10th August
To an Isle in the Water
Set Theatre
New York composer Ellen Mandel plays her own delightful settings of the poetry of ee cummings, WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney and others, sung by baritone Robert Gildon.
The Billy Holiday Show
The Parade Tower
Billy Holiday is the world’s most famous singing goat. Now she’s trying to help her friends to stardom, but can sheep really make it big in showbiz? The audience must decide…
Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal and Debashish Bhattacharya & Subhasis Bhattacharya
St Canice’s Cathedral
A double bill featuring two extraordinary collaborations. Brothers Debashish and Subhasis Bhattacharya merge classical Indian music with slide guitar blues, while Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal offer a hypnotic blend of cello and kora.
Ciaran Carson & Michael Coady
The Parade Tower
Two acclaimed Irish poets showcase their latest collections in the intimate setting of the Parade Tower.
The Big Draw
Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel - Kilbride Suite
Design a character, make your own animation flip book and create a storyboard with the help of Fabian Erlinghauser and Roxanne Burchartz from the Cartoon Saloon (Oscar-nominated for The Secret Of Kells).
Construct with Nature
Butler Gallery
A chance to build your own colourful 'constructions', inspired by the Butler Gallery's Tony O'Malley exhibition.
Children’s Craft Workshops
The National Craft Gallery
A chance to explore some of the materials featured in the exhibitions, including jewellery and textiles.
Visual Art Strand 2: Endangered Studios
An exhibition of work by four Kilkenny-based artists.
Visual Art Strand 2: Tony O’Malley
Butler Gallery
The first exhibition dedicated entirely to the amazing ‘Constructions’ of the renowned Irish artist, Tony O’Malley.
Strand 2 Craft: Made in Kilkenny
Twenty-six of the finest craftspeople in Kilkenny display work inspired by the county.
Strand 2 Craft: Grennan Mill Craft School Exhibition
Grennan Mill Craft School presents an exciting range of work from six artists.
Strand 2 Craft: Ceramics Ireland International Festival
The National Craft Gallery
Featuring outstanding work from seven international makers.
Embracing Technology
The National Craft Gallery
Showcasing the work of fourteen makers who are pushing the boundaries of their craft through the inventive use of materials and technology.
Mah Rana - ‘Jewellery is Life’ and ‘Meanings and Attachments’
The National Craft Gallery
Two exhibitions exploring the idea that jewellery is intrinsic to our lives.
The Smile Off Your Face
Rothe House
The Smile Off Your Face offers a totally unique experience, for one person at a time. Everything happens only in your head, and yet it doesn’t…
Victor and Gord
Cleere’s
You know those friends you grew up with? Went to school with? Laughed, cried, partied and pulled with? D’you ever wonder, sometimes, if they’d ever just f**k off?
Visual Art Strand 2: KCAT Thirteen
A vibrant exhibition featuring work by thirteen local artists.
Visual Art Strand 2: Maria Van Kesteren
An exhibition of new work by the artist who introduced woodturning to Ireland.
Visual Art Strand 2: Gerard Casey, Eamon Colman, Patrick Pye
Featuring graphic work and paintings by three of Ireland's foremost artists.
Visual Art Strand 2: Guerrilla Girls
Kilkenny County Council Arts Office
New works by internationally-renowned feminist arts group the Guerrilla Girls.
Willie Doherty
Rothe House
Twice Turner Prize nominee Willie Doherty's photography and video work draws on his native city of Derry to explore themes of individual and collective subjectivity, memory and responsibility.
William McKeown
11 Patrick Street
"The paintings that I will be showing at Kilkenny have developed out of the theme of immersion that has preoccupied me for many years."
Eithne Jordan
11 Patrick Street
Eithne Jordan, one of Ireland’s leading figurative painters, explores the hidden and forgotten spaces of Europe's great cities.
Declan Clarke
Rothe House
Declan Clarke's Cologne Overnight considers the development of 20th century Western ideals through the ruins left in their wake.
Michael Coleman
11 Patrick Street
"Around the Park is a series of twelve watercolours based on my time as an artist-in-residence in the Phoenix Park, Dublin."
Stephen Loughman
11 Patrick Street
Stephen Loughman's series The Fisherman’s Widow investigates the notion of an artwork as witness to a crime.
Ciarán Walsh
Rothe House
Ciarán Walsh’s recent work investigates the legacy of maligned psychotherapist and scientist Wilhelm Reich.
Eoghan McTigue
Kitchen Corridor - Kilkenny Castle
The photographs in Eoghan McTigue's series Aerial Plane have a strange, otherworldly feel, like dark, monochromatic paintings.
Dennis McNulty
Ormonde St. Car Park (Top Floor)
Dennis McNulty creates ‘situations’, space-specific sound performances or site-related installations, which he characterises as points of intersection between flows of various kinds – time, site, sound, narrative and audience.
Fergus Martin
11 Patrick Street
"In my painting and sculpture, I try to find a shape that gives a feeling of ‘holding’ as much as possible. I often think of tanks filling up with water, of rivers rising to the brim."
Susan Phillipsz
Kilkenny Castle Park
Turner Prize nominee Susan Philipsz's sound installation in Kilkenny Castle Park pays tribute to Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce and a passionate (but now forgotten) dancer.
surface & reality
An exhibition of eleven contemporary artists in five locations through the city, including work by Turner Prize nominees Willie Doherty (nominated 1994/2003) and Susan Philipsz (nominated 2010).
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