Beirt le chéile | Bernadette Cotter & Aíne Ryan at the Grilse Gallery

Event Details

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.’