Highlanes Gallery has been announced as one of fifteen recipient projects awarded funding under the Regional Museum Exhibitions Scheme 2020, announced by Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht, Catherine Martin TD, as part of the Wider allocation of funding to help stabilise the arts and culture sector in the context of […]

Use your senses to hear, see and taste the Boyne Valley in the first of our Supper Clubs!     Date: Friday 18th September 8-9.30pm Location: Highlanes Gallery (Five Good Things Café)   Tables of 2, 3, 4 and 6 available, at €25 per head, the fee is to cover food & service costs, which […]

Continuing the Two Chairs series from 2019, which saw musicians like Zoë Conway and Donal Lunny, Padraic Rynne and Tara Breen, and Dave Sheridan and Padraig McGovern perform within the gallery, we are delighted to present multi-instrumentalists Tadhg Mulligan and Jason McGuinness (who were due to perform this St Patrick’s Day) in this rescheduled event. […]

Lose yourself. Mindfulness among the paintings with six Yoga sessions from September 17th Join Barbara ‘Babs’ Carolan, an accomplished and certified Yoga instructor for just-an-hour of relaxation and mindfulness in the beautiful and serene environment of Highlanes Gallery, and within the current exhibitions Margaret Corcoran, A Further Enquiry, Love & Independence. The exercises in this […]

Two Artists. Two Generations. In Conversation. Live in the Gallery.   In-Person & Online To mark the opening of this two-person exhibition, Simpaticojoin artists Raphael Hynes & Carey Clarke (online & in person in the gallery -whatever your preference) as they discuss their practice, their ways of thinking, making and the processes they engage. Former […]

The Franciscan Order was first established in Drogheda in the year 1240 and they remained in the town for some 760 years before finally, on Sunday July 30th in the year of 2000 (the New Millennium), the final Mass was Celebrated in their Church at Lawrence St. by Fr. Ulic Troy. Through periods in history, […]

Join us in person or online for a Heritage Week event to remember to coincide with Margaret Corcoran’s new solo exhibition, where All Ireland winners, and two of the most talented musicians in contemporary traditional Irish music present an afternoon performance within the stunning exhibition.   Co. Monaghan harpist, Eilís Lavelle, a recipient of the […]

The two oldest artworks in the Collection are by Gabrielle Ricciardelli, the Italian artist who was born in Naples in around 1690 and who was commissioned while he was in Ireland to come to Drogheda in 1753 to make two panoramic views of Drogheda. The magnificent works, the first, View of Drogheda, capturing a westward […]