Éireann and I is a community archive and memory work platform dedicated to chronicling stories of Black life in Ireland. Initiated and led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba, the project creates spaces for migrants to engage
with archives and explore practices of memory work through participatory workshops, publications, and installations. This special commission for Bealtaine explores older migrants’ relationships with Dublin city with newly produced images made during a sound walking workshop, together with images from participants’ personal archives.

This photo series brings together images from participants’ personal archives with newly

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

Join Bealtaine Festival at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for a conversation between visual artists Laura Fitzgerald, Geraldine O’Neill, filmmaker Pat Murphy; chaired by the writer and visual artist Sara Baume, as they discuss a lifetime of making art and navigating life as an artist across countries, cities and country-sides.

TØN is delighted to announce the opening of ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Jared C. Deery. Opens May 28 runs until June 14.

The title Always and Everywhere speaks to an omnipresent state of consciousness—a psychological framework where memory, nature, and formal abstraction intersect.

By building up textured, luminous layers and fluid forms, Deery’s work channels the experimental spirit of French symbolist poetry, demanding what Arthur Rimbaud called a systematic “derangement of the senses” to access alternative means of perception and hidden truths beneath the surface.

For the first Dublin by Dusk event IMMA is excited to present the screening of the multi award winning documentary North Circular: A Musical Trip Through Inner-City Dublin directed by Luke McManus. The screening will be preceded by a live overture performed by acclaimed cellist Kevin Murphy (Slow Moving Clouds, Rattling Ark) featuring themes from his soundtrack for the film. North Circular will be screened on Living Canvas at IMMA, Europe’s largest digital outdoor art screen presented at IMMA by IPUT Real Estate.

Admission free, booking required.

For more information and to book, click here.

The Tea Houses is delighted to present ‘At The Waterline’ by artist and ecologist Tasneem Khan, a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring the artist’s lived experience of islandness, using it as a lens for thinking about change, adaptation and our relationship to place. The exhibition emerges from an ongoing body of artistic research exploring how islands can be understood not only as geographical locations or terrain, but as spaces through which to consider ecological systems and human experience in a time of environmental instability. Opening Friday May 29th at 5pm, we hope to see you there!

Curated by Katherine Waugh
29th May, 6 – 8.30pm

Screening followed by a discussion with the artists and the curator.

Pallas Projects presents a screening programme bringing together works by seminal UK artists David Burrows and Maggie Roberts. Curated by Katherine Waugh, the programme explores practices operating within the field of “fictioning” – where speculative narrative, philosophy and moving image intersect to reframe questions of intelligence, subjectivity and non-human agency.

Developed in response to Mark Cullen’s Prototypes for Cyborgs – A Space Opera (Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, 2025), the programme includes selection

As part of Bealtaine Festival 2026, we are delighted to collaborate once again with the IFI and aemi to present two films from Kilkenny-based artist filmmaker Juana Robles’ ongoing Bodyverses series, begun in 2024 and featuring performance artists Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Juana Robles, as well as Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan, chaired by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick.

Join us for a discussion and lift hosted by Palestinian Culture Days Dublin (PCD.Dublin).

Accompanying Abbas Zahedi’s exhibition, EX/IT: LIFT, the event is free and you can book here: https://thedouglashyde.ie/pcd-lift/.

A dynamic initiative founded by a collective of activists, artists, and intellectuals from both Palestinian and Irish communities, PCD Dublin’s mission is to foster cultural exchange, understanding, and collaboration between Palestine and Ireland through diverse artistic and cultural disciplines.

For more information and to book, click here.

Informal gathering on ecology, art and what’s in between.
The evening unfolds through relaxed, open, communal, non-hierarchical discussion, where participants can share ideas, reflections, opinions and experiences.
Check the link for the warm-up topic.

Entanglement and Mint Tea offers space and time, and some mint tea if you bring a cup.

For more information and to book, click here.

Join Bealtaine Festival at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for a conversation between visual artists Laura Fitzgerald, Geraldine O’Neill, filmmaker Pat Murphy; chaired by the writer and visual artist Sara Baume, as they discuss a lifetime of making art and navigating life as an artist across countries, cities and country-sides.

A unique collaborative art exhibition, element15 textile artists, current artists-in-residence at McAuley Place, have been using the Luisne Centre as both a meeting place and working studio. Threads of Memory is a collaborative initiative between element15, McAuley Place and the local community, bringing together professional artists and participants.
May Opening Hours:
Opening: Tuesday 5th May at 7pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday’s 2 – 5 pm
Sunday’s, 10 am – 2 pm

For the first Dublin by Dusk event IMMA is excited to present the screening of the multi award winning documentary North Circular: A Musical Trip Through Inner-City Dublin directed by Luke McManus. The screening will be preceded by a live overture performed by acclaimed cellist Kevin Murphy (Slow Moving Clouds, Rattling Ark) featuring themes from his soundtrack for the film. North Circular will be screened on Living Canvas at IMMA, Europe’s largest digital outdoor art screen presented at IMMA by IPUT Real Estate.

Admission free, booking required.

For more information and to book, click here.

TØN is delighted to announce the opening of ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Jared C. Deery. Opens May 28 runs until June 14.

The title Always and Everywhere speaks to an omnipresent state of consciousness—a psychological framework where memory, nature, and formal abstraction intersect.

By building up textured, luminous layers and fluid forms, Deery’s work channels the experimental spirit of French symbolist poetry, demanding what Arthur Rimbaud called a systematic “derangement of the senses” to access alternative means of perception and hidden truths beneath the surface.

Curated by Katherine Waugh
29th May, 6 – 8.30pm

Screening followed by a discussion with the artists and the curator.

Pallas Projects presents a screening programme bringing together works by seminal UK artists David Burrows and Maggie Roberts. Curated by Katherine Waugh, the programme explores practices operating within the field of “fictioning” – where speculative narrative, philosophy and moving image intersect to reframe questions of intelligence, subjectivity and non-human agency.

Developed in response to Mark Cullen’s Prototypes for Cyborgs – A Space Opera (Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, 2025), the programme includes selection

Éireann and I is a community archive and memory work platform dedicated to chronicling stories of Black life in Ireland. Initiated and led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba, the project creates spaces for migrants to engage
with archives and explore practices of memory work through participatory workshops, publications, and installations. This special commission for Bealtaine explores older migrants’ relationships with Dublin city with newly produced images made during a sound walking workshop, together with images from participants’ personal archives.

This photo series brings together images from participants’ personal archives with newly

As part of Bealtaine Festival 2026, we are delighted to collaborate once again with the IFI and aemi to present two films from Kilkenny-based artist filmmaker Juana Robles’ ongoing Bodyverses series, begun in 2024 and featuring performance artists Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Juana Robles, as well as Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan, chaired by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick.

Join us for a discussion and lift hosted by Palestinian Culture Days Dublin (PCD.Dublin).

Accompanying Abbas Zahedi’s exhibition, EX/IT: LIFT, the event is free and you can book here: https://thedouglashyde.ie/pcd-lift/.

A dynamic initiative founded by a collective of activists, artists, and intellectuals from both Palestinian and Irish communities, PCD Dublin’s mission is to foster cultural exchange, understanding, and collaboration between Palestine and Ireland through diverse artistic and cultural disciplines.

For more information and to book, click here.

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.

This is LJ Phelan’s first solo exhibition, marking a move from digital art into acrylic painting. With a background in animation, children’s media and graphic design, LJ creates bold, colourful interpretations of Irish landscapes.

Running from 2 – 31 May 2026 at Ardgillan Castle Gallery, with an opening reception on 2 May from 2 – 4pm, all are welcome.

The exhibition features paintings of locations across Fingal, inspired by its varied landscapes, light and atmosphere, and a strong sense of place.

Exhibition continues from 16th May 2026 to 31st May 2026.

Calm Between Planes offers a moment of rest—spaces for the eye and mind in environments like waiting rooms, where emotions often sit between uncertainty and anticipation. Each canvas and panel is made from raw materials, with sizes that both follow and disrupt the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio. Subtle gradients evoke calm, while contrasting palettes create an illusion of depth. Some compositions draw from local architecture, others from hand-built models exploring three-dimensional form on a flat surface.

Opening reception Wednesday 27th May. 6pm. Exhibition Thurs 28th – Sun 31st May, 11am – 6pm. Monday 1st June 11am – 5pm. An exhibition of Carlow based visual artists presented as part of the 2026 Carlow Arts Festival at Saint Patrick’s College. The theme of the exhibition is HOPE. Presented by artist Rennie Buenting and curated by Tony Strickland. This project is supported by Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow Arts Office and by Creative Ireland Carlow.

The Tea Houses is delighted to present ‘At The Waterline’ by artist and ecologist Tasneem Khan, a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring the artist’s lived experience of islandness, using it as a lens for thinking about change, adaptation and our relationship to place. The exhibition emerges from an ongoing body of artistic research exploring how islands can be understood not only as geographical locations or terrain, but as spaces through which to consider ecological systems and human experience in a time of environmental instability. Opening Friday May 29th at 5pm, we hope to see you there!

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 23/04/2026 to 07/06/2026.

From the Forest to the Ocean by Mary Moynihan is now open at the Smashing Times Gallery, 30 Sandycove Road, Dublin, A96V9P1, running from Sunday 8 March to Sunday 7 June 2026, Wednesday to Friday 1-6pm, Sat + Sun 10am-6pm. All welcome.
From the Forest to the Ocean is a powerful solo exhibition featuring the work of Irish artist Mary Moynihan. Bringing together photography, poetry, and film, this multidisciplinary exhibition draws inspiration from the physical landscapes of nature and the deep interconnectedness of life — from forests to the ocean.

Working in both paint and drawing, this exhibition is influenced both by the imagery and specific colour palette of the language of advertising by the cosmetic industry and the ‘pinkification’ of product marketing to this generation. Painted images mirror the scale of screens through which these messages are disseminated. Larger works on paper in the exhibition arise from research into specific haircare routines, the composition influenced by defined modes of detail erasure and research into early nineteenth century portrait and silhouette collage methods.

Opening: 28th May 6-8pm

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.

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.

“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 03/04/2026 to 14/06/2026.

Visit the Spring Exhibitions at The Douglas Hyde by artists Abbas Zahedi and Bushra Mustafa Dunne, on now until Sunday 14 June 2026. ⁠EX/IT: LIFT is the first solo exhibition in Ireland by artist Abbas Zahedi whose work centres on reciprocity, renewal, social connection, and care. With a background in medicine and training in psychiatry, Zahedi brings scientific, philosophical, and poetic insights to bear on fixed narratives around art, history, and institutional life.⁠ In this instalment of The Artist’s Eye series, Zahedi has invited poet Bushra Mustafa Dunne to write and record a new text.⁠

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.

Exhibition continues from 23/04/2026 to 07/06/2026.

From the Forest to the Ocean by Mary Moynihan is now open at the Smashing Times Gallery, 30 Sandycove Road, Dublin, A96V9P1, running from Sunday 8 March to Sunday 7 June 2026, Wednesday to Friday 1-6pm, Sat + Sun 10am-6pm. All welcome.
From the Forest to the Ocean is a powerful solo exhibition featuring the work of Irish artist Mary Moynihan. Bringing together photography, poetry, and film, this multidisciplinary exhibition draws inspiration from the physical landscapes of nature and the deep interconnectedness of life — from forests to the ocean.

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. 

This is LJ Phelan’s first solo exhibition, marking a move from digital art into acrylic painting. With a background in animation, children’s media and graphic design, LJ creates bold, colourful interpretations of Irish landscapes.

Running from 2 – 31 May 2026 at Ardgillan Castle Gallery, with an opening reception on 2 May from 2 – 4pm, all are welcome.

The exhibition features paintings of locations across Fingal, inspired by its varied landscapes, light and atmosphere, and a strong sense of place.

A unique collaborative art exhibition, element15 textile artists, current artists-in-residence at McAuley Place, have been using the Luisne Centre as both a meeting place and working studio. Threads of Memory is a collaborative initiative between element15, McAuley Place and the local community, bringing together professional artists and participants.
May Opening Hours:
Opening: Tuesday 5th May at 7pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday’s 2 – 5 pm
Sunday’s, 10 am – 2 pm

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.

‘Gathering Winds’ brings together the work of Eva Posas and David Habets (collaborating as Mbuchi); Tom Watt, Tanad Aaron, and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch (working collectively as Forerunner) and Sonya Schönberger.
In two installations and a photographic triptych, the artists take us on an exploration of the element of air, in its omnipresence, inherent restlessness and invisible force.

‘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

Exhibition continues from 16th May 2026 to 31st May 2026.

Calm Between Planes offers a moment of rest—spaces for the eye and mind in environments like waiting rooms, where emotions often sit between uncertainty and anticipation. Each canvas and panel is made from raw materials, with sizes that both follow and disrupt the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio. Subtle gradients evoke calm, while contrasting palettes create an illusion of depth. Some compositions draw from local architecture, others from hand-built models exploring three-dimensional form on a flat surface.

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.

Working in both paint and drawing, this exhibition is influenced both by the imagery and specific colour palette of the language of advertising by the cosmetic industry and the ‘pinkification’ of product marketing to this generation. Painted images mirror the scale of screens through which these messages are disseminated. Larger works on paper in the exhibition arise from research into specific haircare routines, the composition influenced by defined modes of detail erasure and research into early nineteenth century portrait and silhouette collage methods.

Opening: 28th May 6-8pm

Opening reception Wednesday 27th May. 6pm. Exhibition Thurs 28th – Sun 31st May, 11am – 6pm. Monday 1st June 11am – 5pm. An exhibition of Carlow based visual artists presented as part of the 2026 Carlow Arts Festival at Saint Patrick’s College. The theme of the exhibition is HOPE. Presented by artist Rennie Buenting and curated by Tony Strickland. This project is supported by Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow Arts Office and by Creative Ireland Carlow.

Informal gathering on ecology, art and what’s in between.
The evening unfolds through relaxed, open, communal, non-hierarchical discussion, where participants can share ideas, reflections, opinions and experiences.
Check the link for the warm-up topic.

Entanglement and Mint Tea offers space and time, and some mint tea if you bring a cup.

For more information and to book, click here.