Students from the RHA School have been working hard to create and select stunning artworks around the theme Liminality, exploring the in-between space of change, growth, and transformation.
Curated in collaboration with TU Dublin students, this show brings together pieces that don’t just reflect the artists’ own transitional journeys, but also invite you to step out of your everyday reality for a moment and experience something new. Come see how these emerging artists are pushing boundaries and showing work at a truly professional level. Running from the 20th -23rd of November!

Opening reception Thursday 20th November. 6pm. Exhibition Fri 21st -Weds 26th Nov. 12 5.30pm. Sat/Sun 11am – 5pm. Closed Mon. Seeing Ourselves presents a powerful series of oil paintings exploring the complexities of human identity and emotion. Through expressive forms and layered abstraction, Ivan transforms canvas into a space for reflection and introspection. Curated by Tony Strickland

Join us on Thursday, November 20th, 2025, at The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, D 2, for a special fundraising event!
All featured works have been generously donated by professional artists from the Black Church Print Studio

Ticket are priced at €200 and there is a max of 50 tickets available.

At 7pm sharp, the Draw begins! When your ticket number is drawn, you can choose your favourite fine art print from the selection of work available. An exhilarting event that supports a vital artist’s resource in the city centre, funds raised from this event over the past 30+ years have enabled us buy new equipment and upgrade our facilities.

Alex de Roeck’s ‘Debt Wish’ examines an indulgence in wellness and self-optimisation in a culture where lifestyle, value and identity are endlessly renewed, quantified and consumed.

21 Nov, 2025 – 21 Dec, 2025

This exhibition presents a series of charcoal drawings by Lelia Henry that explore the intelligence, memory, and emotional presence of trees, inspired by the groundbreaking research of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard.
The drawings focus on the visible forms we encounter every day – each drawing treats the tree as an individual with its own character. The works ask what it means to recognise familiar emotions and gestures in non-human forms. The forest becomes a mirror for human presence. The drawings invite viewers to slow down and engage with the trees around them, as companions in the landscape, each with their own story.

Language as Wound, Silence as War marks the final chapter in Pigsy’s Automatic Apology Trilogy. Following exhibitions in Mexico (Tá Brón Orm, 2024, and Níl Brón Orm, 2025), this Dublin presentation continues an exploration of how language and silence shape emotion, connection, and conflict.

Opening for one night only at Fade Street Studios, Dublin 2, on Friday, 21 November 2025, from 6.30–8.30 pm, the exhibition brings together a new body of work that reflects on the spaces between apology, vulnerability, and peace.

Opening 3.00pm – 5.00pm Saturday 22nd November. All Welcome. Butler Gallery is very pleased to present a solo exhibition by the Kinsale-based artist Brian Harte. This solo exhibition comes at a pivotal point in Harte’s career and is his first museum exhibition in Ireland. For the past nine years his career has focused on international commitments. Harte creates paintings that deconstruct interior settings which embrace components from his own domestic family life. This exhibition invitation has allowed the artist to step back from commercial gallery demands to reflect and experiment.

A screening, conversation and Q&A event of visual artist Marie Brett’s YES, BUT DO YOU CARE? audio-visual art work is happening at Creative Spark Downtown Hub, in Dundalk, County Louth, on Wednesday 19 November 2025, at 4pm
Yes, But Do You Care? is in IMMA’s national collection and the artwork explores the politics of autonomy, dementia family care and capacity legislation. Based on real-life family carer stories combined with Ireland’s new Capacity Act legislation.
The artwork is part of a national tour, the artist having received an Arts Council Touring Award. At the event will be guest speaker Colm Mullen – the Artistic Director, Louth

Spanish curator Margarita Aizpuru will deliver a lecture on the contribution of Spanish and Latin American women artists to the field of performance art, from the 1960s to the present day. The talk with be followed with a screening of video-performances, images and excerpts.

12.00 -13.00 Feminisms and Performance Art: A Theoretical and Visual Introduction (Newman Building room A106 ART)

14.00-15.50 Screening of Artists’ Work and Q&A (Confucius Institute 1.05)

Event In English

Join us on Thursday, November 20th, 2025, at The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, D 2, for a special fundraising event!
All featured works have been generously donated by professional artists from the Black Church Print Studio

Ticket are priced at €200 and there is a max of 50 tickets available.

At 7pm sharp, the Draw begins! When your ticket number is drawn, you can choose your favourite fine art print from the selection of work available. An exhilarting event that supports a vital artist’s resource in the city centre, funds raised from this event over the past 30+ years have enabled us buy new equipment and upgrade our facilities.

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.

Language as Wound, Silence as War marks the final chapter in Pigsy’s Automatic Apology Trilogy. Following exhibitions in Mexico (Tá Brón Orm, 2024, and Níl Brón Orm, 2025), this Dublin presentation continues an exploration of how language and silence shape emotion, connection, and conflict.

Opening for one night only at Fade Street Studios, Dublin 2, on Friday, 21 November 2025, from 6.30–8.30 pm, the exhibition brings together a new body of work that reflects on the spaces between apology, vulnerability, and peace.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Students from the RHA School have been working hard to create and select stunning artworks around the theme Liminality, exploring the in-between space of change, growth, and transformation.
Curated in collaboration with TU Dublin students, this show brings together pieces that don’t just reflect the artists’ own transitional journeys, but also invite you to step out of your everyday reality for a moment and experience something new. Come see how these emerging artists are pushing boundaries and showing work at a truly professional level. Running from the 20th -23rd of November!

Exhibition continues from the 10th of November to the 23rd of November 2025.

The Signal Arts Centre in Bray is showing a new collection of paintings entitled “Landscapes in Time” by artist Kieran Guckian.
The work is inspired by the Irish landscape with a focus on both Kieran’s plein-air work, a central part of his practice and his studio work. His location work is a crucial part of his research and ideation for his larger studio pieces. For this collection Kieran spent time in multiple locations such as the Copper Coast and the Burren as well as favourite locations in Wicklow such as Bray Head and Glendalough.
The opening event will take place on Friday the 14th of November from 7pm to 9pm.

Opening reception Thursday 20th November. 6pm. Exhibition Fri 21st -Weds 26th Nov. 12 5.30pm. Sat/Sun 11am – 5pm. Closed Mon. Seeing Ourselves presents a powerful series of oil paintings exploring the complexities of human identity and emotion. Through expressive forms and layered abstraction, Ivan transforms canvas into a space for reflection and introspection. Curated by Tony Strickland

This November, SO Fine Art Editions is proud to present Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, an international exhibition of contemporary printmaking and photography by 20 Japanese and 20 Irish-based artists, consisting of a sumptuous array of visual interpretations of Kwaidan, the well-known book of ghost stories published in 1904 by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo. The exhibition offers a visual retelling of ghostly tales from Japanese folklore, translated through the lenses of modern artists. This exhibition forms part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2025, please see our website for special events.

November 7th – 28th

Holding Space presents a collaboration between Mollie Douthit and Sara Baume. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture and needlework, all reflecting the artists’ common process of building pieces gradually, ritualistically, with a great deal of solicitude.

 Both also share a curiosity in spirituality and mysticism, which is referenced by the gap at the centre of the handkerchiefs Baume will be showing, which has also become a signifier of their friendship. Douthit, her paintings and their friendship are also the subject of Baume’s forthcoming book, Opening Night, which will be published by Granta in the summer of 2026.  

Group Art Exhibition ( Zelda Cunningham, Judy Lawler, James Wellwood [Opens: Sunday, November 9th, 3pm to 5pm].
Viewing Times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm.
Zelda works across textiles and painting, Zelda’s practice is rooted in a slow, contemplative process that mirrors the rhythms and balance of the natural world.
Judy’s visual language is inspired by the structured beauty and psychological pull of pattern.
James’s work explores contemporary landscapes and our yearning for what feels natural and unspoilt in a world increasingly shaped by human presence.

The Tea Houses presents the upcoming exhibition, River(s) of no Return by Bernadette Kiely, guest curated by Shannon Carroll. The river flows through Bernadette Kiely’s work as it does through her life. Living on the banks of the River Nore, she has borne witness to the shifting balance between water, land and those on its edges. Her practice is grounded in slow observation: walking the river, listening to it, tracing its presence and noticing how it connects to wider cycles of change, from local floods to wildfires and environmental crises across the world. Exhibition Opening 3PM Saturday, November 15th. All welcome, open daily 11.30-5.30.

Exhibition continues from the 6th of November to the 29th of November 2025.

Bloom and Current
A solo exhibition by Sarah Loughnane

Bloom and Current is a solo exhibition of fluid acrylic paintings exploring the living rhythms of the natural world. Inspired by flowers and water, the works reflect on transformation, fragility, and unseen forces. Through layered pigments and flowing movement, each painting captures a moment where nature is both fleeting and enduring – inviting viewers to pause, immerse, and connect with the balance between control and spontaneity.

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.

Since the first Cork Zine Fest (CZF) hosted in St Peter’s Cork in partnership with The Friary, CZF has been focused on bringing together and promoting the Zine community in Cork and across Ireland.

Each festival includes a weekend market with a series of engagement events including workshops, zine readings and panel discussions. CZF is a zine-maker focused market and festival that runs an annual market and event programme, alongside a Zine Club that offers open zine-making sessions to the general public.

Over a three-week residency period the CZF team will facilitate and oversee a programme that is focused around zine making and use it as a tool for community building and a platform to support and promote fellow zine makers.

The outcome of these programmed events will be exhibited within Triskel Sample Project Space and will include a Zine library to showcase the zines made by all the participants. 

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 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.

Exhibitions continues from the 4th of October to the 30th of November 2025

Irish Architecture Foundation presents 3 exhibitions that counter negative and untrue narratives about our built world. “To Not Design Is To Cost The Earth” argues the absolute value of design when it comes to building a better, fairer world. “HouseEurope!” presents evidence of the wanton, unnecessary demolition of buildings in Europe when cities and those that live in them badly need more space for housing. “Mise Le Meas” presents evidence of the loss of social, cultural and intellectual capital that is happening as our young people leave Dublin to build their lives abroad.

Free, Wed-Sun, 12-5pm

It Matters is a ground breaking exhibition of photographic work with a focus on sustainability using not so traditional darkroom techniques and chromatography. Julie was awarded the Louth Arts Office EDI Bursary last year to go somewhere she’d never been before, the darkroom. From developing her first roll of film in the darkroom to print making, this exhibition features traditional resin coated and fibre based photographic prints made with negatives developed with experimental photo chemistry; mainly ascorbic and iron developer’s. Excerpt’s from her notebook, which she now regards as her bible, will also be reproduced.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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)”

Public Opening: Sat 1st Nov, 6pm

This exhibition marks 15 years of the Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award, a partnership between Kildare County Council Arts Service & Riverbank Arts Centre. Pattern Recognition: Architectures of Seeing brings together the work of 15 artists who have shaped the visual landscape of County Kildare.

Curated by Paula Barrett, featuring artists Martina McDonald, Noel Hensey, Brian Cregan, Mary-Jo Gilligan, Isobel Egan, Denis Kelly, Marta Golubowska, Brenda Kearney, Michelle McBride, Caoimhe McGuckin, Shane Hynan, Katie Whyte, Gavin Casey, Kym Tracey, and Fiyin Oluokun.

Image: Michelle McBride

Since the first Cork Zine Fest (CZF) hosted in St Peter’s Cork in partnership with The Friary, CZF has been focused on bringing together and promoting the Zine community in Cork and across Ireland.

Each festival includes a weekend market with a series of engagement events including workshops, zine readings and panel discussions. CZF is a zine-maker focused market and festival that runs an annual market and event programme, alongside a Zine Club that offers open zine-making sessions to the general public.

Over a three-week residency period the CZF team will facilitate and oversee a programme that is focused around zine making and use it as a tool for community building and a platform to support and promote fellow zine makers.

The outcome of these programmed events will be exhibited within Triskel Sample Project Space and will include a Zine library to showcase the zines made by all the participants. 

Exhibitions continues from the 4th of October to the 30th of November 2025

Irish Architecture Foundation presents 3 exhibitions that counter negative and untrue narratives about our built world. “To Not Design Is To Cost The Earth” argues the absolute value of design when it comes to building a better, fairer world. “HouseEurope!” presents evidence of the wanton, unnecessary demolition of buildings in Europe when cities and those that live in them badly need more space for housing. “Mise Le Meas” presents evidence of the loss of social, cultural and intellectual capital that is happening as our young people leave Dublin to build their lives abroad.

Free, Wed-Sun, 12-5pm

It Matters is a ground breaking exhibition of photographic work with a focus on sustainability using not so traditional darkroom techniques and chromatography. Julie was awarded the Louth Arts Office EDI Bursary last year to go somewhere she’d never been before, the darkroom. From developing her first roll of film in the darkroom to print making, this exhibition features traditional resin coated and fibre based photographic prints made with negatives developed with experimental photo chemistry; mainly ascorbic and iron developer’s. Excerpt’s from her notebook, which she now regards as her bible, will also be reproduced.

As part of Dublin Gallery Weekend, 6-9 October 2025, TØN is delighted to present an exhibition where contemporary art meets contemporary craft.
LUMEN is an exhibition of works by Gildas O Laoire and Mark Redden. Combining painting, sculpture, design, and furniture, they express the solace of living with art and the luminous effect art has on life. The viewer is prompted to examine the objects closely, drawn into a fourth dimension through the layers of paint or the myriad of details of wood grain. Light and movement are integral to the work of both artists.

The exhibition is typically interdisciplinary and features a collection of works which reflect the artist’s interest in 3D graphics, networked technologies and the mechanics of image production. ASSETS is Alan Butler’s second solo exhibition since his debut here in 2017, and since then, his work has been the subject of over one hundred exhibitions at galleries, museums and festivals around 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.

November 7th – 28th

Holding Space presents a collaboration between Mollie Douthit and Sara Baume. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture and needlework, all reflecting the artists’ common process of building pieces gradually, ritualistically, with a great deal of solicitude.

 Both also share a curiosity in spirituality and mysticism, which is referenced by the gap at the centre of the handkerchiefs Baume will be showing, which has also become a signifier of their friendship. Douthit, her paintings and their friendship are also the subject of Baume’s forthcoming book, Opening Night, which will be published by Granta in the summer of 2026.  

This November, SO Fine Art Editions is proud to present Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, an international exhibition of contemporary printmaking and photography by 20 Japanese and 20 Irish-based artists, consisting of a sumptuous array of visual interpretations of Kwaidan, the well-known book of ghost stories published in 1904 by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo. The exhibition offers a visual retelling of ghostly tales from Japanese folklore, translated through the lenses of modern artists. This exhibition forms part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2025, please see our website for special events.

Ode to Giants is a group show at the Olivier Cornet Gallery that will be launched for Dublin Gallery Weekend 2025. 13 Artists were asked to create works in response to their favourite pieces from three Dublin museums: IMMA, the National Gallery and the National Museum at Collins Barracks. Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator & Head of Collections at IMMA, will open the exhibition on Friday, November 7, 2025.

Artists: Annika Berglund, Hugh Cummins, Mary A. Fitzgerald, David Fox, Conrad Frankel, Nickie Hayden, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Miriam McConnon, Sheila Naughton, Bart O’Reilly,Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford and Vicky Smith.

We’re proud to present the Irish premiere of The Empathy Machine at Photo Museum Ireland. Maija Tammi is known for her radical storytelling through the medium of video, photography and installations. This acclaimed work offers audiences a rare chance to engage with Tammi’s unique exploration of empathy, emotion, and human connection through the lens of contemporary photography.

Exhibition on show from 8 November 2025 – 1 February 2026

Group Art Exhibition ( Zelda Cunningham, Judy Lawler, James Wellwood [Opens: Sunday, November 9th, 3pm to 5pm].
Viewing Times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm.
Zelda works across textiles and painting, Zelda’s practice is rooted in a slow, contemplative process that mirrors the rhythms and balance of the natural world.
Judy’s visual language is inspired by the structured beauty and psychological pull of pattern.
James’s work explores contemporary landscapes and our yearning for what feels natural and unspoilt in a world increasingly shaped by human presence.

Exhibition continues from the 1st of November to the 31st of December 2025

Energetic Labyrinths is a vivid exploration of movement, consciousness, and creative power through the work of Clare O’Connor — an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice spans abstract painting, printmaking, photography, and wearable art. Rooted in her fascination with the labyrinth as a symbol of the inner world, this exhibition reflects Clare’s long-standing interest in self-development, personal navigation, and empowerment. Her art — described as energetic, tactile, and multi-dimensional — offers more than visual stimulation; it opens a space for reflection, mindfulness, and transformation.

In this exhibition, Harris brings together two bodies of work: a series of oil paintings inspired by the coastline of North Mayo, and a group of large-scale paintings featuring a single flower motif. 
Harris’s fascination with the light, space, and profound sense of nothingness that he encounters on long walks through the boglands of North Mayo informs both strands of this exhibition. The flower and landscape motifs stand side by side as testaments to the silvery light and quiet expansiveness of this western terrain. Through these works, Harris renders space, light, and silence as tangible, physical presences in paint.

Droichead Arts Centre is delighted to announce its partnership with fellow North East Network members, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, and An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, in a unique extension of Solstice’s annual selected survey of local professional arts practice.

North East Network supports, values and encourages visual artists in the North East to develop their practices and creative careers. The exhibition presents an overview of contemporary visual arts practice in County Louth and Meath. There will be a visual arts award of €2,000 selected by each curator in each arts centre.

The Tea Houses presents the upcoming exhibition, River(s) of no Return by Bernadette Kiely, guest curated by Shannon Carroll. The river flows through Bernadette Kiely’s work as it does through her life. Living on the banks of the River Nore, she has borne witness to the shifting balance between water, land and those on its edges. Her practice is grounded in slow observation: walking the river, listening to it, tracing its presence and noticing how it connects to wider cycles of change, from local floods to wildfires and environmental crises across the world. Exhibition Opening 3PM Saturday, November 15th. All welcome, open daily 11.30-5.30.

Exhibition continues from the 10th of November to the 23rd of November 2025.

The Signal Arts Centre in Bray is showing a new collection of paintings entitled “Landscapes in Time” by artist Kieran Guckian.
The work is inspired by the Irish landscape with a focus on both Kieran’s plein-air work, a central part of his practice and his studio work. His location work is a crucial part of his research and ideation for his larger studio pieces. For this collection Kieran spent time in multiple locations such as the Copper Coast and the Burren as well as favourite locations in Wicklow such as Bray Head and Glendalough.
The opening event will take place on Friday the 14th of November from 7pm to 9pm.

Continues from the  12th of November to the 21st of December 2025

J Hill’s Standard, one of Ireland’s most celebrated craft and design houses, will curate and manage Form & Fable, a pop-up store at Wilton Park that celebrates Irish craftsmanship, design, and creativity.

In partnership with IPUT Real Estate, Form & Fable is a six-week retail residency running from Wednesday 12 November to Sunday 21 December, bringing together a carefully curated collection of Ireland’s most skilled makers.

Every piece on display — and available for purchase — has been designed in Ireland, is rooted in tradition and elevated by contemporary design.

Exhibition continues from the 6th of November to the 29th of November 2025.

Bloom and Current
A solo exhibition by Sarah Loughnane

Bloom and Current is a solo exhibition of fluid acrylic paintings exploring the living rhythms of the natural world. Inspired by flowers and water, the works reflect on transformation, fragility, and unseen forces. Through layered pigments and flowing movement, each painting captures a moment where nature is both fleeting and enduring – inviting viewers to pause, immerse, and connect with the balance between control and spontaneity.

Spanish curator Margarita Aizpuru will deliver a lecture on the contribution of Spanish and Latin American women artists to the field of performance art, from the 1960s to the present day. The talk with be followed with a screening of video-performances, images and excerpts.

12.00 -13.00 Feminisms and Performance Art: A Theoretical and Visual Introduction (Newman Building room A106 ART)

14.00-15.50 Screening of Artists’ Work and Q&A (Confucius Institute 1.05)

Event In English

A screening, conversation and Q&A event of visual artist Marie Brett’s YES, BUT DO YOU CARE? audio-visual art work is happening at Creative Spark Downtown Hub, in Dundalk, County Louth, on Wednesday 19 November 2025, at 4pm
Yes, But Do You Care? is in IMMA’s national collection and the artwork explores the politics of autonomy, dementia family care and capacity legislation. Based on real-life family carer stories combined with Ireland’s new Capacity Act legislation.
The artwork is part of a national tour, the artist having received an Arts Council Touring Award. At the event will be guest speaker Colm Mullen – the Artistic Director, Louth