MAKE 2026 Symposium has been a total treat 💚
Fascinating presentations from Helen A. Fielding, EJTECH (Judit Eszter Kárpáti + Esteban de la Torre), Vivienne Roche, and the inimitable, irrepressible Martin Creed!
Big congrats to Pamela Hardesty and the MTU crew 💫
Really looking forward to presenting on William Blake and James Barry at Cork Public Museum tomorrow as part of the Friends of @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social’s spring lecture series.
12:30pm Friday 6 March
Tickets €10, students go free with ID
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Biscuit Tin Nostalgia, the superb new exhibition from Elize de Beer, opened at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Cork this evening. Go see before 18 April!
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Join us tomorrow for the opening event of This is Ireland!
Presented by @CrawfordSupportedStudios & @CorkCountyCouncil’s LHQ Gallery, This is Ireland is a vibrant, powerful group exhibition featuring the work of 16 disabled artists, a powerful perspective that challenges stereotypes. Details below!
And for the LOL of it all…
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
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Art Thoughts: Is Irish visual art still overlooked overseas? @cristinleach.bsky.social
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'London, Winter' (1928) by Christopher RW Nevinson
(London Museum)
Booking link, March Reading Group: 25th, 7pm GMT, online.
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by #eibhearwalshe, exploring Bowen's complex life, particularly the love rectangle she formed w/ her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron.
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'Evening, Killarney.' (1941) Speaking to an art critic in the 1930s, Paul Henry said: 'What always strikes me about the Irish landscape is its otherworldliness. There's an air of mystery about it ... you feel that anything may happen round the corner.'
It’s a lovely watch
For those of you who might need a ray of hope and warmth…
Lee Knight’s short A Friend of Dorothy, starring Miriam Margolyes, Alistair Nwachukwu, Stephen Fry, and Oscar Lloyd
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It’s #Music March! For our first post we’re reminiscing on a very special visit to the gallery when Denis O’Callaghan gave a memorable performance in front of the portrait of him painted by his brother Diarmuid O’Ceallacháin! Denis recently celebrated his 100th birthday
#CrawfordArtGallery #irishart
Although I haven’t been able to identify the sculptor of the marble Virgin and Child, the six paintings on copper that depict the Life of Our Lady were made by Patrick Pye to mark the cathedral’s 200th anniversary in 1999. 2/2
Tucked away in the northwest corner of the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne is a little gem of a space.
The tall, octagonal Lady Chapel is light-filled and animated by the intentions and flicker of votive candles. 1/2
Delighted about the positive review of my book on Jack B. Yeats in the context of Irish and Global modernism in the March 2026 issue of The Burlington Magazine.
Congratulations, Elisabeth!
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
Today is the last day to catch Dreams of Hyperborea, a little beauty of a show by artist Petrina Shortt at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Cork.
The work ‘explores the imaginative and ecological potential of a wild marine forest in West Cork.’
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Three terracotta statues of Orpheus, sitting on a stool and playing his instrument, and two sirens, half human and half bird, standing in front of him.
Three terracotta statues of Orpheus, sitting on a stool and playing his instrument, and two sirens, half human and half bird, standing in front of him.
A highlight of early Hellenistic Taranto is the stunning terracotta group of Orpheus and the Sirens, recently returned from the Getty to Italy. While striking, their original setting, possibly on a funerary monument, remains a mystery.
Taranto, late 4th c. BCE, 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺
It holds strong resonance with Off the Donegal Coast (1922) by Jack B. Yeats @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT 🖼️
With #Constellations at #FEMcwilliam now in full swing, we will be highlighting some of the works from the exhibition. First up is A Living Colour Index by Michael Hannah!
Constellations is in Banbridge until 2 May.
#CrawfordArtGallery #TouringandSharing
The Curragh.' (1914) This painting by Irish artist Paul Henry is full of drama, accentuated by the use of a high horizon and tall waves as if to remind us of the danger facing the crew of this small boat. It brings home the harsh life of the islanders on Achill off County Mayo.
We celebrated the "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family & The Public Arts" exhibition today!
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog featuring essays by various scholars that offer new insights & interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses.
Thanks to @echolive.bsky.social for covering the new exhibition, Constellations: Selected Work from Crawford Art Gallery, which runs until 2 May at F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge.
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Fascinating archival video broadcast #onthisday in 1976 on art conservation @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social
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An artwork by a UCC BEES student, showing branches with green, spotted leaves and berries or fruits of varying colours growing in clumps on the branches.
A crotched or knitted artwork by a UCC BEES student, created into a plant with large leaves and draping vines growing out of a hanging pot made entirely of yarn.
A three-dimensional artwork from a UCC BEES student, showing a large, black bird's head with open beak situated above a scene of dirt with tall, thick, leaved plants growing out of it, one of which has a striped caterpillar sitting on a leaf, with a mouse and green beetle on the ground next to the stalks of the plants.
An artwork by a UCC BEES student showing a side-profile of a strawberry plant, seen from both above and below ground. The plant above ground is vibrantly green with leaves, strawberries in various stages of growth, and a couple of flowers and buds; below the ground, the roots are stretching in all directions. The plant may have some kind of fungus or disease though, as three of the many roots have black blotches on them that are starting to spread up to the base of the plant, and one of the smaller, lower branches that has the blotches is also browning in the leaves.
We were delighted to collaborate again with #uccbees for their Visual Representations of Biological Control module. Exploring collection works engaged with nature, students produced visual responses to their studies in plant pathology. Click through to see some of their works!
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The horses of the Sun, Charles Le Brun, c. 1672-1674
(Musée du Louvre)
Sylvia Plath interviewing Elizabeth Bowen for Mademoiselle magazine, May 1953.
Elizabeth Bowen died #otd in 1973, in University College Hospital, London, aged 73.
She is buried with her husband in St Colman's churchyard in Farahy, Co. Cork, close to the gates of her family seat, Bowen's Court.
‘While I stand and regard it, the indifference to myself shown by a work of art in itself is art.‘
#ElizabethBowen died #onthisday in 1973. Never one to spare a direct hit, she can always be relied upon to jolt you awake with a razor sharp observation or the contortions of her painterly prose.
