The Glass Society of Ireland’s (GSOI) inaugural Graduate Award for excellence in the medium of glass has been awarded to Evan McKenna from Co Louth
Kerry-based artist Laura Fitzgerald has been named a recipient of a 2024 Markievicz Award.
Two hundred works from the 2,535 open-submission entries to the Royal Ulster Academy’s (RUA) Annual Exhibition were selected for showing this year.
News that Limerick City’s International Rugby Experience is closing its doors at the end of the year is a bitter blow to its staff and all those involved in setting it up.
Swedish-born artist Cecilia Danell is this year’s winner of the €5,000 Merrion Plinth Award.
The idea of creating a visitor centre in a working graveyard might seem lacking in taste, but a visit to Dublin’s famous Glasnevin Cemetery will dispel any such feeling.
Creating a woodturned form from uniform six-inch blocks of ash wood was the challenge set to Irish Woodturners Guild’s members
There was a sense of a world in ever-shifting crisis, paired with boundless artistic curiosity, at the 194th Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Annual Exhibition
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.
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
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?’
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
Ireland’s presentation at the Venice Biennale of Architecture is In Search of Hy-Brasil, which references a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean.
