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Samir Mahmood is a Pakistani artist based in Dublin. In his country of origin, Mahmood trained as a medical doctor, and he immigrated to Ireland in 2008 to undertake further studies in the field. But he abandoned this career to pursue art, and has been working as an artist inhtml Read more →

In December 2017, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London, UK) made an artwork in response to the fire that took place earlier that year on 14 June at Grenfell Tower, North Kensington, West London. 72 people died in the tragedy. Filming the tower before it was covered withhtml Read more →

Opening reception Friday 18 July, 5.30-7.30pm Exhibition tour with Gallery Director, Brian Mac Domhnaill Saturday 09 August, 12pm Running over six weeks, the Summer Exhibition at Lavit Gallery is an annual group show featuring painting, print, photography, sculpture and craft at a variety of price points. This year exhibiting artistshtml Read more →

Lucy Peters is a visual artist based in Co.Monaghan, Ireland. Her work consists of large textile sculptures, paper and text. She is interested in consumerism and how we hold value in certain items, especially clothing. Her sculptures are made by dismantling discarded items of clothing into material strips, which arehtml Read more →

We are delighted to present Primate by Irish artist Daphne Wright. This work is one of a series of sculptures by Wright which explores the relationship between humans, animals and medicine. The sculpture was cast from a mould from a recently dead rhesus monkey at the scientific institution, Wisconsin Nationalhtml Read more →

The Great Book of Ireland is an extraordinary vellum manuscript which contains the original work of 120 artists, 140 poets and nine composers. All of the contributors were asked one thing – please convey your hopes, joys, fears, loves in being an Irish person at the turn of the secondhtml Read more →

In her new experimental moving image work The Glass Booth / An Both Gloine, artist Jenny Brady casts a cinematic gaze on the figure of the interpreter, exploring the interpreting profession and the contemporary landscape of interpretation. Through vignettes set in both extreme and familiar environments, the film portrays thehtml Read more →

Sara Flynn, Sueharu Fukami, Shihoko Fukumoto, Joe Hogan, Eiko Kishi, Frances Lambe, Deirdre McLoughlin, O'Donnell + Tuomey, Satoru Ozaki, Sean Scully, Joseph Walsh, Kan Yasuda, Osamu Yokoyama. Curated by Wahei Aoyama and Joseph Walsh. RINN explores the culture of making and its relationship to place and time through the workhtml Read more →

Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh is a visual artist, researcher and MTU Crawford Graduate. Their current research grows from their connection to rural queer existence in Ireland. This project examines (de)colonial queer loneliness / identity performativity in contemporary culture and how it is informed by our history. Over the last forty years,html Read more →

Throughout August, Ards Arts Centre will play host to the principle Creative Peninsula exhibition, featuring exclusive works by the finest Artists and Makers from the Ards and North Down Borough This exhibition will feature unique pieces of art and craftwork in a variety of mediums, specially selected for display inhtml Read more →