Award winning artist Ayelet Lalor presents her first Dublin Solo exhibition in over 10 years at Reds Gallery. Opening on 5th Nov, at 7pm. Her ceramic and mixed-media heads and busts, and vibrant prints are soulful and resilient, with the female figure as the central character. She is particularly interested in how we see, construct and present the body, and how adornment can transform, conceal or amplify our sense of self. Ayelet has exhibited extensively, and has work in many Irish public and private collections. You can expect Pop Art colour, humorous sculpture and collectable artworks on a variety of scales.

Burrow,
Stim,
Fidget.

Unmasking Nature is a sensory feast, foraged from the rich biodiversity of Ireland for the diverse ways people connect to the world around us.

Feel the temperature change as you dig your hands deep into a bowl of acorns.
Listen to a pinecone’s tune as you run your fingers over its ridges.

Society pressures neurodivergent people to mask their true selves. Yet, nature depends on diversity. Unmasking Nature is your sanctuary for restoration. Your very own cúinne an ghiorria / hare’s corner – margins of land in Irish tradition left to wild and to flourish.

Embrace neurodiversity as biodiversity.

Join us for a storytelling walking tour that uncovers the hidden forces that have powered Dublin through the ages. From Europe’s oldest fruit-bearing tree to the potential for power in the heart of the city, we’ll explore the surprising stories of energy all around us: past, present and future.

Facilitated by Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency, whose mission is to improve life in Dublin by transforming how we produce and use energy locally.

This tour is part of Unmasking Nature, an exhiibition by artist AlanJames Burns exploring the connections between neurodiversity, biodiversity and our relationship with nature.

Free Event, Booking Required.

For more information and to book, click here.

Announcing the full programme for National Arts in Education Portal Day, Saturday 7 November 2026, at TU Dublin! This free event brings together arts in education professionals to share ideas and explore creative approaches to learning.

Highlights include See Hear Play: Technology, AI & Inclusive Creativity with Fidelma Morris and Karl O’Keeffe; and Soft Day, a creative workshop with Susan Leen exploring rain as a creative lens for engaging with climate change in education.

For more information and to book, click here.

Discover the Dublin Art Society Annual Exhibition, showcasing original contemporary paintings by 50+ talented Irish artists. Featuring established professional and passionate amateur artists from Dublin and across Ireland, this vibrant exhibition celebrates the diversity and creativity of the Irish art scene. Explore unique artworks, find inspiration and discover the perfect piece for your home or a special gift for someone you love.

Join us for our opening night on 6 Nov, at 6.30 pm — all welcome!

Unmasking Nature’s trove of natural ‘stim-pilments’ is a collection of sustainably foraged materials selected for their sensory diversities – from textures & intricate patterns, to temperature, weight & the way they feel in your hand. Exploring the connections between biophilia, neurodiversity & sensory experience, participants are invited to consider their own connection to nature & how nature offers spaces to stim, regulate and experience the world without masking who we are.

Led by biophilic experts Eóin O’Raghallaigh & Melissa O’Brien as part of Unmasking Nature, an exhibition by artist AlanJames Burns.

Free event, booking required.

For more information and to book, click here.

Maps, video and photographs tell the story of an extraordinary collaboration between artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, users of Cheeverstown services for adults with disabilities, and pupils of Saint MacDara’s Community College to map plant biodiversity along the river Dodder, using the scientific tool of the quadrat as a framing device to highlight the beauty of nature while fostering environmental awareness.

Commissioned by South Dublin County Council for IN CONTEXT 5 — Connect, South Dublin County Council’s Public art programme under the Per Cent for Art Scheme.

Join us for Hugh Lane Gallery offsite talk as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2026.

An illustrated talk in which Alice Maher discusses her works, individual and collaborative, on show this year at La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh. This talk is presented as part of Hugh Lane Gallery offsite programmes.

Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.

Image- Alice Maher, Les Filles d’Ouranos, 2026, The 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia / In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh Venice, photograph.

For more information and to book, click here.

All welcome to the second event in our new season of free artist talks. In his latest series of paintings, Patrick Redmond replaces individual subjects with ventriloquist dummies and mannequins, occupying an uncanny territory between object and person. Painted in monochrome, the works evoke classic studio publicity stills while quietly undoing their promise of charm and control.

‘Lu’s Lanterns’ brings together black and white photographs of life in County Louth, made by participants from Turas and displayed on handmade willow lanterns inspired by standing stones.
Join us to celebrate the launch of this exhibition, developed over six months of workshops facilitated by artist Julie Corcoran at Creative Spark Downtown Hub. Participants used 35mm film to photograph their daily lives, then created willow lanterns to illuminate and display their images.
This project is funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through the Creative Ireland Programme and is facilitated by Louth County Council.

Photo Museum Ireland warmly invites you to celebrate the Zine launch of “Cad é an Ghaeilge ar Poppers?” by artist Elena Ní hArgáin, a photographic project documenting queer Irish-speaking communities. Over the past three years, photographer Elena Ní hArgáin has captured various groups across a vibrant cross-section of culture, including queer set dancing with AerachAiteachGaelach, the Queercal Comhrá social groups, the first ever LGBTQ+ Irish college for adults on Oileán Chléire, and Irish classes run by the world’s first explicitly LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA team. Supported through a year-long mentorship with education manager Darragh Shanahan at Photo Museum Ireland, supported with funding from Arts and Disability Ireland and Foras na Gaeilge, Elena created this distinctive photographic project, now presented as a published zine.

Fearann Fótómhúsaem na hÉireann fáilte chroíúil romhaibh chuig seoladh an irisín “Cad é an Ghaeilge ar Poppers?” leis an ealaíontóir Elena Ní hArgáin. Is tionscadal grianghrafadóireachta é seo a dhéanann taifead ar phobal aiteach na Gaeilge. Le trí bliana anuas, tá Elena Ní hArgáin tar éis grianghraif a ghlacadh de ghníomhaíochtaí grúpaí éagsúla sa phobal sin atá ag cruthú cultúr bríomhar aiteach trí mheán na Gaeilge, cuir i gcás damhsa seit aiteach le hAerachAiteachGaelach, grúpaí sóisialta an Queercal Comhrá, an chéad champa samhraidh Gaeltachta le haghaidh daoine fásta LADTA+ ar Oileán Chléire, agus na ranganna Gaeilge leis an gcéad chlub CLG ar domhan a bunaíodh go sonrach le haghaidh daoine LADTA+. Chruthaigh Elena an tionscadal uathúil grianghrafadóireachta seo le meantóireacht bhliana ó Bhainisteoir Oideachais Fótómhúsaem na hÉireann, Darragh Shanahan, agus le maoiniú ó Ealaíona agus Míchumas Éireann agus Foras na Gaeilge. Cuirfear toradh an tionscadail ar fáil mar irisín clóite.

Join us for a storytelling walking tour that uncovers the hidden forces that have powered Dublin through the ages. From Europe’s oldest fruit-bearing tree to the potential for power in the heart of the city, we’ll explore the surprising stories of energy all around us: past, present and future.

Facilitated by Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency, whose mission is to improve life in Dublin by transforming how we produce and use energy locally.

This tour is part of Unmasking Nature, an exhiibition by artist AlanJames Burns exploring the connections between neurodiversity, biodiversity and our relationship with nature.

Free Event, Booking Required.

For more information and to book, click here.

Join us for Hugh Lane Gallery offsite talk as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2026.

An illustrated talk in which Alice Maher discusses her works, individual and collaborative, on show this year at La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh. This talk is presented as part of Hugh Lane Gallery offsite programmes.

Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.

Image- Alice Maher, Les Filles d’Ouranos, 2026, The 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia / In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh Venice, photograph.

For more information and to book, click here.

Announcing the full programme for National Arts in Education Portal Day, Saturday 7 November 2026, at TU Dublin! This free event brings together arts in education professionals to share ideas and explore creative approaches to learning.

Highlights include See Hear Play: Technology, AI & Inclusive Creativity with Fidelma Morris and Karl O’Keeffe; and Soft Day, a creative workshop with Susan Leen exploring rain as a creative lens for engaging with climate change in education.

For more information and to book, click here.

Unmasking Nature’s trove of natural ‘stim-pilments’ is a collection of sustainably foraged materials selected for their sensory diversities – from textures & intricate patterns, to temperature, weight & the way they feel in your hand. Exploring the connections between biophilia, neurodiversity & sensory experience, participants are invited to consider their own connection to nature & how nature offers spaces to stim, regulate and experience the world without masking who we are.

Led by biophilic experts Eóin O’Raghallaigh & Melissa O’Brien as part of Unmasking Nature, an exhibition by artist AlanJames Burns.

Free event, booking required.

For more information and to book, click here.

The Wicklow Craft Foundation serves as a voice for the craft sector at the county level, advocating for the needs and interests of local artisans. Our mission is to create a thriving community for local crafts people, by providing resources, opportunities, and platforms to showcase their work. At the heart of the Foundation is a commitment to celebrating creativity, preserving heritage, and driving economic growth for the craft sector in Wicklow.

The Wicklow Craft Foundation showcase is a way to highlight some of the incredibly talented crafts people who are a part of our great organization.

Discover the Dublin Art Society Annual Exhibition, showcasing original contemporary paintings by 50+ talented Irish artists. Featuring established professional and passionate amateur artists from Dublin and across Ireland, this vibrant exhibition celebrates the diversity and creativity of the Irish art scene. Explore unique artworks, find inspiration and discover the perfect piece for your home or a special gift for someone you love.

Join us for our opening night on 6 Nov, at 6.30 pm — all welcome!

Artist Isabel English presents a new body of work, referencing two main sources, The Deep North by Fanny Howe (1990) and A Manual of Artistic Anatomy by C.L. Sparkes (1888). This new presentation of the artist’s work is in development with curator Mark O’Gorman and will continue towards an exhibition in 2028. As part of the presentation, Holly Pickering will deliver a performative reading entitled Names.

Opening Reception: Thursday 29 October, 6pm
Opening Hours: Tues–Sat: 11am–6pm, Sun: 12–4pm

Award winning artist Ayelet Lalor presents her first Dublin Solo exhibition in over 10 years at Reds Gallery. Opening on 5th Nov, at 7pm. Her ceramic and mixed-media heads and busts, and vibrant prints are soulful and resilient, with the female figure as the central character. She is particularly interested in how we see, construct and present the body, and how adornment can transform, conceal or amplify our sense of self. Ayelet has exhibited extensively, and has work in many Irish public and private collections. You can expect Pop Art colour, humorous sculpture and collectable artworks on a variety of scales.

Split Collective presents Convergence a vibrant new group exhibition coming to the The City Assembly House, Dublin, this November 5th-14th
Private view on Thursday 5th November 6-9pm. All are welcome.

“Convergence” is the first show outside the UK for the Split Collective, a group of over sixty painters and sculptors from Ireland, the UK, Europe and the U.S.

All artists have come through the Turps Banana School of Painting correspondence course and onsite programs. Turps run a leading painting and sculpture programme in the UK where Split Collective was formed in 2024/25.

Join us on Friday 16 October at 17:00 for the launch of Time Well Spent—an exhibition of artwork created across fourteen prisons, and in three post-release centres in Ireland. The work has been selected and curated by Órla McGovern. Over the past three months, McGovern and Irish Prison Service Arts Officer Tom Shortt have travelled to prisons throughout Ireland, meeting with artists in custody to discuss and select their work.

Admission free. All welcome.

Shiel’s series of new works for The Nature of Tables, explores instability, connection, positioning, and all the gory spills of time. These works emerge from the artist’s own experience of empty-nesting and its forced reckoning with new growth. They reflect the de-familiarised forms of a family life, detached from prior location and purpose, disembodied from context, and flattened into elemental shapes.
 

Maps, video and photographs tell the story of an extraordinary collaboration between artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, users of Cheeverstown services for adults with disabilities, and pupils of Saint MacDara’s Community College to map plant biodiversity along the river Dodder, using the scientific tool of the quadrat as a framing device to highlight the beauty of nature while fostering environmental awareness.

Commissioned by South Dublin County Council for IN CONTEXT 5 — Connect, South Dublin County Council’s Public art programme under the Per Cent for Art Scheme.

Experience James Joyce’s words in English, Irish and Braille,  combined with charcoal drawings created from life by Penny, inspired by his most famous short story ‘The Dead’.

Exhibition running for one month from 15th October to 15th November 2026.

Free lunchtime tours of the show with artist Penny Stuart will be happening at 1pm every Thursday at The James Joyce Centre, Dublin. Exhibition content is in English, Irish and braille. Stuart’s work has been translated into Irish, Hindi, Mandarin and French. Bring along your sandwiches.

Opening night (sold out) 15th October.

Wexford Arts Centre is pleased to present Cut-Flow, a solo exhibition by Lar O’Toole. The exhibition will run in D’lush Cafe from Wednesday, 7th October, to Wednesday, 18th November, 2026.

Through photography and video, Cut-Flow explores the intersecting histories, rituals and environmental realities of Our Lady’s Island. The exhibition considers how cultural memory, belief and ecological change become embedded within a landscape shaped by both natural processes and human intervention.

O’Toole’s practice has long focused on south Wexford, exploring cycles of environmental change and the relationship between human and geological timescales.

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.

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

Exhibition runs 01/10/26-23/12/26

An exhibition of landscape paintings by Wexford artist Martina Furlong. Her work explores our spiritual ties to the land, and how it links us to our ancestors, history and culture. These paintings tell the stories the land holds and celebrate the connection between us, the earth and life beyond. This is where our ancestors sat, where they harvested their food, celebrated, lamented and were laid to rest. Their ancient conversation, now whispers in the wind.

The exhibition runs from October 1st to the end of December with the official opening on Saturday, September 24th at 6pm.

Draíocht is delighted to present Sharon Murphy’s Mise en Abyme, which focuses on Parisian carousels and theatrical décor during moments of stillness and silence. Drawing on her background in theatre and informed by concepts from psychoanalysis and magic realism in literature, this work highlights Murphy’s longstanding interest in staged spaces and the performative in photography.

Mise en Abyme was originally commissioned by Nora Hickey M’Sichili, Director Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, where it premiered in 2024. In association with Photo Museum Ireland and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, the exhibition toured in Ireland in 2025.

Avenues into Modern & Contemporary Art
Dates: Saturday 3 October 2026– Saturday 3 April 2027 (excl. 24 October 2026 and 28 March 2027 Bank Holidays)

This series of illustrated art history lectures will look at the diverse range of influences, subject matter and artistic movements explored by some of the most innovative artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Throughout the course artworks from the Hugh Lane Gallery’s permanent collection will be among the artworks explored. These illustrated lectures will offer the opportunity for exploring engaging and wide-ranging themes from art history to contemporary visual art practice.

Wexford Arts Centre is pleased to present Cut-Flow, a solo exhibition by Lar O’Toole. The exhibition will run in D’lush Cafe from Wednesday, 7th October, to Wednesday, 18th November, 2026.

Through photography and video, Cut-Flow explores the intersecting histories, rituals and environmental realities of Our Lady’s Island. The exhibition considers how cultural memory, belief and ecological change become embedded within a landscape shaped by both natural processes and human intervention.

O’Toole’s practice has long focused on south Wexford, exploring cycles of environmental change and the relationship between human and geological timescales.

All the People We Will Never Meet
A solo exhibition by Thomas Brezing

Curated by Cherry Smyth

at Wexford Arts Centre
10th October – 16th December 2026

Opening Event: Saturday, 10th October at 4pm
Guest Speaker: Writer and Critic Niall MacMonagle

This exhibition grew out of a 15-year correspondence between artist Thomas Brezing and writer Cherry Smyth, founded in their common addiction to painting and poetry. It includes a potent and tender series of ‘Head Paintings’, 2020-2026, beside earlier large paintings, 2008-2020, which establish themes of transcendence and obliteration.

Chorus – A solo exhibition by Richard Malone
Wexford County Council

Curated by Karla Sánchez Zepeda and Catherine Bowe

12th October – 20th November 2026
Opening: Saturday 10th October at 2 p.m.

Guest Speaker: Seán Kissane, Curator – Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art

Working across sculpture, textiles, drawing, installation and performance, Malone has developed a distinctive practice rooted in material, skill and craft. His work explores ideas around Irishness, identity, queerness, place and cultural history, drawing on both personal experience and wider histories of making and labour.

Exhibition runs 07/10/26-29/11/26.

‘BEACONS’ is an exhibition of fine-art etchings by Susan Early charting a journey through lighthouses and martello towers around Ireland’s coast.
Through these prints, Susan Early examines lighthouses and martello towers as enduring maritime landmarks—structures shaped by their landscapes, responsive to the elements and emblematic of protection, navigation and resilience at the meeting point of land and sea. Shaped by both geography and climate, these landmarks were conceived not only as navigational beacons but also as protective refuges, homes and workplaces.

Shiel’s series of new works for The Nature of Tables, explores instability, connection, positioning, and all the gory spills of time. These works emerge from the artist’s own experience of empty-nesting and its forced reckoning with new growth. They reflect the de-familiarised forms of a family life, detached from prior location and purpose, disembodied from context, and flattened into elemental shapes.
 

Experience James Joyce’s words in English, Irish and Braille,  combined with charcoal drawings created from life by Penny, inspired by his most famous short story ‘The Dead’.

Exhibition running for one month from 15th October to 15th November 2026.

Free lunchtime tours of the show with artist Penny Stuart will be happening at 1pm every Thursday at The James Joyce Centre, Dublin. Exhibition content is in English, Irish and braille. Stuart’s work has been translated into Irish, Hindi, Mandarin and French. Bring along your sandwiches.

Opening night (sold out) 15th October.

Join us on Friday 16 October at 17:00 for the launch of Time Well Spent—an exhibition of artwork created across fourteen prisons, and in three post-release centres in Ireland. The work has been selected and curated by Órla McGovern. Over the past three months, McGovern and Irish Prison Service Arts Officer Tom Shortt have travelled to prisons throughout Ireland, meeting with artists in custody to discuss and select their work.

Admission free. All welcome.

The Good Neighbour is a group exhibition curated by Rachel Botha. Through an open call format artists from Offaly and its neighbouring counties Galway, Roscommon, Tipperary, Laois, Westmeath, Kildare and Meath were invited to propose an artwork that engaged with the idea of ‘the good neighbour’. This could be interpreted as the central subject or an intrinsic approach to the making of the work, and understood from varied positions. The exhibition includes artists with differing practices and artworks spanning mediums of painting, video, textiles and more.

Opening Event: Thursday 22nd October 6pm-8pm.

Plantation is a new solo exhibition by artist Rehana Zaman, exploring land use, labour and environmental collapse through the experiences of agricultural workers.

The exhibition includes two new films presented within an immersive sculptural landscape. The films Soft Fruit (filmed in Angus, Scotland) and Jo Kherray so Khaey (filmed in Punjab, Pakistan), follow migrant seasonal workers, sharecroppers, tenants and day labourers as they pick, prepare and transport cash crops.

Exhibition runs 16/10/26 – 28/11/26.

Born to be alive. will be built, formed, born across 6 weeks in our gallery.

We are using an experimental approach to exhibition making for this iteration of our group show.

The exhibition will close on Saturday 28th November with a gathering.

It began with a soft rumble of 6 building blocks from our research:

Camera /
Berries /
Text /
Record Player /
Chairs /
Rocks /

Over the next 6 weeks as we add artworks we invite audiences to visit and see how the work develops.
Info about artists & artworks added and happenings taking place will be published to our website each week.

The Wicklow Craft Foundation serves as a voice for the craft sector at the county level, advocating for the needs and interests of local artisans. Our mission is to create a thriving community for local crafts people, by providing resources, opportunities, and platforms to showcase their work. At the heart of the Foundation is a commitment to celebrating creativity, preserving heritage, and driving economic growth for the craft sector in Wicklow.

The Wicklow Craft Foundation showcase is a way to highlight some of the incredibly talented crafts people who are a part of our great organization.

Artist Isabel English presents a new body of work, referencing two main sources, The Deep North by Fanny Howe (1990) and A Manual of Artistic Anatomy by C.L. Sparkes (1888). This new presentation of the artist’s work is in development with curator Mark O’Gorman and will continue towards an exhibition in 2028. As part of the presentation, Holly Pickering will deliver a performative reading entitled Names.

Opening Reception: Thursday 29 October, 6pm
Opening Hours: Tues–Sat: 11am–6pm, Sun: 12–4pm

Official opening Friday 30 October at 6pm – all welcome!

For his debut solo show, Illustrated Parts Breakdown, interdisciplinary artist Ben Morrison unites broken machine parts with fieldstone extractions in a considered scenography of form, light and space. Over the course of the exhibition’s duration, the artist will test the formalities of the white cube, transforming the gallery space into a site of ongoing labour. Through his use of sculpture, moving image and durational performance, the artist makes visible the injury and questions the act of repair.

Split Collective presents Convergence a vibrant new group exhibition coming to the The City Assembly House, Dublin, this November 5th-14th
Private view on Thursday 5th November 6-9pm. All are welcome.

“Convergence” is the first show outside the UK for the Split Collective, a group of over sixty painters and sculptors from Ireland, the UK, Europe and the U.S.

All artists have come through the Turps Banana School of Painting correspondence course and onsite programs. Turps run a leading painting and sculpture programme in the UK where Split Collective was formed in 2024/25.

‘Lu’s Lanterns’ brings together black and white photographs of life in County Louth, made by participants from Turas and displayed on handmade willow lanterns inspired by standing stones.
Join us to celebrate the launch of this exhibition, developed over six months of workshops facilitated by artist Julie Corcoran at Creative Spark Downtown Hub. Participants used 35mm film to photograph their daily lives, then created willow lanterns to illuminate and display their images.
This project is funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through the Creative Ireland Programme and is facilitated by Louth County Council.

Photo Museum Ireland warmly invites you to celebrate the Zine launch of “Cad é an Ghaeilge ar Poppers?” by artist Elena Ní hArgáin, a photographic project documenting queer Irish-speaking communities. Over the past three years, photographer Elena Ní hArgáin has captured various groups across a vibrant cross-section of culture, including queer set dancing with AerachAiteachGaelach, the Queercal Comhrá social groups, the first ever LGBTQ+ Irish college for adults on Oileán Chléire, and Irish classes run by the world’s first explicitly LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA team. Supported through a year-long mentorship with education manager Darragh Shanahan at Photo Museum Ireland, supported with funding from Arts and Disability Ireland and Foras na Gaeilge, Elena created this distinctive photographic project, now presented as a published zine.

Fearann Fótómhúsaem na hÉireann fáilte chroíúil romhaibh chuig seoladh an irisín “Cad é an Ghaeilge ar Poppers?” leis an ealaíontóir Elena Ní hArgáin. Is tionscadal grianghrafadóireachta é seo a dhéanann taifead ar phobal aiteach na Gaeilge. Le trí bliana anuas, tá Elena Ní hArgáin tar éis grianghraif a ghlacadh de ghníomhaíochtaí grúpaí éagsúla sa phobal sin atá ag cruthú cultúr bríomhar aiteach trí mheán na Gaeilge, cuir i gcás damhsa seit aiteach le hAerachAiteachGaelach, grúpaí sóisialta an Queercal Comhrá, an chéad champa samhraidh Gaeltachta le haghaidh daoine fásta LADTA+ ar Oileán Chléire, agus na ranganna Gaeilge leis an gcéad chlub CLG ar domhan a bunaíodh go sonrach le haghaidh daoine LADTA+. Chruthaigh Elena an tionscadal uathúil grianghrafadóireachta seo le meantóireacht bhliana ó Bhainisteoir Oideachais Fótómhúsaem na hÉireann, Darragh Shanahan, agus le maoiniú ó Ealaíona agus Míchumas Éireann agus Foras na Gaeilge. Cuirfear toradh an tionscadail ar fáil mar irisín clóite.

All welcome to the second event in our new season of free artist talks. In his latest series of paintings, Patrick Redmond replaces individual subjects with ventriloquist dummies and mannequins, occupying an uncanny territory between object and person. Painted in monochrome, the works evoke classic studio publicity stills while quietly undoing their promise of charm and control.