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  (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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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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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 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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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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This annual Art Fair took place earlier this month in the RDS.  The art fair  (Ireland’s largest) hosted 130 exhibitors from Ireland, South Africa, Belgium, Mongolia, Canada and the UK and featured a range of  paintings, sculpture, prints and photography. Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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There was a great buzz in Filmbase, Temple Bar last night for the opening of John Fitzsimons’ first solo exhibition ‘conversion’.  The exhibition was opened by Karim Rehmani White.  There were 12 paintings on display and by the end of the evening, seven had little red dots beside them – a great testament to the standard [...]

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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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North-West Promotions are taking 50 artists on a tour of Ireland and the North starting this November 11th-13th in Letterkenny.   35 artists are committed so there are spaces  for another 15. “We held the Donegal Art Festival back in August and had 50 artists and crafters exhibiting their work together for two days and an [...]

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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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Dublin Contemporary 2011 was launched yesterday (September 5th) at the exhibition’s HQ on Earlsfort Terrace next door to the NCH. Responding to the theme Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, and led by curators Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné, the exhibition presents the work of more than 100 of the world’s most [...]

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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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The third of the People’s Art 2011 exhibitions finished up today (21st August) in St. Stephen’s green. The last one of 2011 takes place next month 23rd-25th September. Share this:ShareFacebookStumbleUpon

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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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