Why has some of the greenery in city planters been left to wither?
The council hasn’t been able to find a contractor willing to take on the job of looking after these plants, a council official says.
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In a new exhibition, an artist captures efforts to find personal space on public transport
Maria Ginnity’s show, In Transit, is set to open at Reds Gallery on Thursday.
Seen a painting of a Dart train in Dublin? It was probably by John O’Flynn.
His scenes show industry versus nature, he says, shot through with nostalgia. But also, they’re just such good-looking trains.
The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway
Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.
On Thomas Street, an annual rediscovery of scythes
“I don't think I can ever get used to living in the city, actually,” said one participant. “So when I heard about this opportunity, I was like, ‘Okay, this sounds like a real thing.’”
An artist draws inspiration from the tangled peace of a Donabate forest
Nicole Manning’s work is rooted in her experience of living with post-traumatic stress disorder.
In Blanchardstown, an artist shares her world of shapes and warm colours
Maria Atanacković first makes sketches of loose images that appear from somewhere in her memory. “Then I have to figure out how I’m actually going to make it.”
An art exhibition’s “queer ecology” draws inspiration from tales told by Irish children almost a century ago
“When you look at the archive, these stories had a more fluid relationship with nature,” says artist Niamh Coffey.
A city-centre gallery hosts the subconscious of Richard Proffitt
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
In Phibsborough Tower, artist Oisín Tozer prepares a fleeting exhibition
“The work isn't fully satisfying. There's a kind of contingent element, or an element that you know is only going to exist in a certain way at a certain time.”
In Balleally, field recordings fill in the sound of the estuary’s missing birds
Garrett Phelan’s latest artwork is made of 28 radio shows broadcast on a loop, that force the listener to hear the landscape anew by showing the old.
New city arts plan aims to provide more arts spaces, and more money for artists
It also includes plans for broadening out who gets to decide what public art the council will commission and install around the city.
Annual Sculpture In Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on hold until organisers can find funding
“We couldn’t continue. It’s become a full-time unpaid job,” says chairperson Jackie Ball.