• Picture This: Dublin Gallery Weekend

    November 21, 2017 - By 

    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…

  • Paper Visual Art Journal Launch

    November 21, 2017 - By 

    This Thursday sees the launch of the latest Paper Visual Art Journal in Dublin’s Candle Bar. This is the 8th edition of PVA’s hard copy series and features contributions from Rob Doyle, Jennie Guy, Joanna Walsh and more. The event kicks off at 7pm in the Candle Bar (above Hogan’s) with full details available online here.

  • Picture This: High Winds Move Slowly @ The Model

    October 28, 2017 - By 

    One of the more interesting quirks of our society, as it moves through the ages, is the re-emergence of patterns that we often mistake as being innovative simply because they did not initially emerge during our lifetime. Fashion notoriously produces examples of this each and every season. The cultural polymath is another example of a re-emerging pattern disguised as a new facet. He or she is a photographer/artist/filmmaker – and it is not unusual to view a business card inundated with slashes to highlight this. While this may seem as a new trend, a short glance back in history reveals…

  • Picture This: Meanwhile @ CIT Wandesford Quay

    February 22, 2017 - By 

    What: Meanwhile Where: CIT Wandesford Quay When: February 3rd – February 25th Words: Judt Fisher “This exhibition is a celebration,”  said Catherine Fehily, head of CIT Crawford College of Art and Design as she opened the new show Meanwhile in the Wandesford Quay Gallery.  “These artists have succeeded in combining creative thought with critical intelligence, resilience and tenacity resulting in D.I.Y-led productivity and action, and we are proud.” Meanwhile is curated by Aideen Quirke and shows work from artists who graduated from  Crawford College of Art and Design between 2008-2013. These artists through their work, the organisations they have founded and events they have organised…

  • Picture This: Your National Visual Arts Guide – Time

    October 24, 2016 - By 

    Mankind has always will be obsessed with time. How long does anything take? When will something happen? We use it as a yardstick for task and events. As a society we’re enthralled by time-travel, constantly preoccupied with how long things take to do and get to. We’ve even coined the phrase ‘time immemorial’ to indicate how long things have been the way there are – it’s July 6th 1189 in case you were curious. Time is a revisionary tool by which we revisit the past and judge previous actions, comparing and contrasting them to now – they same time heals…

  • Picture This: Your National Visual Arts Guide – Narrative

    October 11, 2016 - By 

    Most exhibitions, in fact most artistic presentations be they albums, books or films, rely on and in most cases are defined by the strength of the narrative that exists or is absent from their presentation. They ensure an audience is guided through the work and suitably poked in the right direction when needed or left to surmise when required. While this idea of a structural narrative is almost universally present in outputs, it’s realisation and presence can be a diverse as the types of works it links and flows between. It can seen conjoining two distinct and seemingly opposing stories…

  • Picture This – Your National Visual Arts Guide: August Bank Holiday

    July 29, 2016 - By 

    August is upon us this weekend. The business end of the summer has arrived, and with it the penultimate Bank Holiday Weekend of the year. We’ve squeezed an extra day off from the boss (hopefully) and Ireland’s galleries have a host of great shows on offer. In Cork we see an exploration of the artist as a wanderer and recorder, with a host of international artist on display in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. In Drogheda the Marmite Prize for Painting arrives on these shores for the first time with Highlanes Gallery playing host. The West provides refuge for a trio…

  • Under Cover: Darragh Nolan

    November 20, 2013 - By 

    Hi Darragh! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started? My name is Darragh Nolan, I studied Visual Communications in NCAD. I’ve always leaned towards the music side of things regardless of the medium I guess. I’m an artist (musically) myself so I guess it helps to be able to see an album cover from both sides, to be able to put myself in the shoes of the artist I’m creating for and wonder ‘what would fit?’. I’ve just naturally evolved into this area I think through knowing lots of musicians and the kind…