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Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh! 
It's certainly a #Halloween
with a difference, so we'll be trick-or-treating from afar. We'll add to this thread during the day to bring some spooky flavour to your homes!
Image: Paddy Tynan, Untitled, 1984.
It's certainly a #Halloween
with a difference, so we'll be trick-or-treating from afar. We'll add to this thread during the day to bring some spooky flavour to your homes!Image: Paddy Tynan, Untitled, 1984.
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...Join THE WITCH’S PARADE at home with a magical stop-motion video conjured up by artist Julie Forrester.
You can find the full guide to creating your own spooky scenes here: https://crawfordartgallery.ie/the-witches-parade/ #Halloween
We may be in Level 5 but that doesn't mean we can't still make some next level costumes, amirite!
We'd love to see how creative you can be at home. Maybe even get inspired by visual art!? Do your worst/best in the comments below.
Image: Michael Flynn, A Change of Costume, 1977.
We'd love to see how creative you can be at home. Maybe even get inspired by visual art!? Do your worst/best in the comments below.
Image: Michael Flynn, A Change of Costume, 1977.
Now for one of the creepier parts of the collection...
These fragments of a female skeleton were carved in wood c.1819 by sculptor John Hogan, aged just 19. They were commissioned by Dr John Woodroffe as a teaching tool for use in his School of Anatomy. No grave robbing here!
These fragments of a female skeleton were carved in wood c.1819 by sculptor John Hogan, aged just 19. They were commissioned by Dr John Woodroffe as a teaching tool for use in his School of Anatomy. No grave robbing here!
Speaking of graves... here's a creepy detail from our Tracton Memorial (1788) by sculptor John Bacon.
A skeletal arm and hand emerge from behind the framing drapery and direct Death's arrow at the individual who is being memorialised: James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton.
A skeletal arm and hand emerge from behind the framing drapery and direct Death's arrow at the individual who is being memorialised: James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton.
Moving from the macabre to the downright devilish...
Here is (winged) Satan himself leading his legion to Hell in the Romantic masterpiece Fall of the Rebel Angels (1828) by Samuel Forde. Pretty dark and tortured stuff!
Here is (winged) Satan himself leading his legion to Hell in the Romantic masterpiece Fall of the Rebel Angels (1828) by Samuel Forde. Pretty dark and tortured stuff!
