Art and Artists of Ireland news and blog
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.
The Water Colour Society of Ireland’s 158th show, Ireland’s largest exhibition of watercolours opened today (Sunday 23rd September) in County Hall Dun Laoghaire. The opening was well attended with many of the artists present. More than 290 paintings in watercolour, gouache and pastels, as well as drawings and prints, will be on sale to the…
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This annual Art Fair took place earlier this month in the RDS. The art fair (Ireland’s largest) hosted 130 exhibitors from Ireland, South Africa, Belgium, Mongolia, Canada and the UK and featured a range of paintings, sculpture, prints and photography.
Peoples Art 2011 was on again this weekend (24-26 June) on the railings of three sides of Stephen’s Green in Dublin 2. The event is organised for times a year by People’s Art Dublin – a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to…
There was a great turn out in the Blackrock Market Cafe this evening (Tuesday 10th May) for the opening of Veronica Heywood’s exhibition of mythological landscapes. The exhibition (curated by Tony Strickland) was opened by Lettie McCarthy, Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. The exhibition continues until June 19th.