Art and Artists of Ireland news and blog
Tonight (14th September) saw the opening in the Dalkey Heritage Centre of “Familiar Places” – a solo exhibition by Deborah Donnelly featuring colourful landscape paintings from South County Dublin: Sandycove, Dun Laoghaire and the odd cow, chicken or pig! The exhibition also features work by her mother Clare O’Farrell. The exhibition continues until Sunday 17th…
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6 September — 31 October 2011 Dublin Contemporary is a large-scale visual art exhibition that will run over a period of 8 weeks from 6th September to 31st October 2011. It is one of the most ambitious art exhibitions ever staged in Ireland and is expected to attract over 150,000 visitors. It is a citywide…
Roscrea-based multi-media artist Jerry Cahir’s third solo exhibition Whisperings of the Soul was opened in Kenny’s Lahinch Art Gallery by cardiologist Dr Brian Maurer on the 5th August. There was a capacity crowd which included Dessie and Pat O’Malley, former ambassador to Washington Sean Donlon, the Moylan Brothers, author and historian George Cunningham, and a…
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Irish painter, Al Freney, was recently selected from over 2,350 international entries as the only Dublin based artist to exhibit at the 32nd annual BP Portrait Award in London – the world’s most prestigious portrait competition, which promotes the very best in contemporary portrait painting. Housed in the National Portrait Gallery, Freney’s work entitled, ‘At…
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There’s lots to see and do at The Grange in Ballyboughal, North County Dublin. Last Saturday saw the opening of a new garden designed by Jane McCorkell – Bloom Gold Overall Winner as well as a sculpture exhibition in the garden which showcases work from six contemporary Irish artists. There’s also a new exhibition by …
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