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Screening: Loving Vincent For this very special project we have OF Monday 30 July | 8pm brought together three Irish musicians THE TRAIL ART Wexford Arts Centre | Free | No Booking IMAGINING FRANCE BAL - Martin Tourish (accordion), Dave Redmond (Double Bass) and Stephen Screening of the award-winning painted Daly (Guitar) to respond to the film with introduction and Q&A AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY exhibition and create a new programme from artist Sandra Hickey, painter on of music in the Bal-Musette tradition. THE MODERNS IN THE Loving Vincent. MUSETTE This programme will be performed in Talk: Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns: various incarnations and a podcast Between and Pont-Aven combining the music with interviews will also be available. OPEN Friday 3 August | 8pm White's Hotel Wexford | Free | No Booking Street Performance In-conversation event with Caomhán This summer, the National Gallery of Ireland proudly Ireland’s International This series of conversational Artist as Profession and Legacy When Roderic O’Conor and Friday 21 September – Culture Night Mac Con Iomaire and Sarah Ward from National Gallery of Ireland Dr Brendan Rooney, Head Curator, NGI the National Gallery of Ireland. podcasts will feature stories, the Moderns arrived into Free | No Booking presents the first museum show in over thirty years to Plein Air Festival & Cian McLoughlin, Artist thoughts and individual responses Paris, the sound of the city Drop-In Family Workshop: Pop-up Performance focus on the painted and graphic work of Irish artist Modern Landscapes to the exhibition Roderic O’Conor France: The Time, the Place, the Principles was Bal-Musette. Thursday 11 October | From 6pm 29 July – 6 August Paul McLauchlan, Fashion Writer and Saturday 4 August | 11am – 1pm and the Moderns. This music and dance first became Exhibition rooms 6-10 Roderic O’Conor (1860–1940). Critic & Andrea Horan, Co-founder Various Locations, Wexford Wexford Arts Centre | Free | No Booking popular in Paris in the 1880s, when Free with valid exhibition ticket Combining speakers from diverse of Tropical Popical Nail Salon Children of all ages can enjoy creating professions, with rich sound design and the bourrée quick step dance was to 7 August the accompaniment of the cabrette Special Evening Performance The exhibition covers the years 1887-1895, Presenting glorious warmth, light, some O’Conor-inspired art in this drop-in music specially commissioned from composer Artist Colonies: Exchange of Ideas (a bellows-blown bagpipe locally a short but critical phase in O’Conor’s energy and pause, this is a show for National Gallery of Ireland family workshop. Michael Fleming, these podcasts will take and Practices Wednesday 24 October called a "musette") and thevielle à Doors open 6.15pm career, spent between Paris, the capital artists and art lovers, for locals and & Merrion Square you inside the exhibition and evoke O'Conor's Una Sealy, RHA, Artist in Residence Artists' Field Trip roue (hurdy-gurdy). Tickets €35 | Booking Essential of the art world at the time, and tourists, it bridges ages and interests. world at the end of the 19th century; a time & Mick O’Dea, PRHA, Artist Tuesday 7 August Accordion musicians adopted the Entrance via Clare Street Pont-Aven, a picturesque Breton town. Taking inspiration from these and place which inspired a revolution in Now in its 11th year, Wexford’s 'Art in the National Gallery of Ireland & Merrion Square style and by the end of the 19th Like many artists, having made the revolutionary modern artists, the European art. Bal-Musette: The Iconic French Sound Join us at the Gallery for this very Open' is a vibrant 10-day festival, attracting Fully Booked century, Paris and the surrounding pilgrimage to Paris to further his lasting principles of the Pont-Aven special after-hours event where the some of the best outdoor painters from Martin Tourish, Dave Redmond area was populated with Bal-Musette education and professional career, artists’ colony and the iconic time and On this special field trip national and Bal-Musette Trio will weave the story around the globe. Renowned for its & Stephen Daly, Musicians establishments. The music influenced O’Conor later shunned the industrial place that was Paris at the end of the international artists from the festival will of the iconic musical movement through friendliness and relaxed atmosphere the Podcasts available from August at: the careers of stars such as Django city, pursuing a simpler way of life in 19th century, the accompanying re-imagine the iconic journey from Pont- a live cabaret performance in our festival is jam packed with activities, events https://www.nationalgallery.ie/ Reinhardt and Edith Piaf, and came the artists' colony of Pont-Aven. education programme offers a thematic Aven to Paris traveling via scenic coastal train beautiful Wintergarden Cafe. This event and painting excursions to some of the most from Wexford to Dublin. The trip combines explore-and-learn/podcasts to world attention through the includes food, drink and private access While local colour and custom shaped trail of projects, activities, and events. breathtaking locations in the sunny South- an introduction to the Gallery, tours of the For full information and speakers' soundtrack of the award winning to the O'Conor exhibition. the artists’ practice, their life blood This is the trail of the Moderns. East. The festival culminates in an exhibition O'Conor exhibition and National Collection. bios visit: nationalgallery.ie filmAmélie . was the train connecting their rural Education Team: For further information and musicians' of participants' work on Monday 6 August At 2pm we invite local artists to join us idyll to the Parisian metropolis. Sinéad Rice: Head of Education, bios visit: nationalgallery.ie at Greenacres, Wexford Town. for a mass paint-out in Merrion Square. Joanne Drum: Families, Adults & The exhibition examines O’Conor’s For the full festival programme: Administration, Brina Casey: Community, expressive signature style alongside artintheopen.org the portraits, landscapes and still-life Outreach & Health, Caomhán Mac Con works of other Pont-Aven ‘Moderns’ Iomaire: Facilitation & Access, Catherine including , Paul O'Donnell: Teachers, Schools & Youth, Gauguin, Armand Seguin, Kate Drinane: Tours Administrator,  Robert Befan, and Cuno Amiet. Sarah Ward: Education Assistant. COLONY of CREATIVITY POP UP TALKS

Conversational Pop-Up talks by TALKS artists and historians offer a glimpse into the world of the Pont-Aven Illustrated talks offering artists'colony. artistic and academic NGI Exhibition Rooms 6-10 perspectives on the exhibition Free with Valid Exhibition Ticket No Booking Required

NGI Lecture Theatre Friday 10 August | 1.15pm

Pierre Girieud’s IRISH Free | No Booking Required DROP EVENING Homage À Gauguin IN ARTIST LECTURES SHARING IDEAS AND SKILLS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THE Aisling Dunne Introductory Talk Friday 24 August | 1.15pm Wednesday 18 July | 1.15pm Roderic O’Conor’s MODERNS Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns: Breton Girl With a Book INTERGENERATIONAL UNA SEALY Between Paris and Pont-Aven Rita Brown Dr Brendan Rooney, Head Curator, NGI NGI Lecture Theatre 15 August – 16 September €10 Single Ticket | €25 Season Ticket Sunday Talks Friday 31 August | 1.15pm EVENTS NGI Millennium Wing Studio Roderic O’Conor’s Booking Essential Sunday 23 September | 3pm Painting Before and After Field of Corn, Pont-Aven FOR ALL AGES AND GENERATIONS Dr Tim Stott, Lecturer in Art History Carmel Coyle and Visual Culture, DIT Sunday 30 September | 3pm NGI Prints and Roderic O’Conor: An Artist’s Perspective Drawings Reading Room Sandra Hickey, Artist Free | No Booking Required A painter of interiors, landscapes Landscapes of Provence: Discoveries Drop-In Intergenerational Workshop Una Sealy RHA, is an Roderic O’Conor forms the Sunday 7 October | 3pm Limited Space Inspired by the exchange and portraits, she has had an about Van Gogh’s Year at the Asylum Sunday 26 August & 9 September Irish artist based in north heart of this exhibition, but Irish Artists in France in the 19th Century of ideas and practices at the enduring interest in the work Thursday 20 September | 6.30pm 11.30am – 1.30pm Co. Dublin. A graduate of many important artists from Carmel Coyle, Art Historian artists’ colony of Pont-Aven, of Roderic O’Conor throughout Martin Bailey, Senior Correspondent, Thursday 9 August | 1.15pm NGI Atrium | Free | No Booking Sunday 14 October | 3pm Dún Laoghaire College of her career. his contemporary world also The Art Newspaper Etchings of artist Fiona Harrington will Work together to creatively respond to From Post-Impressionism to : Art and Design (IADT), and This intense residency will see Sealy feature in the show. Three Roderic O’Conor lead an exciting new our O'Conor exhibition. Roderic O’Conor, Networker Avant-garde Art in France University College Dublin, create new work in direct response leading international experts Tom Hodson intergenerational strand of to Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns: and Collaborator Dr Sinead Furlong-Clancy, Art Historian Fun Palace - Intergenerational Day she was elected an Associate will deliver talks focusing on programming at the Gallery. Between Paris and Pont-Aven. Public Thursday 27 September | 6.30pm Thursday 16 August | 1.15pm Saturday 6 October | 11am – 3pm of the Royal Hibernian engagement with the project will be three major artists: Roderic National Gallery of Ireland Dr Jonathan Benington, Exhibition Guest Edgar Degas’ Two Ballet Dancers In addition to skill-sharing and Academy in 2010, and a supported by a range of activities O’Conor, Vincent van Gogh Curator, Manager, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath co-production workshops and activities Free | Some Events May Be Ticketed including open studio sessions, In a Dressing Room for all generations, as part of this We will join 300+ Fun Palaces across the full member in 2016. painting demonstrations and talks. and . Gauguin and the Making of the Jessica Fahy programme members of the local UK and globally. Learn something new, ‘Savage’ artist: from Brittany to Tahiti For full information on the residency community will shape the very first share your skills and meet new people. and related programming: Thursday 4 October | 6.30pm Thursday 30 August | 1.15pm ‘Fun Palace’ in Ireland. 'Fun Palaces' is To learn more about Fun Palaces: an international, free campaign placing nationalgallery.ie Dr Claire Moran, Senior Lecturer in French, Paul Cézanne's La Montagne funpalaces.co.uk culture at the heart of community and Queen’s University Belfast #FunPalaces | @FunPalaces To find out more about the artist: Sainte-Victoire community at the heart of culture unasealy.com Mary Dowling with an annual weekend of events each October.

Above Top: Roderic O’Conor, Field of Corn, Pont-Aven (detail), 1892, © National Museum NI. Collection Ulster Museum. Above: Roderic O’Conor, Breton Woman (detail), c.1903–1904, Above: Cuno Amiet, Breton Woman approaching Pont-Aven, 1892-3, Above: Roderic O'Conor, Apples and Pear (detail), c.1893, Private Collection, Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby’s. Above: Roderic O’Conor, The Farm at Lezaven, Finistère (detail), 1894, National Gallery of Ireland. Above Lower: Vincent van Gogh, Rooftops in Paris, 1886, National Gallery of Ireland. National Gallery of Ireland. Kunsthaus Zürich, Acquired in memory of Peter Alther from the Peter Alther Bequest, 2005. © D. Thalmann, Aarau, . TOURS SCHOOLS FAMILY ACTIVITIES In-Conversation Tours Booking Information: Teachers’ Tour Family Tours NGI Baby Workshops NGI Exhibition Rooms 6-10 [email protected] | 01 663 3510 Thursday 20 September | 5pm NGI Exhibition Rooms 6-10 Monday 15 October | 12pm & 2pm Free with Valid Exhibition Ticket All tours and workshops must be NGI Exhibition Rooms 6-10 Adult Tickets €5 | Child Ticket Free Tickets €5 | Online only from 9am, 9 October No Booking booked three weeks in advance Free | Booking Essential Access to the exhibition included Booking Essential Explore Roderic O’Conor and the GUIDED School Tours Join a teacher from the Gallery’s Guide Join us for fun and accessible tours designed Colourful O’Conor with artist Edel Campbell. Moderns together with an artist Panel and discuss the curricular links entirely for families. Our guides encourage Sensory baby workshop, including visit and an art historian, who will lead Free | NGI Exhibition Rooms 6-10 present within the exhibition. By booking visitors of all ages to learn about Roderic to the exhibition. an informal tour that encourages TOURS Tours available in English, Irish and French. on to this tour you will also get a free ticket O’Conor and the artists from Pont-Aven Drop-In Family Workshops dialogue and discussion. to the first of the Thursday Evening Lecture at their own pace. Post-Primary Workshop Series, Landscapes of Provence: Discoveries NGI Atrium | Free | No booking Roderic O’Conor: Professional NGI Exhibition Rooms 6-10 Sunday 29 July | 2.30pm Artist and his Legacy Free | NGI Millennium Wing Studio about Van Gogh’s Year at the Asylum at Make Colours Dance Sunday 26 August | 2.30pm Dr Katy Milligan & Sarah Ward Private Tours €50 In this practical workshop students will 6.30pm that evening. Sunday 16 September | 11.30am-1.30pm uncover how galleries present art, learn Sunday 23 September | 2.30pm Thursday 23 August | 6.20pm Tours available in School Resource Pack Inspired by O’Conor’s of about O’Conor’s life and work, and plan Sunday 21 October | 2.30pm Breton women with artist Beth O’Halloran. France: the Time, the Place, English, Irish and French their own exhibition. The workshop links Available to download from our the Principles directly to the curriculum, and is designed website from September. Dots and Distance Mags Harnett & Sandra Hickey Further Information: to introduce students to visual culture in Containing contextual information about Sunday 7 October | 11.30am-1.30pm Thursday 13 September | 6.20pm [email protected] | 01 663 3510 a creative and hands-on way, and includes the exhibition and suggested activities Artist Susan Farrelly will focus on the a tour of the exhibition. for students to complete before, during work of Swiss artist Cuno Amiet, and Sharing of Ideas and Practices: All tours must be booked three and after their visit, including sketching optical mixing techniques. Ethos of the Artists' Colonies weeks in advance and relevant vocabulary. Aisling Dunne & Colourful Collages Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire Sunday 21 October | 11.30am-1.30pm Thursday 25 October | 6.20pm Artist Ashleigh Downey will encourage families to examine the striped landscapes of Van Gogh and O’Conor.

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Introductory Talk Art in the Open Festival Film Screening: Loving Vincent Pop-Up Sketching Drop-In Family Workshop: Modern Landscapes Pop-Up Talk Artist in Residence Pop-Up Talk In-Conversation Tour Intergenerational Drop-In Pop-Up Sketching Pop-Up Talk Intergenerational Drop-In In-Conversation Tour Teachers’ Tour Bal-Musette Sunday Lecture Series Evening Lecture Series Fun Palace Sunday Lecture Series Bal Musette: Pop-Up Music Performance NGI Baby Workshops Sunday Family Drop-in Sessions In-Conversation Tour 1.15pm Lecture Theatre 28 July – 7 August, Wexford 8pm Wexford Arts Centre 1pm Merrion Square Information Desk 11am-1pm Wexford Arts Centre 1.15pm Prints & Drawings Reading Room Una Sealy until 16 September 1.15pm Prints & Drawings Reading Room 6.20pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 11.30am-1.30pm Maples and Calder Creative Space 1pm Room 5 1.15pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 11.30am-1.30pm Maples and Calder Creative Space 6.20pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 5.00pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 First Live Performance, Culture Night 3pm Lecture Theatre 6.30pm Lecture Theatre 11am-3pm Throughout the Gallery 3pm Lecture Theatre From 6pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 12pm & 2pm Millennium Wing Studio 11.30am-1.30pm Maples and Calder Creative Space6.20pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 JUL 18 18 23 28 29 30 AUG 1 3 4 7 9 10 15 15 16 21 23 24 26 26 29 30 31 SEP 4 9 12 13 16 20 20 21 23 23 26 27 30 OCT 4 6 7 7 11 11 14 15 18 21 24 25 28 TAKE A JOURNEY WITH Podcasts

Family Tour Family Tour 1pm Room 3 Family Tour O’CONOR, GAUGUIN, AMIET, Pop-Up Talk Pop-Up Talk Pop-Up Talk 1pm Room 4 Rent an Easel Rent an Easel

Exhibition Opens Exhibition Closes VAN GOGH AND SÉRUSIER AT THE Pop-Up Sketching Pop-Up Sketching Pop-Up Sketching 3pm Lecture Theatre 3pm Lecture Theatre 2pm Merrion Square Available from August Tuesday Talk and Tea Sunday Lecture Series Sunday Lecture Series Evening Lecture6.30pm Series Lecture Theatre Evening Lecture6.30pm Series Lecture Theatre NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND 6.15pm Millennium Wing 8pm White's Hotel Wexford 1.15pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 1.15pm Exhibition Rooms 6-10 11am Millennium Wing Studio 5pm Millennium Wing Studio 5pm Millennium Wing Studio

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Dementia Tour and Workshop En Plein Air: Artists' Paint Out Sunday Family Drop-in Session River Liffey Sunday Family Drop-In Session River Liffey PONT-AVEN 1pm Merrion Square Information Desk Bal-Musette: Special Evening Event 1.15pm Prints & Drawings Reading Room

11.30am ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art Talk: Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns 11.30am ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art

Dementia Tour and Workshop (Heritage Week) 11.30am-1.30pm Maples and Calder Creative Space 11.30am-1.30pm Maples and Calder Creative Space

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KILDARE STREET Grand Canal Merrion MERRION SQUARE W DEMENTIA & Square For this programme the TALK TEA RENT POP-UP Drawing En Plein Air education team and our Mixed media St Stephen’s Wednesday 1 August | 1pm Green FRIENDLY colleagues from Library and A Contemporary Response to the Moderns Merrion Square Info Desk Archives will provide activities AN EASEL SKETCHING with Una Sealy, RHA Wednesday 15 August | 1pm Merrion Square Info Desk Geing Here: Booking Information: designed specifically for visitors Thursday 11 October | 5pm - 8pm Free | No Booking Located in the city centre, in the All tickets available from: EVENTS who live with dementia and Kees Van Dongen‘s heart of Georgian Dublin, the W: nationalgallery.ie/ticketsolve/shows their carers, inspired by Tuesday 4 September | 11am Thursday 18 October | 5pm - 8pm Limited to 15 people Stella in a Flowered Hat Gallery is less than ten minutes T: 01 6633518 or call into the ticket desk. Chalk pastels session Free documents relating to the NGI Millennium Wing Studio NGI Millennium Wing Studio Materials Provided on foot from St Stephen’s Green, 10% Discount: Student/OAP/Jobseekers Wednesday 29 August | 1pm Graon Street and Trinity College. life of Roderic O’Conor. Tickets €5 €25 | Booking Essential 20% Discount: Advance Booking Essential Inspired by the exhibiton, Pop-Up drawing NGI Room 5 There are two entrances to the Friends of the National Gallery Further Information: Taking place in the ESB Centre for Tuesday Talk and Tea is a monthly illustrated talk or Devised to offer artists a chance for in-depth sessions will take place en plein air National Gallery of Ireland: the Study of Irish Art the activity will Alfred Sisley’s The Banks of the To become a friend visit Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire tour, inspired by the Gallery’s collection and exhibitions, engagement, 'Rent an Easel' uniquely combines in Merrion Square, and in Rooms 1 to 5 Canal du Loing at Saint-Mammés Millennium Wing Entrance: begin with a look at the O’Conor W: nationalgallery.ie/friends [email protected] archive, followed by a group discussion followed by a chat over tea and coffee. Una Sealy RHA, a contextual visit to the exhibition with a bespoke at the National Gallery of Ireland Graphite/charcoal on paper session located on Clare Street T: 01 6619877 artist in residence, will discuss her career-long interest 01 663 3507 and practical response session. Access self-directed studio session. Exhibition visit, easels, Wednesday 12 September | 1pm Merrion Square Entrance: For Full Information and Listings: to the exhibition will be available after in Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns and how the set-up and arrangement are included in the cost. NGI Room 3 Merrion Square West W: nationalgallery.ie the event. exhibition is influencing her work. Artists must bring their own materials. While this is ’s The Lady on the E: [email protected] | T: 01 6633582 Monday 23 July | 11.30am not a taught session, a facilitator will be on Terrace, Saint-Tropez Monday 20 August | 11.30am hand to guide and assist. Oil pastels session Wednesday 26 September | 1pm NGI Room 4 #NGIeducation #RodericOConor

Above: Vincent van Gogh, Champ de blé aux bleuets, 1890, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Beyeler Collection. Photo: Peter Schibli. Above: Roderic O’Conor, Landscape, Pont-Aven, 1892, Private Collection, Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby’s.