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Irish Examiner
28-07-2025
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Art exhibitions and events to visit this summer
Summer art exhibitions abound in Ireland and offer a stimulating alternative activity in the holiday season. If you have not yet seen it, there is still time to catch The Art of Friendship, dedicated to pioneering Irish Modernists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, at the National Gallery until August 10. With paintings, stained glass and preparatory drawings, it offers 90 works by these trailblazers who studied in Paris in the 1920s. Evie Hone's 'Composition'. A new series of works created for the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin by contemporary trailblazer Ailbhe Ni Bhriain is a meditation on the spectre of loss entitled The Dream Pool Intervals. Five eloquent, powerful tapestries form the centre of an exhibition by this Cork-based artist who works with film, computer-generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. With images of destroyed architecture, icons of war and climate disaster, the tapestries seem to define this particular period in human history. We are all now much too familiar with the sort of fractured environments that inspired this show, which continues until September 28. Victoria Russell's portrait of Fiona Shaw from the Crawford Gallery is now on view at Uilinn in Skibbereen. The Crawford Gallery is closed for redevelopment, with parts of its magnificent collection to be found in various locations around Ireland. Uillinn, the West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, has gone one step further with Gra, an exhibition from the collection selected by Salt & Pepper LGBTQI+ Art Collective with the artist Toma McCullim. Grá features key works including The Red Rose by John Lavery, Victoria Russell's Portrait of Fiona Shaw and Patrick Hennessy's Self-Portrait and Cat. It includes works by Paul La Rocque, Sara Baum, Margaret Clark, Tom Climent, Gerard Dillon, Stephen Doyle, Mainie Jellett, Harry Kernoff, Janet Mullarney, Isabel Nolan, John Rainey, Patrick Scott, Edith Sommerville, Niamh Swanton and Mary Swanzy and continues until September 20. 'Richard Harris: Role of a Lifetime' at the Hunt Museum in Limerick. At the Hunt Museum in Limerick, From Dickie to Richard, Richard Harris: Role of a Lifetime celebrates the life, legacy and creative spirit of one of the city's favourite sons. With personal artefacts, memorabilia and audiovisual displays, it focuses on his unique brilliance and impact on the arts. It is available to see until November 16. Applications are now open for the Hunt's inaugural open submission exhibition for emerging and established artists. The deadline is August 31. An Artist's Presence at the National Gallery, until September 14, explores the way artists have consciously and unconsciously placed themselves in their work. It offers drawings and paintings from the permanent collection spanning the 18th to the 21st century. The diverse selection includes William Orpen, James Barry, Flora Mitchell, Sean Keating, Nancy Lee Katz and Moyra Barry. 'Dun Aonghasa Cliffs and Shoreline' by Paul Kelly at Mallow Arts Festival. Art exhibitions are a feature of numerous festivals around Ireland. The Mallow Arts Festival, which runs until August 3, offers retrospectives by Paul Kelly and James O'Halloran (1955-2014) and features work by LS Lowry and Georges Rouault. At Visual in Carlow, Dreamtime Ireland, until August 31, is a research project drawn from contemporary artworks and artefacts by Sean Lynch. It investigates the potential of art to provoke, investigate and critique the shape and purpose of Irish culture.
The Journal
24-04-2025
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A stunning visual art exhibition in one of Dublin's most iconic cultural spaces
A VISUALLY STUNNING exhibition that tackles thought-provoking themes and explores questions that are deeply relevant in the modern-day is open to the public at one of Dublin's landmark cultural venues. The Dream Pool Intervals, a stunning new series of works by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, is currently on display at Parnell Square's iconic Hugh Lane Gallery with admission free of charge. Visitors who come to experience The Dream Pool Intervals can expect to step into a visual world designed to explore questions of technological and ecological progress. Artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain at the opening of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: The Dream Pool Intervals at Hugh Lane Gallery © Naoise Culhane Photography 2025 The centrepiece of this stirring exhibit is five large-scale jacquard tapestries woven from several different materials, including cotton, wool, silk and lurex. These intricately woven works offer a commentary on an array of issues which loom large over the modern social consciousness, such as climate change, colonialism, industrialism, nature and the built environment. The effects created by Ní Bhriain's approach are unique and striking, as fragments of archival portraits merge with images of underground caves and architectural ruin, conjuring ideas of the interplay 'between contemporary threats of extinction and ancient narratives of the underworld'. Installation view Hugh Lane Gallery, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: The Dream Pool Intervals. Image © Hugh Lane Gallery, 2025 The installations are thought-provoking, and walking through the exhibition offers visitors a chance to reflect while experiencing the work of one of Ireland's most exciting visual artists. Advertisement Ní Bhriain is an internationally celebrated artist whose work has been exhibited at venues including Broad Museum, Michigan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hammer Museum, LA; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Innsbruck International Biennial, Austria; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France and the 16th Lyon Biennale. Installation view Hugh Lane Gallery, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: The Dream Pool Intervals. Image © Hugh Lane Gallery, 2025 Speaking about the intention behind her work, Ní Bhriain said: 'In the tapestries are images of destroyed architecture – gathered from multiple sources, icons of war and climate disaster that seem to define this period'. The title of the exhibition is a reference to 'The Dream Pool Essays', a text by the Chinese polymath Shen Kuo in 1088, which includes geological recordings that are considered to be the earliest observations of climate change. Barbara Dawson, Director at the Hugh Lane Gallery, said of the exhibition: 'In Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's monumental tapestries we are presented with mysterious mises en scéne in the ruins of previous world orders forcing us to rethink perceived concepts of progress and advancement in the face of human and ecological fragmentation.' Installation view Hugh Lane Gallery, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: The Dream Pool Intervals. Image © Hugh Lane Gallery, 2025 Located in the heart of Dublin's city centre, the Hugh Lane Gallery is a cultural cornerstone of the city. In addition to The Dream Pool Intervals exhibition currently running, visitors can also take in the works of impressionists such as Monet and Degas, as well as Francis Bacon's Studio and many other works from the collection, all free of charge. Michael Dempsey, Head of Exhibitions, Hugh Lane Gallery, and Curator of the The Dream Pool Intervals said: 'Ní Bhriain seeks to locate our growing anxieties of crises within a world where colonial and industrial legacies are fused with the consciousness of our current moment. 'Capturing the mood of society today, the relevance of Ní Bhriain's themes cannot be understated. The Hugh Lane Gallery is delighted to present her work'. The Dream Pool Intervals exhibition, brought to you by the Hugh Lane Gallery and Dublin City Council, is open to the public until 28 September. Admission is free of charge. Find out more about what's going on at The Hugh Lane Gallery here .
