Events – Page 3 – Highlanes Gallery

10February Saturday

Afternoon Event,Exhibition,Talks

lucent – Opening Artists’ Talk

Time: Saturday, February 10, 2024 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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’ […]

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Rallentando: Capturing the Unhurried Past – Artist’s Opening Talk

Time: Saturday, February 10, 2024 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Join Irish Artist Juliette Morrison for an artist opening talk of her exhibition, Rallentando: Capturing the Unhurried Past. A micro-exhibition by emerging London-based artist, originally from Blackrock, Co. Louth, painter and musician, Juliette Morrison. Imagined as a multisensory exploration, including antiques, a curated China tea set, personally knitted artifacts, the exhibition will incorporate […]

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26January Friday

Adult,Morning Event,Talks

Droichead Átha – The Bridge of the Ford

Time: Friday, January 26, 2024 11:30 am - 12:00 pm / Highlanes Gallery

A gallery talk on the archaeology of some older place names in the Boyne Valley Droichead Átha – The Bridge of the Ford In this presentation, Brendan Matthews and Professor Muiris O Suilleabháin will speak about the lesser-known place names that can be found dotted across the greater Boyne Valley area. Considering […]

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19January Friday

Adult,Morning Event,Talks

Shaping Reid – Ms Sutton’s Influence on Nano

Time: Friday, January 19, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm / Highlanes Gallery

Brendan Matthews shares his research into local archives about one of the earliest artistic influences on the creative life of Nano Reid. Shaping Reid – Ms Sutton’s Influence on Nano Nano Reid (1900 – 1981), Drogheda’s most famous daughter is one of the most important Irish artists of the 20th century, and whose […]

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13January Saturday

Adult,Afternoon Event,Exhibition,Talks

Once Upon a Time – Jean Ryan explores Micheál O’Connell’s creative process

Time: Saturday, January 13, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm / Highlanes Gallery

Join art historian Jean Ryan’s she shares her insight into artists approaches to their practice, here looking at Micheál O’Connell’s Jean Ryan brings you closer to the ideas, thoughts, processes and theory considering our temporary exhibitions on Saturday 13th January at 12noon. Our first talk of 2024 sees Jean focusing on Micheál O’Connell’s […]

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12January Friday

Adult,Exhibition,Morning Event,Talks

Artists’ Talk – Cultural Reflections by the Water’s Edge

Time: Friday, January 12, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm / Highlanes Gallery

Four emerging and established artists discuss their exhibited work in a gallery talk. Artists’ Talk – Cultural Reflections by the Water’s Edge Join the exhibition co-curator, Brendan Matthews, for an engaging artists’ talk, where a number of the living artists in the exhibition, including, Fiona Kerbey, whose work To Valparaiso was acquired to […]

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11January Thursday

Adult,Morning Event,Talks

The Impossible Heap: Artists’ Reaching for Something Beyond their Grasp

Time: Thursday, January 11, 2024 11:30 am - 1:00 pm / Highlanes Gallery

Explore painters from the 20th & 21st Century. Who did not pursue the path of abstraction, nor embrace photography in this lecture. In this illustrated lecture, artist Raphael Hynes will look at painters of the 20th and 21st centuries who did not pursue the path of abstraction, nor embrace photography as a visual source. […]

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04January Thursday

Adult,Exhibition,Morning Event,Outdoor,Workshop

Artist – Teacher – Researcher / Professional Practice Winter Session 2024

Time: Thursday, January 4, 2024 8:30 am - 1:15 pm / Highlanes Gallery

Please note this event is now sold out! A morning session visiting Newgrange, and Highlanes Gallery & with artist Colin Martin Professional Development for Art Teachers Artist-Teacher-Researcher/ Winter Session 2024 Thursday 4th January 8.30am-1.15pm Highlanes Gallery, the municipal art gallery for Drogheda and the North East is situated in the heart of […]

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30December Saturday

Afternoon Event,Talks

A large handsome town- The Architecture of 18th Century Drogheda – Lecture

Time: Saturday, December 30, 2023 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm / €5, Booking required

Join Dr Aisling Durkan, PhD graduate of the History of Art and Architecture in Trinity College Dublin as we finish up 2023 with an insightful talk on her research and findings on the architecture of 18th century Drogheda. A chapter on her work was recently published in House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces […]

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29December Friday

Adult,Afternoon Event,Talks

This Was Our World – Drogheda of the 20th Century

Time: Friday, December 29, 2023 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm / Highlanes Gallery

Join Community Historian, Brendan Matthews and step back in time to reflect on the lives and people of 20th Century Drogheda In the final days of 2023, in a period of reflection on life over the years and of community, join Brendan Matthews, where he shares a number oral history recorded extracts, played on […]

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