Artists: Annika Berglund, Miriam McConnon, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Kelly Ratchford, Sheila Naughton, David Fox, Nickie Hayden, Mary A Fitzgerald, Vicky Smith and many invited artists such as Jaki Coffey, Cecilia Moore, Mary Moorkens, Sorca O’Farrell, Maggie Wright, Leila Pedersen, Padhraig Nolan, Myra Jago, Joe Dunne (RHA), Desmond Kenny, Bart O’Reilly, Colin Eaton, Alan Keane, Daniel Lipstein and Mo Roantree

The show will run in our main exhibition space until 21 September. It will then move to our ‘Artist’s Booth’ from Culture Night onwards.

“1515?” Ask any French adult and they will automatically answer ‘Marignan’ even if younger generations might not be able to explain that it was at the Battle of Marignano in September 1515 that the French, led by the newly-crowned King Francis I, won against the Swiss, conquering Milan. That battle is often seen as the start of the Renaissance in France.

Dates and numbers mean different things to different people. Did you know that it was in 1515 that Albrecht Dürer produced his very famous Rhinoceros woodcut. Valerius Cordus, German physician, botanist and author was born that year and so was Lucas Cranach the Younger, a German Renaissance painter and portraitist. Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun, poet and saint was also born that year. It was also in that year that ‘The State of Ireland and plan for its reformation’ was published. That year Bartolomé de las Casas urged Ferdinand II of Aragon to end Amerindian slavery and recommended experimental free towns… That year Jews were expelled from Laibach Austria and 500 Swiss women were burned as witches…

The Olivier Cornet Gallery has invited its stable of artists and 20 guest artists to create a work in association with that year (or number), what it means to them, following their own research. The importance of dates evolves with the course of history, who knows -in this ever changing world- which dates from the past will be considered defining moments in the future…

The works have to be 15x15cm in size and will be priced at €150 each.

The show will move to our 150x150cm Artist’s Booth (our new micro-exhibition space) on 20 September as we will be installing Miriam McConnon’s new solo show, The Refugee’s Armour, in the main exhibition space.

For Culture Night (on 22 September), visitors will be able to see both shows.

About the Artist’s Booth: A small exhibition space we are launching on Culture Night 2023 which will be available to artists based on an application process.