Art & The Outdoors 2024

Saturday 3 August, Noon-4pm

On Saturday watch the processes involved in creating a large scale art piece using spray paint. Hang out and watch as Jess creates a piece in her signature style designed especially for and inspired by the Hugh Lane Gallery.

Sunday 4 August, Noon-4pm 

On Sunday Jess (aka Novice) is hosting workshops. Over the course of each workshop session  you will have an opportunity to learn can control techniques from Jess, try out using spray paint and most importantly have fun while being creative. Numbers limited for each session and suitable for ages 8+

Jess aka Novice, a Dublin native and member of the Minaw Collective, whose work is a mixture of the mediums that she loves, pencil, Photoshop and spray paint recently experimenting again with acrylic paint.  On paper her illustrations feature sayings that make her smile and drawings that challenge her skill while exploring what colour can do.

The work she creates on walls feature large faces, which lately have become more stylised. Jess likes to design these pieces using photoshops many features and filters to manipulate and over produce photos combining them with other textures in a digital collage design. The designs are then applied to walls using spray paint.

Hailing from a very creative family, Jess spent 2 years in BCFE in Dublin, graduated from the National College of Art and design with a Hons degree in Ceramic Design and a Post grad in Community Art education.

Although Jess has spent her life with a pencil in her hand she gave herself the street artist name of Novice. This is for two reasons. One was because when she chose a street art name she was very new to the media and scale. And two because as a creative person (and human) she believes in having to always be a novice, always learning, always discovering. Jess maintains that the longer she creates art the more she feels the need to learn or thinks that may be what getting older & wiser does to you.

Her favourite thing about being an artist is getting lost in creating art, facing the challenges and enjoying the wins along the way.

Saturday 3 August and Sunday 4 August

12.15pm Marmosets – Cello Folk Duo (both days)

Long-term artistic collaborators and friends Mary Barnecutt and Lioba Petrie gather some of their thoughts, melodies and musings in ‘ Marmosets’, a duo cello project that combines their humour, fury and love of a good folk tune into live performance. Including works from Hildegard Von Bingen, Swedish and Irish traditional dance tunes and original works. @liobap @marypigeons

13.15pm Dermot Dunne and Martin Tourish – Accordion Duo,  J S Bach: Goldberg Variations (both days)

Martin Tourish and Dermot Dunne present their own arrangement of the Goldbergs for 2 accordions which aims to bring alive the dance rhythms which permeate the variations and invite you to dance along or tap your foot to this most uplifting and joyous of masterpieces! martintourishmusic.com

2.15pm Méabh McKenna – Harp and Voice (both days)

Utilising the harp, voice, electronics and percussion, Méabh McKenna is a multi-instrumental sound artist based in Dublin city. Drawing on years of experimentation and collaboration, her live performances have evolved from traversing the eclectic worlds of traditional, classical, and early music, intuitively weaving them with contemporary and electronic elements. Her solo project forges a soundworld of mycelial improvisation and memory, connecting the ancient with the futuristic to make a music of resonance and reflection that’s entirely her own. @meabh.mckenna

3.15 Saturday 3August   –O’Kelly, Roche, Whyte Trio

Cathal Roche – saxes, Darragh O’Kelly – keys, Derek Whyte – bass

Together they are one half of ‘The Dirty Jazz Club’. The members have a collective playing history of over twenty years. All members have been part of some of the most important contemporary Irish jazz groups in recent times. Expect experimental versions of both well known and more avant garde compositions

Sunday 4 August 3.15pm:  O’Kelly, Roche, Whyte Trio

Barry McCormack – guitar, Derek Whyte – bass, Shane O’ Donovan – drums

Barry McCormack and Derek Whyte have been playing as a guitar/bass duo every week since the beginning of 2024. They have created a great understanding and cohesion in their approaches to improvisation and traditional jazz. They will be joined by one of the great Irish drummers, Shane O’ Donovan. Together they will perform energetic renditions of Bebop, traditional and Bossa classics.

Drawing Out of Doors

We invite you to look around you and sketch what you see! Draw from the Life Model and our artists have plenty of ideas and tips too for capturing nature, the outdoors, streetscapes and more. Drawing is a great way to discover more about the world around you.

Embossed and Screen Print-Making

Our artists will show you how to create a beautiful embossed print or a screen print by pressing simple shapes onto special paper. Look for inspiration in the patterns around you or from nature when composing your ideas.

‘Make Your Mark’ Pop Up installation

Join us to celebrate the outdoors by making your own mini artwork inspired by the idea of ‘what the outdoors means to you’.  Maybe it is playing outside, or riding your bike, taking your dog for a walk, enjoying the seaside or being in awe of ever changing skies, we would love to see your creation on a mini canvas measuring only 8.5cms x 6cms!

When finished, add your mini canvas to an every growing pop up installation in the Gallery’s Sculpture Hall!

Insect and paper blossoms Art Activity

We will use a variety of techniques to recreate some beautiful insect and paper blossoms!

“In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”

Pablo Picasso

Quiet Space at Art and the Outdoors

Location: Gallery 6, inside Hugh Lane Gallery

Seek quiet drawing in our drop-in still life gallery.

We will have clip boards and paper, drawing pencils, colouring pencils and crayons. In this quiet space we can sit for as long as we want and draw a sea themed and a forest themed sill life.   This is a room with white walls and wooden benches. We can find this space off the Sculpture Hall on the ground floor. There will be an artist there to help us if we need anything.

One parent/guardian must stay with children.

Seek time alone in the outdoor Sensory Unit.

Location in an enclosed unit outside the Gallery.

Dublin City Council’s mobile outdoor sensory unit is built for individuals with sensory processing differences. This space is for one child accompanied by one parent/guardian. There are time slots that can be booked online.

This is an enclosed unit with soft, blue padded walls and floors, bubble units and low colourful lights. There will be an artist there to help us if we need anything.

One parent/guardian must stay with children. 

Saturday 3 August

1-15pm Katie Donovan

Katie Donovan has published six books of poetry, all with Bloodaxe Books. “May Swim” was launched, appropriately, in May of this year. “Off Duty” (2016) was shortlisted for the “Irish Times”/Poetry Now Prize. In 2017, Katie received the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry. Her work has appeared in many anthologies, including the best-selling “Staying Alive” series, and she has given readings all over Ireland and abroad. In April her poem “Winter Heroes” was chosen for Poetry Day Ireland, appearing on trains and in libraries to celebrate the theme of “Good Sports”.

Saturday 3 August, 2024

2.-2.15pm Rafael Mendes is a Brazilian migrant poet with upcoming work in Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Propel Magazine. He has been selected for Poetry Ireland’s 2023 Introduction Series and was awarded the Irish Writers Centre/Tyrone Guthrie Centre Lacuna Bursary 2023.

Sunday 4 August 2024

1-1.15pm Enda Wyley

Enda Wyley was born in Dublin and has published six collections of poetry, from her debut Eating Baby Jesus, (1993 ), through to Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems, (2014), and her most recent, The Painter on his Bike (2019 ). A seventh collection, Through the Window, is due 2025. Awards include the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, Melbourne University and she is a recipient of a Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship for Poetry. She has been widely broadcast, translated and anthologised, including in The Harvard Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry and Lines of Vision, The National Gallery of Ireland. Her books for children include, I won’t Go to China! Boo and Bear and The Silver Notebook, O’Brien Press. She co-hosts the podcast Books for Breakfast, about books and writing. Enda is a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of artists. ‘Enda Wyley is a true poet.’ The Irish Times.

2-2.15pm David Nash 

David Nash, born 1985, is a poet and translator from County Cork. His pamphlet, The Islands of Chile, came out in 2022 with 14poems, and his first full collection, No Man’s Land, was published by Dedalus Press in 2023. The latter won the Seamus Heaney Prize in 2024, and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Listowel Pigott Prize. He lives between Ireland and Chile.

In conjunction with Poetry Ireland