Glebe House & Gallery

RTÉ Radio 1 DAVIS NOW LECTURES 2019

Irish Theatre Performance and the evolving presence of home in Irish theatre.

2pm, Saturday 21st July 2019

Speaker: Róise Goan, Artsadmin London Artistic Director from August 2019.

Contributing guests include Emer McGowan, Director Draiocht, Blanchardstown.

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About the series

The RTÉ Radio 1 DAVIS NOW LECTURES 2019 present aspects of MAKING HOME by contributors renowned in their fields of ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, ARTS and ECONOMICS.

At the heart of the DAVIS NOW LECTURES is the aim of bringing to audiences newly-commissioned lectures from our finest scholars, artists and thinkers. Five lectures are recorded on location around Ireland for future broadcast as hour-long edited programmes. Each event consists of a lecture, questions and remarks by an invited audience and then a public q+a session.

The series consultant editor is architectural historian Dr Ellen Rowley, of University College Dublin. The DAVIS NOW LECTURES 2019 series is supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and its academic partner is University College Dublin. The RTÉ Radio series producer is Clíodhna Ní Anluain.

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/davis-now-lectures/

Olivia O’Leary presents The Heart of Summer

A feast of music and poetry with acclaimed journalist and presenter of the RTÉ Poetry Programme

Wednesday 11th July, 8pm

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Enjoy a feast of music and poetry introduced by Olivia O’Leary, acclaimed journalist and presenter of the RTÉ Poetry Programme. Produced by Poetry Ireland in partnership with the OPW.

Olivia O’Leary is joined by Donegal poets Moya Cannon and Annemarie Ní Churreáin, as well as singer-songwriter Kevin Doherty in Glebe House and Gallery.

Tickets €8 – €10

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Annual Easter Open Art Competition

26th March – 3rd April, 2016

The annual Easter Exhibition showing works by many artists from the North West of Ireland will run from Saturday 26th March until Sunday 2nd April 2016. The opening will be held on the evening of Friday 25th March at 7pm.

Trinity’s ‘College Gallery’: The Swing of the Sixties

A special selection of 20th century works from The College Art Collection.

4th July – 27th September 2015

The Glebe Gallery is delighted to present a special selection of 20th century works from The Trinity College Dublin Art Collections. Originally conceived by Lismore Castle Arts with invited curator and Trinity alumnus Richard Wood, the exhibition features key Irish and international pieces by Josef Albers, Karel Appel, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Patrick Collins, Barrie Cooke, Micheal Farrell, Robert Indiana, Cecil King, Roy Lichtenstein, Nano Reid, Patrick Scott, William Scott, Peter Sedgley, and Victor Vasarely, accompanied by a portrait of George Dawson by Mick O’Dea.

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HUNTER

An exhibition by Sarah Lewtas

28th May - 28th June 2015

Sarah Lewtas has lived and worked in Co Donegal for over thirty years and has previously contributed to a number of exhibitions here at the Glebe Gallery. This is her first solo exhibition in this gallery and includes work produced over a period of years and in a variety of media – from drawing to video and from books bound in crow’s wings to sewn and quilted installations.

For further information, please download the exhibition catalogue

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An Exhibition of Ceramics by Con Lynch

Irish Theatre Performance and the evolving presence of home in Irish theatre.

7th September – 28th September 2014

Con Lynch is a Sligo-based ceramicist. The pots in this exhibition are all recent works. They are made from clays and glazes Con collected in the North West of Ireland. The show is intensely beautiful.

Many of the pots are Raku fired. The term Raku, in Japanese, means ‘enjoyment’, ‘satisfaction’, or ‘comfort’. The word refers to a type of ware and also to an entire process and belief. It originated in the sixteenth century during the construction of a palace in Kyoto called Jurakudai. Before the mid-twentieth century American potters, working in Japan, had become familiar with the process of Raku firing and, on returning home, began experimenting with the fast firing and cooling. From these experiments grew the practice of contempory Raku.

Image Space Light

An exhbition of the work of Patrick Scott

14th July – 29th August 2014

Following the widely acclaimed exhibition at IMMA and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, The Regional Cultural Centre and Glebe House and Gallery, present Patrick Scott: IMAGE SPACE LIGHT as a single exhibition across the two venues to bring to public attention the breadth and distinction of his career as an artist, designer and architect.

Scott’s unique vision has consistently pursued formal rigour and experimentation through the calibration of line, image, space and light. He is renowned as the first Irish exponent of pure abstraction. At The Regional Cultural Centre the second part of Scott’s career is presented with a display of the artist’s tapestries, a medium in which he is matched by few in the history of 20th century design, and a selection of superlative Gold Paintings ranging in date from the 1960s to the present day. Also at the RCC are examples of Scott’s folding screens, the Tables for Meditation, and various suites of work on paper including the Gestural drawings and the Meditations prints.

The paintings exhibited at Glebe House range across the naïve style birds in schematic landscapes of the artist’s White Stag related work during the 1940s, the urban and domestic inspired ‘structural’ compositions of the 1950s, the soaked canvases of the bog and lakeland ‘process’ paintings and the explosive beauty of poured and dripped painting in the Device works of the early 1960s. There is also an early example of the contemplative Gold Paintings that combine in infinite permutations the textures of raw canvas, white tempera and gold leaf, arguably Scott’s signature expression. The Glebe Gallery also includes Scott’s design work during the 1950s and 60s and works related to ROSC ’67.