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.
For further information contact Naomi O'Nolan Tel: 061-490084
email: naomi@huntmuseum.com
Blaise Smith: Landscapes and Still Lifes
10-23 October 2008
A series of landscapes and still life paintings on show in the Museum restaurant. This exhibition is in association with The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.
All works are for sale.
For further information contact Naomi O'Nolan
Tel: 061-490084
email: naomi@huntmuseum.com
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.
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.
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
Ceramics, jewellery, wood, glass, textiles, baskets and furniture - some of the finest examples of contemporary craft can now be seen in context in this groundbreaking exhibition by the National Craft Gallery.
Work by leading Irish artists such as Liam Flynn, Joe Hogan, Joseph Walsh and Beth Moran will sit Side by Side with priceless works from the Hunt Museum’s private collection. Formed by Gertrude and the late John Hunt, this body of work dates from the Neolithic to the 20th century and includes works by Renoir, Picasso and Yeats.
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
Fashion and Photography 1950s and 1960s
10 June - 26 August 2007
This exhibition explores and contrasts the sophisticated, elegant and mature image of the 1950s woman with the youthful, casual and, at times, youthful look which dominated fashion in the mid-1960s. Clothes by leading designers of the time including Christian Dior, Mary Quant, Chanel and others will be on display.
Examples of works by famous photographers of the day, including Terence Donovan, William Klein, Louise Dahl Woulfe and more, also form part of this exhibition.
Exploring the landscape in various paint media. An exhibition of new works by Limerick artist, Andy McCarthy. Included are works in oils, watercolours and bronze. All works are for sale.
Collectors Event @ The Hunt Museum
16 November - 6 December
The Crafts Council of Ireland and The Hunt Museum present an exhibition for the discerning collector offering exclusive selections of contemporary crafts with works by some of Ireland's most distinguished craftworkers. All works for sale.
Art Now 2006
27 October - 9 November A selection of works by leading Irish artists, a collaboration between The Taylor Galleries, Dublin, and The Hunt Museum. Artist include Louis le Brocquy, John Shinnors, Tony O'Malley, Jane O'Malley, Patrick Scott, Blaise Smith, Sean McSweeney, Michael Quane, Mary Lohan and others. All works for sale.
Louis le Brocquy 'Allegory & Legend' 16 June - 24 September 2006
Louis le Brocquy, who was born in Dublin in 1916, is regarded as Ireland’s most important living artist and one of the country's great painters of the 20th century. His painting of the heads of great literary and artistic figures such as W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca and Seamus Heaney are recognized the world over as being a distinctively powerful and significant part of the canon of 20th century art. Equally, his reflections on historical themes, mythical stories and folk rituals express deeply felt reactions to our past, with contemporary eyes.
This year, 2006, marks le Brocquy’s 90th year. To celebrate this event, The Hunt Museum, in collaboration with Pierre le Brocquy, is curating a major exhibition of his works.
EV+A Event
March – June 2006:
'Encounters with Objects' by Julian Walker
The Hunt Museum is presenting Encounters with Objects by Julian Walker as part of EV+A Limerick, 2006, from 10 March to 21 May. The work comprises a video, shown in the upper study room, eight photographs and a number of text labels interspersed throughout the collection.
The work examines the history of the objects in the collection, from their original identity as objects made for use, to their being lost, hidden or removed from use, to their acquisition by the Hunt family. At this stage many of them were put into use in accordance with their original intended usage, as domestic items, as items to be worn or displayed in a way that enabled physical interaction. On passing to the Museum they were removed from use again, acquiring a new identity as 'museum objects'; yet visually they remain objects for use.
Walker's work examines their role as objects to be used, by using them. The physical engagement involved asks questions about our identities, and what we feel when we touch objects from the past. In particular it examines the nature of the projection of presence conveyed within the body of preserved objects, and the view of time as a helix along which points of repetition may be perceived creating lines of connection.
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.)
Collectors Event @ The Hunt Museum
8-23 December 2005
The Crafts Council of Ireland and The Hunt Museum, present an exhibition for the discerning collector offering exclusive selections of contemporary crafts with works by some of Ireland's most distinguished craftworkers.
View the Collectors Event exhibition catalogue here. All works for sale.
ART NOW 2005. This exhibition of contemporary Irish Art, in collaboration with Taylor Galleries, Kildare Street, Dublin
8pm 17 November-4 December 2005
Michael Quane, Horse and Rider, marble, 55 x 41 x 27 cms
Tom Fitzgerald, Death by Numbers, Bronze, stainless steel, marble, slate, hardware, 183 x 34 x 30 cms
A selection of works by: Tom Fitzgerald, Colin Harrisson, Bernadette Kiely, Mary Lohan, Gwen O'Dowd, Michael Quane, and John Shinnors.
All works for sale.
John Shinnors, Sculptor's Scarecrow, Road to Carraroe, oil on canvas, 16" x 16"
Andrews, O'Connor, Quillinan at The Hunt Museum
21 October-13 November 2005
An exhibition of paintings by three well established artists who have based this exhibition on a work or artist in the Hunt Collection.
(All works for sale.)
'Shades of Light - Evocations of Summer'
8 June - 16 October 2005
Shades of Light - Evocations of Summer includes works by great Irish artists such as Sir John Lavery, William Leech, Estella Solomons, Walter Osborne and George Russell (Æ). The paintings in this exhibition have been selected for their poetic and evocative imagery and from different perspectives capture moments of leisure, relaxation and sensuous pleasure. Different subjects and contrasting milieux highlight the many ways the artists have responded to evocations of summer: visually, emotionally, intellectually and aesthetically.
Focus is both on people enjoying the pleasures of outdoor life and clement weather and on varying treatments of the landscape genre by the featured artists as they explore the properties of colour and light. We see diverse geographical locations including Donegal, Kerry, Brittany, Venice, Cannes and Morocco.
Works included in this exhibition are largely from private collections and are not normally available for public viewing. Further Information>>
'Hunt 2005'
an exhibition by Second and Third Year Painting students from Limerick School of Art & Design inspired by the Hunt collection
5-19 May 2005
Artist John Shinnors, 'Over Straw Island 1', Oil on canvas, 31" x 26"
Art Now: John Shinnors
Selects
11-30 November 2004
An exhibition of contemporary Irish art selected by John Shinnors, in collaboration with the Taylor Galleries Dublin, (featuring works by Brian Bourke, William Crozier, Conor Fallon, Mary Lohan, Sean McSweeney, John Shinnors, Nancy Wynne Jones). All works for sale.
Collector's Eye: Works from a private
collection
Selection of paintings and sculptures from 1930s and 1940s.
In collaboration with the Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, and the Frederick Gallery, Dublin
6 March - 1 April 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.
Artist Robert Ryan - 'Star
Gazers' oil on canvas 129cm x 91 cm
Artist Brian MacMahon - 'Paddy
with Laptop' Oil on canvas 102 cm x 76 cm
Exhibition of
Paintings by Ian Humphreys, Majella O'Neill Collins and John Simpson at
The Hunt Museum Gallery from 5 September to 28 September 2003. This exhibition
records three personal responses to West Cork and in particular the sea
that borders it. Humphreys is an English artist who moved to West Cork in
1999. His work is concerned with man's presence in the seascape. Simpson
is a Scottish artist who moved to Sherkin Island in 2002, his work is more
representational, and O'Neill Collins a native of West Cork whose work is
powerful and dramatic.
Re-Tracing the Past
An interactive exhibition where visitors will be
able to discover details of some objects of the Hunt Collection
through
novel interactive technologies.
Exhibition runs from 9 - 19 June 2003.
Opening Times: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sunday 2pm-5pm
Also exhibited:
2004
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
February 7-29 2004
Undercurrents:
new paintings by Beatrice O'Connell
March 6 - April 1 2004
Collector's
Eye: Works from a private collection
Selection of paintings and sculptures from 1930s and 1940s.
In collaboration with the Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo,
and the Frederick Gallery, Dublin
April 7-23 2004
Sean
Keating: Celebrating 75 Years of Ardnacrusha
In collaboration with the ESB and the University of Limerick
May 2004
Hunt 2004 - Students Limerick
School of Art & Design
2003
January 14 - February 2 2003
Small Works on Paper 1983-2002, an exhibition of small works on Paper by Samuel Walsh. Small scale works can test an artist in a way that a larger scale does not. These works provide some insight into how the artist thinks, as he moves from one form to the other showing how one medium suits a certain image and how things fit in and do not.
June 9-19 2003
Re-Tracing the Past
An interactive exhibition where visitors will be
able to discover details of some objects of the Hunt Collection
through
novel interactive technologies.
June 26 - August 31 2003
Roderic
O’Conor - Shades of a Master
22 paintings by Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) from private
collections. Clickherefor more information about this exhibition.
September 5-28 2003
Exhibition
of Paintings by Ian Humphreys, Majella O'Neill Collins and
John Simpson. This exhibition records three personal responses
to West Cork and in particular the sea that borders it.
2002
March 2002
Bernie Masterson paintings
April 2002
Group Show - Geraldine Dennehy,
Marie Loftus & Rena Casey Lewis
June 6 - September 22 2002
Sybil Connolly - Ambassador
of Style
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for more information about this exhibition
3-27 October
2002
UTV
Collection
A selection of 32 paintings from the Ulster Television Collection.
Public Talk Thursday 3 October at 1pm by Theo Snoddy
8-29 November
2002
Majella
O'Neill-Collins
2001
January 2001
Irish Delftware Exhibition
March 2001
Coilin Murray - paintings
and prints
April 2001
Thomas Ryan RHA - retrospective
paintings
May 2001
Hunt 2001 - Students Limerick
School of Art & Design
June 2001
Eoin McCarthy - Exhibition
of photographs in collaboration with
St. Munchins Community Art Project
July-Oct 2001
‘As I See Myself’,
Self Portraits from The National Self Portrait Collection and
other works by Limerick Artists
Nov 2001
Dougal McKenzie paintings
December 2001 - January 2002
‘Emerge’ A mixed
media exhibition by graduates of Limerick School of Art &
Design and members of Limerick Arts & Crafts Association
