Thursday 16th July at 1pm Join us for the GIAF key event of Jackie Nickerson’s exhibition STATESIDE – a Highlanes Gallery national tour, where Jackie will be in conversation with writer and journalist Tom Downey   STATESIDE is Jackie Nickerson’s sweeping, fragmented visual diary of a decade living and working across the USA. From streetscapes […]

Bea Orpen and the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection Friday 3rd July at 11.30am   Yvonne Scott discusses her recently published essay on the life and work of artist, Bea Orpen, exploring her painting practice in idea and materiality, as well as Bea and her husband Terry Trench’s founding of the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, 80 […]

Patronage and Power: Who Commissioned the Drogheda Paintings by Gabrielle Ricciardelli Friday 26th June at 11.30am   An illustrated lecture presented by Brendan Matthews.   As Highlanes Gallery marks the twentieth anniversary of its opening; this moment offers an ideal opportunity to reconsider two remarkable mid-eighteenth-century views of Drogheda attributed to the Italian painter Gabriele […]

Saturday 20th June 11:30am – 1.00pm Family Workshop – The Natural World   Explore your creativity and join us for another informal Family Workshop where you will look and discuss and explore the ideas and materiality of the exhibition To Land: Living Roots Awaken with facilitator Nela Hadija.   Inspired by the multitude of artworks […]

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 and this […]

Artist’s Evening Workshop Get closer to plein-air painter Anne Mullen’s practice in this special experimental painting workshop Wednesday 17th June 7.30pm-9.00pm   On the occasion of Ceiliúradh: Treasures of the Boyne Valley exhibition, where artist Anne Mullen is one of the three invited artists, join her to understand her process, and take part in an […]

To Land – Living Roots Awaken Parent and Toddler Tuesday Morning Workshop Tuesday 16th June 10.30am   A Gallery-based workshop led by artist Caoimhe O’Dwyer Join artist Caoimhe O’Dwyer for a fun and imaginative workshop specially designed for early years in the Lower Gallery at Highlanes Gallery.   Together, Caoimhe will take you and your […]

Seen-Unseen is an art project led by artist Clare McLaughlin for and with people who are visually impaired, and led by the Crawford Art Gallery.   Drawing from the rich collection of Crawford Art Gallery’s contemporary artworks, to land: living roots awaken, explores how identity is shaped by our relationship with land, history, and memory. […]

Join artist Claire Halpin in exploring art from our Exhibition, Ceiliúradh – Treasures of the Boyne Valley.   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 […]