Visual Arts

Achill group launches Camille Souter cottage residency campaign

In the village of Dooagh on Achill Island, the cottage-studio of acclaimed Irish artist Camille Sout...

We Realised the Power of it: The Legacy of Derry Film and Video Workshop

'We just wanted to tell our stories and learned the skills as we went along...' Filmmaker Anne Crill...

Odysseys and dreams - Cristín Leach on the art of Blawnin Clancy

There is a profound sense of something amorphous yet intensely felt in the work of Blawnin Clancy. H...

The Disrupted Everyday: Sean O'Hagan on Akihiko Okamura's Irish photos

From the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, acclaimed Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-1985) li...

New Neighbours: Artists Olivia O'Dwyer and Fergal Styles in focus

New Neighbours is a new exhibition at South Tipperary Arts Centre, bringing together the work of art...

True romance - artist Eimear Walshe comes to the Venice Biennale

On St. Patrick's Day 1943, a radio address entitled "On Language & the Irish Nation" bellowed ac...

Cristín Leach's memoir Negative Space comes to Book On One

It weaves words and art with the unravelling of self that comes when a marriage breaks down. Leach's...

Artists project Gaza message on Cliffs of Moher

A group of artists projected a beam of light onto the Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare last night with th...

What is the Stars? Artist Mick O'Dea on painting Druid Theatre in action

The exhibition, currently showing at Dublin's Molesworth Gallery and consisting of 24 paintings, is ...

How To Soften Corners: Jennie Moran's philosophy of hospitality

How To Soften Corners is a new book from artist Jennie Moran - read an extract below. It tells the i...

Sunday Miscellany: Imogen Stuart: Rara Avis, by Alison Fitzgerald

The work of the late sculptor Imogen Stuart, who died last month aged 96, can be seen in almost ever...

Something For The Weekend: Margaret O'Connor's cultural picks

Self-described artist, costume designer, maker of things, art director, stylist and DJ, Margaret O'C...

Patricia Hurl's Irish Gothic - a singular Irish artist celebrated

Helena Tobin, Artistic Director at South Tipperary Arts Centre, introduces a new retrospective of wo...

Visual 'portal' connects Dublin and New York City

Dublin and New York City have been linked-up in a real-time visual bridge as part of a groundbreakin...

Finding your artistic path - a journey to Sherkin Island

Acclaimed artist Jesse Presley Jones is the Course Coordinator for a unique Visual Art Degree Progra...

Dublin Portal RIP? Lauren Murphy asks: what were they thinking?

Hands up who saw it coming? Alright, you can all lower your arms now. Honestly, if you ever thought ...