Swift Cultural Centre presents an exhibition showcasing the richness and diversity of visual arts practice across Meath, with a particular emphasis on artists from Trim and the surrounding areas, bringing together artists at all stages of their careers.

Displaying works across multiple disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, print, and mixed media, the exhibition reflects approaches, ideas, and perspectives that characterise visual art in the region today.

In 2024, Rua Red Director/Curator Maolíosa Boyle invited Orla Barry to create a new work in response to the rural communities of South Dublin. In this work, Barry uses the farm walk as a method of research and a form of encounter. The commission reflects on the complexities of rural life at the edge of the city, exploring how landscape is shaped by inheritance, lineage, survival, friendship, economic pressure and the stories that pass between people.

The Collie, The Cheviot and The Crouched Skeleton launches on Friday 10 July at 6pm and continues until 26 September.

All welcome. Admission free.

Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age brings together a selection of cutting-edge work by Irish and international artists exploring the
material and conceptual transformations that have profoundly altered our sense of what a photograph is and can be. Curated by Darren Campion.

Exhibition continues from 17/06/26.

Drop in, take your time, enjoy the company and discover a wide variety of original artworks from members of the collective, perhaps even find a piece that speaks to you.

Artists exhibiting: Carole Shubotham, Richie Delaney, Katie Delaney and Stephanie Glynn.

Opening event: 17th July 7pm.

Free parking on site.

Exhibition continues from 04/06/26 until 11/07/26.

Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce The Weight of Nothingness, an exhibition of new sculpture and photography by Siobhán Hapaska that explores absence as a material and as a psychological condition.

In The man with a stone in his stomach inverts sunflowers. a lone figure stands on a makeshift plinth. Their core is hollowed out and filled with a stone, the identity is obscured or they are without one. The darkened skeletal framework is a precarious one, simultaneously devotional and exhausted, its offering of inverted blue sunflowers are denied their upright sunny, optimistic disposition.

There is a heavy stone, a weight of nothingness at its core.

Inner Lives: Studies in Form, Emotion and Presence is an exhibition of recent figurative ceramic sculptures by Martin Marley. The work explores the expressive potential of the human form, focusing on vulnerability, gesture and quiet emotional presence. Through processes of reduction and simplification, Marley moves beyond physical representation to reveal character and introspection. These contemplative figures invite a personal response, reflecting shared human experience through form, material and touch.

Inner Lives is an exhibition of figurative sculptures exploring the quiet, often unseen aspects of human experience. Created from fired clay and reclaimed timber, the works combine natural materials with the human form to reflect on presence, memory, identity and connection. Each figure invites a moment of pause and contemplation, encouraging viewers to look beyond outward appearance and consider the rich inner worlds that shape our lives.

Echoes Across an Island brings together emerging artists from SETU Waterford and Belfast School of Art at Ulster University in a shared process of listening, making, and reflection. Working across distance, the students entered into dialogue, exploring how place shapes the ways we see, remember, and belong. Their collaborations trace the often unseen threads that connect communities across Ireland. Threads of story, memory, and live

Exhibition of new work including landscapes and seascapes of Ireland.
This exhibition celebrates William’s thirty five year career to date.

This playful, embodied art-based research moves through muscle, skin and memory to explore how gender identity, self-expression and self-actualization are experienced among individuals practicing recreational pole dancing in Ireland. Here, pole dancing becomes a site of discovery, creation and expression of both the individual and collective socio-political self. The solid and the ephemeral dance together through sculpture, words, images, light, sound and colour. The exhibition is accompanied with live performance art.

This art-based research is funded by Research Ireland’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme.

Opening Launch Wednesday 24th June 7pm.

Pallas Projects are pleased to present Struàn Bell—Pinky Ring, the sixth exhibition of our 2026 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.
Pinky Ring presents a series of plaster relief carvings shaped by ideas of speculative function, symbolic architectures, and objects of personal affection. Faceted gemstones appear throughout the works, functioning like small acts of emphasis or attachment.
Chosen in the way one might select a piece of jewellery to mark a moment of significance, they introduce a sense of private importance to scenes, systems, and objects that otherwise remain speculative and unresolved.

Exhibition continues from 01/05/26 until 18/07/26.

The Polish-born, Warsaw-based artist Liliana Zeic works with craft techniques, video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects based on artistic research.

Eating the Sun is part of a research-led curatorial project, developed in collaboration with Dr Aleksandra Gajowy (UCD), designed to introduce Central and Eastern European (CEE) lesbian artistic practices to an Irish audience. The current heightened interest in the region – spurred by events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing attacks on queer and trans lives, as well as women’s reproductive rights – has also highlighted the persistent lack of understanding of the CEE region, particularly in the global North.

IMMA Collection: Art as Agency is a major three-year display celebrating IMMA’s Permanent Collection as a source of agency and knowledge. Featuring over 100 artists, from the 1960s to the present, it highlights key works, including many recent acquisitions. This ambitious exhibition invites engagement and research over time, allowing for a rich durational experience of Ireland’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.

Through thematic, chronological, geographical, and media-based approaches, the exhibition examines how artworks connect across time and contexts, fostering new interpretations and relevance. Works from the 1960s to the 1980s evoke the foundational story of the Irish art world. While acknowledging the context of the modernist, predominantly male dominance of that era, the exhibition also spotlights the material innovation and socially engaged practices of others who persisted despite the relatively conservative status quo.

The exhibition also presents more recent practice that explores urgent global themes such as gender, hybridity, cultural histories, de-colonialism, diaspora, migration, food injustice, climate, and ecological change. Memory, imagination, and storytelling play pivotal roles in these works, offering generative ways to process fragmentation, dislocation, and survival in unfamiliar spaces. New and existing works in the IMMA grounds will extend these themes.

The exhibition includes a specially created ‘white cube’ gallery space inspired by Brian O’Doherty’s renowned series of essays Inside the White Cube – The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), that critiques the auratic, market-driven effects of the white cube gallery format. Likewise the choice of works curated for this space pushes back by highlighting works by Post-War American women, pioneering conceptualist artworks by Marcel Duchamp and Brian O’Doherty as well as a contemporary feminist response by Andrea Geyer.

By interweaving historical and contemporary narratives, Art as Agency invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings and possibilities of art in shaping our understanding of and action in the world.

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2026. The series will be part of a programme celebrating 30 years of Pallas Projects/Studios. Between January–December 2026 we will present 8 x 3-week exhibitions of new work by:

Paddy Critchley, Fiona Marron, Finn Nichol, Emma Brennan and Thomas Wells, Ciara Rodgers, Struàn Bell, Christopher Mahon, neonatus.exe

“Of the Earth” – A Three-Person Exhibition at Glass Attic Gallery, Jerpoint Glasss Studios, Kilkenny Of the Earth, a three-person exhibition featuring the paintings of Debra Bowden, Ross Stewart, and Krisztina Rozanich, opening on Friday, April 17th at 6pm at the Glass Attic Gallery, Glenmore, Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny (R95 WN67). The exhibition will be opened by Sue Nunn and runs Monday to Saturday, 10am–5pm.
Of the Earth brings together three distinct yet deeply interconnected artistic practices, each grounded in a shared engagement with landscape, material, and the passage of time.

Exhibition continues from 01/05/26 until 18/07/26.

The Polish-born, Warsaw-based artist Liliana Zeic works with craft techniques, video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects based on artistic research.

Eating the Sun is part of a research-led curatorial project, developed in collaboration with Dr Aleksandra Gajowy (UCD), designed to introduce Central and Eastern European (CEE) lesbian artistic practices to an Irish audience. The current heightened interest in the region – spurred by events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing attacks on queer and trans lives, as well as women’s reproductive rights – has also highlighted the persistent lack of understanding of the CEE region, particularly in the global North.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to present Lifework, an exhibition of artworks by seven artists who work at the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent (KCAT) Studio. The exhibition opens at the Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire on Saturday 9 May and runs until Wednesday 26 August 2026. Admission is free.
The artists featured are Thomas Barron, Declan Byrne, Lorna Corrigan, Sinéad Fahey, Fergus Fitzgerald, Andrew Pike, Jason Turner. Lifework presents examples of each artist’s earliest artwork beside examples of recent artwork.

Join us every weekend celebrating creativity at MART Grainstore Studios, Cabinteely Park.
Discover a vibrant selection of original paintings, prints, and cards from small treasures to statement pieces all created by our talented studio members.

‘How the Light Gets In’ is the summer exhibition showcasing the work of artists based in the The MART Grainstore Cabinteely studios from May to August.

Exhibition selected by the Art Riddler and curated by Louise Neiland. Artwork by members of ArtNetdlr.

PhotoIreland presents the exhibition of the 5th edition of New Irish Works in 2026, a triennial programme of activities launched in 2013 to support Irish photographers, bringing new works by 10 selected artists to local and international audiences.

Featured artists:
Austin Hearne, Billy Kenrick, Ciara Richardson, Debbie Castro, Dorje De Burgh, Emily O’Connell, Garry Loughlin, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, and Miriam O’ Connor.

Launch: Thu 14 May at 6pm
Artist Tour: Sat 16 May at 12pm

All events are free; booking is required.

Find out more at image.museum

Echoes Across an Island brings together emerging artists from SETU Waterford and Belfast School of Art at Ulster University in a shared process of listening, making, and reflection. Working across distance, the students entered into dialogue, exploring how place shapes the ways we see, remember, and belong. Their collaborations trace the often unseen threads that connect communities across Ireland. Threads of story, memory, and live

Butler Gallery is pleased to present ‘Meantime’, a mixed media exhibition combining photography and film by David Stephenson with a selection of poetry by Mark Granier.

The central theme of ‘Meantime’ is transience—the spirit of passing and life’s marginality.

Interspersed throughout the exhibition are prints of Mark Granier’s poems. These do not interpret or comment on the film or photographs, but compliment them tonally, encounters that are in the same orbit.

Learn more at butlergallery.ie

Crawford Art Gallery and Highlanes Gallery proudly present To Land: Living Roots Awaken, in collaboration with the Artist-Teacher-Researcher Curatorial Group. Drawing from the rich collection of Crawford’s contemporary works, the exhibition explores how identity is shaped by our relationship with land, history, and memory. We are an island formed by rupture and renewal, rooted in ancient cultures yet continually re-forming in the wake of colonisation. The exhibition conveys the persistence of history in the present, while themes of displacement and the urge to put down roots resonate quietly in the selected artworks.

Everyone is welcome in Our Place. Experience an immersive sound and light exhibition that playfully explores themes of human rights, happiness and belonging.

Our Place is a socially engaged art project that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities. This project places the ideas, talents and lived experience of people with an intellectual disability at the centre of artmaking and exhibition design.

Led by AlanJames Burns and Sinead McCann, and co-designers Patrick Fitzgerald and Tony Davis, in collaboration with people supported by Delta Centre, Our Place have developed a new installation for VISUAL Carlow

Inner Lives: Studies in Form, Emotion and Presence is an exhibition of recent figurative ceramic sculptures by Martin Marley. The work explores the expressive potential of the human form, focusing on vulnerability, gesture and quiet emotional presence. Through processes of reduction and simplification, Marley moves beyond physical representation to reveal character and introspection. These contemplative figures invite a personal response, reflecting shared human experience through form, material and touch.

Alison Barry is an artist working from her home in Limerick. Her current use of soft pastel, charcoal and oils allow a sense of freedom to my expression as an artist. Being self-taught she is constantly learning and developing her style which has been described as contemporary in its feel, emotive, moody and atmospheric.
‘Capturing the antics and character of Irish wildlife, ‘A storytelling’ is a new collection of mixed media work to include rooks, hares and foxes..
This exhibition can be viewed in full at www.tseac.ie or in our Easter Snow Gallery open daily.

Exhibition continues from 04/06/26 until 11/07/26.

Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce The Weight of Nothingness, an exhibition of new sculpture and photography by Siobhán Hapaska that explores absence as a material and as a psychological condition.

In The man with a stone in his stomach inverts sunflowers. a lone figure stands on a makeshift plinth. Their core is hollowed out and filled with a stone, the identity is obscured or they are without one. The darkened skeletal framework is a precarious one, simultaneously devotional and exhausted, its offering of inverted blue sunflowers are denied their upright sunny, optimistic disposition.

There is a heavy stone, a weight of nothingness at its core.

Draíocht is delighted to announce Colourings by Lucy Hill, curated by Helen O’Donoghue, a Draíocht Children’s Commission, part of a series of initiatives to mark Draíocht’s 25th birthday.

Colourings centres on the artist’s own abstract colourings, which she has reimagined through collaboration with fashion designer Orla Langan and sound designer Adam Kennedy.

Colourings celebrates scribbling as a practice of becoming, where colours, shapes, textures and lines merge with sound, touch and movement, emphasising how the experience of colouring can nurture empathy, curiosity and collective imagination.

The exhibition will open on Saturday, 13th June, from 2pm to 4pm

Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council Arts Department, in partnership with South East Technological University, are pleased to present idir, a solo exhibition by Blaine O’Donnell, recipient of the 2024 EMERGENCE Visual Art Award. .

For idir, O’Donnell has drawn upon geological sites in County Wexford and the architecture of the Wexford Arts Centre building. He has developed a new body of sculptural work incorporating moving image elements to explore questions of temporality, repetition, and translation.

Liz Johnson’s art practice is project-based. Her recent work explores themes of transience and impermanence, and presence and memory. 

In this series of landscape paintings, she approaches presence and memory from the periphery, as a space of fragility and quiet tension. Where boundaries soften and shift, and form is suggested rather than fixed. She revisits familiar landscapes to reflect on the subtle unease of being tethered to places that are continually in flux – echoing Seamus Heaney’s ‘Postscript’, where the landscape leaves one being “neither here nor there”.  

This sense of being suspended in a moment that can’t be held reflects the Buddhist concept of impermanence, and of how all things arise and pass away. In these moments, the landscape becomes both presence and disappearance. Within these settings, memory exists as something both hidden and tangible — traces of what has been, are held quietly within.  

A Sense of Place invites a moment of stillness and contemplation, to consider how places continue to shape us even as they change or disappear. Rather than resisting transformation, this work reflects on what it means to live alongside it; to accept change and the passing of time as fundamental parts of human experience. 

‘Urban Landscapes’ is a body of work created without boundaries or fixed rules, embracing creative freedom and open interpretation. Fluid, expressive, and imaginative, it explores colour, texture, and design as a means of navigating and escaping the realities and challenges of the contemporary world. The exhibition reflects Fiona O’Brien’s experience as a long-time Ballymun resident, documenting and responding to the constant construction, transformation, and evolution of the environment around her. Influenced by urban living, music, nature, weather, culture, diversity, architecture, developing spaces, and punk aesthetics.

OPENING: 19th June 7-9pm

Opening Reception: Saturday 20 June, 2.30pm.

Bassam Al-Sabah, George Bolster, Alan Butler, Cecilia Danell, Willie Doherty, Rachel Doolin, Mark Garry, Hammerheads (Marie Farrington, Sibyl Montague, Liliane Puthod, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín), Elaine Hoey, Patrick Hough, Bernadette Kiely, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Niamh McCann, Eleanor McCaughey, Lucy McKenna, Isabel Nolan, Barbara Knežević, Emily Waszak, Grace Weir.

The Future is Open marks the 20th anniversary of Solstice Arts Centre, brings together a selection of previously exhibited artists whose work explores expansive theories of space, time and the cosmos. More information on the website.

Inner Lives is an exhibition of figurative sculptures exploring the quiet, often unseen aspects of human experience. Created from fired clay and reclaimed timber, the works combine natural materials with the human form to reflect on presence, memory, identity and connection. Each figure invites a moment of pause and contemplation, encouraging viewers to look beyond outward appearance and consider the rich inner worlds that shape our lives.

This playful, embodied art-based research moves through muscle, skin and memory to explore how gender identity, self-expression and self-actualization are experienced among individuals practicing recreational pole dancing in Ireland. Here, pole dancing becomes a site of discovery, creation and expression of both the individual and collective socio-political self. The solid and the ephemeral dance together through sculpture, words, images, light, sound and colour. The exhibition is accompanied with live performance art.

This art-based research is funded by Research Ireland’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme.

Opening Launch Wednesday 24th June 7pm.

Bridge Street Studios celebrates 30th Anniversary with ‘The Things That Matter Most are the Things that can’t be Seen’.

Nestled in a historic 250-year-old grain store, Bridge Street Studios has been a nurturing ground for both emerging and established artists for 30 years. As one of the oldest and largest independent artistic collectives in Ireland, the Studios have been an integral part of the town’s creative fabric since their formation in 1996.

The ‘The Things that Matter Most are the Things That Can’t Be Seen’ exhibition features the works of eight artists and craftspeople all based in Bridge Street Studios, including Orlaith Cullinane, Rachel Tinniswood, Mary Cowan, Suzanne Carroll, Caóilfíonn Murphy O’Hanlon, Orla Barry, Sarah McKenna, and Fiona Quigley.

Official opening Thursday 1st July at 6.30pm, all welcome

Field Station: Cornafulla by Amanda Ralph is centered on Cornafulla Bog and the Shannon Callows. The exhibition brings the visible landscape into tension with what it contains: shifting ecological conditions, field records, measurement, and material evidence. Through moving image, sound and sculpture, Ralph re-encounters the farm landscape without resolving it into a single authoritative image. This exhibition has been developed with support from the Accenture Digital Innovation in Art Bursary, awarded through Business to Arts. Supported by Accenture.

Runs until Sunday 30th August

Official opening Thursday 1st July at 6.30pm

States, Stations by Samir Mahmood draws on key concepts from Sufi mysticism to explore themes of identity, transformation, and queer experience. Through newly commissioned textiles, sculpture, painting, and mixed-media works, the exhibition considers the intersections of spirituality, embodiment, and belonging.

Runs until Sunday 30th August

Gorey Art Collective would like to invite you to CONFLUENCE: an exhibition of works by 10 studio artists at GAC. Since our expansion in January we have a wealth of new work being made at the Collective studios, this is an opportunity to see a small portion of that work in Gorey library exhibition space. Join us for a drinks reception with guest speaker Conor Walton on Thursday 2nd July at 7pm.

Pallas Projects are pleased to present Struàn Bell—Pinky Ring, the sixth exhibition of our 2026 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.
Pinky Ring presents a series of plaster relief carvings shaped by ideas of speculative function, symbolic architectures, and objects of personal affection. Faceted gemstones appear throughout the works, functioning like small acts of emphasis or attachment.
Chosen in the way one might select a piece of jewellery to mark a moment of significance, they introduce a sense of private importance to scenes, systems, and objects that otherwise remain speculative and unresolved.

Exhibition continues from 02/06/26.

The slowness and precision Paul McKinley evokes in his exquisite paintings belies the anger at the injustice that motivated their production. For the last 15 years he has depicted landscapes in his meticulous, figurative style that are suffused with trauma and human suffering.

For ‘Ag Tochailt’ (digging) he moves his focus away from previous places including Afghanistan, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Greece to The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The title is an allusion to the Casement Report (1904) written by Irish nationalist and activist Roger Casement to describe abuses in the Congo Free State, then privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium.

Accompanying Text written by Francis Halsall.

SO Fine Art Editions is delighted to present a solo exhibition by artist John O’Flynn. Following his inclusion in our group show New Wave and his 2025 solo presentation Souvenirs at Flux Studios, Dublin, O’Flynn brings a new body of work to the gallery entitled ‘Painting Air’.

The semi-abstract paintings in this exhibition draw inspiration from significant moments from O’Flynn’s everyday life. He describes them as “moments where I found peace, excitement, hope and the ineffable.” The resulting paintings evoke the magic and elusiveness of fleeting experiences, preserving emotions and atmospheres that often resist description.

Exhibition of new work including landscapes and seascapes of Ireland.
This exhibition celebrates William’s thirty five year career to date.

Peer’ weaves together key aspects of Amanda Jane Graham’s life: visual art, sociology, and her twenty-four years as a hairstylist. Graham applies sociological analysis to her experiences and investigates the intertwined histories of art and hairdressing. She presents her findings through distinctive, detailed artworks.

Exhibition curated by Dr. Margarita Cappock.

This exhibition will be launched by Dylan Bradshaw, Ireland’s top hairstylist, at The Lab Gallery on Wednesday, 8 July 2026 from 6-8pm.