What’s on in Connaught

Roscommon Arts Centre presents Nósanna, a two-person exhibition by artists Eileen Fair and Gary Robinson, curated by Eamonn Maxwell. The exhibition explores how ritual shapes Irish art, memory, and everyday life, bringing together practices rooted in assemblage, performance, and mark-making. Both artists, selected from the Hivernal group exhibition at Roscommon Arts Centre in 2025, present work that probes belief, trace, and transformation.

You are warmly invited to the opening reception of our Spring Exhibition on Saturday 7 March at 2pm. Please join us in welcoming Anna Macleod as she presents her contemplative exhibition Tír Breac / Speckled Land at The Dock. As part of a sculptural work within the exhibition, the artist has commissioned an uilleann pipe composition by musician Pádraig McGovern — the composition will be performed live at the opening reception.

You are warmly invited to the opening reception of our Spring Exhibition on Saturday 7 March at 2pm. Please join us in welcoming Anna Macleod as she presents her contemplative exhibition Tír Breac / Speckled Land at The Dock. As part of a sculptural work within the exhibition, the artist has commissioned an uilleann pipe composition by musician Pádraig McGovern — the composition will be performed live at the opening reception.

Roscommon Arts Centre presents Nósanna, a two-person exhibition by artists Eileen Fair and Gary Robinson, curated by Eamonn Maxwell. The exhibition explores how ritual shapes Irish art, memory, and everyday life, bringing together practices rooted in assemblage, performance, and mark-making. Both artists, selected from the Hivernal group exhibition at Roscommon Arts Centre in 2025, present work that probes belief, trace, and transformation.

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 14/03/2026.

Susan Madert presents Interface, a series of paintings set within hotel bedrooms that examine self-knowledge as it emerges at the interface between the individual and their interactions with others. These intimate interior scenes explore moments of reflection, dislocation, and awareness, where private space becomes a site for personal and psychological encounter.

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 14/03/2026.

David Smith presents Don’t Forget To Remember, an exhibition of recent paintings that explore the fluid nature of perception and memory. The works reflect an internal picture of lived, remembered, and imagined experience, shaped by influences ranging from Zen philosophy and ink painting to abstraction and photography. Carrying the contrasting landscape imprints of Hong Kong and Ireland, two distant points on the Eurasian continent, the paintings evoke a rich interplay of place and perception.
Memories of sunlight under varied atmospheric conditions rise to the surface throughout the exhibition: dawn mist, city air, heavy pollution, sparse for

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 14/03/2026.

David Smith presents Don’t Forget To Remember, an exhibition of recent paintings that explore the fluid nature of perception and memory. The works reflect an internal picture of lived, remembered, and imagined experience, shaped by influences ranging from Zen philosophy and ink painting to abstraction and photography. Carrying the contrasting landscape imprints of Hong Kong and Ireland, two distant points on the Eurasian continent, the paintings evoke a rich interplay of place and perception.
Memories of sunlight under varied atmospheric conditions rise to the surface throughout the exhibition: dawn mist, city air, heavy pollution, sparse for

Exhibition continues from 17/01/2026 to 14/03/2026.

Susan Madert presents Interface, a series of paintings set within hotel bedrooms that examine self-knowledge as it emerges at the interface between the individual and their interactions with others. These intimate interior scenes explore moments of reflection, dislocation, and awareness, where private space becomes a site for personal and psychological encounter.

Songs to the Siren.
The Model, Sligo | 24 January – 12 April 2026.
Curated by Hallahan & Welch.

Exhibition Opening: Sat. 24 January, 1 – 3pm.
1pm – Curators’ Tour.
2pm – Reception.

Songs to the Siren brings together works that dwell in ambiguity and emotion. Inspired by Brian O’Nolan’s veiled identity and Tim Buckley’s haunting song, the exhibition features artists including Joyce Pensato, William McKeown, Mark Leckey, Banksy, and Zanele Muholi. It invites visitors to linger with uncertainty, where feeling replaces resolution.

‘usual and generous ways’ presents works from artists working across a range of media, from Ireland and elsewhere, in which stone is not just a material to be shaped by the artist’s hand, but a subject-matter, object of inquiry, and an agent to be thought-with and thought-through.

Featuring: Richard Long, Barrie Cooke, Damien Hirst, Dorothy Cross, Seiha Kurosawa, David Beattie, Patrick Ireland/Brian O’Doherty, Patrick Hall, Anne Madden, Hilary Heron, Hamish Fulton.

Presented by Galway Arts Centre in partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, curated by writer & poet Padraig Regan.

Map: GSNI

Exhibition continues from 28/02/2026 to 21/03/2026.

An exhibition of work by Louise Newman.

A Tenuous Line is a multimedia exhibition presented by Niamh McGuinne, a Dublin-based visual artist whose practice combines print, sculpture, film and installation. Her work investigates the formulations of middens, accumulations of discarded material, and historical rubbish heaps. There are 77 midden sites situated in Mayo, 18 of which are sheltered in Clew Bay, typically containing shells, bones and other such remnants of survival. These middens are read as sites of temporary occupation. In A Tenuous Line, the “line” invoked is neither cartographic nor fixed; rather, it is a line drawn around resources, around bodies, around access.

Pilgrim is a solo exhibition by Susan Mannion, an Irish artist and curator whose practice centres on enamelled metalwork and printmaking. In this body of work, Mannion interrogates the enduring human impulse to gravitate toward liminal waterscapes and sacred sites—spaces where narrative, ritual, and topography coalesce. Informed by her training as an archaeologist, Pilgrim traverses the material and metaphysical strata of the Irish waterscape, from the primordial bog pools and holy wells of Roscommon, along fluvial passages, to the Atlantic threshold at Westport in Clew Bay.
(Image: Water Energies, Enamel on steel wall panel 1m x 1m)