Visual Art: Accessible Events at The National Gallery in August 2024

There are several accessible events coming up at the National Gallery in August 2024.

Tour of Women Impressionists for people who have a hearing impairment or are Hard of Hearing
Thursday 1 August 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

This free tour, exploring the summer exhibition Women Impressionists as well as some highlights of the Gallery’s permanent collection, is for individuals who are hard of hearing or have hearing impairments. This tour is fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and uses a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities, and takes place at 5.30pm on the first Thursday of every month.

Slow Art Tour of Vermeer Visits
Sunday 4 August 2.30pm to 3.30pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

Enjoy some time out and join us for a guided tour at a slower pace. Looking closely and moving quietly and mindfully through the Gallery spaces and the exhibition Vermeer Visits, we will encounter each work with curiosity, allowing us to connect deeply with it. The tour will end with quiet reflection in silence and stillness. This tour is fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and use a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities. A Mindfulness or Slow Art tour takes place at 2.30pm on the first Sunday of every month.

ISL Tour of Women Impressionists
Thursday 8 August 6pm to 7pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

Join the Gallery’s Irish Sign Language tour guides for a look at the summer exhibition Women Impressionists.

As the Gallery endeavours to make activities and events accessible to the deaf community, they wish to welcome members of the ISL community to the Gallery. This tour is exclusively in Irish Sign Language and will not have any translation available.

An ISL tour of the permanent collection or other temporary exhibitions place at 6pm on the second Thursday of the month.

Audio Described Tour of Women Impressionists
Thursday 15 August 6pm to 7pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

Join the Gallery’s highly trained tour guides for an audio described exploration of the national collection and the Women Impressionists exhibition. Visitors will be guided  through key parts of the Gallery building and focus on several highlights on display incorporating audio description and discussion.

All public tours are fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and use a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities.

Curator’s Introductory Talk: In Real Life
Tuesday 20 August 12pm to 1pm
Location: Online via Zoom

Discover more about the exhibition In Real Life with exhibition Curator Anne Hodge. In Real Life celebrates the beauty and fragility of nature through drawings and paintings from the Gallery’s permanent collection. Spanning the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, works on paper by artists as diverse as Aelbert Cuyp, Fiona Kelly, Barbara Rae, Michael Wann and Emil Nolde include closely observed studies, topographical views and poetic interpretations. Recent works on loan from four Irish artists – Bridget Flannery, David Lunney, Fiona McDonald and Angie Shanahan – complement the works from the Gallery’s collection. Together, the historical and contemporary artworks explore the beauty of the ordinary and the role of art in focusing attention on nature at risk.

This free talk will take place online via Zoom. Login details will be contained in the e-mail booking receipt. There will be time for questions after the talk. The talk will be recorded and made available on the Gallery’s YouTube channel until the exhibition ends. This event will be accompanied by an Irish sign language interpreter. 

Mindfulness Tour of Women Impressionists
Saturday 24 August 11.30am to 12.30pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

Enjoy some time out and join us for a guided tour at a slower pace. Looking closely and moving quietly and mindfully through the Gallery spaces and the Women Impressionists exhibition, we will encounter each work with curiosity, allowing us to connect deeply with it. The tour will end with quiet reflection in silence and stillness. All public tours are fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and uses a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities.

Read the National Gallery’s visitor guide for details of what to expect on your visit to the Gallery.

Image credits:

Header image – Mary Cassatt, Le bain, 1910. CC0 Paris Musées / Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.

Mary Cassatt, Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Lydia. Study for ‘The Cup of Tea’, c. 1879-1880. Nationalmuseum Stockholm.

Marguerite Lemercier O’Hagan, 1859-after 1925, Apple Trees, 1925. National Gallery of Ireland Collection, Photo, National Gallery of Ireland.

Berthe Morisot, In the Bois de Boulogne, 1879. Nationalmuseum Stockholm.