News & Events
Tours
Limerick City Gallery of Art places education and learning at the heart of its programming agenda and seeks to cultivate an atmosphere that encourages exploration and enquiry and supports creativity. Groups of all ages are welcome and tours of both the contemporary exhibitions and the Collection are available on booking. LCGA offers free tours to schools groups and teachers.
For further info or to book a tour, please telephone: +353 (0)61 310633 or email artgalleryeducation@limerickcity.ie
Friday 12 March - Sunday 23 May 2010
OPEN/INVITED ev+a 2010 - Matters opening at LSAD Gallery
OPEN/INVITED e v+ a 2010 – Matters curated by Elizabeth Hatz will open at LSAD Gallery, Limerick School of Art & Design, Clare Street Campus, Limerick on Friday 12 March, 7pm
Saturday 13 March 2010, 11am
OPEN/INVITED ev+a 2010 - Matters: Free bus tour
OPEN/INVITED e v+ a 2010 will be open for viewing from Saturday 13 March at venues throughout Limerick City. The ev+a HUB on Thomas Street will be open from 11am with a Free Bus Tour leaving the HUB at 12pm.
Thursday 25 February 2010, 10.30am - 1pm
Leaving Certificate Revision Day
Limerick City Gallery of Art are delighted to announce in conjunction with the National Gallery of Ireland, a free study day for Leaving Certificate art students. This study day will cover a range of revision topics from the Art History and Appreciation curriculum on Thursday 25 February.
Thursday 25 February 2010, 4pm-6pm
Carnegie Reading Circle
Please join us for the Carnegie Reading Circle at Occupy Space on Thursday 25 February, 4pm to 6pm. This is an informal, social event where guests are invited for afternoon tea and to read to the group a text or extract from a text on the theme of Technologies.
Thursday 10 December 2009, 5-7pm
David Lilburn: Artist's Book Launch
David Lilburn explores ideas about place and memory through the graphic processes of drawing and printmaking. In 'Walking Drawing Making Memory', we see some of David's panoramic drypoint prints in the context of what is usually the more private work of an artist (...): the original, searching notations and speculative mark-making through which an artist begins the attempt to think out onto the page his experience of being in a landscape.
Thursday 26 November 2009, 4-6pm
Carnegie Reading Circle
Please join us for the Carnegie Reading Circle at Limerick City Gallery of Art on Thursday 26 November, 4pm to 6pm. This is an informal, social event where guests are invited for afternoon tea and to read to the group a text or extract from a text on the theme of Ways of Living, based on the Guestroom, London model at Zoo Art Fair 2009. (Image courtesy of Fiona O'Connor, Moxie Dublin)
Saturday 24 October, 3pm
Public Tour: Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art
Enjoy a Sunday afternoon tour of Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art, surveying the extensive terrain of art made in Ireland during the first decade of this millennium.
Saturday 17 October, 11.30am-1pm and 2pm-3.30pm
Family Day: Visual Poetry
Fun-filled Autumn Family Days continue with Visual Poetry! Children of all ages will visit the exciting Noughties but Nice exhibition, identifying words they would use to describe the works they encounter
10 September 2009 - 15 January 2010
Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art
Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art surveys the extensive terrain of art made in Ireland during the first decade of this millennium. This exhibition selects some of the most exciting contemporary master-works of the Noughties, including seminal works by leading Irish artists.
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays until 4 November
Schools’ Programme: Cardboard Modernist Furniture Workshop and Tour
Eamon O'Kane's installation, Cardboard Modernist Furniture Workshop, invites groups to participate in creating their own cardboard furniture. This fun activity is designed to encourage three dimensional understanding and the use of simple materials in construction.
