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Over an eighteen month period Create and Common Ground undertook an action research project – Connect Mentoring Programme – to examine mentoring for...
Flow, a new artwork for Pearse Street, Ballina by Joe Neeson will be launched on Friday 9 July. The sculpture is 5 metres in height and constructed...
To finalise the Walking Silvermines project, you are invited to take part in a public walk of the route starting from ICA garden, Nenagh Rd,...
Flow - a new public art work by Joe Neeson, commissioned by Mayo County Council Arts Office for Pearse Street, Ballina will be officially launched on...
Portugal Arte 10 is a new month-long biannual art exhibition, announces its inaugural edition to debut July 16, 2010 in Lisbon and the surrounding...
Capital Forwarding Solutions is the first solo project of the Italian artist Paolo W. Tamburella in Ireland and has been developed while the artist...
Mayo County Council are delighted to launch a new public art project by artist Tom Meskell which was commissioned by Mayo County Council and funded...
Dock Discourse is a four-week exhibition, installation and discussion event project, around the changing nature of the Galway Docks. Initiated and...
Today We Don't Use The Word 'Recession' is a new artwork by Superflex commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory in collaboration with the Cork...
Trespass will launch a publication on Monday 14 June 6-8 pm in Noble & Beggarman Books, 28 South William Street, Dublin 2. Trespass is a...
The Sacred Project is an arts project working with communities in Enniskillen and Carrick on Shannon. The project culminates in an exhibition of...
For June Late at Tate Britain, Grizedale Arts tells the ten year tale of its transition from sculpture park to radical arts organisation, pioneering...
Wexford County Council/South West Wexford School Completion Programme have the pleasure of inviting you to the official launches of the limited...
Organised by the award-winning public art commissioning programme Situations, at the University of the West of England, in partnership with Bristol...
Ciotóg's Tipping Point is a quintet about pressure, slipping, sliding and tripping from one unstable balance to another. Performed by a cast of...
The 2010 Festival features an epic and immersive installation in the interior of Tramway, a soundwork resonating from the banks of the River Clyde,...
The Falmouth Convention is a three-day conference in an unconventional form, with an emphasis on artists as participants and on exchange of views and...
Creative Time presents video art At 44 1/2: MTV's outdoor, gilded, HD screen located in the heart of New York City's Times Square. The...
The artist Catherine Delaney converts the gallery space of the Solstice Arts Centre into a makeshift recycling centre for the collection of unwanted...
The Lives of Spaces, Ireland's representation at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale is currently on show in the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast....
Efflorescence is a temporary site specific sculpural installation by artist Martina Coyle on Railway Street, Balbriggan and is on display until...
Public art in the form of permanent statues and memorials continues to be a feature of most major cities. Dublin is no different. But what is the...
Slack Spaces, Smarter Cities is the 2nd public seminar/workshop/forum programmed by the National Sculpture Factory in their on-going series looking...
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an...
Life Area: a unique one-off performance by artist Dominic Thorpe as part of his residency with Wicklow County Council, Friday 11 December at 8pm, The...
It aims to investigate and update on the status of Practice as Research(PaR) and contemporary art practice in public and participative art. It also...
Whilst archives and archival practices have been a consistent feature of the historian’s work, visual artists and cultural practitioners have also...
Hidden Wonders of Kildare is a new publication documenting a Kildare
County Council 'Critical Debate and Public Art Project'. This project invited...
From Slack Spaces to Creative Cities: a public debate on possible new strategies for the use, reuse and new use of vacant commercial spaces in the...
Life Area: a unique one-off performance by artist Dominic Thorpe as part of his residency with Wicklow County Council, Friday 11 December at 8pm, The...
Don't miss ArtTrail '09, Cork City's annual festival of contemporary art which runs until Sun 22 November and includes over 100 artists in projects,...
Collision, a collaborative work by composer Michael Berkeley and visual artist Kevin Laycock is presented by CityArts will be seen in St. Mary’s Pro...
Breaking Ground, Ballymun Regeneration Limited's Per Cent for Art programme launch their final projects on Wednesday 21 October in Ballymun. The...
Events include a conference in the Royal College of Physicians on October 15, a national exhibition in five venues in Dublin 8 from October 14 - 21,...
This lecture is part of the dialogue around the commissioning of public art for Grange Castle Business Park, a leading science & technology business...
The largest gathering of art critics to take place in Ireland since 1949, Dublin Castle, October 25th -31st will ask how art and science can relate...
"Preponderance of The Small", is an off-site project which forms part of The Douglas Hyde Gallery's ongoing Gallery 3 initiative, features works by...
engage - the national association for gallery education are hosting an international conference on art, gallery education and regeneration in London...
"Culture and the Economy", a Douglas Hyde conference on creativity and innovation in a post boom Ireland will take place from 16-18 October.
Artist Eilis MacDonald launches her new project, Rapture Heap on Culture Night, this Friday 25 September
The National Council for the Blind of Ireland host a soundwalk event initiated by artists Siobhan Clancy and Sven Anderson on Culture Night 25...
Gracelands is an outdoor art programme which happens on the grounds of the Mimetic House, Dromahair Co. Leitrim
The artists in this show all explore how natural and man-made power operates and reveal some of the mechanisms and connections that make us and the...
Don’t forget to check out the line up for the ISEA symposim on electronic art that will take place in Ireland this year, from 23rd to the 1st of...
Modal Worlds will be on show at Burren College of Art Gallery in Co. Clare from 9 August to 27 September 2009.
Curated by Martina Cleary and Alice...
Ritual Flux 51
Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival, Visual Arts Trail 2009
Saturday 15 August –Friday 21 August 2009
Kilkenny Arts Festival presents "Something Else", an exhibition featuring works by visual artists Kevin Atherton, Jo Anne Butler, John Byrne, Gary...
Woodstock Gardens, Inistioge, Co Kilkenny are the site of a temporary public art project this July which will culminate in a unique event celebrating...
Curated by Michele Horrigan July 6 – 18 2009 Askeaton Co. Limerick
A special Commission in Co Cork - Kinsale Arts Week have invited the artist Brian O'Doherty to make a major new installation work. This will be O'...
Lismore Castle - Summer Visual Arts Programme features works from Stefan Brüggemann, Rita McBride, Corey McCorkle, Jason Rhoades and Ai Weiwei.
Dan Dubowitz and Fearghus Ó Conchúir forthcoming collaborative work - a twelve screen, site specific installation will launch in Fingal on the 16th...
Event: Sligo United Trades Club Revival - Seamus Nolan - 10-19 September. A collaboration to devise a living monument to the club, its history and its importance as a space of self organization and sustainability.
