Curators Notes: Ruth Carroll, RHA Curator Joseph Heffernan’s first solo exhibition, There were Strange Gatherings, opened in the RHA Ashford Gallery on the evening of March 15th and was subsequently closed the following day following the gallery’s shuttering due to the ongoing Covis-19 crisis and remains closed. I first came across his work in 2016 […]

AN IPUT & RHA INITIATIVE AT WILTON PARK RHA and IPUT are delighted to announce the launch of Dublin’s first augmented reality exhibition on 27 February, in Wilton Park, Dublin 2.  This initiative is part of IPUT’s placemaking strategy to further activate Wilton Park. Eilis O’Connell RHA, one of our foremost sculptors has agreed to […]

A selection of works from the RHA collection, chosen by Eithne Jordan RHA Keeper, will be showing in the Dr. Tony Ryan Gallery this February. Members of the Academy are required by statute to present the Academy with a diploma piece for the collection and over the years, along with gratefully received gifts, donations and […]

Neil Carroll’s solo exhibition, In Pursuit of the Brocken Spectre  might be best considered a transformative project rather than a definitional one; unlike the continual endgame of much of contemporary painting, the grounds of his practice are established along the lines of yearning thought. His is an abstract art, characterised by what art theorist Jason […]

This exhibition brings together a selection of Alan Phelan’s unique Joly Screen photographs and a new large scale music video work about the inventor of this forgotten colour photography process which was abandoned from use over 100 years ago. Over the past three years Phelan has worked on reviving the process, invented in the 1890s […]