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A photograph of a multi panel painting displaying a white rabbit in front of a table of food against a surreal landscape with gold leaf in the background. There are paper lanterns with owls painted on them suspended inside a theatrical structure.
Ruth Starr
Researcher's Talk

Join us for a talk with Ruth Starr, Assistant Professor of History of Japanese Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin. Responding to Just Another Human Experience by Atsushi Kaga, Starr will explore Japanese influences on Kaga’s work, including how the four seasons have been represented and evoked in Japanese arts across many periods and […]

Dr Aoife Brady
Researcher's Talk

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to share details of this upcoming talk by Dr Aoife Brady, Curator of Italian and Spanish Art, National Gallery of Ireland, which will focus on art historical references within Siobhán Hapaska’s exhibition Medici Lion. Booking required. Please use the link on this page to book your place.  

A group of people sign language in a lecturing theatre
Dr John Bosco Conama
On Irish Sign Language

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to share details of this upcoming talk by Dr John Bosco Conama on the history of Irish Sign Language in the context of Amanda Coogan’s Freude! Freude! project. An interpreter will be present at this talk to provide Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpretation. Booking required. Please use the link on this page to […]

Kian Benson Bailes
Queer Possibility

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to announce the upcoming talk by artist Kian Benson Bailes, in which he will explore queer possibility as a gateway to creating new narratives, in the context of his own practice and Bassam Al-Sabah’s exhibition IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS Booking required. Please complete the booking form from […]

Cliona Harmey
Vertical Thoughts

For this project, Cliona Harmey has chosen to screen two moving image works which function as a springboard for a visual response to ideas of narrative, media history, infrastructure, verticality and technology. A Glimpse of Common Territory by artist and film-maker Michelle Deignan will be shown, followed by a rare 16 mm screening of Side/Walk/Shuttle, a seminal work by […]

Dr Jana van der Ziel Fischerova
Cultural Censorship in Czechoslovakia

The photographer Josef Sudek is mainly associated with the city of Prague, but some of his most striking works were taken in nearby suburban, rural or industrial areas where he made elegant use of the panoramic format. In the late 1950s he travelled frequently to the Most Basin in North Bohemia, an area where the countryside […]

Unwelcome Guests
Art & Ethics

Thomas Davis Theatre, The Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin For this seminar on art and ethics, artist Eoghan McIntyre has invited contributions from Dr Ben Bramble (Trinity College Dublin) and artist Isadora Epstein. The event will be chaired by curator Benjamin Stafford. In 2011, the artist John Timberlake wrote, “the radical quality of art is […]

Tim Stott
On Isabel Nolan

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to share details of this upcoming talk by Tim Stott on the work of Isabel Nolan, in which he will discuss her current exhibition Calling on Gravity in the context of her broader practice. Dr Tim Stott is an art historian and critic who lectures on Art History and Visual […]

Dr Caitriona Leahy
On Isabel Nolan

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to share details of this upcoming talk on Isabel Nolan by Dr Caitriona Leahy, Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Isabel Nolan’s solo exhibition Calling on Gravity comprises suspended and floor-based sculptures, portrait paintings, drawings, photographs and a rug. These new works unsettle simple certainties such […]