Welcome to Visual Artists Ireland's Support for Visual Artists
08/08/2025 – 06/09/2025 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – ‘Matters of Process’ – Exhibition Launch Friday 8th August 5-8pm. Niamh Fahy, Lucy Mulholland, Blaine O’Donnell, Kate Oram, Sonya Swarte. Matters of Process is a new series of exhibitions that explores the work of artists who completed a Technical Development Research Residency (TDR) the previous year at the Centre. During their research phase, artists conducted […]
Read More08/08/2025 – 17/08/2025 @ 11:00 am – 6:00 pm – Through her unique interpretation of batik techniques, Trini Kenny pushes the medium beyond craft into the realm of fine art, making her work recognisable and deeply evocative. Visit her inspirational exhibition and open studio during the Kilkenny Arts Festival in the beautiful gardens of Lavistown House and step into the world batik and wax resist […]
Read More08/08/2025 – 11/08/2025 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The title of this exhibition – the last to be held in Vault’s Marlborough House Gallery before we are forced to move once again – is taken from an estate agent’s brochure, which boasted of space that would be ‘suitable for arts or storage purposes’. The exhibition is a visual and written survey of the […]
Read More08/08/2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – BASIC SPACE is delighted to present Laura Ní Fhlaibhín for our August BASIC TALK – 1pm on Friday the 8th of August 2025 online Laura Ní Fhlaibhín works with materials related to healing and nourishment, both ecological and autobiographical. Sifting stories, materials and traces associated with site, memory, narratives of care and the casting of […]
Read More09/08/2025 – 31/08/2025 @ – Jane Arden (1927-1982) was a leading figure in experimental British theatre and cinema, and an important radical feminist voice of the 1960s and ‘70s. Born in Wales, this director, actor, musician, and poet initially trained as a professional actress, a future derailed by marriage and children. Arden turned to writing, and had some success with […]
Read More09/08/2025 – 26/10/2025 @ – Exhibition Opening: Saturday 9th August, 3.00 – 5.00pm. All Welcome. Butler Gallery, in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival, is delighted to present an exhibition exploring the theme of ‘Cities of the World’ by two artists, Kathy Prendergast and Chris Leach. The two have never met, but are intrinsically linked by this subject matter which they […]
Read More09/08/2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Every Saturday 7 Jun. – 16. Aug. 2025, 11 am €15 pp Learn all about the art and life of Jack B. Yeats in this 45-minute guided tour of the exhibition The Dreaming Road. Led by an expert curator, the tour explores Yeats’ life, his love of Sligo and how it is reflected in all […]
Read More09/08/2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Join us at Luan Gallery on Saturday 9th August at 12pm for an insightful and engaging talk by artist and researcher Han Tiernan, as they delve into the history of Irish LGBTQIA+ activism. This talk will shine a light on key moments from the past 50 years of marches and protests in Ireland, with a […]
Read More10/08/2025 – 31/08/2025 @ – EXHIBITION OPENING: Sunday Aug. 10th 3pm to 5pm – ALL WELCOME Runs until Sunday, August 31st. “Say Again, This Place”, is a new body of site-responsive works by artist Shane Malone-Murphy marking his first solo exhibition. Developed for the unique architectural context of the Courthouse Tinahely, this exhibition highlights a continued inquiry into place, memory, […]
Read More10/08/2025 – 17/08/2025 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Bedding Planes There is solace in beauty and it nourishes the soul. ‘The Bedding Planes’ documents a moment in time, perhaps with tiny traces on a well worn path. Beauty is at its heart. In geological terms a bedding plane is a surface representing contact between a deposit and a depositing medium such as […]
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