Dublin Visual Arts The highly anticipated exhibition Beyond Caravaggio opens in the National Gallery of Ireland on Saturday 11 February 2017. It brings together over 40 major works, including four master paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), complemented by other significant masterpieces … Adrian Le Harivel : Beyond Caravaggio
Visual Arts Luan Gallery is delighted to announce its autumn exhibition entitled Lullaby which will feature the work of celebrated Mullingar artist, Patrick Graham. The exhibition includes some new and previously unseen works by Graham. Graham’s natural gift for drawing was spotted … Aedín McGinn : Lullaby
Theatre Hear the riveting true stories of Crean’s Antarctic explorations as one of the few men to serve with both Scott and Shackleton and survive three famous expeditions: Discovery, (1901 – 1904); Terra Nova (1910 – 1913); and Endurance (1914 – … Aidan Dooley : Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer
Theatre Up the Hill Jackie is a new play by Áine Ryan and was performed at Central Arts on Friday 24th and 25th March – with a tour scheduled (see below) following the success of the show’s premiere at The Source … Áine Ryan : Up the Hill Jackie
Visual Arts An exhibition. How the magic happens – the making of Strange Feathers, an aerial dance show by Fidget Feet and Bird and Bat. Inspiration for this exhibition comes from the making of Strange Feathers by the Fidget Feet Aerial Dance … Aisling Ni Cheallaigh : How the magic happens
Festivals Baboró International Arts Festival for Children brings the most diverse selection of the finest in performing arts from Ireland and around the world to its annual festival especially for children in Galway. The exciting festival programme of theatre, dance, puppetry, … Aislinn O’hEocha – Baboró International Arts Festival for Children
Ballet Cork Culture Dance Cork City Ballet in association with Cork Opera House presents Swan Lake If you’ve never seen “Swan Lake”, now’s the time! Cork City Ballet is back, and the company’s full length production of this ballet lays claim to a legacy … Alan Foley : Swan Lake, Cork City Ballet
Visual Arts Waterford 14 April to 10 June 2017 | Opening: 13 April, 7pm Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Garter Lane Arts Centre presents Behind the Vitrolite Shopfront, an exhibition of photographic works by Albert Walsh which examines how traditional and emerging ways … Albert Walsh : Behind the Vitrolite Shopfront
Dublin Visual Arts In an automated world, is it nearly time to put humans out to pasture? Does the future resemble a leisure-time utopia or a robot-tended human-zoo? Will the notion of work become a thing of the past if machines really can … Aleksandra Amaladass and Ryan Coyne : Humans need not apply
Visual Arts 16 June to 26 August 2017 University Hospital Waterford The Visual Time Traveller encapsulates 500 years of history, art and science in a series of unique designs which emerged from a collaboration between author, Alison Hackett and Origin Creative. Most … Alison Hackett : The Visual Time Traveller
Visual Arts Waterford 17 June to 26 August 2017 Garter Lane Arts Centre, O’Connell Street, Waterford The Visual Time Traveller encapsulates 500 years of history, art and science in a series of unique designs which emerged from a collaboration between author, Alison Hackett … Alison Hackett : The Visual Time Traveller
Theatre “He shall not hear the bittern cry In the wild sky, where he is lain” A call to arms. War Poet Francis Ledwidge (Ethan Dillon) is torn between his love for Shivvie (Katie O’Kelly), and Ellie (Amy O’Dwyer), his friend … Amy O’Dwyer : Ledwidge
Architecture The dlr LexIcon, the new Central Library and Cultural Centre in Dún Laoghaire is now open to the public. With 80,000 items in the adult and junior libraries, 60+ computers, 100 study spaces and a floor dedicated to Local Studies, … Andrée Dargan : DLR Lexicon
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
Dublin Visual Arts 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 … Andrew Carson : Pilgrim
Theatre The piece is being co-produced by Waterford actor Andrew Holden (who also stars) in association with Central Arts. It is directed by up-and-coming Cork director Killian Collins and also stars Paula Weldon, who will be well-known to many for her … Andrew Holden : The Collector
Visual Arts West Cork Arts Centre was established in 1985 in Skibbereen, Co. Cork. It is a publicly funded arts facility that creates opportunities for the people of West Cork to have access to, and engagement with, local and global arts practice … Ann Davoren : Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
Visual Arts Tim Hetherington was a photojournalist, filmmaker, human rights advocate and artist, best known for his coverage of conflict in areas including Liberia, Afghanistan and Libya where he was killed in a mortar attack in April 2011. ‘Diary’, made in collaboration … Ann Mulrooney : Diary
Visual Arts 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 … Ann Mulrooney : Gareth Kennedy
Architecture The Annual AAI Awards exhibition is Ireland’s longest running architectural awards programme, the only internationally peer-reviewed architecture awards in Ireland that publish the discussion which takes place among the adjudicators. As a result the awards give the public an unprecedented … Ann Mulrooney : VISUAL, AAI Awards Exhibition
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 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 6 looped video projections, silent Greg Hermanovic (Derivative) – TouchDesigner recording technology ©Michael Snow. Courtesy of artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and the Butler Gallery Photography by Roland Paschhoff, paschhoff.com Snow’s extensive and multidisciplinary career includes painting, sculpture, video, … Anna O’Sullivan : Michael Snow, The Viewing of Six New Works
Visual Arts The Butler Gallery has an outstanding resource in its fine permanent collection. Established in 1943, the collection has continued to flourish through gift, loan and purchase. The gallery has an ongoing commitment to make sure this collection is exhibited and … Anna O’Sullivan and Bairbre-Ann Harkin : Personae: Butler Gallery Collection featuring loans from the IMMA Collection
Visual Arts 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. … Anna O’Sullivan : The Butler Gallery
Visual Arts 12 August – 15 October 2017 Butler Gallery, Kilkenny The Butler Gallery, in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival, presents the influential film The Way Things Go (1987), by world-renowned Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b.1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012). This thirty-minute … Anna O’Sullivan : The Way Things Go: An Homage
Visual Arts Remco De Fou, Annabel Konig, Rachel Joynt, Gwen Wilkinson, Michelle Byrne, Anthony Lyttle, Martin Lyttle, Cathy Fitzgerald and Jules Michael. The Nine Stones Artists was formed in 2004. Its members are professional artists who live and work in the foothills … Annabel Konig : The Possibilities of Place, Nine Stones Artists
Visual Arts June 16 – August 20 2017 The Lab, Dublin Anne Maree Barry’s most recent film work Otium cum Dignitate ~ Leisure with Dignity combines her own psychogeographic walking tours of the ‘Monto’ area to create a film and exhibition that … Anne Maree Barry : Leisure with Dignity
Belfast Culture Visual Arts 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 … Anne Stewart : Lavery’s World
Cork Visual Arts Anthony Kelly is a Dublin-based artist whose practice involves sonic and visual approaches to art-making. This includes painting, drawing, field recording, sculpture, sound installation, film/video, and improvised sound performance. Although diverse in construction, his work chiefly concentrates on the shifting … Anthony Kelly : Floating Point . Future Memories
