Publication Launch | Beacon by Niamh Seana Meehan at Muine Bheag Community Centre

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Muine Bheag Arts is delighted to launch new publication Beacon by Niamh Seana Meehan. Join us to celebrate the start of the COMMUNE programme with readings from Niamh Seana Meehan and Lucie McLaughlin.

Beacon is a travelogue which traces Niamh Seana Meehan’s explorations around the coast of Ireland with her dog, Olive. A collection of meditations, sketches, and photographs offer Meehan’s reflections on being in transit and record intimate conversations with the landscape.
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Niamh Seana Meehan is an artist working across sound, sculpture, installation, and text. Her practice explores floating as a methodological approach to nurturing our relationship with water and the wider environment. Through acts of sense-making, wayfinding, and deep listening, she invites immersive experiences that explore our entanglements with more-than-human worlds. Her work has been exhibited at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk; and Art Arcadia, Derry.

Lucie McLaughlin is an artist, writer, researcher and facilitator. Her practice focuses on expanded forms of writing, realised in publications, sound and performance readings. Her work has recently been published by Paper Visual Art, JOAN, Mirror Lamp Press, The Yellow Paper and Catalyst Arts Belfast. Her current research is based at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry where she is undertaking a collaborative PhD project with Kingston School of Art.

Muine Bheag Arts is pleased to present COMMUNE from 15th – 25th August 2025. Taking place in and around the Muine Bheag Community Centre, the programme unfolds as a collection of live events, workshops and public interventions.

COMMUNE is a site for assembling and disseminating ideas, emerging from a central studio and gathering space shared by artists, community groups, collaborators and graduates-in-residence. COMMUNE can be understood as a series of small collective actions and gestures which reach towards systems of support and connection.

COMMUNE is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Carlow Arts Office, Creative Ireland Carlow and Bagenalstown Creative Places