Events

VISUAL is pleased to present DRILL, newly commissioned exhibition of moving image and sound installation by Naomi Sex. Working with both professional and non-actors, Sex has written and directed a series of scripted performances. These vignettes consider language, social interaction, absurdity and the limits of understanding. DRILL comprises a serieshtml Read more →

VISUAL is pleased to present Interloper, the first project by Anne Hardy in Ireland. For this exhibition of existing and newly commissioned works, Hardy has responded to the distinct architecture of VISUAL; the concrete and glass of the Link Gallery and its connection to the ornamental pond seen through thehtml Read more →

“Now now” by Andy Fitz uses language to record a passing moment in time. An out-of-date present is rearranged in minute detail as though the process might reveal something. Time remains static – the food never grows mouldy. Unremarkable domestic objects are balanced across the gallery in precarious abstraction fromhtml Read more →

DCU Art Collection is honoured to receive a significant donation of fine art prints from artist and master printer James McCreary, one of Ireland’s most respected figures in printmaking, and his wife Elizabeth McCreary. To celebrate this generous donation DCU are hosting an exhibition of of selected works from thehtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 30/01/2026 to 08/11/2026. To celebrate our 75th anniversary, the Lyric presents this new exhibition that showcases our rich history. A history which includes an art gallery (The New Gallery, 1963–1969), a literary magazine Threshold (1957–1990), a dance centre, a drama school, Belfast’s first music academy, and of course, ahtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 30/01/2026 to 05/04/2026. This is the last iteration of the exhibition, Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics following its presentation at Sirius Arts Centre, Galway Arts Centre, and Highlanes Gallery. Alice explores expressions of both personal and broader historical and cultural narratives informed by their lived experience as ahtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 31/01/2026 to 14/03/2026. This major retrospective celebrates over 40 years of work by acclaimed press photographer Declan Doherty, whose images have powerfully documented life across Donegal through his role at the Donegal News. The exhibition includes more than 400 photographs, presented both digitally and in print, capturinghtml Read more →

Dublin's own Gerard Byrne, renowned for his revival of the Impressionist and plein-air traditions in Ireland, has spent nearly four decades painting professionally. Elevating the ordinary into something extraordinary, his practice spans industrial structures and working ports, flowers in Spring light, bold figures, city streets, coastlines, and distant places—all observedhtml Read more →

"Sunlight on my lover’s elbow, sunlight in the kettle’s steam" brings together three artists from the same family: Grace Wallis, Sarah Fuller/Wallis and Ruby Wallis. Working across painting, drawing, print, installation and lens-based media, the exhibition explores place, time and embodied experience. Grace presents fictional landscapes shaped by memory andhtml Read more →

This exhibition by STAC's 2025 Artist in Residence, Zoe Velthuysen, explores how migration and place shape identity, drawing from the artist's own experience of moving from Australia to Tipperary. Motivated by the internal and often quiet ways in which place interacts with identity, Velthuysen's work engages with how surroundings, systems,html Read more →