Friday 20th September 6.15-8.45pm Drop-in Family Workshop   Using the FNCI Embracing Vision and Caoimhin Gaffney’s All at Once Collapsing Together exhibitions as starting points, in this drop in workshop you will explore nature and environment around us – land , wildlife, water, insects and plants.   You will experiment with different art mediums like […]

Join a lively and reflective discussion with artist Claire Halpin, in a participant-centred session, its ambition to create inclusive discussion around artwork and our Exhibition, Caomhín Gaffney: Solo Exhibition, from 11am.   Using Visual Thinking Strategies, the session is more a discussion where you can offer your opinion in what is going on in the […]

FNCI Exhibition Workshop – Collages A Gallery-based workshop led by artist Caoimhe O’Dwyer 10.30am -11.30am   NOTE: Each ticket includes 1 Parent & 1 Child   Exploring the FNCI Exhibition in the Upper Gallery ‘Embracing Vision’, artist Caoimhe O’Dwyer will lead you and your little one through an informal workshop looking at paintings and the […]

Join the curatorial team, invited contemporary artist and poet/community activist & art historian for a rich & varied informal gallery talk.   Embracing Vision: Celebrating 100 Years of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland Saturday 7th September 2pm – 3pm   Join the ATR Curatorial Group for a curator and artists’ talk, with exhibiting artist Francis Matthews […]

Join us for the opening of Caoimhín Gaffney’s exhibition of new work All at Once Collapsing Together, where he discusses his practice and the prompts, ideas and material focuses for this new body of work across film, photography and text.   The exhibition is open to view from 3pm, the informal gallery talk taking place […]

Tuesday August 20th, 1pm Green finger alert!   Bring your own medium sized jug/vase for this courtyard workshop where Flowers at the Gate Florist, Susan, brings you closer to the Dany Lartigue painting Still Life with Eggs (1953) donated by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland in 1975, Lartigue, who was inspired himself, […]

Join us for a truly unique traditional recital as All-Ireland Champions, Sárán Mulligan & Muirine Nic Roíbín perform.   Traditional music’s talented duo – Dundalk concertina player Sárán Mulligan and Wicklow fiddle & clarinet player Muirine Nic Roíbín, perform together within the gallery   Both finely tuned their musical skills under the direction of the […]