All Eyes on Us
Saturday 18 November 2023 – Sunday 24 March 2024
![Victoria Russell, Portrait of Fiona Shaw (detail), 2002. © the artist | All Eyes on Us | Saturday 18 November 2023 – Sunday 24 March 2024 | Crawford Art Gallery | Image: Victoria Russell, Portrait of Fiona Shaw (detail), 2002. © the artist | head and bare-shoulders cropped painting of the actor looking straight at us; realistic, though the hair colour is pushed to jet black and colours are otherwise somewhat flattened; the background is bisected vertically behind the actor’s head; the top half is an uneven grey (uneven in part because of visible paint strokes), the lower area creamy white; the bisecting line is, à la Cezanne, not consistent – left and right parts are slightly but clearly out of whack Victoria Russell, Portrait of Fiona Shaw (detail), 2002. © the artist | All Eyes on Us | Saturday 18 November 2023 – Sunday 24 March 2024 | Crawford Art Gallery | Image: Victoria Russell, Portrait of Fiona Shaw (detail), 2002. © the artist | head and bare-shoulders cropped painting of the actor looking straight at us; realistic, though the hair colour is pushed to jet black and colours are otherwise somewhat flattened; the background is bisected vertically behind the actor’s head; the top half is an uneven grey (uneven in part because of visible paint strokes), the lower area creamy white; the bisecting line is, à la Cezanne, not consistent – left and right parts are slightly but clearly out of whack](https://dnote.website/wordpres2/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Victoria-Russell-Portrait-of-Fiona-Shaw-detail-2002.jpg)
This exhibition presents a salon-style hang of Crawford Art Gallery’s portrait collection in the heart of its historic building.
Each of the selected portraits meets the viewer’s gaze and returns it from the past. By turns unnerving and overwhelming, the exhibition asks what it is to encounter the scrutiny of the great luminaries, the forgotten, and the unknown? Do they still hold power? And do we meet ourselves?
Featured artworks include Victoria Russell’s Portrait of Fiona Shaw (2002), Murdo MacLeod’s Portrait of Roy Keane (2002), Sasha Kropotkin (c.1912) by Gerald Festus Kelly, and Thomas Pope-Stevens’ Portrait of Cooper Penrose (c.1765).
Image: Victoria Russell, Portrait of Fiona Shaw (detail), 2002. © the artist
Saturday 18 November 2023 – Sunday 24 March 2024
Emmet Place, Cork
Telephone: +353 21 4805042
Opening hours / start times:
Monday 10:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 17:00
Thursday 10:00 - 20:00
Friday 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday 10:00 - 17:00
Monday 10:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 17:00
Thursday 10:00 - 20:00
Friday 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday 10:00 - 17:00
Admission / price: Free