Events

Opening day: Saturday 19th September 11am.  Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present It’s not what it SEAMS by Anita Nagy. Anita Nagy is a Hungarian-born surrealist and fantasy artist, who also creates commissioned portraits. This show contains a series ofhtml Read more →

The exhibition takes its name from the Irish for a seam or joint, Siúnta weaves together separate narratives into imagined ecological relationships. Forms of flesh, fur, flower and feather mingle and merge. Subjects develop symbiotic and antagonistic relationships, display unfamiliar actions and establish new habits together. Niamh Coffey is ahtml Read more →

Opening by Geraldine Mitchell at 6pm 17 September. The Faraway Nearby, a solo exhibition of new paintings of remembered geographies and stories that question the uncertainty of what is real and what is imagined and how stories can become something else in the retelling, Mags Duffy is based in thehtml Read more →

Official opening 7pm on Friday the 18th September 2026. A Sculpture and Print Exhibition by Ben Reilly. An armada of raft-like sculptures and swaying limbs glide through the Townhall Art Centre Gallery. Floating raft-like islands are surrounded by angular, tree-like sculptures that sway overhead and reach towards the ceiling. Thesehtml Read more →

Exhibition launch 18th September 5-8pm at Leitrim Sculpture Centre. Matters of Process is a new exhibition series exploring the work of artists who completed a Technical Development Research Residency (TDR) at the Centre the previous year. During their residencies, artists experimented with a range of materials, objects and ideas investigatinghtml Read more →

An exhibition that explores the innovation of a series of flagship public art commissions initiated by Garter Lane Arts Centre and artist Garrett Phelan between 1995 & 1999. Phelan, alongside then Garter Lane director Annette Clancy, gave no title to the programme or identified any of the events or encountershtml Read more →

Ormston House is delighted to present Alt-West / Alt-Thiar, an exhibition by the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.). The exhibition opens with a performance on Culture Night, Friday, 18 September from 6.30–7.30pm, and remains open until 9pm. Admission is free and no ticket is required. The Office for Jointhtml Read more →

FUNDAMENTAL 2 Under the title 'The existence that concerns us' George Meertens brings together a careful selection of international artists, including Irish artist David Quinn. This exhibition is a follow-up to FUNDAMENTAL (2022), which was co-curated by George Meertens at de Halle. In 2026, he returns as curator with FUNDAMENTALhtml Read more →

Exhibition runs 12/08/26-08/11/26. Irish painter Paul McCloskey selected for the 'Geumgang Nature Art Biennale exhibition in Gongju, South Korea, 2026'.Selected from 50 countries, his work will become part of the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, art collection and will be included in further permanent or traveling exhibitions.His work ‘Natures Odyssey’ continueshtml Read more →

Exhibition runs 19/09/26-24/10/26. Sister Weather is the latest instalment in The Glenkeen Variations exhibition series at the Goethe-Institut in Dublin. The exhibition brings together artists Susanne Bürner, Ines Kaag, Annette Kelm and Alexandra Leykauf in the Return Gallery at Goethe-Institut Irland. Drawing on their shared experience of Glenkeen Garden inhtml Read more →