• the arts column: December 18th

    December 18, 2018 - By 

    In this week’s arts column we’re looking at shows that will be on over the festive period, featuring shows in Cork, Dublin, Belfast and Roscommon. Be sure to check out last week’s edition which details of two shows closing this week in Belfast and Dublin. [In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives @ The National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin 2018 was a year packed with anniversaries and centenaries, notably the 100-year anniversary of the end of ‘The Great War’. In Ireland it was also the centenary of the first time women were granted suffrage, in an election that also saw the begins…

  • Perspectives: Richard Forrest @ Glucksman Gallery

    September 13, 2018 - By 

    Thursday September 20th see artist Richard Forrest host a lunchtime discussion in Cork’s Glucksman Gallery from 1pm. Forrest is currently on show in the gallery’s latest exhibition Please Touch, and the talk will see him explore themes raised in that work regarding the experience of an exhibition beyond traditional sight only perception. As part of Please Touch Forrest, along with Rhona Byrne, Maud Cotter and Katie Watchorn, actively encourage their audience to get up close and personal with the works, employing the sense of touch when engaging with the work. Forrest’s talk is part of a series of discussion with the artists involved, with…

  • Exhibition: Set in Time @ Glucksman

    June 21, 2017 - By 

    Founded in 1909 by Russian ballet and art impresario Sergei Diaghilev, Ballets Russes is recognised as a pivotal organistaion in the establishment and promotion of performative dance in the early decades of the 20th Century. As well as being home to some of the greatest ballet dancers of its time, including Nijinsky and Pavlova, Ballets Russes also saw Diaghilev commission pieces from contemporary artists, such as Picasso and Matisse, as well as costume designs from Coco Channel and compositional pieces from Stravinsky – who Diaghilev would eventually be buried near in Venice. In 1921, while only 16, Serge Liar was spotted by Diaghilev and he became his…

  • Picture This: Gut Instinct @ Glucksman Gallery

    February 1, 2017 - By 

    Thomas Rentmeister – Untitled (detail)  (Image Courtesy of Tomas Tyner / University College Cork) What: Gut Instinct: Art, Food and Feeling Where: Glucksman Gallery, Cork When: 25th November 2016 – 19th March 2017 Words: Judy Fisher “The gut is the seat of all feeling,” – Suzy Kassem This is the basic premise being explored by the artists in Gut Instinct: Art, Food and Feeling the current show at the Glucksman Gallery. The exhibition is a visceral display of our emotional relationships  with food in the light of recent discoveries by neuroscientist John Cryan of the UCC and his colleagues at the APC Microbiome…