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ARTifact asks the public to create artwork based on two themes – ‘RTÉ as part of Irish life’ or ‘RTÉ of the future’. Submissions can be a painting, sculpture, drawing, illustration or photography. The three winning works will be placed at RTÉ’s Donnybrook premises in Dublin alongside work by Irish artists such as Robert Ryan,…
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After five years on Francis Street, The Bad Art Gallery will close and relocate, under a new name, to South Frederick Street, Dublin 2. The last day of the Bad Art Gallery on Francis street is Saturday January 22nd 2011. The gallery is offering 15% discount on EVERYTHING at the Bad Art Gallery.
If you are a visual artist, what does it mean to be from the Gaeltacht or to have a connection with it? Can you express this connection through your art? Does a “sense” of the Gaeltacht influence or inform contemporary visual art practices? These are the questions being posed by Donegal Gaeltacht gallery, An Gailearaí….
Thursday the 11th of November was a big night for the Sol Art Gallery, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 with Paul Costelloe the internationally acclaimed designer showing his latest mix of fashion drawings and watercolours. The show finished on November 21st.
The first ever painted portrait, for which Senator David Norris has agreed to sit, was unveiled this Thursday evening, 18th November, in The Keeling Gallery, Clarendon Street. Senator David Norris was Guest of Honour at the unveiling which he attended along with internationally recognised Irish artist Louise McKeon, the first artist to persuade the Senator…
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