What’s on in Connaught

First Impressions is a landmark solo exhibition by Cork-based visual artist Jane Hayes, created especially for early years audiences. Bringing together a major body of work developed over several years, the exhibition invites young children and their families into a visually rich and imaginative world that reflects how young children encounter art: physically, playfully, and with deep curiosity.

Curated by Emer McGarry.

The exhibition spans installation, film, drawing, and sculpture, with works by Marcus Coates, Miriam de Búrca, Susan Hiller, Anna Maria Maiolino, Kathy Prendergast, Cornelia Parker, and the collaborative research project Selvagem – Cycle of Studies. Each proposes different strategies for navigating what we inherit and what we pass on.

Creative Coffee is a monthly event for artists interested in connecting with others, in a relaxed and welcoming space. Artists of all disciplines and interests are invited to attend.
In October, the special guest is Nuala Clarke. An abstract painter living in the west of Ireland, her work is shown throughout the world and is held in many public and private collections worldwide. Published in 2025, Clarke’s first book Irish Moss of a Dead Man’s Skull is described as ‘an alchemical portfolio; an ode to light, colour, loss, and the elements’.

Exhibition continues from the 20th of September to the 11th of October 2025.

An Exhibition of New Works in Bronze.
OFFICIAL OPENING SATURDAY, 20TH SEPTEMBER.

Join John Behan RHA and guest speaker Louis de Paor at The Kenny Gallery on Saturday, September 20th to celebrate the opening of A Terrible Beauty. Presenting a compelling new series of bronze sculptures that reaffirm John Behan’s postion as one of Ireland’s foremost sculptors, A Terrible Beauty blends technical mastery with deeply felt narrative.

John Behan, A Terrible Beauty opens at The Kenny Gallery, Galway on Saturday, 20th September from 2.30pm. Admission is free, all are welcome!

Opens Saturday, September 27th at 5pm.

Claremorris Gallery is proud to present Slow Heat, a new body of work by contemporary painter Emma Stroude, opening on Saturday, September 27th at 5pm. The exhibition will be preceded by a guided tour with the artist at 4pm, offering visitors a rare opportunity to gain insight into Stroude’s creative process and the inspirations behind her work. Attendance for the tour is free but booking is essential through Eventbrite.
Slow Heat emerges from a collaboration between Stroude and three actors, who explored themes of women’s potentiality, endurance, and the necessity of moving beyond inherited preconceptions. Their embodied performances became the catalyst for Stroude’s striking new works, which weave together performance, archetypes, and art historical references.
Virginia Woolf’s writings were a persistent influence during the making of Slow Heat. Woolf’s metaphors of fire and heat—as forces of transformation and resistance—resonate deeply within Stroude’s paintings, which reflect a simmering intensity rather than sudden revolution. The works explore archetypes embedded in our cultural DNA, reinterpreting figures from Incy Wincy Spider to Mary Magdalene, while engaging in dialogue with feminist artists such as Paula Rego, Rebecca Horn, and Ana Mendieta.
In these works, Stroude paints the performed experiences of women through a female lens. The figures undergo transformation, endure hardship, and support one another, embodying resilience, tenderness, and determination. Slow Heat is an invitation to witness women’s collective potential and the enduring flame of change.

About the Artist
Emma Stroude is a Berlin-born, UK-raised, and Sligo-based painter and draughtswoman. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Art in London before moving to Ireland in 1996. Her work often draws inspiration from Ireland’s dramatic light and landscapes while engaging with themes of women’s roles in history and society.
Her paintings and drawings are held in numerous collections, including the Office of Public Works, Sligo and Kildare County Councils, Pierce Brosnan, and Luciano Benetton’s Imago Mundi. In 2021, her portrait Fifteen won the Ireland-U.S. Council Award for Portraiture at the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Recent projects include In Plain Sight, a commission honouring pioneering women in Irish law.

Creative Coffee is a monthly event for artists interested in connecting with others, in a relaxed and welcoming space. Artists of all disciplines and interests are invited to attend.
In October, the special guest is Nuala Clarke. An abstract painter living in the west of Ireland, her work is shown throughout the world and is held in many public and private collections worldwide. Published in 2025, Clarke’s first book Irish Moss of a Dead Man’s Skull is described as ‘an alchemical portfolio; an ode to light, colour, loss, and the elements’.

Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, is delighted to present Ancestral Biology, an exhibition of glass works by artists Emma Bourke and Fiona Byrnes.

This exhibition explores the informal transmission of plant knowledge through the exchange of cuttings, seeds, and slips.

Glass, a shared material of deep significance to Bourke and Byrne, features prominently in the exhibition. Drawing on its historic role in horticulture and natural history, it becomes a medium for both preservation and storytelling.

Opening Reception takes place Thursday 18th September at 6pm

All welcome!

Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, is delighted to present Interiorities, an exhibition of drawings and photographic works by Niamh Clarke.

Clarke’s drawing practice reflects an interest in memory and temporality. Exploring the relationship between photography and drawing, a focus is placed on the embodied presence of gesture and materialisation through re-description of found and personal photographs. Containing personal narratives the drawings embrace subconsciousness and stream of consciousness, embodied practice and materiality.

Thursday 18th September at 6pm
All Welcome!

The Dichotomy of Change
The Dichotomy of Change brings together the work of Betty Gannon and Tony Gunning to explore the layered and evolving nature of our environments, both natural and man-made. Though their subject matter diverge, Gannon focusing on threatened sea and land forests, and Gunning on abandoned rural buildings, both artists present spaces deeply rooted in history, memory, and transformation.

Gannon’s mixed media works offer a contemplative response to the vulnerable ecosystems of Irish oak woodlands and oceanic seaweed forests. Her work highlights the quiet beauty of these habitats while underscoring their fragility in the face of human impact and climate change. In parallel, Gunning’s paintings of derelict structures evoke the echoes of lives once lived, shaped by waves of emigration, economic hardship, and rural decline. His work captures not only the starkness of abandonment but also the enduring beauty and significance of these spaces.

Together, their practices underscore a shared concern for the erosion of place, whether ecological or cultural, and reflect on how such environments, though worn and weathered, continue to act as living repositories of memory, identity, and resilience.

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’” Rachel Carson

Andrew Pelham-Burn, writer and poet

Betty Gannon lives and works in Westport, Co Mayo, mainly working in drawing, painting and mixed media work. She was selected for many solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland and also selected for numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Gannon was an award winner at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre Summer Exhibition in 2018, she was awarded an Agility Award in 2021 from the Arts Council of Ireland and was selected for a residency in Krems, Austria in 2022. She is currently researching and creating work supported by a Sustainable Arts Bursary Award from Wilderland a public art & community ecology project in Co Mayo.

Tony Gunning has been a professional artist since 2000. Following his sell-out debut at the Davis Gallery, Dublin, in 2002 he has had fifteen solo shows and has exhibited at numerous group shows including RA, RHA and RUA annual exhibitions. In 2007 he won the Curator’s Award and the Bank of Ireland Emerging Artist Award at EV+A (Ireland’s pre-eminent contemporary arts showcase). Internationally he has exhibited solo at the European Parliament, Brussels and was part of the Irish representation at the Florence Biennale 2005. His work is in many public and private collections including the National Collection (O.P.W.), the Northern Ireland Collection (Stormont) and the Bank of Ireland Collection.

Oh What a State is a solo exhibition of work by Darran McGlynn, yearning for a meaningful marking of this time. The exhibition explores how space is embedded with layered histories and emotions in relation to land and identity, echoing encounters of existential complexities. Material tensions of construction and collapse emphasise the personal and collective experience of aspiration, power and loss in our changing world.

Oh What A State is the next iteration of McGlynn’s most recent body of work, following State of Play exhibited as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2025. Darran McGlynn is a member of Artspace Studios in Galway. His multidisciplinary practice combines social and philosophical reflection, contrasting contemporary circumstances with deep time.

Curated by Kate McSharry.

Kate McSharry is a Visual Artist and Independent Curator, also currently working as Co-Director at 126 Artist-Run Gallery & Studios, Administrator at Artspace Studios, and Education Officer at TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Kate’s practice has been supported by Galway City Council Arts Office, Galway Culture Company, Galway Arts Centre, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland since graduating with a First-Class Honours and the Academic Achievement Award in Contemporary Art from ATU Galway.

Exhibition runs until 17th Oct

Official Opening 5th Sept at 6pm – 17th Oct

First Impressions is a landmark solo exhibition by Cork-based visual artist Jane Hayes, created especially for early years audiences. Bringing together a major body of work developed over several years, the exhibition invites young children and their families into a visually rich and imaginative world that reflects how young children encounter art: physically, playfully, and with deep curiosity.

Opening Saturday 9 August 2025. 5-7 pm. Special musical performance by Rory Pierce

The Ballinglen Arts Foundation is proud to present Janet Pierce: Into the Light, a solo exhibition by the distinguished Scottish-born, Dublin-based artist Janet Pierce. Running from August 9 to

October 20, 2025, this exhibition brings together new and recent works that explore luminosity, inner vision, and spiritual resonance through richly layered abstraction.

Pierce’s work draws on a lifetime of immersion in the landscapes of Co Fermanagh and Co Monaghan. Her paintings—ethereal yet grounded—serve as meditative spaces that invite reflection and stillness. Known for her use of gold leaf, translucent washes, and sacred symbols, Pierce’s visual language bridges the material and the mystical, offering viewers a pathway “into the light.”

Over more than a decade, Pierce spent winters in India, exhibiting widely in New Delhi and producing a book with acclaimed poet Sudeep Sen. Two significant works from that period—a painting and a tapestry—are permanently installed in Mageough Chapel in Rathmines, Dublin. Now based in Rathmines after 15 years living in a house she built on the grounds of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Pierce continues to create work that is at once deeply personal and universally resonant.

A member of Aosdána, she has exhibited extensively in Ireland, the UK, the United States, and India. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, and she has received international recognition, including awards from the Fundación Valparaíso in Spain and the Sanskriti Foundation in India.

This exhibition marks a significant return to the west of Ireland for an artist whose practice is rooted in silence, spirit, and landscape.

Exhibition continues 25th March – 1st November 2025.

Jack Butler Yeats; The Dreaming Road
Tue. 25 Mar. – Sat. 1 Nov. 2025

The Dreaming Road presents audiences with the opportunity to trace Jack Butler Yeats’ extraordinary journey as an artist through four important, interconnected stages of his life and work. The show touches on the legacy of his unique artistic family, as well as the indelible influence of his early life in Sligo on his entire career. A selection of his politically charged paintings of the 1920s are on view alongside a number of the great masterpieces of his later years, which are noted for their wildly romantic and expressionistic style. While Jack was notably reluctant to discuss his creative practice, the exhibition is augmented with a number of statements by the artist himself that shed light on aspects of his attitudes and approaches to painting.

The Yeats Family was one of the most creative and accomplished in the literary and cultural world of early twentieth century Ireland. Patriarch, John Butler Yeats was distinguished as an artist, and particularly noted for his work in portraiture. Jack’s three siblings William, Susan, Elizabeth made significant contributions to literature, publishing and education throughout their lifetimes. Their mother, Susan Pollexfen, was the daughter of a wealthy Sligo merchant family, and imbued in her children a deep love for the people, landscape, and mythology of the county.

Jack Butler Yeats remains one of Ireland’s best loved and most accomplished artists. Unlike his siblings, Jack was sent to his maternal grandparents in Sligo, where he lived between the ages of eight and 16 years. He cut his creative teeth on the deep experience of Irish life he encountered in the town, and its western characters and dramatic landscape populated his works until the end of his life. While his subject matter remained the same throughout his long career, his style of painting, and the meaning he gave his works changed over time. His initial depictions of western life was marked by a strong sentimentality, which he expressed in watercolours during the period 1898–1910. This gave way, in his early oil period (1910–1925), to the pronounced realism that he developed to make political and social commentary.

Jack had been on a visit back to Sligo in 1898, when he witnessed some of the centenary re-enactments of the 1798 Rebellion. The spectacle of the event appealed to Jack’s love of the drama of everyday life, and he was inspired to create one of his first political scenes, Robert Emmet – Procession at Carricknagat, Co. Sligo, 1898. The more serious concern of Ireland’s nationhood that the centenary celebrations brought to the fore, also impacted the young artist. From 1898 onwards he became more convinced of the right to Irish self-determination. He went on to paint several, more overtly political works, some of which are also on view in this exhibition, culminating in the masterworks The Funeral of Harry Boland, 1922, and Communicating with Prisoners, c. 1924.

From the 1920s and into the later part of his career, another more marked development took hold. Jack’s subject matter became imbued with a deeper mysticism and symbolism. His handling of paint became much freer, he abandoned his palette and brush, and worked directly onto the canvas using only the primary colours. Throughout the 1940s, his paintings increasingly present us with apocalyptic visions. He developed a highly personal technique, which placed less emphasis on composition. He focused more on creating work in a ‘stream-of-consciousness’ style and termed the paintings he made in this way as ‘happenings’.

The exhibition continues until 1st November. In depth Curator’s Tours will run on each Saturday at 11am throughout June, July and August, and can be booked at the front desk or at www.themodel.ie.

We keep all of our exhibitions free of charge and open to everyone. We kindly ask that those who can afford to, make a donation of €5 for this exhibition. This can be done by contactless payment at the station in this gallery.

Opening Saturday 9 August 2025. 5-7 pm. Special musical performance by Rory Pierce

The Ballinglen Arts Foundation is proud to present Janet Pierce: Into the Light, a solo exhibition by the distinguished Scottish-born, Dublin-based artist Janet Pierce. Running from August 9 to

October 20, 2025, this exhibition brings together new and recent works that explore luminosity, inner vision, and spiritual resonance through richly layered abstraction.

Pierce’s work draws on a lifetime of immersion in the landscapes of Co Fermanagh and Co Monaghan. Her paintings—ethereal yet grounded—serve as meditative spaces that invite reflection and stillness. Known for her use of gold leaf, translucent washes, and sacred symbols, Pierce’s visual language bridges the material and the mystical, offering viewers a pathway “into the light.”

Over more than a decade, Pierce spent winters in India, exhibiting widely in New Delhi and producing a book with acclaimed poet Sudeep Sen. Two significant works from that period—a painting and a tapestry—are permanently installed in Mageough Chapel in Rathmines, Dublin. Now based in Rathmines after 15 years living in a house she built on the grounds of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Pierce continues to create work that is at once deeply personal and universally resonant.

A member of Aosdána, she has exhibited extensively in Ireland, the UK, the United States, and India. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, and she has received international recognition, including awards from the Fundación Valparaíso in Spain and the Sanskriti Foundation in India.

This exhibition marks a significant return to the west of Ireland for an artist whose practice is rooted in silence, spirit, and landscape.

Libraries of Rest by Ciara Barker.

Opening Reception: Saturday 23 August, 2-4pm.

Libraries of Rest by Ciara Barker is an immersive exhibition that invites visitors to imagine the future of restful spaces and practices. Libraries of Rest combines installation, gameplay, sound and light, inhabiting a space between visual art, immersive environment and critical theory, centered on collective well-being.

Barker’s investigation of rest as a method of resistance is informed by a number of critical works, including texts by Tricia Hersey, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, Sonya Renee Taylor and Dr. Devon Price. This scholarship is grounded in its examination of structural inequality and rest as a racial, disability rights and social justice issue that disproportionately affects marginalised communities.

This exhibition is curated by Aoife Donnellan with a soundscape by Mankyy. Image: Ciara Barker, Libraries of Rest at transmediale studio in Berlin. Image: Ciara Barker, Libraries of Rest at transmediale studio in Berlin. Photo by Katie O’Neill.

Diagonal Acts by Marie Farrington.

Opening Reception: Saturday 23 August, 2-4pm.

Diagonal Acts refers to how diagonal lines are seen as ways to connect, divide and move across various places or ideas. The exhibition explores themes of memory, place and connection — exploring gaps, fragments and edges within archaeology, geology, sculpture and staged performance.

The material outcomes in Diagonal Acts are supported by a range of collaborations, and connected by a public programme of generative elements devised to critically engage audiences in person and online, enhancing and expanding participation and access.

This exhibition is curated by Kate Strain with contributions by Liliane Puthod and Laura Ní Fhlaibhín. Image: Marie Farrington, Figures for Lifting, 2024, carved soapstone. Photo by Rein Kooyman.

The Dichotomy of Change
The Dichotomy of Change brings together the work of Betty Gannon and Tony Gunning to explore the layered and evolving nature of our environments, both natural and man-made. Though their subject matter diverge, Gannon focusing on threatened sea and land forests, and Gunning on abandoned rural buildings, both artists present spaces deeply rooted in history, memory, and transformation.

Gannon’s mixed media works offer a contemplative response to the vulnerable ecosystems of Irish oak woodlands and oceanic seaweed forests. Her work highlights the quiet beauty of these habitats while underscoring their fragility in the face of human impact and climate change. In parallel, Gunning’s paintings of derelict structures evoke the echoes of lives once lived, shaped by waves of emigration, economic hardship, and rural decline. His work captures not only the starkness of abandonment but also the enduring beauty and significance of these spaces.

Together, their practices underscore a shared concern for the erosion of place, whether ecological or cultural, and reflect on how such environments, though worn and weathered, continue to act as living repositories of memory, identity, and resilience.

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’” Rachel Carson

Andrew Pelham-Burn, writer and poet

Betty Gannon lives and works in Westport, Co Mayo, mainly working in drawing, painting and mixed media work. She was selected for many solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland and also selected for numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Gannon was an award winner at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre Summer Exhibition in 2018, she was awarded an Agility Award in 2021 from the Arts Council of Ireland and was selected for a residency in Krems, Austria in 2022. She is currently researching and creating work supported by a Sustainable Arts Bursary Award from Wilderland a public art & community ecology project in Co Mayo.

Tony Gunning has been a professional artist since 2000. Following his sell-out debut at the Davis Gallery, Dublin, in 2002 he has had fifteen solo shows and has exhibited at numerous group shows including RA, RHA and RUA annual exhibitions. In 2007 he won the Curator’s Award and the Bank of Ireland Emerging Artist Award at EV+A (Ireland’s pre-eminent contemporary arts showcase). Internationally he has exhibited solo at the European Parliament, Brussels and was part of the Irish representation at the Florence Biennale 2005. His work is in many public and private collections including the National Collection (O.P.W.), the Northern Ireland Collection (Stormont) and the Bank of Ireland Collection.

Oh What a State is a solo exhibition of work by Darran McGlynn, yearning for a meaningful marking of this time. The exhibition explores how space is embedded with layered histories and emotions in relation to land and identity, echoing encounters of existential complexities. Material tensions of construction and collapse emphasise the personal and collective experience of aspiration, power and loss in our changing world.

Oh What A State is the next iteration of McGlynn’s most recent body of work, following State of Play exhibited as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2025. Darran McGlynn is a member of Artspace Studios in Galway. His multidisciplinary practice combines social and philosophical reflection, contrasting contemporary circumstances with deep time.

Curated by Kate McSharry.

Kate McSharry is a Visual Artist and Independent Curator, also currently working as Co-Director at 126 Artist-Run Gallery & Studios, Administrator at Artspace Studios, and Education Officer at TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Kate’s practice has been supported by Galway City Council Arts Office, Galway Culture Company, Galway Arts Centre, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland since graduating with a First-Class Honours and the Academic Achievement Award in Contemporary Art from ATU Galway.

Exhibition runs until 17th Oct

Official Opening 5th Sept at 6pm – 17th Oct

Exhibition continues from the 6th of September to the 1st of November 2025

The point of departure for this exhibition was Mandy O’Neill’s recent practice-based PhD, where she examined the social and material implications of housing development and dereliction in the Dublin inner suburb of Cabra. Her research questioned the ideological shifts in housing policy since the mid 20th century in Ireland which have resulted in a move from housing as public good to housing as commodity, with emphasis on the impact of planning. In a broader context O’Neill’s practice is concerned with the politics of space and place, and the power relations which shape our built environment

Exhibition continues from the 6th of September to the 1st of November 2025

Rooted in the beauty of the west of Ireland, The Push and Pull explores the dualities of motherhood – the tenderness and tension, the giving and the grieving, the fierce love and quiet loss of self. Through a series of intimate, textured works, the artist captures the emotional rhythms of raising children: moments of connection stretched thin by the demands of care, identity, and time. This body of work invites viewers into the ebb and flow of maternal experience, where nature, body, and memory collide.

Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, is delighted to present Ancestral Biology, an exhibition of glass works by artists Emma Bourke and Fiona Byrnes.

This exhibition explores the informal transmission of plant knowledge through the exchange of cuttings, seeds, and slips.

Glass, a shared material of deep significance to Bourke and Byrne, features prominently in the exhibition. Drawing on its historic role in horticulture and natural history, it becomes a medium for both preservation and storytelling.

Opening Reception takes place Thursday 18th September at 6pm

All welcome!

Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, is delighted to present Interiorities, an exhibition of drawings and photographic works by Niamh Clarke.

Clarke’s drawing practice reflects an interest in memory and temporality. Exploring the relationship between photography and drawing, a focus is placed on the embodied presence of gesture and materialisation through re-description of found and personal photographs. Containing personal narratives the drawings embrace subconsciousness and stream of consciousness, embodied practice and materiality.

Thursday 18th September at 6pm
All Welcome!

Exhibition continues from the 20th of September to the 11th of October 2025.

An Exhibition of New Works in Bronze.
OFFICIAL OPENING SATURDAY, 20TH SEPTEMBER.

Join John Behan RHA and guest speaker Louis de Paor at The Kenny Gallery on Saturday, September 20th to celebrate the opening of A Terrible Beauty. Presenting a compelling new series of bronze sculptures that reaffirm John Behan’s postion as one of Ireland’s foremost sculptors, A Terrible Beauty blends technical mastery with deeply felt narrative.

John Behan, A Terrible Beauty opens at The Kenny Gallery, Galway on Saturday, 20th September from 2.30pm. Admission is free, all are welcome!

Opens Saturday, September 27th at 5pm.

Claremorris Gallery is proud to present Slow Heat, a new body of work by contemporary painter Emma Stroude, opening on Saturday, September 27th at 5pm. The exhibition will be preceded by a guided tour with the artist at 4pm, offering visitors a rare opportunity to gain insight into Stroude’s creative process and the inspirations behind her work. Attendance for the tour is free but booking is essential through Eventbrite.
Slow Heat emerges from a collaboration between Stroude and three actors, who explored themes of women’s potentiality, endurance, and the necessity of moving beyond inherited preconceptions. Their embodied performances became the catalyst for Stroude’s striking new works, which weave together performance, archetypes, and art historical references.
Virginia Woolf’s writings were a persistent influence during the making of Slow Heat. Woolf’s metaphors of fire and heat—as forces of transformation and resistance—resonate deeply within Stroude’s paintings, which reflect a simmering intensity rather than sudden revolution. The works explore archetypes embedded in our cultural DNA, reinterpreting figures from Incy Wincy Spider to Mary Magdalene, while engaging in dialogue with feminist artists such as Paula Rego, Rebecca Horn, and Ana Mendieta.
In these works, Stroude paints the performed experiences of women through a female lens. The figures undergo transformation, endure hardship, and support one another, embodying resilience, tenderness, and determination. Slow Heat is an invitation to witness women’s collective potential and the enduring flame of change.

About the Artist
Emma Stroude is a Berlin-born, UK-raised, and Sligo-based painter and draughtswoman. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Art in London before moving to Ireland in 1996. Her work often draws inspiration from Ireland’s dramatic light and landscapes while engaging with themes of women’s roles in history and society.
Her paintings and drawings are held in numerous collections, including the Office of Public Works, Sligo and Kildare County Councils, Pierce Brosnan, and Luciano Benetton’s Imago Mundi. In 2021, her portrait Fifteen won the Ireland-U.S. Council Award for Portraiture at the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Recent projects include In Plain Sight, a commission honouring pioneering women in Irish law.

Exhibition continues 26 September – 26 October 2025.

126 Artist-Run Gallery & Studios presents Groundwork, an exhibition of work by Forensic Architecture which traces the ongoing Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine.

Forensic Architecture is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, dedicated to developing and employing cutting-edge techniques for investigating state violence and human rights violations.

Launching 26th Sept at 6pm. Open Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm until 26th Oct 2025.

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Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Galway City Council Arts Office.

In ‘Once Removed’, artist Leonora Neary explores themes of home, memory and identity through the prism of the artist’s own life.

Based between Roscommon and Sligo, Leonora’s practice focuses on the emotional and ethereal planes of landscape. Primarily a visual artist, in recent years her work has expanded to encompass music, sound and moving image.
A graduate of the University of Ulster in Belfast, Leonora has been the recipient of multiple residencies and funding awards from local arts services, Creative Ireland, Culture Ireland and Arts Council Ireland.