Featuring work by Varujan Boghosian, Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe, Micky Donnelly, Peter Hutchinson, Nevill Johnson, Stefan Kurten, Katie Ridley Murphy, Seoidín O’Sullivan, Joe Peragine, Jack Pierson, and Daphne Wright.

9 November 2019 – 1 March 2020

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While we’re waiting to reopen, and many of us are at home looking for creative projects to keep the kids occupied, we’re going to release some creative activity inspiration every week! The activities in our Home Studio series can be done by children of all ages, 5 to 105! Tag us on Social Media #HomeStudioBG

Colouring Pages, based on works from our Collection, are also available here.

Home Studio #1 To kick off the Home Studio series, we’re throwing it back to The Breadwinner Exhibition, the Cartoon Saloon collaborative exhibition we held in summer 2018. You can watch The Breadwinner on Netflix as a family, and then make some movie inspired art. #HomeStudioBG See the link to paper artwork tutorials by The Breadwinner animation artist Janis Aussel here:
Home Studio #2 Week 2 of the Home Studio series is a step-by-step to make…MASKS! Join artist Renata Pekowska in repurposing everyday household materials into a mask that can be used to create at-home theatre, tell stories or play pretend! #HomeStudioBG Watch the video here:
Home Studio #3 Week 3 of Home Studio series with Fala Buggy will give you lots of ideas for making paper sculptures at home. Try out these techniques, experiment and share your artworks with us! #HomeStudioBG Watch the video here:
Home Studio #4 This week, the Home Studio tutorial by Renata Pekowska is a magical, mystical Shadow Puppet Theatre! Make puppets, create a screen, use a lightsource and create your own Easter themed storylines. The materials are simple but the effects are awesome! Watch the video here:

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  Sir John Lavery (1856 – 1941)
Head of a Girl, Hazel, 1925 Download colouring page here

  Mainie Jellett (1897-1944)
Figures, 1936 Download colouring page here

  Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941)
A Tit-Bit Download colouring page here

  Percy F.Gethin (1874 – 1916)
Street Musicians Download colouring page here

  EJ Brennan
The Nore, 1882 Download colouring page here

  Edwin Hayes (1820-1904)
Untitled, 1842 Download colouring page here

Created by Paul Bokslag, Butler Gallery Learning & Public Engagement Artist Panel

See more activities on our Home Studio Series

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Glanbia PLC has received two pieces of artwork on loan to Glanbia House from the Butler Gallery as part of a partnership, which launched this week.

The pieces are hanging in two locations in the building and include a piece by Scottish-born artist Grace Henry – Tipperary Parrot – an oil on canvas, which hangs in the foyer location.

The second piece is a painting by Irish abstract landscape artist Patrick Collins – Man on a Country Road. This oil-on-board painting, which hangs outside the boardroom, is a typical representation of the broody style of the painter, who has exhibited in many of the world’s top galleries.

This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase these significant pieces of art at Glanbia House as part of a partnership with the Butler Gallery as they prepare to move to their new home. The Butler Gallery, which is currently located at Kilkenny Castle, is moving to Evans’ Home in Kilkenny City in spring 2020.

Director and Chief Curator of the Butler Gallery Anna O’ Sullivan, said that they are very excited about the new move which is a fantastic addition to Kilkenny’s cultural offering:

“We at Butler Gallery are delighted to renew our partnership with Glanbia this year with two important paintings by Grace Henry and Patrick Collins from the Butler Gallery collection going on view at Glanbia House in Kilkenny. We look forward to welcoming all Glanbia employees and their families to the Butler Gallery at Evans’ Home where they can enjoy our stunning new contemporary art gallery, view our permanent collection, stroll in our beautiful gardens, sample something delicious in our café, and check out opportunities to participate in creative workshops in our dedicated learning centre. With the support of Glanbia and the wider community we can ensure Butler Gallery thrives as a creative art space, breathing life back into Evans’ Home, one of Kilkenny’s most historic and iconic buildings.”

Speaking at the installation of the works at Glanbia House this week, Naoise Coogan, Corporate Communications Manager, said that she was excited to see the works hanging in Glanbia.

“We are privileged to have these two important works on display at our headquarters and we value the opportunity to showcase the artists of the Butler Gallery, which is on our doorstep here in Kilkenny. We look forward to visiting the new space when it opens in the spring and wish the Butler Gallery team the best of luck in this very exciting new venture.”

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Join Butler Gallery as we move to our new location, Evans’ Home this spring and become part of a dynamic, professional team dedicated to promoting and fostering the arts in Kilkenny & the South East.

We need volunteers to help with:

• Reception
• Exhibition invigilation
• Special Events
• General administration

We want to hear from you if:

• You enjoy being social
• You would like to be involved with a cultural organisation
• You would like to give back to the city of Kilkenny
• You can spare 4 or more hours per week

For further information please email Pauline at
pauline@butlergallery.com or contact us on 056 7761106.

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Workshop Dates:
Dates to be announced.

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A ticket fee of €5 per workshop applies.  If you need any further information, please call Pauline at 056 7761106. If you cannot contribute the ticket fee, please contact Pauline and we will waive this fee.

All bookings via Eventbrite here.

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Featuring work by Varujan Boghosian, Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe, Micky Donnelly, Peter Hutchinson, Nevill Johnson, Stefan Kurten, Katie Ridley Murphy, Seoidín O’Sullivan, Joe Peragine, Jack Pierson, and Daphne Wright.

9 November 2019 – 1 March 2020

The final exhibition in the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny Castle, A Most Favourable Soil looked to the botanical practice of grafting as a metaphor that links people, sites, land use, and production. The exhibition considered how each architectural iteration of the new Butler Gallery site has, since the twelfth century, utilised aspects of the physical fabric of the previous building. Thus, the stones of the St. John’s Priory, the first buildings that occupied the land, serve as a form of rootstock that has been blended with each new structure. This concept of grafting and melded creations not only emphasises the regeneration of the Evans’ Home site, but also has a strong connection to the history of orchards in the area. Prior’s Orchard, that stretched along the river in front of the priory’s property, is but one example.

The metaphor also draws connections to several individuals who were instrumental in the making of the alms house. The architect for the Evans’ Home, William Robertson, was related to a late 18^th/early 19^th century Kilkenny nurseryman, John Robertson. The title of the exhibition is from John Robertson’s writing on orchards that suggests a location on the bank of a river and a strong loam as the most favourable soil. The fertile land along the east side of the river Nore will now bring cultural growth into fruition.

The layout of the exhibition first offers an overview of the related histories of the current Butler Gallery site and the new one. It then touches on the building that will become the new Butler Gallery, the Evans’ Home, suggesting the layered histories of the male and female residents. The show returns to the metaphor of grafting and blended growth in the final room, anticipating the beauty, collaboration, and rich content of the new museum. The exhibition features work by Varujan Boghosian, Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe, Micky Donnelly, Peter Hutchinson, Nevill Johnson, Stefan Kurten, Katie Ridley Murphy, Seoidin O’Sullivan, Joe Peragine, Jack Pierson, and Daphne Wright.

Selvage is a curatorial collective from the USA that includes Julia Brock, Teresa Bramlette Reeves and Kirstie Tepper. Their practice reveals and visualizes alternative narratives and history. With a strong commitment to service, they work with partners to identify a particular need and research focus that allows for discovery on both sides of the partnership. In examining the past they rewrite future understanding of a time and place and embrace nostalgia as a form of knowledge rather than sentimental longing. The collective works in the borderland of fact, hearsay, and fiction, wherein one finds multiple voices and stories to share.

With thanks to the Arts Council for essential annual funding and to the OPW, Department of Social Protection and Kilkenny Local Authorities for additional assistance.

Special thanks are extended to the team at IMMA.

Download A Most Favourable Soil Exhibition booklet here.

Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
t: + 353 56 7761106  e: info@butlergallery.com  www.butlergallery.com

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We are thrilled with the result and would like to say a very sincere and heartfelt thank you to Whyte’s Auctioneers who have been amazingly supportive and generous. We also want to give a giant HUG and massive thanks to all the artists who donated work for sale, and to everyone who placed bids online, by phone, and who came in person to support us. We couldn’t have done it without you all and we are now another step closer to the reality of moving into Evans’ Home.

A big big thanks to all from all the staff and board of the Butler Gallery. For info about Evans’ Home see http://www.butlergallery.com/evanshome/

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The Butler Gallery is honoured to present a group of works that were recently donated to the gallery’s Permanent Collection under a cultural bequest from the estate of Seán and Rosemarie Mulcahy. This special group of works include small sculptures by Eilis O’Connell and Ian Stuart, works on paper by Nathaniel Hone, Cecil King, James O’Nolan, Tony O’Malley, Camille Souter, Donald Teskey, and paintings by Basil Blackshaw, Hughie O’Donoghue, Nano Reid and Bennie Reilly and a photograph of the glamourous couple by Amelia Stein.  Seán and Rosemarie were avid collectors and lived in an art filled home on Leeson Park in Dublin. They attended many openings here at the Butler Gallery over their lifetime and had friends and family living in Kilkenny where they visited often.

Bernice Harrison wrote in The Irish Times in September, 2018: “As a couple they were well known figures in the city’s art and heritage circles. Rosemarie was an internationally renowned Spanish art specialist and a popular professor at UCD. Her unusual career trajectory began when, while a teenage student in Spain, she started modelling for Balenciaga, a career that then took her to Paris. Returning to Dublin on the death of her father, she modelled for couturier Ib Jorgensen, and it was during one of his fashion shows that she caught the eye of engineer (and later artist) Seán Mulcahy.  The pair married and entertained artists, academics and writers in their Leeson Park home, which they filled with art, colour and decorative objects picked up on their travels. Rosemarie died suddenly in 2012, while in her 70s and on her way to her flamenco class; Seán, who lived on into his 90s, died in 2018.”

Seán Mulcahy was both an engineer and an artist and exhibited in Ireland, Scotland and the USA and this bequest includes a work by him entitled Placescape IX from an exhibition he had at the Oliver Cornet Gallery in 2012. It shows landscapes inside worlds of textured colour that are composed and controlled.

Seán Mulcahy (1926-2018) had an important international practice that included partnerships with Jorgen Varming for most of his working life. His impressive engineering career spanned almost the entire second half of the 20^th century from the post-war years right up to the early dawn of the Celtic Tiger era. He was involved with many notable buildings including Ireland’s first major post-war building Aras Mhic Dhiarmada, better known today as Busaras, the Chester Beatty Library, Coventry Cathedral, St. Catherine’s College, Sydney Opera. Mulcahy enjoyed strong working relationship with architects and was acknowledged at the end of his career with Honorary membership of The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland/RIAI.

Rosemarie Mulcahy (née Scully) (1943-2012) had an enduring relationship with UCD, graduating with a BA in 1973 and later teaching an annual module in the Department of History of Art (now the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy). At the time of her death she was Adjunct Professor in Art History, a role she had fulfilled for a year. Described by colleagues as a “generous and popular teacher”, she was also a Visiting Professor in Renaissance Studies at Smith College, Northampton, US in 2009. Rosemarie was a distinguished ambassador for Spain in Ireland and was an authority on Spanish art both in Spain and internationally. She published in the Burlington Magazine, Apollo and Archivo Español de Arte, and is the author of the catalogue Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland and Navarrete el Mudo, Pintor de Felipe II. She was an honorary associate of the Hispanic Society of America, an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and an honorary senior fellow in the Department of the History of Art in University College Dublin.

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September 5th, 2019

For information, please contact:
Anna O’Sullivan, Director, Butler Gallery director@butlergallery.com / 056 7761106 / 087 9789854
Rebecca Reynolds, Development Director, Butler Gallery rebecca@butlergallery.com / 056 7761106 / 086 1719467

A rare opportunity to acquire seminal works by dozens of Irish artists in support of Butler Gallery’s transformative move to the historic Evans’ Home is upcoming at Dublin’s RDS on Monday September 16th, 2019.

The auction, in association with Whyte’s as part of their Irish & International Auction will take place at approximately 8.00pm following Whyte’s sale commencing at 6pm. The Butler Gallery sale includes donations from the estates of Barrie Cooke and Tony O’Malley and from artists Paul Mosse, Dorothy Cross, Vera Klute, Amelia Stein, Anita Groener, Eithne Jordan, Fergus Martin, Caroline McCarthy, Nick Miller, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Mairead O’hEocha, Eamon O’Kane, Sonia Shiel, Atsushi Kaga and many more.

The sale includes work of various forms including photography, paintings, drawings, sculpture and mixed media, so there is something for all contemporary art lovers across a broad price range. Butler Gallery and Whyte’s are encouraging all budding collectors and art lovers to come along and find a hidden gem!  Butler Gallery Director Anna O’Sullivan said, “We are very grateful to have such support from so many important Irish artists, many of whom have exhibited with us over the years, and from Whyte’s who we are delighted to collaborate with and who are being so generous in donating their commission”.

According to Ian Whyte, Managing Director of Whyte’s “this will be an exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire quality works created by contemporary Irish artists while supporting the Butler Gallery, an important cultural space in the historic city of Kilkenny”.

Proceeds from the auction will help support Butler Gallery’s current €250k capital campaign to move its gallery from Kilkenny Castle to the historic Evans’ Home, on Barrack Lane in the heart of Kilkenny’s cultural quarter.

Click here to view the online catalogue

To bid online see bid.whytes.ie and invaluable.com
Click here for information on how to bid online

WHYTE’S IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL AUCTION: Monday 16 September 2019, starting at 6pm
BUTLER GALLERY SALE: Starts 8.00pm approximately
VIEWING: Saturday to Monday 14-16 September, 10am to 6pm daily
VENUE: Royal Dublin Society Exhibition Centre (RDS) Hall 6, Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

For information, please contact:
Anna O’Sullivan, Director, Butler Gallery director@butlergallery.com / 056 7761106 / 087 9789854
Rebecca Reynolds, Development Director, Butler Gallery rebecca@butlergallery.com / 056 7761106 / 086 1719467

Click here to view the online catalogue

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