What’s on in Connaught

Join us from 6pm for this unique artist talk and clay workshop with artist Claire McLaughlin, who is exhibiting her current body of work as part of the exhibition Still, We Gather

For Thursday Lates, Claire will talk about this creative journey and offer workshop attendees the hands-on opportunity of bringing shells from the ancient Galway Bay Shell Middens back to life in clay. It is hoped that this tactile experience will stimulate conversation on how these clay shell vessels are a way of connecting with and holding history and attest to the kinship between human and more-than-human.

Join us from 6pm for this unique artist talk and clay workshop with artist Claire McLaughlin, who is exhibiting her current body of work as part of the exhibition Still, We Gather

For Thursday Lates, Claire will talk about this creative journey and offer workshop attendees the hands-on opportunity of bringing shells from the ancient Galway Bay Shell Middens back to life in clay. It is hoped that this tactile experience will stimulate conversation on how these clay shell vessels are a way of connecting with and holding history and attest to the kinship between human and more-than-human.

Exhibition continues from the 21st of November 2025 to the 9th of January 2026.

As this year’s inspiring exhibition activities at Solas Art Gallery come to a close, our members celebrate the unveiling of the final exhibition of the season. This Winter Group Exhibition brings together over 20 artists whose works yet again will showcase an extraordinary mixed array of intriguing mediums, diverse materials & vibrant artistry. From traditional fine art processes (drypoint, pen & ink, oils, acrylics, watercolours and photography) to contemporary and textural forms (embroidery, knitting, wet felt, decorators emulsion and mixed media collage), together these pieces celebrate texture, technique and the shared joy of making.

You are cordially invited to join us at Custom House Studios + Gallery to celebrate the opening of our annual Winter Exhibition , on Sunday 30th November @2pm, Exhibition continues until Sunday 11th January, 2026. Official opening by Keira Keogh TD.

Many of the artists who have exhibited here, practice here, and governed the organisation throughout 2025 will present work

Exhibition continues from the 8th of November 2025 to the 28th of February 2026

Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957) is one of Ireland’s most celebrated twentieth-century artists. The Niland Collection, housed at The Model, holds an extensive body of his work spanning the full arc of his career – from early pen-and-ink illustrations and lively watercolours, to the expressive oil paintings that define his mature style. ‘A Painted Universe’ invites visitors to step into Yeats’s artistic world, where memory, emotion and experience are transformed into colour, form and light.

The Model is delighted to present once more The Sunset Belongs to You – a series of portraits commissioned from two of Irelands most distinguished painters, Mick O’Dea + Geraldine O’Neill. The portraits capture young people from diverse backgrounds living across County Sligo, and were painted between 2022–23. Looked at together, they provide a hopeful glimpse into the Ireland of the future.

Hymn to Him is a guilty pleasure, a sustained glance at the relationship between the unstable and convoluted lives of artists and the composed stillness of the characters they create. In her painting and photographic work, she lingers on the surfaces of things – bellies, primroses, house keys, vegetables. Costello inserts herself into her compositions and, as her own model, she remains in control of both sides of the canvas.

Waking the Land is a collective based in Leitrim. Our five members are Tara Baoth Mooney, Shane Finan, James Kelly, Laura McMorrow, and Sonya Swarte. We collectively occupy an artist-led studio and experimental space in Manorhamilton that opened in September 2022. Over the past three years, we have led events in north Leitrim in response to environmental grief, care, and tending to the land.

Exhibition continues from the 21st of November 2025 to the 9th of January 2026.

As this year’s inspiring exhibition activities at Solas Art Gallery come to a close, our members celebrate the unveiling of the final exhibition of the season. This Winter Group Exhibition brings together over 20 artists whose works yet again will showcase an extraordinary mixed array of intriguing mediums, diverse materials & vibrant artistry. From traditional fine art processes (drypoint, pen & ink, oils, acrylics, watercolours and photography) to contemporary and textural forms (embroidery, knitting, wet felt, decorators emulsion and mixed media collage), together these pieces celebrate texture, technique and the shared joy of making.

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

You are cordially invited to join us at Custom House Studios + Gallery to celebrate the opening of our annual Winter Exhibition , on Sunday 30th November @2pm, Exhibition continues until Sunday 11th January, 2026. Official opening by Keira Keogh TD.

Many of the artists who have exhibited here, practice here, and governed the organisation throughout 2025 will present work

‘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 02/12/2025 to 16/01/2026

Showcasing the talent of visual artists across the length and breadth of our beautiful county, carefully selected by Curator Aoife Banks this is an opportunity to rejoice in the talent of visual artists across the length and breadth of Mayo.

Come support local and experience the thrill of seeing an extraordinary collection of artwork by extraordinary artists. Artworks are available for purchase and would make an excellent gift for a loved one this Christmas.