Events

Curated by Benjamin Stafford Official Reception Friday 1st May, 2.30pm KCAT is a multi-disciplinary arts centre located in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, supporting inclusive arts practices, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025. Here, things are not easily categorised or separated from each other; common songbirds sit alongside five-legged cats, whichhtml Read more →

The Model is delighted to present Polyrhythms, a solo exhibition by German-Irish painter Tinka Bechert. Bringing together painting, sculpture and textile works made since 2018, the exhibition centres on a decisive shift in Bechert’s practice away from narrative imagery toward abstraction. Accompanying this development has been an increased attention tohtml Read more →

In April 2026, Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues a growing relationship with the city of Chicago, presenting a series of exhibitions bringing together artist-led activities of the Irish art scene and American Midwest. As part of this initiative Co-Prosperity host Tuneful Places, a group exhibition exploring artists that disrupt and challengehtml Read more →

An Act of Madness is a collaboration between writer Martin Towey and photographic artist Suella Wynne, inspired by the few details known about his great-grandmother, Bridget Towey (née Flanagan), and her committal to Connaught District Lunatic Asylum in 1914. Suella’s images provide a visual context for the story, exploring Ireland’s history of mental health care,html Read more →

Boy Dancer is a Solstice commissioned collaboration between poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin and artist Niamh McCann. Blending poetry, drawing, sound and sculpture. It reflects on grief, ritual and remembrance, inspired by Ní Churreáin’s foster brother. Accompanying the exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre is hosting an opening event on April 11th athtml Read more →

Presenting composer Matthew Whiteside’s immersive sound installation responding to the Wallace Collection - through its archives as much as its objects, tracing the systems of labour, wealth, and administration that sit beneath the museum’s refinement. The piece turns attention towards those largely absent from its narratives: the workers whose labourhtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 12/04/2026 to 12/06/2026. At the Edge of Place brings together a body of paintings shaped by Carey’s time spent in Canada, especially Alberta. Informed by memory, weather, and scale, these works are not descriptive records of place, but painterly responses to atmosphere, distance, and the emotional residuehtml Read more →

Changing Natures: A Celebration of Artistic Alchemy and Organic Transformation by Katie Byrne, Annie Hogg and Louise Wilde. The exhibition celebrates the artist as an alchemist. It explores the art of transformation, where natural elements are given new narratives. It examines the power of art to breathe new life intohtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 07/04/2026 to 31/05/2026. We are delighted to have Daniel Chester exhibit in our Easter Snow Gallery. Daniel is a visual artist based in County Leitrim. His exhibition "Bog To Bloom" is a body of paintings that are inspired by the landscapes of rural Leitrim, Fermanagh, Sligo andhtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 09/05/2026. Wandering Star is a reference to the physics of light and celestial mechanics, and also a nod to an artistic journey over the decades through the indeterminacy of painting. Joyce uses an arc motif, an elemental unit of human invention and expression, with obliquehtml Read more →