Art and Artists of Ireland news and blog
Ireland’s biggest and best art fair is set to return to the RDS this weekend. Running from Friday, 9th November to Sunday, 11th November, Art Source is a unique event which will feature work from hundreds of artists and galleries. The show’s underlying ethos is that art is for everyone, and so it gives visitors…
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Frank O’Dea teams up with fellow Dublin artist, Pervaneh Matthews at Balla Bán Art Gallery, Westbury Mall, Dublin in November for an exhibition entitled “Man on the Moon” and will take place in conjunction with ‘Science Week 2012? whose theme this year is everyday experimenting. Perhaps the greatest experiment known to mankind was to put…
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A new venue to buy original art has opened in the Old Tramyard in Dalkey. Piergroup is an Independent Artists Group selling their own work. Piergroup art will open each Saturday and Sunday until Christmas with paintings, etchings, prints, ceramics, fine art photography and mixed-media pieces. Buy direct from the artist.
I recently visited Padraig McCaul in his studio in County Wicklow. The studio is down a country lane in the loft of a converted farm outhouse that he shares with artist Denise Hussey. Unlike most other artists that I know, Padraig embraces the business side of his art career. A lot of artists just want…
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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