The Rain Tells Us Everything

Catherine McDonald, Katie Nolan and Niamh Schmidtke (Gallery 2 + Foyer Gallery)

Curated by Clara McSweeney, The Rain Tells Us Everything investigates the encroaching transformations shaping contemporary landscapes under the pressures of the climate crisis. Through trespassing, tracking, and collective singing, the participating artists examine these shifts across sound, film, fabric, and drawing, each bringing a distinct material and conceptual approach to environmental change.

Image Credit: Catherine McDonald

Exhibition continues from 30/05/26.

Paul’s work consists of large-scale charcoal and soft pastel drawings that focus on the local rural landscape. He approaches these subjects as individual presences, creating oversized images that generate an almost 3D effect. the drawings are highly physical and expressive.
Farm animals, along with the ever-eroding trees and ditches- familiar yet often overlooked, intimate yet utilitarian- occupy a complex position within Irish culture. Charcoal is central to the process. It’s immediacy and fragility mirror the subjects’ vulnerability.

Exhibition continues from 30/05/26.

Paul’s work consists of large-scale charcoal and soft pastel drawings that focus on the local rural landscape. He approaches these subjects as individual presences, creating oversized images that generate an almost 3D effect. the drawings are highly physical and expressive.
Farm animals, along with the ever-eroding trees and ditches- familiar yet often overlooked, intimate yet utilitarian- occupy a complex position within Irish culture. Charcoal is central to the process. It’s immediacy and fragility mirror the subjects’ vulnerability.

Exhibition continues until Friday, 10th July 2026.

A solo exhibition by Paul Galligan, designed by Mark St. John Ellis.

Paul’s work consists of large-scale charcoal and soft pastel drawings that focus on the local Irish rural landscape.

He approaches these subjects as individual presences, creating oversized images that generate an almost three-dimensional effect. The drawings are highly physical and expressive. He walks the surrounding roads and farms, photographing in monochrome, from which the artworks are developed.

Farm animals, along with the ever-eroding trees and ditches – familiar yet often overlooked, intimate yet utilitarian – occupy a complex position within Irish culture. By isolating and enlarging these subjects, the artist seeks to grant them a sense of directness and authority, encouraging viewers to acknowledge their presence. Charcoal is central to the process. Its immediacy and fragility mirror the subjects’ vulnerability.

Rather than presenting an idealised rural image, the work acknowledges the quiet realities of coexistence between humans, animals, and land. In a time of environmental uncertainty and shifting relationships with agriculture, these drawings invite a pause – a moment to look closely at lives that are deeply interwoven with our own.

Open 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday.
12pm to 4pm Saturday or by appointment.

Mary O’Malley is an Irish-American artist raised outside New York City.
Setting is an exhibition of new work that brings together ceramic sculpture, gold, flora, and pollinators to explore relationships between place, material, and time.

Made from Lizella clay native to Middle Georgia, the work creates a dialogue between landscapes shaped by empire, extraction, and division. Traces of gold evoke both the sacred and the extractive, linking divinity, wealth, colonial histories, and ecological renewal. Set against geological and celestial time, Setting reflects on the fragility of human systems and the impermanence of borders and identities.

Exhibition continues from 01/07/26.

‘Still Life’ is a group exhibition to coincide with ‘Setting’, by Mary O”Malley, artists are invited to interpret this theme in their unique styles, through any medium.

Traditionally, a still life is a composition of objects arranged in quiet suspension: fruit in
a bowl, flowers in a vase, things gathered and made momentarily permanent. Still Life
expands this definition, treating the term not only as a genre but as a question. What is
“still”? What counts as “life”?

Irish American Ceramic artist Mary O’Malley presents ‘Setting’ at Artlink, Fort Dunree.