Events

This multimedia installation includes large scale life story portraits of people over 75 years, telling their stories and what matters in picture and video. Enhanced by four suites of abstract works, exploring the feelings of the people portrayed, video collage and VFX work with puzzle pieces to provoke and inspirehtml Read more →

Mermaid Arts Centre is pleased to announce its first exhibition for 2026, WAAG - an archive, curated by Helena Tobin and Irish Vos, which visits from South Tipperary Arts Centre in partnership with NIVAL, the National Irish Visual Arts Library. This exhibition revisits the Women Artists Action Group (1987-1991) throughhtml Read more →

Opening reception Saturday 17 January 2.30-4.30pm. Mark Francis creates powerful paintings charged with movement, sound and rhythm, by combining intense sequences of colour that compete within tightly gridded structures. For this exhibition Mark Francis presents new paintings, charcoal drawings, and Solstice Commission, "Listening Field", the first moving image work byhtml Read more →

In her practice, Breda is interested in exploring ideas around the interconnection between humans and nature. She is fascinated by how the patterns and imprints of time and movement, of people, wildlife and natural elements are held on the surface and in the deeper layers of the earth. The newhtml Read more →

The life and work of Barbara Steveni (1928–2020), who described herself as an artist–activist, embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition.  The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practicehtml Read more →

IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE draws on archival material and lens-based media to explore how images are shaped by time, technology and the act of looking. The exhibition considers the gallery as a space where narratives shift and meaning is continually re-formed. Archives are unearthed and disrupted, environments seep intohtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 22/03/2026. Nathalie Du Pasquier and Pierre Charpin became friends in the mid-1990s. Objects, a shared appreciation for drawing, forms, colors, and surfaces became their common ground. ‘Andiamo’ is a dialogue between their two worlds. It bypasses conventions and expectations: no chronology, hierarchy, classification, or arrangement.html Read more →

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 14/03/2026. David Smith presents Don’t Forget To Remember, an exhibition of recent paintings that explore the fluid nature of perception and memory. The works reflect an internal picture of lived, remembered, and imagined experience, shaped by influences ranging from Zen philosophy and ink painting tohtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 24/02/2026. Emerging artist James Moonan presents his first solo exhibition, featuring award-winning recent work alongside pieces made throughout his childhood. Growing up with autism, he drew creative inspiration from picture book illustration and children’s animation. This exhibition celebrates his artistic journey and the imaginative worldhtml Read more →

Exhibition continues from 03/01/2026 to 31/01/2026. Following the success of Connected, a joint exhibition by Elaine Cunningham and Siobhán Moore, held in November, we are delighted to share that the exhibition is now on tour. Connected - Connemara is currently showing in the Visitor Centre at Connemara National Park, Letterfrack.html Read more →