Cork Culture Visual Arts David O’Brien, the Programme Manager at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork talks to us about the importance of the National Sculpture Factory, the way it supports artists and their upcoming exhibitions. The National Sculpture Factory (NSF) is an organisation … Dobz O’Brian : National Sculpture Factory
Visual Arts Waterford “Ainmhithe” is a series of drawings and paintings, watercolour, ink and pencil on paper. They are based on Irish animals, both living and extinct. The series engages with Irish history, mythology and its identity, through the creatures that have inhabited … Garter Lane Arts Centre : Ainmhithe
Visual Arts Waterford Dr Maeve Doyle likes to draw anatomically accurate images which are adapted/altered slightly to convey a message – ‘Anatomy with a twist, with an injection of life and fun’. Many of the drawings in the exhibition are from the collection … Garter Lane Arts Centre : What Lies Beneath
Cork Culture Visual Arts Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. This year, it will take place on Friday 18th September 2015. On Culture Night, arts and cultural organisations and venues of all shapes and sizes, … Cork County : Culture Night
Cork Visual Arts IRL: In Real Life This exhibition brings together 7 internationally based artists. Through their work, they investigate the transmutation of art which takes the internet as its source, to the materialisation of work in real life. With the proliferation of … Emily O’Flynn : IRL In Real Life
Visual Arts On the approach of the centenary of Ireland’s Easter Rising and the subsequent establishment of the new Republic, IMMA is pleased to announce the exhibition, El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State. This exhibition reflects on the artistic and cultural … Rachael Gilbourne : El Lissitzky
Visual Arts In her exhibition at Leitrim Sculpture Centre Anna Macleod uses a variety of methods, strategies and processes to mediate complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical and cultural readings of land use and resources. As a ‘citizen artist’ Anna generates a … Anna Macleod : Staid na Talún – A State of Land
Visual Arts BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS: Contemporary Art and Mathematical Data Boolean Expressions explores the ways in which artists use mathematical concepts and systems in their work. The exhibition commemorates the legacy of George Boole, the first Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College Cork and … Glucksman Gallery : BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS
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 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
Festivals Visual Arts Have you ever wondered how the world looks from the point of view of a hammerhead shark, with its hyper-stereo vision? How about a horse, which has exceptional peripheral vision? Or a chameleon, which can look backwards and forwards at … Denis Connolly : Meta-Perceptual Helmets
Festivals Visual Arts After two sell-out runs, Architects of Air are back for a third year in Kilkenny Castle Park with another luminarium – or giant, light-filled inflatable sculpture – for you to explore. Mirazozo is the sister to Miracoco – the luminarium … Kim Lucas : Mirazozo
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
Visual Arts Fidget Feet are an aerial circus company telling their stories anywhere they can; in theatres, from cranes, hidden in forests, or swinging from buildings all over the world. Fidget Feet perform for everyone and love to find new ways of … Fidget Feet : Aerial Circus
ArtsIreland TV Programmes Visual Arts ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. We also feature short arts news clips made in the north of Ireland as these become … Culturefox : ArtsIreland II
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
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
Visual Arts Product Recall. Galway Arts Centre. Curated by Anne Mullee. 30 May – 4 July. A group show with Damien Flood (IRL), Veronica Forsgren (SWE), Tom Watt (IRL), and Sarah Baker (USA). Responding to the imagined ‘recall’ of an idea or … Interview with Maeve Mulrennan : Galway Arts Centre Group Show
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
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 Andrew Carson is a Dublin based artist, graduated from DIT with a BA Fine Art in 2010. He has shown in solo and group exhibitions extensively around Ireland and also in the UK, Greece, Italy, Spain, Poland and Japan. In … Andrew Carson : Artist in Residence at Draiocht Arts Centre
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 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
Visual Arts Chris Ledger of Belfast’s Arts & Disability Forum outlines some of the recent work by artists with disabilities or deafness, and the facilities ADF provides to ensure an inclusive experience for visitors and viewers to its exhibitions and performances. Find … Chris Ledger : Arts & Disability Forum
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
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
