A Portrait of Éire | Group Exhibition at Segotia

Event Details

Curated by Zeda the Architect, this exhibition explores memory, identity, and belonging through a contemporary portrait of Ireland.

Featuring artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, it brings together painting, photography, storytelling, sound, and object-based installation.

Each contribution offers a fragment of lived experience, revealing an Éire that is intimate, layered, and evolving. Moving through personal memory and cultural symbolism, the works reframe Ireland not as a fixed identity, but as a shared, shifting narrative shaped by migration, joy, loss, community, and imagination.

It offers a space to remember, to reclaim, and to reimagine. Visitors are invited to engage with the past, the present, and what’s still becoming. This is both a love letter and a challenge. What does Ireland look like when seen by all of us?

A Portrait of Éire is a free exhibition open to everyone, running from Thurs 18th Sept – Sun 21st Sept.

Exhibition opening hours:

Thurs Opening Night: 6pm – 10pm
Fri Culture Night: 9am – 10pm
Sat: 9am – 1pm
Sun: 10am – 12pm & 4pm – 6pm

Zeda the Architect aka Oyindamola Animashaun is a Dublin-based curator, visual artist, and stylist working at the intersection of fashion, storytelling, and culture. Originally from Abeokuta, Nigeria, she has developed a multidisciplinary practice that bridges creativity, community, and sustainability.

Zeda is the founder of platforms such as THE ART OF STYLING and ZEDA AND
FRIENDS, both dedicated to celebrating Irishness, design, and collective experiences through fashion, storytelling, and new ways of gathering. Her work champions sustainable approaches to fashion and creativity, aligning with a broader commitment to reimagining how we engage with materials, culture, and each other.

Over her career, Zeda has worked on projects, shoots, fashion shows, and music videos for artists, charities, brands, and creative collectives. She was formerly Fashion Editor at VIP Publishing, producing covers, features, editorials, and shoots across Stellar, VIP, and TV NOW Magazine, and has been tapped for styling by several notable Irish celebrities and artists.

At the heart of her practice is a desire to create work that would have made her Black and Irish 13-year-old self feel seen and centering narratives that are inclusive, sustainable, and reflective of diverse lived experiences.