• HALFTONE 2018 Launch

    Tonight sees the launch of the 2018 edition of HALFTONE print fair in The Library Project in Dublin’s Temple Bar. Running for just over two weeks, HALFTONE features over 70 artists with a mixture of photography, screen printing and multi-media works. There are pieces to suit a wide variety of budgets, and the works are from a broad range of emerging and established artists, including Shane Lynam, Roisin White and Jordan McQuaid. The fair kicks off tonight at 6pm and runs until November 18th, you can browse the artists featured online here.

  • PhotoIreland Festival Launch

     Laia Abril – On Abortion Today sees the launch of this year’s PhotoIreland Festival, with a number of events in and around Dublin to mark the occassion. The month long festival coincides with the Eighth Amendment referendum on May 25th, and this huge societal and political debate is refreshingly not absent from either the content or structure of the festival. For PhotoIreland’s duration the main hub of the foundation, The Library Project, will be taken over by the Together for Yes campaign. With this year’s main exhibitions including Laia Abril’s On Abortion and Sarah Cullen’s You Shall Have Exactly What You…

  • Exhibition: Gaelic Fields @ The Library Project

    Opening today in The Library Project is Paul Carroll’s new body of work Gaelic Fields. The project is the culmination of seven years work, that saw Carroll traverse the 32 counties of the island documenting local GAA pitches. These spaces are hubs of the communities and the artist’s capturing of these local landscapes speaks of the both the societal nature of sport and its impact on the land. The work is on show from today (Tuesday 6th) with the official opening this coming Thursday (8th). The exhibition will continue until March 25th, with a book also produced, full details are available online…

  • 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…

  • Picture This: Inspirational Arts Award @ The Library Project

    Catarina Leone – Chrysalis Established in 2009, the Inspirational Arts Award, named after the Dublin printing studio of the same name, is an annual award open to recent graduates from the photography and lens based courses of Dublin IT, iadt Dun Laoghaire, Limerick IT and Griffith College Dublin. The award fulfils two briefs, firstly thanking the students over the years who have support Inspirational Arts with their custom, and secondly it provides a second chance for them to exhibit their graduation projects in an external gallery – further showcasing their work and beginning the transition from photographic student to artist. This…

  • Guts Magazine Fight Back Issue

    (Illustration by Lauren Kavanagh) Guts Magazine, the acclaimed Irish periodical of confessional writing and illustration, returns with a new issue in support of the Women’s Strike on March 8th. The special edition is an all-female one and is jam packed with great Irish writers and illustrators, including Una Mullally, Lian Bell, Sarah Griffin, Aoife Dooley, Fuchsia Macaree, and Jayde Perkin, with the issue being designed by Lauren Kavanagh. To celebrate Guts have taken over The Library Project for the night and alongside the usual drinks and tunes, there will be a print sale as well as some readings from the magazine. All proceeds…