Niall Carroll's Classical Daytime Thursday 20 September 2018

Niall Carroll plays music from the heart of the classical repertoire.
At midday each day Niall chooses his 'Five of a Kind'.

Read what Mick Heaney in the Irish Times is saying about "Through the Canvas",

.... these short pieces meet the challenge of translating Irish paintings to radio in engaging fashion.

...atmospheric sound design plays a key part. Honking horns and beeping traffic lights bring Kilmallock’s (modern) main street to life, while an astonishing cascade recorded during a country downpour provides a fitting soundtrack for an earlier episode on Gwen O’Dowd’s painting Rain II.
Such impressionistic techniques capture the fleeting nature of the creative process more effectively than any arid verbal reconstruction.

... told, it’s a delightful yet innovative slot that merits expansion into a longer, stand-alone programme.
For the moment, however, "Through the Canvas" shows that sound can allow a fresh way of, well, seeing things.
Irish Times Sat 7th July 2018.

Through the Canvas: Episode 1 "Garden Green"

Tuesday 12th of June- 11.30am

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Cristín Leach and Diarmuid McIntyre accept the invitation of Norah McGuinness' 1962 still life painting "Garden Green" to throw open the doors and escape into a world shaped by artistic possibility. Hugh Lane Gallery Collection, oil on canvas

Through the Canvas: Episode 2 "Sonny's Day"

Tuesday 19th of June 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Cristín Leach and Diarmuid McIntyre head up the Galtee Mountains to enter the storied landscape of Martin Gale's 1980 painting "Sonny's Day".

In 2013 Martin was awarded Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art, NUI Maynooth. Lives and works in Co. Kildare.

Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection, oil on canvas.

Through the Canvas: Episode 3 "Rain II"

Tuesday 26th of June - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Cristín Leach and Diarmuid McIntyre visit Noreen Quish's farm in a downpour for an encounter with Gwen O'Dowd's abstracted landscape painting"Rain II".

Gwen O'Dowd was born in Dublin in 1957 where she now lives and works. O'Dowd is one of Ireland's foremost contemporary artists; she has received many awards and prizes and is a member of Aosdana.

(1992) Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection, oil on canvas

Through the Canvas: Episode 4 "View of Kilmallock"

Tuesday 3^rd of July - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Cristín Leach and Diarmuid McIntyre step back in time into the historic world of John George Mulvany's "View of Kilmallock" (c1800)

The painting shows two couples and livestock in the foreground and the ruins of two churches, the Dominican Friary, a tower and gate. The brothers, John and Thomas James Mulvany RHA, painted in a similar style.

National Gallery of Ireland Collection, oil on canvas.

Through the Canvas: Episode 5 "Untitled (Shannon Series)

Tuesday 10th of July - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Cristín Leach and Diarmuid McIntyre go through security at Shannon Airport and venture out amongst the aircraft of Camille Souter's Untitled (Shannon Series) Painting (1980) Irish Museum of Modern Art, Oil on paper

Through the Canvas: Episode 6 "Waves Breaking on the Rock's Kilkee"

Tuesday 17th of July - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Cristín Leach and Diarmuid McIntyre head out to the Pollack Holes on Clare's Atlantic coast guided by a Nathaniel Hone the Younger sketch "Waves Breaking on the Rock's Kilkee" (c1890) National Gallery of Ireland Collection Watercolour with white highlight on paper

Through the Canvas: Episode 7 "Out here III".

24th of July - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Diarmuid McIntyre and Cristín Leach begin their exploration of
Oliver Comerfords 2003 painting "Out Here III" in the isolated grounds of an old Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Collection of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Oil on Canvas over board,

Through the Canvas: Episode 8 "In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade"

31^st of July - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Diarmuid McIntyre and Cristín Leach seek refuge in Dublin’s leafy Merrion Square as they consider Frederick Osborne’s, beautiful yet harrowing oil painting "In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade"(c.1895)

National Gallery of Ireland Collection. oil on canvas

Through the Canvas: Episode 9 "Liffey Swim"

7^th August - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Diarmuid McIntyre and Cristín Leach venture down the busy quays in Dublin in the company of Jack B Yeat’s oil painting from 1923 "The Liffey Swim"

National Gallery of Ireland Collection. oil on canvas

Through the Canvas: Episode 10 "Ghost Ship"

14^th of August - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Diarmuid McIntyre and Cristín Leach walk out in darkness towards the lighthouse on Dun Laoghaire’s East Pier with the memory of Dorothy Cross’s 1999 Installation "Ghost Ship" to guide them.

Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection, Two Light Ship models phosphorescent paint, ultraviolet lights, video

Through the Canvas: Episode 11 "Hope Painting (Going Through the Looking Glass)"

21^st August - 11.30am - Click here or on the image to listen back if you missed the broadcast.

Diarmuid McIntyre and Cristín Leach go down to the sunny banks of the Bride river as they immerse themselves in the luminous colours of William McKeown’s 2005 "Hope Painting (Going Through the Looking Glass)" from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection, Oil on canvas

Through the Canvas: Episode 12 "The Startled Bird"

28th of August - 11.30am - Final episode. - Click here or on the image to listen back to the broadcast.

In this final episode, Diarmuid McIntyre and Cristín Leach complete their journeys through the worlds of 12 Irish artworks as they emerge from the leafy woods of "The Startled Bird" (1961) by Norah McGuinness

National Gallery of Ireland Collection. Oil on canvas

Niall Carroll's Classical Daytime

Niall Carroll plays music from the heart of the classical repertoire including Five of a Kind at noon.

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