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Axis Balymun are offering readers of the Irish Art Blog a chance to win a meal for two followed by tickets for ‘Waiting for Elvis‘ – a cracking comedy written by Eileen Gibbons based around two women who meet at a park bench waiting anxiously for Elvis to turn up. The show will be on…
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Primary school students from every county in Ireland entered the annual art competition, which is devised by Sightsavers to encourage young people to engage with their creativity whilst learning to appreciate the importance of their own eyesight and the challenges faced by millions of visually impaired people in the developing world. The 16 winners were…
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An exhibition by Stephen Gill has opened in the Arts and Disability Forum Gallery On Royal Ave., Belfast. The exhibition “Around the Allotments” comprises a series of photographs of allotment sites and their owners in and around Belfast. Stephen’s connection with allotments developed through photographing flowers and plants growing around the Reconnect Training Centre, near…
A major exhibition of the work of one of the world’s most famous artists, Andy Warhol opens on the 8th February in the MAC in Belfast. The exhibition will include popular imagery from some of Warhol’s most famous works including Chairman Mao, Hamburger, cow wallpaper and references to Studio 54. There will also be a…