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Free Open Air Painting Event to Celebrate Virginia’s 400th Anniversary

Laoise — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:15:17 +0000

Virginia’s Open Air Art event will be a major part of the Virginia 400 celebrations and will take place around Virginia, Co. Cavan over the June Bank Holiday Weekend 1st – 4th June 2012. Entry is open to any artist over 18 years of age. These 3 days of painting will culminate in a juried exhibition on Bank Holiday Monday with cash prizes, art material prizes and sales of paintings. The Virginia open air painting event will feature: 3 Days of Painting in Virginia and surrounding areas; Free outdoor demonstrations; paint outs around Virginia; exhibition; evening social events. There will also be some paint outs before the event. For more information and registration form check out our website: www.virginiaopenairart.com | Or contact the Event Coordinator, Jim Mc Partlin T: 0877576846

Group Show at Iontas Centre, Castleblayney

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:17:23 +0000

“Suddenly” is an exhibition by a new collective of four female, Monaghan based artists: Louise Loughman, Grace Brennan, Roisin Duffy and Niamh O’Connor. Each artists works in a different discipline encompassing mediums such as Batik and Textiles, Glass and Photography, Paint and Encaustic(wax). Runs from Sat 28th April – Tuesday 8th May 2012 at Iontas Centre Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan.

Group Residency Project on Ballymastocker Bay, Donegal

Laoise — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:25:42 +0000

12 - 13 May | Ballymastocker Bay, Portsalon, Donegal | A Project Initiated By John Ryan And Tom Watt | Participating Artists: Sara Amido, Clare Breen, Ruth Clinton, Amanda Conrad, Peter Donnellan, Jane Fogarty, Sarah Gordon, Tracy Hanna, Tom Lawton, David Lunney, Niamh Moriarty, James O hAodha, Matthew Slack. RESORT is a 10 day long residency undertaken by artists on Ballymastocker Bay, Portsalon, Donegal, a beach near the furthest north point of Ireland. The idea to use a beach as the environment for this project was born from a show that some of us participated in last November, where all of the work was site specific and would no longer exist after the show had finished. Given that the beach is a public space, artists were invited to participate in the residency with the understanding that none of the work will exist in the phenomenal world after the project was over. Non participants are invited to the location on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of May to engage with artists through viewing of works created and discussion of outcomes of the experience | www.apopulardestination.wordpress.com [1] [1] http://www.apopulardestination.wordpress.com

Group Show at Ulster Canal Stores, Clones, Co Monaghan

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:59:43 +0000

John Soffe at Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:19:21 +0000

1st May – 31st May 2012 | Opening: Tuesday, 1st May 2012. |

John Soffe – RCC Live | An exhibition of photographs of live music concerts staged at the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny over the past five years, since it opened its doors in July 2007. John’s dramatic images of musicians in full flight provide a taste of the diversity and excitement of the RCC’s live music programme to date. www.johnsoffe.com

Denzil Browne at Fort Dunree, Donegal

Laoise — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:50:53 +0000

14th April – 14th May | Opening Saturday 14th April at 2pm | Fort Dunree, Inishowen, Co. Donegal |
‘Photo Chemical Process’ : An exhibition of new work produced in an Artlink Darkroom Residency: Darkroom Prints and Cyanotypes – a 160 year old photographic process using sunlight to capture images on paper. During 2011, Denzil Browne developed his practice specializing in research into pinhole photography and photograms during an Artlink darkroom residency and delivered projects exploring this medium with teenagers from the local Gaeltacht. The culmination of the artist’s Artlink residency is this exhibition at Fort Dunree. A workshop exploring Cyanotypes technique will be held on Sunday 15th April 1pm – 4pm, places limited. Please contact T: 0044 7840102952 for information | www.artlink.ie

Samuel Walsh at Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny

Laoise — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:49:55 +0000

Exhibition runs until 26th May 2012 | Port Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal | ‘The Coercion of Substance’: New Paintings by Samuel Walsh | The exhibition will have an official public opening event later in its run. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Gemma Tipton on the artist. The title of the exhibition ‘The Coercion of Substance’ is taken from the poem by Seamus Heaney, ‘The Artist’, from his 1984 book of poems ‘Station Island’. The title suggests the idea of the artist taking pigments, oils and other materials and cajoling and manipulating them into something new on a canvas. This describes perfectly both the desire and the journey first begun by Samuel Walsh in the late 1970s when he began his career as an artist and which has culminated in this new exhibition. Further information E: samuelwalsh@eircom.net | www.samuelwalsh.com