You got to hand it to her; Lisa Conlan is no ordinary Artist. She not only paints pretty pictures with passion and depth that leaves the audience gasping for more, she also single-handedly organizes and promotes the whole show herself. Lisa exudes a level of professionalism and work ethic that is often seen in the [...]

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“Man-Made” is an exhibition of Holocaust related work by Clare artist Thomas Delohery. The exhibition was launched at The Toradh Gallery, Ashbourne on Thursday May 10th and continues until Saturday May 29th. Mary Carty (Arts Officer, Meath County Council), Thomas Delohery (artist), Liam Madden and Rebecca Delohery at the exhibition launch. Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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The second exhibition by Emerging Artists: ‘PALIMPSEST’, abstract paintings influenced by the music of Russian composer Arvo Part by artist Ken Browne. The exhibition was launched at Cafe Culture, Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 on Wednesday April 25th and continues until Saturday May 7th. Tony Strickland, Johanna Nicholson (Emerging Artists), Ken Browne (Artist) and Liam [...]

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The first of five tribute shows for the late and great Richard Harris by Clare artist Thomas Delohery was officially opened on the 1st of October, 2006 by his three sons, Jamie, Jared, and Damien Harris. Richard Harris’s younger brother Bill was also in attendance. Jared Harris, Thomas Delohery, Caoimhe Reidy, Damien Harris The opening [...]

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Limerick artist Kate Hennessy was invited to show her work in Koblenz for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival 2007 The show was held in two venues in the old city and was opened by the Kulturischer Sprecher for the City Council, Mr. Christian Altmaier. He said he came not only as a politician but as [...]

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The first exhibition by Emerging Artists: visually vibrant figurative and abstract works of well established artist John Nolan. The exhibition was launched at Cafe Culture, Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 on Thursday March 8th and continues until Saturday April 7th. Conor Martin (Cafe Culture), John Nolan (Artist), Liam Madden and Johanna Nicholson (Emerging Artists) at [...]

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John Nolan’s exuberant style combines bold outlines with bright exotic colours. His interpretation of various motifs (fish, landscape, flowers, birds, the human figure, trees, still life, the human face) transmits a positive upbeat feeling to his viewers, but not to the exclusion of everything else. Art can make social or political statements along with many [...]

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Starting Wednesday 17th January and running for five Wednesdays, RTE’s Afternoon Show will have a weekly feature on an Irish artist. The show is on from 3pm to 4.15pm. The first artist to be featured is Dublin caricaturist Niall O’Loughlin. The other artists are: Wednesday 24th Jan Portrait Painting – Brenda Malley Wednesday 31st Jan [...]

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The three-day event aims to examine the role played by art in rural communities and will feature contributors from Ireland, Spain, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. They include Berlin-based art critic and curator Simon Sheikh who is coordinator of the Critical Studies Programme at Malmö Art Academy, and American Suzanne [...]

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The second annual Heinrich Böll Memorial weekend will take place in Achill from 13th to the 15th October 2006. Following on from a successful inaugural event in 2005, the organisers The Achill Heinrich Böll Association, are developing the weekend programme of lectures and events as a tangible memory of the Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, who [...]

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100 + Artists Studios All Day Free Public Event: Saturday 30 September 2006 For the first time in Dublin, over one hundred artists will open their studio doors to the public on Saturday 30 September 2006. Seven of the city’s largest artists’ studio groups will take part in VISIT, a unique addition to Dublin’s cultural [...]

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The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork (UCC) will divulge the secret of the art of looking to every school in Munster, with the start of the new school year. The Art of Looking, an art pack which will be launched in the Glucksman today (20 September 2006), is the first Glucksman publication specifically concerned [...]

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The Staircase Poetry Project at The Dock in Carrick on Shannon culminates in the publication of the book Staircase Poems documenting the entire 12 months of poetry and visuals by Alice Lyons. There will be an event to celebrate the launch of the book and a reading of Staircase Poems at The Dock on Sunday [...]

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Irish artist Enda O’Donoghue will be participating in the forthcoming exhibition “boulevART” which opens on the 15th September and runs until the 24th September. The exhibition is organised by Kunstherbst Berlin 06 as a highlight of Berlin’s 10th Kunstherbst festival, and features the work of 33 emerging international artists which are shown in various public [...]

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Hedge School 06 is a public art project facilitated by artist and educator Glenn Loughran. Taking place in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland from 24th of August to the 7th of October 2006, the project’s starting point is collaborative building event – the construction of a temporary school building from straw bales, built over four days [...]

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Performances:                                                                                                                           Alex McMahon 8th September 6.30pm Temple Bar Gallery                                                 Stasis, wavefield radiator spectral composition for string quartet and electronics with live guitar & Eb clarinet   Ricardo Climent 9th September 5pm Temple Bar Gallery                                                Oxidising the Spectrum, composition for electronics with microbial fuel cell ensemble   Barbara Ellison 15th September 7.30pm Temple Bar Gallery                                              Persona, [...]

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Through September Belfast Exposed will host a series of artists’ talks and public discussions around the subject of migration and identity. 20 September 06, 6 – 7.15pm Artists Talk Series 1 Anthony Haughey an artist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ulster will discuss the making of Between a visual media project critically [...]

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Riverbank Arts Centre, in association with Whitewater Shopping Centre is pleased to announce a Visual Art Group Exhibition to be held in Riverbank and Whitewater for five weeks, between Thursday, 5th October and Friday, 10th November, 2006. The exhibition is open to any artist living in County Kildare. Submissions are invited in the categories of [...]

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Renowned artist, Elizabeth Cope is exhibiting new art at Bold Art Gallery this week. Bold Art Gallery played host to Elizabeth Cope’s successful Solo Exhibition in 2005 and regularly exhibits her art work at the gallery. Elizabeth Cope, best known as a painter of bright, bold colourful pictures. She paints spontaneous, spirited still lives, domestic [...]

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