Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney Library Gallery is delighted to present Mary, Mary, by London born-Irish photographer, Mary Musgrove, previously shown at the London Irish Centre, Camden.

Mary, Mary’ is set during the period 1921 – 1998, a time when the Catholic Church had significant influence in Irish society.

Mary has used Therapeutic Photography to express a semi-autobiographical account of her own family’s generational trauma. This project researches the story of Mary’s mother Teresa and her stolen sister, ‘Mary’ – a journey of understanding and forgiveness.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “Through our Artists’ Eyes” by Inis Artists. This new collection represents a fusion of traditional and modern art in a wide range of media and original styles. Founded over 20 years ago, the Clare based visual arts group currently comprises twelve talented local artists who meet regularly to organise exhibitions and events throughout the west of Ireland and to highlight their members’ work.

Exhibition continues from the 1st of November to the 31st of January 2026

Opening reception Thursday 06 November 5.30-6.30pm

The Winter Exhibition is a seasonal showcase of the best in Irish art, craft and design including paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and much more, with prices to suit every budget in the run-up to Christmas and into the New Year. Support local artists and makers as well as Lavit Gallery, a not-for-profit arts organisation and registered charity. Each year the exhibition features work by over 50 artists and makers including regular contributors and new additions.

Exhibition continues from the 1st of November to the 29th of November 2025

Opening Saturday 1Nov 4–6pm, GOMA Waterford

Through the combined mediums of photography, textile, and sculpture, artist Isabel English extends from the literary genre of autofiction – merging autobiographical truths with fictionalised renderings – to create contextually sensitive installations. Drawing on the architecture of the home, they fuse sites of personal significance with the politics of psychology. Body and building become analogous: the body acts as an architecture housing emotional interiority, while the building aspires to protect those who dwell within it.

Gallery opens 11am–5pm, closed on Sundays and Mondays.

In each Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories lecture, Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews will focus on a particular painting to recount its history. 

Week 2: The Weeping Woman Pablo Picasso, 1937

The Weeping Woman is one of a series of portraits by Pablo Picasso that are among the most wrenching in the history of art. Their appearance in 1937 can be seen as emblems of the upheavals that convulsed Europe during the tumultuous years preceding World War II.

Exhibition continues from the 19th of September to the 22nd of January 2026

Group exhibition showcasing artwork from the Waterford Art Collection as well as loans, commissions and open call submissions inspired by our relationship with the sea. Artists include Killian Browne, Maura Culbert, Mick O’Dea, Phoebe Donovan, Paul Henry, Jane Jermyn, Patrick Leonard, Tanja Novacic, Eilis O’Toole, Clare Scott, John Skelton, Jack Thompson, Síle Walsh and more.

Since the first Cork Zine Fest (CZF) hosted in St Peter’s Cork in partnership with The Friary, CZF has been focused on bringing together and promoting the Zine community in Cork and across Ireland.

Each festival includes a weekend market with a series of engagement events including workshops, zine readings and panel discussions. CZF is a zine-maker focused market and festival that runs an annual market and event programme, alongside a Zine Club that offers open zine-making sessions to the general public.

Over a three-week residency period the CZF team will facilitate and oversee a programme that is focused around zine making and use it as a tool for community building and a platform to support and promote fellow zine makers.

The outcome of these programmed events will be exhibited within Triskel Sample Project Space and will include a Zine library to showcase the zines made by all the participants. 

Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery presents the now annual Open Call Winter Exhibition which will run throughout November and December 2025. 76 works from 71 Cork-based artists will be presented in Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery in the County Library. You are warmly invited to the opening on Friday, the 7th of November from 6-8pm.

Traditionally, the worth of a dancer’s career has been measured by time spent in the limelight. Yet a dancer’s experience of their career extends beyond the stage. Dance Stories, the latest iteration of Laura Murphy’s multi-media portfolio project exploring the lives of eight women in dance in Ireland, expands our understanding of dance beyond traditional structures into the personal realm.

This installation features audio visual presentations of the lives and work of Lisa Cliffe, Mary Nunan and Angie Smalis.

The Glucksman Craft + Design Fair returns this November, showcasing high quality Irish craft and design in the beautiful setting of the gallery’s award-winning exhibition spaces. Over 50 selected participants will showcase their imaginative work in textiles, jewellery, print, ceramics, stationery, furniture, glass and woodturning.

Craft + Design Fair Opening Hours:

1-7pm, Friday 7 November.

10am-6pm Saturday 8 November.

11am-5pm Sunday 9 November.

An admission charge of €8/€5 with an event flyer supports the gallery access programmes.

Phil Collins, 2004 | Courtesy Shady Lane Productions, Berlin

Light Moves returns to Belltable with a screening of the critically acclaimed they shoot horses (2004) by Turner Prize nominated artist Phil Collins, a video installation which traverses the turbulent territory between performance and moving image. they shoot horses depicts a disco dance marathon Collins organised more than two decades ago with a group of young people from Ramallah in Palestine.

This presentation is held in solidarity with the people. Donations encouraged to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Launch: Wednesday October 1st, 6:30pm

This exhibition explores the connection between voice, self and community. Through the medium of photography, the collective demonstrates the importance that creativity has in conveying current cultural values, legacy for future generations, identity and wellbeing, and the importance of holding space. This exhibition is a participatory experience, and we invite all attendees to bring smartphones and headphones to unlock audio reflections and soundscapes that accompany the photographs.

Page Turners is an exhibition of artists’ books which launches in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral at 5:30pm on Thursday, September 4th.
This autumn exhibition in the cathedral ambulatory invites visitors to linger and spend time exploring selected artists’ books from across Ireland, the UK and France.
Selected national and international book artists include Ambeck Design, Coracle Press, Helen Douglas, Paul Gaffney, Helena Grimes, ottoGraphic Books, Road Books, and Tom Sowden. Editions will be for sale through the cathedral shop.

Page-turners is co-curated with MTU Crawford College of Art & Design and is an important moment at the cathedral as we pioneer a rolling arts programme.

There will also be a panel discussion at the cathedral at 12:30pm on Thursday, September 18th.
The exhibition runs until October 31st, 2025

There no charge to see this exhibition: email arts@stfinbarres.ie to receive your ticket.

The Great Book of Ireland is an extraordinary vellum manuscript which contains the original work of 120 artists, 140 poets and nine composers.

All of the contributors were asked one thing – please convey your hopes, joys, fears, loves in being an Irish person at the turn of the second millennium. Described by former president, Mary Robinson, as “the Book of Kells of the second millennium”, artists and writers who contributed include Samuel Beckett, Eavan Boland, Cecily Brennan, Louis le Brocquy, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Barrie Cooke, Dorothy Cross, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Seamus Heaney, Eithne Jordan, Michael Longley, John Montague, Tony O’Malley, Kathy Prendergast, and Patrick Scott.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view the original manuscript as well as to use a digital touchscreen to turn the pages and explore the exceptional range of artistic practices brought together in this unique cultural artefact.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view the original manuscript as well as to use a digital touchscreen to turn the pages and explore the exceptional range of artistic practices brought together in this unique cultural artefact.

The Great Book of Ireland is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork, and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.

Sara Flynn, Sueharu Fukami, Shihoko Fukumoto, Joe Hogan, Eiko Kishi, Frances Lambe, Deirdre McLoughlin, O’Donnell + Tuomey, Satoru Ozaki, Sean Scully, Joseph Walsh, Kan Yasuda, Osamu Yokoyama.

Curated by Wahei Aoyama and Joseph Walsh.

RINN explores the culture of making and its relationship to place and time through the work of Irish and Japanese artists and architects. While each piece is a personal expression of form, their works are united by an immersion in the culture of making. Whether drawing on craft heritage – the materials and skills associated with place – or challenging new techniques and pursing new materials, they all share an intimate relationship with the handmade.

Rinn in Gaelic means place or a point – and in Japanese, the same word means circle, ring or circularity. Joseph Walsh has observed that the meaning in both languages strongly represents ideas inherent in his practice, of place and this moment in time, within a continuous cycle of time.

Presented by Making In by Joseph Walsh Studio as part of the Ireland Japan 2025 programme in partnership with the Government of Ireland, the exhibition premiered in April at both Ireland House and A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo.

The Glucksman is proud to host the show on its return to Ireland.

RINN is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork, Government of Ireland, Ireland Japan 2025, A Lighthouse Called Kanata, and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.

Exploring West Cork’s hidden coves by kayak, Bernadette gathers clays and sea-altered debris, which she later transforms through ceramic processes into vessels she calls a claytography of the coastline—tactile notations of time, place, and transformation.
Alongside kiln-cast glass pieces that embody her emotional and physical responses to ocean waters, the ceramics hold the energy, texture, and temporality of the sites they emerge from. Each work speaks to geological time, the impermanence of coastlines, and the fragile balance between humanity and environment.

In each Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories lecture, Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews will focus on a particular painting to recount its history. 

Week 2: The Weeping Woman Pablo Picasso, 1937

The Weeping Woman is one of a series of portraits by Pablo Picasso that are among the most wrenching in the history of art. Their appearance in 1937 can be seen as emblems of the upheavals that convulsed Europe during the tumultuous years preceding World War II.

The Glucksman Craft + Design Fair returns this November, showcasing high quality Irish craft and design in the beautiful setting of the gallery’s award-winning exhibition spaces. Over 50 selected participants will showcase their imaginative work in textiles, jewellery, print, ceramics, stationery, furniture, glass and woodturning.

Craft + Design Fair Opening Hours:

1-7pm, Friday 7 November.

10am-6pm Saturday 8 November.

11am-5pm Sunday 9 November.

An admission charge of €8/€5 with an event flyer supports the gallery access programmes.

Grief’s Current Shape – a new thread based exhibition by Ciara O’Connor
“If I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it’s inescapable.”
-Edna O’Brien

Grief has seeped into my bones and I suspect it will never leave. But it is so much more than sorrow and despair. It is an ever changing expression of love. We loved them and they loved us. For me, sometimes that love is a rush of warmth when I look down at my hands and see hers.

Sometimes it’s a stab of regret for the hurtful thing I said to him. Sometimes it’s a crumble to the floor when I am overcome by the loss and cruelty of it all. But sometimes now, as the waves of sadness move further and further apart, it is bountiful gratitude for everything it has taught me.

Grief’s Current Shape is an exploration of the various stages of grief, and a personal attempt to lean into it all.

About Ciara
Ciara O’Connor is a Kerry based visual artist who works primarily with textiles and free motion embroidery. Her work is figurative and deals with themes of identity, feminism, trauma and recovery. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of traditional techniques to tell contemporary stories.

Since returning to her practice in 2019 she has been selected for 15 group shows, including Following Threads in Crawford Art Gallery, and RUA and RSA Annuals. She had her first solo show in Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2022, and has featured in FAIRE, Image Magazine, The Irish Examiner, The Kerryman, and VAN Jan/Feb 2024. Her second solo show opens from Sept 6 in Garter Lane Arts Centre.

Phil Collins, 2004 | Courtesy Shady Lane Productions, Berlin

Light Moves returns to Belltable with a screening of the critically acclaimed they shoot horses (2004) by Turner Prize nominated artist Phil Collins, a video installation which traverses the turbulent territory between performance and moving image. they shoot horses depicts a disco dance marathon Collins organised more than two decades ago with a group of young people from Ramallah in Palestine.

This presentation is held in solidarity with the people. Donations encouraged to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Traditionally, the worth of a dancer’s career has been measured by time spent in the limelight. Yet a dancer’s experience of their career extends beyond the stage. Dance Stories, the latest iteration of Laura Murphy’s multi-media portfolio project exploring the lives of eight women in dance in Ireland, expands our understanding of dance beyond traditional structures into the personal realm.

This installation features audio visual presentations of the lives and work of Lisa Cliffe, Mary Nunan and Angie Smalis.

Exhibition continues until 9th November 2025.

This exhibition gathers work from the past two years, ranging from figurative pieces to semi-abstract imagined landscapes. At its heart is a dialogue between memory, place, and transformation. Many of the works are inspired by the landscape and history of Ballyvourney and its surroundings — from the woods near St. Gobnait’s to quiet places where nature steadily reclaims traces of the past.

Eithne O’Riordan is an artist living on the Dingle Peninsula but from Ballyvourney, Co Cork. She has previously shown work in  the Lavit Gallery, the Millcove Gallery, An Diseart, and Siamsa Tíre, but Echoes/Macallaí marks her first solo exhibition.

Image: Forgotten Paths  2025. Oil on Canvas

Let’s Not Talk About This Now is a solo exhibition of drawings, sculptures, and prints by Peter Nash at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which opens on Culture Night. 

Taking the form of an exploded encyclopedia, or chaotic museum exhibit, his visual explorations are open-ended and inherently human; a continuous search for understanding in a rapidly evolving digital age.

Whilst the exhibition aesthetic is influenced by museums and reference books, there are no claims to authority being made. There are deliberately more questions posed than answers presented.

Artist Talk 8 October 1pm

Opening Reception 16 October, 6pm.

Backwater Artists Group is delighted to present The Paradise. [mother unmothered], a solo exhibition by Backwater Artists Network member, Pauline Keena.

This important body of work illuminates’ women’s stories in recent Irish history around the subject of motherhood, separation and loss, in relation to forced adoption for unmarried women and girls who were pregnant outside of marriage.

‘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.

The Great Book of Ireland is an extraordinary vellum manuscript which contains the original work of 120 artists, 140 poets and nine composers.

All of the contributors were asked one thing – please convey your hopes, joys, fears, loves in being an Irish person at the turn of the second millennium. Described by former president, Mary Robinson, as “the Book of Kells of the second millennium”, artists and writers who contributed include Samuel Beckett, Eavan Boland, Cecily Brennan, Louis le Brocquy, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Barrie Cooke, Dorothy Cross, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Seamus Heaney, Eithne Jordan, Michael Longley, John Montague, Tony O’Malley, Kathy Prendergast, and Patrick Scott.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view the original manuscript as well as to use a digital touchscreen to turn the pages and explore the exceptional range of artistic practices brought together in this unique cultural artefact.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view the original manuscript as well as to use a digital touchscreen to turn the pages and explore the exceptional range of artistic practices brought together in this unique cultural artefact.

The Great Book of Ireland is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork, and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.

Sara Flynn, Sueharu Fukami, Shihoko Fukumoto, Joe Hogan, Eiko Kishi, Frances Lambe, Deirdre McLoughlin, O’Donnell + Tuomey, Satoru Ozaki, Sean Scully, Joseph Walsh, Kan Yasuda, Osamu Yokoyama.

Curated by Wahei Aoyama and Joseph Walsh.

RINN explores the culture of making and its relationship to place and time through the work of Irish and Japanese artists and architects. While each piece is a personal expression of form, their works are united by an immersion in the culture of making. Whether drawing on craft heritage – the materials and skills associated with place – or challenging new techniques and pursing new materials, they all share an intimate relationship with the handmade.

Rinn in Gaelic means place or a point – and in Japanese, the same word means circle, ring or circularity. Joseph Walsh has observed that the meaning in both languages strongly represents ideas inherent in his practice, of place and this moment in time, within a continuous cycle of time.

Presented by Making In by Joseph Walsh Studio as part of the Ireland Japan 2025 programme in partnership with the Government of Ireland, the exhibition premiered in April at both Ireland House and A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo.

The Glucksman is proud to host the show on its return to Ireland.

RINN is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork, Government of Ireland, Ireland Japan 2025, A Lighthouse Called Kanata, and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.

Page Turners is an exhibition of artists’ books which launches in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral at 5:30pm on Thursday, September 4th.
This autumn exhibition in the cathedral ambulatory invites visitors to linger and spend time exploring selected artists’ books from across Ireland, the UK and France.
Selected national and international book artists include Ambeck Design, Coracle Press, Helen Douglas, Paul Gaffney, Helena Grimes, ottoGraphic Books, Road Books, and Tom Sowden. Editions will be for sale through the cathedral shop.

Page-turners is co-curated with MTU Crawford College of Art & Design and is an important moment at the cathedral as we pioneer a rolling arts programme.

There will also be a panel discussion at the cathedral at 12:30pm on Thursday, September 18th.
The exhibition runs until October 31st, 2025

There no charge to see this exhibition: email arts@stfinbarres.ie to receive your ticket.

Grief’s Current Shape – a new thread based exhibition by Ciara O’Connor
“If I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it’s inescapable.”
-Edna O’Brien

Grief has seeped into my bones and I suspect it will never leave. But it is so much more than sorrow and despair. It is an ever changing expression of love. We loved them and they loved us. For me, sometimes that love is a rush of warmth when I look down at my hands and see hers.

Sometimes it’s a stab of regret for the hurtful thing I said to him. Sometimes it’s a crumble to the floor when I am overcome by the loss and cruelty of it all. But sometimes now, as the waves of sadness move further and further apart, it is bountiful gratitude for everything it has taught me.

Grief’s Current Shape is an exploration of the various stages of grief, and a personal attempt to lean into it all.

About Ciara
Ciara O’Connor is a Kerry based visual artist who works primarily with textiles and free motion embroidery. Her work is figurative and deals with themes of identity, feminism, trauma and recovery. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of traditional techniques to tell contemporary stories.

Since returning to her practice in 2019 she has been selected for 15 group shows, including Following Threads in Crawford Art Gallery, and RUA and RSA Annuals. She had her first solo show in Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2022, and has featured in FAIRE, Image Magazine, The Irish Examiner, The Kerryman, and VAN Jan/Feb 2024. Her second solo show opens from Sept 6 in Garter Lane Arts Centre.

Liminal Landscapes is a two-person exhibition featuring painter Gabhann Dunne and sculptor/writer Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe. Exploring transitions from ecological change to the boundaries of sculpture and writing, Dunne’s paintings respond to the Burren’s ecological narratives and the resilience of the Burren Pines. Hynan-Ratcliffe’s sculptural and written works engage with materiality, feminist perspectives, and cycles of grief and renewal. Together, their practices create a dialogue across nature, identity, and time, inviting reflection on our impact and connection to the earth

Let’s Not Talk About This Now is a solo exhibition of drawings, sculptures, and prints by Peter Nash at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which opens on Culture Night. 

Taking the form of an exploded encyclopedia, or chaotic museum exhibit, his visual explorations are open-ended and inherently human; a continuous search for understanding in a rapidly evolving digital age.

Whilst the exhibition aesthetic is influenced by museums and reference books, there are no claims to authority being made. There are deliberately more questions posed than answers presented.

Artist Talk 8 October 1pm

Exhibition continues 27 September – 22 November 2025.

“So Nice Day” by the Carrowbeg Artist Collective invites viewers into an immersive dialogue between art, ecology, and lived experience. Created by seven artists with intellectual disabilities, the exhibition weaves natural materials with personal narratives, exploring sensory awareness, sustainability, and our bond with nature. By amplifying diverse voices, CHG&S highlights the transformative power of art, fostering inclusion and deepening cultural conversations around ecology and accessibility.

Launch: Wednesday October 1st, 6:30pm

This exhibition explores the connection between voice, self and community. Through the medium of photography, the collective demonstrates the importance that creativity has in conveying current cultural values, legacy for future generations, identity and wellbeing, and the importance of holding space. This exhibition is a participatory experience, and we invite all attendees to bring smartphones and headphones to unlock audio reflections and soundscapes that accompany the photographs.

Exploring West Cork’s hidden coves by kayak, Bernadette gathers clays and sea-altered debris, which she later transforms through ceramic processes into vessels she calls a claytography of the coastline—tactile notations of time, place, and transformation.
Alongside kiln-cast glass pieces that embody her emotional and physical responses to ocean waters, the ceramics hold the energy, texture, and temporality of the sites they emerge from. Each work speaks to geological time, the impermanence of coastlines, and the fragile balance between humanity and environment.

Opening Reception 16 October, 6pm.

Backwater Artists Group is delighted to present The Paradise. [mother unmothered], a solo exhibition by Backwater Artists Network member, Pauline Keena.

This important body of work illuminates’ women’s stories in recent Irish history around the subject of motherhood, separation and loss, in relation to forced adoption for unmarried women and girls who were pregnant outside of marriage.

Exhibition continues until 9th November 2025.

This exhibition gathers work from the past two years, ranging from figurative pieces to semi-abstract imagined landscapes. At its heart is a dialogue between memory, place, and transformation. Many of the works are inspired by the landscape and history of Ballyvourney and its surroundings — from the woods near St. Gobnait’s to quiet places where nature steadily reclaims traces of the past.

Eithne O’Riordan is an artist living on the Dingle Peninsula but from Ballyvourney, Co Cork. She has previously shown work in  the Lavit Gallery, the Millcove Gallery, An Diseart, and Siamsa Tíre, but Echoes/Macallaí marks her first solo exhibition.

Image: Forgotten Paths  2025. Oil on Canvas

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “The Land of Olives” by Marianne Potterton.

Marianne Potterton is a visual artist based in Doolin Co. Clare. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Painting from Crawford College of Art and a Masters in Europe Fine Art in Barcelona through Southampton University.

Though her first love is painting, her practice spans across and connects a diverse range of disciplines.

Exhibition continues from the 18th of October to the 23rd of November 2025

Ryan’s practice ranges from object making to site-specific interventions, creating sculptural pieces with glass and mixed media. Frustrations, anxieties and personal history are catalysts in her work interrogating the social construct of feminine identity and the value of women in the rural patriarchal space.

Catharsis is key to Cotter’s practice. In drawings, textiles or performance, the level of detail in her work is astonishing. She says: ‘The drawings are made up of thousands of little units. Either dots or words or the same gesture, repeated over and over: a form of meditation.’