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 […]

Join us in person or online for our first live event to coincide with Margaret Corcoran’s new solo exhibition where the prodigious Mulligan Family from Dundalk present an evening performance of the finest traditional music of the region and within the stunning exhibition. The Mulligan family name is synonymous with Irish Music extending back five […]

Come and join artist Claire Halpin for a special online workshop covering watercolour artworks by two giants of the 20th century!   Watery Watercolours!   Paint & fluidity, flexibility and fun.   Two watercolours by two giants of 20th century art offer artist Claire Halpin ideas for this fresh and free workshop that is not […]

Join Julie Duhy from this Friday May 29th for a session focusing on colours and patterns in honour of Highlanes newest café, 5 Good Things!   Creative crunch! Five Good Things to eat and to inspire.   Our new café, Five Good Things, who will open in the coming weeks, offers Julie Duhy ideas for […]

Over land and sea, across land and streams, Claire Halpin invites you to roam once again in this week’s video workshop Shape in the Landscape. This colour & collage session is perfect for this mixed weather moment and draws inspiration from two works in the Collection, both paintings, by the artists Mary Swanzy and Evie […]

The hand in art is the focus for Julie Duhy in this week’s Children’s Workshop, which has a friendly warning of some mess (back garden would be a good place to do this) and time. It took Julie herself 5 days! Warm weather will help!   In our Collection is a work by an artist […]

Construction and creation!   Our Collection has riches that have charmed and engaged audiences from when they were first made to now and a lithograph titled The Winged Hat by the artist James Whistler is what caught artist Claire Halpin’s attention.   She has taken the focus of the work, a sculptural hat worn by […]

Light, colour, glass!   The former Franciscan Church, the building that houses/has been developed so respectfully by architect Turlough McKevitt in 2006 to become Highlanes Gallery has so many inspirational elements including its stained glass windows, which are attributed to William MacBride (1880-1962) the principal artist of The Craftworkers, a co-operative studio for artists and […]

Using the new and much older work in the Collection at the gallery over the next few weeks, this week Claire Halpin invites you to look at one of the oldest works (one of a pair) by an italian artist, Gabrielle Ricciardelli, and reflect on your own geography, location, man-made and natural; landmarks, indentifiers – […]