Official opening Saturday 4th April at 3pm by Carmel Duffy, Athlone Arts & Tourism Manager

Pause is a body of work by Hilary Kinahan, a visual artist based in the Midlands working from her home studio. The exhibition responds to recent bog fires and their impact on the local landscape, documenting the scorched land through painting and printmaking.

Created as a meditative series, the works invite viewers to slow down and reflect. The series includes sonographs of birdsong, signalling renewal and the gradual return of life to the damaged boglands.

Runs until Saturday 27th June

Curated by Benjamin Stafford

Official Reception Friday 1st May, 2.30pm

KCAT is a multi-disciplinary arts centre located in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, supporting inclusive arts practices, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025.
Here, things are not easily categorised or separated from each other; common songbirds sit alongside five-legged cats, which sit alongside distant countries, rural landscapes, intimate portraits, and science-fiction worlds. These exist in the minds of some of the artists, but the ongoing success and resilience of KCAT shows that with work, dedication, and care, sometimes other worlds can become real.

To mark the end of AS IF at the International Centre for the Image, join photographer Eamonn Doyle, artist-designer Niall Sweeney, and composer David Donohoe in conversation with radio presenter and filmmaker Donal Dineen. The conversation will offer insights into the prolific and exciting process behind the artists’ collaborative work, origins, and influences, with the opportunity for the public to join in the discussion.

Free Event – Booking Required

Exhibition continues from 30/03/2026 to 12/04/2026.

Established in 2001, the Signal Arts Society has long been a cornerstone of the local arts community. This annual exhibition stands as a vibrant testament to its mission: to support, connect, and celebrate artists at all stages of their creative journey. Visitors can expect a rich and varied collection of works spanning painting, photography, mixed media, and more—each piece offering a unique perspective and voice. This much-anticipated exhibition brings together over 80 member artists, highlighting the remarkable breadth of talent within the Society.

Exhibition continues from 28/03/2026 to 09/05/2026.

A major solo exhibition by internationally recognised photographer Jackie Nickerson, Stateside draws on a decade of travel across the United States. Through layered photographic compositions, the exhibition explores patterns of sameness across different American landscapes, offering a nuanced reflection on the systems that shape everyday life.

Dundalk Photographic Society were formed in 1979. From the start the Society has been affiliated to the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) and has taken part in and indeed hosted many regional and national events. Dundalk Photographic Society have published a limited edition book entitled “Dundalk Photographic Society, Celebrating 40 Years: The Art of Photography” in November of that year. The book featured over 200 images from members of the club.
Image:David Martin, Titled ‘Kylemore Tree’, winner of last year’s exhibition and DPS’s image of the year.

Boy Dancer is a Solstice commissioned collaboration between poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin and artist Niamh McCann. Blending poetry, drawing, sound and sculpture. It reflects on grief, ritual and remembrance, inspired by Ní Churreáin’s foster brother. Accompanying the exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre is hosting an opening event on April 11th at 2.30 PM, a special public conversation featuring Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Niamh McCann, and poet and critic Gerard Smyth. This event offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from the collaborators about the creative process behind Boy Dancer.

The Tea Houses is delighted to invite you to the launch of ‘BERNADETTE KIELY: We look at the world once… Selected Works and Words 2015–2025’.
This beautiful book will be officially launched by Dr. Ciara Healy, Head of Fine Art and Education at Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), Technological University of the Shannon. Join us for a few words from Dr. Healy, further excerpts read from the book and light refreshments. Signed copies of the book will be available for sale throughout the afternoon. Supported by Kilkenny Arts Office and Kilkenny County Council.

SO Fine Art Editions Announces Margins: Fine art Photography by Michael Corrigan.

Preview: 5th March 5 – 7.30 pm and continues until the 4th April.

In ‘Margins’, Michael Corrigan presents a contemplative body of photographic work that reflects upon what lies at the edge: of land, sea and sky; of moments passing; of perception itself. The title carries multiple meanings and references; geographical, temporal, philosophical and poetic, and invites viewers to slow their gaze and consider what is often peripheral or taken for granted.

Bridge Street Studios will celebrate its 30th anniversary with an exhibition, ‘The things that matter most are the things that can’t be seen,’ hosted at the Basement Gallery, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk. The exhibition opens on Wednesday February 25th at 7pm and runs to April 4th. It features work by eight artists and craftspeople including Orlaith Cullinane, Rachel Tinniswood, Mary Cowan, Suzanne Carroll, Caóilfíonn Murphy O’Hanlon, Orla Barry, Sarah McKenna, and Fiona Quigley. The exhibition serves as a testament to the importance of shared creative environments and how that can creatively sustain the individual’s artistic development.

To mark the end of AS IF at the International Centre for the Image, join photographer Eamonn Doyle, artist-designer Niall Sweeney, and composer David Donohoe in conversation with radio presenter and filmmaker Donal Dineen. The conversation will offer insights into the prolific and exciting process behind the artists’ collaborative work, origins, and influences, with the opportunity for the public to join in the discussion.

Free Event – Booking Required

A Fragile Line is an exhibition comprised of a number of interrelated pictorial, sculptural and installation elements. The work is visually spare and delicate, acting as a set of poetic observations on how we understand and relate to the more than human world.

Thursday 26 February – Saturday 11 April 2026.
Curated by Margarita Cappock.

Opening Night: Thursday 26 February.

The Tea Houses is delighted to invite you to the launch of ‘BERNADETTE KIELY: We look at the world once… Selected Works and Words 2015–2025’.
This beautiful book will be officially launched by Dr. Ciara Healy, Head of Fine Art and Education at Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), Technological University of the Shannon. Join us for a few words from Dr. Healy, further excerpts read from the book and light refreshments. Signed copies of the book will be available for sale throughout the afternoon. Supported by Kilkenny Arts Office and Kilkenny County Council.

A multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring new and existing work by Tara Carroll, Sian Costello, Phelim Hoey, Áine O’ Hara, Day Magee, and Rajinder Singh. Curated by Aoife Banks. Affective Forms is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that explores evolving representations of the human body in contemporary Irish art through painting, photography, sculpture, and film. In Affective Forms, the works foreground sensation, relation, and response, positioning the body as a site where personal experience and broader social forces converge.

Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to present Gairdín Rós | Rose Garden, Vicky Smith’s new solo exhibition.

In it, Smith focuses on her lived experience as a mother in self-portraits which reflect an image of motherhood as a state of mind that is not incompatible with creativity. Gairdín Rós comprises 7 paintings made during the first four years of motherhood. The show also includes new work developed during a two-week artist residency at Interface Inagh, Connemara, in June 2025. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Dr Phillina Sun. Opens on Sun 8 March with guest speaker Marysia Więckiewicz, Curator & Board Member of Interface Inagh.

Exhibition continues from 30/03/2026 to 12/04/2026.

Established in 2001, the Signal Arts Society has long been a cornerstone of the local arts community. This annual exhibition stands as a vibrant testament to its mission: to support, connect, and celebrate artists at all stages of their creative journey. Visitors can expect a rich and varied collection of works spanning painting, photography, mixed media, and more—each piece offering a unique perspective and voice. This much-anticipated exhibition brings together over 80 member artists, highlighting the remarkable breadth of talent within the Society.

Kitchen Sink presents, ‘A Theatre of Sediment and Strings’.

Following the success of their first exhibition ‘Hearth’, Wexford 2025, Kitchen Sink invites you to their upcoming show.

Treat yourself to an evening at the theatre. A production of painting, photography and written word, hanging together. We encourage you to feast your eyes and adorn your fanciest attire.

This emerging collective is made up of 8 recent NCAD graduates working across ever-changing mediums.

IMMA Collection: Art as Agency is a major three-year display celebrating IMMA’s Permanent Collection as a source of agency and knowledge. Featuring over 100 artists, from the 1960s to the present, it highlights key works, including many recent acquisitions. This ambitious exhibition invites engagement and research over time, allowing for a rich durational experience of Ireland’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.

Through thematic, chronological, geographical, and media-based approaches, the exhibition examines how artworks connect across time and contexts, fostering new interpretations and relevance. Works from the 1960s to the 1980s evoke the foundational story of the Irish art world. While acknowledging the context of the modernist, predominantly male dominance of that era, the exhibition also spotlights the material innovation and socially engaged practices of others who persisted despite the relatively conservative status quo.

The exhibition also presents more recent practice that explores urgent global themes such as gender, hybridity, cultural histories, de-colonialism, diaspora, migration, food injustice, climate, and ecological change. Memory, imagination, and storytelling play pivotal roles in these works, offering generative ways to process fragmentation, dislocation, and survival in unfamiliar spaces. New and existing works in the IMMA grounds will extend these themes.

The exhibition includes a specially created ‘white cube’ gallery space inspired by Brian O’Doherty’s renowned series of essays Inside the White Cube – The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), that critiques the auratic, market-driven effects of the white cube gallery format. Likewise the choice of works curated for this space pushes back by highlighting works by Post-War American women, pioneering conceptualist artworks by Marcel Duchamp and Brian O’Doherty as well as a contemporary feminist response by Andrea Geyer.

By interweaving historical and contemporary narratives, Art as Agency invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings and possibilities of art in shaping our understanding of and action in the world.

This is the first solo exhibition by renowned artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña in Ireland. For this exhibition Vicuña’s delves into themes of ancestry, ecological urgency, and the interconnectedness of humanity inspired by the discovery of her ancient ties to Ireland.

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2026. The series will be part of a programme celebrating 30 years of Pallas Projects/Studios. Between January–December 2026 we will present 8 x 3-week exhibitions of new work by:

Paddy Critchley, Fiona Marron, Finn Nichol, Emma Brennan and Thomas Wells, Ciara Rodgers, Struàn Bell, Christopher Mahon, neonatus.exe

Maryam Tafakory is a UK-based, Iranian artist filmmaker who makes textual and filmic collages. Her work interweaves poetry, archival, and found material to explore depictions of erasure, secrecy, and censorship. In her essayistic videos, images and scenes drawn from a vast archive of films are reworked to examine intimacy, desire, and prohibition. She works with film and performance and is the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.

VISUAL is pleased to present DRILL, newly commissioned exhibition of moving image and sound installation by Naomi Sex. Working with both professional and non-actors, Sex has written and directed a series of scripted performances. These vignettes consider language, social interaction, absurdity and the limits of understanding. DRILL comprises a series of monitors, speakers and projectors, which present each piece as distinct but interrelated episodes, linked to each other in an installation that places the viewer in the centre of the work.

VISUAL is pleased to present Interloper, the first project by Anne Hardy in Ireland. For this exhibition of existing and newly commissioned works, Hardy has responded to the distinct architecture of VISUAL; the concrete and glass of the Link Gallery and its connection to the ornamental pond seen through the large windows, and the blank canvas of the Studio Gallery’s white cube design and its heavily patinated floor. Interloper marks a continued evolution in Hardy’s practice.

“Now now” by Andy Fitz uses language to record a passing moment in time. An out-of-date present is rearranged in minute detail as though the process might reveal something. Time remains static – the food never grows mouldy. Unremarkable domestic objects are balanced across the gallery in precarious abstraction from their usual surroundings. “Now now” is also a phrase whose function and meaning is dependent on tone; it can be understood as a warning, or a consolation. The sculptures build on these unresolved tensions; the personal in the political, the present in light of the past.

DCU Art Collection is honoured to receive a significant donation of fine art prints from artist and master printer James McCreary, one of Ireland’s most respected figures in printmaking, and his wife Elizabeth McCreary.

To celebrate this generous donation DCU are hosting an exhibition of of selected works from the James and Elizabeth McCreary Collection on DCU St. Patrick’s Campus. Featuring works by Jane O’Malley, A.R. Penck, Niall Naessens, James McCreary, Tony O’Malley, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Michael Cullen and others, the exhibition offers a rich insight into contemporary printmaking and the spirit of personal collecting.

A multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring new and existing work by Tara Carroll, Sian Costello, Phelim Hoey, Áine O’ Hara, Day Magee, and Rajinder Singh. Curated by Aoife Banks. Affective Forms is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that explores evolving representations of the human body in contemporary Irish art through painting, photography, sculpture, and film. In Affective Forms, the works foreground sensation, relation, and response, positioning the body as a site where personal experience and broader social forces converge.

Key Learnings… presents nine artists whose practice incorporates commodity culture, taking in branding, mass-market imagery, retail style, the domestic, advertising and packaging.

Noel Hensey   /   Caroline McCarthy   /   Emily Mc Gardle / Aideen Barry   /   Asha Murray   /   Liliane Puthod   /   Amy McNamara   /   David Timmons   /   Richard Collier.

Bridge Street Studios will celebrate its 30th anniversary with an exhibition, ‘The things that matter most are the things that can’t be seen,’ hosted at the Basement Gallery, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk. The exhibition opens on Wednesday February 25th at 7pm and runs to April 4th. It features work by eight artists and craftspeople including Orlaith Cullinane, Rachel Tinniswood, Mary Cowan, Suzanne Carroll, Caóilfíonn Murphy O’Hanlon, Orla Barry, Sarah McKenna, and Fiona Quigley. The exhibition serves as a testament to the importance of shared creative environments and how that can creatively sustain the individual’s artistic development.

A Fragile Line is an exhibition comprised of a number of interrelated pictorial, sculptural and installation elements. The work is visually spare and delicate, acting as a set of poetic observations on how we understand and relate to the more than human world.

Thursday 26 February – Saturday 11 April 2026.
Curated by Margarita Cappock.

Opening Night: Thursday 26 February.

This exhibition of paintings and mixed-media sculptures by Bennie Reilly draws on her interest in museum collections, natural history, and her own interactions with the natural world. Her paintings stem from an ever growing archive of personal photographs, while her sculptural works combine bric-a-brac and natural artefacts collected over many years. Together, these artworks celebrate the oddities and allure of nature and its positive impact on our well-being.
The title derives from graffiti Reilly saw in a derelict hut overlooking a scenic salt lake in Formentera: “Follow your dream.” I

Curated by Aisling Prior

Featuring 26 emerging artists with a Fingal connection, part of a series of initiatives for artists to mark Draíocht’s 25th Birthday.

Maria Atanacković | Maya Brezing | Lucy Carrick | Matthew Coll | Michael Shane Cox | Alex De Roeck | Aideen Farrell | Chris Forrester | Andrew Grace | Elizabeth Hogan | Uisce Jakubczyk | Sinead Kampff | Paula Leimane | Nathan Lowry | Nicole Manning | Justine McDonnell | James McLoughlin | Sorca O’Farrell | Kerrie O’Leary | Eileen O’Sullivan | Jack Pierce | Eileen Sealy | Annette Treacy | Aoife Ward | Catherine Ward | Diarmuid Woodcock.

SO Fine Art Editions Announces Margins: Fine art Photography by Michael Corrigan.

Preview: 5th March 5 – 7.30 pm and continues until the 4th April.

In ‘Margins’, Michael Corrigan presents a contemplative body of photographic work that reflects upon what lies at the edge: of land, sea and sky; of moments passing; of perception itself. The title carries multiple meanings and references; geographical, temporal, philosophical and poetic, and invites viewers to slow their gaze and consider what is often peripheral or taken for granted.

Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to present Gairdín Rós | Rose Garden, Vicky Smith’s new solo exhibition.

In it, Smith focuses on her lived experience as a mother in self-portraits which reflect an image of motherhood as a state of mind that is not incompatible with creativity. Gairdín Rós comprises 7 paintings made during the first four years of motherhood. The show also includes new work developed during a two-week artist residency at Interface Inagh, Connemara, in June 2025. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Dr Phillina Sun. Opens on Sun 8 March with guest speaker Marysia Więckiewicz, Curator & Board Member of Interface Inagh.

Exhibition continues from 03/03/2026 to 08/05/2026.

Meath County Council Arts Office presents ‘Wildlife Encounters Through the Lens’ an exhibition of work by award winning photographer Tom Ormond.
Wildlife Encounters Through the Lens showcases the variety and beauty of some of the birds and animals that award-winning photographer Tom Ormond has encountered along his way.
Tom Ormond took up nature photography a few years ago, and since then he has had some of the most amazing experiences both observing and photographing wildlife.
Half of the images in this exhibition were photographed in his garden in Meath and the other half further afield in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

Kitchen Sink presents, ‘A Theatre of Sediment and Strings’.

Following the success of their first exhibition ‘Hearth’, Wexford 2025, Kitchen Sink invites you to their upcoming show.

Treat yourself to an evening at the theatre. A production of painting, photography and written word, hanging together. We encourage you to feast your eyes and adorn your fanciest attire.

This emerging collective is made up of 8 recent NCAD graduates working across ever-changing mediums.

Connections Arts Centre is delighted to invite you to come view the 3rd annual CA Collective Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery.

The CA Collective is a vibrant and growing community of artists who identify as having an intellectual disability or are from the neurodivergent community. As members, these artists receive ongoing support, education, and professional opportunities to exhibit and sell their work. This exhibition continues our mission of amplifying the voices of artists with disabilities Your presence at the exhibition and support help foster a more diverse and vibrant arts community.

Sylvia Hill presents- Vintage Suite – a collection of paintings exploring the beauty of the Irish “Big House” and other interiors relating to the past. Using a rich and vibrant oil palette, she indulges our senses and imaginations suggesting themes to dream on such as nostalgia, comfort, loss and fantasy. These small works offer us a personal window into the beauty of the past and a plea for the preservation of all things antique for the future.

Exhibition continues from 21/02/2026 to 03/05/2026.

Butler Gallery is pleased to present I Took a Hammer in My Hand, a new installation of photographic works and sculpture by Northern Ireland-based artist Jan McCullough. Artworks in this exhibition explore the boundaries between amateur and professional; image and object; and photography’s role in looking, learning and representing collaborative labour.

Please join us for the exhibition, ‘sticks and mountains and huge lone birds’, a solo exhibition by Róise McGagh, curated by Aoife McCloughlin, opening on 28 March from 4-6pm. Exhibition walkthrough on Saturday 18 April at 2pm. The exhibition continues until 24 April.

Exhibition continues from 27/03/2026 to 10/05/2026.

Before I Go: Vanishing Dublin, gathers over fifty characteristically Dublin cityscapes by Gerard Byrne — Georgian terraces, Victorian facades, charming pubs, and beloved corners that continue to define his practice. Working en plein air in both oil and charcoal, Byrne captures architecture and atmosphere in equal measure, incidentally continuing the work of Harry Kernoff and Flora Mitchell, exemplified in her book Vanishing Dublin (1966). 60 years on, he faces the same conviction that what is not recorded is lost forever.

Before I go, before you go, I’ll make sure someone remembers.

In 2013, the Living Arts Project was established as an artist-in-residency scheme in primary schools. The aim of the project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art. The exhibition represents a selection of work produced by the participating schools.

The artists and schools selected for the 2025-26 programme were Sonya Weston and Kate Tyrrell with Castlebridge NS, Deirdre Meehan-Buttimer and Shannon Jade Wilson with Clonroche NS, David Begley and Hanneke van Ryswyk with Curracloe NS, and Laura Flood and Mayumi Nakabayashi in Scoil Mhaodhóig.

Exhibition continues from 13/03/2026 to 03/05/2026.

Lucy Stein’s expressive, emotionally and psychologically charged paintings result from what the artist describes as a ‘cosmic symbolic feminist headspace’. Her work has a deep connection to the principles and imagery of goddess culture and mystical esotericism stemming from her studies in psychoanalysis and feminist theory. Iconography from classical mythology, medieval and ecclesiastical illuminations, as well as ancient rites and folkloric illustrations interact on her paintings’ amorphous surfaces.

Feltmakers Ireland presents ‘Water and Flow’, a group exhibition featuring over 50 members exploring water through felt. From gentle streams to powerful oceans, the show reflects water’s energy, stillness, renewal, and emotional depth—from joy to sorrow. Works include sculpture, wall art, and wearable pieces using diverse felting techniques.

Launched by knitwear designer Conor O’Brien on 4 April at 3 PM, the exhibition runs 2–26 April at Phoenix Park Visitor Centre Gallery. Poster artwork: Waterfall by Joanne Turner.