Brian Gallagher https://bdgart.com Illustrator Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:30:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.11 145th RUA Annual Exhibition https://bdgart.com/145th-rua-annual-exhibition/ https://bdgart.com/145th-rua-annual-exhibition/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:30:10 +0000 https://bdgart.com/?p=4003 The RUA exhibition opened in Belfast last weekend, I have one Scraperboard in the show.

Royal Ulster Academy of Arts>>
145th RUA Annual Exhibition

The 145th Annual Exhibition will run at the Ulster Museum, Belfast from October 2026 to January 2027

]]> https://bdgart.com/145th-rua-annual-exhibition/feed/ 0 Hunt Museum https://bdgart.com/hunt-museum/ https://bdgart.com/hunt-museum/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:07:14 +0000 https://bdgart.com/?p=3999 Great to hear that my Scraperboard has been selected by the Hunt Museum>> for their second annual open submission exhibition.

Opening Saturday, 5 December 2026.
Running from 6 December 2026 to 21 February 2026, the Open Submission Exhibition is free to visit.
The Custom House
Rutland Street, Limerick
V94 EV8A
@huntmuseum

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Watercolour Society of Ireland 171st annual exhibition>>

58 South William Street, 
Dublin 2, D02 X751
opening tomorrow
Running 12th to 26th October.

Mon – Sat : 10am-5pm
Sun : 12 – 5pm
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“Washing Day”

As this years Featured Artist I have my own set space and nine Scraperboards on view.

Please call in, the exhibition ends this Sunday…
Dublin Painting and Sketching Club>>
148th Annual Exhibition

Townhall, 1WML>>
1 Windmill Lane, Dublin 2, D02 F206
Opening Times
Monday 14th to Sunday 27th September 2026
Open Daily
Mon–Sat 10.30am to 4.30pm
Sun 12 noon to 4pm

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Culture Night takes place tonight.
I will be taking part tonight this evening along with Alan Keane and Laura Trueman, plus other artists doing portrait drawing demos.

Other events in the Club are-

Dining Room- Short Film and table top readings, Felix Morgan
Dante Room- Poetry Reading, Theresa Kearney
Chess Club demos- Malachy Hevehan 

Exhibition in Bar- Tom Mathews
Landing- Print Making, Marie-Louise Martin
Function Room- Alan Keane, Brian Gallagher and Laura Trueman, plus other artists portrait drawing
Function Room- Watercolour demo Kasper Zier
Function Room- Frank Spiers small pipes & Seamus Collins piano
Tours of the building-

Tonight, Friday 18 September · 6–9pm · Free entry
3 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, Dublin 2

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148th Annual Exhibition

Townhall, 1WML
1 Windmill Lane, Dublin 2, D02 F206

Please call in
Open late for Culture Night til 8pm

as the Featured Artist for this years exhibition I have a set space and number of works on view.

Opening Times
Monday 14th to Sunday 27th September 2026

Open Daily
Mon–Sat 10.30am to 4.30pm
Sun 12 noon to 4pm

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Dublin Painting and Sketching Club>>
148th Annual Exhibition

Sunday 13 September 2026, 
from 2pm
Townhall, 1WML
1 Windmill Lane, Dublin 2, D02 F206

To be opened by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Daryl Barron, between 2.30pm and 3pm.

This year I am very honoured to have been selected to be the Featured Artist for the Annual Exhibition.
Thank you to the Dublin Painting & Sketching Club Committee for giving me this great opportunity.

 

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I have this large illustration in todays Irish Times>>

Scraperboard portraits with colour added in Photoshop.

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I have this Scraperboard in the United Arts Club exhibition that opens this evening…

My piece is inspired by the poem-
The Stare’s Nest By My Window

W. B. Yeats

United Arts Club Members’

Summer Exhibition

To be officially opened
Thursday 2nd July 2026

at 7.30pm

Running
Thursday 2nd July

until Sunday 2nd August 2026

Viewing Times
11am to 5pm Monday
11am to 9pm Tuesday – Friday

5pm to 10pm Saturdays

3 Upper Fitzwilliam St
Dublin 2
01 6611411
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Dublin Rooftops.

Watercolour on Arches Paper with a little Gouache.

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