What’s On

RHA Friends Offer

St Ann’s Church Recitals (every Thursday) – 20% discount for RHA Friends

St Ann’s Recitals are kindly offering the RHA Friends a 20% discount on tickets to its weekly lunchtime recitals - every Thursday, 1.20pm. This quality musical experience with top Irish ...

9 Sep - 23 Oct

Pluck @ RHA

‘From Pride in Diversity to Standing Fast: Exhibiting Queer Culture in OutArt 1996-2001’

Focusing on OutArt (1996-2001), this project explores the series of exhibitions that were organised by members of the LGBTQ+ community to build solidarity and explore queer practice.

9 Sep - 9 Oct

Elizabeth Archbold

Paint Moves

An exhibition of abstract paintings that are made through experimentation with multiple approaches to painting. There is an intuitive use of paint's inherent properties of flow, splatter, bulk, matt, sheen, ...

9 Sep - 23 Oct

Graphic Studio Dublin 60 Years

Founded in 1960 by artists Patrick Hickey, Leslie MacWeeney, Liam Miller, Elizabeth Rivers and Anne Yeats, Graphic Studio Dublin has been an integral part of the Irish visual arts landscape for the ...

9 Sep - 23 Oct

Ciarán Murphy

Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily

This exhibition brings together a number of Ciarán Murphy’s recent paintings, which present an unsettling array of things: strange landscapes, insects, birds, body parts, letters, architectural features and abstract shapes.

9 Sep - 23 Oct

Donald Teskey RHA

DECADE

DECADE explores Donald Teskey RHA’s painting career over the last ten years, a prolific period for the artist in which he has produced several significant artworks.

9 Sep - 23 Oct

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh ARHA

A selection of works from Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh ARHA on display in the RHA foyer

9 Sep - 23 Oct

Tuqa Al-Sarraj

Tuqa Al-Sarraj: Angelica Intervention @ RHA Gallery

The fifth and final in the series of Angelica Inventions at RHA Gallery, Tuqa Al-Sarraj, 'Freedom'.

14 Sep - 21 Dec

RHA School Course

Foundation Drawing

Applications are closed for the Autumn term. This module introduces specialised drawing methods dealing with the figure in space, accuracy through the use of gridding, plum lines and advanced anatomy.

14 Sep - 21 Dec

RHA School Course

Foundation Painting

Applications are closed for the Autumn term. This 15-week module course is open to students who wish to build on an existing skill base and extend their knowledge.

15 Sep - 22 Dec

RHA School Course

Mentored Drawing

Applications are closed for the Autumn term. This 15-week term aims to transition students from direct contact to full self-directed drawing practice.

16 Sep - 23 Dec

RHA School Course

Self-directed Life Drawing

Applications are closed for the Autumn term. This 15-week course offers an opportunity for professional artists and students to practice working from the live model in order to maintain a ...

24 Sep - 27 Sep

Masterclass

Alan Clarke: Sculpting the Figure

This workshop will offer the participant to sculpt, from life, a half-life-size standing figure.

On 28 Sep

RHA Learning

Graphic Studio Dublin – Seeing Irish modern and contemporary printmaking

Lecture with Dr Angela Griffith tracing the history of the original print in Ireland and Graphic Studio Dublin's place in that narrative.

On 1 Oct

RHA Learning

Kids Workshop in Response to Donald Teskey RHA Decade Exhibition

For this workshop with artist Michelle Hall, children will visit the exhibition DECADE to get inspiration for their own artworks experimenting with paints and textures.

2 Oct - 11 Dec

Art Therapy

RHA Art Therapy Taster Sessions

Try an Art Therapy taster session throughout October to December at RHA.

On 6 Oct

RHA Friends

Studio Tour and Print Demos in the Graphic Studio Dublin

The RHA Friends are invited on a tour and studio visit in the Graphic Studio Dublin, to see how original fine-art prints are made, including a demonstration showing copperplate etchings ...

On 6 Oct

RHA Talk

This Must Be The Place: Ciara Roche

The talks series broadly looks at how contemporary artists have used site and location as frameworks for research, installation and theme.

8 Oct - 9 Oct

Masterclass

Aidan Crotty: Mapping and painting the physical presence.

A two-day masterclass that will focus on decomposition and painting the found object.

13 Oct - 13 Nov

Conor Horgan

Post-State

Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker, Conor Horgan began working on Post-State in 2020 as he travelled around Ireland, building a series of relevant images that articulate how he imagines the island ...

On 13 Oct

RHA Friends

Tours of Donald Teskey RHA’s exhibitions ‘DECADE’ and ‘Paris Journal’

The RHA Friends are invited to exclusive, afternoon tours of Donald Teskey RHA's exhibitions 'DECADE' in the RHA and 'Paris Journal' in the Oliver Sears Gallery.

On 13 Oct

RHA Talk

This Must Be The Place: Fiona Whelan

The talks series broadly looks at how contemporary artists have used site and location as frameworks for research, installation and theme.

On 15 Oct

RHA Learning

Printmaking workshop with Clare Henderson and Graphic Studio Dublin

For ages 12 - 16.

On 15 Oct

RHA Learning

Making an Impression: Printmaking demo

With printmakers Ria Czerniak-LeBov and Clare Henderson, and Graphic Studio Dublin

On 19 Oct

RHA Friends

Protected: Artists’ Studio Visits in the IPUT/RHA Wilton Park Studios

The RHA Friends are invited to visit to the IPUT/RHA Wilton Park Studios, to meet studio members Gary Coyle RHA, Alan Butler and Siobhán O'Callaghan to view and discuss their ...

On 20 Oct

RHA Talk

This Must Be The Place: Dominique Crowley

The talks series broadly looks at how contemporary artists have used site and location as frameworks for research, installation and theme.

22 Oct - 23 Oct

Masterclass

Stephen Doyle: Drawing the Moving Body

This masterclass will examine how to incorporate the movement of the human figure from 2D images into a drawing.

On 27 Oct

RHA Talk

This Must Be The Place: Alan James Burns

The talks series broadly looks at how contemporary artists have used site and location as frameworks for research, installation and theme.

On 3 Nov

RHA Talk

This Must Be The Place: Michelle Malone

The talks series broadly looks at how contemporary artists have used site and location as frameworks for research, installation and theme.

On 6 Dec

RHA Friends

Protected: Director-led Tour of ‘In & Of Itself – Contemporary Abstraction’

The RHA Friends are invited to exclusive, RHA Director's tour with Patrick T. Murphy of 'In & Of Itself – Contemporary Abstraction' in the Gallagher Gallery, (Gallery I) at the ...

28 Jan - 30 Jan

Masterclass

Joanna Kidney: Digging Deeper

This workshop will cover a wide range of technical and intuitive processes involved with encaustic painting.