Events

Join us for the launch of The Green Loy at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday 20 June from 2—4pm. The Green Loy is a celebration of local folk art and culture, grounded in the life and traditions of Leitrim and the north-west. A cock of hay, a loy, and ahtml Read more →

Join us for the launch of The Kite Ballet at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday 20 June from 2—4pm. The Kite Ballet by Thaís Muniz intertwines poetic and mythical elements with political, historical, and symbolic themes, amplifying the voices of local activists from the Itapuã area in Salvador, Brazil. Thehtml Read more →

Opening Reception: Saturday 20 June, 2.30pm. Bassam Al-Sabah, George Bolster, Alan Butler, Cecilia Danell, Willie Doherty, Rachel Doolin, Mark Garry, Hammerheads (Marie Farrington, Sibyl Montague, Liliane Puthod, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín), Elaine Hoey, Patrick Hough, Bernadette Kiely, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Niamh McCann, Eleanor McCaughey, Lucy McKenna, Isabel Nolan, Barbara Knežević, Emilyhtml Read more →

Limerick City Gallery of Art is delighted to present ‘Quantum Listening’ by Trudi van der Elsen, a contemporary multi-media artist, originally from the Netherlands and now based in the West of Ireland. ‘Quantum Listening' the title given to a body of work by Trudi van der Elsen that explores thehtml Read more →

Gina O'Connor is delighted to present her solo exhibition Lá Breá Álainn (Lovely Fine Day) at Teach Nan Phaidi Restaurant on Inis Mór Island, County Galway. This exciting collection of oil paintings by West of Ireland artist Gina O’Connor is a celebration of a typical Irish Lá Breá Álainn. Thishtml Read more →

Bridge Street Studios celebrates 30th Anniversary with 'The Things That Matter Most are the Things that can’t be Seen'. Nestled in a historic 250-year-old grain store, Bridge Street Studios has been a nurturing ground for both emerging and established artists for 30 years. As one of the oldest and largesthtml Read more →

Official opening Thursday 1st July at 6.30pm, all welcome Field Station: Cornafulla by Amanda Ralph is centered on Cornafulla Bog and the Shannon Callows. The exhibition brings the visible landscape into tension with what it contains: shifting ecological conditions, field records, measurement, and material evidence. Through moving image, sound andhtml Read more →

Official opening Thursday 1st July at 6.30pm States, Stations by Samir Mahmood draws on key concepts from Sufi mysticism to explore themes of identity, transformation, and queer experience. Through newly commissioned textiles, sculpture, painting, and mixed-media works, the exhibition considers the intersections of spirituality, embodiment, and belonging. Runs until Sundayhtml Read more →

Diarmuid Delargy is an internationally recognised painter, print-maker and sculptor. He is renowned for his paintings of fish and sharks inspired from the Atlantic coast close to his studio in Sligo. His paintings are a personal commentary on the changing nature of the coast. Over the past thirty years hehtml Read more →

Billy Lingwood is a Cork-based visual artist and arts worker with a BA in Fine Art: Printmaking & Contemporary Practice from LSAD. Their work explores post-colonial legacies in the Irish psyche and the social, cultural and policy impacts these continue to have on resident lifeforms. Rooted in printmaking, their practicehtml Read more →