Sitting on top of Spring and looking forward to Summer, Blue House Gallery is hosting an exciting run of exhibitions and artists that in their own way reflect the spirit, colour and times we live in. Running May 27 until June 15: (on the ground floor) Nigel Huleatt-James offers us […]
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‘The Hold’, which opens on Bere Island on Friday, June 17, documents the lives of 24 Bere Island women throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and the hold the island has on them. The women, formed a collective, Bere Island Women Create, and during lockdown worked remotely with award winning island artist […]
Modern Irish Sculpture opened on June 2 at The Kenmare Butter Market, County Kerry, with more than 30 of Ireland’s foremost sculptors exhibiting. One of Ireland’s most exciting new gallery spaces, The Kenmare Butter Market opened in June 2020 to showcase the work of both national and international artists; this […]
Artist Jackie Nevin and Dunmanway library are enjoying an extraordinary response to their collaborative art project ‘Bringing Outside In’. The library window, a focal point in the town, is home to a series of wonderful sculptures that celebrate the natural world. Dunmanway library has collated and presents books and activities […]
Appropriation is a long-established strategy in modern, post-modern and contemporary painting. The desire to ‘revamp’, ‘re-mix’ or ‘re-orchestrate’ a masterpiece of old is as complex as it is interesting. Picasso’s appropriations of ElGreco were both a way of identifying with the Baroque master and his greatness, and colonising that greatness. […]
Art…what does that mean again? When I started researching definitions of art, I quickly realised that I was entering a minefield. It appears to be extremely contentious, which is astonishing when you consider that art has been made for thousands of years. Surely, I was thinking, there is something universal, […]
