An Act of Madness is a collaboration between writer Martin Towey and photographic artist Suella Wynne, inspired by the few details known about his great-grandmother, Bridget Towey (née Flanagan), and her committal to Connaught District Lunatic Asylum in 1914. Suella’s images provide a visual context for the story, exploring Ireland’s history of mental health care, wrongful institutionalisation, and societal attitudes toward postnatal depression and mental illness.

The project aims to spark dialogue about how mental health is understood and discussed today, confronting the silence and stigma that have persisted across generations.

Portraits of Herstory is an exhibition celebrating extraordinary women whose contributions have been downplayed, overlooked, forgotten, or erased from history. Through a series of mixed-media portraits, this collection honours and retells the stories of remarkable women who defied convention, broke barriers, and changed the world.

Exhibition continues from 28/02/2026 to 10/04/2026.

Stephen Dunne’s practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach, is at the core of this work. The work is realised as painting installations, books, printed matter, works on paper, animations, and as collective artworks (made collaboratively with others). Critical to this process is an interest in philosophy of mind, drawing on aspects of the subconscious to enable freer, less conscious or less self-reflexive aspects to come through in the final work.

Portraits of Herstory is an exhibition celebrating extraordinary women whose contributions have been downplayed, overlooked, forgotten, or erased from history. Through a series of mixed-media portraits, this collection honours and retells the stories of remarkable women who defied convention, broke barriers, and changed the world.

Exhibition continues from 28/02/2026 to 10/04/2026.

Stephen Dunne’s practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach, is at the core of this work. The work is realised as painting installations, books, printed matter, works on paper, animations, and as collective artworks (made collaboratively with others). Critical to this process is an interest in philosophy of mind, drawing on aspects of the subconscious to enable freer, less conscious or less self-reflexive aspects to come through in the final work.

The AIB Portrait Prize and AIB Young Portrait Prize bring outstanding contemporary portraiture from the National Gallery of Ireland to Letterkenny. Featuring shortlisted artists selected by an expert panel of judges, the exhibition celebrates excellence, innovation and strong local representation, while reflecting the vitality of portrait practice across Ireland today.