Portrait of Tony Blair
The National Portrait Gallery, London, has unveiled its most recent commissioned portrait, a painting of Tony Blair by artist Alastair Adams, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, it was announced today, Friday 20 December 2013. The commission is in keeping with the National Portrait Gallery’s wish to acquire portraits of all former British Prime Ministers. The large oil painting (four feet by three) shows the...
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...
Tom Price with Ancient Systems
Hales Gallery is delighted to announce Ancient Systems, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with sculptor Tom Price. Price’s works all share a fascination in body language, facial expression, and in turn, their ability to suggest a state of mind. His works are amalgamations of a wide range of influences found in the artist’s observations of individuals, invented and constructed with the help of people observed on the street,...
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...