Castletown House, Ireland’s largest and finest Palladian mansion, has lain closed to the public since last September – all because of a dispute about access and parking.
At the 42nd Annual General Assembly of Aosdána, the organisation whose members are honoured for their contribution to the arts in Ireland, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh was the sole visual artist to join the ranks.
Representing Ireland at the 60th Venice Biennale, Eimear Walshe (they/them) presents Romantic Ireland, curated by Sara Greavu with Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
The late Helen Comerford was born in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny in 1945 and trained as a sculptor, working with a variety of materials until she used wax as a medium.
Sculpture exhibitions are notoriously difficult to mount, so it is exciting that another sculptor, Dublin-born Hilary Heron (1923–1977), has been selected for a retrospective at IMMA next summer.
Almost four hundred works were hung at the Royal Ulster Academy’s (RUA) annual exhibition this year.
‘Island City’, a sculpture trail intended to enliven Cork’s streetscapes, is a welcome initiative in contemporary Irish art, bringing art out of the galleries and into the public realm.
Dublin-based artist Erin Quinn’s self-portraits invite viewers to consider the dilemmas faced by the inhabitants of a climate-altered world.
Several decades back, a certain art-school lecturer and artist of the Conceptual persuasion liked to wrongfoot his painting students with the question, ‘Why isn’t this picture a photograph?’
The establishment of a new museum to celebrate the work of the internationally renowned stained-glass artist Harry Clarke (1889–1931) was given the green light in July
Ireland’s national collection of contemporary art has been strengthened by the allocation of €1.5 million of funds for acquisitions by Minister Catherine Martin and the Department of the Arts
Niamh Barry joined some of the biggest names in global design when she was awarded Best Product Design at the Créateurs Design Awards 2023 in Paris.
The Heritage Council of Ireland has promoted and funded a wide range of schemes to help conserve the nation’s many legacies and reach out to the wider public.
The Texaco Children’s Art Competition has never been a photographic contest, but this year’s lineup of winners confirms that, in today’s visual culture, photography rules