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For Irish Portrait Artist and tutor Alan Keane (65) the restrictions of lockdown may have kept him behind closed doors but they also were the keys to open up an exciting new adventure into the world of media and presentation. “Just when it seemed the world was closing in especially on older citizens like myself”…
Hennessy and the National Gallery of Ireland have announced the 14 finalists chosen for the Hennessy Portrait Prize 2016. The finalists were selected from almost 400 entries encompassing a wide range of media and materials, by artists living in Ireland and Irish artists abroad. The shortlisted artists for the Hennessy Portrait Prize 2016 are: Peter…
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Last night saw the opening of an exhibition featuring the work of Jin Yong and Cathriona Cleary in Gallery 27 (underneath the Leinster Gallery) . Jin Yong is a Chinese Visual and Performance artist based in Dublin since 2002. Cathriona Cleary is an Irish artist who has a BA in Fine Art from DIT who…
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Last night (Thursday June 5th) I went along to the opening of an exhibition in Dublin 2. I was not prepared for the scale and visual impact of the works. The first thing you see as you walk into the hexagonal space is an enormous visual realisation of James Joyce’s famous novel ‘Ulysses’. This took…
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An exhibition of paintings by Dublin artist Oisin Roche opened last night in Oliveto At The Kingston Hotel, Dun Laoghaire. The exhibition features landscape, portrait and still life painting in oil. The exhibition continues until June.
