The Azores High brought great excitement and good weather to West Cork in July. For ten days it was like living in the Mediterranean. The beaches were packed and the sea full of people bobbing about, a rare and delightful sight. Families were moving in with plastic bath tubs full […]
West Cork Creates Exhibition 2021 will hold its 10th summer arts exhibition entitled ‘Home Ground’ from August 7 to 28 in Skibbereen. The exhibition forms part of this year’s national August Craft Month and Cork Craft Month. This year’s WCC exhibition will be showing the work of 48 fine artists, […]
Cork Craft & Design, Ireland’s largest social enterprise for craftspeople, has launched its 2021 programme for Cork Craft Month this August. Showcasing the best of contemporary Irish craft, a stellar line-up of over 70 exceptional workshops, masterclasses, artist talks, trails and demonstrations is taking place throughout the month. Featuring both […]
Patsy Atkinson gives an insight into some of the art exhibitions on Sherkin this August. There’s a picture in my mind’s eye: cerulean blue skies meet turquoise seas. A daub of sap green and a splash of burnt orange add a vibrant note while tiny droplets of white spray on […]
Taoiseach, Micheál Martin T.D. and Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D on July 23 announced that the contract for the design for the redevelopment at the historic Crawford Art Gallery has been awarded to Grafton Architects. The overall plan provides for the investment of […]
Geoff Greenham is a photographer who fouces on landscape, still life and portraiture (mostly informal). He also uses software to make composite images. His photographs in this year’s ‘Home Ground’ West Cork Creates exhibition “feature places in Skibbereen as they were in 1990 incorporated into images of those same places […]