Art and Artists of Ireland news and blog
On Thursday 6th of November Gormleys Fine Art in Dublin opened an exhibition of new paintings by the artist Claudio Viscardi. The exhibition attracted a great crowd and was officially opened by Bill Cullen who spoke about his own interest in Claudio’s work. The exhibition continues until the 20th of November.
The RHA‘s annual exhibition opened this evening. There are 536 artworks in this year’s exhibition, with 73 invited artists and 300 works selected from this year’s open submission section. The 2008 exhibition marks the re-opening of their new and improved facilities. Painter Comhghall Casey won this year’s Hennessy Craig scholarship worth 12,000 euro for his…
Last weekend saw the launch of Yanny Petter’s exhibition ‘Field Work’ at the Riverside Gallery, Bridgewater Centre, Arklow. This exhibition organised and curated by Olivier Cornet (Olliart) features paintings and drawings from meadows and grasslands. The exhibition is open 30 October to 2 November and 6 November to 9 November 2008.
Chára Nagle‘s second solo exhibition ‘Moments II’ was launched in ‘The Residence‘ on Stephens Green. It was attended by an A-list crowd to help Chára and her husband, Jason, celebrate this new collection of work. Most paintings were snapped up during the exhibition. Chára’s next solo exhibition will be in September/October 2009.
For the third 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 to partly boost the fragile confidence of artists and to show the public the art that is not selected by the…