Crawford Supported Studios and LHQ Gallery present ‘This is Ireland’, a showcase of the work of sixteen artists working in supported studio settings: Angela Burchill, Bríd Heffernan, David Connolly, Eoin O’Brion, Íde Ní Shúilleabháin, John Keating, Judit Bakos, Katie Whelan, Marie Sexton, Mary Rose Marshall, Nicola Moran, Rosaleen Moore, Stephen Murray, Tom O’Sullivan, Ailbhe Barrett, and Yvonne Condon. Open at LHQ Gallery March 6th to April 24th 2026.

MAKE 2026 features speakers who explore sound in art practice, bringing sculptors who reference or integrate sound or collaborate with musicians, or who orchestrate humble materials into soundscapes, or who embed sound digitally into material. Our lineup: Helen A Fielding of Ontario, phenomenologist. will discuss our response to sound in art practice; Martin Creed, eminent UK sculptor, musician, Turner Prize winner, who is bringing his guitar; EJ Tech of Budapest, augmenting sound into cloth; Vivienne Roche, sculptor referencing sound, and Andy Ingamells, musician, with a surprise performance! Also videos by Zimoun, Swiss sculptor.

WHISPER Exhibition accompanies MAKE 2026 Materiality and Sound Symposium. It features student artworks that combine material and sound, or explore the visual language of sound waves, or evoke whispering in a visual language. Year 3 and Year 4 Fine Art and Applied Art and Art Textile students of MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, along with MA students of Cork School of Music will exhibit. We will also welcome works of our Erasmus partners: students of Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, and Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Tartu, Estonia. Works feature sound in recording, QR code links, video.

MAKE 2026 features speakers who explore sound in art practice, bringing sculptors who reference or integrate sound or collaborate with musicians, or who orchestrate humble materials into soundscapes, or who embed sound digitally into material. Our lineup: Helen A Fielding of Ontario, phenomenologist. will discuss our response to sound in art practice; Martin Creed, eminent UK sculptor, musician, Turner Prize winner, who is bringing his guitar; EJ Tech of Budapest, augmenting sound into cloth; Vivienne Roche, sculptor referencing sound, and Andy Ingamells, musician, with a surprise performance! Also videos by Zimoun, Swiss sculptor.

Exhibition continues from 07/02/2026 to 07/03/2026.

“Deep into the psyche of the land – Mo Anam Cara” presents Mary Doyle Burke’s three‑year Bog & Wetlands Project, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland through an Agility Award. The exhibition brings together layered paintings, a sculptural installation created from organically dyed & painted fabrics, poetry and digital work. Working with organic bioplastic substrates, natural fibres & layered paint, she explores the land as anam cara -a soul‑companion holding memory and healing. Rooted in Irish bogs and wetlands, the work traces intergenerational memory, negative space and the cyclical rhythms connecting body, place and ecological experience.

“Sunlight on my lover’s elbow, sunlight in the kettle’s steam” brings together three artists from the same family: Grace Wallis, Sarah Fuller/Wallis and Ruby Wallis. Working across painting, drawing, print, installation and lens-based media, the exhibition explores place, time and embodied experience. Grace presents fictional landscapes shaped by memory and emotional transition; Sarah documents suspended moments of waiting and movement through sketchbooks; Ruby’s films and prints examine walking, night-time space and how environments shape feeling and behaviour.

‘Art in Motion’ Exhibition to Open at Baile Mhuire Day Centre.

Tralee Art Group is delighted to announce their latest collaborative exhibition, ‘Art in Motion’, which will be officially opened on Tuesday, June 17th at 2.30pm at Baile Mhuire Day Centre, Balloonagh, Tralee. The opening will be led by special guest Paddy Garvey, Chairperson of Baile Mhuire, and all are welcome to attend. Guests can enjoy an afternoon of art, music and refreshments in a warm and inclusive setting.

This special exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration between members of Tralee Art Group and the clients of Baile Mhuire Day Centre, showcasing the creative energy and expression of both groups. Featuring a variety of works in different media, styles and subjects, Art in Motion celebrates movement, creativity, and community spirit.

TAG is committed to enriching the cultural life of Tralee and surrounding areas. The group regularly holds exhibitions, workshops, and community projects, and has built strong relationships with local organisations—including an ongoing volunteering partnership with Baile Mhuire.

This exhibition reflects that partnership, with art created not only by TAG members but also by clients of the Day Centre who engage weekly in creative workshops facilitated by the group volunteers from Tralee Art Group. The result is a joyful and inspiring collection of artworks, each piece telling its own story of imagination, connection, and collaboration.

All are welcome to attend the opening and celebrate this uplifting display of artistic expression in our community. The exhibition will run for a year and be available to the public weekdays between 4pm and 5pm.

O’Connell’s sculptural work often evokes states of becoming and transformation, reflecting her long-standing fascination between the organic and geometric in the natural world. This way of working melds irregularity and flow to the precise and mathematical, emblematic of a human relationship to nature.

Her attentive process is of happenstance: a responsiveness to a materials behaviour and chance occurrences that are worked through and feel not imposed but discovered. Through careful observation of the everyday landscape in her Cork home, O’Connell’s practice instills curiosity and an unexpected sense of discovery and awareness.

Exhibition continues from 14/11/2025 to 30/04/2026.

Winter Sun is a moving-image work by Cork artist Elinor O’Donovan.

The work is a preserved piece of a warm Cork summer, saved for the months when it is most needed. Taking as its inspiration the iconic view from the top of Patrick’s Hill at Bells Field, the video work is a looping film depicting Corkonians sharing a moment of togetherness, connected by their mutual appreciation for a setting summer sun.

Projection-Mapping: Lightscape Studios
3D Artist: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah
Cinematography: Jack Desmond

Part of Island City – Cork’s Urban Sculpture Trail

Exhibition continues from 30/01/2026 to 05/04/2026.

This is the last iteration of the exhibition, Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics following its presentation at Sirius Arts Centre, Galway Arts Centre, and Highlanes Gallery.

Alice explores expressions of both personal and broader historical and cultural narratives informed by their lived experience as a person with Irish and Sierra Leonean heritage. They practice across sculpture, expanded painting, digital collage, film, and performance, and use clay, found and collected images and objects, reclaimed and repurposed furniture, and memorabilia and heirlooms.

“Sunlight on my lover’s elbow, sunlight in the kettle’s steam” brings together three artists from the same family: Grace Wallis, Sarah Fuller/Wallis and Ruby Wallis. Working across painting, drawing, print, installation and lens-based media, the exhibition explores place, time and embodied experience. Grace presents fictional landscapes shaped by memory and emotional transition; Sarah documents suspended moments of waiting and movement through sketchbooks; Ruby’s films and prints examine walking, night-time space and how environments shape feeling and behaviour.

This exhibition by STAC’s 2025 Artist in Residence, Zoe Velthuysen, explores how migration and place shape identity, drawing from the artist’s own experience of moving from Australia to Tipperary.

Motivated by the internal and often quiet ways in which place interacts with identity, Velthuysen’s work engages with how surroundings, systems, and social dynamics leave their mark on a person over time, asking: what happens when the contours of a new place meet the inner workings of a migrant?

STAC’s Tipperary Artist in Residence Award is supported by the Tipperary Arts Office and the Arts Council of Ireland.

Exhibition continues from 07/02/2026 to 04/04/2026.

This exhibition is a celebration of Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon’s Academy Award®-nominated modern animated classics which comprise the Folklore Trilogy.
The exhibition presents a selection of pivotal scenes from all three films, demonstrating the unique visual style and exquisitely handcrafted animation which has garnered the studio international acclaim and multiple awards.

Mid-Term Family screenings of all three films will take place from Monday 16 February, and illustration and activity packs, developed by The Ark and suitable for ages 8 – 12 years are available to download for use at home or in the Classroom.

This exhibition presents a selection of both historic and newly acquired abstract artworks from the permanent Waterford Art Collection. Alongside artworks can also be found archival information, newspaper cuttings, and descriptions from the artists themselves, as well as critique by a cross-section of individuals invited and interested in demystifying this still often divisive visual language.

Artworks on show by: Arthur Armstrong, Shelia Naughton, Colin Middleton, Aidan Dunne, Phoebe Donovan, Julie Cusack, Anne Yeats, Susan Connolly, Ciara Rodgers, Jonathan Wade, Susan Montgomery, Darragh Lyons, Evie Hone, John McHarg and more…

Exhibition continues from 14/02/2026 to 21/03/2026.

Opening on Saturday 14 February at 2.00pm.

An exhibition of new and recent work by four artists – Barbara Diener, Sophie Gough, Sarah Long and Áine Ryan, who share an interest in identity and other intersecting concerns – memory, time and representation. All four are based in Munster and are members of Sample Studios.

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which celebrates drawing through the mediums of etching and casting.
Opening Reception: 5pm Thursday 19 February 2026

In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material (cuttlefish/metal sheet). The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “Pride in Full Colour: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Lives in Clare” by QuareClare.
This exhibition is a gathering of voices and perspectives from members of the LGBTQIA+ community in Clare. Showcasing portraits of local community members, courtesy of Queer Clare, these photos capture their unique stories and identities.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Culturlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘Vibrant Captures” an exhibition by Clare Camera Club.
Clare Camera Club is a vibrant and energetic camera club based in Ennis and catering for County Clare and its soundings.

Their focus is on photography and camera loving people. Their membership consists of photo hobbyists and professional photographers, concentrating on Portraiture, Nature, Sport and Landscape.

Over half of their membership have a Licentiateship, Associateship and Fellowship from the Irish Photographic Federation.

Exhibition continues from 07/02/2026 to 07/03/2026.

“Deep into the psyche of the land – Mo Anam Cara” presents Mary Doyle Burke’s three‑year Bog & Wetlands Project, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland through an Agility Award. The exhibition brings together layered paintings, a sculptural installation created from organically dyed & painted fabrics, poetry and digital work. Working with organic bioplastic substrates, natural fibres & layered paint, she explores the land as anam cara -a soul‑companion holding memory and healing. Rooted in Irish bogs and wetlands, the work traces intergenerational memory, negative space and the cyclical rhythms connecting body, place and ecological experience.

Exhibition continues from 16/02/2026 to 21/03/2026.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “Kelp Meitheal – A Gathering of Seaweed and Shore People” an exhibition by a West Clare Coastal Community at Coosheen, Lat 52.716224 N / Long 9.616049 W.

This project is funded by Clare County Council’s Creative Ireland fund.

This exhibition’s ‘tideline’ reimagines the process and methods used to gather and harvest Seaweed feams/sea rods on the foreshore, the construction of a Kelp drying stand, a Kelp burning pit and the burning of the Kelp as it was done over one hundred years ago as a raw material towards the production of iodine.

Official Launch February 28th @ 2pm, opened by artist Cecilia Bullo.
‘Outlandish’ is a meditation on the role of nature in the built environment, how it is both marginalised and idealised in the way we design and shape our cities. In this exhibition, using unconventional canvas shapes, de Forge encourages the viewer to rediscover positive relationships with nature, built on curiosity, playfulness, and respect.
Owen de Forge is a Dublin-based artist working across multiple disciplines including painting, sculpture, drawing, and documentary photography.
Tues-Sat 11:00-17:30

Waterford Gallery of Art is delighted to present ‘as below, so above’, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Robert Jackson.

This exhibition brings together a selection of Jackson’s many and distinct series of works developed over the last 15 years including miniature portraiture and skyscapes (Tiny Skies), fragmented dream infused landscapes (Interruption Paintings), meticulous lace fabric studies (Secret and Solitary Vice), and an incredibly ambitious new large scale work developed specifically for the exhibition, ‘Your soul is a chosen landscape’.

Clare Arts Office are delighted to present Stay Forever More, an exhibition of photography by Polish born Irish based Artist, Patryk Gizicki, in Súil Gallery, Ennis. The exhibition runs from February 26th – April 1st and Súil welcome everyone to attend the launch on Saturday 28th of February at 2pm.
Gizicki’s work has been exhibited in galleries across Ireland including Outset Gallery, Galway, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin and Reds Gallery, Dublin. Gizicki has also exhibited internationally as part of the Ireland’s Eye exhibition in ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Cork Arts Society Student of the Year Award sponsored by Baker Tilly Accountants, Cork.
Opening reception Thursday 26 February, 2026, 5.30-7.30pm.
Artist in conversation with Dr. Sarah Kelleher, Saturday 14 March,12pm.

Beyond Eye Sea presents a new body of work by artist Danny Foley for his first solo show at Cork’s Lavit Gallery. This exhibition continues Foley’s exploration of the role of the shapeshifter as both a concept and creative strategy. Through this new work, Foley interprets concerns around marine biodiversity through a personal, mythic, and ecological lens.

Exhibition continues from 19/02/2026 to 30/04/2026.

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery.
In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material; cuttlefish and metal sheet. The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes. The work takes its inspiration from a mix of ideas, images and things that catch Reilly’s attention, from daily observations; an old yew tree, a disused church to the medieval cadaver stone slab of Thomas Ronan.

Exhibition continues from 28/02/2026 to 28/03/2026.

GOMA Waterford is delighted to present the soft animal of your body, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jen Wade.
Join us for the launch Sat 28 February, 6–8pm. The exhibition will be opened by artist Ciara Roche, with music on the night by Le Haine.

the soft animal of your body explores the interior landscape of pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood. Created in the immediacy of these experiences, the paintings respond to the physical and psychological shifts of matrescence: time untethered, memory fragmented, the self both expanded and newly fragile.

Kim Crowley is a curator based in Cork City. Her practice is concerned with expanded artist publishing as curatorial practice.
She will establish a curatorial research ‘office’ called the Office of Work (OOW) in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space. The OOW looks to research and interrogate ideas around art making and labour. It will mirror the aesthetics of a traditional office, a nod to the need for creatives to enter environments adjacent to their practice.
The residency will culminate in an exhibition of materials gathered and recorded.