The Devil’s in the Detail: A celebration of Rudolf Heltzel’s Jewellery

6-23 December 2009

The Devil’s in the Detail – an exhibition in the Hunt Museum, Limerick, offers a rare opportunity to see the spectacularly designed and exquisitely beautiful work of the goldsmith, Rudolf Heltzel. Worked with a skill that is almost unheard of in contemporary Irish goldsmithing, Heltzel’s designs are strong, modern, and eminently wearable. Unlike much of contemporary art jewellery, he works with rather than comments on the body and his pieces change their emphasis when worn, seeming to subtly adapt to the personality of the wearer.

All works for sale.

John Behan
The Silence of History
5-22 November 2009

Ireland’s most celebrated sculptor John Behan will exhibit an inspirational body of new work, under the title “The Silence of History”, at The Hunt Museum, Limerick, from November 5 – 22.

A collection of over thirty works, including not just sculptures, but also paintings by John Behan, who is without doubt one of Ireland’s most influential contemporary artists will be on display and for sale. John Behan first showed his work publically forty years ago and in the decades since, his reputation has grown far beyond our shores.

See press release for further details about this exhibition and John Behan RHA >>>

All works for sale.

Seán Keating In Focus
25 June - 4 October 2009

Seán Keating was born in Limerick in 1889 and was a popular and important, if controversial figure as an artist, teacher, writer and broadcaster in twentieth-century Ireland. His career spanned seventy years and while he was celebrated for his paintings of the Irish political situation between 1916 and 1924, iconic images of the Shannon Scheme and his representation of the people of the Aran Islands, this work is but a part of his oeuvre.

The exhibition will examine many of the most popular and several of the more obscure aspects of the artist’s career from 1907 to 1977 using iconic images alongside unfamiliar and previously unknown paintings and drawings.

The exhibition will include 33 works, as well as items from the private family papers. Works are mainly borrowed from leading private collections. Included in the exhibition are works that have never before been exhibited in public. More information >>>

Hunt 2009
7-21 May 2009

Revelation
9 April - 3 May 2009

An exhibition of twenty nine specially commissioned prints created by members of Graphic Studio Dublin and invited artists in the Print Room at the National Gallery of Ireland from April 9th until May 3rd, 2009.
'Revelation' was chosen as the theme for the show. In dealing with the profound concept of revelation - to make known something hidden - many of the artists and printmakers chose to embrace religious concepts of revelation, whilst others focused on the philosophical, scientific or secular dimensions of the topic. For many of the participating artists, the National Gallery of Ireland's collection has been the source of inspiration for their creations.
Among the artists featured in the exhibition are: Pamela Leonard, Cliona Doyle, Brian Lalor, Yoko Akino, Stephen Lawlor, Robert Russell, Clare Henderson, Tim Goulding, Jean Bardon, Tom Phelan, Lina Nordenstrom, Terence Gravett, Yoko Hara, Nickie Hayden, Sharon Lee, Maev Leneghan, Siobhan Hyde, Kelvin Mann, William Crozier HRHA, Guggi, John Kindness, Carmel Benson, Mary Lohan, Maeve McCarthy RHA, Martin Gale RHA, Donald Teskey, Seán McSweeney HRHA, Nigel Rolfe and Marta Wakula-Mac.

Admission is free and all prints are for sale through The Hunt Museum.

‘Into The Abyss’
12 March - 5 April 2009

An Exhibition of New Work
by Mary Meskell, B.A. (Hons) and Josephine Geaney, B.A. (Hons)

‘The title ‘Into The Abyss’ refers to a silent, misunderstood space. Our work is interconnected as we both portray elements of isolation, confinement and a sense of loss. The work explores the emotional abyss of human isolation. Windows feature as portals and paradoxically as invisible barriers that separate the inner and outer worlds of perception and reality’. Josephine: ‘In my work the human figure represents a physical and emotional degree of isolation visible through the different levels of the picture plane’. Mary: ‘In contrast my work has a purposeful absence of the human figure to better express the invisibility of those who feel emotionally isolated and disconnected’.

Hugh Doran
19 January - 22 February 2008

A catalogue of photographs by Hugh Doran in collaboration with The Irish Architectural Archive, featuring Dublin street scenes, portraiture of the 1950s and 1960s and also architectural, both exterior and interiors. Hugh Doran (1926–2004) a native of Dublin was an amateur photographer of extraordinary talent. A printer by profession who worked all his life with Arthur Guinness & Co., his photographs were presented to the Irish Architectural Archive in 2005 in accordance with his wishes.
The catalogue that accompanies the exhibition was printed in 2007.

Past Gazing Future Glazing - The Ceramic World of Peter Meanley
31 October - 31 December 2008

Peter Meanley is Northern Ireland’s foremost ceramic vessel maker. The exhibition comprises approximately 100 pieces including 16 vessels from the collection of The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
Exhibtion in association with The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

This exhibition is sponsored by

Blaise Smith: Weapons
10-23 October 2008

An exhibition of works by realist painter Blaise Smith of guns, tanks and shells painted over the last four years in Irish Army Barracks. This exhibition is in collaboration with The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.
A 64-page casebound catalogue has been printed to coincide with the exhibition.
All works are for sale.

'Redbog'. Oil on canvas. 12 x 18 inches

Resonance - The Living Landscape
11-28 September 2008

An exhibition of oil paintings by by Denise Ryan of the Burren terrain and shoreline.
The works express the visual changes brought about by light, weather and the seasons and the resonance of lives lived in the landscape, as in her “Standing Stones” and “Deserted Village” series of paintings.
Paintings by Denise Ryan hang in private collections in the United States, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Ireland and France. Public collections include University of Limerick; Shannon Development; Clare County Council; TSB Bank, Limerick and Dublin; Chase Bank and Mid-Western Health Board.
All works are for sale.

Followers of Fashion — Painting Exhibition
5 June – 31 August 2008

The “Followers of Fashion — Painting Exhibition”, comprises 15 paintings which illustrate the development of fashionable dress from the Empire-line style of the early 1800s, through Victorian and Edwardian modes and wartime fashions, to those of the 1950s and 1960s. The paintings depict women dressed in tea gowns, ball gowns, ensembles for engagements, ‘walking out costume’ and mourning attire. In the nineteenth century, the middle classes acquired sufficient finances to have their portraits painted in the latest fashions. The sophistication of women’s clothing increased in the twentieth century, but was interrupted by the two World Wars. However, glamour returned in the 1950s.
Paintings by several Irish artists will be on view, including John Lavery, Sean O’Sullivan, Leo Whelan and Dermod O’Brien as well as works by less familiar European artists. The paintings have been selected from the National Gallery of Ireland’s permanent collection.

Hunt 2008
1-18 May 2008

Exhibition by painting students of LSAD based on the Hunt Collection.

Between Chance and Rhyme
3-24 April 2008

Tom Climent's new exhibition of paintings comprises works done over an 18 month period. Usually known as a painter of large format works, he has over the last few years been working on a much smaller scale as well, as such this exhibition gives a more complete overview of his practice at the moment.
Known for his bold use of paint and brooding dramatic color, he can conjure a sense of interior space or landscape both urban and rural. While there is a lyrical romantic quality to some of his newer works, there still exists a sense of interaction, drama and narrative that characterised his earlier work.
Previous exhibitions include Hansel's House at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery 2007, New Paintings at the Fenton Gallery 2003, and Pure at the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 1997. Climent won the Tony O'Malley Travel Award in 1997 and the Victor Treacy award in 1996, both from the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. In 2006 a retrospective catalogue of his work Decade was published with an essay by Vera Ryan.

All works will be available for purchase.

An Leabhar Mór/ The Great Book of Gaelic
20 February - 20 March 2008

An international celebration of contemporary Celtic culture. The Great Book is a major contemporary artwork, a 21st century ‘Book of Kells’, that brings together the work of more than 200 visual artists, poets and calligraphers from Scotland and Ireland. This presentation features 30 works from the travelling exhibition.
An Leabhar Mór website

Counterpoint
22 January - 10 February 2008

An exhibition featuring works by Cork artist, Patrick Cashin, and Gavin Hogg from Limerick.



Gavin Hogg, 'Floating Lights', Oil on linen, 40 x 40 cms

White Pot 1 by Catherine Schofield

A Celebration of Limerick's Silver
14 September 2007 - 13 January 2008

A major exhibition of Limerick silver from the 17th to the 21st century.
This exhibition brings together a comprehensive collection of silver made in Limerick and includes items which have strong associations with the city and region. Household items, such as dish rings, soup tureens, marrow spoons will be juxtaposed wtih items of major civic importance, for example, the city mace, the University mace as well as historic GAA medals, sporting trophies and contemporary pieces.
This exhibition and associated catalogue will contribute to the developing canon of knowledge on local history and equally will make a significant contribution to the history of Irish craft and design.
Guided tours daily at 2.30pm

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Man Creating Bird (1948)
Oil on gesso-primed hardboard
61 x 51
Private collection

Pilgrims
1st – 19th March

An exhibition of paintings by well known Limerick artist from Lough Gur, Robert Ryan. The hours of darkness, silence and stillness almost feel timeless, infinite. Robert's images are of a darkened empty place where creatures (as if in limbo) wander aimlessly in isolation, like lost souls. (All works for sale)

Topographical Views from Glin Castle - Limerick and its Environs
15th – 26th February

This exhibition, Topographical Views from Glin Castle – Limerick and its Environs, provides layers of insight into Irish social history and topography from the eighteenth century to the present day. These eloquent paintings form part of an inspired collection assembled over the past 30 years by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, president of the Irish Georgian Society and now active on the advisory committee of the recently established Irish Heritage Trust.
All works here are based on the theme of landscape, which conveys a sense of place. However, the treatment of the place, which is Limerick City and County as well as counties, Clare and North Kerry, varies with the style of the artist the time and subject. Collectively, they evoke a deeper understanding of our local place here in the Mid West. The paintings are documents of social history as well as being works of beauty. Those who made this exhibition happen, the Knight of Glin, Limerick Chamber of Commerce and Limerick City Museum must be congratulated on a fine achievement.

Gardens of Earthly Delight at The Hunt Museum Gallery, Limerick
11 January - 12 February 2006

This specially-created exhibition of limited edition prints is a collaborative project between The Chester Beatty Library and The Graphic Studio, Dublin. Thirty-nine distinguished Irish and international artists were invited to explore the Library's collection fucusing on garden and related imagery, which express man's spiritual and physical need to create, cultivate and depict gardens. From the traditional symbolism and restraint of Japanese and Chinese gardens, to the symmetry and richness of the Qur'an-inspired Paradise gardens and the Christian gardens of medieval Europe, the common theme is the garden as terrestrial paradise, a refuge and a place of spiritual solace - a Garden of Eden. (All works for sale.)

'They Minus',
pencil on jesso panel, 30 x 20 cm
 

'Sentient'
an exhibition of paintings by Glenn Fitzgerald  
8-30 April 2005
 

'Memory of a shadow edges and boundaries'
an exhibition of stained glass and paintings on paper by Peadar Lamb  
4-31 March 2005


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'Rain',
paintings on paper

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Undercurrents: new paintings by Beatrice O'Connell
7-29 February 2004

Ochtar - A Group Show
Exhibition of works by eight artists from Limerick and Mid West Region. Vivienne Bogan, Jack Donovan, Gillian Kenny, Brian MacMahon, E.J. Peters, Robert Ryan, Walter Verling, Lorraine Wall.