In April 2026, Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues a growing relationship with the city of Chicago, presenting a series of exhibitions bringing together artist-led activities of the Irish art scene and American Midwest. As part of this initiative Co-Prosperity host Tuneful Places, a group exhibition exploring artists that disrupt and challenge representations of geography, state and capital within an Irish idiom.
The participating artists are John Carson, Martin Folan, Max Guy, Léann Herlihy, Niamh Schmidtke, and Frank Wasser.
Curated by Michele Horrigan and Sean Lynch
Image: John Carson, American Medley, 1981-6

Deirdre Brennan’s long-term photographic project Following Ulysses will be exhibited as part of Zones Portuaires Festival – Saint-Nazaire – France.
Following Ulysses, uses the map and structure of James Joyce’s novel to consider politics, race and class in modern Dublin.
The Port Zones Festival examines how ports and their horizons shape cinematic creation.
From May 5 to 10, 2026, the Port Zones Festival sets sail for Ireland for its 11th edition. From the submarine base (LiFE) to the Jacques Tati cinema, and including its partner venues, the event unfolds a vibrant panorama of Irish cinema.

Exhibition continues from 13/04/2026 to 16/05/2026.

We would love to extend a warm invitation to you to experience our latest online offering, Dry Facts And the Judgement of Imagination.

This is a unique take on the online exhibition format, featuring artwork by Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha and writing by Seán Ward. The exhibition adopts the signifiers (and html code) of an online state archive, it was curated and designed by Cóilín O’Connell.

Online from April 13th until May 16th, 2026.

We encourage you to experience this exhibition on your laptop or desktop computer (rather than your phone), if possible!

Curated and designed by Cóilín O’Connell.

Commissioned by Screen Service 2026.

Exhibition continues from 05/01/2026 to 31/07/2026.

To mark the 100th anniversary year of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece “ULYSSES”, the Irish Cultural Centre is delighted to Present this Spectacular Visual Art Exhibition.

‘Painting Ulysses’ comprises 18 magnificent paintings, depicting each of the 18 Episodes in James Joyce’s novel.  As each of Joyce’s episodes in ULYSSES was written in a different literary style, Hickey has designed each painting in a different visual style.

Exhibition continues from 10/02/2026 to 20/06/2026.

Portraits—The Failure of the State presents Brian Maguire’s portraits from three bodies of work that investigate the catastrophic impact of systemic violence without justice in Montana, United States; Bentiu, South Sudan; and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Maguire is an artist who looks outward, beyond the studio, engaging with the world and working in close dialogue with the families and communities of those erased, displaced, and forgotten by the failure of state institutions to serve and protect. 

Missoula Art Museum commissioned the portraits of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People of Montana for an exhibition titled Outrage and supported the project over five years.

Château La Coste, an emblematic location for contemporary art in Provence, is delighted to present Stranger, an exhibition of sculptures by Northern-Irish artist Colin Davidson, running from the 7th of March to the 22nd of June 2026 at Pavillon Renzo Piano, in the south of France.

Internationally recognised for his strikingly emotional portraits, Colin Davidson proposes a major evolution in his art practice with Stranger. This exhibition marks the first large presentation of his tridimensional artworks, while staying anchored in his engagement with paint as a tactile medium, sensible and expressive.

In April 2026, Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues a growing relationship with the city of Chicago, presenting a series of exhibitions bringing together artist-led activities of the Irish art scene and American Midwest. As part of this initiative Co-Prosperity host Tuneful Places, a group exhibition exploring artists that disrupt and challenge representations of geography, state and capital within an Irish idiom.
The participating artists are John Carson, Martin Folan, Max Guy, Léann Herlihy, Niamh Schmidtke, and Frank Wasser.
Curated by Michele Horrigan and Sean Lynch
Image: John Carson, American Medley, 1981-6

Exhibition continues from 12/04/2026 to 12/06/2026.

At the Edge of Place brings together a body of paintings shaped by Carey’s time spent in Canada, especially Alberta. Informed by memory, weather, and scale, these works are not descriptive records of place, but painterly responses to atmosphere, distance, and the emotional residue of lived experience.
Developed through a period of change, the paintings draw on moments that remained with the artist long after he had left them. Mountains, snow, water, light, and small human traces become vehicles for exploring awe, stillness, and psychological weather.

Exhibition continues from 13/04/2026 to 16/05/2026.

We would love to extend a warm invitation to you to experience our latest online offering, Dry Facts And the Judgement of Imagination.

This is a unique take on the online exhibition format, featuring artwork by Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha and writing by Seán Ward. The exhibition adopts the signifiers (and html code) of an online state archive, it was curated and designed by Cóilín O’Connell.

Online from April 13th until May 16th, 2026.

We encourage you to experience this exhibition on your laptop or desktop computer (rather than your phone), if possible!

Curated and designed by Cóilín O’Connell.

Commissioned by Screen Service 2026.

A journey into the myths and “bright stones” of the Boyne Valley in sculpture and drawing.
Irish artist, harpist, and singer Sheila Moylan will present a solo exhibition of drawing and sculpture at the Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith.

The exhibition’s title is “bright stones” or quartz in the irish language, the stones that cover the ancient monument Newgrange in Co. Meath which inspires the exhibition.

Deirdre Brennan’s long-term photographic project Following Ulysses will be exhibited as part of Zones Portuaires Festival – Saint-Nazaire – France.
Following Ulysses, uses the map and structure of James Joyce’s novel to consider politics, race and class in modern Dublin.
The Port Zones Festival examines how ports and their horizons shape cinematic creation.
From May 5 to 10, 2026, the Port Zones Festival sets sail for Ireland for its 11th edition. From the submarine base (LiFE) to the Jacques Tati cinema, and including its partner venues, the event unfolds a vibrant panorama of Irish cinema.