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CORK CITY ARTS
For reviews of the city's leading
art galleries, see the following:
Crawford
Art Gallery
Emmet Place, Cork City
Cork City's No 1 art venue
Lewis Glucksman
Gallery
Munster's most modern art space
Fenton Gallery
Cork's contemporary art venue
Lavit Gallery
One of the City's oldest art galleries
Cork Vision Centre
Heritage, artistic centre and gallery
Buckley Fine Arts
Leading private art gallery
Vangard Gallery
High quality Irish sculpture/prints
Sirius Arts Centre
Cobh
Catherine Hammond
Gallery
Glengarriff
Doswell Gallery
Rosscarbery
Kinsale Art Gallery
Pier Head, Kinsale
Kinsale
Pottery School
Gallery, Ceramic Courses and more!
Mill Cove
Gallery
Castletownbere
West Cork Arts Centre
Skibbereen.
CORK PAINTERS & SCULPTORS
Atkinson, George Mounsey
(1806-1884)
Marine Artist
Ballagh, Robert (b.1943)
Pop-Art pictures
Barry, James (1741-1806)
Neo-Classical History Painter
Barry,
William Gerard (1864-1941)
Portraitist, Landscape painter
Beechey, Richard (1808–1895)
Marine Painter
Carver, Robert
(c.1730–1791)
Landscape Painter
Cross, Dorothy (b.1956)
Contemporary Sculptor
Crozier, William (b.1930)
Abstract Landscapes
Fagan, Robert
(c.1761–1816)
Portraiture
Grogan,
Nathaniel (1740–1807)
Illustrator, Oil Painter
Hennessy, Patrick (1915-1980)
Still Life, Landscape
Hussey, Philip
(c.1713-83)
Portrait Artist, Genre Painter
Kingerlee, John (b.1936)
Contemporary Landscape Artist
Lane, Hugh Percy (1875-1915)
Art dealer/philanthropist
MacDonald,
Daniel (1821-1853)
Sketches, Portraits
Maclise, Daniel (1806–1870)
Portraitist, History Painter
Mahoney, James
(1810-1879)
Watercolours, Illustrations
Murphy, Seamus (1907-75)
Eminent stone sculptor
Thaddeus,
Henry Jones (1859–1929)
Realist and Portrait Painter
CONTEMPORARY CORK ARTISTS
Karina Collins
Expressionist figurative painter
Jane Jermyn
Ceramic artist, organic forms
Ayelet Lalor
Figurative ceramic sculptor
Chara Nagle
Figurative subject painter
Sara Roberts
Ceramicist, porcelain wall hangings
David Seeger
Abstract ceramic sculptor.
CORK ART GROUPS
Backwater
Artists Group
Artist collective
Cork Printmakers
Print collective
Maclise Art
Society
City's leading art group
National
Sculpture Factory
Ireland's leading 3-D institution.
West
Cork Craft Design Guild
Co Cork's leading craft group.
ART IN IRELAND
For details of exhibitions & shows
in galleries across Ireland, see:
Irish Art Exhibitions.
For latest news & developments,
see: Irish Art News.
IRISH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
For a list of monuments of
cultural or artistic interest, see:
Architectural Monuments
Ireland.
Archeological Monuments
Ireland.
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Midsummer Arts Festival (2009: 13
June – 28 June)
The 2009 Cork Midsummer Festival will take
place for 2 weeks in mid-June this year, when the city will explode into
nights of music and mayhem. The 2009 festival will see the return of the
popular Spiegeltent which will host an array of shows featuring new surprises
as well as seeing the return of regular favourites. Corcadorca will return
with a new production, there will be outdoor installations, interactive
entertainment, live gigs and performances spanning across theatre, dance,
music, and art. The full programme will be available from May, with selected
highlight events available online from the Cork Midsummer Festival website
at the end of April. Many performances are free, and tickets for paying
events will be available for booking through the official website. See:
www.corkmidsummer.com
Kinsale Art Week (2009: 11 July
- 19 July)
This year marks the 5th birthday of the
Kinsale Arts Week Festival. Kinsale bursts into life during Art Week with
a full program of events that includes the visual arts, theatre, music,
film, concerts (at the Charles Fort), dance, literature, architecture
and family entertainment. A grand fireworks display and concert marks
the opening night after which the whole community becomes one big performance
space – shops display paintings by local artists in their windows
and churches, harbours and boats become set pieces in public performances.
An image gallery of the 2008 Festival is currently available on the Festival's
official site. Full programme details for 2009 will be announced in May.
See: www.kinsaleartsweek.com
Music
Cork has a long tradition of association with music, which is particularly
apparent at The Cork School of Music (CSM), which has gained an international
reputation for producing many award winning bands, choirs, opera groups
and chamber music ensembles. Many senior pupils undertake national and
international tours and have made commercial recordings.
In addition to the Cork Jazz Festival, there are a number of important
music festivals that take place annually in the city, which are:
International Choral Festival (2009: 29 April – 3 May)
The Cork International Choral Festival
takes place annually, and has done so since 1954. It has gained a reputation
as one of the world’s top choral festivals and is noted for both
its amateur national and international choirs. It attracts up to 5,000
participants. Choirs travel from all over the world to compete in gala
concerts for the coveted Fleischmann International Trophy. Additionally
the festival features up to 100 local adult, youth and school choirs who
compete for national titles. Tickets for the concerts can be purchased
through the Cork Opera House. More information on the exact schedules
will be available closer to the time on the Festival's official website.
See: www.corkchoral.ie
Folk Festival (2009: 1 October -
14 October)
The Cork Folk Festival is another annual
popular event and takes place the first weekend of October. Running since
1979, it includes live folk music with special emphasis on songs and dance
from the Cork/Kerry region. Events take place all over the city including
the Metropole Hotel, St Finbarr’s Cathedral and Crane Lane Theatre.
There are also master classes in set dancing, flute and fiddle playing.
The Festival has also become known as the 'Friendly Festival'. Information
on booking will be available on the official website later in the year.
See: www.corkfolkfestival.com
Bandon Music Festival (2009: 29
May - 31 May)
This is the 13th year of the Bandon Musical
Festival, now considered one of the premier summer musical events in the
area. The Festival takes place on the June bank holiday weekend and includes
a variety of traditional and contemporary music. Most of the events are
free and take place in the local pubs or on the street. Details of the
2009 event will be available nearer the time on the official website.
See: www.bandonmusicfestival.com
West Cork Chamber Musical Festival
(2009: 27 June - 5 July)
This is the 14th year of the Festival,
and this year there will be over 35 concerts to choose from. The 2009
line-up includes pianists Alexander Melnikov, Jeremy Menuhin and Finghin
Collins; violinists Hagai Shaham, Alina Ibragimova and Marlene Hemmer;
cellists David Geringas, Anne Gastinel and Marc Coppey; composer-pianist
Lera Auerbach; sopranos Lenneke Ruiten and Maacha Deubner and many others.
Priority booking for Friends will open on 9th March and for Patrons on
30th March. General booking will open on 27th April.
See: www.westcorkmusic.ie
Theatre
The Cork Opera House on Emmett Place is
the largest venue for performing arts in the region with a 1,000 seating
capacity. It hosts a wide range of events including operas, ballets, musical
acts, comedies and plays. Additionally, the Opera House has acquired a
beautiful collection of art from Cork’s eminent and emerging artists
and this collection can be seen hanging on the walls of the house.
There are a number of other smaller theatres in Cork, including: The
Everyman Palace Theatre (Mac Curtain Street), which is also a training
venue, The Half Moon Theatre (rear of the Cork Opera House), The
Granary Theatre (Mardyke), The Cork Arts Theatre Club (Carroll's
Quay), The Savoy Theatre (Patrick Street) and The Triskel Arts
Centre (South Main Street). The Comedy Club (Mac Curtain Street)
is also popular and has attracted well-known local and international comedians.
Film
Like any city, Cork has many cinemas including
the Gate Multiplex, Cork Ominplex and The Reel Picture. Or if you are
interested in foreign or Arthouse movies, The Kino on Washington Street
is the place to go.
Cork International Film Festival (2009 1 November - 8 November)
Once a year, the Cork International Film Festival takes place featuring
films, documentaries, short films, animations and experimental work from
local and international directors. The programme covers an eclectic mix
of big budget pictures, world cinema and innovative independent films.
Established in 1956, the festival has enjoyed a steady growth in numbers
of admissions and media coverage over the years. Venues include the Cork
Opera House, The Kino Cinema, Triskel Arts Centre and the Gate Multiplex.
Tickets available on the official website. See: www.corkfilmfest.org
Cork French Film Festival (2009:
1 March – 7 March)
The Cork French Film Festival was established
in 1989 and takes place towards the end of February. The Festival presents
a variety of European co-productions films in French but also in English,
Spanish, Flemish, Russian and Arabic. It includes feature length movies,
short films, cult classics and documentaries. There is usually an opening
party, with live music, attended by the French ambassador. The Festival
takes place at the Gate Cinema and the School of Music. Booking enquiries
handled through the official website. See: www.corkfrenchfilmfestival.com
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