Step Paintings by Basil Beattie
Hales Gallery is delighted to present Above and Below: Step Paintings 1990-2013, a solo show of works by British painter Basil Beattie. Beattie left the Royal Academy schools in 1961, when the trend in Britain was for American-influenced abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction. His initial works of the 1960s and early 70s absorbed these influences, but it was not long before Beattie abandoned a purely formal approach and...
Designer Dublin Set For Christmas Return
An initiative of the Dublin City Enterprise Board and Plato Dublin, organisers are promising that Irish-made fashion, jewellery, furniture, ceramics, craft and artisan food produce will all be on the festive menu. The free Designer Dublin event attracted hundreds of visitors last Christmas and doors are opening from 10am to 5pm on December 19th, on one of the capital’s busiest shopping days of the year. Marion Walshe, organiser...
Banksy gets Christchurch showing
Christchurch is known as the Garden City for its spectacular gardens and stunning spring blooms that turn the city into a festival of flowers – but the resurgent city is soon to be splashed in colour for an entirely different reason when work from one of the most infamous and influential contemporary artists in the world comes to town. One of the largest collections of street art by UK artist Banksy will adorn the walls of the...
Picasso Ceramics At Bonhams
A selection of ceramics created by Pablo Picasso will feature in the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on 23rd October at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Designed by the artist in the 1950s, the group includes plates, bowls, vases, ashtrays and pitchers modelled in ceramic and terracotta. Estimates are attractive, ranging from just £500-£700 to £4,000-£6,000. Designs feature Picasso’s characteristic and playful imagery, covering mythological...
Renaissance exhibition in Florence
Italy is renowned for having a great amount of the best Renaissance art, and most of this can be seen in Florence. Currently the Palazzo Strozzi is running an exhibition to portray the origin of what is still known today as the “miracle” of the Renaissance in Florence utilising the masterpieces of sculpture and the form of figurative art in the manner it was first embodied. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to enjoy many...
Vulpicide at Sorbus Galleria
JANE HUGHES (IRL) & TARU KALLIO (FI) Opening Tuesday 18th of June at 6pm Exhibition runs 19th of June until 7th of July 2013 VULPICIDE /CITYCIDE is an exploration of wilderness, delusion and delirium in the city environment through drawing and installation. Large scale drawings encircle the spectator, confronted with harsh lines and raw emotions, the vibrations of the cityscape emerge through the immediacy of mark making dispersed...