Butler Gallery and grounds of Kilkenny Castle
Saturday 23 May 2009
11.00 - 15.00
Free

Coordinated by the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, National Drawing Day is a countrywide initiative instigated by the National Gallery of Ireland and has taken place at Kilkenny Castle over the past three years. For the past two years, sponsored by the OPW, the Gallery extended the reach of Drawing Day offering a creative and colourful range of drawing options using the grounds of the Castle as an alternative drawing pad.

Drawing Day 2009 revisited activities that took place in 2008 including Tree Wrapping, Wood Block Pastels and mark-making on a Wrapped Sculpture. New activities that responded to the location of Castle Park included a Camera Obscura set up in the grounds of Kilkenny Castle, an Interactive Labyrinth involving large scale drawing with big limestone pebbles, an activity merging Kites, Spinning Wheels and Drawing with the Senses, Bounce featuring drawing with a range of different balls on the rise, and Inside Out – an activity taking place in the Butler Gallery itself, the results of which were exhibited outside in the Parade Tower. Thanks to Dunnes Stores and Langtons House Hotel for their support of this event.

Participating artists were Marie Brett, Jean Conroy, Laura de Burca, Jenny Dunne, Maree Hensey, Etaoin Holahan, Siobhan Jordan, Bridget O’ Gorman, Lucia Parle, Jacqui Purcell, Nic Piper and Kate Strain.

National Drawing Day is an nation-wide initiative that occured at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and the following venues - Castletown House, Cavan County Museum, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Draíocht, Dublin, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, Galway City Museum, Farmleigh House, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Graphic Studio Dublin, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Hunt Museum, Limerick, Limerick City Gallery, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow, Muckross Traditional Farms, Killarney, National Museum of Ireland: Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, National Museum of Ireland: Archaeology and History, Kildare Street, National Print Museum, Dublin, Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham, The Ark: A Cultural Centre for Children, Tower Museum, Derry, The LAB, Dublin, Waterford Museum of Treasures, Wexford Arts Centre.

National Drawing Day
Saturday May 24th 2008
Kilkenny Castle Park

Butler Gallery in association with Kilkenny County Council, the OPW and Taxbreak.com
It's time to pick up your pencils, pack a picnic and head for Kilkenny Castle Park… This year’s National Drawing Day takes place on Saturday May 24th from 11am – 3pm in Kilkenny Castle Park. The Butler Gallery are delighted to be involved in organising this large scale drawing event using the grounds of Kilkenny Castle as a drawing pad…. There’s no need to be able to draw… events are not based on traditional notions and there’ll be lots of different activities for adults and children of all ages. Thanks to all of the sponsors who have come on board – the OPW, Kilkenny Local Authority Arts Office and Taxback.com – all the events are FREE!!