Art & Design

Dublin Gallery Weekend: It’s show and tell time at the capital’s contemporary art galleries

The inaugural Dublin Gallery Weekend, which will take place from November 10-12, features talks, tours and performances at ten of the city’s leading commercial galleries

Tara Murphy: ‘We want to build audiences so that we can have more people coming in and more people buying art’. Picture: Fergal Phillips

“Come and look, and be surprised or be taken off guard, or even dismiss it . . . but come and look!” is the invitation from Jerome O Drisceoil, director of Green On Red contemporary art gallery in Spencer Dock, Dublin. After all, he says, exploring contemporary art is “totally an adventure”.

As it happens, those who wish to heed O Drisceoil’s invitation to begin their adventures in contemporary art will find themselves spoiled for ...