The Annual AAI Awards exhibition is Ireland’s longest running architectural awards programme, the only internationally peer-reviewed architecture awards in Ireland that publish the discussion which takes place among the adjudicators. As a result the awards give the public an unprecedented … Ann Mulrooney : VISUAL, AAI Awards Exhibition
Visual Arts The Royal Hibernian Academy offers residences to a select number of artists from all over the country. Bernadette Kiely, a painter from Kilkenny, has been working on a body of work for an upcoming exhibition while on her residency. Bernadette Kiely : RHA residency
Nick Kavanagh introduces the Waterford Spraoi Parade. “Spraoi Festival has become something of an August Bank Holiday institution. For three days, the city devotes itself to a variety of street art and spectacle, featuring hundreds of performers, live music, and … SPRAOI : Street Theatre in Waterford
Theatre Arthur Miller was a giant of 20th century American theatre. With a writing career that spanned over 50 years, he will be best remembered for the classics Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons and A View from … Arthur Miller : A View From The Bridge
Cork City Ballet in association with Cork Opera House presents Swan Lake If you’ve never seen “Swan Lake”, now’s the time! Cork City Ballet is back, and the company’s full length production of this ballet lays claim to a legacy … Alan Foley : Swan Lake, Cork City Ballet
Theatre Fresh from the success of The Pillowman, Decadent Theatre Company returns with a show the Young Vic audience voted as one of the top 3 shows of the last twenty five years. Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan … Vernon God Little
Visual Arts From Strachaire Fir by Joseph Higgins (1916) to the bronze head of her nephew Stephen Archer: Tight Head Prop (2014), Vivienne Roche RHA curates an exhibition of sculptures called Head to Head in the historic Sculpture Galleries. The exhibition will … Vivienne Roche : Head to Head at Crawford Art Gallery
Festivals Music Sounds from a Safe Harbour is a brand new festival of music, art and conversation, curated by Bryce Dessner of The National. Two years since its inception by Bryce and Cork Opera House CEO, Mary Hickson, Sounds from a Safe … Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival
Visual Arts July’s twelve minute arts-news compilation for NvTv in Belfast and Cork Community Television. Culturefox : ArtsIreland
Visual Arts An introduction to the exhibitions running in the Garden Gallery at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and running into 2016. The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) aims in all its activities to create for the public an enjoyable … IMMA : The Garden Gallery
Visual Arts Don’t miss out on exciting exhibition showcasing Ireland’s leading established artists and the best of emerging Irish artistic talent at Joan Clancy Art Gallery. Located in the Irish-speaking area of An Rinn (Ring), 10k from Dungarvan, the area is a … Joan Clancy Art Gallery : Christmas Magic
Visual Arts Sandra Kelly introduces the SOMA gallery in Waterford as it embarks on a new phase of development. “Our mission is to foster within society, an awareness, understanding and involvement in the visual arts through policies and programmes which are excellent.” … Sandra Kelly : SOMA Gallery, Waterford
The seventh compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art in Ireland TV. ArtsIreland VII
The sixth compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art in Ireland TV. ArtsIreland VI
Visual Arts Triskel Arts Centre was founded in 1978, and moved to its current home in Tobin Street in 1986. Triskel celebrated its Thirtieth Anniversary in 2008. As Cork’s principal Arts Centre our mission has always been to commission, present, and promote … Triskel Arts Centre
Music For the 100th anniversary of the formation of Ireland celebrated bass guitarist and composer Ronan Guilfoyle introduces a musical project to celebrate the life of his grandfather, Joe Guilfoyle, a teenage volunteer during the 1916 Rising. The finished composition will … Ronan Guilfoyle : Work in Progress
Visual Arts Articulating the Value of Artist Led Organisations in Ireland FOOTFALL is a national research project devised by 126 Artist-Run Gallery to explore the position of small arts organisations in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The aim of the research programme is … Lucy Elvis : Discussing Footfall
Visual Arts Gavin Porter’s practice uses the mediums of drawing and etching to create a visual language exploring the territory between the real and the imagined, the sublime and the absurd. Referencing techniques observed in historical engravings, Porter’s work exploits the linear, … Gavin Porter : Journey of a Fruit Fly
Visual Arts Matthew Nevin introduces Conor Ferguson’s Photography Exhibition opening in November 27 @ 6:00 pm and running to December 5 and work resulting from Jane Tagg’s International Residency at MART in Dublin. www.mart.ie Matthew Nevin : MART November to December Programme
Visual Arts An exhibition of portrait paintings by Colin Davidson (born 1968), reveals the stories of eighteen people who are connected by their individual experiences of loss through the Troubles – a turbulent 30-year period in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s … Kim Mawhinney : Silent Testimony by Colin Davidson
Visual Arts Sir John Lavery is best known as a society portraitist and for a remarkable series of formal portraits of politicians and prelates. This small exhibition looks instead at the private world of Sir John Lavery, and brings together portraits he … Anne Stewart : Lavery’s World
Literature Visual Arts Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
Visual Arts Featuring modern and contemporary masterworks from the world’s leading collections by ABRAMOVIĆ, BRANCUSI, DALÍ, DUCHAMP, ERNST, GIACOMETTI, OPPENHEIM, PICASSO, WARHOL, YOKO ONO, and many more. What We Call Love is accompanied by an exciting programme of screenings, talks, events and … Rachael Thomas : What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now
Visual Arts E.gress is a filmic artwork that maps a world of loss and change, exploring how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to changing world. This multi-layered film, a portrait of living moments on life’s edge, invites us … Marie Brett : E.gress
Books Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
Visual Arts This new exhibition of photographs by Eamonn Farrell at the Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar examines the public image of Charles Haughey – the most controversial politician since the foundation of the state. With his Napoleonic manner, driving ambition and … Eamonn Farrell : Charles Haughey: power, politics & public image
Visual Arts An exhibition of works of art influenced by dreams and the unconscious Encompassing strands of artistic expression ranging from early twentieth century Symbolism, to late twentieth century Photo-Realism, The Language of Dreams explores aspects of Irish art often overlooked in … Crawford Art Gallery : The Language of Dreams
Ireland’s oldest film festival and Cork’s flagship cultural happening, the Cork Film Festival lights up and delights the Rebel City in November. In 2015 the Festival celebrates its 60th Edition, taking place 6-15 November. Its log line is ‘Films. Music. … James Mullighan : Cork Film Festival
Visual Arts Galway Arts Centre presents DUALITY OF FUNCTION curated by Kate Howard & Rob D’Eath, featuring the work of Piet Stockmans (BEL), Alicja Patanowska (POL/GBR) and Isobel Egan (IRL). DUALITY OF FUNCTION features the work of three artists whose practices explore … Rob D’Eath : Duality of Function
