Last week of Roisin O'Farrell's Show.
Show ends this Thursday October 6th.
This is the last week of Roisin O'Farrell's show called ' Characters in their own Story' so if you haven't popped in yet, it is well worth the trip into the gallery before next Thursday. Also don't forget to click here to see the photos from the opening night and thank you to everyone who turned up to support Roisin in her first Dublin solo show, we hope you had a great night.
Culture night 2011
Roisin O’Farrell was the featured artist for culture night this year and she kindly agreed to paint LIVE in the gallery window all evening. Culture night was a huge success - we managed to get South Frederick Street closed off and we had a marquee outside with the Dr.Sketchy's Anti art Club hosting the events all evening. Dr.Sketchy’s has exploded into an international phenomenon. Started by Molly Crabapple, an artist and former model, as an alternative to the dull drawing classes she had posed for. In between poses the models interacted with the artists and attendees, selecting their favorite images, or best competition entries won an award such as cupcakes. Each act changed during the evening and included The Sedettes (Dance Troupe), The Orchids (Tribal Fusion Bellydance) and Fierce (AcroBalance/ Fire Performer) . MaSamba were great again this year as they marched from Grafton Street down to South Frederick Street which proved to be extremley popular.
Click here to view some of the images from the night.
The Doorway Gallery have become finalists in Dublin's best Art Gallery at The Dublin Living awards so please can you vote for us so we can become DUBIN'S FAVOURITE GALLERY!
Nutgrove Arts Fest
This is the last weekend at Nutgrove Arts Festival so if you haven't popped into the Nutgrove Gallery please do over the weekend! We were kindly asked to bring our gallery to Nutgrove Shopping centre for ten days as it was the first Arts Festival in Nutgrove. Nick Munier, Kevin McSherry and Padraig McCaul all painted LIVE during the Arts Festival and lots of entertainment took place - a great ten days!. Click here to see the images from Nutgrove.
The Affordable Art Fair
The Doorway Gallery are delighted to attend this year’s Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead, London October 26th – 30th.
About The Affordable Art Fair: When Will Ramsay founded the fair in 1999 his aim was to make contemporary art accessible to everyone, and to show you don’t need to be an art expert or a millionaire to enjoy and buy art. Ten years on The Affordable Art Fair is the leading showcase in the UK for contemporary art under £4,000 having welcomed over 430,000 visitors who have bought £73 million of art.
How did it all start? In 1996 Will opened Will’s Art Warehouse in south west London to bridge the increasing interest in contemporary art and the London gallery scene. By concentrating on relatively unknown artists not carrying a premium for reputation, the gallery was able to offer works from £50 – £2,500 from a stable of over 150 artists. The response to Will’s Art Warehouse encouraged Will to take his approach to the next level, and in October 1999 he launched the first Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park. 10,000 visitors took advantage of the ease of buying, breadth of choice, affordable prices and user-friendly approach.
AAF has also become something of a global phenomenon with fairs taking place in Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, New York and Singapore, while affiliate events include Sydney and Melbourne. Globally, 783,000 people have visited an Affordable Art Fair, buying over £123 million of art.
Please ask the gallery for free invites if you are interested in attending!
http://www.affordableartfair.com/hampstead/home/
We hope that everyone enjoyed all the events over the last month!