{"id":28232,"date":"2020-12-09T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/?p=28232"},"modified":"2023-07-11T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:54:33","slug":"works-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/works-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Works in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known throughout the world for its steady stream of creativity, Ireland has made huge contributions to music, theatre, film \u2013 and, of course, visual art. A healthy dose of some of the world\u2019s most renowned artists have excelled in all genres, from portraiture, landscapes and illustration to mural, photography and video. You\u2019ll find many of their works in Dublin\u2019s top art museums and galleries along with the best emerging Irish artists.<\/p>\n<p><b>ART MUSEUMS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Based on an<\/span><b style=\"font-style: inherit;\"> <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">original collection donated by its founder, art dealer, collector and gallery director Hugh Lane (he held the first exhibition of art in Dublin 1904 in London and acquired for the gallery the first Impressionist paintings in any public collection in Britain and Ireland), one of Ireland\u2019s foremost collections of modern and contemporary art has grown to include over 2,000 works by leading national and international artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A classic municipal gallery in atmosphere, its displays include The Lane Legacy exhibition, which celebrates the founder with works such as<i>Music in the Tuileries Gardens<\/i> by Manet, <i>Lavacourt under Snow <\/i>by Monet, <i>Beach Scene <\/i>by Degas and <i>The Sleeping Princess<\/i> by Edward Burne-Jones. Permanent displays are complemented by temporary exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>For many visitors the highlight is the London studio of the Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon, the entire contents of which were packed up after his death, shipped back to his home town and reconstructed in minute detail.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a revealing South Bank Show interview with Melvyn Bragg shown on a video loop Bacon describes his studio as \u201ckind of a dump&#8230;I work much better in chaos. Chaos for me brings images.\u201d You can also view a digital archive of over 7,000 items found in his studio. <b>www.hughlane.ie<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28241\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28241 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA.jpg\" alt=\"The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the 17th century Royal Hospital building\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28241 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA.jpg\" alt=\"The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the 17th century Royal Hospital building\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMMA-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the 17th century Royal Hospital building<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Irish Museum of Modern Art <\/b>Housed in the magnificent, 17th century Royal Hospital building in the suburb of Kilmainham, the IMMA is home to the National Collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection of over 3,500 works emphasises art produced post-1940 and features pieces by many significant artists such as Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt and Roy Lichtenstein.<b> <\/b><b>www.imma.ie<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28234\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28234 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou.jpg\" alt=\"National Gallery of Ireland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"751\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28234 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou.jpg\" alt=\"National Gallery of Ireland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/grand-gallery-virtual-tou-600x376.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>National Gallery of Ireland<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>National Gallery of Ireland <\/b>Opened in 1864, the gallery has examples of every European school of oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture and including an extensive collection of Irish works, notably some remarkable pieces by the Expressionist Jack Butler Yeats.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights include Picasso\u2019s <i>Still Life with a Mandolin<\/i>, Gainsborough\u2019s <i>The Cottage Girl<\/i>, Renoir\u2019s <i>Young Woman in White Reading<\/i>, Juan Gris\u2019 <i>Pierrot<\/i> and Pieter Brueghel <i>Peasant Wedding<\/i>. There are also works by Van Gogh, Monet, Bonnard, Sisley, Goya, Degas, Matisse, Lavery, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio (<i>The Taking of Christ<\/i>, the so-called \u2018lost painting\u2019 rediscovered in Dublin\u2019s Society of Jesus after its whereabouts remained unknown for about 200 years). <b>www.nationalgallery.ie<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>National Museum of Ireland &#8211; Decorative Arts<\/b> Housed in the historic Collins Barracks, the museum\u2019s collection includes encompasses silver, ceramics, glassware, furniture, clothing, jewellery and coins. There are also examples of folk life and costume.<\/p>\n<p>A section called Reconstructed Rooms shows four centuries of furnishings: 17th century oak panelling, refined Georgian splendour, 19th century high style and 20th century Irish modernism focussing on some of Ireland\u2019s best furniture designers from 1900 to the present.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28239\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28239 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1.jpg\" alt=\"Eileen Gray\u2019s iconic E1027 table (National Museum of Ireland \u2013 Decorative Arts)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28239 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1.jpg\" alt=\"Eileen Gray\u2019s iconic E1027 table (National Museum of Ireland \u2013 Decorative Arts)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/EileenGray_Aram_E1027-639x639-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>Eileen Gray\u2019s iconic E1027 table (National Museum of Ireland \u2013 Decorative Arts)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The museum also has an impressive section devoted to the work of the Irish-born architect and designer, Eileen Gray (1878-1976). Relatively unheralded compared to contemporaries such as Le Corbusier (an admirer of her work), the Bauhaus movement and Frank Lloyd Wright, Gray was mainly known as a lacquer specialist, but went on to design interiors in a timeless style. In her Paris retail shop, which she opened in 1922, she designed and made every item on sale herself. The design of the facade was her first foray into architecture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other exhibits in the museum include decorative and household items such as crystal, silverware, glassware and ceramics. There is also an extensive collection of Asian art donated by the Dublin-both insurance magnate, Albert M. Bender. The museum shares its historic premises with a museum of military history. <b>www.museum.ie<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28235\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28235 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Annual Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy is the largest and longest running open submission exhibition in Ireland.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28235 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Annual Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy is the largest and longest running open submission exhibition in Ireland.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/186th-Annual-Atrium-and-Stairs-scaled-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>The Annual Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy is the largest and longest running open submission exhibition in Ireland.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Royal Hibernian Academy <\/b>Located in the beautiful Georgian streetscape of Ely Place, this artist-led organisation founded in 1823 has undergone a beautiful refurbishment in recent years, resulting in spacious, airy galleries ideal for displaying the full and impressive gamut of art in Dublin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Different sections are dedicated to various subjects and disciplines, such as portraiture, landscape\/cityscape and photography. The Annual Exhibition at the RHA is the largest and longest running open submission exhibition in Ireland, while the ground floor Ashford Gallery is designed to introduce emerging artists to collectors and test their commercial viability. <b>www.rhagallery.ie<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>INDEPENDENT GALLERIES<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A good place to find independent galleries is the busy commercial area immediately south of the Trinity College campus, where several streets lined with some of Dublin\u2019s finest Georgian buildings are home to a clutch of galleries showing emerging and established Irish artists along with international work.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28233\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28233 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Tony Strickland with a work by Pete Monaghan at the Doorway Gallery\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1089\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28233 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Tony Strickland with a work by Pete Monaghan at the Doorway Gallery\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA-480x436.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA-1024x929.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA-150x136.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA-768x697.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ginY6XlA-600x545.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>Artist Tony Strickland with a work by Pete Monaghan at the Doorway Gallery<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <b>Doorway Gallery<\/b> specialises in fine art paintings by Irish and international artists. Recognising that art is not a spontaneous buy, the gallery puts a lot of emphasis on familiarising the public with emerging artists, for example through its Getting to Know series of videos and Facebook Q&amp;As showing artists at work in their studio, discussing their process and offering an insight into the \u2018journey\u2019 a painting takes before it reaches the gallery setting. <b>www.thedoorwaygallery.com<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As well as featuring established and emerging Irish artists, <b>Gormleys Fine Art<\/b> shows work by important international contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Banksy, Damian Hirst, Robert Indiana and Keith Haring. A rear room devoted to sculpture is filled with natural light and the sounds from the water feature make it a lovely space in which to appreciate the work. <b>www.gormleys.ie<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Round the corner from the National Gallery, the <b>Oriel Gallery<\/b> deals in painting and sculpture from the late 19th century to the present. The oldest independent gallery in Ireland, its name by happy coincidence translates from the Irish as &#8216;window&#8217; and from the Welsh as &#8216;gallery&#8217;. <b>www.theoriel.com<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <b>Molesworth Gallery <\/b>stages eight solo and two curated group exhibitions a year. Work by an impressive stable of artists includes Michael Beirne\u2019s other-worldly mixed media compositions, Francis Matthews\u2019 Hopper-like street scenes and John Kindness\u2019s genre-defying images recalling classical art.<b> www.molesworthgallery.com<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28237\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28237 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin.jpg\" alt=\"The magnificent Long Room in the Old Library at Trinity College, home of the Book of Kells\" width=\"1200\" height=\"887\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28237 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin.jpg\" alt=\"The magnificent Long Room in the Old Library at Trinity College, home of the Book of Kells\" width=\"1200\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin-480x355.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/book-of-kells-trinity-college-dublin-600x444.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>The magnificent Long Room in the Old Library at Trinity College, home of the Book of Kells<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Trinity College <\/b>Some of Ireland\u2019s earliest artworks can be seen in the Old Library of Trinity College, Ireland\u2019s oldest university, where <b>The Book of Kells<\/b> is on display in a permanent exhibition entitled Turning Darkness into Light, which explains the background story of the exquisitely illustrated 9th century illuminated manuscript. <b>www.tcd.ie\/visitors\/book-of-kells<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At one entrance to the 40-acre Trinity College campus is the <b>Douglas Hyde Gallery<\/b>. Named after the first President of Ireland, it hosts shows by contemporary international and emerging Irish artists. <b>www.douglashydegallery.com<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28243\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28243 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46.jpg\" alt=\"Arnaldo Pomodoro\u2019s Sphere Within Sphere stands in the grounds of Trinity College.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28243 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46.jpg\" alt=\"Arnaldo Pomodoro\u2019s Sphere Within Sphere stands in the grounds of Trinity College.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sphere-within-sphere-pomodoro-46-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>Arnaldo Pomodoro\u2019s Sphere Within Sphere stands in the grounds of Trinity College.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The campus is also the site of <i>Sphere Within Sphere<\/i>, one of a series of remarkable bronze sculptures by the Italian artist Arnaldo Pomodoro depicting an enormous globe with a crack on the surface revealing another globe inside. Versions of it can also be seen in about fifteen other locations around the world, including the Vatican Museums, the UN Headquarters in New York and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28242\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28242 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday morning art sales at Merrion Square\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28242 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday morning art sales at Merrion Square\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Merrion-Square-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>Sunday morning art sales at Merrion Square<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Merrion Square <\/b>For over 25 years local artists have been permitted by license to display and sell work every Sunday year-round off the railings around <b>Merrion Square<\/b>, with each artist allocated a set \u2018patch\u2019 marked by a brass number embedded in the pavement. All the work must be original and sold by the artists personally or a close relative and none of it is available in shops or galleries. Merrion Square is one of Dublin\u2019s largest and grandest Georgian squares. On three sides are Georgian Houses and on the other the garden of Leinster House (formerly the parliament building of the Republic of Ireland), the Natural History Museum and the National Gallery. A statue of Oscar Wilde lounges on a large rock in the central park. <b>www.merrionart.com<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Temple Bar <\/b>Most visitors to Dublin will eventually make their way to the Temple Bar district, a square-mile maze of cobbled streets and the epicentre of the city\u2019s legendary pub scene. However, Temple Bar is also home to a number of art centres and artist-run galleries within a short walk of each other. Look out for: the <b>Gallery of Photography<\/b>, the national centre for photography in Ireland, <b>www.galleryofphotography.ie<\/b>; the <b>National Photographic Archive<\/b>, which houses the photographic collection of the National Library of Ireland, the world\u2019s largest collection of Irish photographs, <b>www.nli.ie<\/b>; the <b>Graphic Studio Gallery<\/b>, which has the largest stock of original prints in Ireland, <b>www.graphicstudiodublin.com<\/b>; the <b>Project Arts Centre<\/b>, a multi-arts venue and the busiest in Ireland with some 600 events a year; and the <b>Temple Bar Gallery &amp; Studios<\/b>, an artists\u2019 studio complex and contemporary gallery, <b>www.templebargallery.com<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28240\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28240 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery.jpg\" alt=\"The Graphic Studio Gallery has the largest stock of original prints in Ireland.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"613\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28240 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery.jpg\" alt=\"The Graphic Studio Gallery has the largest stock of original prints in Ireland.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery-480x245.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/graphicstudiogallery-600x307.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>The Graphic Studio Gallery has the largest stock of original prints in Ireland.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28238\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28238 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dublin-art-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Cover, The Dublin Art Book, Ed. Emma Bennett\" width=\"600\" height=\"731\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28238 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dublin-art-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Cover, The Dublin Art Book, Ed. Emma Bennett\" width=\"600\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dublin-art-book-cover.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dublin-art-book-cover-480x585.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dublin-art-book-cover-123x150.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript> <em>Cover, The Dublin Art Book, Ed. Emma Bennett<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From a series which also includes Liverpool, Edinburgh and Cambridge, <b>The Dublin Art Book <\/b>lets us see the city through the eyes of over 50 artists, who have captured its unique character in a beautiful collection of contemporary images in a wide variety of styles and media. (Ed. Emma Bennett, pub. UIT Cambridge, \u00a314.99, www.uit.co.uk)<\/p>\n<p>*Video artist Duncan Campbell won the Turner Prize in 2014 for his video piece <i>It for Others.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 9th century Book of Kells to a Turner prize-winner*, art in Dublin continues to impress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"topic":[255],"class_list":["post-28232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-travel","topic-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28232"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=28232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}