Seamus Murphy RHA

Workshops in stone carving and dry stone walling take place on 18 & 19 July '26 at Mountcharles, Donegal.

Photo: detail of cross, Glesnevin cemetery.

Good luck to the BAVA Sherkin graduating class of 2026, currently busy installing their graduate exhibitions. And all-island installation of artwork can be viewed on Sherkin Island from 16 and 17 May, followed by a group show at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre 23 May to 13 June.

NATIONAL DRAWING DAY EVENT🖋️

Join artist Avril O’Brien at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Fitzgerald’s Park on Saturday 16 May for a National Drawing Day workshop in collaboration with Sample-Studios!

Two sessions will run from 10am–11am and 11:15am–12:15pm. Taking place in the Sample-Studios Gallery during House of Memory, a solo exhibition by Gibson Travelling Fellowship Award recipient Basil Al-Rawi, the session invites you to view works by past award winners and create your own drawing responses. Avril will guide you through observing and responding to artworks with a focus on close looking and experimentation.

Open to young adults and adults of all levels, this free workshop has limited spaces. To read more and reserve your space, visit the link in the comments below!



CAG.2033 John O'Leary, Statue - Crawford School of Art, c.1957, ink on paper, 16.50 x 12.00 cm. Presented, 2002

Our Lady of Fatima in the grounds of Holy Cross RC Church 1949

Prep time for our End of Year Exhibition ‘and AND &’ at Douglas Street Campus. Opening: 22nd May 2026.
Hands piece by Shauna Smith & work in background by Lily Nix - both are Art Craft Design QQI Level 5 students.

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Credit image: T. Cadogan

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Cha and Miah On the Western Road

Evie Hone was born in 1894 into a Dublin family long associated with the arts in Ireland.

Hone did not let the childhood illness and accident which led to her paralysis curtail her artistic career. Instead, she allowed it to encourage her inner spiritual quest which in turn, influenced and enlivened her art.

Her trips across Europe in search of medical treatment also encouraged her love and study of art, which took her from her home city of Dublin to London, Paris and beyond. She studied under several notable Cubist painters and exhibited her paintings in a variety of solo and joint exhibitions across Europe.

Hone’s lively, figurative, and representational style led her to the study of stained glass in the early 1930s.

After a rejection from Dublin’s stained glass co-operative studio An Túr Gloine, she moved to London to work with and learn from fellow Irish artist Wilhelmina Geddes at Mary Lowndes’ The Glass House. Here, she successfully translated her Cubist, expressionist art into the medium of glass, and found a style between early medieval and modernist styles.

This style is evident in her studio piece in The Stained Glass Museum's collection 'Christ meets Veronica' (c.1950)

Evie Hone is believed to have made some 150 small stained glass panels during her lifetime, though less than a quarter have survived. This rare panel is thought to be perhaps part of a projected series depicting the Stations of the Cross, mediations on the last days of Christ's life.

It was possible made about the time Hone was painting a set of Stations of the Cross for the Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Kiltullagh, Co. Galway, Ireland. These were exhibited in Dublin before being installed in 1947. The panel was once thought to depict 'Christ meeting his mother', the fourth Station of the Cross. It is remarkably different from Hone's version at Kiltullagh and it more than likely a design made after the work of the French painter Georges Rouault (1871-1958) who Hone revered.

From the 1940s, she worked from her own studio in Marlay Park, Dublin where she produced some of her finest work, including windows for several large churches across Ireland. Her best-known work is the enormous eighteen-light window depicting the Crucifixion and the Last Supper for Eton College Chapel (1949-52)