Recent work by Burren College of Art PhD candidates is on show in a group exhibition that incorporates sculpture, sound installation, painting and mixed-media installations by ten artists. Located in Ballyvaughan, the college runs a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, accredited by the University of Galway.
Burren College of Art: 19 January – 24 February
Brian Fay’s work for his exhibition, ‘The Most Recent Forever’ at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, provides an overview of the artist’s drawing practice that for the last two decades has explored ideas of temporality, change and ephemerality in pre-existing artworks.
Brian Fay: 18 February – 25 March
Ita Freeney exhibits at the South Tipperary Arts Centre. Her show ‘Water’s Edge’ features paintings of headlands, piers, slipways – areas with a boundary to the sea. These works play with abstraction and representation, and the artist uses colour to evoke mood and atmosphere.
Ita Freeney: 17 February – 18 March
The Glucksman exhibition ‘A Line Around an Idea’ considers how drawing can be a generative and disruptive force within scientific observation and design, as well as interrogating art histories and canonical textual narratives. Included is work by Irish and international artists: Pablo Bronstein, Felicity Clear, Inci Eviner, Rachel Goodyear, Julie Merriman, Dan Perjovschi, Plattenbau Studio, Rinus Van de Velde and Barbara Walker. Image: Dan Perjovschi
The Glucksman: 1 December – 12 March
The Crawford Art Gallery’s annual exhibition of Harry Clarke’s watercolours explores the artist’s extraordinary capacity for conjuring images from literature and bringing often romantic or macabre worlds into being. From his delicate blue-tinged watercolour studies for The Eve of St Agnes to the pen-and-ink illustrations for the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Clarke created remarkable works.
Other Worlds: Harry Clarke Watercolours: 14 December – 14 February
‘Made of Earth’ at The Hunt Museum explores the history of clay and ceramics and how they have been created and used by human civilisations. Visitors are encouraged to feel, mould and create with clay, and to enjoy a series of demonstrations by ceramic artists. Using works from the museum’s permanent collection and working in collaboration with the ceramics department at TUS Limerick School of Art and Design, the exhibition reflects the richness of ceramic practice in Ireland.
Made of Earth: October – March
