Applications now open to artists for 2016 Golden Fleece Award
The jeweller, Seliena Coyle, has been announced the winner of the 2015 Golden Fleece Award. Applications for the 2016 Golden Fleece Award are now invited. Read More
Comment Summer 2015
Square Moon on the Lake Isle of Inishfree
The idea of a temporary installation on the famed Lake Isle of Inishfree to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of W B Yeats was bound to a make waves around the world. Read More
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill by Mick O’Dea at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
Mick O’Dea is one of Ireland’s best-known artists, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy and a winner of countless awards, including the Arnotts National Portrait Award and the Ireland-US Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award. Read More
Rachel Doolin wins RDS Taylor Prize
Rachel Doolin, Crawford College of Art & Design graduate, wins the Taylor Art Award at the RDS for Promethean Illusions. Read More
RDS Craft Awards
The winners from this year’s RDS National Craft Awards, which has recently become a two strand competition with an independent panel of craft experts assessing the work of emerging and established makers separately. Read More
Beit Appeal Update: Export licence challenge
The Minister for Arts was not entitled to delegate to the National Gallery of Ireland the ministerial power to issue export licences for the Beit paintings. Read More
The voice of youth a century on
The government’s decision to allocate an extra one million euros to the Arts Council to celebrate the Centenary of the Easter Rising is certainly good news for many Irish artists as most of the money will go directly into their pockets. Read More
Beit Appeal Update: Thank you!
THANK YOU to the 5,000 and more people who have signed the IAR Appeal to Save the Beit Paintings and demonstrated to the world how much we appreciate the extraordinary bequest of Alfred and Clementine Beit to the Irish people. Read More
Beit Appeal Update: ABF unanimously decides to postpone the sale
The board of the Alfred Beit Foundation has unanimously decided to postpone the sale in order to explore a proposal from private Irish donors for the possible purchase of artworks which are in the upcoming Christie’s sale. Read More
Beit Appeal Update: Sale to be postponed!
Judith Woodworth has taken the decision to propose to the ABF board that the sale is postponed, that the Foundation enters into negotiations with Christies to arrange that and remove the artworks from the July sale. Read More