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Gavin Friday opens Amárach, an exhibition of high end jewellery

Gavin Friday will be opening Amárach, an exhibition of high end jewellery by Irelands’ most acclaimed goldsmiths in Cork this Thursday (September 19th) at 6.30pm. The opening will be hosted by Tuula Harrington of Designworks Studio. Amárach is an Exhibition of High-end Jewellery by Irish Goldsmiths with a dual sense of value, emphasizing more than…

Gavin Friday contributes piece to Sculpture in Context 2012

Gavin Friday has contributed a piece to the annual ‘Sculpture in Context ‘ exhibition in Dublin. The exhibition opens Thursday September 6 at the National Botanic Gardens and runs through October 19th. The sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, ponds, Great Palm House, and Curvilinear Range, with the smaller works exhibited in the gallery…

John Hinde – Wish You Were Here

Written by Gavin Friday for The Irish Times supplement “The Moderns”, on the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “The Moderns: The arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s” “Having recently come across a book of photographs of John Hinde’s Ireland from the 1960s and 1970s, I was totally taken aback that after…

Tomorrow belongs to me – programme

Tomorrow belongs to me – bottles

Beer bottle labels created in 2006 by Gavin Friday and Redman AKA for Beck’s. Other artists to create labels for Becks include Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George and Jeff Koons.

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2007 Lunchbox Auction

For the 2007 Lunchbox Auction, 100+ iconic celebrities from the entertainment, fashion, art, music, literary and culinary worlds remind us that food matters by creating personalized lunchbox art for online auction. The auction, which goes live on Friday, December 7, 2007 at 12 a.m. EST, will benefit two hunger-relief organizations: Food Bank For New York…

Sculpture in Context 2006

Piece written by Gavin Friday about the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin for Sculpture in Context 2006, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 The National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin Dublin is in my mind quite possibly the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of Northside Dublin… yes there is more to the Northside than the Airport… lots more… but the…

Jokers get auctioned

Gavin’s 2001 Art:pack contribution, will be auctioned off on Wednesday April 10th. The original art works from Art:pack, the best-selling deck of cards designed by leading contemporary artists, including a joker by Bono, will be auctioned by Christie’s at the Royal Hibernian Academy on April 10th 2002. Art:pack has sold over 25,000 copies and has…

Art:pack auction

From artpack.ie: Christies will be auctioning off the original art works for “Art:pack”, the pack of cards designed by Irish artists (including jokers by Gavin, Bono and an Ace of Clubs by Guggi) in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation. The event will take place at The Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. Viewing will be…