Culture

West Cork all-female band The Kates are set to launch their debut EP ‘Pictures Here of Dreams’ this month at the Clonakilty International Guitar Festival. A much-loved local band, The Kates were initially set up by folk and country musician Paula K O’Brien. Paula and her family organise a fundraiser […]

Chairmaker Alison Ospina’s most recent collaboration sees her teaming up with artist and printmaker Shane O’Driscoll resulting in the production of limited edition traditional chairs combining ‘soft’ organic and hard edge abstract forms. Alison has been designing and making her graceful chairs and stools, using locally coppiced hazel, since moving […]

Life is work and work is life for artist Dubhaltach Ó Colmáin, who uses a multi-disciplinary approach to his sculptural work and has become fascinated with the process of working with metal, which he views as a metaphor for life; gouging into, melting down, deconstructing and reassembling a hard, cold, […]

Much has been written over the years about the surprising, witty, icon-flipping paintings and sculptures of Australian artist John Kelly. His monumental bronze, ‘Cow Up A Tree,’ is instantly recognisable, and has graced the boulevards of many cities throughout the world, from Melbourne to the Hague, ever since its first […]