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Last night saw the opening of an exhibition of still life paintings by Conor Walton. The show opened in Gormley’s, South Frederick Street, Dublin and is entitled “Bread and butter Paintings”. The exhibition features new oil paintings of household subjects such as bread, butter, grapes, cakes, biscuits, pears. The exhibition continues at Gormleys until 26th September.
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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‘Drawing Day’ is on this Saturday, May 17th from 11am-4pm in the National Gallery of Ireland as well as 54 other venues across Ireland. ‘Drawing Day’ was initiated by the National Gallery of Ireland in 2004 with the aim to encourage people to draw in their museums. It involves 54 arts centres, museums, libraries and…
Ireland’s biggest art fair – Art Source – which features work from hundreds of artists and galleries opens in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 tomorrow Friday 8th November. The exhibition continues until Sunday 10th November.
An exhibition of work by Ray Tsang opened last week in the Balla Bán Gallery, Westbury Mall, Dublin. Although he has a formal education in painting Ray Tsang is largely self taught. He mostly draws inspiration from the modern impressionists of America. He aims for his paintings to tell a story as well as being…