Led by Gallery Assistant, Nela Hadija, explore your creativity & imagination as a family group.   Inspired and looking at the portrait work in Colin Martin’s exhibition Empathy Lab, you will make and decorate Styrofoam balls and fashion them as human head of the future.   This is a mixed-media workshop where you will use different […]

Join a lively and reflective discussion with artist Claire Halpin, in a participant-centred session, its ambition to create inclusive discussion around artwork.   Using Visual Thinking Strategies, the session is more a discussion where you can offer your opinion in what is going on in the artwork.   No prior knowledge or experience is needed […]

The Lost or Lesser-known Plays of William Shakespeare Pearshakes perform…   Taking inspiration from Colin Martin’s exhibition Empathy Lab, and the painting titled Fool, and to mark ‘the Ides of March’, we’ve invited Pearshakes, the imprivisional theatrical group to perform within the exhibition on   Saturday March 9th at 2pm and marking Drogheda’s new Comedy […]

Join yoga teacher, Gráinne O’Kane, for just-an-hour of relaxation and mindfulness in the beautiful and serene environment of Highlanes Gallery.   The exercises in this yoga session will boost your flexibility and joint mobility, and it also has a strong mind/body connection.   Presented in a series of 5 sessions in March and April on […]

Fresh from its world premiere at the Culturel Centre Irlandais in Paris, Highlanes Gallery presents the Irish premiere of Colin Martin’s first major solo exhibition since 2009 –  ‘Empathy Lab’. Aoife Ruane, director of the gallery and curator of the exhibition, says that ‘this is a critical expression of the important development of Colin Martin’s […]

Join emerging artist, Juliette Morrison, as she introduces you to her practice and the journey her practice and life has taken from a teenager interested in art to a recent graduate of both NCAD and LSAD, and now living and working in London.   You will get to see Juliette’s micro exhibition at the gallery, […]

Join us for a morning of art and creativity in response to the current exhibition Rallentando: Capturing the Unhurried Past by Juliette Morrison.   A gallery-based informal workshop led by artists Caoimhe O’Dwyer and Jenny Slater, who invite you and your little one to explore the exhibition and themes of autoethnography central to Juliette’s work. […]

Join us for an informal session of traditional irish music with Gormlaith Maynes on concertina and Jennifer Leahy on harp ahead of an international tour later this spring.   Jennifer and Gormlaith formed an enchanting musical duo, combining the harmonious sounds of harp, concertina, and vocals. This collaboration blossomed in early 2022, featuring a repertoire […]

Join a lively and reflective discussion with artist Claire Halpin, in a participant-centred session, its ambition to create inclusive discussion around artwork.   Using Visual Thinking Strategies, the session is more a discussion where you can offer your opinion in what is going on in the artwork.   No prior knowledge or experience is needed […]

lucent Charles Brady (Ire), Niamh Clarke (NI), Vincent Hawkins (UK), Hiroyuki Hamada (JN), Tjibbe Hooghiemstra (NL), Jamie Mills (UK), Janet Mullarney (Ire), Helen O’Leary (Ire), David Quinn (Ire), Seamus Quinn (Ire), Sean Sullivan (US) and John Van Oers (BE)   Curated by David Quinn   The exhibition opening taking the form of an informal artists’ […]