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Last Sunday (24th May) saw the 179th Annual Prize Giving ceremony take place in the Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin 2. The exhibition will run until the 25th July. The gallery is open 7 days a week. Monday – Saturday 11 – 7pm and Sunday 2 – 5pm. Admission is free
Cherrylane Fine Arts hosted a special preview of the work of contemporary impressionist, Andrew Hood, at No. 10 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 last night (20th May). Guests at the exhibition, entitled ’20 New Works’, included John Farrington from John Farrington Antiques, Michael O’Brien from O’Brien Press, Ireland’s leading publisher of adult and children’s books,…
Writer Sebastian Barry opened an exhibition of paintings for Wicklow based artist Rod Coyne at Origin Galley, Harcourt Street on Thursday 30th April. Entitled “Decade” the show is a series of new paintings celebrating Irelands majestic seascapes and landscapes and are based according to the artist “on a long running conversation with Irish landscapes”. The…
There was a queue down the street for the opening of the Bad Art Gallery Unselected show last Thursday (14th May). For the fourth year, an exhibition of art-work not selected for the RHA Annual Exhibition goes on show at the Bad Art Gallery on Francis Street, Dublin 8. The idea behind the exhibit is…
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Art exhibition titled “Veiled Horizon” by local artist Ann Brennan opened at Sous Le Vent Restaurant, Thurles, Co. Tipperary last Monday night 11th May. The opening was performed by Cllr. Seamus Hanafin. The exhibition continues until the end of June.