What’s On around Ireland

Exhibition continues from 23/01/2026 to 28/02/2026.

We make and mold, visceral, hand made works from shared and lived experiences with infertility, miscarriage, endometriosis and premature ovarian failure. Our current work has developed out of a fundamental compulsion to ‘make’ through the loss and grief of remembered futures.

We are interested in the history and politics that surround the female identity and the body. The focus for the work for this exhibition is on the representation of women in literature at the end of the 18th Century in the light of contemporary female ideologies, exploring and comparing the internalisation of dominant cultural beliefs regarding expected roles for girls and women in Ireland today.

Exhibition continues from 21/01/2026 to 14/02/2026.

Dorothy Cross’s Bloodlines series comprises unique works that layer archival photographs with hand-poured, red-veined glass. Taken by the artist’s father in the 1940s, these images reveal an inherited fascination with the sea—a personal history caught within a geological frame.

Exhibition continues from 23/01/2026 to 20/02/2026.

Let me tell you a story… mice will dance, plates will be wiped with a cat’s tail, and people will eat goosegrass. Combining the natural, the unnatural, and the supernatural; the inherent weirdness of Irish seanfhocail is often overlooked. Humans interact with animals, animals interact with each other, and plants become entangled with humans.
The screenprints, drawings, and sculptures in this exhibition are part of a body of work created by Emily McGardle over the past three years. This work reflects the strong visual imagery present in seanfhocail while highlighting the connection between people, nature, and the Irish language.

Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

The lectures can be attended as a series, but are also designed as standalone talks, which can be attended individually.

This lecture will look at how in the 1600s Irish artists drew on the prevailing academic tradition to create a distinctly Irish identity.

The Master of Fine Art 2024-2026 Cohort invites you to the showing their final artworks in a pop-up style exhibition at the Limerick School of Art and Design, Clare Street. Starting on January 28th and running through February 13th, various artwork and discussions from these artists will be on display during college open hours in three different spaces – the Confessional Space, Main Lecture Theatre, and the Elevator Foyer. All are welcome to visit!

Join exhibiting artist Dragana Jurišić and TBG+S Programme Curator Michael Hill for a conversation about Jurišić’s work and an introduction to her exhibition, ‘The Last Balkan Cowboy’.

Dragana Jurišić works predominantly through the medium of photography, film and installation. Born in former Yugoslavia, she has been living and working in Dublin since 1999. Her new exhibition is an outcome of a long-term project that follows the footsteps of cult Yugoslavian film director, Hari Džekson renowned for his interpretation of Wild West genre archetypes.

Maryam Tafakory is a UK-based, Iranian artist filmmaker who makes textual and filmic collages. Her work interweaves poetry, archival, and found material to explore depictions of erasure, secrecy, and censorship. In her essayistic videos, images and scenes drawn from a vast archive of films are reworked to examine intimacy, desire, and prohibition. She works with film and performance and is the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.

Join us at GOMA Waterford for the launch of Shapeshifting: GOMA Waterford Graduate Award Exhibition 2026 on Thursday 29 January, 6–8pm. All welcome!

Each year GOMA Waterford aims to highlight the wealth of talent graduating annually in Ireland by awarding selected graduates with an exhibition. This year’s Graduate Award Exhibition features the work of three outstanding recent graduates; Danny Foley, Tanja Novacic and Patrick Penney.

Running until Saturday 21 February 2026 | Gallery opening hours: 11am–5pm, Tuesday to Saturday.

New exhibition opening 29th January 2026 6-9pm (continuing until 21st march 2026).
Maura Lynch is an artist trained in Ceramics, Bronze Sculpture, and Printmaking and has over thirty years teaching experience in Art & Design, 3D Design and ceramics.

This body of large, experimental cyanotype prints interprets aspects of the Myth of Persephone, the Greek child-goddess who disappears and returns.

This story dates back to the Neolithic Age (8000-4000 BCE), the beginning of agriculture. It is a story of rite of passage and a metaphor for the cycles of the year.

The fifth edition of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women returns from Friday, 30 January to Monday, 2 February 2026, marking a milestone year with its most expansive programme to date. Supported by Dublin City Council, the festival will present over 120 thematic events across the city, celebrating women’s contributions to Irish culture, society and history, while marking St Brigid’s Day and the ancient festival of Imbolc.

To diverge is to become different, to change form. This exhibition reflects on the cyclical, transformative nature of life and the process of growth as a fundamental part of the human condition. Growth requires change, often leaving us in an unfamiliar place. It is in learning to navigate the unknown, we are able to transform. This process is letting go the comfort of what we know, and embracing what is yet to come.

30 Jan – 6 March 2026
Studio 12 | Tuesday to Friday 10am – 5pm

Basic Space is delighted to present Shane Malone-Murphy for our January BASIC TALK – 1.15pm on Friday the 30th of January 2026, TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus, D7.
Visit our website for more info or to purchase tickets. Walk-ins on the day are also welcome!

2026 Opening Party!
Join us for the opening of The Courthouse Gallery & Studios’ 2026 programme with an evening of film, music and celebration. Inspired by Sara Teasdale and Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains, the programme explores resilience, renewal and alternative futures in an age of climate crisis and technological change.
The night features a screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), set in 2026, with a live contemporary score by Gareth Quinn Redmond, Jürgen Simpson and Simon O’Reilly, followed by music and festivities.
Fri 30 Jan | Doors 7pm | Screening 8pm
Free tickets (limited) on our website | Donation bar

Curated by Vivienn Byrne.

Eilish McCann, an artist based in County Cavan, works in oil and acrylic on canvas and paper. Her paintings move between attentive observation of everyday life and imaginative reinterpretations of classical painting. Don’t Throw Bouquets takes its title from a Sinatra song, a rendition from the musical Oklahoma!, sung by her father about the house—a tune that resonates through this body of work, reflecting the transitional states of grief and aging.

The artist has returned to her border hometown in Cavan after many years away and has received the Professional Artist Award 2025 from Cavan Arts, Cavan County Council.

Described by art critic John Yau as “one of the great painters of his generation”, Phillip Allen  has refused to settle into any one mode or style, choosing instead to continually push the possibilities of the picture plane resulting in paintings that are sculptural, optical and joyously excessive. Dense accretions of acrylic and oil paint form thick, encrusted borders that frame finely worked interior fields. Within these interiors, rhythmic geometries, spiralling motifs and kaleidoscopic colour sequences unfold with a sense of buoyant improvisation. 

Learn more about the artists and artworks on display at the Glucksman with our monthly Reading Group led by Curator of Exhibitions + Projects Katie O’Grady.

Drawing on texts and essays across theory, fiction, biography, and poetry, we invite you to learn more about and discuss selected artworks from our current exhibition, Eilis O’Connell: HAPPENSTANCE. Over the course of an hour, you will be invited to read a text aloud together and discuss its themes, ideas, and context in relation to select artworks. This month, we will be reading Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag.

Free to attend with booking required.

VISUAL is pleased to present DRILL, an exhibition of newly commissioned work from Irish artist Naomi Sex.

In DRILL, Sex presents an immersive installation of moving image and sound. Scripted and filmed vignettes examine the possibilities, limitations and surprises of language and communication. Using the backdrop and tools associated with different sports and physical activities, Sex’s characters question social convention, self-understanding and meaning.

All welcome. Free, no booking required.

Throughout January, ReVerve Artist Collective have been engaging in creative research in Swift Cultural Centre, Trim.

ReVerve invite you to join them and see the results of their experimentations, how creative ideas are developed and the many ways artists explore and experiment with different materials.

ReVerve Artist Collective are a dynamic group of artists based in County Meath, each bring a unique and diverse artistic practice to their collaborative work.

Anne Hardy’s first exhibition in Ireland comprises a series of figurative sculptures that reflect various states of being; physical, emotional, metaphorical. Set within an installation of earth and light that suggests an archaeological site or a place of ritual, Interloper engages with the architecture, weather and landscape within and outside the gallery.

Interloper is made possible with support from the Henry Moore Foundation.

VISUAL is pleased to present Now now, a solo exhibition by Andy Fitz.

Now now is Fitz’s largest exhibition to date, presenting new and existing sculptures alongside subtle architectural interventions made in VISUAL’s Main Gallery.

Intimate and domestic objects appear precarious and unstable, their scale, function and place misaligned. The sculptures unfold unresolved tensions, the personal in the political, the present in light of the past.

Artists: Vicky Ochala, Nicole Manning, Lily Mannion,

Opening Reception: Saturday, 31 January, 1–3pm.

Exhibition Runs: 31 January – 14 February 2026.
Venue: The MART Gallery, 190a Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 1–6pm.

The Architecture of Containment brings together a body of paintings by Janet Graham with poetic responses from invited poets, addressing the physical, social, and psychological architectures through which lives were controlled and silenced in Ireland’s institutional past. The project is hosted and funded by Mill Cove Gallery and presented as a not-for-profit public event.

Once production costs are met, all proceeds from the accompanying poetry anthology will be donated to a survivors’ support group. The anthology will be available on the evening for €10.

The second session of this program dedicated to short films made in Argentina over recent years is a tribute to cinephilia. In these four shorts, we find narrative shifts toward observational documentary, the dreamlike worlds of surrealism, dialogues with other films, and first-person narratives… Without a doubt, it is a wonderful opportunity to dive into the beauty of cinema, plain and simple.

Programme
Duration: 63 minutos
Un sueño recurrente (Santiago Esteves, 2013).
Yo maté a Antoine Doinel (Nicolás Prividera, 2019).
Las fuerzas (Paola Buontempo, 2018).
Presente imperfecto (Iair Said, 2016).

Penti Menti at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is Sarah Dwyer’s first institutional exhibition in Ireland. Born in Cork, Dwyer has a significant international profile. The artist frequently combines drawing with painting, printmaking and sculpture, employing exuberant colour palettes and lively mark-making to depict semi-figurative and abstract imagery. Taking cues from Surrealism, Cobra and Abstract Expressionism, her practice explores image and form through the iterative nature of storytelling and poetry. Dwyer’s dynamic compositions process her own surroundings and the everyday experience—while also indulging our desire for play.

Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

The lectures can be attended as a series, but are also designed as standalone talks, which can be attended individually.

This lecture will look at how in the 1600s Irish artists drew on the prevailing academic tradition to create a distinctly Irish identity.

New exhibition opening 29th January 2026 6-9pm (continuing until 21st march 2026).
Maura Lynch is an artist trained in Ceramics, Bronze Sculpture, and Printmaking and has over thirty years teaching experience in Art & Design, 3D Design and ceramics.

This body of large, experimental cyanotype prints interprets aspects of the Myth of Persephone, the Greek child-goddess who disappears and returns.

This story dates back to the Neolithic Age (8000-4000 BCE), the beginning of agriculture. It is a story of rite of passage and a metaphor for the cycles of the year.

Join exhibiting artist Dragana Jurišić and TBG+S Programme Curator Michael Hill for a conversation about Jurišić’s work and an introduction to her exhibition, ‘The Last Balkan Cowboy’.

Dragana Jurišić works predominantly through the medium of photography, film and installation. Born in former Yugoslavia, she has been living and working in Dublin since 1999. Her new exhibition is an outcome of a long-term project that follows the footsteps of cult Yugoslavian film director, Hari Džekson renowned for his interpretation of Wild West genre archetypes.

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 30/01/2026.

‘Patterning Futures: Dynamic Textiles’ by Jackie Toal is an experimental exploration of Irish textile heritage through immersive technologies and projections. The work engages with Irish motifs, patterns and the Irish linen industry, while foregrounding women’s central role in the linen production. Silk scarves reimagine motifs from Irish lace and floral patterns, translating historical knowledge into contemporary form. Several scarves are Augmented Reality‑enabled: viewed through AR, they reveal layered narratives and animated patterns. Projection mapping brings dynamic motifs to life on tulle and Irish linen.

Basic Space is delighted to present Shane Malone-Murphy for our January BASIC TALK – 1.15pm on Friday the 30th of January 2026, TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus, D7.
Visit our website for more info or to purchase tickets. Walk-ins on the day are also welcome!

2026 Opening Party!
Join us for the opening of The Courthouse Gallery & Studios’ 2026 programme with an evening of film, music and celebration. Inspired by Sara Teasdale and Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains, the programme explores resilience, renewal and alternative futures in an age of climate crisis and technological change.
The night features a screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), set in 2026, with a live contemporary score by Gareth Quinn Redmond, Jürgen Simpson and Simon O’Reilly, followed by music and festivities.
Fri 30 Jan | Doors 7pm | Screening 8pm
Free tickets (limited) on our website | Donation bar

Exhibition continues from the 1st of November to the 31st of January 2026

Opening reception Thursday 06 November 5.30-6.30pm

The Winter Exhibition is a seasonal showcase of the best in Irish art, craft and design including paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and much more, with prices to suit every budget in the run-up to Christmas and into the New Year. Support local artists and makers as well as Lavit Gallery, a not-for-profit arts organisation and registered charity. Each year the exhibition features work by over 50 artists and makers including regular contributors and new additions.

In November 2025 Golden Thread Gallery will be presenting a new exhibition by artist Sharon Murphy, curated by Sarah McAvera.
Drawing from her background in theatre and shaped by influences from psychoanalysis and magic realism, Murphy’s work delves into theatrical settings, captured in moments of quiet and stillness. Through recurring symbols such as curtains, deserted stages, and performative environments, she investigates the thin line between illusion and reality, presence and absence.

The Border That Crossed Me is a multi-sensory collaborative exhibition exploring surveillance technology, border infrastructures, and climate-induced migration. This exhibition has been devised for the Golden Thread Gallery in collaboration with FLAX Artist Studios, Belfast and Azzedine Saleck. Presented in our Upper Gallery, The Border That Crossed Me examines the political and emotional geographies of divided territories across the globe.

Hamilton Gallery’s annual” Winter Gathering” brings you the work of over 20 gallery artists. Opens on November 27th, at 6.30pm. Please join us for this festive celebration of Irish art. This year Winter Gathering Catherine Fanning, Cormac O’Leary, Daniel Chester, Donncadh O’Callaghan, Eileen Healy, Joe Dunne, Joesphine Geaney, Daniel Chester, Paul Colreavy, Mags Duffy, Joe Dunne, Catherine Fanning, Joesphine Geaney, Medbh Gillard, Julianne Guinee, Martina Hamilton, Eileen Healy, Stephanie Hess, Kaye Maahs, Leonora Neary, Marylin North, Donncadh O’Callaghan, Cormac O’Leary, Kate Oram, Pat Owen, Rae Perry, Karen Webster, MaManon West and more

Artists: Vicky Ochala, Nicole Manning, Lily Mannion,

Opening Reception: Saturday, 31 January, 1–3pm.

Exhibition Runs: 31 January – 14 February 2026.
Venue: The MART Gallery, 190a Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 1–6pm.

A Myth of the Last Wolf is an exhibition by internationally renowned artist Karen Daye-Hutchinson. Each print in the show is a gateway into an imagined mythology. Animals appear as messengers or witnesses, their forms dissolving into human gestures and vice versa.

The landscapes they inhabit are fractured and dreamlike, haunted by traces of conflict, tenderness, and the slow erosion of time.

Karen Daye-Hutchinson studied Fine Art at the Art College, Belfast, and Manchester School of Art.

In 2021 she was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (ARE) and a member of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts (ARUA).

Learn more about the artists and artworks on display at the Glucksman with our monthly Reading Group led by Curator of Exhibitions + Projects Katie O’Grady.

Drawing on texts and essays across theory, fiction, biography, and poetry, we invite you to learn more about and discuss selected artworks from our current exhibition, Eilis O’Connell: HAPPENSTANCE. Over the course of an hour, you will be invited to read a text aloud together and discuss its themes, ideas, and context in relation to select artworks. This month, we will be reading Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag.

Free to attend with booking required.

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.

Together, their work celebrates connection — between people, nature, and creative expression — offering a thoughtful and visually captivating experience. We are delighted with the opportunity to present the work in this beautiful space, set within such a stunning landscape. The setting feels like a natural extension of the themes explored in the exhibition.

All welcome. Free, no booking required.

Throughout January, ReVerve Artist Collective have been engaging in creative research in Swift Cultural Centre, Trim.

ReVerve invite you to join them and see the results of their experimentations, how creative ideas are developed and the many ways artists explore and experiment with different materials.

ReVerve Artist Collective are a dynamic group of artists based in County Meath, each bring a unique and diverse artistic practice to their collaborative work.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) and Pearse Museum are proud to present a major retrospective of the work of Irish wood sculptor Liam Roe (1935–2010), running from 1 November 2025 to 1 February 2026.

Roe spent his life cultivating the craft of wood sculpture, developing his practice over several decades. He worked primarily with oak, walnut, Spanish chestnut, elm, yew and lime, creating human and animal forms that reflected both Irish cultural memory and everyday experience. His work explored themes of history, mythology, music, faith, the natural world, and the bond between mother and child.

Born in Marino, North Dublin, Roe began carving in his twenties. In 1962, he travelled to Oberammergau, Germany, to study traditional woodcarving, and later attended night classes at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). He held his first solo exhibition in 1963 at Brown Thomas, Dublin.

Roe played a significant role in preserving traditional woodcarving in Ireland. He contributed to teaching at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), where his deep knowledge and practical skill were respected by students and colleagues alike.

This exhibition, organised in partnership with the OPW, brings together a wide selection of Roe’s sculptures, many of which have never before been shown publicly.

Image: “Cut-out lady” in sycamore (1972)”

We’re proud to present the Irish premiere of The Empathy Machine at Photo Museum Ireland. Maija Tammi is known for her radical storytelling through the medium of video, photography and installations. This acclaimed work offers audiences a rare chance to engage with Tammi’s unique exploration of empathy, emotion, and human connection through the lens of contemporary photography.

Exhibition on show from 8 November 2025 – 1 February 2026

Sharú is a group exhibition bringing together the work of ten artists. The exhibition reflects a multicultural and multinational group of artists working in Ireland today. Together they present painting drawing sculpture and photography that explore ideas of identity roots and ongoing transformation.
At the heart of Sharú is the belief that the artist is someone who transcends. From the first spark of an idea through engagement with materials and into the final act of making the work the everyday practice of art becomes an act of transformation.

Exhibition continues from 19/10/2025 to 01/02/2026.

Callum Innes creates abstract paintings that carry a powerful tension between control and fluidity. Dissolution is central to his practice: layers of deep pigments are brushed over with turpentine, breaking down sections of paint and leaving watery, trace elements, before being painted over again. Repeating this process of painting, dissolving and repainting multiple times, Innes builds depth and a sense of history: oblique panels of dense pigments become embedded and fortified, while tiny trickles or rivulets of liquified paint point to their underlying fragility.

Exhibition continues from the 29th of November to the 2nd of February 2026.

Luan Gallery, in partnership with Westmeath Arts Office, presents Mythologies of the Personal and the Land, the Westmeath Artists Award exhibition showcasing the work of thirty talented Westmeath artists, selected by guest curator Miguel Amado. The exhibition will be officially opened at 6 p.m. on Friday, 28th November, with addresses from Cllr. Paul Hogan, Leas-Chathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council; Laura McCormack, Acting Arts Officer, Westmeath County Council; and Miguel Amado, Director of Sirius Arts Centre.

The fifth edition of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women returns from Friday, 30 January to Monday, 2 February 2026, marking a milestone year with its most expansive programme to date. Supported by Dublin City Council, the festival will present over 120 thematic events across the city, celebrating women’s contributions to Irish culture, society and history, while marking St Brigid’s Day and the ancient festival of Imbolc.

To diverge is to become different, to change form. This exhibition reflects on the cyclical, transformative nature of life and the process of growth as a fundamental part of the human condition. Growth requires change, often leaving us in an unfamiliar place. It is in learning to navigate the unknown, we are able to transform. This process is letting go the comfort of what we know, and embracing what is yet to come.

30 Jan – 6 March 2026
Studio 12 | Tuesday to Friday 10am – 5pm

Launching 12 Dec, @6pm.

Patient Labyrinth is both a maze and a labyrinth – exploring the delicate boundary between two worlds: the one in which we lose our way, and the one we try to find our way out of. The exhibition weaves together myth, folk magic, and ritual to explore how we navigate uncertainty, entrapment, and transformation. As our constructed and natural world unravels to near collapse, we rely on storytelling as a tool for connection, a tool for protection. The labyrinth is a mirror, a code, a key, a tensabarrier, a narrative and a fabrication, a reflection of ourselves and our worlds.

Painter / Painter is an exhibition and performance by Paddy Critchley. In this exhibition, Paddy reflects on recent explorations within his work. This exhibition brings together work that reacts to his lived experience of contemporary folk culture in Ireland, along with references to his work as a painter and decorator. Paddy’s paintings work as a body, each one in dialogue with another. From portraits of friends and flowers to words and meditations, Paddy uses paint as his way of understanding the world. Paddy’s love of Irish ballads and songs, especially the work of Brendan and Dominic Behan, underpins the work in this exhibition.

Karl Hagan’s paintings combine image and abstraction, using photography and digital collage to create layered, thought-provoking compositions. Featuring fragmented forms and distorted figures, his work explores memory, the subconscious, and the ephemeral nature of human experience, inviting viewers to uncover the hidden narratives.

Opening 3.00pm – 5.00pm Saturday 22nd November. All Welcome. Butler Gallery is very pleased to present a solo exhibition by the Kinsale-based artist Brian Harte. This solo exhibition comes at a pivotal point in Harte’s career and is his first museum exhibition in Ireland. For the past nine years his career has focused on international commitments. Harte creates paintings that deconstruct interior settings which embrace components from his own domestic family life. This exhibition invitation has allowed the artist to step back from commercial gallery demands to reflect and experiment.

‘Still, We Gather’, brings together artists working across a wide range of mediums to celebrate the social and political potential of coming together, recognising gathering as a practice of care, joy, protest and collective imagination.

Developed through an open call, the exhibition brings together a constellation of contemporary Irish artists whose practices emerge from layered geographies and diverse lived experiences and whose works explore how forms of connection and resistance are sustained and reimagined across borders, cultures and times.

Image: ‘Calling the Bird Ancestors’ (2025), Dervla Baker, Marilyn Lennon & Andy Ingamells

Exhibition continues from 09/01/2026 to 08/02/2026.

McCormack’s show will address a variety of themes, from intimate moments of reflection to broader glimpses of fleeting beauty, weaving a unified narrative that encourages viewers to contemplate the delicate nature of our environment and delve into the subtle complexities of the world we live in. She is interested in how repetition can evoke the dissolution of memory and how art can function as a record of both the process and the mind’s reflection.

Exhibition continues from 16/01/2026 to 08/02/2026.

126 Artist-Run Gallery & Studios warmly invites you to the opening of our 2026 Members’ Exhibition, Vibrant Matter, on Friday 16th January at 6pm.

A celebration of our members, Vibrant Matter features works by 63 artists across sculpture, oils, acrylics, print, mixed media, photography, and video, responding to the theme of colour as a radical act. Vibrant Matter will run from 16th January until 8th February. 126 Gallery is open from 12-6pm, Wednesday to Sunday.