• Critical Bastards Submission

    February 13, 2017 - By 

    Independent Irish publication Critical Bastards have announced details of an open submission for their 14th issue – the theme for the forthcoming issue is ‘Hope‘. Critical Bastards is a vital and engaging publication that seeks to open dialogues surrounding art in Ireland. Their last issue was an audio version to do with ‘Work‘ with the issue previous to that a print version with the theme of ‘Resourcefulness‘. We’re big supporters and fans of the work CB do and encourage all to submit! The closing date is March 14th with more info on submission requirements here.

  • Interactions @ Belfast Exposed

    February 18, 2017 - By 

    Today is that last to see Belfast Exposed’s Interactions exhibition. The show sees photographic artists who have taken part in the gallery’s Futures Programme over the last two years who have come together to explore human presence in both real and imaginary landscapes. Some of the most exciting photographers in Ireland are featured in the exhibition, including Ciaran Og Arnold (2015 First Book Award winner), Yvette Monahan (2016 Solas Prize shortlist) and Jan McCullough (2015 Kassel Fotobookfestival Dummy Award). The work on show is a combination of past projects displayed alongside new pieces of work, and represents a fantastic opportunity to catch some…

  • TULCA Arts Festival

    February 20, 2017 - By 

    TULCA Arts Festival returns for it’s 15th edition this November and key details about the festival have been released. Matt Packer, Director of CCA Derry~Londonderry, has been announced as this year’s curator, with the festival itself being titled They Call us the Screamers. The title is drawn from the Jenny James novel of the same name, which details the establishment of the therapy commune (Atalantis) by James in the West of Ireland in the 1970s. With this in mind this year’s festival narrative is a look at “anti-modernism, cultural withdrawal, primal voice, self-enlightenment, and an attempt to establish new forms of social relations in…

  • Ban an Tí Exhibition

    February 10, 2017 - By 

    Today and tomorrow are the last days to catch the Ban an Tí exhibition in The Chocolate Factory on King’s Inn Street. The show is a multi-artist response to the home as a female space, and looks at the domestication of femininity and the role of women in modern Irish society. Ban an Tí features a broad range of mediums from a multitude of artists, including Orla Langton, Kathryn McShane and Rachael Kelly – who was recently long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Price 2017. As well as installation work, performance art is also included with tomorrow seeing Léann Herlihy performing A glove is a gift at 3pm. The space is open…

  • Plastik Festival 2017 Launch

    February 9, 2017 - By 

    Returning this March is the biennial Plastik Festival. The weekend long festival was created in a collaboration with London’s LUX art agency, and is presented in partnership with Tempe Bar Gallery + Studios, the IFI and Dun Laoghaire’s iadt. 2015’s edition saw screenings, discussions and exhibitions in Cork, Galway and Dublin and featured a range of artists including Gerard Byrne and Sarah Pierce. 2017’s edition has already seen the announcement of Hilary Lloyd’s new show Woodall in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, with the show’s opening also doubling as the launch of the festival’s full schedule. Opening tomorrow Friday at 5pm be sure to catch this…

  • Susan MacWilliams @ Highlanes Gallery

    February 14, 2017 - By 

    Opening this Saturday, February 18th, in Drogheda’s Highlanes Gallery is Modern Experiments – a look at the work of one of Ireland’s most intriguing and beguiling artists: Susan MacWilliams. The exhibition features work from MacWilliams’ extensive back catalogue, with focus on her output since 1998 when she began to use video as a medium. The show is a cross-border collaboration between both the Republic and Northern Arts Councils, which saw the show open in F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio prior to Christmas, before been shown here in Highlanes, and then moving onto Uilinn in Cork and Butler Gallery in Kilkenny. You can…

  • Personae @ Butler Gallery

    February 18, 2017 - By 

    Established in 1943, and growing ever since through a combination of purchases, loans and gifts, the Butler Gallery’s permanent collection is both a broad and varied collation of artistic mediums. This year’s collection presentation is entitled Personae and features pieces on loan from the permanent collection at IMMA, with works by Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Jackie Nickerson and Thomas Ruff. As well as the artwork on display, the show also features the gallery’s on-going collaboration with Arts & Disability Ireland: Discovery Pens. A wonderful initiative that sees audio descriptive pens provided to visitors in order to allow all, regardless of sight, to engage with…

  • Primer: ADW

    February 6, 2017 - By 

    In this instalment of Primer street artist ADW chats about his recent projects & inspirations. Photos and interview by Mark Earley. Hi ADW, how’s tricks? Hiya! I’m great thanks, flying high and life couldn’t be better! Can you tell us about your current work? Last November I completed a new body of work which was presented in the solo exhibition BORN TO CREATE and, as I speak, I’ve just stepped off site from after a commission in the 3Arena, in their Premium Lounge no less. It’s been a hectic few months, but loving every minute. BORN TO CREATE, which was you 4th…

  • 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…

  • Picture This: Reconstructing Memory @ The Model

    February 8, 2017 - By 

    Cléa van der Grijn – Reconstructing Memory (Image Courtesy of Heike Thiele) What: Reconstructing Memory Where: The Model, Sligo When: 17th Decmber 2016 – 2nd April 2017 Words: Rebecca Kennedy Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn has spent nearly a decade meditating on our society’s response to death and loss. From 2008’s Momentos to her new show, Reconstructing Memory, in Sligo’s The Model, the artist has harbored a fixation with death and loss – a fixation that has nourished her creative process. Reconstructing Memory is an exhibition that examines the disparities between the cultural responses to death in both Ireland and Mexico. Irish culture has an…