Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann | National Gallery of Ireland ADULT PROGRAMMES September – December 2015 Lifelong Learning & Ageing Creatively 55+ National Gallery of Ireland The Celtic Revival in Art Special Thursday Evening Events The Celtic Revival refers to the period c.1830-1930, when antiquarians, writers and artists looked to the past in the creation of a new identity, during a time of growing nationalism that coincided with the struggle for independence. While it was parallel to the Irish literary or cultural revival, it also included a flowering of the decorative arts, painting and sculpture, and the Thursday The Wider Impact of JM Synge, establishment of a modern art gallery. 29 October and Celtic Imagery The final talk will conclude with a wine reception in the 6.30pm Dr Elaine Sisson, Research Fellow, NGI Wintergarden. Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology Thursday Keynote Thursday The Impact of ‘National Identity’ 1 October The Celtic Revival in Art 5 November on 20th-Century Irish Art 6.30pm Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe, Associate Professor, 6.30pm Dr Riann Coulter, Curator, F.E. National College of Art and Design, McWilliam Gallery and Studio Visiting Professor, University of Ulster Thursday Keynote Thursday The Prodigal Yeats Family 12 November Emergence: The Culture and 8 October Dr Róisín Kennedy, Lecturer, 6.30pm Politics of the Irish Revival 6.30pm University College Dr P.J. Mathews, Author and Senior Lecturer, School of English, Thursday Hugh Lane and a Gallery of Modern Art Drama & Film, University College Dublin 15 October Robert O’Byrne, Writer on Architecture, Followed by a drinks reception, 6.30pm Fine Art and Design NGI Wintergarden Thursday Dun Emer and Cuala Press 22 October and Graphic Art during the 6.30pm Celtic Revival Dr Angela Griffith, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and DETAILS Architecture, €8.50 Single Ticket (12 November ticket includes wine reception); €5 Student Tickets (proof of status required) €50 Season Ticket for 7 talks (includes wine reception 12 November) Tickets may be purchased in advance from the Gallery Shop: 01 663 3518 or at www.eventbrite.ie and are non-refundable Enquiries: [email protected]; T: 01 663 3504/5/7

Image: Oliver Sheppard, ‘In mystery the soul Image: Kasimir Dunin Markievicz, The Artist’s Wife, Constance, Comtesse de Markievicz (1868-1927), abides’. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland Irish Painter and Revolutionary. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland National Gallery of Ireland Study Morning 2015: Saturday 21 November AGEING CREATIVELY Creative Art 55+ John Butler Yeats (1839-1922): Creative Art for 55+ Events September to December 2015

An Artist in an Artistic Family This programme is designed so that everyone 55+ can have fun and be CREATIVELY 55+ AGEING creative in the NGI. All are welcome. Events are free and no booking A special study morning focusing on John Butler Yeats as a public and private (or experience!) is necessary. figure, and as an artist who had a life-long passion for portraiture. 9 September Special Exhibition Tour: Sean Scully 10.00 Welcome Sean Rainbird, Director 3.00pm Rita Brown – Meeting point, Atrium 10.10 John Butler Yeats and the Irish Revival Limited to 15 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Dr P. J. Mathews, Author and Senior Lecturer, 16 September Life Drawing Workshop School of English, Drama & Film, University College Dublin 3.00pm Louise Neiland, Artist – Millennium Wing Studio 10.50 At a Glance – The Portraits of John Butler Yeats 14 October Art Workshop Light and Shade Niamh MacNally, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings 3.00pm Niamh Aherne, Artist – Millennium Wing Studio National Gallery of Ireland 21 October Life Drawing Workshop 11.15 Coffee Break 3.00pm Jane Bowe, Artist – Millennium Wing Studio Coffee available for purchase in the Atrium or Wintergarden Café 11 November Tour: Personalities Revealed in the Portraits of John B. Yeats 11.45 John B Yeats: The Artist as Pilgrim Father 3.00pm Valerie Alexander – Meeting point, Atrium Hilary Pyle, Writer, Curator, Biographer and Yeats Scholar 18 November Life Drawing Workshop 12.25 A Public and a Private Figure 3.00pm Valerie Moffat, Artist – Atrium Caitríona Yeats 9 December Printmaking Workshop 12.50 Panel Discussion 3.00pm Debora Ando, Artist – Atrium Chair: Professor Luke Gibbons Chair of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Maynooth DETAILS Drawing/Art workshops last c. 50 minutes 1.30 Conclusion All materials provided No special skills needed DETAILS Numbers limited: 25 for drawing/art Tickets €12 workshops and 15 for tours Student Tickets €5 (proof of status required) Places allocated on a first-come, Tickets from the Gallery Shop 01 663 3518 first-served basis and www.eventbrite.ie and are non-refundable Further information at [email protected] Event takes place in the Gallery Lecture Theatre or 01 663 3505 Enquiries: [email protected]; T: 01 663 3504/5/7

Special Event W.B. Yeats Poetry Reading, Friday 27 November, 11.00am Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Image: John Butler Yeats, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Poet, Playwright and the Artist’s Son, 1898. Read by Actors Denis Conway and Derbhle Crotty. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland Chaired by Vincent Woods, poet, playwright and RTÉ presenter Admission free. No booking required. Drawing Studies Autumn 2015 Artist Biographies Drawing studies classes provide a comprehensive introduction to the techniques of drawing. The focus in 2015 is on figure, portrait and still-life Comhghall Casey is from Omagh, Co. Tyrone, themes. The tuition is provided by professional artists and tutors. and has worked full-time as an artist since graduating from Art College in Belfast in 1998. Based in Dublin since 2000, his work focuses on Exploring Figure Drawing creating meticulous and sparse still life studies 12 September Introduction to the Figure as well as portraiture and life painting. Una Sealy ARHA Diana Copperwhite ARHA is a graduate 19 September Drawing from Life using Line of Winchester School of Art and Design, NCAD and Limerick School of Art and Design. Dorothy Smith Comhghall Casey The winner of the AIB prize in 2007, she has 26 September Drawing the Model using Tonal Effects exhibited extensively in group and solo shows. Comhghall Casey Her paintings are in national and international 3 October Drawing from Life in Colour public and private collections. Diana Copperwhite ARHA Mollie Douthit is an American artist, and 10 October Drawing Portraiture using Colour currently lives and works in Ireland. While Cian McLoughlin completing her MFA at the Burren College of Art, she was shortlisted for Saatchi Art’s New Examining Still Life and Other Themes Sensation Prize. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Hennessy Craig Award from the RHA. 17 October Everyday Objects in Focus Her work is included in both public and Vera Klute Vera Klute private collections. 24 October Drawing Still Life using Colour Vera Klute is a graduate of IADT. From Mollie Douthit Germany, she now lives and works in Ireland. 31 October Exploring Still Life Compositions Her work is included in private and public Geraldine O’Neill ARHA collections, including that of the NGI. She works in a variety of media, including painting, DETAILS drawing and sculpture. She received the Saturday morning: 11.00am-1.00pm. Numbers limited to 12 per class Hennessy Craig Scholarship in 2015 from Location: Millennium Wing Studio the RHA. Cian McLoughlin Tickets: €25 per class (€20 Students and OAPs - proof of status required) from the NGI Shop Cian McLoughlin is painter, and a graduate from 1 September 2015, 01-663 3518. Tickets are non-refundable. of UCD. He was selected as a finalist for the 2014 Hennessy Portrait Prize, which took place Una Sealy ARHA attended Dun Laoghaire Equipment: Folding stools, drawing boards and easels are provided. at the NGI. His work is in public and private College of Art & Design. She is an invited tutor We recommend participants bring their own materials: collections in Ireland and abroad. He lives and on drawing courses at the RHA. A recipient of A3 or A4 spiral bound sketchbooks, 2B-6B pencils and coloured pencils, works in Dublin. awards from the Arts Council, she has had several Black Conté crayon, putty rubber, compressed and willow charcoal. solo shows, with her work in private, public and Geraldine O’Neill ARHA is a graduate corporate collections. The artist lives in Dublin. Course Assistant: Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire. of NCAD. Her work concentrates on still life Information: [email protected] T: 01 663 3504/5/7 using items from everyday life. She has taught Dorothy Smith is a graduate of IADT, NCAD and exhibited extensively, and her work and UCD. She has exhibited widely and is a is represented in many public and private recipient of the Taylor Bequest Award. Her work collections. She lives in Dublin. is in private collections and the Office of Public Works, Irish Contemporary Arts Society, NIVAL, AXA and the New York Public Library Print Collection. Image: Thomas Couture, La Peinture Realiste. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland How to find and to contact us

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