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Traces
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Friday 19th April - Sunday 19th May 2013
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'To live is to leave traces' - Walter Benjamin 16th Annual Painting Display 2013 Display of works by second year painting students from the Limerick School of Art and Design. Opening: Thursday 18th April, 6.00pm To view conversation with "Tra...
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General Practice
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Friday 08th March - Sunday 28th April 2013
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This exhibition features photographs illustrating the day-to-day work of General Practitioners who bring medical science and care to patients in the consulting room and in their own homes in Ireland. The photographer is Fionn McCann and the wo...
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Pugin Exhibtion
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Thursday 01st November 2012 - Friday 01st February 2013
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2012 is the bi-centenary of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin- a designer of buildings, furniture, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, ceramics, wallpaper and books. Pugin was, more than anyone else, responsible for the adoption of the Goth...
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Limerick Art Society – 70th Anniversary exhibition
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Friday 07th - Wednesday 19th December 2012
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Limerick Art Society Presents 70th Anniversary Exhibition at The Hunt Museum. Official Opening on Friday December 7 at 6:30pm by president Michael D. Higgins. View invitation here .
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China Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872
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Tuesday 02nd October - Sunday 02nd December 2012
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This is the first exhibition devoted to the images of China taken by the Scottish photographer John Thomson (1837 – 1921). Born in Edinburgh two years before the invention of the daguerreotype and the birth of photography, Thomson first travelle...
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Quilt Art at 25
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Friday 19th October - Friday 16th November 2012
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The exhibition will be held off site at Raggle Taggle Consortium, Corner of Sarsfield Street and Henry Street. The Exhibition will be officially launched by Jan O’Sullivan T.D., Minister of State Quilt Art at 26 will be open from 11am – 5.30p...
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The Instruments of Perception
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Friday 15th June - Wednesday 31st October 2012
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Explore new ways of looking and seeing. An exhibition by Interaction Design MA students at the University of Limerick. Part of the EVA Fringe programme.
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Contemporary Polish Art
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Thursday 20th September - Saturday 06th October 2012
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Contemporary Polish Art. Paintings and photography by contemporary Polish artists.
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2Horse Outside
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Saturday 30th June - Sunday 30th September 2012
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Da Horse Outside is back and it's bringing a friend... The Limerick Corridor Art Programme in association with The Hunt Museum and Limerick Enterprise Development Partnership (LEDP) will launch the newest Horse Outside on 30 June 2012 at noon...
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Shaped by History Exhibition
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Friday 08th June - Sunday 23rd September 2012
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Exhibition of photographs of Milk Market and Limerick characters by Gerry Andrews The exhibition will be officially opened by Michael Noonan, T.D. Minister for Finance. The exhibition will continue until 16 September, 2012...
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Ranks: A Limerick Industry
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Tuesday 13th March - Thursday 31st May 2012
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The Ranks flour mills were at the heart of Limerick for generations. This exhibition celebrates and explores the role of Ranks in Limerick’s history through stories from the local community.
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Hunt Museum exhibition opening : Birch Bark Letter
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Saturday 12th - Thursday 31st May 2012
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Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia, H.E. Mr Pēteris Kārlis Elferts offically opened an exhibition in the Hunt Museum last Saturday, titled Birch Bark Letters from Siberia, the letters are silent witnesses to the crimes against humanity by the C...
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The Art of Steampunk
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Sunday 01st - Monday 30th April 2012
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Now Through April 2012. Come see the wired and wonderful art of Steampunk! Featuring futuristic objects based on treasures from The Hunt Collection! Part of The Hunt’s 2012 Year of Science celebration.
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The Evolution of Dining: Medieval to Modern Times
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Wednesday 18th January - Sunday 04th March 2012
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This exhibition uses historic artefacts from its Collection as well as private collections. The Museum presents an exhibition exploring aspects of dining and how the presentation of food has changed over the years in four distinct phases: up to ...
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Liam Flynn: Retrospective and New
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Friday 04th November - Saturday 31st December 2011
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To mark the 'Year of Craft' Limerick's Hunt Museum will display the creations of acclaimed Limerick craft artist Liam Flynn. With a growing international reputation Flynn's almost ethereal works of art in wood are now collected by some of the ...
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Then & Now - New Work by Limerick Ceramic Artists
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Thursday 26th May - Sunday 30th October 2011
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Inspired by the Hunt Collection, the works will be exhibited beside the original objects. The Hunt Collection contains a diverse selection of ceramics from the oriental and western traditions. These objects, all with their own inherent beaut...
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The Irish Face
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Sunday 09th - Sunday 23rd October 2011
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Opening on 9th September the Hunt Museum is delighted to host an exhibition of photographs of Vanishing Ireland in advance of the publication of the latest in the series of books by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury. The book itself will be...
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The French Connection
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Friday 09th September - Monday 10th October 2011
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This exhibition of paintings is being held in collaboration with Adam's.
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Collecting for Ireland Works from the Arts Council
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Monday 06th June - Sunday 04th September 2011
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This exciting exhibition features local artists Tom Fitzgerald, Charles Harper, Amy O'Riordan, John Shinnors, Sam Walsh and Vivienne Bogan. Admission free.
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HUNT 2011 - Exhibition by Year 2 Painting Students
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Friday 06th - Sunday 22nd May 2011
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Inspired by the Hunt Collection, 'FIACH' the 14th Annual Exhibition by Second Year Painting Students from the Limerick School of Art and Design. Opening Thursday May 5th at 6pm.
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Women of Concern - A Photography Exhibition from C
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Tuesday 08th March - Sunday 08th May 2011
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Concern Worldwide is delighted to announce that the 'Women of Concern' photographic exhibition will open to the public at The Hunt Museum in Limerick , on 8th March 2010, to mark International Women’s Day. The exhibition will be opened by Amy...
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Future Makers: Crafts Council of Ireland Exhibitio
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Thursday 02nd December 2010 - Wednesday 05th January 2011
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This exhibition, curated by Angela O'Kelly, will be supplemented with a series of events in the Museum including weekly lunchtime lectures (Fridays) as well as craft demonstrations, schools programmes and workshops for both children and adults. ...
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Limerick Art Society Winter Exhibition
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Sunday 28th November 2010 10:00 - 17:00
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This exhibition will be supplemented with a series of events in the Museum including weekly lunchtime lectures (Fridays) as well as craft demonstrations, schools programmes and workshops for both children and adults. To register your interest, c...
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The French Connection
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Thursday 09th September - Sunday 10th October 2010
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This exhibition of paintings is being held in collaboration with Adam's. View catalogue here .
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Exhibition to support "Special Olympics"
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Wednesday 09th - Wednesday 30th June 2010
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An exhibition of paintings by Special Olympians opens in The Prologue Room on Thursday 10th June at 3pm. This exhibition continues until 30th June. The Special Olympics open in Limerick on Wednesday 9th June and continue until Wednesday 13t...
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Hunt 2010
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Tuesday 04th - Sunday 23rd May 2010
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13th Annual Painting Exhibition 2010 Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT, at the Hunt Museum from Tuesday 4th May until 23rd. This annual show comprises of artworks made by 2nd Year students from the Painting Department ...
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Bill Griffin at The Hunt Museum
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Thursday 08th - Sunday 25th April 2010
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Bill Griffin was born in Cork in 1947. As a young man he moved to London in the mid sixties to pursue the path of the artist. In 1971, however, drawn by the opportunity to travel and the challenge of a new career Bill went to work in...
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Hunt 2009
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Thursday 07th May 2009 - Wednesday 21st April 2010
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7 May-21 May 2009
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Out: The National Prison Education Art Exhibition
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Thursday 25th February - Sunday 21st March 2010
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The exhibition OUT is the culmination of artistic work created by prisoners from prisons throughout Ireland . It also includes work from Post release projects, - ‘Pace’ and the ‘Pathways Project’, Dublin . The works on display in t...
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The Devil’s in the Detail: A celebration of Rudolf
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Sunday 06th - Wednesday 23rd December 2009
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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 u...
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John Behan: The Silence of History
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Thursday 05th - Sunday 22nd November 2009
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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 ju...
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Seán Keating In Focus
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Thursday 25th June - Sunday 04th October 2009
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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...
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Revelation
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Thursday 09th April - Sunday 03rd May 2009
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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...
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‘Into The Abyss’
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Thursday 05th March - Sunday 05th April 2009
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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, conf...
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Explicatio exhibition by Samuel Walsh
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Friday 15th January 2010 - Saturday 07th February 2009
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Explicatio An exhibition of paintings (2003-2009) by Samuel Walsh will be officially opened by Judge Tom O’Donnell at The Hunt Museum on Friday 15th January, 2010 at 7pm. While working on his series of works relating to The Divine Comedy by D...
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Past Gazing Future Glazing - The Ceramic World of
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Friday 31st October - Wednesday 31st December 2008
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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 wit...
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Resonance - The Living Landscape
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Thursday 11th September - Tuesday 28th October 2008
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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...
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Blaise Smith: Weapons
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Friday 10th - Thursday 23rd October 2008
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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 cata...
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Blaise Smith: Landscapes and Still Lifes
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Friday 10th - Thursday 23rd October 2008
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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.
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Followers of Fashion — Painting Exhibition
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Thursday 05th June - Sunday 31st August 2008
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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...
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Hunt 2008
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Thursday 01st - Sunday 18th May 2008
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Exhibition by painting students of LSAD based on the Hunt Collection.
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Between Chance and Rhyme
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Thursday 03rd April - Monday 24th March 2008
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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 ...
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An Leabhar Mór/ The Great Book of Gaelic
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Wednesday 20th February - Thursday 20th March 2008
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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 ...
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Hugh Doran
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Saturday 19th January - Friday 22nd February 2008
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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 nati...
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Counterpoint
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Tuesday 22nd January - Sunday 10th February 2008
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An exhibition featuring works by Cork artist, Patrick Cashin, and Gavin Hogg from Limerick.
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Side by Side
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Friday 23rd November 2007 - Sunday 13th January 2008
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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 su...
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A Celebration of Limerick's Silver
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Friday 14th September 2007 - Sunday 13th January 2008
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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. H...
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Fashion and Photography 1950s and 1960s
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Sunday 10th June - Sunday 26th August 2007
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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 inclu...
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Exploration through Exploitation
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Sunday 10th - Saturday 23rd December 2006
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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.
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Collectors Event at The Hunt Museum
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Wednesday 16th November 2005 - Wednesday 06th December 2006
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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. ...
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Art Now 2006
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Thursday 26th October - Thursday 09th November 2006
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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 McSwe...
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Louis le Brocquy 'Allegory & Legend'
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Friday 16th June - Sunday 24th September 2006
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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 ...
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Encounters with Objects by Julian Walker
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Friday 10th March - Sunday 21st May 2006
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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 ...
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Pilgrims
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Wednesday 01st - Sunday 19th March 2006
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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)...
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Topographical Views from Glin Castle - Limerick an
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Wednesday 15th - Sunday 26th February 2006
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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...
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Gardens of Earthly Delight at The Hunt Museum Gall
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Wednesday 11th January - Sunday 12th February 2006
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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...
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Collectors Event at The Hunt Museum
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Wednesday 08th December 2004 - Friday 23rd December 2005
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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 Collect...
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'Shades of Light - Evocations of Summer'
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Wednesday 08th June - Sunday 16th October 2005
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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 an...
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'Sentient'
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Thursday 08th April 2004 - Saturday 30th April 2005
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An exhibition of paintings by Glenn Fitzgerald.
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Passages
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Thursday 03rd - Sunday 27th February 2005
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New Paintings by Fiona Marron. All items for sale.
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Art Now 2005
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Wednesday 17th November - Saturday 04th December 2004
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This exhibition of contemporary Irish Art, in collaboration with Taylor Galleries , Kildare Street , Dublin 8pm 17 November-4 December 2005. A selection of works by: Tom Fitzgerald, Colin Harrisson, Bernadette Kiely, Mary Lo...
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Art Now 2004: John Shinnors Selects
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Thursday 11th - Tuesday 30th November 2004
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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)....
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Andrews, O'Connor, Quillinan at The Hunt Museum
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Sunday 23rd October 2005 - Saturday 13th November 2004
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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.
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'Hunt 2005'
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Thursday 05th May 2005 - Wednesday 19th May 2004
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An exhibition by Second and Third Year Painting students from Limerick School of Art & Design inspired by the Hunt collection. All items for sale.
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Collector's Eye: Works from a private collection
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Saturday 06th March - Thursday 01st April 2004
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Selection of paintings and sculptures from 1930s and 1940s. In collaboration with the Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, and the Frederick Gallery , Dublin.
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Ochtar - A Group Show
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Friday 05th - Sunday 28th September 2003
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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. Exhibition of Paintings by Ian Humphrey...
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Re-Tracing the Past
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Monday 09th - Thursday 19th June 2003
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An interactive exhibition where visitors will be able to discover details of some objects of the Hunt Collection through novel interactive technologies.