Young Creatives – Creative Paths – Create! Crinniú na nÓg 2024 12.00-2.00pm   If you are enjoying a stimulating creative life and want to hear more about the lives of others, as well as a four session taster workshop, this is for you.   Four recently graduated artists, and artists in their early career, are […]

Join artist Claire Halpin in exploring art from our Exhibition, Drawing & Painting in the Collection: Push and Pull, from 11am   Join a lively and reflective discussion with artist Claire Halpin, in a participant-centred session, its ambition to create inclusive discussion around artwork.   Using Visual Thinking Strategies, the session is more a discussion […]

Prolific multi-media artist Ursula Burke leads an informal evening masterclass exploring her work and varied processes.   Join Ursula in the lower gallery to explore her major solo exhibition Siren, looking closely at her work while learning more about her practice in this practical workshop.   Ursula’s work incorporates sculpture, ceramics, textile works and mosaic […]

Tuesday 14th May, 11-12.30pm *Please note – Tickets include Parent + 3 Children, and suitable for ages 0-4*   A gallery-based workshop led by artists Caoimhe O’Dwyer and Jennifer Slater, who will bring you through our current exhibitions, this time, Ursula Burke’s – Siren, and immerse you in the ideas that she is exploring, followed […]

Join us for the launch of the Drogheda Walled Town Collective, here at Highlanes Gallery, Friday 10th May, 11am.   Highlanes Gallery Drogheda is delighted to host the launch of the Drogheda Walled Town Collective.   Organised by the Collective’s co-ordinator Rósa Corcoran, it introduces this exciting new initiative which will engage artists, archaeologists, writers, […]

Join Fiona McShane, mindfulness coach, weekly, for an hour of relaxation and mindfulness in the contemplative environment of the gallery, and within Ursula Burke’s exhibition Siren.   Presented in a series of 6 sessions in April/May/June on Tuesday mornings from 10am – 10.50am, access via Five Good Things Café to the gallery.   Book for the […]

Siren is an expansive exhibition that incorporates sculpture, ceramics, textile works and mosaic sculpture. Greco-Roman inspired, surrealist soft sculpture take centre stage as Ursula Burke creates a major new monumental work with Grecian terracotta sculpture and mosaic work. These diverse investigations are born out of a context of precarity in the social realm and disillusionment […]

Taking place on Thursday, 25th April to mark Poetry Day Ireland’s 10th year, join the Drogheda Creative Writers for an afternoon of words and meaning.   Poetry Day Ireland’s theme for this year is ‘Good Sports’ celebrating the good sport in all of us, the drive to give it a go or to have a […]