• Picture This: Dublin Gallery Weekend

    This weekend sees the return of Dublin Gallery Weekend with events taking place across Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Now an established and vital part of the arts calendar in the capital, Dublin Gallery Weekend provides opportunities for one off events and tours, as well as linking longer running exhibitions into the weekend’s schedule. Below are a list of some of our highlights for the weekend. Thursday RHA Gallery Naomi Sex’s first major solo exhibition All this Surface and Surface is currently on in the RHA Gallery. 1pm sees a performance, titled Dealing Cars, Making Art, by Darina Gallagher. (This is repeated…

  • Exhibition: Isabel Nolan & Brendan Earley @ Douglas Hyde

    This Thursday sees two solo shows launched in Dublin's Douglas Hyde Gallery: Kerlin Gallery's Isabel Nolan in Gallery 1, with mother's tankstation's Brendan Earley in Gallery 2. Nolan presents a mixture of mediums, making use of photography, drawing, sculpture and installation work in a show titled: Calling on Gravity. Her work is an enquiry into why of existence drawing on a diverse set of characters, both real and fictional, as inspiration. Earley's show, titled back of beyond, sees the artist comment on escapes to the wilderness – be they completed by him or in the past by painters, filmmakers and walkers. Earley is…

  • Life after Buildings @ Mother’s Tankstation

    Opening tonight in Dublin’s Mother’s Tankstation is the latest exhibition from Irish artist Brendan Earley. The work, entitled Life after Buildings, is the result of Earley’s shift in focus over the last few years following the completion of a studio in the Wicklow Mountains. Taking ques from American poet Lew Welch, as well as the change in surroundings, Earley returns with a series of new drawings that seek to initiate rather than simply respond and record. This, coupled with his new more rural and less cluttered surroundings, has resulted in an intriguing and, on surface value, more minimal approach. The show…