There will be no end of thrills, spills and probably a few shocks at the Culture Shocks, Punk Rock Festival at Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th of March. The festival features eleven great bands over the two days and a ticket can be yours for an inflation busting €40. You wouldn’t get a …
The ‘Other Worlds’ exhibition right here on our doorstep in rural Donegal is an accomplished curation of our national collection of art at this moment in time. Both the traditional and the contemporary greatly captivate the senses as one era or art form is allowed to segue into the next, regardless of media, artistic intent, …
Artist Karol Mac Gairbheith responds to ‘Other Worlds’ exhibition Read More »
Aileen Mc Keogh’s A Break in the Clouds to me for its uniqueness and originality. It has a haunting presence and a strong message. The sculpture is created mainly in pieces of burnt paper depicting a burnt hillside. It is all silent there now the insects that lived there on the earth are all dead, the birds have …
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On being asked to respond to the ‘Other Worlds’ exhibition with thoughts on my favourite work and how it resonates I was challenged to name just one work as there are so many that call out to me in different ways. In the end I returned to the piece that spoke to me so powerfully on …
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Martin Gale’s work at RCC ‘Other Worlds’ Meditation as an event of the mind reflected and documented through the act of creating a painting is what I see in Martin Gale’s paintings each time I look there to see, to give it the existential attention his works deserve. In the watercolour painting ‘The Appointment’ from …
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Music Network’s artist residency programme will run at six locations across the country from July to December 2023 Music Network and Regional Cultural Centre have announced Phil Robson as the new RESONATE artist-in-residence for 2023. Guitarist and composer Phil will develop a new work in collaboration with pianist Izumi Kimura and visual artist Jaki Irvine …
The Donegal County Council Artists Bursaries Scheme welcomes applications from individual professional artists of all disciplines for assistance towards arts projects which are on-going or proposed. The scheme is designed to support individual artists at any stage of their career to sustain and further their practice. Bursaries of up to €1500 each may be offered under the Scheme. …
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National Gallery of Ireland announces shortlists for Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize competitions Exhibitions run in Dublin and at the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny in 2022 and 2023 From hundreds of entries, the shortlists of this year’s Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize have been announced by the National Gallery …
National Gallery to bring Portrait Prize exhibition to Donegal in 2023 Read More »
A NEW Donegal-inspired composition by an award-winning Irish electronica artist and composer celebrating Colmcille premieres online this afternoon (Thursday), 7th April. Ryan Vail was invited by the Regional Cultural Centre (RCC), Letterkenny and Glebe House & Gallery, Churchill to create a new piece of music that would re-imagine Benjamin Britton’s Donegal-inspired ‘A Hymn for St. …
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Photo by Dónal Talbot Rachel Botha has been selected as the inaugural Early-Career Curator-in-Residence for the RCC and Glebe House & Gallery. We are absolutely delighted to announced that Rachel will be working closely with the RCC and Glebe Gallery over the next year, developing a multi-venue exhibition in conjunction with Arts Council Collection and …
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