Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Peoples College Lectures 2015/2016
AVENUES INTO MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART Course programmed by Jessica O’Donnell
Commencing Saturday 3rd October 2015 Avenues into Modern and Contemporary Art Inspired by the Hugh Lane Gallery’s renowned collection, this series of slide illustrated art history lectures delivered by guest lecturers and Gallery curators will look at a diverse range of influences and subject matter explored by some of the most interesting and innovative artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries. There will also be the opportunity of exploring the Gallery’s temporary exhibitions including Sir Hugh Lane: Dublin’s Legacy and Loss; Jesse Jones: Laugh a Defiance; The Artist as Witness: John Lavery and the Appeal of Roger Casement. Venue: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1 Time: 11.00am - Noon 20 classes
OCTOBER 2015
Saturday 3 October 2015/11.00am Irish artists and France: Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917) and John Lavery Lecturer: Dr Sinead Furlong-Clancy
Saturday 10 October 2015/11.00am Artist in Focus: Augustus John Lecturer: Aoife Flynn
Saturday 17 October 2015/11.00am Sir Hugh Lane: Dublin’s Legacy and Loss Lecturer: Ciaran Woods
Saturday 24 October 2015 / 11.00am No lecture – Bank Holiday weekend
Saturday 31 October 2015/11.00am William Orpen and the New English Art Club Lecturer: Ciaran Woods
NOVEMBER 2015 Saturday 7 November 2015/11.00am John Butler Yeats, W.B. Yeats, Jack B. Yeats and the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art Lecturer: Yvonne Pettit
Saturday 14 November 2015/11.00am The West of Ireland: the paintings of Paul Henry and Grace Henry Lecturer: Emma O’Toole
Saturday 21 November 2015/11.00am Towards Modernism: Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone, May Guinness Lecturer: Michelle Doyle
Saturday 28 November 2015/11.00am Representations of Dublin in Irish Art from 1900 to today Lecturer: Sarah Dunne-O’Connell
DECEMBER 2015
Saturday 5 December 2015/11.00am Irish Stained Glass artists from Harry Clarke to James Scanlon Lecturer: Emma O’Toole
Saturday 12 December 2015/11.00am A Modern Classicist: Edgar Degas Lecturer: Barbara O’Connell
Saturday 19 December 2015/11.00am Towards Night and Winter: The Paintings of Frank O’Meara Lecturer: Olive Knox
JANUARY 2016
Saturday 9 January 2016/11.00am Conserving Modern and Contemporary Art: New Challenges Lecturer: Mary McGrath, Conservator
Saturday 16 January 2016/11.00am Art and Conflict Lecturer: Aoife Flynn
Saturday 23 January 2016/11.00am Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries Lecturer: Michelle Doyle
Saturday 30 January 2016/11.00am Depicting an emerging state: The paintings of Sean Keating and Maurice MacGonigal Lecturer: Tony Suttle
FEBRUARY 2016
Saturday 6 February 2016/11.00am Perspectives of Europe: The paintings of Stephen McKenna Lecturer: Yvonne Pettit
Saturday 13 February 2016/11.00am Art and Photography Lecturer: Barbara O’Connell
Saturday 20 February 2016/11.00am Art USA Now in Dublin, 1964 Lecturer: Logan Sisley, Exhibitions Curator, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Saturday 27 February 2016/11.00am Lecture/Exhibition Visit: Jesse Jones - Laugh a Defiance Lecturer: Aoife Flynn
MARCH 2016
Saturday 5 March 2016/11.00am Supporting and Promoting Modern and Contemporary art: The Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, ROSC and the Contemporary Irish Art Society Lecturer: Kitty Rogers
Saturday 12 March 2016/11.00am Lecture/Exhibition Visit: ‘The Artist as Witness’: John Lavery and the Appeal of Roger Casement Lecturer: Jessica O’Donnell, Collections Curator, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.