“Cataclysm” is a multi-media event about the climate crisis and our relationship with the environment. This event is a collaboration between Canadian visual artist Eva McCauley, featuring images of her paintings that depict images of our ravaged oceans, shorelines and skies, and a live concert performed by acclaimed Irish musicians Maeve Donnelly (fiddle), Máire Ní Ghráda (pipes) and Seán Lyons (guitar, song & pipes), taking place in a church with wonderful acoustics in Kilkishen, Co. Clare.
Limited seating.

Please contact kilkishenconcert@gmail.com to reserve seats – €15

Exhibition of 14 Emerging Irish and European Artists

Opening Saturday 11.10.25 | 6–8pm

Featuring work by emerging artists who completed residencies in Lisbon and Crete in 2025; a project launched by Capacity Ireland, in association with Creative Europe, the Arts Council of Ireland, and the local authority arts services of Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, and Waterford.

Featuring: Roibí O Rua, Larry Dunne, Ally Nolan, Cúan Cusack, Despina Liopiari, James Wellwood, Mariana Lourenço, Niamh Twomey, Luke McAleenan, Luca Cosentino, Chloë O’Brien Bates, Caoilfhionn Hanton, Elyssa McDonagh, Elena Stavro.

“Cataclysm” is a multi-media event about the climate crisis and our relationship with the environment. This event is a collaboration between Canadian visual artist Eva McCauley, featuring images of her paintings that depict images of our ravaged oceans, shorelines and skies, and a live concert performed by acclaimed Irish musicians Maeve Donnelly (fiddle), Máire Ní Ghráda (pipes) and Seán Lyons (guitar, song & pipes), taking place in a church with wonderful acoustics in Kilkishen, Co. Clare.
Limited seating.

Please contact kilkishenconcert@gmail.com to reserve seats – €15

Rather than depicting nature, Borowa seeks to collaborate with it, exploring her relationship with the natural world. The process is central to her inquiry, seen as lessons in humility, openness, attentiveness, mindfulness, patience, determination, and forgiveness. Dorota works with water as an active collaborator in the creation of an image. Mixing it with oil paint, watercolour, or ink, she allows the materials to interact organically on paper or board. At times, she sets up physical conditions that allow water to shape the work – such as filling a pool, or building a raft and installing it along the shore. Different states of water – rain, ice, seawater, and recently glacier water – collected from various places form a unique vocabulary in her work.

Join us for the opening of ‘Sonorous Tones’ by Geometric Hardedged Colourist Painter Francis Tansey’. The Exhibition will be opened by Mr. John Cunningham, Board Member and Chair of Collections and Acquisitions for The Irish Museum of Modern Art.

“I believe colour is a universal language common to all people, I have dedicated my time over the past forty years to understanding it’s principals and properties.” Francis Tansey.

Francis Tansey was born in Dublin in 1959 and has been one of the most popular Irish artists over the last four decades. He studied at the National College of Art and Design in (1978-1983) specializing in abstract art and in 1985 he became the first Artist in Residence, at The Butler Gallery, Co. Kilkenny, where his brightly coloured geometric acrylic painting’s caused great interest.

Tansey’s unique distillation and interpretation of Colourism gained him immediate recognition worldwide and particularly in Ireland. He first rose to prominence with his inclusion in R.O.S.C. in 1988 as the youngest artist ever to have exhibited in this prestigious International Exhibition. Tansey employs a hard-edged geometric style, using acrylic paint in a glazing technique reminiscent of a renaissance master with many layers of glazes to create vibrant colour field paintings in a modern abstract geometric colour language, that is his own.

“Fite Fuaite – Connections with Land, Nature and One Another” is an art exhibition by members of the West Clare Artist Collective.

The West Clare Artist Collective was established in 2023 by Ceri Garfield, Aine Rynne, Claire Frawley and Caroline Lernihan to build creative connections through discussions and sharing of information, techniques and ideas. They now come together to bring you their dynamic exhibition Fite Fuaite.

Fite Fuaite, meaning interlaced or intertwined, aims to showcase their individual expressions of the land and their connections to it through varying mediums.

In 2025 Lismore Castle Arts will celebrate 20 years by presenting an exhibition dedicated to the theme of Kunstkammer, curated by art historian & writer, Robert O’Byrne.

Kunstkammer is a form of museum in which strange or rare objects are exhibited together, also known as a Cabinet of Curiosities. Once widespread throughout Europe, these private museums were renowned for featuring a broad range of objects, including Arteficialia (products of man) and Naturalia (products of nature) together with scientific instruments, clocks and automaton.

Priceless works of art were shown alongside strange curiosities, antiquities next to the latest inventions. They were united in their diversity, and their beauty. Kunstkammer at Lismore Castle is both a re-creation and a reinvention of the genre. Through a series of rooms, each one different in size and form, historical objects from private and public collections will share space with works by leading Irish and international contemporary artists.

The exhibition creates new encounters with the familiar and uncanny, inviting timely conversations about display, collections, and contemporary practice as the artefact of the future. Drawing on themes of display the work invites audiences to engage with contemporary art in an accessible way, referring to one of the original ambitions of the Cabinet of Curiosity to foster learning through encounter.

Robert O’Byrne is one of Ireland’s best known writers and lecturers specializing in the fine and decorative arts. A former Vice-President of the Irish Georgian Society, he is the author of more than a dozen books, a former columnist for Apollo magazine, and a contributor to both The Burlington Magazine and the Irish Arts Review. Robert has curated many exhibitions, including Ireland’s Fashion Radicals for The Little Museum in Dublin, and In Harmony with Nature: The Irish Country House Garden for the Irish Georgian Society, both of which drew record attendances. For the past twelve years, he has written an award-winning blog The Irish Aesthete.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive programme of events, talks, screenings, and a far-reaching learning programme. A catalogue will be published in Summer 2025 to accompany the exhibition.

‘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.

The Great Book of Ireland is an extraordinary vellum manuscript which contains the original work of 120 artists, 140 poets and nine composers.

All of the contributors were asked one thing – please convey your hopes, joys, fears, loves in being an Irish person at the turn of the second millennium. Described by former president, Mary Robinson, as “the Book of Kells of the second millennium”, artists and writers who contributed include Samuel Beckett, Eavan Boland, Cecily Brennan, Louis le Brocquy, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Barrie Cooke, Dorothy Cross, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Seamus Heaney, Eithne Jordan, Michael Longley, John Montague, Tony O’Malley, Kathy Prendergast, and Patrick Scott.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view the original manuscript as well as to use a digital touchscreen to turn the pages and explore the exceptional range of artistic practices brought together in this unique cultural artefact.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view the original manuscript as well as to use a digital touchscreen to turn the pages and explore the exceptional range of artistic practices brought together in this unique cultural artefact.

The Great Book of Ireland is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork, and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.

Sara Flynn, Sueharu Fukami, Shihoko Fukumoto, Joe Hogan, Eiko Kishi, Frances Lambe, Deirdre McLoughlin, O’Donnell + Tuomey, Satoru Ozaki, Sean Scully, Joseph Walsh, Kan Yasuda, Osamu Yokoyama.

Curated by Wahei Aoyama and Joseph Walsh.

RINN explores the culture of making and its relationship to place and time through the work of Irish and Japanese artists and architects. While each piece is a personal expression of form, their works are united by an immersion in the culture of making. Whether drawing on craft heritage – the materials and skills associated with place – or challenging new techniques and pursing new materials, they all share an intimate relationship with the handmade.

Rinn in Gaelic means place or a point – and in Japanese, the same word means circle, ring or circularity. Joseph Walsh has observed that the meaning in both languages strongly represents ideas inherent in his practice, of place and this moment in time, within a continuous cycle of time.

Presented by Making In by Joseph Walsh Studio as part of the Ireland Japan 2025 programme in partnership with the Government of Ireland, the exhibition premiered in April at both Ireland House and A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo.

The Glucksman is proud to host the show on its return to Ireland.

RINN is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork, Government of Ireland, Ireland Japan 2025, A Lighthouse Called Kanata, and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.

Ormston House in collaboration with EVA International presents Bíodh Orm Anocht. The exhibition will run from 29 August to 26 October.

Bíodh Orm Anocht, roughly translating to ‘be with me tonight’, is a group exhibition featuring new and existing artworks by four artists – Seán Hannan, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, and Kiera O’Toole – presented at Ormston House and off-site locations. While the contributors work across media and processes, they are unified by a preoccupation with customs and practices that can broadly be described as folk knowledge. These methods and intuitive systems challenge technorational systems of thought.

These four artists convey knowledge that transcends language and which is all the more potent because it remains unwritten and unspoken. Each artist is concerned with the metaphorical qualities of materials. They draw from disciplines outside the visual arts (including mythology, zoology, and cartography), infusing them with personal meaning. Inherent in these works is the possibility that atavistic wisdom may be sourced from the natural world.

Seán Hannan‘s work explores how forgotten voices and rituals can echo into the future, both through unstable technologies and systems of collaboration. Using archival fragments from autobiographical memories referring to Irish traditions, Hannan’s artworks reflect obsolescence and poetic instability. Received at the Graveyard is a sonic installation revolving around an evolving voice AI (artificial intelligence). At its core lies a handful of field recordings made in Ireland in the 1950s that captured the final traces of a near-extinct tradition, keening (caoineadh). Another work featured in this exhibition is LUCK (2022), a sculpture in the form of a piseóg (pish-ohg): folk witchcraft. Mainly a phenomenon of rural Ireland, piseógs were cast as an act of malice, often using a chicken egg onto which a curse had been placed.

In contrast, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín employs materials which have traditionally been connected with healing and nourishment. Sifting stories and traces associated with site, memory, and the casting of spells, Ní Fhlaibhín creates complex but delicate sculptural scenarios. She frequently introduces living beings into white cube environments that are typically purposed for the display of inanimate objects. While previous artworks have involved earthworms, leopard slugs, and willow trees, the family of sculptural assemblages presented here are made from chunks of mineral salt and ash wood. The creation of these sculptures has involved the co-authorship of horses, who have licked the salt crystals into biomorphic forms. The ash tree is sacred in Irish mythology and is seen as possessing talismanic power.

The equine kingdom is also referred to in the cosmological work of Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh. His Speculative massage tools for a family of Donkeys (2022) incorporates massage tools for these domesticated creatures. Other works by Ó Dochartaigh presented at Ormston House include a rendering in glazed ceramics of the artist’s late father’s stomach. A stacked edition of printed drawings link the ecological decline of fish species with medical modifications of the human body, Irish history, and the legacies of British colonialism.

Preparation for this project has entailed site visits and open-ended fieldwork across graveyards, the River Shannon, fish shops, and city streets. This is best exemplified in the work of Kiera O’Toole, whose practice involves derivés of everyday public spaces, in this case Limerick city centre. Through drawing in-situ, O’Toole records the subtle energies of these locations (which she describes as spatialised emotions) and translates her pre-reflective, sensory encounters into topographical maps and charts that she describes as ‘affective cartographies’.

The exhibition takes its name from a traditional Irish song first transcribed by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1936. The song is essentially a piece of mouth music or lilting in which melody and rhythm take precedence over lyrical content. Before being preserved via the written word, ‘Bíodh Orm Anocht’ was conveyed orally down through generations and was therefore altered over time. In the few recordings that are available (such as Mick Hanly and Micheál O Domhnaill’s 1974 album Celtic Folkweave), the singer’s words hover between possibilities of lyrical meaning, pitch, and rhythm. In this way, the song is a vehicle for forms of expression that transcend time and language and which are an outcome of communal rather than individual authorship.

This exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events:

-On Saturday, 30 August from 12–1pm, Seán Hannan will join us for an artist talk and a wireless broadcast of Received at the Graveyeard. Meet at Ormston House, followed by a five-minute walk to St. Michael’s Graveyard. This event will have limited accessibility due to steps and uneven ground.
-On Friday, 19 September, we will be joined from 5–6pm by Historian-in-Residence Sharon Slater for a talk and walk about the history of St. Michael’s Graveyard. This talk will have limited accessibility due to steps and uneven ground. The exhibition will also remain open until 9pm as part of Culture Night 2025.
-On Friday, 26 September, 6–8pm, we will be joined for an artist talk with Laura NíFhlaibhín and tactile workshop with equine therapist Muriel Foxton. Free tickets can be booked here.
-On Saturday, 27 September from 2–4pm, artist Kiera O’Toole will lead a participatory drawing workshop. Through gestural drawing exercises, participants will map the energies and atmospheres of Limerick city. Meet at Ormston House, followed by a walk to city centre sites. Materials will be provided. Capacity is limited, so book here to avoid disappointment.

Artist biographies:

Seán Hannan lives and works in Amsterdam and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam in 2009. His work has been shown in numerous art venues such as the RU exhibition space, New York; Upstream gallery, Amsterdam; and Hotel Maria Kapel in Hoorn. Hannan participated in Unfair16. He has also received numerous project grants from the Amsterdam fund for the arts (AFK).

Laura Ní Fhlaibhín is an artist from Wexford. She completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019 with Distinction and her BA at National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2013. She is the recipient of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin Staff Prize Bursary; the Goldsmiths Graduate Almacantar Bursary 2019; the Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Award 2020; the Arts Council England Developing Creative Practice Award 2021; and Arts Council of Ireland Bursaries.

Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh is an artist, researcher, and Gaeilgeoir from Derry, living and working with chronic illness. His mixed-media practice explores complexities inherent within the embodiment of personal loss with the legacy of political violence and lived experience. He is interested in combining industrial manufacturing processes with the materialities of artisanal craft objects to create a specific language of sculptural works.

Kiera O’Toole is a research-based visual artist and lecturer at ATU Sligo. Her practice explores drawing as a method of registering the spatialised emotions of place, blending phenomenology and atmospheric theory. O’Toole exhibits internationally and publishes widely on contemporary drawing. She is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland and the Drawing Research Network (UK), and she is a co-founder of Drawing deCentered. She currently lives and works in Sligo, Ireland.

The exhibition is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick Arts Office. The events programme is funded by Creative Ireland and Limerick City and County Council through Limerick Creative Communities Small Grants Scheme 2025. Seán Hannan’s participation in this exhibition is partly made possible by the Mondriaan Fund, the public fund for visual art and cultural heritage in the Netherlands.

Page Turners is an exhibition of artists’ books which launches in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral at 5:30pm on Thursday, September 4th.
This autumn exhibition in the cathedral ambulatory invites visitors to linger and spend time exploring selected artists’ books from across Ireland, the UK and France.
Selected national and international book artists include Ambeck Design, Coracle Press, Helen Douglas, Paul Gaffney, Helena Grimes, ottoGraphic Books, Road Books, and Tom Sowden. Editions will be for sale through the cathedral shop.

Page-turners is co-curated with MTU Crawford College of Art & Design and is an important moment at the cathedral as we pioneer a rolling arts programme.

There will also be a panel discussion at the cathedral at 12:30pm on Thursday, September 18th.
The exhibition runs until October 31st, 2025

There no charge to see this exhibition: email arts@stfinbarres.ie to receive your ticket.

‘first-person’ a solo exhibition by Isabel English opens at LHQ Gallery, 5th of September 6pm.

Isabel English, from Ballyhea in County Cork, is a visual artist and educator based in Dublin. Isabel’s work utilises the mediums of photography, textile and sculpture, to extend from the literary genre of autofiction, which combines autobiographical truths with fictionalised renderings, to create contextually sensitive installations.
In ‘first-person’, Isabel uses images of bodily anatomy, taken from A Manual of Artistic Anatomy by John C.L. Sparkes (London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1888) as a source for the work. These images have been spliced and rendered beyond recognition and presented to the viewer as enlarged scans on assorted sheets of acetate. These actions are reflected in a number of wall based sculptural pieces made from disposable patterned aluminium plating, replicating the composition of honeycomb cardboard, generally used as protective packaging in the shipment and transportation of goods. These processes of repetition, which underline much of English’s practice, refers to the psychological concept of Repetition Compulsion, as underlined by Freud in his essay ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ first published in German in 1920, as an unconscious tendency to repeat patterns of behaviour.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication produced by Isabel in which Cork based arts writer Sarah Long, and poet Julie Morrisey have written about Isabel’s work.
Isabel was awarded the inaugural Emerging Visual Artist Award from Cork County Council in 2024. Isabel was awarded the inaugural Emerging Visual Artist Award from Cork County Council in 2024. This award provides a bursary and the opportunity to have a solo exhibition at LHQ Gallery.

The exhibition runs from Friday 5th of September to Friday 24th of October.
Opening Hours: LHQ Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm, and closes on bank holidays.
Location: LHQ Gallery is in the County Library building on Carrigrohane Road, Cork, T12K335.

Grief’s Current Shape – a new thread based exhibition by Ciara O’Connor
“If I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it’s inescapable.”
-Edna O’Brien

Grief has seeped into my bones and I suspect it will never leave. But it is so much more than sorrow and despair. It is an ever changing expression of love. We loved them and they loved us. For me, sometimes that love is a rush of warmth when I look down at my hands and see hers.

Sometimes it’s a stab of regret for the hurtful thing I said to him. Sometimes it’s a crumble to the floor when I am overcome by the loss and cruelty of it all. But sometimes now, as the waves of sadness move further and further apart, it is bountiful gratitude for everything it has taught me.

Grief’s Current Shape is an exploration of the various stages of grief, and a personal attempt to lean into it all.

About Ciara
Ciara O’Connor is a Kerry based visual artist who works primarily with textiles and free motion embroidery. Her work is figurative and deals with themes of identity, feminism, trauma and recovery. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of traditional techniques to tell contemporary stories.

Since returning to her practice in 2019 she has been selected for 15 group shows, including Following Threads in Crawford Art Gallery, and RUA and RSA Annuals. She had her first solo show in Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2022, and has featured in FAIRE, Image Magazine, The Irish Examiner, The Kerryman, and VAN Jan/Feb 2024. Her second solo show opens from Sept 6 in Garter Lane Arts Centre.

New Life, Old Buildings is IAF’s national programme about the future of buildings that are already built.

11 Sept, 12:30-8pm, Wickham Way, Limerick
– Walking tour | Never Look Back
– Open table discussion | Places for Arts and Culture
– Site visits
– Panel | From Rubble to Regret: The Consequences of Demolition

18 Sept, 12:30-8pm, Wickham Way, Limerick
– Walking tour
– Open table discussion | Places for Social Inclusion and Community Development
– Site visits
– Panel | Storeys Retold: Heritage for the Future

23 Oct, 1pm
– Webinar | Look at the City

24 Oct, 1pm
– Webinar | Creating Space

Join us for the opening of ‘Sonorous Tones’ by Geometric Hardedged Colourist Painter Francis Tansey’. The Exhibition will be opened by Mr. John Cunningham, Board Member and Chair of Collections and Acquisitions for The Irish Museum of Modern Art.

“I believe colour is a universal language common to all people, I have dedicated my time over the past forty years to understanding it’s principals and properties.” Francis Tansey.

Francis Tansey was born in Dublin in 1959 and has been one of the most popular Irish artists over the last four decades. He studied at the National College of Art and Design in (1978-1983) specializing in abstract art and in 1985 he became the first Artist in Residence, at The Butler Gallery, Co. Kilkenny, where his brightly coloured geometric acrylic painting’s caused great interest.

Tansey’s unique distillation and interpretation of Colourism gained him immediate recognition worldwide and particularly in Ireland. He first rose to prominence with his inclusion in R.O.S.C. in 1988 as the youngest artist ever to have exhibited in this prestigious International Exhibition. Tansey employs a hard-edged geometric style, using acrylic paint in a glazing technique reminiscent of a renaissance master with many layers of glazes to create vibrant colour field paintings in a modern abstract geometric colour language, that is his own.

Rather than depicting nature, Borowa seeks to collaborate with it, exploring her relationship with the natural world. The process is central to her inquiry, seen as lessons in humility, openness, attentiveness, mindfulness, patience, determination, and forgiveness. Dorota works with water as an active collaborator in the creation of an image. Mixing it with oil paint, watercolour, or ink, she allows the materials to interact organically on paper or board. At times, she sets up physical conditions that allow water to shape the work – such as filling a pool, or building a raft and installing it along the shore. Different states of water – rain, ice, seawater, and recently glacier water – collected from various places form a unique vocabulary in her work.

Liminal Landscapes is a two-person exhibition featuring painter Gabhann Dunne and sculptor/writer Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe. Exploring transitions from ecological change to the boundaries of sculpture and writing, Dunne’s paintings respond to the Burren’s ecological narratives and the resilience of the Burren Pines. Hynan-Ratcliffe’s sculptural and written works engage with materiality, feminist perspectives, and cycles of grief and renewal. Together, their practices create a dialogue across nature, identity, and time, inviting reflection on our impact and connection to the earth

Let’s Not Talk About This Now is a solo exhibition of drawings, sculptures, and prints by Peter Nash at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which opens on Culture Night. 

Taking the form of an exploded encyclopedia, or chaotic museum exhibit, his visual explorations are open-ended and inherently human; a continuous search for understanding in a rapidly evolving digital age.

Whilst the exhibition aesthetic is influenced by museums and reference books, there are no claims to authority being made. There are deliberately more questions posed than answers presented.

Artist Talk 8 October 1pm

“Fite Fuaite – Connections with Land, Nature and One Another” is an art exhibition by members of the West Clare Artist Collective.

The West Clare Artist Collective was established in 2023 by Ceri Garfield, Aine Rynne, Claire Frawley and Caroline Lernihan to build creative connections through discussions and sharing of information, techniques and ideas. They now come together to bring you their dynamic exhibition Fite Fuaite.

Fite Fuaite, meaning interlaced or intertwined, aims to showcase their individual expressions of the land and their connections to it through varying mediums.

Night Study presents a unique collection of artefacts collected from over a decade of artistic exploration and experimentation by artist and educator Glenn Loughran. The works on display serve as traces of events of enquiry, a diverse constellation of things that have mediated practices, from artistic research to critical pedagogy to social engagement.

The opening event will be a Gallery Conversation between the artist Glenn Loughran and historian and philosopher of art, Prof. Thierry de Duve on Saturday 27 October at 3.00pm.

Up There, for Space Week, and from 27th September – 25th October 2025, at MTU Blackrock Castle Observatory, Marie Bryan explores elements of scale and dimension, undescribed and unfathomable, using her vivid imagination. She seeks new ground. Her aspiration to adventure and to the magical lead her to paint a ‘parallel’ with astrophysics, and she now finds herself artistically inspired, Up There, investigating dark matter. High-octane colour is how she sees it.
Opening Reception 7pm Monday 29th September. Artist Talk 6pm Saturday 11th October.
Marie Bryan is a student of Fine Art at MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. Her collection of portraits of residents of Cork Simon Community, “Pleased to meet you”, was exhibited at Cork Airport in November 2023, and in eight Cork City Libraries from June 2024 to March 2025. Her solo exhibition “Shadow Side and the Artist’s Escape” was hosted at MTU Cork School of Music, January – February 2025. She was contracted by the Irish Defence Forces to paint for the Irish Navy, June – August 2025.

Exhibition continues 27 September – 22 November 2025.

“So Nice Day” by the Carrowbeg Artist Collective invites viewers into an immersive dialogue between art, ecology, and lived experience. Created by seven artists with intellectual disabilities, the exhibition weaves natural materials with personal narratives, exploring sensory awareness, sustainability, and our bond with nature. By amplifying diverse voices, CHG&S highlights the transformative power of art, fostering inclusion and deepening cultural conversations around ecology and accessibility.

Launch: Wednesday October 1st, 6:30pm

This exhibition explores the connection between voice, self and community. Through the medium of photography, the collective demonstrates the importance that creativity has in conveying current cultural values, legacy for future generations, identity and wellbeing, and the importance of holding space. This exhibition is a participatory experience, and we invite all attendees to bring smartphones and headphones to unlock audio reflections and soundscapes that accompany the photographs.

Exploring West Cork’s hidden coves by kayak, Bernadette gathers clays and sea-altered debris, which she later transforms through ceramic processes into vessels she calls a claytography of the coastline—tactile notations of time, place, and transformation.
Alongside kiln-cast glass pieces that embody her emotional and physical responses to ocean waters, the ceramics hold the energy, texture, and temporality of the sites they emerge from. Each work speaks to geological time, the impermanence of coastlines, and the fragile balance between humanity and environment.

Exhibition continues from the 2nd of October to the 25th of October 2025

Saturday 04 October: Artist talk 4pm, Opening reception 5.30-7.30pm. Wine by Bubble Brothers.

Lavit Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by artists Ciara Roche and Daniel Coleman, curated by Brian Mac Domhnaill. There are no people depicted in Ciara Roche’s paintings and yet they all about people and their nature. Daniel Coleman explores the impermanence of life and the significance of the everyday. His work is steeped in symbolism and meaning, in relation to his rural Irish upbringing.

In Archiving Hope, Fiona presents artwork that looks at the erupting biodiversity in an abandoned post-industrial West Cork gravel pit. The work is a deep mapping investigation into this raw ecological environment. Exposed by extraction, this disused 40-acre West Cork gravel pit is part man-made lake and part biological desert. Since its closure and in the absence of man, nature has taken charge. Printed and projected imagery documents the magical transformation within this accidental nature reserve.