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NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS - ARCHIVES – OLIVIER CORNET GALLERY 2018 Friday 28th December 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to read in The Irish Times that Conrad Frankel's show 'Road Trip', which took place at the gallery in September this year, is listed in Aidan Dunne's round up of his favourite art exhibitions of 2018. ----------------- Friday 14th December 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that two paintings by the Irish poet and artist Paula Meehan (Monto Karma III and Monto Karma IV) which we exhibited as part of our Bloomsday 2018 show 'Drawing on Joyce', have just joined the collection of MoLI, the Museum of Literature Ireland. Last year, 'An Piarsach', Eoin Mac Lochlainn's painting of his great grand uncle Patrick Pearse, joined the permanent collection of the Pearse Museum in Rathfarnham and back in 2016, Yanny Petters's 'Teasel for finches, November', joined the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, in Kew Gardens, London. It is always a great honour for our gallery when works by the artists we work with, join museum collections and therefore remain available to the public. ----------------- Sunday 25th November 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Somewhere between perception and reality', our Winter group show first presented at the VUE Art Fair in November 2018 will open at the gallery on 9th December and will run till 17th February. ----------------- Sunday 21st October 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that gallery artist Claire Halpin has just been shortlisted for the Savills Prize 2018. The overall winner will be announced at the opening of VUE Art Fair, RHA Dublin, on Thursday 1st November. This year the gallery will present a themed group show entitled 'Somewhere between perception and reality'. ----------------- Tuesday 9th October 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Deireadh Fómhair', Eoin Mac Lochlainn's new solo show, will be opened on Sunday 21st October by Paddy Woodworth, author of ‘Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century’. ----------------- Sunday 9th September 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that singer Fia Rua (Eoghan Burke) will perform at the gallery at 8pm on Culture Night (Friday, 21 September 2018). The gallery will be open from 11am to 10pm that day and visitors will be able to see our current show: 'Road Trip' by gallery artist Conrad Frankel. Our browse area which contains over 200 works of art by our other artists will also be open to the public. ----------------- Sunday 2nd September 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Road Trip', a solo exhibition of new work by gallery artist Conrad Frankel, will open at the gallery at 3pm on Sunday 16th September ----------------- Friday 10th August 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to share the great news that LEYHO's 'Chiens Bleus, Chiens Gris' exhibition has been reviewed by the Irish Times art critic Aidan Dunne as well as Robert Fisk, the Middle-East correspondent of The Independent in the UK: 'Battlefield photos provide ammunition for drawings of first World War' by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Tuesday, 31st July 2018) 'On the anniversary of the end of the First World War, even photographs cannot speak of our true history', by Robert Fisk,The UK Independent, Thursday 9th August 2018. Robert Fisk's review was also published in the i-Newspaper in the UK and in tthe Dawn newspaper in Pakistan. ----------------- Wednesday 4th July 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Chiens Bleus, Chiens Gris, a comic book and exhibition about the life and death of Francis Régeard during World War I by his great grand nephew LEYHO, will launch on 19th July. Guest speaker: Jessica Peel-Yates, Manager of the James Joyce Centre Dublin. The exhibition also features WWI photography by Olivier Cornet's own great grand uncle François Bost and a series of photo intaglios by Robert Rusell, from Bost's original photographs. ----------------- Wednesday 5th June 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Drawing on Joyce', a group show featuring new work by gallery artist Eoin Mac Lochlainn and invited artists Nickie Hayden, Maser, Paula Meehan and Robert Russell, will be opened on 10th June with Theo Dorgan as guest speaker. The exhibition, which runs till 15th of July, is part of the main programme of the James Joyce Centre's 2018 Bloomsday Festival. ------------------ Wednesday 23rd May 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that we have just been awarded a 2018 Certificate of Excellence by TripAdvisor, an award "based on the consistently great reviews earned on the world's largest travel site". The galery would like to thank all our artists, visitors and supporters. ------------------ Wednesday 4th April 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Striae', a two-person exhibition of work by gallery artist Hugh Cummins & AGA member Sheila Naughton will be opened on Sunday 6th May, 3pm by Dr Hugh Maguire, Cultural Heritage Advisor and former Director of the Hunt Museum in Limerick. ------------------ Monday 19th March 2018 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of 'The Knack....And How to Get It!', a group show or rather a mini series of exhibitions curated in collaboration with budding curators and members of the general public. Runs from 29th March to 29th March2018. 2017 Monday 18th December 2017 Many thanks to the art critic Aidan Dunne for the review of '2°C', our group show on climate change, which appeared in The Irish Times (The Ticket, The Take, Critic's Choice, page 20) on Saturday 16th December 2017. The article was also published in the online version of the newspaper: 'The best art exhibitions this week – from 2°C in Dublin to Outposts in Cork' a few days earlier. The gallery is closed from 18th December to 5th January 2018. The show will resume on Saturday, 6th January. Wishing all our supporters a very happy festive season. ------------------ Sunday 19th November 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that '2° C', an artists' response to climate change, curated by Olivier Cornet with the support of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland will be officially launched at the gallery on Sunday 17th December 2017. Guest speaker: Dr Jonathan Derham BSc, PhD, MA(Mgt), Programme Manager, Evidence & Assessment Programme, Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA), Ireland. First Presented at VUE Contemporary Art Fair in early November, the show feaures work by 15 artists: ANNIKA BERGLUND, HUGH CUMMINS, JOHN FITZSIMONS, JORDI FORNIES, CLAIRE HALPIN, EOIN MAC LOCHLAINN, MIRIAM MCCONNON, YANNY PETTERS, KELLY RATCHFORD, FREDA RUPP, AISLING CONROY, DAVID FOX, PAUL JAMES KEARNEY, SHEILA NAUGHTON, and VICKY SMITH. The exhibition will run until the 28th of February 2018 Click here to see a selection of the works on the Olivier Cornet Gallery Facebook page. ------------------ Tuesday 7th November 2017 Jordi Fornies' long-awaited exhibition The Permanent Side will open at 6 PM (instead of 3 PM) on Sunday 12 November 2017 ------------------ Monday, 6th November 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to see that Apollo, The International Art Magazine, has just mentioned the donation of Gerald Davis's painting 'It's Fireworks' to the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. It was an honour for Olivier to have facilited this donation by Gerald's family in collaboration with Mark Traynor the then director of the James Joyce Centre. Click here to see the article from the November issue of the magazine (section 'Acquisitions of the month: October 2017'). ------------------ Monday 11th September 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that Miriam McConnon's first solo exhibition with the gallery will open on Sunday 15th October 2017. Click here to see the work presented in this long-awaited exhibition titled 'In Life's Pocket. ------------------ Thursday 17th August 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that Poetry Ireland Review issue 122 is out and it includes images of artworks by 6 of our artists: Brad Gray, Claire Halpin, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Miriam McConnon, Yanny Petters, and Kelly Ratchford whose beautiful 'Dressed for success' appears on the cover page. We have a few copies of issue 122 for sale at the gallery. ------------------- Monday 7th August 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Concerning the Other', a collaborative art project, will be opened by RHA Director Patrick T. Murphy on Sunday, 10th September, 3pm. The creative part of the project took place over ten weeks during the summer of 2017. It involved ten contemporary artists working together on one hundred pieces of art, to promote diversity and concern for minorities in these days of mounting racism and intolerance. The artists involved were: James Hanley R.H.A, Brian Fay, Claire Halpin, Joanna Kidney, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Gail Ritchie, Miriam McConnon, Kate Murphy, Ben Readman and Susanne Wawra. The project was curated by Olivier Cornet, Claire Halpin and Eoin Mac Lochlainn. ------------------- Monday 26th June 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'The Meeting', a show curated with Laois Arts Officer Muireann Ní Chonaill, will open at Laois Arthouse in Stradbally on Saturday 1st July, 1pm. The exhibition features work by 4 artists Muireann and Olivier met at VAI's Speed curating at IMMA last year: David Fox, Aileen Hamilton, Darina Meagher and Vicky Smith. ------------------- Monday 5th June 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce a special exhibition for Bloomsday 2017: 'There is a touch of the artist about old Bloom'. See all the information here ------------------- Monday 1st May 2017 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that 'Things are going to slide', a two-person exhibition of new work by gallery artists Mark Doherty and Kelly Ratchford will be opened on Thursday 11th May, 7pm by Kieron J.