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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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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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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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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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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I met up recently with Vincent Keeling of the Keeling Gallery in Clarendon Street, Dublin 2. As well as being the gallery owner, Vincent is an artist.  You can find his work in the gallery as well as that of a number of other contemporary artists. It strikes me that art is his life.  He [...]

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Tonight (Thursday 16 February) saw the opening of Debbie Lush‘s solo exhibition in the Balla Ban Gallery. “Addicted to Lush” is the title of Debbie’s new solo show in which the artist explores the various addictions that people may have and in particular the shopaholics who can’t get enough of shoes and handbags! Have a [...]

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Last week saw the opening of popular colourist and contemporary painter Lucy Doyle‘s solo exhibition ‘Rococo’  in the Doorway Gallery.  The gallery can be found at 24 South Frederick Street, Dublin 2. The exhibition continues until March 1st. Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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Last week saw the opening of an exhibition by Niall O’Loughlin who is considered by many to be one of the world’s top caricaturists. The exhibition is in the Balla Ban Gallery in the Westbury Mall, off Grafton Street. The exhibition closes today (26th November). Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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The exhibition “Father and Son” opened last Thursday, October 13th in the Doorway Gallery on South Frederick Street. The exhibition by Val Byrne and his son Roland Byrne was officially opened by Eamon de Buitlear. The exhibition coincides with Val’s 75th birthday. The show continues until Thursday November 3rd. Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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Recently I met with Maria Corbett, director of the Powerscourt Gallery. Maria took over the gallery in 2009 and works alongside with Philippa Kelly and Aisling Bodkin.  She has definitely noticed many changes since then.  2011 is a lot tougher than previous years. There are a lot less impulse buys.  People are buying because of [...]

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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 [...]

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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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