Events

Creative Places Shannon and Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum are delighted to present the exhibition “Museum of Self” by students at St. Aidan’s National School, Shannon. This project was funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport. Creative Places Shannon commissioned artist Ana Colomer to workhtml Read more →

heav(Y) b(La)ck stone is a trilogy of film installations by Martina O'Brien presented throughout Maynooth University in 20ft shipping containers, each converted into a wind-and-solar powered miniature cinema. Situated at the University’s North Campus, the artworks collectively explore the hidden infrastructure that undergirds the green transition through the lens ofhtml Read more →

Locked Pawn refers to a chess move, wherein two pawns meet and are locked in position facing each other, immovable. They are required to sit in contemplation, reckoning with their reflection. As friends and collaborators we are constant mirrors for each other, we embody the locked pawn. Searching in thishtml Read more →

The Wex-Art Festival, supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Office of Wexford Co. Council and Wexford Arts Centre, presents its annual group show, featuring artists from throughout Co. Wexford and the south east: Oisin Bourke, Veronica Dooley, Natalie Doyle, Dara Griffin, Susanne Horsch, Trish Cavanagh, Terry Lawlesshtml Read more →

Shiel’s series of new works for The Nature of Tables, explores instability, connection, positioning, and all the gory spills of time. These works emerge from the artist’s own experience of empty-nesting and its forced reckoning with new growth. They reflect the de-familiarised forms of a family life, detached from prior location andhtml Read more →

The Drawing Journal is a collaborative art collective. It has been active since 2019 and its membership recently expanded to include thirteen artists based across Ireland and the UK, with five of its members based at QSS. Members are: Tamzin Ashcroft, Niamh Clarke, Hannah Clegg, Daniel Coleman, Craig Donald, Juliahtml Read more →

BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! is a new, transdisciplinary body of work by Reuben Brown, developed over the course of his Master of Research (MRes) in Fine Art by Practice at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. The research, Club [Construction]: Evidence, Ephemera and the Temporary Architectures of Queer Nightlife, interrogates thehtml Read more →

Experience James Joyce’s words in English, Irish and Braille,  combined with charcoal drawings created from life by Penny, inspired by his most famous short story ‘The Dead’. Exhibition running for one month from 15th October to 15th November 2026. With Thursday lunchtime tours of the exhibition by the artist. Openinghtml Read more →

The Muse, the Sea and the Lighthouse Dance will feature contemporary multi-media visual artists. The collection will loosely tie in with the theme- The Muse the Sea and the Lighthouse Dance.The works will comprise of painting, drawing, prints, artists books, sculpture, film and photography,What makes this show unique is thehtml Read more →

Opening reception Thursday 15th October. 6pm. Exhibition Fri 16th - Weds 21st October. 12 - 6pm. Closed Sunday. In this exhibition, Kilkenny artist Michael O'Fearghail traces the restless beauty of the Irish water landscape and the interaction between the Irish sky and the shifting waterscapes of our coastlines and inlandhtml Read more →