DUBLIN DUCHESS

National Gallery of Ireland: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs

National Gallery of Ireland

One of the Gallery’s most popular watercolours, The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton (1816-1900) is now installed in a specially made cabinet in the Millennium Wing. Due to its delicate nature, the Burton watercolour will be available to view for a limited time each week, as follows:

Monday: 11am-12noon

Wednesday: 11am-12noon

Saturday: 3pm-4pm

Mbuti Textiles at Douglas Hyde gallery

Also opening tomorrow is a collection in the Douglas Hyde gallery at the Nassau street entrance of Trinity College of Mbuti textiles.

The textile paintings in this exhibition were made by Mbuti pygmies of the Ituri rainforest in the Congo. The material, bark cloth, is created by men in the tribe; it is then decorated by women, using a mixture of charcoal and natural pigments. The designs are related to body painting and have traditional symbolic meanings; the textiles themselves are used as garments and objects of trade.As a 'Gallery 3' adjunct to the Mbuti textiles exhibition there will also be a display of African tribal hats in the entrance area.

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Aleana Egan and at Hugh Lane

This exhibition opens tomorrow (1st June 2012). It's free and is on until 18th July 2012.

The promo tells us "Aleana Egan's art is predominantly intuitive and subjective; she uses simple materials, assembled or barely transformed, to create enigmatic works that have a restrained tone and structure. She groups these pieces into installations that are oddly ambivalent; on the one hand she draws our attention to the way things look, how they settle, sag, curve, or hang; on the other, her forms and shapes act as traces or memories, and as a tentative articulation of shifting responses to remembered places or everyday moments. Gaps and absences are at the heart of what Egan does, and this is what makes her work a little puzzling. Similarly, her frequent literary and historical allusions, which are never explained, are reticent and elliptic."
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Revolutionary States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland at Hugh Lane

This is an exhibition I hope to get to this weekend, but it is on until the 21st October at the Hugh Lane gallery on Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
Revolutionary States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland

"2012 is the centenary of the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill to the British Parliament. Although passed, Home Rule was never implemented due to the outbreak of World War I. Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is marking this historic milestone with the exhibition, Revolutionary States: Home Rule and Modern Ireland, which explores the political and cultural context. The Gallery is uniquely placed to tell the visual story of this turbulent and complex period in Irish history.

The exhibition features over 70 paintings, sculptures and drawings, from both the collection of The Hugh Lane and from The Ulster Museum. Many of Ireland’s finest portrait painters are represented including William Orpen, John B. Yeats, John Lavery, Sarah Purser and Sarah Cecilia Harrison. Stunning images of Irish life and landscape by artists such as Jack B. Yeats, Grace Henry, Seán Keating and Paul Henry are also included. Auguste Rodin, Jacob Epstein and Antonio Mancini add an international dimension."
http://www.hughlane.ie/

Joyce's 'Dubliners': the city as character

I went to this exhibition and enjoyed it. It's quite small, at the bottom of the small gallery on the 1st floor (Gallery 1) but worth the visit.
It's on until the 15th July in the National Gallery (Clare street entrance) and is free in."This exhibition brings together sixteen atmospheric works from the Gallery's collection. It features paintings and watercolours by Walter Osborne, Rose Barton, Jack B. Yeats and William Orpen which give a sense of the city of Dublin as a character in itself."