Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Culturlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘Into the Wild” a solo exhibition by Kilkee and Limerick-based artist, Gina O’Connor.

Having already held six solo exhibitions, this latest collection marks Gina’s second exhibition at the Kilkee venue. “Into the Wild” reflects a newfound confidence in her use of paint and colour. Combining her love of movement with her painting, Gina immerses herself deeply in the physicality of the creative process. Her bold and spontaneous approach to mark-making has led to her most exciting work to date.

Our exhibition, ‘Print Works: 12 printmakers’ is opened at 12 noon on Saturday 25 April by master printmaker Robert Russell.
The exhibition foregrounds print techniques including screenprints, on paper – and on gold leaf – diverse etching techniques, and pin-hole photography, and offers the opportunity to view work by some of the foremost printmakers in Ireland alongside innovative new practitioners.
The show brings together works by Dorota Borowa, Lucy & Robert Carter, Eileen Ferguson, Claire Forward, Debbie Godsell, Austin Ivers, Eimearjean McCormack, Niall Naessens, Rachel Parry, Robert Russell, Gerda Teljeur, and Charle Tyrrell.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “Blue Bird Alphabet” by the Artist Jakobus Smit.

This exhibition brings awareness to bird species of the Atlantic Archipelago. Featuring over sized letters and limited colour palette of blue and grey to create a new lens through which to rediscover their unique characters. Smit studied Design and Visual Communication and has worked in the design industry producing commercial artwork for 30 years. Throughout this time, fine arts practice has remained central to his life, working primarily with oil on canvas and mixed-medium printmaking.

Clare Arts Office, in conjunction with Clare Museum, is delighted to present This Native Land of Mine, an art exhibition by Frances Bailey celebrating a lifetime of memories rooted in County Clare.

This Native Land of Mine offers a heartfelt celebration of County Clare, seen through the eyes of one of its most dedicated daughters. The exhibition highlights nearly 50 years of creative contribution and invites visitors to immerse themselves in the places and memories that have inspired Frances throughout her life.

Exhibition continues from 23/04/2026 to 16/05/2026.

The exhibition explores moments where space begins to close in. Figures are placed within boxes, interiors, and fragments of everyday life, hovering between play and restriction. Familiar domestic spaces — a bath, a hallway, a child at play — carry a subtle tension, where something feels slightly off or unresolved. Julianne Guinee is an Irish painter based in Buttevant, County Cork. Working in oils, her practice explores motherhood, memory, and the emotional weight of domestic life. Her paintings centre on women and children within interior spaces, where tenderness and unease sit side by side.

Contemporary Applied Arts Exhibition opening on Thursday 30th April in MTU Gallery, Grand Parade at 5.30. Guest Speaker: Artist and Curator Ava Hayes.

New Artworks in ceramic, glass and textiles by 11 up and coming artists.

Sonder.
Noun: the profound realisation that every random person you see is living a life as complex, vivid, and detailed as your own.

Join curator Benjamin Stafford (VISUAL) in conversation with artist Tom Doig about his new exhibition at Studio 12, Paperwork.

Paperwork engages with contemporary collage, exploring the physical and cultural role of paper as a carrier of knowledge. Drawing on found materials such as catalogues and encyclopaedias, Doig’s work reassembles fragments of visual information into new, dislocated narratives.

Free to all | Booking Required

Territories is a contemporary drawing exhibition by Niamh Clarke exploring memory, landscape, and environmental change. Through drawing, text, watercolour, and Super 8 film, Clarke examines what is submerged, eroded, or half-seen, where meaning emerges slowly through gesture and material. The exhibition invites reflection on trace, time, and the layered relationship between personal narrative and landscape. Territories builds on Clarke’s 2025 solo exhibition Interiorities, reconfigured here within a new spatial and conceptual context at CHG&S.

Featuring in The Courthouse gallery & studios’ red couch gallery upstairs.

This exhibition features paintings, drawings, and sculptures by visual artists Syra Larkin, Eithne O’Riordan and sculptor Marjorie Cunningham.
“Away With The Birds” is loosely centred around this year’s festival theme of “Birds.” The exhibition showcases a blend of styles, with each artist contributing their unique interpretation of a theme that connects us through art to the beauty and power of the natural world.
Eithne O’Riordan’s work includes dynamic paintings of crows. Syra Larkin explores the bonds between humans and birds. Marjorie Cunningham’s sculptures and drawings are inspired by close observation of the mythical world.

Paperwork is a solo exhibition by Tom Doig at Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork, running 1 May – 5 June 2026. Developed through a residency and curatorial collaboration with Benjamin Stafford, the exhibition explores collage and found paper imagery as a way of rethinking how knowledge is organised and understood.

Niall Austin is Curator of Imaginations at PURE & Second Screen Entertainment, specialising in AR Interactive Gaming, Text to Video AI, and Creating Extraordinary & Immersive Live Experiences.

Niall will open up the digital world through the lens of storytelling first, technology second. Drawing on his interactive productions at The Civic Theatre, including 7 Deadly Sins, BaDaBoom! and Unveiled, he will demonstrate how games, AI, live performance and audience choice can combine to create shared narrative experiences.

MOTH is a group exhibition curated by Emma Quin, recipient of the Backwater Artists Emerging Curator Award 2026, featuring artists Lynn-Marie Dennehy, Andrea Newman and Pádraig Spillane. Inspired by research into the adaptive evolution of moths during the Industrial Revolution, the exhibition explores how individuals are shaped by their environments and the social structures that surround them. Through installation, photography, collage and object-based work, the artists examine themes of social conditioning, surveillance and identity in contemporary society.

A group of artists awarded a mentoring programme through Big Look and the Kilkenny Arts Office reunite one year later to showcase the evolution of their work. Originally brought together over three months of intensive weekly sessions, this exhibition traces each artist’s journey from the first spark of an idea to fresh developments in process and vision. By capturing the progression from initial inception to refined execution, the collection reveals the endless possibilities that emerge when artistic practices are nurtured and given the essential space and time to expand, reflect, and grow.

Note: Opening times on weekends/bank holidays are 10am – 4.30pm

MFA Graduate Exhibition

Elana Morchower

Karen St Pierre

Sarah Vandermeer

April 11-24, 2026

Opening Reception | April 11 | 6:00-8:00pm

Opening Remarks at 6:45 by Ruby Wallis

Through diverse mediums, (UN)EARTHED: through air, tied to each other explores ideas of nonlinearity and dreamspaces in a world marked by environmental change, displacement, and eroding certainties. With disorientation as an underlying theme, these artists suggest that entanglement is found not in fixed roots, but in the shared exposure of continuous (un)earthing.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “Art in Progress” an art exhibition at the Clare Museum by Learners from Youthreach, College of FET, Ennis Campus

Art in Progress showcases artwork created by Youthreach learners throughout the year in the art room. Learners, aged 15–19, come from a variety of places across County Clare and bring their own ideas, experiences, and perspectives into their work. The exhibition reflects this diversity through a range of drawings, paintings, and mixed-media pieces.

Featured Image: Processed by Christopher Beau

Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “In Clondorney Bog – An exploration of a local peatland” by the Artist Caitríona O’Sullivan.

Caitríona O’Sullivan is a landscape artist and floral designer from Tulla, Co. Clare. Her work is inspired by the colours, forms, textures and moods of the East Clare landscape. Working in pencil and pastel, her drawings express her emotional connection to the environment, highlighting its beauty, complexity and fragility. Her locality also inspires the botanical installations and arrangements she makes using dried and fresh wild plant material.

Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Culturlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘Ethereal” an exhibition by Christopher Quinn.
Following on from the success of his first exhibit “Colours in the Landscape”, Christopher Quinn returns with his follow up showing “Ethereal”. Christopher Quinn, a native of Ennis, Co. Clare fell in love with landscape photography whilst living in the Canadian Rockies. Persistence in learning from one photograph to the next engrained the need to succeed. “Ethereal” is something that resonates deeply with his approach to photography, calmness, serenity, less obtrusion, it’s the perfect signature of his work.

Join us at GOMA Waterford for the opening reception of Sanctum on Thursday 2 April 2026, 6–8pm. All welcome.

Sanctum explores contemporary spirituality through personal, non-institutional belief and ritual, drawing on pre-Christian practices, folklore, and reimagined religious symbols to address today’s environmental, political, and existential uncertainties.

Curated by Anna Jeznach & Ciara Magee, recipients of GOMA Waterford’s Emerging Curator Award 2026.

Artists: Sam Comerford, Fionn Mac Tiomáin, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh, Lara Quinn, Zuzanna Romańska, Milan Zientara.

Exhibition continues from 14/11/2025 to 30/04/2026.

Winter Sun is a moving-image work by Cork artist Elinor O’Donovan.

The work is a preserved piece of a warm Cork summer, saved for the months when it is most needed. Taking as its inspiration the iconic view from the top of Patrick’s Hill at Bells Field, the video work is a looping film depicting Corkonians sharing a moment of togetherness, connected by their mutual appreciation for a setting summer sun.

Projection-Mapping: Lightscape Studios
3D Artist: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah
Cinematography: Jack Desmond

Part of Island City – Cork’s Urban Sculpture Trail

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which celebrates drawing through the mediums of etching and casting.
Opening Reception: 5pm Thursday 19 February 2026

In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material (cuttlefish/metal sheet). The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes.

Exhibition continues from 19/02/2026 to 30/04/2026.

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery.
In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material; cuttlefish and metal sheet. The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes. The work takes its inspiration from a mix of ideas, images and things that catch Reilly’s attention, from daily observations; an old yew tree, a disused church to the medieval cadaver stone slab of Thomas Ronan.

Join curator Benjamin Stafford (VISUAL) in conversation with artist Tom Doig about his new exhibition at Studio 12, Paperwork.

Paperwork engages with contemporary collage, exploring the physical and cultural role of paper as a carrier of knowledge. Drawing on found materials such as catalogues and encyclopaedias, Doig’s work reassembles fragments of visual information into new, dislocated narratives.

Free to all | Booking Required

Niall Austin is Curator of Imaginations at PURE & Second Screen Entertainment, specialising in AR Interactive Gaming, Text to Video AI, and Creating Extraordinary & Immersive Live Experiences.

Niall will open up the digital world through the lens of storytelling first, technology second. Drawing on his interactive productions at The Civic Theatre, including 7 Deadly Sins, BaDaBoom! and Unveiled, he will demonstrate how games, AI, live performance and audience choice can combine to create shared narrative experiences.

Kim Crowley is a curator based in Cork City. Her practice is concerned with expanded artist publishing as curatorial practice.
She will establish a curatorial research ‘office’ called the Office of Work (OOW) in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space. The OOW looks to research and interrogate ideas around art making and labour. It will mirror the aesthetics of a traditional office, a nod to the need for creatives to enter environments adjacent to their practice.
The residency will culminate in an exhibition of materials gathered and recorded.

This exhibition features paintings, drawings, and sculptures by visual artists Syra Larkin, Eithne O’Riordan and sculptor Marjorie Cunningham.
“Away With The Birds” is loosely centred around this year’s festival theme of “Birds.” The exhibition showcases a blend of styles, with each artist contributing their unique interpretation of a theme that connects us through art to the beauty and power of the natural world.
Eithne O’Riordan’s work includes dynamic paintings of crows. Syra Larkin explores the bonds between humans and birds. Marjorie Cunningham’s sculptures and drawings are inspired by close observation of the mythical world.

Contemporary Applied Arts Exhibition opening on Thursday 30th April in MTU Gallery, Grand Parade at 5.30. Guest Speaker: Artist and Curator Ava Hayes.

New Artworks in ceramic, glass and textiles by 11 up and coming artists.

Sonder.
Noun: the profound realisation that every random person you see is living a life as complex, vivid, and detailed as your own.

Press Release; Launching Friday April 17 at 7pm, The Glen Tavern in partnership with F.L.P. (Fun Limerick Productions) present Seomra Comhrá, a new Visual Art experience in the city. Combining the convivial setting of the traditional Irish Public House and the imagination of artists, Seomra Comhrá (Conversation Room) is a new way of encouraging chat and bringing art into the public realm.
First up is Tim O’Neil, a Limerick based artist working from Wickham St. Studios. His practice spans collage, installation, and drawing.
Seomra Comhrá artists are Tim O’Neill (April 17-May 8), Melanie O’Rourke (May 8-29), and Dan Scully (May 29-June 18).

‘Art in Motion’ Exhibition to Open at Baile Mhuire Day Centre.

Tralee Art Group is delighted to announce their latest collaborative exhibition, ‘Art in Motion’, which will be officially opened on Tuesday, June 17th at 2.30pm at Baile Mhuire Day Centre, Balloonagh, Tralee. The opening will be led by special guest Paddy Garvey, Chairperson of Baile Mhuire, and all are welcome to attend. Guests can enjoy an afternoon of art, music and refreshments in a warm and inclusive setting.

This special exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration between members of Tralee Art Group and the clients of Baile Mhuire Day Centre, showcasing the creative energy and expression of both groups. Featuring a variety of works in different media, styles and subjects, Art in Motion celebrates movement, creativity, and community spirit.

TAG is committed to enriching the cultural life of Tralee and surrounding areas. The group regularly holds exhibitions, workshops, and community projects, and has built strong relationships with local organisations—including an ongoing volunteering partnership with Baile Mhuire.

This exhibition reflects that partnership, with art created not only by TAG members but also by clients of the Day Centre who engage weekly in creative workshops facilitated by the group volunteers from Tralee Art Group. The result is a joyful and inspiring collection of artworks, each piece telling its own story of imagination, connection, and collaboration.

All are welcome to attend the opening and celebrate this uplifting display of artistic expression in our community. The exhibition will run for a year and be available to the public weekdays between 4pm and 5pm.

Exhibition continues from 14/11/2025 to 30/04/2026.

Winter Sun is a moving-image work by Cork artist Elinor O’Donovan.

The work is a preserved piece of a warm Cork summer, saved for the months when it is most needed. Taking as its inspiration the iconic view from the top of Patrick’s Hill at Bells Field, the video work is a looping film depicting Corkonians sharing a moment of togetherness, connected by their mutual appreciation for a setting summer sun.

Projection-Mapping: Lightscape Studios
3D Artist: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah
Cinematography: Jack Desmond

Part of Island City – Cork’s Urban Sculpture Trail

This exhibition presents a selection of both historic and newly acquired abstract artworks from the permanent Waterford Art Collection. Alongside artworks can also be found archival information, newspaper cuttings, and descriptions from the artists themselves, as well as critique by a cross-section of individuals invited and interested in demystifying this still often divisive visual language.

Artworks on show by: Arthur Armstrong, Shelia Naughton, Colin Middleton, Aidan Dunne, Phoebe Donovan, Julie Cusack, Anne Yeats, Susan Connolly, Ciara Rodgers, Jonathan Wade, Susan Montgomery, Darragh Lyons, Evie Hone, John McHarg and more…

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which celebrates drawing through the mediums of etching and casting.
Opening Reception: 5pm Thursday 19 February 2026

In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material (cuttlefish/metal sheet). The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes.

Official Launch February 28th @ 2pm, opened by artist Cecilia Bullo.
‘Outlandish’ is a meditation on the role of nature in the built environment, how it is both marginalised and idealised in the way we design and shape our cities. In this exhibition, using unconventional canvas shapes, de Forge encourages the viewer to rediscover positive relationships with nature, built on curiosity, playfulness, and respect.
Owen de Forge is a Dublin-based artist working across multiple disciplines including painting, sculpture, drawing, and documentary photography.
Tues-Sat 11:00-17:30

Waterford Gallery of Art is delighted to present ‘as below, so above’, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Robert Jackson.

This exhibition brings together a selection of Jackson’s many and distinct series of works developed over the last 15 years including miniature portraiture and skyscapes (Tiny Skies), fragmented dream infused landscapes (Interruption Paintings), meticulous lace fabric studies (Secret and Solitary Vice), and an incredibly ambitious new large scale work developed specifically for the exhibition, ‘Your soul is a chosen landscape’.

Exhibition continues from 19/02/2026 to 30/04/2026.

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery.
In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material; cuttlefish and metal sheet. The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes. The work takes its inspiration from a mix of ideas, images and things that catch Reilly’s attention, from daily observations; an old yew tree, a disused church to the medieval cadaver stone slab of Thomas Ronan.

Kim Crowley is a curator based in Cork City. Her practice is concerned with expanded artist publishing as curatorial practice.
She will establish a curatorial research ‘office’ called the Office of Work (OOW) in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space. The OOW looks to research and interrogate ideas around art making and labour. It will mirror the aesthetics of a traditional office, a nod to the need for creatives to enter environments adjacent to their practice.
The residency will culminate in an exhibition of materials gathered and recorded.

Crawford Supported Studios and LHQ Gallery present ‘This is Ireland’, a showcase of the work of sixteen artists working in supported studio settings: Angela Burchill, Bríd Heffernan, David Connolly, Eoin O’Brion, Íde Ní Shúilleabháin, John Keating, Judit Bakos, Katie Whelan, Marie Sexton, Mary Rose Marshall, Nicola Moran, Rosaleen Moore, Stephen Murray, Tom O’Sullivan, Ailbhe Barrett, and Yvonne Condon.

This exhibition has now been extended until Friday 15th of May 2026.

MOTH is a group exhibition curated by Emma Quin, recipient of the Backwater Artists Emerging Curator Award 2026, featuring artists Lynn-Marie Dennehy, Andrea Newman and Pádraig Spillane. Inspired by research into the adaptive evolution of moths during the Industrial Revolution, the exhibition explores how individuals are shaped by their environments and the social structures that surround them. Through installation, photography, collage and object-based work, the artists examine themes of social conditioning, surveillance and identity in contemporary society.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “Art in Progress” an art exhibition at the Clare Museum by Learners from Youthreach, College of FET, Ennis Campus

Art in Progress showcases artwork created by Youthreach learners throughout the year in the art room. Learners, aged 15–19, come from a variety of places across County Clare and bring their own ideas, experiences, and perspectives into their work. The exhibition reflects this diversity through a range of drawings, paintings, and mixed-media pieces.

Featured Image: Processed by Christopher Beau

“Forward,” said granny in the snow – “Eteenpäin,” sanoi mummo lumessa (Finnish Proverb)
Jane Hughes and Selma Mäkelä.
Curated by Paula Barrett.

The Finnish proverb “Eteenpäin, sanoi mummo lumessa” – “Forward,” said granny in the snow – evokes resilience and determination in the face of adversity. This spirit of perseverance underpins this exhibition that brings together the work of Jane Hughes and Selma Mäkelä for the first time.

Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Culturlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘Ethereal” an exhibition by Christopher Quinn.
Following on from the success of his first exhibit “Colours in the Landscape”, Christopher Quinn returns with his follow up showing “Ethereal”. Christopher Quinn, a native of Ennis, Co. Clare fell in love with landscape photography whilst living in the Canadian Rockies. Persistence in learning from one photograph to the next engrained the need to succeed. “Ethereal” is something that resonates deeply with his approach to photography, calmness, serenity, less obtrusion, it’s the perfect signature of his work.

Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “In Clondorney Bog – An exploration of a local peatland” by the Artist Caitríona O’Sullivan.

Caitríona O’Sullivan is a landscape artist and floral designer from Tulla, Co. Clare. Her work is inspired by the colours, forms, textures and moods of the East Clare landscape. Working in pencil and pastel, her drawings express her emotional connection to the environment, highlighting its beauty, complexity and fragility. Her locality also inspires the botanical installations and arrangements she makes using dried and fresh wild plant material.

A group of artists awarded a mentoring programme through Big Look and the Kilkenny Arts Office reunite one year later to showcase the evolution of their work. Originally brought together over three months of intensive weekly sessions, this exhibition traces each artist’s journey from the first spark of an idea to fresh developments in process and vision. By capturing the progression from initial inception to refined execution, the collection reveals the endless possibilities that emerge when artistic practices are nurtured and given the essential space and time to expand, reflect, and grow.

Note: Opening times on weekends/bank holidays are 10am – 4.30pm

Join us at GOMA Waterford for the opening reception of Sanctum on Thursday 2 April 2026, 6–8pm. All welcome.

Sanctum explores contemporary spirituality through personal, non-institutional belief and ritual, drawing on pre-Christian practices, folklore, and reimagined religious symbols to address today’s environmental, political, and existential uncertainties.

Curated by Anna Jeznach & Ciara Magee, recipients of GOMA Waterford’s Emerging Curator Award 2026.

Artists: Sam Comerford, Fionn Mac Tiomáin, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh, Lara Quinn, Zuzanna Romańska, Milan Zientara.

MFA Graduate Exhibition

Elana Morchower

Karen St Pierre

Sarah Vandermeer

April 11-24, 2026

Opening Reception | April 11 | 6:00-8:00pm

Opening Remarks at 6:45 by Ruby Wallis

Through diverse mediums, (UN)EARTHED: through air, tied to each other explores ideas of nonlinearity and dreamspaces in a world marked by environmental change, displacement, and eroding certainties. With disorientation as an underlying theme, these artists suggest that entanglement is found not in fixed roots, but in the shared exposure of continuous (un)earthing.

Changing Natures: A Celebration of Artistic Alchemy and Organic Transformation by Katie Byrne, Annie Hogg and Louise Wilde. The exhibition celebrates the artist as an alchemist. It explores the art of transformation, where natural elements are given new narratives. It examines the power of art to breathe new life into that which might otherwise fade or be forgotten. The artists work with wood, water, flowers and other organic materials. Through their craft and creative vision, they turn these materials into something beautiful and lasting. They give permanence to the fragile and bring life to the raw, inviting us to view them in new light.

Press Release; Launching Friday April 17 at 7pm, The Glen Tavern in partnership with F.L.P. (Fun Limerick Productions) present Seomra Comhrá, a new Visual Art experience in the city. Combining the convivial setting of the traditional Irish Public House and the imagination of artists, Seomra Comhrá (Conversation Room) is a new way of encouraging chat and bringing art into the public realm.
First up is Tim O’Neil, a Limerick based artist working from Wickham St. Studios. His practice spans collage, installation, and drawing.
Seomra Comhrá artists are Tim O’Neill (April 17-May 8), Melanie O’Rourke (May 8-29), and Dan Scully (May 29-June 18).

Vestiges brings together 2 practices that ask how we live with what remains—traces of place, labour, & memory,& the ongoing work of belonging. Through sculpture, text, performance & printmaking, the exhibition reflects on infrastructures, both physical and psychological, that shape identity & connection within a continually shifting landscape.

O’Shea presents a deconstructed modular home examining housing precarity, instability, and creative labour. Galvin’s Flow draws on walks along the River Dodder, using expanded printmaking and community engagement to map environmental change, memory, and belonging.

Opening reception – Friday 17th April, 6 – 8pm.
This exhibition will be opened by artist Alice Maher, and accompanied by a newly commissioned essay by Catherine Marshal, curator and art historian.

April 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of STAC. This group exhibition ‘STAC at 30’ will showcase contemporary work from our national collections, including Alice Maher, Aideen Barry, John Burke, Patricia Hurl, Austin McQuinn, Ursula Burke, Sheenagh Geoghegan and Bridget O’Gorman. ‘STAC at 30’ is the first exhibition of a yearlong programme that focuses on the wonderful artists and work that continues to come out of the region.

Ormston House presents ‘Memory of a Free Festival’. The exhibition will run from 18 April until 20 June 2026.

Memory of a Free Festival is a touring exhibition and events programme taking place between March 2026 to March 2027. Conceived by Ormston House, the project responds to the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear festivals that took place in Wexford between 1978 and 1981. Featuring works by Orla Barry, Brian Duggan, Alanna O’Kelly, and Cóilín O’Connell.

Further information available here: https://ormstonhouse.com/programme/memory-of-a-free-festival/