AN EVENING WITH NORMAN TEELING
‘Stretching the Canvas: Still Beating the Drum’
Renowned impressionist artist & talented guitarist reflects on a lifetime of creativity & exhibits new work.
As part of the 2026 Rialto Community Arts festival we are thrilled to have Norman Teeling participating.
Come see his work and listen to lively conversation and music.
This is a free event -all welcome!

An Instrument So Powerful, an exhibition of paintings by artist Lee Hamill, is an exploration through the history of Irish politics and television. Over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries television has played a vital role in our social infrastructure, in the family home, in the quiet moments of individuals, and the everyday interactions between people. It has formed a vital part of the culture of our nation, has been the arena for many of the most memorable moments of Irish politics.

Join artist Shane Hynan in conversation with Photo Museum Ireland director Trish Lambe and curator Darren Campion as they explore Beneath | Beofhód, Hynan’s powerful long-term project examining the landscapes, communities, and contested futures of Ireland’s Midlands boglands. Meaning “life beneath the sod”, Beofhód traces tensions between heritage, identity, labour, and ecological change through photography and expanded artistic practice. This conversation offers a deeper insight into the ideas, research, and lived experiences underpinning an exhibition rooted in place, memory, and our evolving relationship with the land.

‘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

Join us for a fun, food, drinks, prizes and music. There will be a DJ set by special guests Chairperson of the board Richard Lyons and board member Joe Prendergast. We will be serving NoMoooo Burger and plant-based sausages from Thank Plants, alongside refreshments from Whiplash Beer and SynerChi Kombucha. Tickets include food and drink and start at just €10.

All proceeds from this event and Supporter sign ups go towards our mission and the development of artists.

For more information and to book, click here.

This is an exhibition by renowned artist Anna Hennings, Artist in Residence at Jacksmill Wicklow.
Anna has been our Artist in Residence for the last 8 months.
This is an exhibition exploring the nature of work, Jacksmill as a place of traditional working methodology derived from steel, soil, wood and stone that is now a remote working
HUB.
The materials used include wood, paint, sculpture, installation and written word.

The Dalkey Original Print Fair presents its second year of original fine art prints by seven established Dublin-based printmakers at Our Lady’s Hall in the centre of Dalkey Village. Artists include Susan Early, Emma Fitzpatrick, Niamh Flanagan, Ann Kavanagh, Fran Keegan, Liza Kelly and David McGinn. Works include etching, linocut, monoprint, carborundum, collagraph and drypoint, and are available for sale directly from the artists. Free admission.

Kindly sponsored by The Queens Dalkey.

Instagram: @dalkeyoriginalprintfair

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.

The Kiosk Project Arts Space on little West Street. 17th – 28th June
Wed – Sat, 11am – 5pm.
Opening event, 3pm Sat 20th June.

The exhibition consists of silver gelatin prints developed in the darkroom by Julie Corcoran with traded commodities like coffee, sugar and Guinea Pepper.
Julie photographed the work while on an artist residency in Bristol and it is accompanied by the letter she sent to Minister Moran requesting an update to the visitor information at the neighbouring Battle of the Boyne visitor centre to include William of Orange’s involvement with trading in enslaved African people. What was his reply?

Join artist Shane Hynan in conversation with Photo Museum Ireland director Trish Lambe and curator Darren Campion as they explore Beneath | Beofhód, Hynan’s powerful long-term project examining the landscapes, communities, and contested futures of Ireland’s Midlands boglands. Meaning “life beneath the sod”, Beofhód traces tensions between heritage, identity, labour, and ecological change through photography and expanded artistic practice. This conversation offers a deeper insight into the ideas, research, and lived experiences underpinning an exhibition rooted in place, memory, and our evolving relationship with the land.

AN EVENING WITH NORMAN TEELING
‘Stretching the Canvas: Still Beating the Drum’
Renowned impressionist artist & talented guitarist reflects on a lifetime of creativity & exhibits new work.
As part of the 2026 Rialto Community Arts festival we are thrilled to have Norman Teeling participating.
Come see his work and listen to lively conversation and music.
This is a free event -all welcome!

Join us for a fun, food, drinks, prizes and music. There will be a DJ set by special guests Chairperson of the board Richard Lyons and board member Joe Prendergast. We will be serving NoMoooo Burger and plant-based sausages from Thank Plants, alongside refreshments from Whiplash Beer and SynerChi Kombucha. Tickets include food and drink and start at just €10.

All proceeds from this event and Supporter sign ups go towards our mission and the development of artists.

For more information and to book, click here.

This is an exhibition by renowned artist Anna Hennings, Artist in Residence at Jacksmill Wicklow.
Anna has been our Artist in Residence for the last 8 months.
This is an exhibition exploring the nature of work, Jacksmill as a place of traditional working methodology derived from steel, soil, wood and stone that is now a remote working
HUB.
The materials used include wood, paint, sculpture, installation and written word.

The Kiosk Project Arts Space on little West Street. 17th – 28th June
Wed – Sat, 11am – 5pm.
Opening event, 3pm Sat 20th June.

The exhibition consists of silver gelatin prints developed in the darkroom by Julie Corcoran with traded commodities like coffee, sugar and Guinea Pepper.
Julie photographed the work while on an artist residency in Bristol and it is accompanied by the letter she sent to Minister Moran requesting an update to the visitor information at the neighbouring Battle of the Boyne visitor centre to include William of Orange’s involvement with trading in enslaved African people. What was his reply?

Luan Gallery presents Divergent Lines, a multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring new and existing work by Brian Fay, Felicity Clear, Lelia Henry, Kiera O’Toole, Mary-Ruth Walsh and Michael Wann.
Opens to the public on 22 April, with the official launch taking place on Saturday, 25 April at 3pm with guest speaker Sarah Searson, Curator.
Divergent Lines is a multidisciplinary group exhibition exploring the potential of drawing across a diverse range of artistic practices and mediums, with a focus on abstracted methods of mark-making and the phenomenological exploration of line in space. The exhibition will run until 21 June.

The Dalkey Original Print Fair presents its second year of original fine art prints by seven established Dublin-based printmakers at Our Lady’s Hall in the centre of Dalkey Village. Artists include Susan Early, Emma Fitzpatrick, Niamh Flanagan, Ann Kavanagh, Fran Keegan, Liza Kelly and David McGinn. Works include etching, linocut, monoprint, carborundum, collagraph and drypoint, and are available for sale directly from the artists. Free admission.

Kindly sponsored by The Queens Dalkey.

Instagram: @dalkeyoriginalprintfair

Upcoming exhibition by Dublin-based artist Rachel O’Connor, taking place at The Red Stables in St Anne’s Park, Clontarf, Dublin 3 this June.

Originally trained and working as a classical musician, Rachel gradually transitioned into visual art over the past several years, developing a body of coloured pencil work focused on Irish wildlife and animal portraiture.

Her drawings combine realism with a strong sense of character and emotional presence, exploring native Irish species through detailed and expressive portraiture

An Instrument So Powerful, an exhibition of paintings by artist Lee Hamill, is an exploration through the history of Irish politics and television. Over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries television has played a vital role in our social infrastructure, in the family home, in the quiet moments of individuals, and the everyday interactions between people. It has formed a vital part of the culture of our nation, has been the arena for many of the most memorable moments of Irish politics.

Slow down & reconnect through gentle creative Eco Art Therapy experience each Wednesday in June, 2pm to 4pm. Come to one, two, three or all!

Black Noise celebrates the African diaspora and wider Black communities across Ireland, while recognising the strength that comes from shared experience and collective support. Inspired in part by the spirit of AfroPunk, the exhibition explores how creativity can bring people together during moments of uncertainty and social fracture.
Bringing together artists working across different backgrounds and mediums, the exhibition sees art as a space for connection, resistance, and self-definition. Black Noise is about being seen, heard, and supported on our own terms.

SO Fine Art Editions are pleased to present Cut Flowers by Oisín Byrne, an Irish artist, writer and filmmaker based in London. This new series of screenprints continues his exploration of scale, bold colour, floral form, gesture and the passing of time, and will also open at Connolly, London, on 1 May 2026.

This event is part of the new citywide initiative ‘Dublin by Dusk’ and is kindly supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Curated by Benjamin Stafford

Official Reception Friday 1st May, 2.30pm

KCAT is a multi-disciplinary arts centre located in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, supporting inclusive arts practices, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025.
Here, things are not easily categorised or separated from each other; common songbirds sit alongside five-legged cats, which sit alongside distant countries, rural landscapes, intimate portraits, and science-fiction worlds. These exist in the minds of some of the artists, but the ongoing success and resilience of KCAT shows that with work, dedication, and care, sometimes other worlds can become real.

Official opening Saturday 4th April at 3pm by Carmel Duffy, Athlone Arts & Tourism Manager

Pause is a body of work by Hilary Kinahan, a visual artist based in the Midlands working from her home studio. The exhibition responds to recent bog fires and their impact on the local landscape, documenting the scorched land through painting and printmaking.

Created as a meditative series, the works invite viewers to slow down and reflect. The series includes sonographs of birdsong, signalling renewal and the gradual return of life to the damaged boglands.

Runs until Saturday 27th June

You are invited to the opening of “Lost Moments” – an exhibition by LORRAINE WHELAN
Launched by Eamon Colman, Aosdana Member
Sunday, June 7th 2026 3pm to 5pm
Viewing Times, Tuesdays to Saturdays: 10 am to 4pm
(Runs until Saturday, June 27th )

Lorraine is an Irish-Canadian writer and artist. Her prose, poetry, and art criticism has appeared in Ireland, Canada, USA, Luxembourg and online. This exhibition of Paintings and Prints can be considered as an archive of memory the works are based on.

Cecilia Danell
The Upside Down World

Opening Reception Thursday 28 May at 5:30pm

28 May – 27 June 2026
Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin

“Last year, during a forest walk in her homeland of Sweden, Danell encountered a lake from her childhood. It was uncharacteristically still. Mesmerised by its reflection and an uncanny sense of doubling, it became the seed and the title painting of the show. These large-scale works ask us to look anew at what’s familiar, at what we think we know about everything we encounter.”

Extract from an accompanying text written by Sinéad Gleeson

Open
Tuesday to Saturday 11am -5pm

‘‘a dreamers dream’ is a two-week solo drawing residency by Niamh Clarke at The Kiosk Space, where the gallery will function as an active studio. Throughout the residency, Niamh will create time-intensive drawings while working from a drawing station set up in the space. Literature plays a significant role in Niamh’s practice, and a small reading room will be installed in the gallery, featuring a selection of much-loved books, references, and sources of inspiration that have long informed and continue to shape her practice.

Visitors are encouraged to drop in, chat with Niamh, browse the reading room, and perhaps exchange book recommendations.

King Billy Was A Slave Trader is an exhibition of work by Julie Corcoran based on research begun during her two week artist residency at the Bristol Folkhouse Darkroom in January, supported by Cavan Arts Office.
This groundbreaking exhibition will shed new light on recent evidence uncovered about King Billy’s role as governor of the Royal African Company (RAC) following a transfer of shares from Edward Colston and asks that the OPW update visitor information at the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre to reflect this.

‘Nostalgism’ is Rebecca Moccia’s new multidisciplinary project exploring nostalgia as a characteristic of contemporary anxiety, and its instrumentalisation through neoliberal socio-economic systems. Setting aside sentimentality, Moccia exposes how nostalgia is exploited to govern and direct emotions by evoking an idealised past and driving nationalistic and ideological interests.

Exhibition continues from 02/04/2026.
O! O! Monsters is a wonderful exhibition of sculptural textile art that will appeal to all ages. Angell is a strikingly original and hard-working artist who has exhibited internationally.

AFFA, a new Foundation for Arts in Athenry has chosen Laura Angell as their first artist to represent. The large Georgian building suits the Monsters perfectly. The Monsters inhabit the whole building. Children and adults can encounter them everywhere and enter a crazy fun world.
Free Entry.
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30 to 16:30, until June 30th.

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.

This is the first solo exhibition by renowned artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña in Ireland. For this exhibition Vicuña’s delves into themes of ancestry, ecological urgency, and the interconnectedness of humanity inspired by the discovery of her ancient ties to Ireland.

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

Exhibition continues from 02/04/2026.
O! O! Monsters is a wonderful exhibition of sculptural textile art that will appeal to all ages. Angell is a strikingly original and hard-working artist who has exhibited internationally.

AFFA, a new Foundation for Arts in Athenry has chosen Laura Angell as their first artist to represent. The large Georgian building suits the Monsters perfectly. The Monsters inhabit the whole building. Children and adults can encounter them everywhere and enter a crazy fun world.
Free Entry.
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30 to 16:30, until June 30th.

Official opening Saturday 4th April at 3pm by Carmel Duffy, Athlone Arts & Tourism Manager

Pause is a body of work by Hilary Kinahan, a visual artist based in the Midlands working from her home studio. The exhibition responds to recent bog fires and their impact on the local landscape, documenting the scorched land through painting and printmaking.

Created as a meditative series, the works invite viewers to slow down and reflect. The series includes sonographs of birdsong, signalling renewal and the gradual return of life to the damaged boglands.

Runs until Saturday 27th June

Curated by Benjamin Stafford

Official Reception Friday 1st May, 2.30pm

KCAT is a multi-disciplinary arts centre located in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, supporting inclusive arts practices, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025.
Here, things are not easily categorised or separated from each other; common songbirds sit alongside five-legged cats, which sit alongside distant countries, rural landscapes, intimate portraits, and science-fiction worlds. These exist in the minds of some of the artists, but the ongoing success and resilience of KCAT shows that with work, dedication, and care, sometimes other worlds can become real.

“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.

Luan Gallery presents Divergent Lines, a multidisciplinary group exhibition featuring new and existing work by Brian Fay, Felicity Clear, Lelia Henry, Kiera O’Toole, Mary-Ruth Walsh and Michael Wann.
Opens to the public on 22 April, with the official launch taking place on Saturday, 25 April at 3pm with guest speaker Sarah Searson, Curator.
Divergent Lines is a multidisciplinary group exhibition exploring the potential of drawing across a diverse range of artistic practices and mediums, with a focus on abstracted methods of mark-making and the phenomenological exploration of line in space. The exhibition will run until 21 June.

Axis Ballymun is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition of paintings by Aisling Coughlan called We Are Her Continuation. The exhibition traces the slow disappearance of her mother through dementia. Working across painting, film, and sound, this body of work bears witness to love, loss, and the subtle erosion of identity over time. Rather than depicting illness directly, the works hold space for slowness, tenderness, and grief. The title draws on a Buddhist understanding of continuation: that we carry forward those who have shaped us, not only biologically, but through care, teaching, humour, and love. 

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.

‘Nostalgism’ is Rebecca Moccia’s new multidisciplinary project exploring nostalgia as a characteristic of contemporary anxiety, and its instrumentalisation through neoliberal socio-economic systems. Setting aside sentimentality, Moccia exposes how nostalgia is exploited to govern and direct emotions by evoking an idealised past and driving nationalistic and ideological interests.

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.

SO Fine Art Editions are pleased to present Cut Flowers by Oisín Byrne, an Irish artist, writer and filmmaker based in London. This new series of screenprints continues his exploration of scale, bold colour, floral form, gesture and the passing of time, and will also open at Connolly, London, on 1 May 2026.

This event is part of the new citywide initiative ‘Dublin by Dusk’ and is kindly supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

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

Cecilia Danell
The Upside Down World

Opening Reception Thursday 28 May at 5:30pm

28 May – 27 June 2026
Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin

“Last year, during a forest walk in her homeland of Sweden, Danell encountered a lake from her childhood. It was uncharacteristically still. Mesmerised by its reflection and an uncanny sense of doubling, it became the seed and the title painting of the show. These large-scale works ask us to look anew at what’s familiar, at what we think we know about everything we encounter.”

Extract from an accompanying text written by Sinéad Gleeson

Open
Tuesday to Saturday 11am -5pm

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.

‘‘a dreamers dream’ is a two-week solo drawing residency by Niamh Clarke at The Kiosk Space, where the gallery will function as an active studio. Throughout the residency, Niamh will create time-intensive drawings while working from a drawing station set up in the space. Literature plays a significant role in Niamh’s practice, and a small reading room will be installed in the gallery, featuring a selection of much-loved books, references, and sources of inspiration that have long informed and continue to shape her practice.

Visitors are encouraged to drop in, chat with Niamh, browse the reading room, and perhaps exchange book recommendations.

Slow down & reconnect through gentle creative Eco Art Therapy experience each Wednesday in June, 2pm to 4pm. Come to one, two, three or all!

Black Noise celebrates the African diaspora and wider Black communities across Ireland, while recognising the strength that comes from shared experience and collective support. Inspired in part by the spirit of AfroPunk, the exhibition explores how creativity can bring people together during moments of uncertainty and social fracture.
Bringing together artists working across different backgrounds and mediums, the exhibition sees art as a space for connection, resistance, and self-definition. Black Noise is about being seen, heard, and supported on our own terms.

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.

You are invited to the opening of “Lost Moments” – an exhibition by LORRAINE WHELAN
Launched by Eamon Colman, Aosdana Member
Sunday, June 7th 2026 3pm to 5pm
Viewing Times, Tuesdays to Saturdays: 10 am to 4pm
(Runs until Saturday, June 27th )

Lorraine is an Irish-Canadian writer and artist. Her prose, poetry, and art criticism has appeared in Ireland, Canada, USA, Luxembourg and online. This exhibition of Paintings and Prints can be considered as an archive of memory the works are based on.

The exhibition SONANCE brings together a series of abstract works on Japanese paper, canvas and wood through which the artist explores states of transition. The sources of the paintings include references to ancient geological maps, the edges of seascapes, exposing the layers of the Anthropocene and human displacement. An engagement with realms of deep time informs the imagery, transforming the invisible and the imagined into a resonant visual language. McDonald’s paintings combine intense sequences of oil paint with natural materials such as iron-rich oxides, cinnabar, malachite and plaster, producing works charged with movement, sound, and rhythm.

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.

Upcoming exhibition by Dublin-based artist Rachel O’Connor, taking place at The Red Stables in St Anne’s Park, Clontarf, Dublin 3 this June.

Originally trained and working as a classical musician, Rachel gradually transitioned into visual art over the past several years, developing a body of coloured pencil work focused on Irish wildlife and animal portraiture.

Her drawings combine realism with a strong sense of character and emotional presence, exploring native Irish species through detailed and expressive portraiture

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. 

King Billy Was A Slave Trader is an exhibition of work by Julie Corcoran based on research begun during her two week artist residency at the Bristol Folkhouse Darkroom in January, supported by Cavan Arts Office.
This groundbreaking exhibition will shed new light on recent evidence uncovered about King Billy’s role as governor of the Royal African Company (RAC) following a transfer of shares from Edward Colston and asks that the OPW update visitor information at the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre to reflect this.