Joan Clancy Gallery is celebrating a major milestone with Ceiliúradh 25, with Catherine Barron, Blawnin Clancy, Orla Clancy, Rayleen Clancy, John Cullinan, Ivan Daly, Ann Dunphy, Catherine Foley, Mary Foley, Miriam Foley MacLeod, Deirdre Frost, Katarzyna Gajewska, Rosemary Gaynor, Ciara Gormley, Kieran Heffernan, Sinead Hehir, Andrea Jameson, Bernadette Kiely, Damaris Lysaght, John McCarthy, Leah Murphy, Sinead Ní Chionaola, Gooee O’Brien, Beatrice O’Connell, Eilis O’Toole, Annie Shaw, Anne Whelan, Sheila Wood and Gillian Wright reflecting the diversity of the gallery’s artistic community over the past quarter-century.

Kit French welcomes all to his latest exhibition: ‘From Memory, paintings from Tuscany and Munster’, at Gallery 23, Kinsale. It opens at 7pm on Thursday, July 9th and runs until the 31st.

The show, as the name suggests, centres around memory: both recalling a moment ago in the act of working from nature and recalling times further back. The work draws on experiences from Kit’s education in Tuscany 20 years ago, to working in the mountains and hills of Kerry, and then working with models back in Kinsale this year.

Kit will be there most days from 10–5 for the full run of the show; feel free to call in to view the work and have a chat.

Paint, Stone, Thread, Wood. The Woollen Mill’s 8 Arch Gallery is exhibiting the works of Sheenagh Geoghegan, James Horan, Ciara O’ Connor and Fionn Timmins from Thursday the 9th of July until the 29th of August.

The opening reception for the exhibition will be held on the 9th from 7:30pm. Eircode X42 T024.

A photographic exhibition, including photos featuring the working Woollen Mill in the late 1890s, will also be presented by Andy Kelly, detailing the history of the building, and its journey towards becoming the home of the 8 Arch Gallery today.

Join Billie Adele in conversation with Cork-based artist Kevin Mooney as they discuss the ideas and processes behind Billie’s exhibition SOFTctrl, currently showing at Studio 12.
Billie Adele is a visual artist. She graduated with a First Class Honours from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design in 2025 and was the recipient of the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary. Kevin Mooney is an Irish artist based in Sample Studios, Cork whose work is informed by mythology, history, and cultural migration, exploring a speculative art history of the Irish diaspora.

To reserve a spot, click here.

On view all day in Limerick city café Klaud9, enjoy this short film for just the price of a coffee!

The ethic of mutuality and presence runs through Catriona Osborne’s collaboration with her partner, Chris Quigley, in the exquisite short film Sky Rhythm (2020–2022). A lyrical meditation on movement, distance and light, the video splices fragments of sky-on-sky, hedgerows, cars, dusk and nowhere-places into something ecstatic and elusive; a montage of stillness in motion, intimate yet mythic. Osborne describes it as a document of a world just out of reach: familiar yet half-vanished, suspended in movement and soft light.

Word Sparks is back for its third session of 2026! Through Word Sparks, poet and writer Jenny Cox invites writers to step in and engage with the 5 diverse exhibitions that will be running in STAC throughout our 30th anniversary year. These morning sessions offer creatives the opportunity to use varied and thought-provoking works of art as prompts for sparking interesting conversations and fresh writing ideas.

Session 3: Saturday 11th July, 11am to 12.30pm
Artist: Seamus Nolan in collaboration with members of the Clonmel Traveller community
Exhibition: The Blackened Circle

Free
No Booking requirements
Refreshments provided

Ormston House presents ‘Energy Made Visible’.

The exhibition will open on Friday, 10 July from 7-9pm and will continue until 5 September 2026.

Energy Made Visible is a group exhibition centred around the paintings of Michael Ashur (1950–2024). Known for his meticulous airbrushed compositions, Ashur’s work is concerned with solar systems, celestial bodies, and overlaps between artistic and scientific disciplines. This exhibition places Ashur’s work in dialogue with four contemporary Irish artists; Ann Maria Healy, Sean Lynch, Thaís Muniz, and Garrett Phelan.

Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12-6pm.

Paint, Stone, Thread, Wood. The Woollen Mill’s 8 Arch Gallery is exhibiting the works of Sheenagh Geoghegan, James Horan, Ciara O’ Connor and Fionn Timmins from Thursday the 9th of July until the 29th of August.

The opening reception for the exhibition will be held on the 9th from 7:30pm. Eircode X42 T024.

A photographic exhibition, including photos featuring the working Woollen Mill in the late 1890s, will also be presented by Andy Kelly, detailing the history of the building, and its journey towards becoming the home of the 8 Arch Gallery today.

Join Billie Adele in conversation with Cork-based artist Kevin Mooney as they discuss the ideas and processes behind Billie’s exhibition SOFTctrl, currently showing at Studio 12.
Billie Adele is a visual artist. She graduated with a First Class Honours from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design in 2025 and was the recipient of the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary. Kevin Mooney is an Irish artist based in Sample Studios, Cork whose work is informed by mythology, history, and cultural migration, exploring a speculative art history of the Irish diaspora.

To reserve a spot, click here.

Hellbound presents work by Limerick-based visual artist Breda Lynch – this new body of work has been unseen in public until now. Irreverent and unsettling, the exhibition cuts to the heart of how images shape and distort our understanding of identity, sexuality, and belonging. Through appropriation, collage, and dark humour, Lynch collapses past and present, insisting that the problems of history haunt our allegedly liberal today.

Official opening Sat 13 July 6-8pm | All welcome

Hellbound runs at GOMA Waterford 13 June – 11 July 2026 | Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm

Sulphur is an exhibition of new work by visual artist Orla Whelan. Building on her longstanding interest in geology and colour, in 2025 Orla undertook research in collaboration with The Fold art and geology group, focusing on specimens of elemental sulphur from UCC’s rock collection. Initially drawn to the intense colour, Orla’s research interests deepened to include the invisible crystalline structure embedded within the rocks various outward formations, as well as its historical roles in alchemy, industry and astronomy.

Opening reception Thur 18 June 5.30-7.30pm.

Artist talk, as part of The Fold Symposium, Sat 04 July, 3pm

Word Sparks is back for its third session of 2026! Through Word Sparks, poet and writer Jenny Cox invites writers to step in and engage with the 5 diverse exhibitions that will be running in STAC throughout our 30th anniversary year. These morning sessions offer creatives the opportunity to use varied and thought-provoking works of art as prompts for sparking interesting conversations and fresh writing ideas.

Session 3: Saturday 11th July, 11am to 12.30pm
Artist: Seamus Nolan in collaboration with members of the Clonmel Traveller community
Exhibition: The Blackened Circle

Free
No Booking requirements
Refreshments provided

On view all day in Limerick city café Klaud9, enjoy this short film for just the price of a coffee!

The ethic of mutuality and presence runs through Catriona Osborne’s collaboration with her partner, Chris Quigley, in the exquisite short film Sky Rhythm (2020–2022). A lyrical meditation on movement, distance and light, the video splices fragments of sky-on-sky, hedgerows, cars, dusk and nowhere-places into something ecstatic and elusive; a montage of stillness in motion, intimate yet mythic. Osborne describes it as a document of a world just out of reach: familiar yet half-vanished, suspended in movement and soft light.

Running annually for more than 40 years, this exhibition showcases work by artists from across West Cork and beyond at all stages of their careers. Submission is open to the many artists who subscribe to our Membership and Friendship schemes. This gives our artist Members and Friends the opportunity to exhibit across both the James O’Driscoll Gallery on the ground floor, and upstairs in Gallery II.
Including over 100 artworks by professional, student and amateur artists, this exhibition really has something for every taste and budget.

SOFTctrl is a new solo exhibition by emerging artist Billie Adele at Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork.

Running 11 June – 17 July 2026, developed through the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, awarded to Adele in 2025.

The exhibition is a series of oil paintings exploring the tension between constructed feminine experience and something more unstable and uncontrollable beneath it.

Exhibition continues from 30/06/26.

New Lens – Re-interpreting Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window 100 Years On

New Lens, curated by Joshua Dyson and Daniel Gillick of the Arísbeo Collective, brings together fifteen incredible commissions to celebrate the centenary since Harry Clarke started working on his (in)famous Geneva Window which was commissioned by the Irish Government in 1926 to represent the country at the International Labour Building in Geneva. However it was ultimately hidden away because it fell foul of censorship laws, and eventually sold to the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami where it now resides.

The exhibition showcases the legacy of the window and takes a new perspective on its place in the contemporary art world.

Exhibition continues from 14/05/2026.

This exhibition explores poetic and symbolic connections between the human and non-human world. Working primarily through print-based practices, photography, and expanded media, both artists reflect themes of eco-consciousness, ritual, and psychological transformation within an environmentally precarious world. Nature is a metaphorical and philosophical anchor in both artists’ practice. The exhibition aims to consider how ancient knowledge, embodied awareness, and material practice can act as a form of resistance, healing, and renewal.

University College Cork Museum Studies Students and Cork Public Museum are proud to present ‘Life, Death, Legacy: Ireland’s Connected Bronze Age’. This exciting, student-curated exhibit explores the dynamic world of the Irish Bronze Age and shows how people from the past were not so different from us now.
‘Life, Death, Legacy’ offer visitors a thought-provoking experience using ancient artefacts from the Munster region. Themes such as feasting, death, luxury and metalworking are shown using burial urns, jewelry, and weapons, making it an unmissable exhibition. The exhibition opens on May 29th and is free for all visitors.

BIND is a programme of three exhibitions of individual artist books as part of Cork Printmakers artist book library across 2026.
The programme will activate the existing library and celebrate the new and innovative approaches to artists books as a both social and intimate durational art object. 

The first in the series will present the work of Eimearjean Mc Cormack. Limited-edition books and experimental publications have become an integral extension of Eimearjean’s printmaking practice. For her the book format functions simultaneously as an archive of process and as a platform for new ideas to emerge.

Exhibition continues fro 04/07/2026.

Oil painting exhibition reflecting Hayes’ six months living and working as a Great Blasket Island caretaker. Bringing his longstanding exploration of self and surroundings to this unique setting, he captures the world he encountered, its modern cast of characters, and its contemporary way of life. The paintings examine the dynamic relationship between past and present, exploring the inherent nature of ‘islandness’ and the distinctly liminal sense of place. His re-presentations of the island are painted with honesty and sincerity. Suspending some of the persistent preconceptions about islands, he challenges and re-contextualises them, creating a more nuanced picture.

Siamsa Tíre invites you to the opening reception on Saturday 4 July at 5:30pm – free entry, all welcome. 

James Hayes is a visual artist from county Kerry. He primarily operates as an oil-painter, but is also an accomplished muralist, illustrator and a qualified architect. His artistic practice is centred around a personal and phenomenological exploration of the complex relationship that exists between self and surroundings. His work has been characterised as a unique blended form of contemporary engagement with both the genre of ‘landscape’ painting and an intimate narrative painting tradition; eschewing hierarchy and category in favour of equal focus on both landscapes and figures. He is a self-styled painter of the space between people_and_place.

In ‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ Stephen Brandes re-imagines the scarcely credible event of the skiapods, in a body of newly made work that includes drawings, painting and a collection of hand-built figurines, set into a construction of timber and found materials.

‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ opens on Friday, 5th of June and runs until Friday, 24th of July at LHQ Gallery. An opening reception will take place on Friday 5th of June from 5.30pm. Stephen will be in conversation with Curator of Collections & Special Projects Crawford Art Gallery, Michael Waldron at the LHQ Gallery on Saturday, 20th of June at 12noon. LHQ Gallery is open Mon – Fri.

SOFTctrl is a new solo exhibition by emerging artist Billie Adele at Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork.

Running 11 June – 17 July 2026, developed through the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, awarded to Adele in 2025.

The exhibition is a series of oil paintings exploring the tension between constructed feminine experience and something more unstable and uncontrollable beneath it.

Hellbound presents work by Limerick-based visual artist Breda Lynch – this new body of work has been unseen in public until now. Irreverent and unsettling, the exhibition cuts to the heart of how images shape and distort our understanding of identity, sexuality, and belonging. Through appropriation, collage, and dark humour, Lynch collapses past and present, insisting that the problems of history haunt our allegedly liberal today.

Official opening Sat 13 July 6-8pm | All welcome

Hellbound runs at GOMA Waterford 13 June – 11 July 2026 | Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm

Sulphur is an exhibition of new work by visual artist Orla Whelan. Building on her longstanding interest in geology and colour, in 2025 Orla undertook research in collaboration with The Fold art and geology group, focusing on specimens of elemental sulphur from UCC’s rock collection. Initially drawn to the intense colour, Orla’s research interests deepened to include the invisible crystalline structure embedded within the rocks various outward formations, as well as its historical roles in alchemy, industry and astronomy.

Opening reception Thur 18 June 5.30-7.30pm.

Artist talk, as part of The Fold Symposium, Sat 04 July, 3pm

The CHGS Summer Open Exhibition is a key annual showcase for emerging and established artists from Ireland and beyond. Presenting a diverse range of practices in a professionally curated group show, the exhibition is selected each year by an independent guest judge, this year Sarah Fuller Wallis.

The Summer Open 2026 brings together over 80 artists and more than 100 artworks from across Ireland in a vibrant celebration of contemporary Irish art. Visitors can expect an inspiring mix of paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works that reflect the richness and diversity of creative voices across the country.

Running annually for more than 40 years, this exhibition showcases work by artists from across West Cork and beyond at all stages of their careers. Submission is open to the many artists who subscribe to our Membership and Friendship schemes. This gives our artist Members and Friends the opportunity to exhibit across both the James O’Driscoll Gallery on the ground floor, and upstairs in Gallery II.
Including over 100 artworks by professional, student and amateur artists, this exhibition really has something for every taste and budget.

Limerick City Gallery of Art is delighted to present ‘Quantum Listening’ by Trudi van der Elsen, a contemporary multi-media artist, originally from the Netherlands and now based in the West of Ireland.

‘Quantum Listening’ the title given to a body of work by Trudi van der Elsen that explores the relationship between the human body and the wider world, and the invisible frequencies that connect them. Working across painting, photography, video and performance, the artist weaves together forms of matter, agency, subjectivity and objectivity.

Exhibition continues from 30/06/26.

New Lens – Re-interpreting Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window 100 Years On

New Lens, curated by Joshua Dyson and Daniel Gillick of the Arísbeo Collective, brings together fifteen incredible commissions to celebrate the centenary since Harry Clarke started working on his (in)famous Geneva Window which was commissioned by the Irish Government in 1926 to represent the country at the International Labour Building in Geneva. However it was ultimately hidden away because it fell foul of censorship laws, and eventually sold to the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami where it now resides.

The exhibition showcases the legacy of the window and takes a new perspective on its place in the contemporary art world.

When We Are Trees is an immersive and deeply reflective exhibition that explores the intersections of death, ancestral trauma, healing, and the consequences of action or inaction on future generations. Bolle is a Limerick based self-taught, multi heritage, neurodivergent artist who as exhibited across Ireland in Ormston House, Outset Gallery and DLR Lexicon Gallery. Her work addresses identity politics, race and belonging.

The exhibition is open from July 2nd to August 5th and launches on July 4th at 2pm. All Welcome.

Billy Lingwood is a Cork-based visual artist and arts worker with a BA in Fine Art: Printmaking & Contemporary Practice from LSAD. Their work explores post-colonial legacies in the Irish psyche and the social, cultural and policy impacts these continue to have on resident lifeforms. Rooted in printmaking, their practice often extends into curation, co-creation and intervention-based work.

Their residency in Triskel Sample Project Space will bring together a professional artist and a group of non-professional collaborators to investigate alternative models of community-based art making.

Sample-Studios are delighted to present our 15th Anniversary Annual Members Summer Exhibition in Sample-Studios Gallery: The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion from 2 July – 23 August.

This exhibition will showcase the work of 45 local contemporary artists, demonstrating the rich diversity of art and artists proudly supported by Sample-Studios in our organisation’s 15th year.

Garter Lane Arts Centre presents ‘body electric’, an exhibition of new paintings by Irish artists Billie Adele and Cristín O’Loughlin, curated by Eamonn Maxwell.
‘body electric’ explores contemporary notions of the body, identity, and human connection in the digital era. The exhibition’s title references The Sisters of Mercy’s 1982 track Body Electric, a dark post-punk meditation on alienation, voyeurism, and technology’s intrusion into intimacy, while also echoing Walt Whitman’s poetic celebration of the human spirit and the embodied self.

For more information, click here.

‘The Blackened Circle’ is the result of a nine-month socially engaged project by Seamus Nolan in collaboration with members of the Clonmel Traveller community.

This collection joins a number of ongoing mapping projects within Traveller organisations across Ireland, projects that focus on the sharing of collective history and centre the question of Traveller culture and land practices.

Developed with participants through the Traveller Health Project, this project has been funded by Creative Ireland with the exhibition delivered as part of STAC’s ongoing partnership with Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present Shadows & Light by Inis Artists.

Shadows & Light, a new collection of work from the Clare based group, represents a fusion of traditional and modern art in a wide range of media and original styles.

Founded over 20 years ago, the Clare based visual arts group comprises fifteen talented local artists who meet together regularly to organise exhibitions and events throughout the west of Ireland and to highlight their members’ work.

Clare Arts office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney Gallery, Kilkee is delighted to present “The Wild Cure” an exhibition of artwork by Gene Clohessy.
Gene is from Limerick but has been living in Doonbeg for many years and has her own home studio called “Doonbeg Creative Arts Studio”.
Gene is a self-taught artist and her skills are broad and she works in a variety of fine art and craft mediums, including acrylic, oils, watercolours, needle felting, photography, jewellery making, paper mâché and more recently mosaics. She is continually renewing her practice and the forms that she uses to express her ideas.