Presented in association with the National Gallery of Ireland Following on from the outstanding success of the Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland, a new nationwide portrait competition was launched to encourage children to showcase their artistic abilities. The Zurich Young Portrait Prize aims to foster and support creativity, originality and self-expression …
Presented in association with the National Gallery of Ireland The annual competition showcasing contemporary portraiture is open to artists from across the island of Ireland, and Irish artists living abroad. The Zurich Portrait Prize is open to artists in all disciplines who are either resident in Ireland or Irish citizens living abroad. The aim of …
Ara Devine is an artist and filmmaker whose practice seeks to explore the social, cultural and political landscape of Ireland by examining commemoration, cultural narratives and the construction of national identity in moving images. He is currently finishing a practice-based PhD at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. The Irish Question was shortlisted for the …
An exhibition of black and white photographs featuring portraits of blues and folk musicians beginning in the 1970s. Featured in the exhibit will be blues musicians photographed in Chicago, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, East Texas and Irish traditional musicians from North Connacht and a number of places between. Born in Chicago, James Fraher currently …
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R2D2 – Paul Rooney and Deirdre SchoalesRecent work documenting ‘lockdown’ walks and exploring by two Letterkenny-based artists. “…that’s Reel 2, Dialog 2, and I said, ’I like that, that’s a great name. ’I wrote it down in my little book, ’Great name.’”George Lucas Deirdre Schoales (University of Ulster, BA Fine Arts) is a local artist …
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Brian Byrne trained in NCA and NCAD. During the 80’s and 90’s, he was a gallery artist with the Oriel gallery in Dublin. Brian exhibited in the annual RHA and Oireachtas exhibitions, during this time. In 1999 and 2000, he had a solo show at International Visions gallery in Washington DC, and in Orla Celtic Art, …
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I’m scrolling and scrolling through second-hand sites looking at what functions as a stand-in for me or anyone. It can be hard to know how the back of many of them look. I want to have a selection whose rears are as pleasing. Many of the designer brands have attended to this side. Like they’re more likely …
Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde – objects as buoys in the life acted (Gallery 1) Read More »
“I hope that my readings of particular terrains, although naturally couched in terms of human scales, those of my own limbs, eyes, breath etc., are suffused by an awareness of almost inconceivably greater and unimaginably smaller physical dimensions, not to mention those of the flowery fields and terrible cliffs of dreams.” – Tim Robinsoni Over …
Cornelius Browne – All Nature Has A Feeling (Gallery 2) Read More »
Opening Saturday 14th January, 7pm Franck Saucian was born in Martigues, France, in 1970. He studied painting throughout the 1990s in Marseille before moving to County Donegal in 2000. Little Pieces of the Self runs in RCC Gallery 2 until Saturday 11th February. “I have always had the desire to create. Through the years I …
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Opening Party – Saturday 21st January, 6.30pm.Exhibition continues until Saturday 11th March. The enigmatic landscape art of Ian Gordon. London-born artist Ian Gordon has lived in Gweedore for forty years, slowly developing a two track homage to the west coast landscape. His own Land Art ‘ burying pieces of embroidery out in the wilderness ‘ and plein air painting to document …
