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Irish Art News 11 May 2008 - NEW ARTICLES Red Rag Irish Art - if you have Irish art news, Scottish Art News or British Art News please send it to: News Desk at the gallery 09 May 2008 - Acquistion for National Museum The National Museum of Ireland has negotiated the sale, prior to auction at Christies yesterday, of the Harry Clarke stained glass window Unhappy Judas. The art work will now return home to Dublin, where it was created in 1913. 08 May 2008 - Irish Art Auction The annual auction of Irish art at Christie’s in London achieved sales totalling just over €2.5 million. Topping the sale was a painting by Nathaniel Hone which made €374,000. International director of Irish Art at Christie’s Bernard Williams said the auction had attracted "animated bidding". 03 May 2008 - New paintings from George Callaghan
New contemporary paintings from George Callaghan will be featuring in Red Rag's upcoming Landscape Art Promotion which starts 18 May. Paintings from George Callaghan will include his Moonlit series. All paintings are now available. To purchase or for further details contact the gallery CALL RED RAG NOW on 01451 832563 or outside UK + 44 1451 832563 02 May 2008 - Belfast Art Exhibition The latest art exhibition at Gormley's Belfast gallery features the works of artists Sean Cotter, James May, Joesphine Kelly and Ger Sweeney. The exhibition continues until 18 May 01 May 2008 - Manus Walsh Art Exhibition Until 8 May at Leinster Gallery, Dublin A Solo Exhibition of new paintings by Manus Walsh featuring works completed in Ballyvaughan, Villanueva del Trabuco and Pedregalejo, Malaga, over the past year. 30 April 2008 - Padraig McCaul at Red Rag
Padraig McCaul is the latest Irish artist to show at Red Rag. Padraig is taking part in the up coming Landscape Art Promotion at Red Rag which starts 18 May. New contemporary paintings from Padraig McCaul are now to available. To order or for further details contact the gallery CALL US NOW on 01451 832563 or outside UK + 44 1451 832563 29 April 2008 - Irish System Praised In an attempt to encourage greater giving to the arts, Mark Jones, the chairman of the National Museum Directors’ Conference (NMDC) has called for a fundamental shift towards a culture of private giving. The NMDC believes the British Government should reward prominent philanthropists with more honours and less tax, he argued. “We are less generous to donors than the Irish system”. Potential art donors were said to be deterred by off putting tax laws and ignorance of how to get involved 28 April 2008 - Arts Councils Agree Cooperation The two arts councils on the island of Ireland today agreed closer cooperation, including harmonising support for artists, strengthening arts organisations and bringing the best of Irish arts to audiences at home and abroad. Both arts councils agreed that supporting individual artists as a key priority and that artists do not recognise boundaries. The two councils will harmonise their efforts to support artists, North and South by working closer on bringing the best of Irish art to audiences at home and abroad 27 April 2008 - Red Rag Art Exhibition Starts Today People and Places exhibition at Red Rag  For further information about this art exhibition: CALL US NOW on 01451 832563 or outside UK + 44 1451 832563 24 April 2008 - Art in the Square An Open air art exhibition is taking place in Merrion Square, Dublin this coming Sunday 27 April. The art exhibition attracts over 200 artists. Every year new artists are allowed to exhibit so the work and artists keep changing. 22 April 2008 - Irish Art Sale Art works by some of the most celebrated Irish artists including Le Brocquy, Lavery and Paul Henry will go on display at the Dublin Merrion Hotel this Thursday and Friday before going under the hammer in London on 8 May.Sourced from private art collections throughout the world over 150 art pieces are to be auctioned at the annual Irish Sale at Christie's. 19 April 2008 - Artist Open Studios This weekend 19-20 April sees fifteen visual arts studio organisations in Dublin open their doors to the public with an invitation to visit artists' workplaces. Over 150 Irish based artists are participating in VISIT 08, a citywide open studios event. VISIT 08 demonstrates the breath Dublin's visual arts' scene with a range of media: printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, glassmaking, ceramics, video, film, photography, installation and conceptual art 18 April 2008 - Irish Artist Fran McCann at Red Rag
Red Rag has announced that Irish artist Fran McCann is the latest artist to be showing at the gallery. McCann is a great lover of music and this has provided the inspiration for his new paintings. All Fran McCann contemporary paintings are now available to purchase from Red Rag Gallery. To order or for further details contact the gallery 17 April 2008 - Belfast Art Exhibition A solo Irish art exhibition from Northern Ireland artist Jim McDonald opens tonight thursday 17April at the SqSpace Gallery, Belfast. McDonald has represented life in Belfast in a poignant way, focusing on street children, pub scenes and the city's shipyards from the bygone era. A set of commemorative Royal Mail stamps showing McDonald's paintings of the Titanic and the Nomadic will go on sale coinciding with the exhibition. The first-class stamps will be marking the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and will be the first in a series being rolled out every year until 2012, the centenary of the cruiser's tragic voyage. The exhibition will run until the 1st of May 16 April 2008 - Arts Forum The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is holding a forum today for arts organizations. Posing the uestion ‘Is there money in business for the arts?’ the event provides delegates with space to discuss ways of finding new sources of income for the arts and how to look beyond grant support to sponsorship opportunities with the business sector. The forum is being held in the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn and features key figures in the arts and business worlds. 14 April 2008 - New Director at National College of Art The National College of Art and Design in Dublin has announced that Derry-born Professor Declan McGonagle has been appointed as their new Director. McGonagle was a founding director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Kilmainham. Most recently he has been leading the major ‘Interface’ art and design project at the University of Ulster 12 April 2008 - New Paintings from artist Brian Smyth
Irish artist Brian Smyth is participating in the latest art exhibition at Red Rag. The art show 'People and Places' features several beautiful new atmospheric paintings from Brian.The art exhibition is from 27 April until 10 May. All Brian Smyth contemporary paintings are now available to purchase from Red Rag Gallery. To order or for further details contact the gallery 08 April 2008 - John Morris at Red Rag
Leading Irish artist John Morris will be making his first appearance at Red Rag Gallery later this month as part of the 'People and Places' exhibition. John Morris was born in Dublin in 1958 and is primarily self taught. The love John Morris has for the Irish landscape with its constantly changing light and atmosphere is evident in his contemporary paintings. His paintings display a strong and confident use of brush strokes which successfully capture a sense of time and place. In addition to Red Rag Irish Art Gallery John Morris has exhibited at other leading Irish Art Galleries Morris has several new paintings featuring his well known people on Irish beach scenes. All John Morris contemporary paintings are now available to purchase from Red Rag Gallery. To order or for further details contact the gallery 03 April 2008 - Rita Duffy Art Exhibition Irish artists Rita Duffy has a Solo Art Exhibition titled 'Remnant' from 3rd-20th April At Gormleys Dublin art gallery. 02 April 2008 - Irish artist Val Byrne at Red Rag
Red Rag has announced the availability of new paintings from leading Irish artist Val Byrne. The new paintings feature Irish Architectural and Landscape scenes. All Val Byrne contemporary paintings are now available to purchase from Red Rag Gallery. To order or for further details contact the gallery 31 March 2008 - Belfast Children's Art Event Young at Art, in association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland launched the Belfast Children’s Festival 2008 at the Pump-house, Northern Ireland Science Park, Belfast, Monday 31st March. For the eleventh consecutive year, this festival will offer children of all ages and families from across Northern Ireland, access to an international programme of unique and professional arts events; this year the festival will follow a wind and water theme. 24 March 2008 - Cormac O'Leary at Red Rag
Irish artist Cormac O'Leary makes his debut at Red Rag today as part of the latest art exhibition - In with the New. Paintings from Cormac O’Leary are now available to purchase from Red Rag Gallery. To order or for further details contact the gallery 18 March 2008 - Irish Art goes to China The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in association with the Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of visual arts exhibition, Drawing a Line – A Contemporary Survey of Art from Northern Ireland as part of the Harbin Winter Cultural Festival at the Museum of the Heilongjiang Daily in China on 18 th March. 
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