Artists Thomas Hendy and Ger Hughes come together for a two person exhibition at Reds Gallery Dublin in October.

These works arise from darkness, reaching toward light. Ger paints as if gathering fragments of dawn, transforming past fear into radiance. Thomas draws like rebuilding from ash, turning loss into form and discipline into freedom. Together their practices transform despair into presence, fracture into wholeness, and silence into resilience and renewal.

Curated by Tony Strickland.

Fri 31st Oct – Weds 5th November.  12 – 5:30PM
Closed Sunday/Monday

Vague Symptom Clinic considers Ireland’s legacies of colonialism, partition, and state violence, and their relationship to intergenerational trauma and inherited chronic illness. The title is taken from the real-life NHS clinic that attempts to identify origins or causes of a range of indicators of disease, including weight loss, fatigue, brain fog and night sweats. Ó Dochartaigh makes sculptural installations with materials including blown glass, silicone, ice, lard, metal, diagrammatic images, sound recordings, electronic components and medical tools made of ceramic, marble, and granite.

Interrupted Collective presents ‘Systems’ . An exhibition of new works by Annemarie Kilshaw, Roger O Neill, Sorcha Nineill, Paul Hickey and Steven Doody.

The work explores the relationships we have with various systems we encounter on a daily basis. Through painting, drawing, installation and video we explore the complexities and how we navigate our way around them.

Running from 30th October to 30th January.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) and Pearse Museum are proud to present a major retrospective of the work of Irish wood sculptor Liam Roe (1935–2010), running from 1 November 2025 to 1 February 2026.

Roe spent his life cultivating the craft of wood sculpture, developing his practice over several decades. He worked primarily with oak, walnut, Spanish chestnut, elm, yew and lime, creating human and animal forms that reflected both Irish cultural memory and everyday experience. His work explored themes of history, mythology, music, faith, the natural world, and the bond between mother and child.

Born in Marino, North Dublin, Roe began carving in his twenties. In 1962, he travelled to Oberammergau, Germany, to study traditional woodcarving, and later attended night classes at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). He held his first solo exhibition in 1963 at Brown Thomas, Dublin.

Roe played a significant role in preserving traditional woodcarving in Ireland. He contributed to teaching at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), where his deep knowledge and practical skill were respected by students and colleagues alike.

This exhibition, organised in partnership with the OPW, brings together a wide selection of Roe’s sculptures, many of which have never before been shown publicly.

Image: “Cut-out lady” in sycamore (1972)”

Art Futures is a half-day symposium designed for emerging artists, recent graduates, and creative professionals beginning their journey in the art world. Through live interviews and candid conversations with leading figures from across the visual arts sector, attendees gain insight into real career paths, pivotal decisions, and the challenges that shaped them. Led by a prominent cultural facilitator, the event offers practical guidance, honest reflection, and fresh perspectives—demystifying the industry and opening doors to its many opportunities.

High Tide Contemporary presents, Out of Light, an exhibition of work by six artists – Karen Ebbs, Myra Jago, Diane Magee, Aisling McEntee Walsh, Sorca O’Farrell, and Paula O’Riordan.

This exhibition will be opened by Mr. James Hanley, RHA on Thursday the 23rd of October, 6-8pm and runs until the 29th of October 2025.

This work examines the phenomenon of light, focusing on how it is perceived and experienced through the distinct creative lenses of six individuals.

Kindly sponsored by Oar House & Brass Monkey Restaurants.

Climate and Art: Programming & Advocacy brings together three artists and three curators to explore how contemporary art responds to this challenge, offering an unusual mirroring perspective that highlights synergies and divergences. It’s a reflection on the role of the arts in shaping public discourse around the climate crisis, its complexity and its aim towards regenerative outcomes.

Viviana Checchia (Curator at Void Art Centre)
Vanya Lambrecht Ward (Artist)
Siobhan Mooney (Independent curator)
Katherine Sankey (Artist)
Niamh Schmidtke (Artist)
Kate Strain (Curator at Kunstverein Aughrim)

Over the past 15 years, Sean Molloy has investigated and deconstructed the baroque painting canon. Initially, this took the form of portraiture, primarily via the unsettling representation of Philip IV by Velazquez, later leading to exploration of the baroque landscape canon, in particular the works of Berchem, Ruisdael, Cuyp and Wouwerman. From 2014, he focussed on creating capricci, imagined landscapes composited from references in the baroque canon, occasionally including staffage and overlain with disruptive, superimposed and highly-saturated ‘glitch’ elements.

‘Drift ‘ explores the vibrant environment along the River Dodder through expanded printmaking processes. Developed through regular walks along the riverbanks, the work responds to natural rhythms, human impact, and the tension between urban infrastructure and ecological systems.The project draws on conversations with local environmental and citizen groups, whose work in conservation, clean-ups, and advocacy informs the visual and conceptual layers of the exhibition.  Drift invites reflection on our relationship with place, presence, and environmental change.

Inspired by a poem by Maya Angelou.
In his latest body of work, Claxton turns to Irish history and contemporary life, taking inspiration from Maya Angelou’s poetry and from the courage of Irish women who have reshaped cultural and political landscapes. Figures such as Constance Markievicz, Sinead O’Connor, Mary Robinson, Catherine Corless, Bernadette Devlin, and Rhasidat Adeleke are presented alongside lesser-known activists, writers, and truth-tellers whose contributions are equally transformative.

Norio Ishiwata and Chifumi Ishiwata formed the art unit Orinotawashi after their marriage. Based in Tokyo, they began by creating collage works, working together to complete each single piece. In 2013, they dedicated themselves to art, participating in artist-in-residence programs in five countries: Spain, Italy, Zambia, Egypt, and Morocco. Their travels abroad inspired them to focus on the theme of “art for living.” In Spain, they met Irish artist Mark Redden, whose traditional Irish boat, the Currach, and his artistic style influenced them.

Opening Sunday 12th October.
Guided tours at 2:30pm 4:00pm and 5:30pm.
Artworks are outdoors – dress accordingly.
Music: DJs throughout the day, live jazz at 4:00pm and Robbie Kitt playing at 7:00pm.

Brown Mountain Diamond, an artist-run space in the hills of North Kilkenny, presents RURAL LIFE 1.0, an exhibition of new work. Since May artists immersed themselves in rural life and collaborated with community groups. Participating artists include Sharon Phelan (May), John Byrne (June), Maria McKinney (July), Paddy Bloomer (August), and Bog Cottage (September).

Interrupted Collective presents ‘Systems’ . An exhibition of new works by Annemarie Kilshaw, Roger O Neill, Sorcha Nineill, Paul Hickey and Steven Doody.

The work explores the relationships we have with various systems we encounter on a daily basis. Through painting, drawing, installation and video we explore the complexities and how we navigate our way around them.

Running from 30th October to 30th January.

Opening Launch on Thursday 2nd October 7pm
Creative Spark is proud to present Glór | Ciúnas, a group exhibition showcasing new work by artists from the 2024/25 Artist-in-Residence Programme. Featuring a vibrant mix of painting, print, installation, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition brings together work by Aoife Cawley, Klowi, Claire McAteer, Colleen Eilís Murphy, Nicola Moran, Áine Dunne, Maria Atanacković, and Eimear Murphy. The title Glór | Ciúnas translating as Loud | Silence reflects the work created by this year’s artists. Some using bright, bold colours to express energy and stories while others create subtle, quiet works that invite you to reflect. Glór | Ciúnas marks the eleventh year of the artists-in-Residence exhibition hosted in an Táin Arts Centre.
The Creative Spark Residency Programme, supported by The Arts Service of Louth County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland, is dedicated to providing essential support to artists.

Exhibition continues from 23rd August to 1st November 2025

A major solo exhibition by artist Maud Cotter maelstrom presents a group of works which seek to examine the complexity of the present, and engages with the complexity and form of change as process, with works that reference the dual directionality of time, and the relational nature of matter.

This exhibition of large scale works by this established Irish artist responds to the complexity and spatial range of the site of Highlanes Gallery across its two floors.

Integrated into the exhibition is a stream of engagement with the historic and contemporary work from the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection.

Within the exhibition of new and recent large-scale sculpture and installation is the eponymous work – maelstrom which Maud Cotter describes as ‘a spiral, a whirling stream.’

She adds ‘this phenomenon I see as an expression of the nature of change, a complex form which expands and ingests space; a dual directional dynamic, ingesting spent form and offering a different conceptual direction.’

Writer and critic Rebecca Geldard has written recently on Cotter’s practice:

‘In Marcel Marceau’s stage routine, there is a perfectly choreographed moment of suspension that goes unnoticed by the audience, Maud Cotter explains. It serves to amplify the physicality of his feat, the ability to hold sinew and bone in time and freeze imperceptibly. But this is only noticeable in the wings, from where she draws him. Beyond the stage, the interruption of energy, of flow, appears to change nothing but, in fact, changes everything about the energy field. With the muscular elegance of the gymnast or the pervasive creep of a musical score, the slight shift in mood silently alters the parameters of what’s performatively possible.’

‘Interconnectedness, at the molecular level, is the driver of Cotter’s sculptural enquiry; manifesting moments of “imperfect geometry” at the core of where things, beings, ideas and environments meet. Whether daring to ‘draw’ this massively in metal, manufacture it through the placement of pre-existing materials, or orchestrate the essential bits in between, any sense of artistic coercion is only ever, and oh so lightly, custodial, however hands-on the process. Each fixing, inscribed section, loop of archi-graphic script, is allowed to speak with its own energy as part of a quietly insistent ensemble cast, leading us beyond the need for meaning and on towards a collective sense of being in the thick of it – soaring, spiralling, feeling that all things seem to touch so they are.’

Exhibition continues 20 September – 1 November 2025.

Gerard Byrne, Artist of the Baggotonia Festival 2025 presents ‘Light Falls: Ode to Baggotonia’, set in his intimate Ranelagh studio + gallery. Byrne captures Dublin’s unique light—the glow between buildings, canal shimmers, shadows folding into foliage. The show features contemplative still lifes, dreamy urbanscapes, and bold figuratives. Reflecting on Georgian streets and the city’s Bohemian soul where Beckett, Behan, and Bacon once walked, Byrne transforms everyday sights into lyrical meditations on light, memory, and place—continuing Ireland’s Impressionist legacy with contemporary insight.

In this exhibition guest curator Karla Sánchez invited the eight selected artists to voice their thoughts about the need of current world to re-tell stories that incorporate other beings, human and more-than-human, as well as re-imagine structures and modes of living and doing. New and better futures grounded in nature have to be dreamed of and worked on without delay.

Several common threads emerged; from an interest, deep curiosity and almost obsession with place -natural environments in particular- to personal and social connections and re-connections, experimentation and play.

Art Futures is a half-day symposium designed for emerging artists, recent graduates, and creative professionals beginning their journey in the art world. Through live interviews and candid conversations with leading figures from across the visual arts sector, attendees gain insight into real career paths, pivotal decisions, and the challenges that shaped them. Led by a prominent cultural facilitator, the event offers practical guidance, honest reflection, and fresh perspectives—demystifying the industry and opening doors to its many opportunities.

The word mirror traces its roots from the Latin mirari, to admire. In Spanish, mira means “look.” But what happens if a mirror shows nothing? In gothic lore, the vampire is denied reflection, cursed with blindness to itself. MIRA is an exhibition of young Irish artists working across film, painting, drawing, and stitched media. Together they explore gothic horror’s legacy, with Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a touchstone. Step into a world where self-image, darkness, and the uncanny collide.

Opening Night: 28 Oct, 5:30–9 PM
Exhibition Hours: 29 Oct–1 Nov, 1–6 PM.

Come look closer, if you dare.

Exhibition continues from the 11th of October to the 1st of November 2025

SO Fine Art Editions is excited to present ‘New Wave’, a group exhibition featuring the work of five leading contemporary Irish artists: Peter Bradley, Niall Cullen, Karl Hagan, James Kirwan and John O’Flynn. Their practices, span painting, mixed media, digital collage and sculpture, a push beyond traditional methods. Together, they offer new perspectives on the fleeting and complex nature of contemporary life, demonstrating how art can connect the personal and universal, questioning how we see ourselves, each other and the world around us.

Exhibition continues from the 18th of October to the 1st of November 2025

One artist, three sculptors exhibit together.
STONE Jason Morris carves stone inspired by a passion for Irish heritage, archaeology and mythology which he skillfully ‘weaves’ into work.
STEEL Guy Urbin forges ‘the gentle Japanese curves smooth to the eyes’ and movement of flames, flowing water, wind.
BRONZE Gilly Thomas sculpts the simplicity of the creature keeping the essence with clean lines and intuitive shape.
GOLD Mary Wallace vibrant use of colour paired with the opulence of pure gold is breathtaking. Gazing into translucent depths her art transports you to a place of imagination.

Exhibition continues from the 3rd of October to the 2nd of November 2025

This show will bring together the work of 34 incredible emerging artists, with more than 55 pieces filling the gallery. From painting and print to photography and mixed media, there’s going to be such an amazing mix of ideas, styles and voices, it’s going to be full of energy and discovery.

The opening night is happening on Friday, 3rd October, 7–9 pm. Bring your friends, come meet the artists, have a glass of wine, and celebrate with us. Opening nights are always such a buzz, and this one is going to be special.

Open Saturday and Sundays 12-6pm (closed on the 18th and 19th)

Self, pet and a bathtub is a triangle of elements arranged as a composition in this oil on linen painting whose title is also the title of the whole show. 

The bathtub is from my locality at the fields around my studio in county Donegal where farmers arrange bathtubs arbitrarily in the landscape for their cows and bulls to drink from. Once an intimate function in a household now these are curious shapes in open spaces resembling alienation and corrosion on their way back to the elements of metal and earth.  

‘Hearth’ is an exciting temporary exhibition that opens at 5pm on the 23rd of October in Wexford Town, running alongside Wexford Arts Festival. Featuring 8 recent graduates of NCAD, whose work spans the fields of photography, painting, video and installation. The work in this show probes and examines the ever-shifting feelings of home, place, and community in contemporary Irish culture. The work has been made independently across the country and is now brought together for the group’s first show since college. By attending this exhibition, you become a part of the building of the hearth.

Exhibition continues from the 18th of October to the 2nd of November 2025

The exhibition will be opened officially on Saturday 18th October at 12.30pm by Gus Mabelson, ceramic artist and former director of the Ceramic Skills Course, run for many years, by the Design and Crafts Council Ireland.

Exhibition continues from the 16th of September to the 2nd of November 2025

From The Forest to The Ocean is a powerful multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan. The exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art, photography, poetry and film, inspired by reflections on nature and journeys of interconnectedness. The exhibition links physical landscapes of nature, from the forests to the ocean, to landscapes of the soul. Join us as we reflect on ways to re-wild the landscape and re-wild the human soul, exploring the flow of life and the art of letting go. The exhibition runs until Sunday 2 November, Wed-Sunday, 10.30am-5pm. Last admission 4.45pm.

A screening series curated by exhibiting artist Frank Sweeney, selected in the context of his new film installation, Go Ye Afar. Each evening will be introduced by the artist and invited guests.
Tuesday 14 October | 6pm | These streets will never look the same (2024, CA)
Tuesday 21 October | 6pm | Pipe Down (2009, IE)
Tuesday 28 October | 6pm | The Black and the Green (1983, US)
Tuesday 04 November | 6pm | TBA

The Office of Public Works and Dublin City Arts Office are pleased to present a new exhibition of work by Eithne Jordan RHA curated by Margarita Cappock. It takes place at the Casino Marino, Cherrymount Crescent, Marino, Dublin 3, D03 HH70.

The exhibition is open everyday from 10.00am to 5.00pm and admission to the exhibition is free.

About the Artist
Eithne Jordan is one of Ireland’s pre-eminent painters. In this exhibition, Jordan has turned her artistic gaze to the interiors of public and private spaces, such as museums and institutional buildings, which she has visited on her travels in Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. Jordan explores the way paintings, sculptures and artefacts are displayed in these spaces. She creates paintings that are, in her words, ‘emotional landscapes’. Jordan is drawn to exhibiting in unusual spaces where her work can interact with their surroundings as in this exhibition at the Casino Marino. Her paintings reflect her enduring interest in architecture and the interplay that can happen between her paintings and their environment, whether a modernist space or a historic building.

The resonance of this new body of work – most from the last five years – displayed in the rooms of the Casino creates the ‘echo’ of an ongoing conversation with the eighteenth century, which is why the artist chose this as the exhibition title. Eithne Jordan grew up in Clontarf, not far from the Casino. She states, ‘The Casino has an air of grandeur but it also has that sense of intimacy in the beauty of its proportions. It is one of the things that I love about it.’

Funded by the OPW and Dublin City Arts Office with the support of the Arts Council.

Artists Thomas Hendy and Ger Hughes come together for a two person exhibition at Reds Gallery Dublin in October.

These works arise from darkness, reaching toward light. Ger paints as if gathering fragments of dawn, transforming past fear into radiance. Thomas draws like rebuilding from ash, turning loss into form and discipline into freedom. Together their practices transform despair into presence, fracture into wholeness, and silence into resilience and renewal.

Curated by Tony Strickland.

Fri 31st Oct – Weds 5th November.  12 – 5:30PM
Closed Sunday/Monday

Siren is an expansive exhibition that incorporates ceramic sculpture, textile sculpture, tapestry and mosaic sculpture. Greco-Roman inspired, surrealist mosaic sculpture take centre stage framed by major new monumental tapestry work.

Having lived for over twenty years in post-conflict Belfast, during and after the peace process, Burke has developed a unique exploration between political and aesthetic inquiries into trauma, wounding and repair in her practice.

Preview: Thurs 23 Oct, 6-8pm.

Hours: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri, 12-5pm Sat.

Tickets: Free entry, open to all

Colm Keady-Tabbal (b. 1999, Los Angeles, California) lives and works in Dublin and New York. 21226827118 marks Colm’s inaugural solo exhibition in The Gallery at The Complex.

Image: Colm Keady-Tabbal, Untitled, 2024, Gelatin silver print.

Proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.

In this installation of large-scale colourful oil paintings, sculptures and plexiglass mirrors Karen Ebbs explores ideas relating to reflection, perception and reality. At the heart of the work is colour, life-affirming and transformative. In a time of ecological and social challenge, Ebbs uses colour as a quiet rebellion against grey apathy to offer hope. Using mirrors, the boundaries between the artworks and the individual collapse. Viewers are confronted with their own reflections as they become interwoven with the artworks. Through this interaction visitors become part of an ever-changing installation which is continuously altered by their presence. This idea challenges the notion of separation and how we perceive ourselves, offering viewers an opportunity to pause.

Karen Ebbs is a Dublin-based artist and a member of Pallas Projects and Studios. She received a Masters in Fine Art, in painting from NCAD in 2023 and was subsequently shortlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. She also studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy School, Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include Rathfarnham Castle, 2024, Farmleigh Estate, 2022 and the LAB Gallery, Dublin, 2022. In 2022, Karen received an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and a Professional Development Award from dlr Arts Office.
Our Gallery Learning Programme has lots of workshops, tours for all ages and opportunities to learn more and try different artmaking techniques. See our website for information: www.dlrcoco.ie/arts.

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

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

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

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

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

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2025. The series of 8 x 3-week exhibitions between March–November 2025 will present exhibitions of new work by:

Cillian Finnerty, Michella Randilu Perera, Niamh Coffey, Reuben Brown, Lucy Andrews, Kathryn Maguire, Gary Farrelly, Caroline Mac Cathmaoil.

Artist-Initiated Projects at Pallas Projects/Studios is an open-submission, annual gallery programme of 8 x 3-week exhibitions taking place between March and November 2025. This unique programme of funded, artist-initiated projects selected via open call is highly accessible to artists, with a focus on early career, emerging artists and recent graduates. Projects are supplemented with artists’ talks, texts, workshops or performances, and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.

Cillian Finnerty — March 27th – April 12th

Michella Randilu Perera — April 24th – May 10th

Niamh Coffey — May 22nd – June 7th

Reuben Brown — June 19th – 5th July

Lucy Andrews — July 17th – August 2nd

Kathryn Maguire — September 11th – 27th

Gary Farrelly — October 9th – 25th

Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil — 6th – 22nd November

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Pallas Projects/Studios is one of Ireland’s longest running artist-run spaces, with a dedicated tradition over 28 years towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment, providing opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists to develop and exhibit new work. PP/S have established a nationwide and international reputation among artists and organisations, and a public profile through successful and critically engaged exhibitions, publishing, collaborations and partnerships, and education programmes for schools. Recent projects include the 4-year research project and publication ‘Artist-Run Europe’, published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven in 2016, and the annual ‘Periodical Review’ exhibition now in its thirteenth year.

Entangled Life
Curated by Cristina Nicotra
May–December 2025

Entangled Life, supported by Community Foundation Ireland, is a programme exploring the deep connections between climate, society, and the ecosystems where art and community intertwine. This initiative unravels heterogeneous climate and social topics, by understanding ecology as a complex web of relationships—between humans, the more-than-human world, and political and natural environments.

Entangled Life aims to provide space to facilitate a network of relationships, collaboration and engagement within the community. Over the course of 8 months the project will bring together community participants, artists and experts – including Lisa Fitzsimons (Strategy and Sustainability Lead at Irish Museum of Modern Art), Eileen Hutton PhD (Head of Art and Ecology at Burren College of Art), and Gareth Kennedy (artist, lecturer and lead coordinator on NCAD FIELD) – for a series of monthly panel talks, workshops and artistic interventions at Pallas Projects, culminating in an exhibition in December 2025.

The project draws inspiration from Merlin Sheldrake’s book of the same name, which explores the interconnected mycelium worlds that allow for unexpected possibilities, and Joanna Macy’s principles of ‘Active Hope’, which emphasize knowledge, compassion and action. With the final goal of promoting a decarbonised future, the project explores the links between climate issues and society, and shows how they are relevant in our daily life and our community.

The events series will provide diverse perspectives and room for direct interaction among participants through a non-linear, non-hierarchical approach, fostering exploration and critical thinking, considering mental wellbeing. This multidisciplinary initiative feeds the need to provide opportunities for influencing and activating change effectively. It allows the community to learn about climate issues, react, and co-create diverse, dynamic and unpredictable connections and inspirations. Feedback and reactions collected throughout the programme will be compiled into a toolkit report.

In all, seven topics will be unravelled and discussed through open panel discussions, workshops beginning with The Art of Just Transition on Wednesday 14th of May, with Rachel Fallon, Artist; Dr Egle Gusciute, Assistant Professor in Sociology, UCD; and Michelle Murphy, Research & Policy Analyst with Social Justice Ireland and member of Just Transition Commission.

Events Schedule

14th May The Art of Just Transition (Talk)

11th June Discovering biomaterials in art and society (Talk)

9th July Art and biomaterials (Workshop)

3rd September Beyond Words: communicating sustainability (Talk)

1st October Intersectionality in art and climate (Talk)

29th October Climate and Art: programming & advocacy (Talk)

27th November Entangled Life (Exhibition opening)

3rd December Climate crisis and mental health (Workshops)

17th December Climate activism and socially engaged art (Talk)

Events take place Wednesdays, 6–8pm. Participants are welcome to attend some or all events. Places can be booked via Eventbrite, but there will be a places for walk-ins subject to availability

IMMA presents a solo exhibition by Sam Gilliam (1933 – 2022), one of the great innovators in post-war American painting, co-organised with the Sam Gilliam Foundation. Emerging in the mid-1960s, his canonical ‘Drape’ paintings merged painting, sculpture, and performance in conversation with architecture in entirely new ways. Suspending unstretched lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed.

Sewing Fields highlights Gilliam’s connection to Ireland, where a transformative residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in the 1990s reshaped his artistic practice. Gilliam embraced new materials, working with pre-stained fabrics that he had shipped to Ireland, cutting and layering them into sculptural compositions. A collaboration with a local dressmaker further expanded this process, reinforcing his innovative fusion of painting and textile techniques.

The dramatic, undulating forms in his work resonate with the vastness and wildness of the Irish coast, featuring loose, flowing compositions that reflect the organic and unpredictable nature of the land and sea. Gilliam’s signature vibrant colour fields were influenced by the unique Irish light, resulting in atmospheric, almost translucent hues. By moving away from the rigid geometry of modernism, Gilliam’s work in Ireland fostered an intuitive dialogue with the surrounding environment, celebrating the physicality of painting and the emotional resonance of place through abstraction and materiality.

This exhibition continues IMMA’s engagement with artists whose work has received renewed attention and accolades in recent years that has included Howardena Pindell (2023), Derek Jarman (2019), and Frank Bowling (2018).

Exhibition continues from 23rd August to 1st November 2025

A major solo exhibition by artist Maud Cotter maelstrom presents a group of works which seek to examine the complexity of the present, and engages with the complexity and form of change as process, with works that reference the dual directionality of time, and the relational nature of matter.

This exhibition of large scale works by this established Irish artist responds to the complexity and spatial range of the site of Highlanes Gallery across its two floors.

Integrated into the exhibition is a stream of engagement with the historic and contemporary work from the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection.

Within the exhibition of new and recent large-scale sculpture and installation is the eponymous work – maelstrom which Maud Cotter describes as ‘a spiral, a whirling stream.’

She adds ‘this phenomenon I see as an expression of the nature of change, a complex form which expands and ingests space; a dual directional dynamic, ingesting spent form and offering a different conceptual direction.’

Writer and critic Rebecca Geldard has written recently on Cotter’s practice:

‘In Marcel Marceau’s stage routine, there is a perfectly choreographed moment of suspension that goes unnoticed by the audience, Maud Cotter explains. It serves to amplify the physicality of his feat, the ability to hold sinew and bone in time and freeze imperceptibly. But this is only noticeable in the wings, from where she draws him. Beyond the stage, the interruption of energy, of flow, appears to change nothing but, in fact, changes everything about the energy field. With the muscular elegance of the gymnast or the pervasive creep of a musical score, the slight shift in mood silently alters the parameters of what’s performatively possible.’

‘Interconnectedness, at the molecular level, is the driver of Cotter’s sculptural enquiry; manifesting moments of “imperfect geometry” at the core of where things, beings, ideas and environments meet. Whether daring to ‘draw’ this massively in metal, manufacture it through the placement of pre-existing materials, or orchestrate the essential bits in between, any sense of artistic coercion is only ever, and oh so lightly, custodial, however hands-on the process. Each fixing, inscribed section, loop of archi-graphic script, is allowed to speak with its own energy as part of a quietly insistent ensemble cast, leading us beyond the need for meaning and on towards a collective sense of being in the thick of it – soaring, spiralling, feeling that all things seem to touch so they are.’

The Office of Public Works and Dublin City Arts Office are pleased to present a new exhibition of work by Eithne Jordan RHA curated by Margarita Cappock. It takes place at the Casino Marino, Cherrymount Crescent, Marino, Dublin 3, D03 HH70.

The exhibition is open everyday from 10.00am to 5.00pm and admission to the exhibition is free.

About the Artist
Eithne Jordan is one of Ireland’s pre-eminent painters. In this exhibition, Jordan has turned her artistic gaze to the interiors of public and private spaces, such as museums and institutional buildings, which she has visited on her travels in Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. Jordan explores the way paintings, sculptures and artefacts are displayed in these spaces. She creates paintings that are, in her words, ‘emotional landscapes’. Jordan is drawn to exhibiting in unusual spaces where her work can interact with their surroundings as in this exhibition at the Casino Marino. Her paintings reflect her enduring interest in architecture and the interplay that can happen between her paintings and their environment, whether a modernist space or a historic building.

The resonance of this new body of work – most from the last five years – displayed in the rooms of the Casino creates the ‘echo’ of an ongoing conversation with the eighteenth century, which is why the artist chose this as the exhibition title. Eithne Jordan grew up in Clontarf, not far from the Casino. She states, ‘The Casino has an air of grandeur but it also has that sense of intimacy in the beauty of its proportions. It is one of the things that I love about it.’

Funded by the OPW and Dublin City Arts Office with the support of the Arts Council.

In this installation of large-scale colourful oil paintings, sculptures and plexiglass mirrors Karen Ebbs explores ideas relating to reflection, perception and reality. At the heart of the work is colour, life-affirming and transformative. In a time of ecological and social challenge, Ebbs uses colour as a quiet rebellion against grey apathy to offer hope. Using mirrors, the boundaries between the artworks and the individual collapse. Viewers are confronted with their own reflections as they become interwoven with the artworks. Through this interaction visitors become part of an ever-changing installation which is continuously altered by their presence. This idea challenges the notion of separation and how we perceive ourselves, offering viewers an opportunity to pause.

Karen Ebbs is a Dublin-based artist and a member of Pallas Projects and Studios. She received a Masters in Fine Art, in painting from NCAD in 2023 and was subsequently shortlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. She also studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy School, Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include Rathfarnham Castle, 2024, Farmleigh Estate, 2022 and the LAB Gallery, Dublin, 2022. In 2022, Karen received an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and a Professional Development Award from dlr Arts Office.
Our Gallery Learning Programme has lots of workshops, tours for all ages and opportunities to learn more and try different artmaking techniques. See our website for information: www.dlrcoco.ie/arts.

THE SWALLOW, Tadhg O’Sullivan’s new feature, starring Academy Award winner Brenda Fricker, will open in select Irish cinemas from 19 September.
The film presents a meditation on art, memory and solitude in later life, through an artist exploring memories and fragments of the past while trying to make sense of her own unwillingness to let go.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/marmaladefilms/theswallowofficialtrailer

Tickets available via https://linktr.ee/marmaladefilms

The Swallow was funded by The Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon, under the Authored Works scheme.

VISUAL is pleased to present Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood. This landmark touring exhibition has been conceived by Hettie Judah in collaboration with Hayward Gallery Touring. Following a successful tour of the UK, Acts of Creation comes to VISUAL augmented by the inclusion of works from Irish artists and collections.

Spanning all of VISUAL’s galleries, Acts of Creation presents work in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography and sound that speaks to the experience of motherhood in all its complexity. At VISUAL, an accompanying in-depth learning programme will respond to the exhibition’s themes and works. A reading area, a reflection space and specialist workshops and tours will further provide visitors with ways to engage with the ideas and experiences reflected in this powerful exhibition.

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 70s to the present day.
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about real motherhood, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation addresses this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important cultural figure.
How does the image of motherhood change when the artist is drawing on lived experience? What is made visible? What challenges are levelled at motherhood as an institution through which the mother is idealised as self-sacrificing, wholesome, tireless and uncomplaining?
Diverse experiences are explored across four thematic displays. Creation looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing. It imagines motherhood as a creative act, albeit one in which joy might be tempered with anxiety, pain and exhaustion.
Maintenance is dedicated to the ongoing work of motherhood and caregiving in the day-to-day. Here we find artists engaged in domestic chores, keeping children safe, and navigating a balance between art and parenting.
In Loss artists reflect on experiences of miscarriage, adoption and involuntary childlessness. Works in this section also protest the loss of women’s reproductive rights.
The Temple is a series of self-portraits in which artists explore their own identity in relation to motherhood. For decades women were told they could not be both an artist and a mother. These portraits stand in defiance of that idea.

This exhibition features artworks that include nudity and explore childbirth, (in)fertility, miscarriage, abortion, loss and domestic abuse.

Exhibition continues 20 September – 1 November 2025.

Gerard Byrne, Artist of the Baggotonia Festival 2025 presents ‘Light Falls: Ode to Baggotonia’, set in his intimate Ranelagh studio + gallery. Byrne captures Dublin’s unique light—the glow between buildings, canal shimmers, shadows folding into foliage. The show features contemplative still lifes, dreamy urbanscapes, and bold figuratives. Reflecting on Georgian streets and the city’s Bohemian soul where Beckett, Behan, and Bacon once walked, Byrne transforms everyday sights into lyrical meditations on light, memory, and place—continuing Ireland’s Impressionist legacy with contemporary insight.

Norio Ishiwata and Chifumi Ishiwata formed the art unit Orinotawashi after their marriage. Based in Tokyo, they began by creating collage works, working together to complete each single piece. In 2013, they dedicated themselves to art, participating in artist-in-residence programs in five countries: Spain, Italy, Zambia, Egypt, and Morocco. Their travels abroad inspired them to focus on the theme of “art for living.” In Spain, they met Irish artist Mark Redden, whose traditional Irish boat, the Currach, and his artistic style influenced them.

Opening Launch on Thursday 2nd October 7pm
Creative Spark is proud to present Glór | Ciúnas, a group exhibition showcasing new work by artists from the 2024/25 Artist-in-Residence Programme. Featuring a vibrant mix of painting, print, installation, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition brings together work by Aoife Cawley, Klowi, Claire McAteer, Colleen Eilís Murphy, Nicola Moran, Áine Dunne, Maria Atanacković, and Eimear Murphy. The title Glór | Ciúnas translating as Loud | Silence reflects the work created by this year’s artists. Some using bright, bold colours to express energy and stories while others create subtle, quiet works that invite you to reflect. Glór | Ciúnas marks the eleventh year of the artists-in-Residence exhibition hosted in an Táin Arts Centre.
The Creative Spark Residency Programme, supported by The Arts Service of Louth County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland, is dedicated to providing essential support to artists.

Opening reception: Thursday 02 October 2025, 6–8pm

Frank Sweeney’s new film, ‘Go Ye Afar’, follows the journey of an Irish-Nigerian taxi driver on a miraculous voyage through the streets of Dublin and Calabar. Using a range of techniques and sources, from reenacted interviews and archival footage to rear-projection and Nollywood-inspired special effects, a series of characters are transported through interconnected sites in Ireland and Nigeria.

Exhibition continues from the 3rd of October to the 2nd of November 2025

This show will bring together the work of 34 incredible emerging artists, with more than 55 pieces filling the gallery. From painting and print to photography and mixed media, there’s going to be such an amazing mix of ideas, styles and voices, it’s going to be full of energy and discovery.

The opening night is happening on Friday, 3rd October, 7–9 pm. Bring your friends, come meet the artists, have a glass of wine, and celebrate with us. Opening nights are always such a buzz, and this one is going to be special.

Open Saturday and Sundays 12-6pm (closed on the 18th and 19th)

Exhibition continues from the 3rd of October to the 15th of November 2025.

When Stars Collide is a multimedia installation that reshapes the gallery floor with paths of sand and heaps of gravel, where an array of fallen stars and a decapitated bronze head reside. The head becomes both relic and narrator, voicing its dilemmas and contemplations: the embodiment of the night sky, recalled fragments of memory, inherited beliefs, the body it lost, its disappointments, and its hope, all while waiting… waiting for what comes next. Drifting between analysis and poetry, the head loops back and forth, reflecting upon the spectrum of existence within the space and time it currently occupies.

Self, pet and a bathtub is a triangle of elements arranged as a composition in this oil on linen painting whose title is also the title of the whole show. 

The bathtub is from my locality at the fields around my studio in county Donegal where farmers arrange bathtubs arbitrarily in the landscape for their cows and bulls to drink from. Once an intimate function in a household now these are curious shapes in open spaces resembling alienation and corrosion on their way back to the elements of metal and earth.  

Over the past 15 years, Sean Molloy has investigated and deconstructed the baroque painting canon. Initially, this took the form of portraiture, primarily via the unsettling representation of Philip IV by Velazquez, later leading to exploration of the baroque landscape canon, in particular the works of Berchem, Ruisdael, Cuyp and Wouwerman. From 2014, he focussed on creating capricci, imagined landscapes composited from references in the baroque canon, occasionally including staffage and overlain with disruptive, superimposed and highly-saturated ‘glitch’ elements.

Picasso lived surrounded by his art. His personal life and his work, his homes and his studios were always intimately linked. The exhibition places Picasso in the context of his studios, highlighting the various facets and phases of his art and life. It will explore the key locations that defined him, from his arrival in Paris at the start of the twentieth century to his studio in Mas Notre-Dame de Vie (1961-1973) in Mougins. The exhibition will feature paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and works on paper, as well as photographic and audio-visual works.

For her solo exhibition at The LAB Gallery, Ní Mhaonaigh presents a new series of small-scale works that build on the learning of earlier paintings, while chronicling some interesting departures. In tracing a landscape in flux, these works can be loosely categorised into three groupings: canvas studies of organic structures, read as floral, mossy, or tree-like; linear and geometric forms, etched into smooth, silvery backgrounds; and a set of intricate works on board, incorporating vast asymmetrical arcs. 

This exhibition features work from IMMA’s National Collection and invited artists, including Orla Barry, Herman Braun-Vega, Gary Coyle, Ann Hamilton, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Kathy Prendergast, and Marisa Rappard.

The exhibition takes its inspiration from a poem written by Marianne Moore in 1921 titled “The Grave.” The poem stems from Moore’s personal experience of observing the sea with her mother, where her brother’s intrusion on their view inspired reflections on the human tendency to focus on the immediate rather than the larger picture.

Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce “Look at the Harlequins!”, a solo exhibition by Isabel Nolan.

Ahead of Isabel Nolan’s forthcoming representation of Ireland at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, this exhibition offers an insight into the artist’s practice characterised by its shifting movement between mediums, where sculpture, textiles and works on paper are held in lively dialogue, celebrating and communing with historical figures and works of art that speak to us across centuries.

Siren is an expansive exhibition that incorporates ceramic sculpture, textile sculpture, tapestry and mosaic sculpture. Greco-Roman inspired, surrealist mosaic sculpture take centre stage framed by major new monumental tapestry work.

Having lived for over twenty years in post-conflict Belfast, during and after the peace process, Burke has developed a unique exploration between political and aesthetic inquiries into trauma, wounding and repair in her practice.

In this exhibition guest curator Karla Sánchez invited the eight selected artists to voice their thoughts about the need of current world to re-tell stories that incorporate other beings, human and more-than-human, as well as re-imagine structures and modes of living and doing. New and better futures grounded in nature have to be dreamed of and worked on without delay.

Several common threads emerged; from an interest, deep curiosity and almost obsession with place -natural environments in particular- to personal and social connections and re-connections, experimentation and play.

Opening Sunday 12th October.
Guided tours at 2:30pm 4:00pm and 5:30pm.
Artworks are outdoors – dress accordingly.
Music: DJs throughout the day, live jazz at 4:00pm and Robbie Kitt playing at 7:00pm.

Brown Mountain Diamond, an artist-run space in the hills of North Kilkenny, presents RURAL LIFE 1.0, an exhibition of new work. Since May artists immersed themselves in rural life and collaborated with community groups. Participating artists include Sharon Phelan (May), John Byrne (June), Maria McKinney (July), Paddy Bloomer (August), and Bog Cottage (September).

Exhibition continues from the 11th of October to the 1st of November 2025

SO Fine Art Editions is excited to present ‘New Wave’, a group exhibition featuring the work of five leading contemporary Irish artists: Peter Bradley, Niall Cullen, Karl Hagan, James Kirwan and John O’Flynn. Their practices, span painting, mixed media, digital collage and sculpture, a push beyond traditional methods. Together, they offer new perspectives on the fleeting and complex nature of contemporary life, demonstrating how art can connect the personal and universal, questioning how we see ourselves, each other and the world around us.

A screening series curated by exhibiting artist Frank Sweeney, selected in the context of his new film installation, Go Ye Afar. Each evening will be introduced by the artist and invited guests.
Tuesday 14 October | 6pm | These streets will never look the same (2024, CA)
Tuesday 21 October | 6pm | Pipe Down (2009, IE)
Tuesday 28 October | 6pm | The Black and the Green (1983, US)
Tuesday 04 November | 6pm | TBA

A celebration of the artists’ process and practice, this exhibition brings together a selection of her paintings, notebooks and sketchbooks, enabling the viewer engage with a range of works inspired by the artists’ interests and travels as well as her methodologies.

Flannery’s paintings emerged from her deep connection and study of the natural world and from the very different landscapes that she immersed herself in. From her home in Carlow, to Waterford, Wexford, Mayo and further afield in places such as Yamba, New South Wales, Flannery distilled landscape, sky, sea and land.

Geraldine O’Neill’s new exhibition responds to the escalating tension between humanity and the natural world. Her work speaks directly to the Anthropocene, our current epoch, where human presence is inscribed into the geological fabric of the earth.

For O’Neill, this presence is made vivid through the everyday. Domestic references, images of her children, and items from her studio mingle with art-historical fragments, still birds, and household detritus. These layered references situate the intimacy of home life within broader cultural and ecological frameworks.

An Adventure in 21st Century Romanticism. Naessens presents an exhibition of new works, featuring acrylic ink drawings with etching, ink rollups and coloured pencil details as well as etchings and computer drawings.

Inspired by a poem by Maya Angelou.
In his latest body of work, Claxton turns to Irish history and contemporary life, taking inspiration from Maya Angelou’s poetry and from the courage of Irish women who have reshaped cultural and political landscapes. Figures such as Constance Markievicz, Sinead O’Connor, Mary Robinson, Catherine Corless, Bernadette Devlin, and Rhasidat Adeleke are presented alongside lesser-known activists, writers, and truth-tellers whose contributions are equally transformative.

‘Drift ‘ explores the vibrant environment along the River Dodder through expanded printmaking processes. Developed through regular walks along the riverbanks, the work responds to natural rhythms, human impact, and the tension between urban infrastructure and ecological systems.The project draws on conversations with local environmental and citizen groups, whose work in conservation, clean-ups, and advocacy informs the visual and conceptual layers of the exhibition.  Drift invites reflection on our relationship with place, presence, and environmental change.

Exhibition continues 1 October – 30th November 2025.

Fine Point – Details in Pencil. A solo exhibition by artist Gillian Cullen featuring a series of intricate, detailed drawings paying homage to the enduring art of the pencil. Drawing is one of the oldest and most direct ways that artists try to convey truth and honesty — the desire to understand one another and our environment in time and space. Gillian invites the viewer into a world of minute details, each detail as important than the next, using different tones, textures, and subtle shading, as well as the power of negative space. 

Exhibition continues from the 18th of October to the 2nd of November 2025

The exhibition will be opened officially on Saturday 18th October at 12.30pm by Gus Mabelson, ceramic artist and former director of the Ceramic Skills Course, run for many years, by the Design and Crafts Council Ireland.

Exhibition continues from the 3rd of October to the 13th of November 2025

Wexford Arts Centre is delighted to present Quiet Echoes, a solo exhibition by visual artist and painter, Polly Maher. Quiet Echoes presents a deeply contemplative body of work in the unique setting of D’Lush Cafe. Polly Maher’s practice moves between painting and photography, drawing on themes of rural Ireland, domestic spaces, and the subtleties of stillness and sound. Her process is grounded in observation and memory — photographing locations and later translating those impressions into expressive, oil-based paintings.

Exhibition continues from the 18th of October to the 1st of November 2025

One artist, three sculptors exhibit together.
STONE Jason Morris carves stone inspired by a passion for Irish heritage, archaeology and mythology which he skillfully ‘weaves’ into work.
STEEL Guy Urbin forges ‘the gentle Japanese curves smooth to the eyes’ and movement of flames, flowing water, wind.
BRONZE Gilly Thomas sculpts the simplicity of the creature keeping the essence with clean lines and intuitive shape.
GOLD Mary Wallace vibrant use of colour paired with the opulence of pure gold is breathtaking. Gazing into translucent depths her art transports you to a place of imagination.

High Tide Contemporary presents, Out of Light, an exhibition of work by six artists – Karen Ebbs, Myra Jago, Diane Magee, Aisling McEntee Walsh, Sorca O’Farrell, and Paula O’Riordan.

This exhibition will be opened by Mr. James Hanley, RHA on Thursday the 23rd of October, 6-8pm and runs until the 29th of October 2025.

This work examines the phenomenon of light, focusing on how it is perceived and experienced through the distinct creative lenses of six individuals.

Kindly sponsored by Oar House & Brass Monkey Restaurants.

In a process of distillation, a core value within this new body of work, Walker integrates themes ranging from the climate crisis, disability, and the deplorable genocide in Gaza. Finding material from the constant and horrifying political landscape being played out throughout the world, he has created a response that reflects resilience under extreme frustration. This collection of sculptures accompanied by a number of works on paper span from a precise perception of scale to unravelled compositions of structure and to articulate a situation beyond comprehension.

Preview: Thurs 23 Oct, 6-8pm.

Hours: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri, 12-5pm Sat.

Tickets: Free entry, open to all

Colm Keady-Tabbal (b. 1999, Los Angeles, California) lives and works in Dublin and New York. 21226827118 marks Colm’s inaugural solo exhibition in The Gallery at The Complex.

Image: Colm Keady-Tabbal, Untitled, 2024, Gelatin silver print.

Proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.

‘Hearth’ is an exciting temporary exhibition that opens at 5pm on the 23rd of October in Wexford Town, running alongside Wexford Arts Festival. Featuring 8 recent graduates of NCAD, whose work spans the fields of photography, painting, video and installation. The work in this show probes and examines the ever-shifting feelings of home, place, and community in contemporary Irish culture. The work has been made independently across the country and is now brought together for the group’s first show since college. By attending this exhibition, you become a part of the building of the hearth.

Exhibition continues from the 10th of October to the 30th of November 2025

Irish in Resistance during World War II is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art, photography, film, poetry, and storytelling, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism. The installation features original artworks by Hina Khan, visual artist; Amna Walayat, visual artist; Féilim James, writer and poet; and Mary Moynihan, writer, poet, creator of art and photograph, created in response to stories of people who stood up for the rights of others. Alongside these artworks we have original artworks by Noah Sex and Jessica Rodrigues on themes of equality.

The word mirror traces its roots from the Latin mirari, to admire. In Spanish, mira means “look.” But what happens if a mirror shows nothing? In gothic lore, the vampire is denied reflection, cursed with blindness to itself. MIRA is an exhibition of young Irish artists working across film, painting, drawing, and stitched media. Together they explore gothic horror’s legacy, with Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a touchstone. Step into a world where self-image, darkness, and the uncanny collide.

Opening Night: 28 Oct, 5:30–9 PM
Exhibition Hours: 29 Oct–1 Nov, 1–6 PM.

Come look closer, if you dare.

Exhibition continues from the 16th of September to the 2nd of November 2025

From The Forest to The Ocean is a powerful multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan. The exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art, photography, poetry and film, inspired by reflections on nature and journeys of interconnectedness. The exhibition links physical landscapes of nature, from the forests to the ocean, to landscapes of the soul. Join us as we reflect on ways to re-wild the landscape and re-wild the human soul, exploring the flow of life and the art of letting go. The exhibition runs until Sunday 2 November, Wed-Sunday, 10.30am-5pm. Last admission 4.45pm.

Climate and Art: Programming & Advocacy brings together three artists and three curators to explore how contemporary art responds to this challenge, offering an unusual mirroring perspective that highlights synergies and divergences. It’s a reflection on the role of the arts in shaping public discourse around the climate crisis, its complexity and its aim towards regenerative outcomes.

Viviana Checchia (Curator at Void Art Centre)
Vanya Lambrecht Ward (Artist)
Siobhan Mooney (Independent curator)
Katherine Sankey (Artist)
Niamh Schmidtke (Artist)
Kate Strain (Curator at Kunstverein Aughrim)