Gallery Events
Thursday 26 August 2010, 6pm-8pm
Carnegie Reading Circle at Faber Studios
Please join us for the Carnegie Reading Circle at Faber Studios, Catherine Street on Thursday 26 August, 6pm to 8pm. This is an informal, social event where guests are invited to read to the group a text or extract from a text on the theme of Time Travel.
Wednesday 25 August 2010, 1pm-2pm
Curator's talk: Mary Conlon at Faber Studios
In the second talk from the Books V Cigarettes series, Mary Conlon discusses ideas and developments in her curatorial research project based on Calvino's lectures Six Memos for the Next Millennium.
Tuesday 24 August 2010, 1pm-2pm
LCGA Permanent Collection Lecture by Dr. Peter Jordan at The Hunt Museum
Please join us for a free public lecture by Dr. Peter Jordan on the LCGA Permanent Collection at The Hunt Museum, Rutland Street. Dr. Jordan will discuss the historic collection including the twenty-four works exhibited at the museum.
Monday 9 August 2010
Temporary Director/Curator - six month fixed term contract
Applications are invited for the above fixed term contract position with Limerick City Council. The deadline for receipt of application is Monday 9 August 2010, 5pm.
4 June - 10 July 2010
Still life with... Free Events at the Hunt Museum
As part of the Cleary & Connolly Still life with... exhibition, LCGA and the Hunt Museum will offer a series of free events throughout the exhibition at the Hunt Museum on Rutland Street including artists' talks, family day movement workshop, dance performance and historical lecture.
Friday 4 June 2010
LCGA moves to Istabraq Hall
From Friday 4 June, Limerick City Gallery of Art will be located off-site temporarily at Limerick City Council, Istabraq Hall, Merchants Quay. Limerick City Gallery of Art will return to the newly renovated Carnegie Building on Pery Square in 2011.
Thursday 3 June 2010, 7pm
OFF-SITE: Connolly/Cleary present Still life with...
The project is inspired by Patrick Hennessy’s magnificent Still life painting from the permanent collection of Limerick City Gallery of Art. Still life with... reconstructs the original Still life as a 3-dimensional set, inviting you to step right into the painting. It provides a meeting place for pixels and pigments, for moving and fixed images, for shimmering light and hard matter, for young and old.
Wednesday 12 May 2010, 10am-5pm
OFF-SITE: Species of Space seminar
Six Memos presents Species of Space, a panel of international speakers who will discuss ideas of space in contemporary artistic and curatorial practices at the Limerick School of Art & Design, Clare Street on Wednesday 12 May 2010.
Thursday 25 March 2010, 5.00pm-6.30pm
ON-SITE: Sustainable Futures
Sustainable Futures will celebrate the works of Irish based artists that incorporate the concept of sustainability into their work. Organiser Diarmuid Neilan says “The exhibition is all about the Re-using, Recycling and Revaluing of waste materials. The exhibited works shows how the artists have taken throw-away waste material with no perceived value, and through the creative process, have turned them into valued art pieces.”
12 March - 23 May 2010
OPEN/INVITED ev+a 2010 - Matters opening at LSAD Gallery
OPEN/INVITED e v+ a 2010 – Matters curated by Elizabeth Hatz will open at LSAD Gallery, Limerick School of Art & Design, Clare Street Campus, Limerick on Friday 12 March, 7pm
Saturday 13 March 2010, 11am
OPEN/INVITED ev+a 2010 - Matters: Free bus tour
OPEN/INVITED e v+ a 2010 will be open for viewing from Saturday 13 March at venues throughout Limerick City. The ev+a HUB on Thomas Street will be open from 11am with a Free Bus Tour leaving the HUB at 12pm.
Thursday 25 February 2010, 10.30am-1pm
Leaving Certificate Revision Day
Limerick City Gallery of Art are delighted to announce in conjunction with the National Gallery of Ireland, a free study day for Leaving Certificate art students. This study day will cover a range of revision topics from the Art History and Appreciation curriculum on Thursday 25 February.
Thursday 25 February 2010, 4pm-6pm
Carnegie Reading Circle
Please join us for the Carnegie Reading Circle at Occupy Space on Thursday 25 February, 4pm to 6pm. This is an informal, social event where guests are invited for afternoon tea and to read to the group a text or extract from a text on the theme of Technologies.
Thursday 10 December 2009, 5pm-7pm
David Lilburn: Artist's Book Launch
David Lilburn explores ideas about place and memory through the graphic processes of drawing and printmaking. In 'Walking Drawing Making Memory', we see some of David's panoramic drypoint prints in the context of what is usually the more private work of an artist (...): the original, searching notations and speculative mark-making through which an artist begins the attempt to think out onto the page his experience of being in a landscape.
Thursday 26 November 2009, 4pm-6pm
Carnegie Reading Circle
Please join us for the Carnegie Reading Circle at Limerick City Gallery of Art on Thursday 26 November, 4pm to 6pm. This is an informal, social event where guests are invited for afternoon tea and to read to the group a text or extract from a text on the theme of Ways of Living, based on the Guestroom, London model at Zoo Art Fair 2009. (Image courtesy of Fiona O'Connor, Moxie Dublin)
Saturday 24 October, 3pm
Public Tour: Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art
Enjoy a Sunday afternoon tour of Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art, surveying the extensive terrain of art made in Ireland during the first decade of this millennium.
Saturday 17 October, 11.30am-1pm and 2pm-3.30pm
Family Day: Visual Poetry
Fun-filled Autumn Family Days continue with Visual Poetry! Children of all ages will visit the exciting Noughties but Nice exhibition, identifying words they would use to describe the works they encounter
10 September 2009 - 15 January 2010
Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art
Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art surveys the extensive terrain of art made in Ireland during the first decade of this millennium. This exhibition selects some of the most exciting contemporary master-works of the Noughties, including seminal works by leading Irish artists.
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays until 4 November
Schools’ Programme: Cardboard Modernist Furniture Workshop and Tour
Eamon O'Kane's installation, Cardboard Modernist Furniture Workshop, invites groups to participate in creating their own cardboard furniture. This fun activity is designed to encourage three dimensional understanding and the use of simple materials in construction.
