Location: Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
An entertaining and informative background exhibition about The Picture of Dorian Gray. Aims to explore the book's origins and inspiration, the Aesthetic Movement in art and literature, Society Portraiture, the lifestyle and costume of the "Victorian Dandy" and a view of "Dorian in the modern world".
The exhibition includes informative displays and works by contemporary artists and students from the National College of Art and Design.
The newly painted portrait of Dorian will also be featured in a studio setting and its "hidden" corrupted version showing Dorian's secret life by means of digital imagery will also be on show in Dorian's attic nursery.
Dramatised excerpts of the book will take place throughout the festival on specified dates along with lectures by guest speakers.
Open Monday - Thursday, 10am - 8pm, Friday & Saturday, 10am - 5pm. Running until Tuesday, 27th April. Admission free
