Auricular Artifacts
Artist Cathy Callan presents a series of miniature oil paintings in her solo exhibition 'Auricle' at the RHA Ashford Gallery. The exhibition includes a portrait series entitled 'Chrysalis' after Leonardo Da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks and 'He Loves me not' featuring a minute painting on a bottle top. The exhibition will be accompanied by a specially created sound piece by musician Jack L. The collection, painted directly from life and from the figure, has been inspired by the natural world and traditional painting techniques, incorporating gold leaf with three-dimensional forms. Also at the RHA, 'Bestiary' is the title of Alice Maher's exhibition of new charcoal and pencil drawings inspired by Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights - see our feature on page 64 of this edition. Cathy Callan: 7-27 September. Alice Maher: 14 September - 28 October
 
Three Talents
Three emerging talents are on view at Cork's Crawford Gallery this autumn. Soyoung Chung, Anna Konik and Tobias Sternberg present selected works created during a residency at the National Sculpture Factory during spring and early summer last year as part of the Pepinieres programme for young artists. As the nominating gallery, the Crawford will also host a solo exhibition of AIB prizewinner Linda Quinlan - see our feature on page 66 of this edition. This exhibition will include work made as a response to the space of the Crawford. Chung/Konik/Sternberg: 7 September - 27 October. Linda Quinlan: 16 October - 15 December
 
Ros Tapestry display
The Ros Tapestry 800 Expo is a three-day event to mark the 800th anniversary of the town. The display will feature seven historical tapestries and eight cartoons. The beauty of the embroidery in these large panels (72 x 54 inches) is matched by their quality and design (the cartoons are painted by artist Anne Griffin Bernstorff) and the sheer depth of the historical research - the Ros Tapestry was the subject of a major feature in the Autumn 2005 edition of the Irish Arts Review. Fifteen large embroidered panels in all are being stitched by a voluntary team of dedicated people in the South East in this unique undertaking. 7-9 September
 
Work in Progress
John Behan never disappoints and will thus be a big draw at Gormley's Fine Art Omagh Gallery this summer. Exhibition themes here will chronicle the artist's working life, ranging from new ideas to familiar preoccupations of the 1990s, when Behan was immersed in the great Irish famine and Irish mythology. Works on view will include The Flight of the Earls, Ancient Ship, and Cuchulainn with Spears. New ideas will be evident too, with Jewish and Mediterranean influences reflecting today's diversified Ireland. Works like Jewish Dancer, Don Quixote and Greek Musicians promise to provide fresh insight into this artist's considerable talent.
John Behan: from 26 September
 
Leinster Landmark
Variety will be the spice of the Leinster Gallery 10th anniversary exhibition in September, with an impressive and eclectic array of art on view. Specialising in 20th-century and contemporary Irish art, the Dublin venue has built up a loyal following over the years. Gallery artists on show for this special show include Markey Robinson, William Percy French, Maurice Wilks, Séamus î Colm‡in, Gladys MacCabe, Neil Shawcross, and George Russell (AE). Sculpture by Ann Cooney, Elaine Byrne, Charles Ludlow and Elizabeth le Jeune will also make this an occasion to remember. Anniversary Exhibition: 20-30 September
 
Catching a Likeness
The complexity of portraiture in all its diversity can be appreciated via 'Catching a Likeness: Portraits on Paper' at the National Gallery Print Gallery. This exhibition will demonstrate how portraits from the 15th-20th centuries have varied in accordance with artistic fashion, techniques and available media. Idealised heads will feature alongside truthful self-portraits, literary likenesses and caricatures, while modern portraits will display more experimental approaches. Portraits from the Gallery's own collection will be complemented by works from the National Galleries of Scotland, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Birmingham), the National Self-Portrait Collection (University of Limerick) and private collections. Look out for portraits by Antonio Pollaiuolo, Rembrandt, Ingres, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Paul Klee alongside Irish artists including Michael Kane, Sean Keating and Brian Bourke. Also at the National Gallery this autumn is 'Masquerade and Spectacle: The Circus and the Travelling Fair in the work of Jack B. Yeats' - see our feature on page 62 of this edition. Masquerade and Spectacle: until 11 November. Catching a Likeness: 3 September - 9 December
 

Splashes of Light
John Darch has taken photographs ever since receiving an old Kodak bellows camera handed down through his family. 'Splashes of Light' at Manmade Images, Mountcharles, Co Donegal features a selection of his more recent Irish landscape studies. This artist has been living in Killybegs for several years, so it is perhaps not surprising that the sea and coastline feature so strongly in his work. John Darch: August - November
 
The Logic of Symbols
Waterford-born Tom Molloy is Head of Painting at Burren College of Art, but there is nothing parochial about his work. Quite the contrary. Molloy makes art about current events. Like so much of the news, his work revolves around the United States of America, its actions, and their effects in, and on, the world. The logic of symbols accordingly figures prominently. See for yourself at his exhibition in Dublin's Rubicon Gallery. Tom Molloy: 1 September - 6 October
 
Solo Landscapes
A solo exhibition by Mick O'Dea will be the highlight at the McBride Gallery, Killarney in September. The exhibition will feature a series of landscapes of Cork, Kerry and Clare, along with an impressive array of life drawings. The show will also premier works from the 'Inis Ic’lea’n' series completed on the well-known island off the coast of Kerry in 2004. Mick O'Dea: 7 September - 2 October
 
Lots of Fine Art
Adam's Fine Period Furniture and Decorative Arts sale will this year comprise over 350 lots, including Georgian and Victorian furniture, 18th- to early 20th-century paintings and antique silver, porcelain and glassware. Highlights of Adam's Important Irish Art Sale include a Paul Henry oil painting titled Western Landscape (estimated at €100,000-€150,000), together with a collection of Norah McGuinness oils, watercolours and pastels (from €800 to €30,000).
This autumn Whyte's will hold two auctions of Important Irish Art on 17 September and 26 November, at the RDS, Ballsbridge. The highlight of the September sale is a rare genre scene by the Irish Impressionist William Gerard Barry (1864-1941), estimated at €60,000-€80,000. In Ireland he is best known for his large genre scene, Time Flies, which hangs in the Crawford Gallery. Also consigned is an early work by Camille Souter. Achill Rocks and Reflections I, painted in 1959, features Souter's trademark paint of choice: silver aluminium bicycle paint and is estimated at €20,000-30,000. De Veres Irish art sales on 25 September and 28 November will include Louis le Brocquy's Fruit (oil on canvas). James Adam: Furniture & Decorative Arts, 12 September; Important Irish Art, 26 September. Whyte's: Important Irish Art, 17 September and 26 November. De Veres: Irish Art Sale: 25 September and 28 November
 
Autumn at the Taylor Galleries
The Taylor Galleries has an impressive programme of exhibitions planned for the autumn. Brian Bourke and Tim Morris are followed by Michael Cullen in September, whose themes relate to elements such as the Commedia dell'arte, the stage and the circus. T P Flanagan will show in November. Following on from the publication of the first major monograph on the work of William Crozier, a major exhibition of his work opens in November. Brian Bourke & Tim Morris 7-22 September; Michael Cullen 28 September - 13 October; T P Flanagan 9-24 November; William Crozier 29 November - December
 
Sean McSweeney Retrospective
This autumn the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan hosts a retrospective exhibition of Sean McSweeney. Though he was born in Dublin, Sligo has been McSweeney's adopted home for many years, and he draws great inspiration from the beauty of its landscape. His work reveals a fascination with the changing nature of the light on the mountains, the sea and the boglands, and he seems most at home in the miniature world of brackish pools, the shoreline and wild flowers. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, and Triskel Arts Centre, Cork and is a research partner in the Arts Council Touring Experiment. Sean McSweeney: 6 September - 11 October
 
Cities on the Edge
It is heartening indeed to see art in Northern Ireland shedding its recent introspection. Belfast Exposed Gallery is thus currently presenting an exhibition of pictures by two photographers working with similar issues - urban sprawl and suburban sprawl. 'City's Edge (China)' by Daniel Traub explores the rapid residential/industrial development around the edges of Chinese cities. Many of the issues China currently faces are considered, including the rich/poor gap and environmental degradation. 'Desert Real Estate' by Robert Harding Pittman shows how the desert terrain of Southern California and Nevada is making way for enormous new 'planned communities'. Traub/Harding Pitman: until 14 September
 
Graphic Collection
Following Richard Gorman's successful solo shows at the Kerlin Gallery and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Graphic Studio Gallery now presents a collection of his woodblocks, lithographs and etchings. This exhibition showcases two special collectors' box sets titled 'Sept' and 'Cinq' - produced on Japanese takogami paper and made at the Atelier Michael Woolworth in Paris. The suite of prints 'Sept' was commissioned by The Beckett Project, Paris, supported by Culture Ireland. Gorman continued with a second set of woodblocks titled 'Cinq' to emphasise the paper quality and its relationship with the inked woodblocks. Richard Gorman: 6 September - 6 October
 
Silver Celebration
A comprehensive collection of Limerick silver from the 17th-21st centuries can be viewed at the Hunt Museum in the months ahead. This major exhibition includes items with strong associations with the city and region. Household items such as dish rings, soup tureens and marrow spoons will be juxtaposed with items of major civic importance, like the city mace and the university mace, as well as historic GAA medals, sporting trophies and contemporary pieces. Limerick Silver: 14 September - 13 January