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Margaret Mathews is a retired dentist with a lifelong interest in art, but studied and practiced dentistry in her own practice for many years. She is an Honorary Diploma holder in the Ulster Society of Women Artists and belongs to various Art Societies including the Pastel Society of Ireland, thehtml Read more →

Scale Up; Greenacres Gallery, Wexford; 10 August – 12 September 2026 Opening: Saturday 8 August Scale Up is a group exhibition of contemporary printmaking curated by Ann Kenny. The exhibition brings together artists working at scale within contemporary print traditions, placing large-format prints in dialogue with smaller works. Featuring Gwenhtml Read more →

In the Pale Light of a Shadow is an installation that explores how we perceive and relate to the world, particularly nature. The installation is made up of a number of visually spare, interconnected works. Drawing on local ecology in Ballina along with a number of philosophical and art-historical references,html Read more →

Wexford Arts Centre in partnership with the Ormston House, is pleased to present Memory of a Free Festival. The exhibition will run in the lower and upper galleries from Saturday, 8 August, to Saturday, 3 October, 2026. Conceived by Ormston House, the project responds to the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear festivalshtml Read more →

The exhibition title, “Quarters”, refers to the fact that most of the studies for these paintings were executed on the banks of the Moy across the four seasons. In the process, remembrance and riverscape merged with the tactile process of sketching and painting. Memory combined past and present. Ambient soundshtml Read more →

Butler Gallery, in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival, is delighted to present a building- wide exhibition honouring the work of the late Tony O’Malley (1913-2003) and Jane O’Malley (1944-2023). This expansive exhibition marks the receipt of the bequest of both artists’ estates by Jane O’Malley to Butler Gallery where thehtml Read more →

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present East Clare Love by Joe Culhane. East Clare Love reflects the work that will be presented, paintings co-created with the immensely beautiful locations and beings of East County Clare. Joe has engaged in varioushtml Read more →

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney is delighted to present an exhibition by members of Limerick Art Society. Limerick Art Society has been a major contributor to the visual arts in Limerick City and County for over 80 years making it one of the oldest societies of itshtml Read more →

Crawford Art Gallery in partnership with Triskel Arts Centre presents Artists Film International 2026: A Kind of Power. Bringing together artists and partner organisations from across the globe, this year's edition explores how systems of power shape the act of looking and the conditions under which we are seen. Allhtml Read more →

Sarah O’Brien is an Irish painter whose work explores material process, symbolic language and the relationship between making, repair and transformation. Born in Cork in 1980, she completed an MFA in Painting at NCAD in 2007 and now lives and works in Kinsale, Co. Cork. Read more →