Marie-Louise O’Donnell, Artistic Programmer of the Space at the Helix gives a personal perspective on the new building
Performance spaces are where something happens: they are where people go to be entertained, awed, moved, inspired, and sometimes even changed or altered by what they see and hear. They are where actors, musicians, and performers play and the audience get caught up in the play in the happening
The Lemon Street Gallery, in collaboration with RTÉ, are currently hosting an exhibition marking the fiftieth anniversary of the photography of Dublin by Nevill Johnson. For the first time a chronological account of Nevill Johnson’s artistic career is illustrated; mainly through photography, but also incorporating his painting and writing. The paintings range from the early 1940s to the ‘London’ paintings. The occasion also marks the launch of the Nevill Johnson Annual Award to assist emerging artists in the North and the South of Ireland, thereby acknowledging the influence of Belfast and Dublin on Nevill Johnson’s artistic development. At the height of his career as a painter Nevill Johnson turned to photography; Eoin O’Brien and Dickon Hall explain why