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Irish Art News 01 July 2008 - Art Prices Increasing Prices in the contemporary art market continue to rise. Last night Christie's sold 48 works of contemporary art for over £85m The highest price for a single work of art went to Francis Bacon's "Three Studies for Self Portrait”. Bacon produced the painting in 1975 while the Irish born artist stayed in Paris. The triptych of three panels each measuring 35 x 30 centimeters sold for over £17m 25 June 2008 - Irish Museum of Modern Art Exhibition The latest Art Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is a solo art show by artist Janaina Tschäpe. Comprising 20 art works, the exhibition focuses mainly on Tschäpe’s recent paintings that embody a sense of the extraordinary through colourful botanical notations. The art exhibition runs from 25 June until 28 September 20 June 2008 - The art of Rembrandt A collection of seventy five prints by the Dutch artist Rembrandt goes on show 25 June to 14 September at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle. The art exhibition is collaboration with the Rembrandthuis Museum, Amsterdam. 17 June 2008 - New Northern Ireland Minister For Arts
Gregory Campbell, MP, has been appointed the new Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure in the Northern Ireland Executive. Campbell replaces Edwin Poots, following a reshuffle of the DUP's Ministerial team by newly appointed First Minister Peter Robinson. 11 June 2008 - New Art Award A new art award aimed at encouraging innovation and excellence in contemporary portrait painting in Ireland has been launched. The Davy Portrait Awards in association with Arts & Business will be selected anonymously from an open submission by a judging panel comprising of Royal Hibernian Academy President Stephen McKenna, Royal Ulster Academy President Rita Duffy and international art critic and writer Gemma Tipton. The Awards are open to artists based in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Irish artists based outside Ireland are also eligible to apply. A selection of paintings from the Art Awards will be exhibited at the Naughton Gallery, Belfast in November 2008, and at Farmleigh House, Dublin in early 2009 09 June 2008 - Degree Show at Ulster School of Art and Design The Ulster School of Art and Design is holding their degree show in the Belfast Campus, York Street starting 10 June and running to 14 June. Admission from 10:00 until 19:00 08 June 2008 - William Scott Still-Life Painting tops £1 million "Bowl, Eggs and Lemons", a still-life painting by the Belfast artist William Scott sold at Christie's for £1,071,650. The artist is now one of a small group of Irish artists whose art works have exceeded the £1 million barrier. Other Irish artists to have had art works sold for more than £1m are: Francis Bacon; Jack B Yeats; Sir William Orpen; Sir John Lavery and Louis le Brocquy. 07 June 2008 - Eigse Carlow Arts Festival
One of Ireland’s largest arts festivals – the Éigse Carlow Arts Festival is taking place from 7-15 June. Éigse brings renowned international and national artists and performers to the South East for a series of exhibitions, performances, recitals and workshops. 06 June 2008 - Galway and Mayo Degree Art Show Starting 14 June the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology Art & Design Degree Exhibition opens at the Cluain Mhuire campus. Opening the art show will be artist and member of Aosdána - Dorothy Cross. The art exhibition will feature art pieces from over a 100 Irish based students covering painting, textiles, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture. 05 June 2008 - New Art Website from Arts Council
The Arts Council is to develop a new public art website for those working in the public arts arena in Ireland in 2008. The art website aims to provide practical advice, resources and information for anyone wishing to undertake art commissions whether public, private, or in partnership, in addition to case studies and examples of best practice. In order to develop the site, the Arts Council will be releasing two requests for tenders for the management and for the development of the website later this month. 04 June 2008 - Art Award Artists Philip Napier and Mike Hogg have been awarded the Bank of Ireland Toradh Award. The announcement was made at the opening evening of the Bank of Ireland art exhibition 'On Reflection' at the Ormeau Baths Gallery The Toradh Award is designed to recognise established artists who have spent a significant amount of time working or studying in Northern Ireland and who have consistently produced art of an outstanding quality. Tim Kerr, Cultural Development Officer, University of Ulster, who organised the judging panel, commented: "We were looking for an artist or artists who have demonstrated a clear progression in their work and the potential to achieve further success both nationally and internationally" 03 June 2008 - Arts Council Support The Arts Council has confirmed support totaling €5 million for festivals taking place between now and September. These include the Galway and Kilkenny Arts festivals. ‘‘Festivals are the heart and soul of the Irish summer and the Arts Council is very proud of its role in funding these,” said Olive Braiden, chairwoman of the Arts Council. 02 June 2008 - How Green Is The Art? Irish artist Patrick Dougherty is creating a “green” sculpture using more than ten tonnes of willow. It can be seen at the Sculpture in the Parklands exhibition in Lough Boora Parklands, County Offaly up to 14 June Six local artists have been employed to help with the sculpture. The art event has been sponsored by the Crafts Council of Ireland and the arts office of Offaly County Council. The art event aims to encourage Irish and International artists by creating art in response to the landscape and building awareness of the arts. 01 June 2008 - Paintings from Irish artist at auction
Starting 6 June Christie’s British art week sees art works from many of the leading artists of the last century including L.S. Lowry, John Piper and Graham Sutherland. It will also feature paintings from Scottish born William Scott Known as a painter’s painter Scott was trained at Belfast College of Art. His paintings are now highly sought after and have increased in price. Newly rich Irish buyers have helped. Last year Christie's auctioned a painting with an estimate of £50- 80K. The painting sold for £176K. 31 May 2008 - Belfast Art Show From now to 23 July at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast are the two artists who represented Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland at one of the world’s important contemporary visual arts showcase, the Venice Biennale 2007. ‘Venice at gtGallery’ brings together the art works by renowned artists, Willie Doherty from Derry City and Gerard Byrne from Dublin. Willie Doherty and Gerard Byrne’s art made such a strong impression”, says Roisín McDonough, Chief Executive of the Arts Council, “that few would now question that the arts from this island stand comfortably shoulder to shoulder with the best visual art currently produced anywhere in the world. Their art work at this special exhibition in Belfast, gives us a taste of the excitement that these shows created in Venice.” 30 May 2008 - Irish/Finnish International Art Exchange Award Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (TBG&S) in association with HIAP – Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme has announced Niamh O’Malley and Heli Rekula as the recipients of the 2008 International Artist Exchange Award between Ireland and Finland. This is the second year of the art award, which provides support for contemporary Irish artists to participate on a three month residency at the Cable Factory in Helsinki and reciprocally, for Finnish artists to undertake a residency at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in Dublin. 29 May 2008 - Art Exhibition An exhibition of paintings by Irish artist Margaret Morrision is taking place at the Custom House Studio in Westport, County Mayo. Morrison who attended the National College of Art in Dublin has exhibited her contemporary paintings in various Irish venues and in the USA. Gardens and plant imagery are a continuing theme and constant source material for her painting. 28 May 2008 - Record for Irish Pub Painting A comic painting by Irish artist Harry Kernoff of two drinkers toasting Dublin's best-known pubs has sold for a record price of €180,000 at auction yesterday. The painting features two characters enjoying a drink after work. Titled 'A Bird Never Flew on One Wing', it doubled its starting estimate and reached the highest price achieved for a Kernoff. 27 May 2008 - First Irish Solo Art Show for German Artist The first solo art exhibition in Ireland by German artist, Ulla von Brandenburg, opens tomorrow at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. 'Whose beginning is not, nor end cannot be' presents new and recent art works that explore recurring themes and new subject matter through a wide range of media including film, drawing, installation and performance. Brandenburg’s art reflects her training in set design and the visual arts and is inspired by a wide range of historical elements, many reverting back to the late 19th-centruy, sourced from literature, the visual arts and expressionist theatre 25 May 2008 - Irish Art in Liverpool Northern Ireland artists Loyalist Mark Ervine and Republican Danny Devenny have jointly produced a painting of the Beatles for an end of terraced house in Liverpool as part of the Capital of Culture celebrations. The striking mural featuring a leather-clad John Lennon was painted on the side of a home in Croxteth Avenue, Litherland. Hugh Owen of the Riverside Group who commissioned the art said: “It’s amazing the way Mark and Danny are working together in a way that demonstrates once divided communities can move on and embrace the future.” 24 May 2008 - Cheers at Irish Art Auction A humorous painting featuring one of the best-known pubs in Dublin during the 1940s will be auctioned at Adam's Important Irish Art Sale this coming Wednesday. The painting by Irish artist Harry Kernoff ‘A Bird Never Flew on One Wing’ hung in O'Brien's Pub on Upper Leeson Street for more than 30 years. It is expected to fetch up to 120,000 euro in the sale. 23 May 2008 - Learn the Art of Drawing in Dublin Tomorrow 24 May, Mick O'Dea RHA, will launch the National Gallery of Ireland Drawing Day. The day kicks off at 10.30 with an adults drawing session in the natural-lit Baroque Gallery comprising life-drawing and still-life workshops led by artist, Eamon Colman. A children’s drawing session will be held in the afternoon from 15 - 16:30 in the Baroque Gallery. The aim of ‘Drawing Day’ is to provide an opportunity for everyone of all ages to try their hand at art by drawing under the guidance of professional art tutors. Admission is free. 22 May 2008 - Mystery Art Buyer The Art Newspaper has reported that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is the mystery buyer of two paintings by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud that sold for record prices at auction last week. It reports that Abramovich, bought Bacon’s “Triptych”, for $86.2 million at Sotheby’s in New York last Thursday and two days before, he purchased Freud’s 1995 painting “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” for $34 million at Christie’s. Bacon’s three-panel work from 1976 set a new record for a painting by an Irish artist while Freud’s work is now the most expensive ever by a living artist. 21 May 2008 - Irish Artist Burys Alter Ego Irish born artist Brian O'Doherty re-adopted his birth name last night. This follows the ceremonial burial of the artist's alter ego - Patrick Ireland – in the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art New York based O'Doherty adopted his pseudonym in 1972 at the "Irish Exhibition of Living Art". He pledged to sign his art works with the name Patrick Ireland whilst there was military presence in Northern Ireland. The burial was a celebration of peace. 20 May 2008 - Paul Donaghy Art Exhibition The latest art exhibition at Gormley's Fine Art in Belfast is a solo art exhibition by artist Paul Donaghy. Born in 1964, Paul studied Art & Design at the University of Ulster. The Exhibition opens on Thursday 22nd of May for two weeks. 19 May 2008 - Artist Paul Christopher Flynn
The latest Irish artist to show with Red Rag Gallery is Paul Christopher Flynn. Flynn’s contemporary paintings convey images in a way which they are reduced to an essence of form and tone. Paul's minimal use of form and colour links to the earliest art, such as cave paintings, but the quality of light in his paintings are of the highest contemporary standard. All Paul Christopher Flynn contemporary paintings are now available to purchase from Red Rag Gallery. To order or for further details contact the gallery 17 May 2008 - Art08 Award for Dublin Artist Dublin-based artist Isabel Nolan has won the inaugural Louis O'Sullivan Award at Art 08. The art fair is currently taking place at the RDS, Dublin, and is an annual Contemporary Art Fair held in conjunction with the Interior Design Fair. The show runs until 20 May. 16 May 2008 - Arts Council Increase Payments to Artists The Arts Council has announced an increase in the Cnuas, the payment made to some Aosdána members to allow Irish artists to devote themselves full time to creative art work. In the first increase since 2004 the annual sum will rise over three years from €12,180 to €20,000. The Arts Council acknowledged that both the current payment and the earnings cap over which an artist may not receive the Cnuas are relatively low. The decision to stagger the increase over three years was made due to budgetary constraints. 15 May 2008 - Landscape Art at Red Rag from Padraig McCaul
Irish artist Padraig McCaul makes his debut at Red Rag's Landscape Art show which starts 18 May. New contemporary paintings from Padraig McCaul featuring Irish Landscapes 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 14 May 2008 - Francis Bacon Painting Sets Record "Triptych, 1976" an art work from Irish born artist Francis Bacon has sold for $86 million at Sotheby's contemporary sale, setting a record for postwar art record. Sotheby's had given an auction guide price of around $70 million for the giant three piece canvas painting, but two determined telephone bidders drove the price up 13 May 2008 - Belfast artist shortlisted for Turner Art Prize Belfast-born and Glasgow based artist Cathy Wilkes has been shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize. Wilkes is a Fine Art graduate of the University of Ulster. The inspiration for Wilkes are everyday items such as televisions, baby buggies, toilets, food, and shop window mannequins. She has been shortlisted for the £25,000 modern art prize with artists Runa Islam, Mark Leckey and Goshka Macuga. 12 May 2008 - Art Exhibition Starting tomorrow until 25 May the first solo show in Wicklow of Bray native artist Susan Montgomery. The art exhibition takes place at Signal Arts Centre, 1 Albert Avenue, Bray, Co Wicklow. Susan divides her time between living rurally and travelling, mainly in India, which has strongly influenced this new body of work 11 May 2008 - Arts Council Award The first winners of a new award, sponsored by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, for ‘Best Example of Integrating Artworks into a Building Project’ has been won by Architects Robinson McIlwaine, working in collaboration with artists Stanley Murray Scott, Diane McCormick, James McKendry. The award was for the artworks incorporated into the War Memorial Home Front Exhibition at the Museum at Talbot Street in Belfast. 10 May 2008 - Art Exhibition: Impressionist Artists Starting today and running until 10 August, the National Gallery of Ireland presents an art exhibition highlighting the intimate observations of the Impressionists and their circle. Impressionist Interiors features over 45 wonderful paintings and drawings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Gauguin, Vuillard and Morisot from both the Gallery's collection and important European and US art collections. As well as exhibiting key art works from the 1870s and 1880s the exhibition shows how artists such as Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard carried on the Impressionist legacy of 'intimisme' into the twentieth century. 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. 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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