Exhibition – Highlanes Gallery

27April Saturday

Adult,Evening Event,Exhibition,Talks

Ursula Burke – Siren, Artist Opening Conversation

Time: Saturday, April 27, 2024 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Siren is an expansive exhibition that incorporates sculpture, ceramics, textile works and mosaic sculpture. Greco-Roman inspired, surrealist soft sculpture take centre stage as Ursula Burke creates a major new monumental work with Grecian terracotta sculpture and mosaic work. These diverse investigations are born out of a context of precarity in the social realm and disillusionment […]

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09April Tuesday

Afternoon Event,Exhibition,Families & Children,Workshop

Parent & Toddler Workshop – exploring Colin Martin’s ‘Empathy Lab’

Time: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

A gallery-based workshop led by artists Caoimhe O’Dwyer and Jennifer Slater, who will bring you through our current exhibitions, this time, Colin Martin’s Empathy Lab, and immerse you in the ideas that he is exploring, followed by an informal practical workshop. These activities are especially designed to go at your child’s pace so as to capture […]

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06April Saturday

Afternoon Event,Exhibition,Talks

Once Upon a Time – Jean Ryan explores the group exhibition – lucent

Time: Saturday, April 6, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Jean Ryan brings you closer to the ideas, thoughts, processes and theory considering our temporary exhibitions, this next session taking place on Saturday, 6th April, 1pm. In this session, Jean will focus on the group exhbition – lucent – featuring the work of twelve irish and international artists Charles Brady (Ire), Niamh Clarke (NI), […]

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30March Saturday

Exhibition,Families & Children,Morning Event,Workshop

Family Workshop with Nela Hadija

Time: Saturday, March 30, 2024 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Family Time! Nela Hadija leads an informal gallery workshop working with collage and looking at Colin Martin’s Empathy Lab exhibition! Family Workshop – Discover Collage Empathy Lab is a new exhibition by artist Colin Martin, and offers the starting point for this informal workshop led by gallery assistant, Nela Hadija. Feel free […]

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23March Saturday

Afternoon Event,Exhibition,Talks

Once Upon a Time – Jean Ryan explores Colin Martin’s creative process

Time: Saturday, March 23, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Jean Ryan brings you closer to the ideas, thoughts, processes and theory considering our temporary exhibitions on Saturday 23rd March at 12noon. In this talk Jean focuses on Colin Martin’s exhibition, Empathy Lab, and the creative processes particular to his practice. Please note places are limited and are charged €5 per person. Tea, […]

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15March Friday

Exhibition,Morning Event,Talks

Alzheimers & Dementia Azure on Colin Martin – Empathy Lab

Time: Friday, March 15, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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 […]

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09March Saturday

Afternoon Event,Exhibition,Performance

Peareshakes – The Lost or Lesser-known Plays of William Shakespeare

Time: Saturday, March 9, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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 […]

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02March Saturday

Evening Event,Exhibition,Talks

Empathy Lab – Opening Artist Talk

Time: Saturday, March 2, 2024 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm

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 […]

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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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Afternoon Event,Exhibition,Talks

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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