The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "Oscar Wilde"

The Pearse Centre has been supporting the arts in Dublin city centre for nearly 30 years, since our doors opened in 1996. Since then we have hosted 100's of artists in many different forms and we continue to open our doors to contemporary Irish & international artists to this day.

We host many exhibitions throughout the year and invite any artists with a vision to contact us directly with any proposal they believe could be a fit for the Pearse Centre & we will do our best to accommodate any fitiing proposals.

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Countries covered

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Awards

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Our company history

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The Great Beginning

The Art Gallery Collections is founded by a group of artists and patrons prompted by the government's inadequate museum funding. By its first meeting it has 308 members and $700 in funds.

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Our Office Gallery Opened.

An additional new entrance to the gallery was created at the rear of the building, leading down from the new first floor gallery into a newly-opened up section of the Museum Gardens, which has been developed into a public space.

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Fundraising and investment

The project has brought an investment of £8 million into the MooM. We are very grateful to all our funders who have made this project possible and start new period of art vision.

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Our new exhibitions

The gallery now has three exhibition spaces on the ground floor, capable of hosting major national and international exhibitions, and four on the first floor, two of which showcase our internationally significant collections.

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A successful fundraising appeal

Following a successful fundraising appeal, and a pledge of £500,000 from the Art Fund, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, successfully acquires the Macclesfield Psalter and £180,000 in donations.

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Our new awards

The Art Fund Prize awarded to the the Art Gallery. The Art Fund gives £600,000 to Tate’s campaign to save Rubens’s Banqueting House sketch. The Art Fund gives an exceptional grant of £1 million towards the acquisition of Artist Rooms.

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The first major exhibition

The Art Gallery holds the largest collection of work by Etty and held the first major exhibition of his work for 50 years, showing many of these paintings and sketches alongside loans from other major galleries.

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New challenges before the art issues

Under-30s National Art Pass launched. First Headley Fellows announced. Support of curators continues through AAMC conference travel fellowship and Curatorial Network grants.

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