Events

“We do not care for what we do not know, and on the whole we do not know what we cannot name.” Robert Mcfarlane, 2015  The works in this exhibition are inspired by Róisín Lewis’s bicycle journeys through the Irish landscape. During the summer, she is struck by the diversityhtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 04/09/26-30/10/26. LHQ Gallery is pleased to present thirty 6-inch top-down all-purpose, a new solo exhibition by artist Maitiú MacCárthaigh, exploring the shifting realities of contemporary rural Ireland through sculpture, installation and material experimentation. This exhibition coincides with Mac Cárthaigh's exhibition hay boy, gay boy at Cork Printmakershtml Read more →

Limerick 9 & 16 September Online 22 & 23 October Free, registration required. We are delighted to announce the return of New Life Old Buildings, our national programme exploring how caring for the buildings we already have can help shape more connected, sustainable and resilient places. New Life Old Buildingshtml Read more →

The aphotic is the dark where no light reaches. Carlingford Lough has its own kind of dark; sediment-thick, tidal, closing over quickly. Drawing on the lough’s marine science, Suzanne Carroll paints its unseen depths in oil and encaustic, makes her own pigment from its shore, and catalogues what the tidehtml Read more →

Between Cloud and Ground marks a new body of work from ceramic artist Ciara Campbell-Crawford, introducing new forms that reach beyond the vessel into open space. Inspired by the vast, dramatic skies of Ireland, where light shifts in an instant and clouds gather with dramatic intensity, these pieces capture ahtml Read more →

For this new body of work, stone sculptor Martin Lyttle draws on the ancient image of the cornucopia — the horn of plenty — as a starting point for exploring abundance, consumption and our relationship with the natural world. Working in local stone and most usually from off-cuts and wastehtml Read more →

Golden Thread Gallery presents NEW WORK, a major new exhibition by internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist John Carson. Originally from Northern Ireland and now based in Pittsburgh, USA, Carson's practice spans film, sound, installation and public art. Combining humour, research and personal narrative, his work explores themes of history, identity, placehtml Read more →

As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Solstice Arts Centre, The First Frontier was the Horizon showcases the work of many emerging and established contemporary artists originating from County Meath. This expansive group exhibition includes a wide range of artists with a previous connection to Solstice Arts Centre andhtml Read more →

Paul Seawright revisited and photographed the sites of Sectarian attacks during the 1970’s close to where the artist grew up in Belfast. The texts accompanying each photograph are from newspaper reports at the time and document the murders of innocent civilians, killed for their perceived religion. Reference to Protestant orhtml Read more →

Exhibition runs 10/09/26-12/11/26. Cork Printmakers present hay boy, gay boy, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh.Mac Cárthaigh’s work explores the rural sexual imaginary. Within this, Mac Cárthaigh’s practice focuses on rural gentrification, homonormativity, greenwashing, and the material economies of space and place. They approach work through ahtml Read more →