SIRIUS

SIRIUS is an arts centre in Cobh, County Cork. SIRIUS approaches art through the lens of society. SIRIUS creates focused, artist-driven projects and collaborative, community-oriented projects. SIRIUS facilitates the production and presentation of, and public engagement with, art and knowledge, and offers professional development opportunities to artists through commissions and residencies. SIRIUS operates across all art forms – visual, performing, live, film, sound, vocal, written and born-digital – programming a mix of exhibitions, performances, events, activities and publications, both on site and online. SIRIUS plays a civic role locally and beyond in Ireland.


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Image: Brian O'Doherty (a.k.a. Patrick Ireland), One, Here, Now, 1995-96, installation view, SIRIUS

Gormley’s Fine Art, Belfast

Gormleys Fine Art is one of Ireland's leading art galleries, specialising in original painting and sculpture.
With galleries in Dublin and Belfast we offer a varied and vibrant programme of solo and group exhibitions throughout the year, showcasing the best in Irish art by established and emerging artists. 
Gormleys also attend national and international art fairs, curate major external exhibitions and reach out to our international customers through our website.

For more information about Gormleys, our artists and details of upcoming exhibitions please visit www.gormleys.ie.

Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin

Gormleys Fine Art is one of Ireland's leading art galleries, specialising in original painting and sculpture.
With galleries in Dublin and Belfast we offer a varied and vibrant programme of solo and group exhibitions throughout the year, showcasing the best in Irish art by established and emerging artists. 
Gormleys also attend national and international art fairs, curate major external exhibitions and reach out to our international customers through our website.


For more information about Gormleys, our artists and details of upcoming exhibitions please visit www.gormleys.ie.
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Image: Peter Monaghan: Aurum II, gold leaf on perspex, 79 x 79 cm

Cork Film Centre Gallery

Cork Film Centre Gallery is Ireland’s first dedicated video art gallery. It works to showcase and support Irish and international film and video artists. This gallery has grown from Cork Film Centre’s consistent involvement with video art over the course of two decades of facilitating artists in both production and exhibition.

Project Space at PP/S

Pallas Projects/Studios is a programming and resource organisation dedicated to the facilitation of artistic production and discourse, via the provision of affordable artists studios in the city centre, and a curated exhibition programme. PP/S addresses the necessity of providing space for artistic production and exhibition, and foregrounds the role of the project as a constant agent of discourse and transformation. Indeed, Pallas Projects is an umbrella label for a variety of spaces, exchanges, off-site projects, exhibitions, talks, resource programmes and publications conceived of and put into practice over a seventeen-year period.

Pallas Projects collaborates with artists, curators and writers to engage and develop current Irish contemporary art, through solo projects by Irish and international artists, alongside occasional thematic group exhibitions, and initiated exchanges with artists’ groups around Ireland and abroad. The ongoing project, with collaborators numbering well into the hundreds, has included exhibitions/performances by Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Manon De Boer, Brendan Earley, Clodagh Emoe, Alicia Frankovich, Martin Healy, Jesse Jones, Gereon Krebber, Niamh McCann, Nathaniel Mellors, Garrett Phelan, John Smith, Stephanie Syjuco, Hito Steyerl, and Mark Titchner.

PP/S is dedicated to providing a constant space for artistic production and exhibition in Dublin, via an alternative art methodology and DIY work ethic. With the backdrop of an unwillingness of developers to allow for the provision of a long-term cultural aspect to the regeneration of city-centre areas throughout the boom years, PP/S has been searching, inhabiting, and fighting to maintain as many as eight semi-permanent locations since 1996, and many more temporary offsite exhibition/project scenarios. These have included a four-year exhibition programme in a semi-derelict block of council flats, a white cube space in a former milking parlour, and collaborative projects with/in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin Docklands; Fire Station Artists’ Studios; The Red Stables; The Model, Sligo; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; 126, Galway; The Black Mariah, Cork; Project 304, Bangkok; Sub-Urban Video Lounge, Rotterdam; Auto Italia South East, London; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. A stubborn willingness to adapt and transform has enabled the project to both maintain and change, providing a fluid continuity within a difficult context.

Now relocated to a long–term studio & project space in The Coombe. Our new complex is an open space dedicated to the making and showing of visual art to a wide and diverse audience. Via exhibitions, talks and tours, all are welcome and encouraged to engage with our programme of contemporary art and artist­–led practices.

Atypical Gallery

Showcasing artwork by disabled and deaf artists since 1993, Atypical Gallery is the only permanent exhibition space on the island of Ireland dedicated specifically to highlighting the work of disabled and deaf artists. Atypical Gallery provides a welcoming, accessible environment for both emerging and established artists practising across the visual arts spectrum.


As well as providing an exciting and challenging programme of visual arts exhibitions, the gallery also serves as a forum for the education and discussion of disability-led art and culture. Beginning in 2018, Atypical Gallery will host a series of talks, screenings, readings and events around disability art, contemporary practice, socially engaged and participatory art, and disability-led art and curation.
Our aim is to broaden public perceptions of disabled and deaf art practice, to champion excellence in visual arts practice, and to support and encourage the professional development and acceptance of disabled and deaf artists in Northern Ireland.

Castletown House

Castletown is Ireland's largest and earliest Palladian style house. Built between 1722 and 1729 for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the wealthiest commoner in Ireland. The façade was almost certainly designed by the Italian architect, Alessandro Galilei, while the Irish architect Sir Edward Lovett Pearce added the wings.

The house remained in the hands of the Speaker's descendants until 1965 when the house was purchased by a property developer Major Wilson. Fortunately the house was saved in 1967 when along with 120 acres of the demesne lands it was purchased by the Hon. Desmond Guinness, founder of the Irish Georgian Society for £93,000. The house was opened to the public in the same year and restoration work began, funded by the Irish Georgian Society and private benefactors. In 1979 care of the house passed to the Castletown Foundation, a charitable trust which was established to own, maintain and to continue the restoration of the house. In 1994 the house with the exception of the contents, was transferred to State care and it is now managed by the Office of Public Works. The transfer to State ownership has paved the way for a major programme of restoration and conservation work of the house and demesne lands. Through restoration, conservation, acquisition of parkland and development of visitor facilities, the long term objective is to preserve for future generations one of the most important houses in Ireland and one of significance in terms of European architectural heritage.

How to get to Castletown House
The house is located 20km from Dublin off the N4/M4 Sligo Road
From the M4, take exit 6 (R449 Celbridge West/Leixlip West Exit)
From the N7, take exit 4, Rathcoole, following R120 to Newcastle and R405 to Celbridge.

Please note that cars/ buses access is from the above entrance as the avenue from Celbridge is for pedestrian/bicycle access only. There is free parking for cars and coaches from Exit 6 off the M4 at Celbridge West.

GPS/SAT NAV Location: Latitude 53.355 and Longitude -6.53

Pedestrians can get the 67 bus from Merrion Square in the centre of Dublin to Celbridge main street and walk (approx. 15mins) along the historical lime avenue to the House through the parklands.
Please refer to Dublin Bus for bus times.

Opening Times:
Castletown House is open to the general public 10 am to 6pm (last admission to the house is at 4.45pm), Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays from the 15th March until the 31st of October 2013
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