Events

The Rain Tells Us Everything Catherine McDonald, Katie Nolan and Niamh Schmidtke (Gallery 2 + Foyer Gallery) Curated by Clara McSweeney, The Rain Tells Us Everything investigates the encroaching transformations shaping contemporary landscapes under the pressures of the climate crisis. Through trespassing, tracking, and collective singing, the participating artists examinehtml Read more →

Ormston House presents 'Energy Made Visible'. The exhibition will open on Friday, 10 July from 7-9pm and will continue until 5 September 2026. Energy Made Visible is a group exhibition centred around the paintings of Michael Ashur (1950–2024). Known for his meticulous airbrushed compositions, Ashur’s work is concerned with solarhtml Read more →

Working across sculpture and installation, Rainey’s practice explores themes of transformation, reconstruction and material memory, drawing on references from classical statuary, mythology and archaeology. 'Deviations' brings together a new body of work that considers how objects, histories and narratives are continually reshaped through time. Read more →

Exhibition continues from 04/07/26. The Regional Cultural centre is pleased to present Gvozdene Kapije / The Iron Gates, an exhibition by artist Barbara Knežević, bringing together film and sculpture to explore the histories, stories, and materiality of a region in eastern Serbia. Known as Gvozdene Kapije, this  deep gorge athtml Read more →

Exhibition runs 13/07/2026-12/09/2026. For Christopher Steenson’s solo exhibition All I see is the present, the artist combines sound photography, installation and archival material to explore the ways in which moments from prehistory can be used as a gateway to the present. The exhibition is the first manifestation of the artist’s long-termhtml Read more →

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “The Artist’s Sketchbook” an exhibition by Janet Buell. This exhibition will feature Janet’s sketchbooking processes from idea to final work. Her finished and framed paintings will be on display, along with her initial sketches, small colour studies, andhtml Read more →

GOMA is delighted to present 'Mise en Abyme' by Sharon Murphy, which focuses on Parisian carousels and theatrical décor during moments of stillness and silence. Drawing on her background in theatre and informed by concepts from psychoanalysis and magic realism in literature, this new work highlights Murphy's longstanding interest inhtml Read more →

Running over six weeks and featuring 30-40 artists and makers the Summer Exhibition at Lavit Gallery is an annual group show of fine art and craft. Participating artists and makers this year include Ailbhe Barrett, John Behan, Johnny Bugler, Mary Burke, Patrick Cashin, Tom Climent, Carmel Creaner, Debbie Dawson, Meganhtml Read more →

Artists: Dorothy Cross, Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Willie Doherty, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Justin Fitzpatrick, Mark Francis, Guggi, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine, Zhou Li, Stephen McKenna, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Isabel Nolan, Hazel O’Sullivan, Sean Scully, Liliane Tomasko. Read more →

Reflecting her experiences growing up in Barcelona and living in Ireland for over twenty years, Vanessa Donoso López’s practice explores identity, migration, and cultural behaviours shaped by relocation. Her research on ‘transitional phenomena’ refers to the developmental space between internal and external reality, where creativity and culture take form, and identitieshtml Read more →