Visual Arts Local artist and WIT graduate, Denise McAuliffe Hutchinson, has recently completed a Masters in Fine Art Painting at NCAD Dublin. “The weight of attraction # 2” explores a number of concepts surrounding the theme of sensuality. In most situations we … Denise McAuliffe : The Weight of Attraction
Visual Arts Jacinta is a professional artist based on the Carlow/Wicklow border in Ireland. She has a deserved reputation as Ireland’s foremost contemporary canine and equestrian artist. She exhibits widely, her work being shown in the Gormley Gallery, Dublin; The Lee Gallery, … Jacinta Crowley Long : Butler House Exhibition
Visual Arts Award winning artist, Maeve Doherty will exhibit her paintings and ceramics at Butler House, Patrick St, Kilkenny during Arts Festival 2016. Her exhibition this year has a coastal theme influenced by the shores of her native South East. Exhibition from … Maeve Doherty : Exhibition of Paintings & Ceramics
Visual Arts Nicola is from Waterford and received the Garter Lane 6 Month Studio Award after graduating from Visual Art in WIT in 2015. Fragments of Dreams is an exhibition of watercolour illustrations with a fairy tale quality. During the process of … Nicola Chestnutt : Fragments of Dreams
Visual Arts Ruth Duignan is a Leitrim based fashion designer. She graduated from the fashion department of the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009. In 2008 she completed a 6 month internship in Tokyo at the Japanese menswear label, Aptform. … Ruth Duignan : Previewing ‘Future Makers 2016’
Visual Arts Connolly’s practice encompasses process based sculptural works, objects and performative events both inside and outside the gallery space. In his most recent series of works the Belfast based artist distills across varying scales the causes and affects of risk and … Brian Connolly : “FRACTURED THINKING”
Visual Arts I Went to the Woods looks at how artists have experienced and portrayed their surroundings in the course of walks, journeys and aimless wanderings. Featuring works by Irish and international artists, the exhibition explores the artist as a drifter, nomad, … Chris Clarke : I Went to The Woods
Visual Arts Irish-born photographer Enda Bowe’s work is concerned with story telling and the search for light and beauty in the ordinary. He is based in London and his first book Kilburn Cherry has recently been published by J&J Books. At Mirrored … Oren Little : At Mirror River
Visual Arts Remco De Fou, Annabel Konig, Rachel Joynt, Gwen Wilkinson, Michelle Byrne, Anthony Lyttle, Martin Lyttle, Cathy Fitzgerald and Jules Michael. The Nine Stones Artists was formed in 2004. Its members are professional artists who live and work in the foothills … Annabel Konig : The Possibilities of Place, Nine Stones Artists
Visual Arts A native of Crosshaven, Luke Sisk draws on childhood folklore from Camden Fort Meagher as well as architectural and engineering details, to create a body of work that combines fact and fiction through the medium of glass and ceramics. Sisk’s … Luke Sisk : Pale Green Ghosts
Visual Arts Cré, an Irish Gaelic word meaning earthen or made of clay. This exhibition presents work by the 10 current graduates of the internationally renowned DCCoI’s Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Hosted in the prestigious location of … National Craft Gallery : CRÉ (Graduate Show)
The Eileen Gray exhibition realised one of Gray’s last ambitions – to have her work brought back to Ireland. Regarded as one of the most influential 20th Century designers and architects, the exhibition includes important items such as the adjustable … Audrey Whitty and Jennifer Goff : Eileen Gray Exhibition
Visual Arts Peter Murray, Éimear O’Connor, Anne Boddaert and Dawn Williams introduce the current exhibitions, Conflicting Visions in a Turbulent Age: 1900–1916, Perceptions 2016: The Art of Citizenship and 1916 Ireland in Contemporary Art. Crawford Art Gallery : Summer Exhibitions
Visual Arts Exhibition of Paintings & Prints by Lorraine Fenlon Artist & Tutor and featuring a special debut showing of the fine work of young students of Red Apple Arts. Raffle in aid of Carlow Regional Youth Services. “A ‘message’ may not … Lorraine Fenlon : A Brush with Summer
Visual Arts Internationally acclaimed photographer Pieter Hugo engages with documentary and art traditions to create intense and challenging images. Blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, his portraits can be read as a comment on identity, belonging and self-expression in post-colonial Africa. … Trish Lambe : Pieter Hugo, Thirteen Works
Visual Arts Droichead Arts Centre presents ‘Who Gotta Match’ by Laura Gramzow. Laura’s studio space is filled with collages and maquettes, that she refers to as she moves onto canvas and assemblages, adding and subtracting till she gets to the point where … Laura Gramzow : Who Gotta Match
Theatre Conor is a boy on a mission. To get as far away from home as he possibly can. Part puppet show, part installation piece, part animated film, part immersive experience and part ballet, this sensory and aesthetic introduction to astrophysics … Dan Colley : Conor: At the end of the Universe
Visual Arts Artist in residence at Leitrim Sculpture Workshop Noah Rose trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and has worked as a practising artist since 1991. He has developed a specialised strand of practice around public art, seeking out the invisible threads that … Noah Rose : What Matter
Visual Arts The exhibition, Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats, which has been described in The Irish Times as “one of the most important literary exhibitions yet staged internationally,” opened to unanimous acclaim on May 25, 2006. Since then, … Maeve Casserly : The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
Theatre Sacrifice at Easter, a new play by Pat McCabe (The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, The Big Yum Yum) for 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Entitled Sacrifice at Easter, the production will take place … Mel Mercier : Sacrifice at Easter
Visual Arts Orla is a painter whose work embraces the beauty of the natural world expressing its atmosphere of magic and enchantment. Inspiration for this exhibition has come from her most recent residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. The fairytale aspect of … Orla Barry : Otherworldly
Visual Arts In an attempt to approach the un-approachable and go where the faint-hearted don’t go, Brabazon opened a pot of Quink ink, took a deep breath and dipped into James Joyce’s famous novel. 18 small images emerged and like a scattering … Gay Brabazon : Ulysses
Visual Arts The Land will feature Paul Woods’ work. Woods will show 6 new paintings also on the theme of the 1916 Rising, completed in an abstract expressionist fashion. Woods works look at the scars and devastation of the land caused during … Paul Woods : The Land
CREATIVITY, PARTICIPATION, ACCESS Established in 2006, CoisCéim BROADREACH is founded on the principle that dance is a performing art. Its activities are pioneering, targeting all sections of the population in an exciting and innovative manner to create a genuine curiosity … CoisCéim : BROADREACH, Celebrating 10 Years
Visual Arts ”Where Is My Mind?” is the title and theme of a photo exhibition by Dave Hingerty of musicians and tour locations. The photographs represent the theme of duality which we all know, whereby people are engaged on one level with … Dave Hingerty : Where is my Mind?
Visual Arts The exhibition at SOMA, ‘HARD GIRLS’ is a celebration exhibition of surfaces and the superficial, the damaged and the disastrous. Fuelled by the aesthetics of ‘women-only gyms’, make-up tutorials, bodybuilder’s instagram feeds and a general sense of fatigue, this show … Jennifer Mehigan : Hard Girls
