Niall O’Loughlin must be one of Ireland’s hardest working artists. He is best known for his caricatures of celebrities.   He works at corporate events and weddings where he spends two to three hours drawing caricatures of the guests.  He does two weddings per week and is booked up for the next six months. He is [...]

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There was a great turn out last night in the Doorway Gallery, South Frederick Street, Dublin 2 for a solo exhibition by Polish born artist Iwona Nartowska O’Reilly.  The show features figurative action paintings of hurling and rugby.   The exhibition was officially opened by former professional rugby player Bernard Jackman.  It continues until June [...]

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Tonight (Thursday 17th May 2012) saw the opening of Jerry Cahir’s solo exhibition in the Origin Gallery, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. The exhibition continues until June 16th. Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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I recently visited Padraig McCaul in his studio in County Wicklow.  The studio is down a country lane in the loft of a converted farm outhouse that he shares with artist Denise Hussey. Unlike most other artists that I know, Padraig embraces the business side of his art career.  A lot of artists just want [...]

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Friday 13th April saw the opening of Tony O’Connor’s solo exhibition of equine art ‘Dark Horse’ at the Doorway Gallery, South Frederick Street, Dublin 2. The show will continue in the gallery until May 10th . Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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Tonight  (Tuesday April 17th) saw the opening of Padraig McCaul’s new solo exhibition ‘Still Lives’.  The show was offically opened by RTE’s Olivia O’Leary. Padraig will give an artist’s talk in The Gallery on Saturday 21st at 2.00pm. Padraig McCaul is a fulltime, Dublin based artist whose work draws heavily on the beauty and ruggedness [...]

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The Dublin Painting & Sketching Club launched its 134th annual exhibition today (Sunday 15th April) in County Hall, Dun Laoghaire. One of Ireland’s largest national group shows, it features fine art by more than 80 well-known contemporary Irish artists from Dublin and many parts of the country. All are members of the Club, among them [...]

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Cregg Castle of Corandulla built in 1648 will soon be transformed into an Arts Venue by Galway based artist Alan Murray, making him the third generation of the Murray family to live in the castle. Alan is setting up Cregg Castle as a residency for Artists comprising of 9 bedrooms, some en-suite, outhouses and stables [...]

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eva International, Ireland’s dynamic biennial of visual art, has today announced the artists for the 2012 edition entitled: After the Future. Curated by Annie Fletcher, Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the 40 artists announced today were selected from over 2,000 proposals submitted from 76 countries. Irish and International artists announced include: Zanny [...]

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Last week saw the official opening of “Another Tuesday”, in the 2020 Art Gallery, Cork. The artist Jack Hickey graduated, with honours, from Crawford College of Art & Design in May 2011 winning both the Eli Lily & OPW Purchase Prizes and has garnered much critical acclaim in the months that have followed, with the [...]

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An exhibition from IMMA’s Collection engaging with scientific themes in celebration of Dublin City of Science 2012; the  famous Ned Kelly paintings by the renowned Australian artist Sidney Nolan; a mid-career retrospective of the work of leading Irish artist Alice Maher, and a series of lectures on major developments in architecture to mark its tenure [...]

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John Nolan’s  “Interlaced Colour”, an original, signed, abstract painting disappeared from Ivan’s Oyster Bar and Grill, West Pier, Howth on Sunday 11 March 2012 between noon and 7.00pm. The painting is 12″x12″ on stretched deep edge canvas with the title, date and signature on the reverse. While the restaurant displays John’s paintings throughout the year, [...]

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Marja van Kampen was born in The Netherlands. She is a full-time painter and printmaker.  30 years ago she moved to Ireland.  She is a co-founder of Artspace Studios, Galway, and was a driving force in its development, before setting up her own studio. A full colour book about her life and art “Marja van [...]

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An exhibition by Dublin artist Geraldine O’Reilly was officially opened last night (Thursday 8th March) by  Frank X Buckley, Member of the Contemporary Irish Art Society.   The exhibition can be seen in the Doorway Gallery, South Frederick Street, Dublin 2 and continues until April 12th. Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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An exhibition of original art by artists Niall O’Loughlin, Pervaneh Matthews Ray Sherlock, Mark Baker, Roy Wallace, Frank O’Dea and Tom Byrne opened last night (Thursday 8th March) in the Balla Ban Gallery in the Westbury Shopping Mall just off Grafton Street in Dublin. The exhibition has as its theme the 50th Anniversary of the Dubliners. [...]

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Last night (Wednesday March 7th) saw the opening of “Food Fight” in the Back Loft, Augustine Street, The Coombe, Dublin.  The show features the work of six Belfast artists: MyTarpit, Anarkitty, Chris Cunningham, DMC, Matthew Knight, Dean McDowell with the theme of food. For the opening night the artists produced a piece of work which [...]

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Earlier today (Wednesday 7th March) RTE rugby pundit and art enthusiast Brent Pope opened an exhibition by 30 art students of  Stillorgan College of Further Education.  Each student contributed with three pieces – two 3D ceramic pieces and a ceramic tile. This is the fifth year that the college’s art department has been running this [...]

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Exchange Street Upper in Temple Bar Dublin was busy this evening with crowds attending the official opening of the Olivier Cornet Gallery. The opening exhibition features work by Annika Berglund, Mark Doherty, John Fitzsimons, Jordi Forniés, Yanny Petters, Martha Quinn, Seán Mulcahy, Adrienne Symes, Hanneke van Ryswyk and a few invited artists. The exhibition continues [...]

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There was a great crowd in the Dun Laoghaire Art Gallery this evening (Thursday March 1st) for the opening of Zan O’Doherty’s exhibition – ‘Imprint’. The prints are priced at 95 euro and packs of cards cost 5 euro.  All the proceeds go to the Niall Mellon Township Trust.   Zan will go out to South [...]

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Ellen McDermott is a busy woman.  As well as rearing four daughters,  she’s the director of an art gallery, a painter, a photographer and a retoucher of photographs. Ellen’s a director of the Kilmantin Gallery in Bridge Street Wicklow.  The gallery offers local artists an outlet for their work.  The gallery uses an interesting commission [...]

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