'Force Fields' - Current Exhibition Drawings, Paintings and Assembled Pieces by Lian Callaghan

Click here to view Lian's Press Release

Greg Murray... What a man!!

In a TV3 interview last night Nell McCafferty spoke very highly of our very own Greg Murray....

Happy Birthday Lian!

One of our Staff Artists, Lian Callaghan is celebrating a very special birthday today! Lian is a multi-media artist with a wide variety of skills and heaps of talent! Her main focus these days is animal portraiture and living willow sculpture, in which she runs workshops.

Lian's exhibition, entitled 'Force Fields' opens in Signal next Tuesday 27th April and runs until Sunday 9th May.

Good luck Lian and a very Happy Birthday!

Wicklow Arts Festival 2010

The 7th annual Wicklow Arts Festival is just around the corner and will run over four days, from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th May. It will be packed with events for all the family with old favourites making a return alongside new and exciting projects fresh for 2010.

Check out the Wicklow Arts Festival website for further information

ART HISTORY WEBSITE

http://www.smarthistory.org/

This is a super duper art history website. Carmel Fitzgerald, a member of Signal Art Society and art historian (for you Bray residents, Carmel gives fabulous art history lectures at Bray Institute for Further Education, Novara Road) put me on to this. I will be posting dates and times of Carmel's lectures in September.

Signals Book Club

The book club has been running for the last 10 months, meeting once a month in Signal, it has proved to be very interesting. We have lost people and gained some new ones along the way. It is a serious book club, so no alcohol involved, but yet it is a bit of fun. This picture is only half the members and we are always happy to meet new book lovers.

Oscar Night at Signal!

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Always looking for ways to entertain ourselves, Signal staff settled in for a movie marathon night on Good Friday! Oscar winning films were the order of the evening, the line-up decided in advance by Signal's many movie buffs and critics. Pizzas and popcorn were in abundance and a very enjoyable night was had by all!

Murder on the S.S. Titania

Last September the Signal Gang, decided to run away to the country and carry out our own murder mystery weekend… What a sight! What a laugh! We had Denis as red-hot diva Carrie Uso, Vincent as dare devil Vic Tory-Role, Penny as scorned wife Honor My-Owne, Anne-Marie as crime writer Agatha Sotherby, Karen as fat-walleted Bjorn Riche, Susan as gambling Lord Lootem, Claire as the pompous Cher Nell and Róisín, as the alcoholic ship’s doctor, Dr. Perce Scription. Moto-Jito, aka Greg, directed proceedings. Needless to say it was a to-be-repeated, laugh-a-minute success!

More photos and video to follow!

The Dublin Painting and Sketching Club's 132nd Exhibition

The Club was formed in October 1874, its aims were 'to bring together artists, amateurs and others interested in art and the holding of public exhibitions.' In the 21st century these aims remain in place. At the Annual exhibition 300 works are presented by our eighty members.

Among the exhibitors are Signal Arts Society members Cabrini Lynch and Yanny Petters.

The Concourse Gallery
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Hall
12th to 25th April 2010

Opening Hours:
10am - 5pm, Monday - Saturday
11am - 5pm on Sundays
Admission free

See The Dublin Painting and Sketching Club website for further details

Barbara O'Meara's 'By the Simple Action of Water ' at The Cockleshell Gallery

Signal Arts Society member Barbara O'Meara is currently having a solo exhibition at The Cockleshell Gallery, Duncannon Fort, Co. Wexford.

The exhibition, entitled 'By the Simple Action of Water', runs until April 28th. Read more at irishartblog.com or view Barbara's web gallery on the Signal Arts Centre website.

Painting in Oils course by Conall McCabe

Painting in Oils (Still Life, Portraits, Landscape) Expert step by step instruction by Conall McCabe HND, BA, MFA (New York Academy of Art).



Course commences April 26th and runs until June 14th.
7pm to 9pm every Monday at Signal Arts Centre.
€150 (8 sessions) Paint supplied.
Places are limited to eight so early booking is advisable.
Contact Conall on 087 9702173.

Painting Weekend with Yanny Petters

Join Yanny in the Burren for the beautiful scenery and a bit of painting and relaxation. 2 day course (14th to 16th May) with Yanny Petters (Oils or Acrylics).

For further details check out The Burren Painting Centre website.

The Burren Painting Centre, Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Phone: 065-7074208/065-7074208
Fax: 065-7074435
Website: www.burrenpaintingcentre.com
E-mail: info@burrenpaintingcentre.com

'A Song of Parting' - Current Exhibition of Sculptures and Paintings by Alannah Robins

Exhibition runs from Tuesday 13th April to Sunday 25th April
Opening Reception: Friday 16th April 6.30-8.30pm

Click here to view Alannah's Press Release

A Walk in the Woods by Greg Tierney

Signal Arts Society member Greg Tierney is currently having an exhibition at The Courthouse Arts Centre in Tinahely, Co. Wicklow. The exhibition is entitled 'A Walk in the Woods' and it is on view until Sunday 18th April.

For more information go to www.gtierney.com
or www.walkinthewoods2010.com

Become a fan of Greg Tierney's Paintings on Facebook

Bray Arts Journal - April 2010

Bray Arts was founded in 1996. It is a forum for both arts practitioners and anyone with an interest in the arts.
Click the image above to read their latest journal.

BRAY WRITER O.R. MELLING

 

The Book of Dreams


The paperback edition of The Book of Dreams (revised edition) is now out in America and amazon.com. It's another beautiful shiny edition published by Harry N Abrams Inc, New York. Here's what the American Library Association's Booklist said: "a satisfying conclusion to a fascinating romantic series steeped in folklore and archetypal questions of identity, love, family, and shared connections across time and cultures."

For your young adult readers check out the website
http://www.ormellling.com/

Amazing Sand Art by Ukrainian Artist

Click the image above to watch YouTube video.

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

'Absence, Heart, Fonder' - Current Exhibition of Paintings by Aoife Hand

Click here to view Aoife's Press Release

SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE MOVIE NIGHT! APRIL 23

Date: Friday 23rd April

Time: 7:30pm sharp!

Price: €5 per ticket

SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE STAFF BIRTHDAYS!!!

Happy Birthday to Aoife and Lian. Aoife's birthday is April 14 and Lian's Birthday is April 23.

Aoife Fitzgerald
Aoife is one of our Staff Artists and is involved in a number of projects at Signal including the organisation of the Life Drawing Sessions at Signal.

Lian Callaghan

Lian is one of our Staff artists and has been involved in many projects including the Willow Project recently shown on this Blog.

SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE 'ART IN CONTEXT' NATIONAL CULTURE NIGHT

Signal Arts Centre are looking for artists to participate in an 'Art in Context' in Bray town as part of National Culture Night held on Friday 24th September 2010. Art in Context will also coincide with other Signal events including an artist led tour, a Festival of Light, artist talks and more.

Through Art in Context, Signal would like to highlight a broad range of visual arts practice in the region and encourage artists to avail of the heightened level of publicity connected to National Culture Night to raise the profile of their own work. We are interested in the participation of artists working in a range of mediums, from the material to the ephemeral.

We hope that these and other events organised by different organisations will bring a festival atmosphere to the town.

Brief:
It is preferable that the work be site specific or responds to the context in which it is placed. The exact locations of the work have yet to be finalised but it is thought that sites will include disused and operational business premises and also public spaces within Bray town centre.

We would encourage artists to engage in the selection of location for their work. Members of our organising team are in contact with the Bray Chamber of Commerce and Bray Council and will make themselves available to negotiate the proposed space and project with the relevant parties.

Please bear in mind that this is for ONE NIGHT ONLY so therefore the work should be capable of being put up in one day and taken down the following day.

Also there are no funds available for this so please consider your costs and feasibility of the proposal.

Initial proposals of ideas should be marked for the attention of Noel Cleary, Signal Art Centre, 1 Albert Avenue, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

The only limits are your imagination and ingenuity!

STEPHEN MCKEE AT TINAHELY COURTHOUSE

Stephen McKee one of our Signal Art Society members is having a solo exhibition at the Courthouse Arts Centre in Tinahely, Co. Wicklow. Congratulations Stephen!



Opening Sunday 25th April 2010, 3-5pm

The Courthouse Arts Centre,

Tinahely, Co. Wicklow,

Phone : + 353 402 38529

Box Office : bookings@tinahely-courthouse.ie