Mayo children shine a light on the wonder of the Wild Atlantic Way
New exhibition articulates how seascape is integral to local children’s lives and identities
Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Co Mayo-based organisation
Strong currents: the pull of the sea, from Mayo to Oslo, in Amanda Bell’s Riptide
Tracing the power of water and art in a poet’s work, from Donald Teskey to Edvard Munch
The Hags collective: ‘After months of lockdown, it’s like being let free to fly’
A group of female artists in their 60s, 70s and 80s have come together under the moniker Na Cailleacha, or the Hags
The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded
Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth
The new brutalist backdrops and other views for a room
Home Front: Contemporary furniture for kids’ bedrooms and inspiring exhibitions
What are the strange artworks popping up all over Mayo?
An American architect from the Catholic University of America is building art around the county
Illuminating our complex relationships with things
The things we are drawn to acquire reflect and express our personalities and more: our ideas about ourselves, our aspirations and perhaps our limitations and delusions
How modern art changed a Mayo town
A remote Mayo town is an unlikely venue for an international art organisation, but Ballinglen Arts Foundation has thrived in Ballycastle
Nineteen ideas for a national cultural policy
The Government’s framework national cultural policy is low on specifics. Here are our suggestions to help the arts sector now
Visual art: Mayo show puts Kathleen Lynn back in the frame
A sprawling show pays tribute to Lynn, a humanitarian who was airbrushed from the 1916 picture
A show that’s a year in the life of the RHA’s members
Against the odds, the RHA is still around, with this year’s exhibition one of its best. And despite our changing tastes, portrait painting has survived the advent of the selfie
O’Malley takes on Mayo: five galleries, one vision
Niamh O’Malley has taken on an ambitious project that amounts to five exhibitions of her recent work in venues across Co Mayo
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