RHA Gallery – Upcoming RHA Exhibitions, You’re Invited!
New Season of Exhibitions Opening
Preview 6 – 8pm, Thurs 24 Aug
You’re invited!
Image: Alan Butler, Acrophobia for Chromaphiles (Bliss, Sonoma County, California, During 2018 Wildfires v1) detail, 2023,
Paint on cotton mounted on Dibond and framed, 130 x 130cm, Image courtesy of the artist.
RHA NEW SEASON
Preview – Thurs 24 August
You’re invited!
The RHA reopens on Thursday 24 August, 6-8pm, with a preview of the following exhibitions:
Alan Butler, We are now in the Mountains, and they are in us, Gallagher Gallery
Enda Bowe, Hannah, O’hUiginn Gallery
Debbie Castro, Age is a Privilege, Unless you Forget!, Petronella Brown Gallery
James Hanley RHA, Recast, Dr. Tony Ryan Gallery
Karen Donnellan, Cosmic Wetness, RHA Corner Gallery
Kiera O’Toole, Weaved Drawing from reworked drawings, RHA Atrium
Niamh O’Malley ARHA – Shelf , 2022 – RHA Foyer
All Welcome
Image: Debbie Castro, The man and the pitchfork, the child and the doll (detail), 2023, Giclée print framed Hahnemuehle german etching, black 8mm dot stickers, 100 x 175cm approx, Image courtesy of the artist.
RHA 200
It Took a Century – Women Artists & the RHA
National Gallery of Ireland
Now – 22 October
Admission free
This National Gallery of Ireland and RHA collaboration showcases women’s membership of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts from the election in 1923 of the first woman member, Sarah Purser, to the first woman President, Dr. Abigail O’Brien, in 2018.
As part of the RHA bicentenary celebrations, the exhibition combines an historic survey of the past 100 years together with a presentation of work by current women members of the Academy.
Image: Brigid Ganly HRHA, Portrait Of Ethel Gorman (detail), 1941, Oil, 50 x 40cm, RHA Collection.
RHA FRIENDS
Friends of the National Gallery and RHA present – Dr. Caroline Campbell & Dr. Abigail O’ Brien PRHA ‘In Conversation’
NGI Lecture Theatre
6pm, Thurs 21 Sept
In collaboration with NGI, we are delighted to offer RHA Friends (with valid RHA Friends card) and NGI Friends free tickets to this ‘In Conversation’ event with the RHA President and NGI Director on ‘It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA’ in the NGI’s lecture theatre.
Tickets on sale 11am this Wednesday 16 Aug.
General price €10
Image: Dr. Abigail O’Brien PRHA, Perfection 1 & Perfection 2. © Abigail O’Brien
RHA ANNUAL
Collection of Purchased & Unsold Work
Please contact front of house at frontofhouse@rhagallery.ie to arrange collection of purchased and unsold work between 10am-4pm, Monday to Friday. Alternatively call us on 01 – 661 2558, also between 10am-4pm, Monday to Friday.
If you are an artist who has sold work in the Annual, please ensure your contact details, including postal address provided in your submission, are correct for issuing payments in the form of cheques. If you need to make any updates to your contact details, please email sarah@rhagallery.ie.
Payments will be made to artists, who have sold artworks, by the end of September.
RHA 200
RHA: Ballinglen Fellows Exhibition
Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
Now – 25 September
As part of the RHA 200 programme, works from the Ballinglen Permanent Collection and new work by RHA members are featured in this exhibition at the Ballinglen Museum of Art.
RHA artists featured include: Diana Copperwhite RHA, Gary Coyle RHA, Joe Dunne RHA, Martin Gale RHA, Richard Gorman RHA, James Hanley RHA, Pat Harris RHA, Eithne Jordan RHA, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh RHA, Maeve McCarthy RHA, Colin Martin RHA, Mick O’Dea PPRHA, Una Sealy RHA, Dorothy Smith RHA, Amelia Stein RHA, Donald Teskey RHA and Charles Tyrrell ARHA.
Image: Maeve McCarthy RHA, Polke’s At Night, detail, 2010, Charcoal & pastel on paper, Courtesy of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation.
RHA 200
Architectural Presidents
Irish Architectural Archive
Mon – Fri, 10 – 5pm
until 21 Dec
Architectural Presidents is the title of a new exhibition, as part of our 200th anniversary celebrations, now showing at the Irish Architectural Archive on Merrion Square.
The exhibition features portraits and the work of the six architects who have served as President of the RHA: Francis Johnson, Sir Thomas Drew, Sir Thomas Deane, Raymond McGrath, Arthur Gibney and Des McMahon PPRHA.
RHA MEMBERS
The Art of Sport
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
12 Aug – 8 Oct
Kilkenny Arts Festival is celebrating its 50th year. In partnership with the Butler Gallery, the festival is presenting an exhibition exploring the spirit of sport as captured by a selected group of artists using diverse media.
Twenty-eight artists are featured including RHA Academicians; Dorothy Cross RHA, Colin Martin RHA Head of School and Amelia Stein RHA.
