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The plaza needs help, says Sean Mullan, owner of the Third Space cafe. “Someone with the imagination that we could make this a vibrant space that belongs to the city.”
With this work, the artist wants to make the reader to feel uncomfortable. “Hopefully the audience will fill in the reasons why I made it so raw and brash,” he says.
In this animated short, Damien O’Connor seeks to capture 60 years in the life of a Dublin doorman as he watches the city he loves change around him.
Artist Paul McGrane says he wants viewers to feel they have entered a fantastical realm of colour and movement. Click through for the full painting.
With this pop-art-esque work, artist Mark O Gorman aims to make you feel like “a person stuck behind a screen trolling through happy images on the internet”.
The work of the painter seems to exist in contradiction to accepted concepts of “working” in our contemporary culture, writes artist Eoin Francis McCormack.
Here’s the latest in our series on works by contemporary Dublin artists. If you’d like to see something of yours featured, you can submit it for consideration, at dublininquirer.com/curios-about.
Sarah Bracken’s Letterbox Dublin street-art project gives residents and visitors a chance to scribble and share confessions.
Inspired by the woods, incorporating pine needles, reminiscent of a Turner: here is a detail of the latest in our series of works by Dublin artists. Click through to see the whole painting.
Rebecca Deegan wanted us to look at homelessness differently, so she painted this, about “the vulnerability and isolation felt by those who have nothing”. It’s the latest in our series on works by Dublin artists.
At the newly opened KEMP Gallery, the walls are given over to the art of the street. Painted at the entrance: “Regard the Art, Disregard the Rules!!”
In an age when many artists focus on performance and installation, Alison Tubritt has chosen a more traditional approach: drawing horses, on paper, with pencils.
Artist Sandra Schoene wants us to reawaken the sense of wonder we had as children. She made a giant hare to help us. And to help the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation’s citywide Hares on the March event.