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Looking to pack in some last-minute summer fun this August? Check out these visual arts events taking place around the country this month! Exhibitions: Land(ed) | Group Exhibition Lavit Gallery 1st - 31st August Land(ed) is the title…

This July, escape the heat with these cool visual arts events taking place across the country! Exhibitions: Sliabh na mBan | Mollie Anna King South Tipperary Arts Centre 2nd July – 24th August For this exhibition, King has chosen to…

In March 2018, emerging Irish artist and runner-up in Sky Arts’ ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’ Hetty Lawlor appeared on RTE?’s ‘The Ray D’Arcy Show’. While showcasing her talent, D’Arcy quizzed Lawlor on why she prefers to paint…

The Renaissance was one of the greatest periods of creative and intellectual achievement in world history. It was an extraordinary upsurge of learning and artistic activity that spread throughout Europe in the 15t?h ?and 16th…

The cliched idea of the “thin line between genius and insanity” is one that has been discussed by both psychiatrists, cultural commentators and pop psychologists for decades. In one sense it’s an iteration of the “tortured artist”…

Art knows no boundaries, it is said. But before the mass media that arrived in the late 19th century, art in the main was a very upper class affair. And art itself became highly formalised in turn. The strictures that the early surrealists…

Each fortnight, HeadStuff brings an unadulterated critique of the global art scene. Click here for more.  He’s had careers in real estate, reality TV, politics, and now art. A drawing of the Manhattan skyline by President Donald Trump sold…

Ahead of 'Elvis Knows' (Thursday August 17th) - a visual journey from paint to print by critically-acclaimed painter Eóin Francis McCormack I met up with Eóin in his studio to chat about his transition from painting into the world of…