Representing Dublin in Art

One Dublin One Book event. Free. Booking essential.

Take a seat, surrounded by Ireland’s foremost public collection of contemporary and modern art, for a lecture on the art of Dublin. This illustrated talk will explore the wide range of artists in the Hugh Lane Gallery’s collection who were inspired by life, topography, landscape, buildings and people of Dublin. From Walter Osborme’s evocative paintings of the area around St Patrick’s cathedral to Christo’s proposed wrapped walkways project for St Stephen’s Green and more recently Mairead O’hEocha’s painting Antelope, Natural History Museum, Dublin be inspired by the city of Dublin in this illustrated talk led by Dr Anne Cormican.