Container gardening: five tips for creating brilliantly coloured pots
Now is the time to start planting pots that will burst into colour in high summer. Artist and gardener TJ Maher shares some of his secrets for maximising their impact
RHA Annual: No wallflowers at this rowdy art party
With 600 pieces to fit in, famous names jostle for space with newcomers, but there’s no one at this party you wouldn’t be happy to go home with
Artist’s home is rare Cowper Gardens original for €1.95m
Ita Quilligan painted, gave art classes and raised 11 children in the six-bed home
Charles Tyrrell blends wood and metal to beautiful effect
Amorphous shapes and passages dominate, while Felim Egan tests new waters
A mission to bring Irish art to the wider world
Mother’s Tankstation and the Oliver Sears Gallery have designs on the international art fairs
Art that’s at home in the material world
A group exhibition curated by Janet Mullarney is accessible, unpredictable and rewarding
Visual art: Patrick Pearse’s prison cell cast in a new light
Katie Moore’s Ballina residency commemorating 1916 is exceptionally effective
Visual art: Three different ways to pass the Francis Bacon test
A talented trio focus on plants, backwoods scenes and crumbling facades
Visual art: Sabine Mac Mahon finds a cure for 1916 fatigue
Mac Mahon’s exhibition invites us to examine the construction of cultural myths both old and modern
Visual Art: A monkey’s puzzle: the zoo or the theatre?
A disruptive power is evident in three shows that play with our perceptions of the world
Richard Gorman wins Savills Art Prize at VUE 2015
Gorman won the prize for a series of prints made at Stoney Road Press
A startling clash of civilisations in Dublin | Visual art round-up
A National Gallery show juxtaposes Jackie Nickerson photos from Africa with portraits of western privilege; and Makiko Nakamura’s abstract work is dramatic
The small galleries taking back the Irish art market
After the hubris of the boom, the bust brought big changes to the Irish art market. A new kind of gallery has emerged that is approachable, diverse, risk-taking and even humble
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