ unearthed from Irish wetlands in recent years. His remains, which comprise only the upper torso and arms, have been extensively analysed through a variety of … Sam Keogh : Four Fold
Culture Theatre Waterford We talk to Ben Barnes the artistic director of The Theatre Royal in Waterford about the venue and their upcoming events for the next few months. The Theatre Royal, often referred to as “the peoples theatre”, has been the traditional … Theatre Royal Waterford : Programme
Cork 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
