Butler Gallery

ADI and Butler Gallery, Kilkenny started a partnership in 2013 to provide access to visual art exhibitions at Butler Gallery to audiences with visual impairments. For the first time in Ireland audio description was made available with a new device called Discovery Pen.

Using the pens audiences who are blind and visually impaired are able to explore the art works through descriptions, artists’ statements and curatorial statements. The pens have been used to great success by various organisations globally to date and were debuted in Ireland at Butler Gallery, Kilkenny in 2013.

2016 Block and Receive by Cliona Harmey
2015 My Minds i by Janet Mullarney
2014 The Talking Earth by Amy Walsh
2013 Art Makes Children Powerful by Bob and Roberta Smith