“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.

Basic Space is delighted to present Chloe McDonagh, in conversation with Basic Space Co-Director Laura Harvey-Graham for our April BASIC TALK – 1pm on Friday the 17th of April 2026, NCAD. Basic Talks is a series of talks with contemporary practitioners, curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery. Book free tickets: https://www.basicspace.ie/projects-basictalks/2026chloemcdonagh

Join us for the book launch of Nature Boy by Peach, published by Driftwood Editions.

Nature Boy is the first photobook by Irish photographer Peach.
This work explores themes of friendship and intimacy with themes of queerness in Berlin and Galway.

Bookings free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-nature-boy-by-peach-tickets-1985935089312?aff=oddtdtcreator

The College Lane Gallery presents sticks and mountains and huge lone birds, the first solo exhibition by artist Róise McGagh, curated by Aoife McCloughlin. Exhibition walkthrough with the artist and curator on Saturday 18 April at 2pm.

Join us for a screening of experimental films by Margaret Tait, Miles McKane, Francien Van Everdingen, Claudio Caldini, Rose Lowder, Jennifer Reeves, Marie Menken, and Nathaniel Dorsky, presented on 16mm projection, alongside super8 films made in a series of collaborative workshops at the Mud Island Community Garden, building on its important social and environmental role within our neighbourhood.

Explore the full programme at image.museum

Book your free ticket through the link.

Join us for a live reading event from some of Ireland’s newest and most exciting writers of poetry and prose published in the latest issues of the journal, SWERVE 4 and SWERVE 5 – both available for sale at Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2026.

Readers include Emma Conlon, Maurice Devitt, Sean Dunne, Ruth Egan, Christina Hennemann, Janet Heeran, Kemi George Simpson, Ali McGuire, Caitriona Lane, Alan McCormick, and Kevin MacAlan.

Explore the full schedule at image.museum

Book your free ticket through the link.

Join the conversation as the speakers share insights into their publishing projects, discussing the challenges and opportunities of reaching audiences locally and internationally. The talk explores the creative ways independent publishers connect with and grow their networks, making this a valuable and inspiring session for anyone interested in independent publishing.

Speakers: Molly Henigan, Nathan O’Donnell, Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma, and Yoli Yang

Explore the full programme at image.museum

Book your free ticket through the link.

We welcome colleagues, students, industry partners, policy makers, and members of the wider community to what promises to be a stimulating lecture entitled: Real (talk) > True (talk): Making space for making presented by Dr. Rilla Khaled

Date: Thursday, 16th April, 2026

Time: 3pm – 4:30pm

Venue: The Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman, Dublin 7

Registration: Free – All welcome

As Dublin changes at pace, what do we stand to lose? Amidst Gerard Byrne’s new exhibition ‘Before I Go. Vanishing Dublin’, this panel brings together historians, heritage advocates and cultural voices to explore architecture, memory, and civic identity. Cities grow, shift, and sometimes forget. Heritage can’t be built. It can only be inherited, tended to, or betrayed.

Donough Cahill of the Irish Georgian Society, Daryl Hendley Rooney of The Little Museum of Dublin, and Arran Henderson of Dublin Decoded, in conversation moderated by historian Donal Fallon of Three Castles Burning.

Kitchen Sink presents, ‘A Theatre of Sediment and Strings’.

Following the success of their first exhibition ‘Hearth’, Wexford 2025, Kitchen Sink invites you to their upcoming show.

Treat yourself to an evening at the theatre. A production of painting, photography and written word, hanging together. We encourage you to feast your eyes and adorn your fanciest attire.

This emerging collective is made up of 8 recent NCAD graduates working across ever-changing mediums.

Basic Space is delighted to present Chloe McDonagh, in conversation with Basic Space Co-Director Laura Harvey-Graham for our April BASIC TALK – 1pm on Friday the 17th of April 2026, NCAD. Basic Talks is a series of talks with contemporary practitioners, curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery. Book free tickets: https://www.basicspace.ie/projects-basictalks/2026chloemcdonagh

Exhibition continues from 20/03/2026 to 17/04/2026.

RESEARCHER – PRACTITIONERS / EXHIBITORS

Áine Byrne | Michelle Browne | John Conway | Niall Cullen | Yvonne Cullivan | Janine Davidson | Neil Dunne | Sarah Durcan | Emma Finucane | Mary A Fitzgerald | Rory Hanrahan | Vivian Hansbury | Catherine Harty | Ramon Kassam | Anne Kelly | Gareth Kennedy | Emma Mahony | Jamie Murphy | Kathy Mooney | Tom O’Dea | Rónán Ó Raghallaigh | Jye O’Sullivan & Renato Pera | Seoidín O’Sullivan | David Timmons | Rachel Tuffy | Fiona Whelan | Aoife Ward & Eve Woods.

Maryam Tafakory is a UK-based, Iranian artist filmmaker who makes textual and filmic collages. Her work interweaves poetry, archival, and found material to explore depictions of erasure, secrecy, and censorship. In her essayistic videos, images and scenes drawn from a vast archive of films are reworked to examine intimacy, desire, and prohibition. She works with film and performance and is the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.

Please join us for the exhibition, ‘sticks and mountains and huge lone birds’, a solo exhibition by Róise McGagh, curated by Aoife McCloughlin, opening on 28 March from 4-6pm. Exhibition walkthrough on Saturday 18 April at 2pm. The exhibition continues until 24 April.

The College Lane Gallery presents sticks and mountains and huge lone birds, the first solo exhibition by artist Róise McGagh, curated by Aoife McCloughlin. Exhibition walkthrough with the artist and curator on Saturday 18 April at 2pm.

Join us for the book launch of Nature Boy by Peach, published by Driftwood Editions.

Nature Boy is the first photobook by Irish photographer Peach.
This work explores themes of friendship and intimacy with themes of queerness in Berlin and Galway.

Bookings free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-nature-boy-by-peach-tickets-1985935089312?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for a screening of experimental films by Margaret Tait, Miles McKane, Francien Van Everdingen, Claudio Caldini, Rose Lowder, Jennifer Reeves, Marie Menken, and Nathaniel Dorsky, presented on 16mm projection, alongside super8 films made in a series of collaborative workshops at the Mud Island Community Garden, building on its important social and environmental role within our neighbourhood.

Explore the full programme at image.museum

Book your free ticket through the link.

Key Learnings… presents nine artists whose practice incorporates commodity culture, taking in branding, mass-market imagery, retail style, the domestic, advertising and packaging.

Noel Hensey   /   Caroline McCarthy   /   Emily Mc Gardle / Aideen Barry   /   Asha Murray   /   Liliane Puthod   /   Amy McNamara   /   David Timmons   /   Richard Collier.

Connections Arts Centre is delighted to invite you to come view the 3rd annual CA Collective Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery.

The CA Collective is a vibrant and growing community of artists who identify as having an intellectual disability or are from the neurodivergent community. As members, these artists receive ongoing support, education, and professional opportunities to exhibit and sell their work. This exhibition continues our mission of amplifying the voices of artists with disabilities Your presence at the exhibition and support help foster a more diverse and vibrant arts community.

PhotoIreland presents the return of the Tsundoku Art Book Fair, hosted for the first time at the International Centre for the Image, with a programme of events for all audiences.

Tsundoku Art Book Fair returns with a programme of events running 17–19 April at the International Centre for the Image. During the weekend, visitors can enjoy publications from 79 publishers from around the world.

There are several events accompanying the fair, from book launches to workshops, free and paid, for everyone to enjoy.

Running in parallel, the Centre presents a series of exhibitions and screenings coinciding with the Five Lamps Arts festival.

Join us for a live reading event from some of Ireland’s newest and most exciting writers of poetry and prose published in the latest issues of the journal, SWERVE 4 and SWERVE 5 – both available for sale at Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2026.

Readers include Emma Conlon, Maurice Devitt, Sean Dunne, Ruth Egan, Christina Hennemann, Janet Heeran, Kemi George Simpson, Ali McGuire, Caitriona Lane, Alan McCormick, and Kevin MacAlan.

Explore the full schedule at image.museum

Book your free ticket through the link.

Join the conversation as the speakers share insights into their publishing projects, discussing the challenges and opportunities of reaching audiences locally and internationally. The talk explores the creative ways independent publishers connect with and grow their networks, making this a valuable and inspiring session for anyone interested in independent publishing.

Speakers: Molly Henigan, Nathan O’Donnell, Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma, and Yoli Yang

Explore the full programme at image.museum

Book your free ticket through the link.

Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 19/04/2026.

Scannán Glas is an exhibition and screening programme exploring ecology, nature, and our relationship with the nonhuman world through experimental film and moving image. The programme features works by Irish artists Sarah Browne and Laura McMorrow, alongside Mexican artist Elena Pardo. The exhibition also includes an installation of work created during community workshops held at Mud Island Community Garden.
Scannán Glas highlights artists working with experimental film practices that engage with environmental awareness, observation, and ecological thinking.

Explore the full programme at image.museum

Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 19/04/2026.

Still Looking presents new works by Ciara Richardson, Conn McCarrick, Evanna Devine, Finbar Flanagan, and Jake Hughes to mark the conclusion of their cycle of participation in PhotoIreland’s annual RADAR programme.

Still Looking is a testament to the artists’ devotion to their practice, and the new works presented signal a deepening in their critical enquiry. It is with delight that PhotoIreland presents them at the International Centre for the Image in the context of the Five Arts Lamps Festival.

RADAR is a year-long residency programme for recent graduates of any Photography and Visual Arts degree on the island of Ireland.

DCU Art Collection is honoured to receive a significant donation of fine art prints from artist and master printer James McCreary, one of Ireland’s most respected figures in printmaking, and his wife Elizabeth McCreary.

To celebrate this generous donation DCU are hosting an exhibition of of selected works from the James and Elizabeth McCreary Collection on DCU St. Patrick’s Campus. Featuring works by Jane O’Malley, A.R. Penck, Niall Naessens, James McCreary, Tony O’Malley, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Michael Cullen and others, the exhibition offers a rich insight into contemporary printmaking and the spirit of personal collecting.

Dundalk Photographic Society were formed in 1979. From the start the Society has been affiliated to the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) and has taken part in and indeed hosted many regional and national events. Dundalk Photographic Society have published a limited edition book entitled “Dundalk Photographic Society, Celebrating 40 Years: The Art of Photography” in November of that year. The book featured over 200 images from members of the club.
Image:David Martin, Titled ‘Kylemore Tree’, winner of last year’s exhibition and DPS’s image of the year.

Feltmakers Ireland presents ‘Water and Flow’, a group exhibition featuring over 50 members exploring water through felt. From gentle streams to powerful oceans, the show reflects water’s energy, stillness, renewal, and emotional depth—from joy to sorrow. Works include sculpture, wall art, and wearable pieces using diverse felting techniques.

Launched by knitwear designer Conor O’Brien on 4 April at 3 PM, the exhibition runs 2–26 April at Phoenix Park Visitor Centre Gallery. Poster artwork: Waterfall by Joanne Turner.

Signal Arts Centre is proud to host Woven Reflections, a solo-exhibition by textile artist Ann Mechelinck. ‘Woven reflections’ offers the audience a tactile and immersive series of wall-hangings in predominantly green colours creating a calming, soothing atmosphere in the gallery. Each piece is created through the slow and repetitive processes of weaving, crochet and embroidery, that the artist says, allows her the time to reflect, to contemplate and meditate, away from a world that often doesn’t make sense.

OPENING: 19TH APRIL 3-5PM

This exhibition of paintings and mixed-media sculptures by Bennie Reilly draws on her interest in museum collections, natural history, and her own interactions with the natural world. Her paintings stem from an ever growing archive of personal photographs, while her sculptural works combine bric-a-brac and natural artefacts collected over many years. Together, these artworks celebrate the oddities and allure of nature and its positive impact on our well-being.
The title derives from graffiti Reilly saw in a derelict hut overlooking a scenic salt lake in Formentera: “Follow your dream.” I

In 2013, the Living Arts Project was established as an artist-in-residency scheme in primary schools. The aim of the project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art. The exhibition represents a selection of work produced by the participating schools.

The artists and schools selected for the 2025-26 programme were Sonya Weston and Kate Tyrrell with Castlebridge NS, Deirdre Meehan-Buttimer and Shannon Jade Wilson with Clonroche NS, David Begley and Hanneke van Ryswyk with Curracloe NS, and Laura Flood and Mayumi Nakabayashi in Scoil Mhaodhóig.

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

Maryam Tafakory is a UK-based, Iranian artist filmmaker who makes textual and filmic collages. Her work interweaves poetry, archival, and found material to explore depictions of erasure, secrecy, and censorship. In her essayistic videos, images and scenes drawn from a vast archive of films are reworked to examine intimacy, desire, and prohibition. She works with film and performance and is the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.

VISUAL is pleased to present DRILL, newly commissioned exhibition of moving image and sound installation by Naomi Sex. Working with both professional and non-actors, Sex has written and directed a series of scripted performances. These vignettes consider language, social interaction, absurdity and the limits of understanding. DRILL comprises a series of monitors, speakers and projectors, which present each piece as distinct but interrelated episodes, linked to each other in an installation that places the viewer in the centre of the work.

VISUAL is pleased to present Interloper, the first project by Anne Hardy in Ireland. For this exhibition of existing and newly commissioned works, Hardy has responded to the distinct architecture of VISUAL; the concrete and glass of the Link Gallery and its connection to the ornamental pond seen through the large windows, and the blank canvas of the Studio Gallery’s white cube design and its heavily patinated floor. Interloper marks a continued evolution in Hardy’s practice.

“Now now” by Andy Fitz uses language to record a passing moment in time. An out-of-date present is rearranged in minute detail as though the process might reveal something. Time remains static – the food never grows mouldy. Unremarkable domestic objects are balanced across the gallery in precarious abstraction from their usual surroundings. “Now now” is also a phrase whose function and meaning is dependent on tone; it can be understood as a warning, or a consolation. The sculptures build on these unresolved tensions; the personal in the political, the present in light of the past.

DCU Art Collection is honoured to receive a significant donation of fine art prints from artist and master printer James McCreary, one of Ireland’s most respected figures in printmaking, and his wife Elizabeth McCreary.

To celebrate this generous donation DCU are hosting an exhibition of of selected works from the James and Elizabeth McCreary Collection on DCU St. Patrick’s Campus. Featuring works by Jane O’Malley, A.R. Penck, Niall Naessens, James McCreary, Tony O’Malley, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Michael Cullen and others, the exhibition offers a rich insight into contemporary printmaking and the spirit of personal collecting.

Key Learnings… presents nine artists whose practice incorporates commodity culture, taking in branding, mass-market imagery, retail style, the domestic, advertising and packaging.

Noel Hensey   /   Caroline McCarthy   /   Emily Mc Gardle / Aideen Barry   /   Asha Murray   /   Liliane Puthod   /   Amy McNamara   /   David Timmons   /   Richard Collier.

This exhibition of paintings and mixed-media sculptures by Bennie Reilly draws on her interest in museum collections, natural history, and her own interactions with the natural world. Her paintings stem from an ever growing archive of personal photographs, while her sculptural works combine bric-a-brac and natural artefacts collected over many years. Together, these artworks celebrate the oddities and allure of nature and its positive impact on our well-being.
The title derives from graffiti Reilly saw in a derelict hut overlooking a scenic salt lake in Formentera: “Follow your dream.” I

Curated by Aisling Prior

Featuring 26 emerging artists with a Fingal connection, part of a series of initiatives for artists to mark Draíocht’s 25th Birthday.

Maria Atanacković | Maya Brezing | Lucy Carrick | Matthew Coll | Michael Shane Cox | Alex De Roeck | Aideen Farrell | Chris Forrester | Andrew Grace | Elizabeth Hogan | Uisce Jakubczyk | Sinead Kampff | Paula Leimane | Nathan Lowry | Nicole Manning | Justine McDonnell | James McLoughlin | Sorca O’Farrell | Kerrie O’Leary | Eileen O’Sullivan | Jack Pierce | Eileen Sealy | Annette Treacy | Aoife Ward | Catherine Ward | Diarmuid Woodcock.

Exhibition continues from 03/03/2026 to 08/05/2026.

Meath County Council Arts Office presents ‘Wildlife Encounters Through the Lens’ an exhibition of work by award winning photographer Tom Ormond.
Wildlife Encounters Through the Lens showcases the variety and beauty of some of the birds and animals that award-winning photographer Tom Ormond has encountered along his way.
Tom Ormond took up nature photography a few years ago, and since then he has had some of the most amazing experiences both observing and photographing wildlife.
Half of the images in this exhibition were photographed in his garden in Meath and the other half further afield in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

Kitchen Sink presents, ‘A Theatre of Sediment and Strings’.

Following the success of their first exhibition ‘Hearth’, Wexford 2025, Kitchen Sink invites you to their upcoming show.

Treat yourself to an evening at the theatre. A production of painting, photography and written word, hanging together. We encourage you to feast your eyes and adorn your fanciest attire.

This emerging collective is made up of 8 recent NCAD graduates working across ever-changing mediums.

Connections Arts Centre is delighted to invite you to come view the 3rd annual CA Collective Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery.

The CA Collective is a vibrant and growing community of artists who identify as having an intellectual disability or are from the neurodivergent community. As members, these artists receive ongoing support, education, and professional opportunities to exhibit and sell their work. This exhibition continues our mission of amplifying the voices of artists with disabilities Your presence at the exhibition and support help foster a more diverse and vibrant arts community.

Sylvia Hill presents- Vintage Suite – a collection of paintings exploring the beauty of the Irish “Big House” and other interiors relating to the past. Using a rich and vibrant oil palette, she indulges our senses and imaginations suggesting themes to dream on such as nostalgia, comfort, loss and fantasy. These small works offer us a personal window into the beauty of the past and a plea for the preservation of all things antique for the future.

Exhibition continues from 21/02/2026 to 03/05/2026.

Butler Gallery is pleased to present I Took a Hammer in My Hand, a new installation of photographic works and sculpture by Northern Ireland-based artist Jan McCullough. Artworks in this exhibition explore the boundaries between amateur and professional; image and object; and photography’s role in looking, learning and representing collaborative labour.

A major solo exhibition by internationally recognised photographer Jackie Nickerson, Stateside draws on a decade of travel across the United States. Through layered photographic compositions, the exhibition explores patterns of sameness across different American landscapes, offering a nuanced reflection on the systems that shape everyday life.

Please join us for the exhibition, ‘sticks and mountains and huge lone birds’, a solo exhibition by Róise McGagh, curated by Aoife McCloughlin, opening on 28 March from 4-6pm. Exhibition walkthrough on Saturday 18 April at 2pm. The exhibition continues until 24 April.

Exhibition continues from 27/03/2026 to 10/05/2026.

Before I Go: Vanishing Dublin, gathers over fifty characteristically Dublin cityscapes by Gerard Byrne — Georgian terraces, Victorian facades, charming pubs, and beloved corners that continue to define his practice. Working en plein air in both oil and charcoal, Byrne captures architecture and atmosphere in equal measure, incidentally continuing the work of Harry Kernoff and Flora Mitchell, exemplified in her book Vanishing Dublin (1966). 60 years on, he faces the same conviction that what is not recorded is lost forever.

Before I go, before you go, I’ll make sure someone remembers.

In 2013, the Living Arts Project was established as an artist-in-residency scheme in primary schools. The aim of the project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art. The exhibition represents a selection of work produced by the participating schools.

The artists and schools selected for the 2025-26 programme were Sonya Weston and Kate Tyrrell with Castlebridge NS, Deirdre Meehan-Buttimer and Shannon Jade Wilson with Clonroche NS, David Begley and Hanneke van Ryswyk with Curracloe NS, and Laura Flood and Mayumi Nakabayashi in Scoil Mhaodhóig.

Exhibition continues from 13/03/2026 to 03/05/2026.

Lucy Stein’s expressive, emotionally and psychologically charged paintings result from what the artist describes as a ‘cosmic symbolic feminist headspace’. Her work has a deep connection to the principles and imagery of goddess culture and mystical esotericism stemming from her studies in psychoanalysis and feminist theory. Iconography from classical mythology, medieval and ecclesiastical illuminations, as well as ancient rites and folkloric illustrations interact on her paintings’ amorphous surfaces.

Feltmakers Ireland presents ‘Water and Flow’, a group exhibition featuring over 50 members exploring water through felt. From gentle streams to powerful oceans, the show reflects water’s energy, stillness, renewal, and emotional depth—from joy to sorrow. Works include sculpture, wall art, and wearable pieces using diverse felting techniques.

Launched by knitwear designer Conor O’Brien on 4 April at 3 PM, the exhibition runs 2–26 April at Phoenix Park Visitor Centre Gallery. Poster artwork: Waterfall by Joanne Turner.

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.

Dundalk Photographic Society were formed in 1979. From the start the Society has been affiliated to the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) and has taken part in and indeed hosted many regional and national events. Dundalk Photographic Society have published a limited edition book entitled “Dundalk Photographic Society, Celebrating 40 Years: The Art of Photography” in November of that year. The book featured over 200 images from members of the club.
Image:David Martin, Titled ‘Kylemore Tree’, winner of last year’s exhibition and DPS’s image of the year.

Boy Dancer is a Solstice commissioned collaboration between poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin and artist Niamh McCann. Blending poetry, drawing, sound and sculpture. It reflects on grief, ritual and remembrance, inspired by Ní Churreáin’s foster brother. Accompanying the exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre is hosting an opening event on April 11th at 2.30 PM, a special public conversation featuring Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Niamh McCann, and poet and critic Gerard Smyth. This event offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from the collaborators about the creative process behind Boy Dancer.

Exhibition continues from 07/04/2026 to 31/05/2026.

We are delighted to have Daniel Chester exhibit in our Easter Snow Gallery. Daniel is a visual artist based in County Leitrim. His exhibition “Bog To Bloom” is a body of paintings that are inspired by the landscapes of rural Leitrim, Fermanagh, Sligo and Donegal. The Artist invites viewers into these spaces to engage with the works. The artist is highly influenced by the ecology of these wetlands and how they are vital carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, yet, these places are often undervalued and threatened. This exhibition can be viewed in full online at www.tseac.ie or at our gallery.

Signal Arts Centre is proud to host Woven Reflections, a solo-exhibition by textile artist Ann Mechelinck. ‘Woven reflections’ offers the audience a tactile and immersive series of wall-hangings in predominantly green colours creating a calming, soothing atmosphere in the gallery. Each piece is created through the slow and repetitive processes of weaving, crochet and embroidery, that the artist says, allows her the time to reflect, to contemplate and meditate, away from a world that often doesn’t make sense.

OPENING: 19TH APRIL 3-5PM

Exhibition continues from 20/03/2026 to 17/04/2026.

RESEARCHER – PRACTITIONERS / EXHIBITORS

Áine Byrne | Michelle Browne | John Conway | Niall Cullen | Yvonne Cullivan | Janine Davidson | Neil Dunne | Sarah Durcan | Emma Finucane | Mary A Fitzgerald | Rory Hanrahan | Vivian Hansbury | Catherine Harty | Ramon Kassam | Anne Kelly | Gareth Kennedy | Emma Mahony | Jamie Murphy | Kathy Mooney | Tom O’Dea | Rónán Ó Raghallaigh | Jye O’Sullivan & Renato Pera | Seoidín O’Sullivan | David Timmons | Rachel Tuffy | Fiona Whelan | Aoife Ward & Eve Woods.

Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 19/04/2026.

Scannán Glas is an exhibition and screening programme exploring ecology, nature, and our relationship with the nonhuman world through experimental film and moving image. The programme features works by Irish artists Sarah Browne and Laura McMorrow, alongside Mexican artist Elena Pardo. The exhibition also includes an installation of work created during community workshops held at Mud Island Community Garden.
Scannán Glas highlights artists working with experimental film practices that engage with environmental awareness, observation, and ecological thinking.

Explore the full programme at image.museum

Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 19/04/2026.

Still Looking presents new works by Ciara Richardson, Conn McCarrick, Evanna Devine, Finbar Flanagan, and Jake Hughes to mark the conclusion of their cycle of participation in PhotoIreland’s annual RADAR programme.

Still Looking is a testament to the artists’ devotion to their practice, and the new works presented signal a deepening in their critical enquiry. It is with delight that PhotoIreland presents them at the International Centre for the Image in the context of the Five Arts Lamps Festival.

RADAR is a year-long residency programme for recent graduates of any Photography and Visual Arts degree on the island of Ireland.

Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 09/05/2026.

Wandering Star is a reference to the physics of light and celestial mechanics, and also a nod to an artistic journey over the decades through the indeterminacy of painting. Joyce uses an arc motif, an elemental unit of human invention and expression, with oblique reference to early human structures, manuscripts and notations, or, as the artist likes to say, ‘stuff holding stuff up’. From a rhythmic and mechanical foundation, a bending of the light, familiar, like the Rings of Saturn, or the passing lights on the nearby orbital motorway, errors accumulate, an entropic unspooling, fragmenting towards chaos and disorder.

PhotoIreland presents the return of the Tsundoku Art Book Fair, hosted for the first time at the International Centre for the Image, with a programme of events for all audiences.

Tsundoku Art Book Fair returns with a programme of events running 17–19 April at the International Centre for the Image. During the weekend, visitors can enjoy publications from 79 publishers from around the world.

There are several events accompanying the fair, from book launches to workshops, free and paid, for everyone to enjoy.

Running in parallel, the Centre presents a series of exhibitions and screenings coinciding with the Five Lamps Arts festival.

Following the success of Art Evolve, we are delighted to announce What Happens Next, a compelling new group exhibition bringing together a dynamic selection of contemporary artists.

We welcome colleagues, students, industry partners, policy makers, and members of the wider community to what promises to be a stimulating lecture entitled: Real (talk) > True (talk): Making space for making presented by Dr. Rilla Khaled

Date: Thursday, 16th April, 2026

Time: 3pm – 4:30pm

Venue: The Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman, Dublin 7

Registration: Free – All welcome

As Dublin changes at pace, what do we stand to lose? Amidst Gerard Byrne’s new exhibition ‘Before I Go. Vanishing Dublin’, this panel brings together historians, heritage advocates and cultural voices to explore architecture, memory, and civic identity. Cities grow, shift, and sometimes forget. Heritage can’t be built. It can only be inherited, tended to, or betrayed.

Donough Cahill of the Irish Georgian Society, Daryl Hendley Rooney of The Little Museum of Dublin, and Arran Henderson of Dublin Decoded, in conversation moderated by historian Donal Fallon of Three Castles Burning.