What’s On around Ireland

Flowers & Sound is an exhibition which brings together, for the first time, Katherine Boucher Beug’s large-scale works, revealing the fascinating weave between abstraction and representation. Her deep study of colour and drawing underpins this fluid movement between genres. Smaller works on paper, including written pieces, offer insight into her process.

Opening reception Wednesday 27th May. 6pm. Exhibition Thurs 28th – Sun 31st May, 11am – 6pm. Monday 1st June 11am – 5pm. An exhibition of Carlow based visual artists presented as part of the 2026 Carlow Arts Festival at Saint Patrick’s College. The theme of the exhibition is HOPE. Presented by artist Rennie Buenting and curated by Tony Strickland. This project is supported by Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow Arts Office and by Creative Ireland Carlow.

Join us in our Gallery for an Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Andy Parsons and Bairbre-Ann Harkin.
Bairbre-Ann is Curator of IMMA Horizons at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with responsibility for IMMA’s Health Partnerships. She previously led IMMA’s Art & Ageing initiatives, championing inclusive and dementia-aware engagement and fostering key partnerships with IMMA collaborators such as Age&Opportunity, Global Brain Health Institute, Mercers Inst. for Successful Ageing (St James Hospital) among others.

For more information and to book, click here.

Informal gathering on ecology, art and what’s in between.
The evening unfolds through relaxed, open, communal, non-hierarchical discussion, where participants can share ideas, reflections, opinions and experiences.
Check the link for the warm-up topic.

Entanglement and Mint Tea offers space and time, and some mint tea if you bring a cup.

For more information and to book, click here.

A trembling hold, a solo exhibition by visual artist Neva Elliott, opens at Custom House Studios + Gallery on Thursday, 28 May at 6 pm.
The exhibition explores themes of death, grief, and absence, examining how experiences of loss are carried and negotiated over time. Elliott’s practice responds to the transient and often unstable nature of existence — the finiteness of life, and the unpredictability of the world.
Neva Elliott is an artist and writer based in Dublin and holds an MA from Central Saint Martins.
Image: Neva Elliott, From your body II, 2023, Archival print.

The official launch of the Mayo College of Further Education Level 6 end of year exhibition will be officially launched in our upstairs Gallery. The students will present an enriching exhibition of various media created for their final end of year exhibition. The exhibition will feature the work of Klym Bohatyrov, Ella Conway, Laura Coughlin, Luca Doran, Liudmila Haidukova, Áine McFadden, Lily McGinley, Thomas Murphy, Sinead Murray, Francesca Scott, Orla Sloyan, Jurate Tighe, Louise Wilde and Amelia Wrobel. It will be officially launched on Thursday, 28 May at 6pm. Image: Klym Bohatyrov, Tractor, 70x50cm, Oil on Canvas.

Talking Threads is a contemporary textile exhibition by mature students of the MTU CCAD Art Textile programme, bringing together works that explore personal, political, and social themes through stitch, material practice, and constructed form. The exhibition reflects the dedication, creative ambition, and diverse perspectives of the exhibiting artists.

Éireann and I is a community archive and memory work platform dedicated to chronicling stories of Black life in Ireland. Initiated and led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba, the project creates spaces for migrants to engage
with archives and explore practices of memory work through participatory workshops, publications, and installations. This special commission for Bealtaine explores older migrants’ relationships with Dublin city with newly produced images made during a sound walking workshop, together with images from participants’ personal archives.

This photo series brings together images from participants’ personal archives with newly

SO Fine Art Editions are pleased to present Cut Flowers by Oisín Byrne, an Irish artist, writer and filmmaker based in London. This new series of screenprints continues his exploration of scale, bold colour, floral form, gesture and the passing of time, and will also open at Connolly, London, on 1 May 2026.

This event is part of the new citywide initiative ‘Dublin by Dusk’ and is kindly supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Drop in to GOMA Waterford for a fascinating audio-descriptive tour of ‘where oxlips and the nodding violet grows’, a solo exhibition by Joseph Heffernan, led by the show’s curator Aideen Quirke.

Taking place as part of the 2026 Bealtaine Festival, the tour offers rich verbal descriptions of the works, making art accessible to visitors who are blind or have low vision, while exploring the artistic and thematic significance of Heffernan’s symbol-rich practice.

All welcome | Free admission | No booking necessary

Everyone is welcome in Our Place. Experience an immersive sound and light exhibition that playfully explores themes of human rights, happiness and belonging.

Our Place is a socially engaged art project that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities. This project places the ideas, talents and lived experience of people with an intellectual disability at the centre of artmaking and exhibition design.

Led by AlanJames Burns and Sinead McCann, and co-designers Patrick Fitzgerald and Tony Davis, in collaboration with people supported by Delta Centre, Our Place have developed a new installation for VISUAL Carlow

Cecilia Danell
The Upside Down World

Opening Reception Thursday 28 May at 5:30pm

28 May – 27 June 2026
Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin

“Last year, during a forest walk in her homeland of Sweden, Danell encountered a lake from her childhood. It was uncharacteristically still. Mesmerised by its reflection and an uncanny sense of doubling, it became the seed and the title painting of the show. These large-scale works ask us to look anew at what’s familiar, at what we think we know about everything we encounter.”

Extract from an accompanying text written by Sinéad Gleeson

Open
Tuesday to Saturday 11am -5pm

Join Bealtaine Festival at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for a conversation between visual artists Laura Fitzgerald, Geraldine O’Neill, filmmaker Pat Murphy; chaired by the writer and visual artist Sara Baume, as they discuss a lifetime of making art and navigating life as an artist across countries, cities and country-sides.

TØN is delighted to announce the opening of ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Jared C. Deery. Opens May 28 runs until June 14.

The title Always and Everywhere speaks to an omnipresent state of consciousness—a psychological framework where memory, nature, and formal abstraction intersect.

By building up textured, luminous layers and fluid forms, Deery’s work channels the experimental spirit of French symbolist poetry, demanding what Arthur Rimbaud called a systematic “derangement of the senses” to access alternative means of perception and hidden truths beneath the surface.

For the first Dublin by Dusk event IMMA is excited to present the screening of the multi award winning documentary North Circular: A Musical Trip Through Inner-City Dublin directed by Luke McManus. The screening will be preceded by a live overture performed by acclaimed cellist Kevin Murphy (Slow Moving Clouds, Rattling Ark) featuring themes from his soundtrack for the film. North Circular will be screened on Living Canvas at IMMA, Europe’s largest digital outdoor art screen presented at IMMA by IPUT Real Estate.

Admission free, booking required.

For more information and to book, click here.

Gallery 545 presents a new group exhibition at La Roche House, Belfast, bringing together original artworks by accomplished artists based in Northern Ireland within this striking modernist venue. The exhibition features a wide and exciting art selection, including atmospheric landscapes, nature-inspired paintings, vibrant abstracts and intriguing works on paper, alongside unique sculptures and exquisite textile and glass pieces. Together, the works reflect the richness and diversity of artistic talent in the region.

Oughterard Courthouse is delighted to host an upcoming exhibition entitled “Tropic Signal in Grey light”. Haitian – American Hansel Vieuxpatinaeh and Brazilian Arthur Rosa will launch their joint exhibition on Friday 29th May at 7pm , the exhibition will run from Saturday 30th to May to bank holiday Monday 1st June.

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.

The Tea Houses is delighted to present ‘At The Waterline’ by artist and ecologist Tasneem Khan, a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring the artist’s lived experience of islandness, using it as a lens for thinking about change, adaptation and our relationship to place. The exhibition emerges from an ongoing body of artistic research exploring how islands can be understood not only as geographical locations or terrain, but as spaces through which to consider ecological systems and human experience in a time of environmental instability. Opening Friday May 29th at 5pm, we hope to see you there!

Curated by Katherine Waugh
29th May, 6 – 8.30pm

Screening followed by a discussion with the artists and the curator.

Pallas Projects presents a screening programme bringing together works by seminal UK artists David Burrows and Maggie Roberts. Curated by Katherine Waugh, the programme explores practices operating within the field of “fictioning” – where speculative narrative, philosophy and moving image intersect to reframe questions of intelligence, subjectivity and non-human agency.

Developed in response to Mark Cullen’s Prototypes for Cyborgs – A Space Opera (Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, 2025), the programme includes selection

This the first edition of ‘STAC Talks’ is part of the public programme around STAC’s ‘STAC at 30’ exhibition, looking at the question ‘What is an Arts Centre anyway?’ and ‘Making art in a regional context’. The title is a provocation of sorts and a loose umbrella under which to discuss the variety of ways artistic practice is supported, produced, and disseminated in rural/de-centred locations.

11am – ‘What is an Arts Centre anyway?’
2pm – ‘Making art in a regional context – an artist’s perspective’

Both talks are free, but booking is essential (available via our website).
One ticket includes admission to both talks.

For more information and to book, click here.

As part of Bealtaine Festival 2026, we are delighted to collaborate once again with the IFI and aemi to present two films from Kilkenny-based artist filmmaker Juana Robles’ ongoing Bodyverses series, begun in 2024 and featuring performance artists Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Juana Robles, as well as Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan, chaired by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick.

Thread Lightly is a group exhibition featuring the works of Alicia Donnan, Eva Vitkute, Fiona Somers and Sophie Scally. Guided by themes of memory, grief and loss, the 4 Ireland-based artists use photography, oil painting, textiles and illustration to reflect on how these experiences shape identity, sensation, and our relationship to the environment. Thread Lightly invites viewers to move carefully through these emotional landscapes, to sit with their reflections and consider the ways we navigate our inner worlds.

Please join us for the opening night of Thread Lightly, 6-9PM.

Exhibition continues from 16/05/2026.

Hina Khan’s Red Storm, a new exhibition at SIRIUS, opens Saturday, 16 May, at 2pm, with a conversation between the artist and me. Hina is a Pakistani Irish artist based in County Cork, and this exhibition is the most extensive presentation of her output to date.
Hina’s practice encompasses painting and drawing, ranging from miniatures informed by the traditional visual language of the Indian subcontinent to large-scale scrolls influenced by contemporary Western expressionist movements. She demonstrates a sustained engagement with history and memory, as well as an emphasis on emotion and spirituality, through symbolism and
experimentation.

Join us in our Gallery for an Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Andy Parsons and Bairbre-Ann Harkin.
Bairbre-Ann is Curator of IMMA Horizons at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with responsibility for IMMA’s Health Partnerships. She previously led IMMA’s Art & Ageing initiatives, championing inclusive and dementia-aware engagement and fostering key partnerships with IMMA collaborators such as Age&Opportunity, Global Brain Health Institute, Mercers Inst. for Successful Ageing (St James Hospital) among others.

For more information and to book, click here.

Informal gathering on ecology, art and what’s in between.
The evening unfolds through relaxed, open, communal, non-hierarchical discussion, where participants can share ideas, reflections, opinions and experiences.
Check the link for the warm-up topic.

Entanglement and Mint Tea offers space and time, and some mint tea if you bring a cup.

For more information and to book, click here.

Join Bealtaine Festival at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for a conversation between visual artists Laura Fitzgerald, Geraldine O’Neill, filmmaker Pat Murphy; chaired by the writer and visual artist Sara Baume, as they discuss a lifetime of making art and navigating life as an artist across countries, cities and country-sides.

A unique collaborative art exhibition, element15 textile artists, current artists-in-residence at McAuley Place, have been using the Luisne Centre as both a meeting place and working studio. Threads of Memory is a collaborative initiative between element15, McAuley Place and the local community, bringing together professional artists and participants.
May Opening Hours:
Opening: Tuesday 5th May at 7pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday’s 2 – 5 pm
Sunday’s, 10 am – 2 pm

For the first Dublin by Dusk event IMMA is excited to present the screening of the multi award winning documentary North Circular: A Musical Trip Through Inner-City Dublin directed by Luke McManus. The screening will be preceded by a live overture performed by acclaimed cellist Kevin Murphy (Slow Moving Clouds, Rattling Ark) featuring themes from his soundtrack for the film. North Circular will be screened on Living Canvas at IMMA, Europe’s largest digital outdoor art screen presented at IMMA by IPUT Real Estate.

Admission free, booking required.

For more information and to book, click here.

Drop in to GOMA Waterford for a fascinating audio-descriptive tour of ‘where oxlips and the nodding violet grows’, a solo exhibition by Joseph Heffernan, led by the show’s curator Aideen Quirke.

Taking place as part of the 2026 Bealtaine Festival, the tour offers rich verbal descriptions of the works, making art accessible to visitors who are blind or have low vision, while exploring the artistic and thematic significance of Heffernan’s symbol-rich practice.

All welcome | Free admission | No booking necessary

TØN is delighted to announce the opening of ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Jared C. Deery. Opens May 28 runs until June 14.

The title Always and Everywhere speaks to an omnipresent state of consciousness—a psychological framework where memory, nature, and formal abstraction intersect.

By building up textured, luminous layers and fluid forms, Deery’s work channels the experimental spirit of French symbolist poetry, demanding what Arthur Rimbaud called a systematic “derangement of the senses” to access alternative means of perception and hidden truths beneath the surface.

A Group Exhibition by Artists: Colleen Fitzpatrick, Maria Laffey & Linda Proudfoot

“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
We are all rooted in Mother Nature but look to the sky where we dream of flying on the wild wind.
This exhibition is a celebration of the vastness, beauty and vulnerability of nature in these uncertain times.
If we slow down and tune into nature we learn so much. We live in an age of soundbites and instant gratification.
Art can point us to the world and help us to see things we don’t usually notice, such as the pace and beauty of the natural environment.

The title Iarmhaireacht — the hush of the early hours when the house has finally stilled—marks the threshold space in which these worlds are made. It is the time when thought loosens, when inner and outer landscapes dissolve, when the real world and the imagined one share the same light. The landscapes that appear here are familiar yet not entirely ours—Ireland, yes, but seen from a slight distance; this planet, perhaps, but tilted toward another possible version of itself. They are places just slightly out of reach, close enough to recognize, far enough to long for: the world we know, and the world we hope might yet be possible.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Culturlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘Into the Wild” a solo exhibition by Kilkee and Limerick-based artist, Gina O’Connor.

Having already held six solo exhibitions, this latest collection marks Gina’s second exhibition at the Kilkee venue. “Into the Wild” reflects a newfound confidence in her use of paint and colour. Combining her love of movement with her painting, Gina immerses herself deeply in the physicality of the creative process. Her bold and spontaneous approach to mark-making has led to her most exciting work to date.

Clare Arts Office, in conjunction with Clare Museum, is delighted to present This Native Land of Mine, an art exhibition by Frances Bailey celebrating a lifetime of memories rooted in County Clare.

This Native Land of Mine offers a heartfelt celebration of County Clare, seen through the eyes of one of its most dedicated daughters. The exhibition highlights nearly 50 years of creative contribution and invites visitors to immerse themselves in the places and memories that have inspired Frances throughout her life.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “Blue Bird Alphabet” by the Artist Jakobus Smit.

This exhibition brings awareness to bird species of the Atlantic Archipelago. Featuring over sized letters and limited colour palette of blue and grey to create a new lens through which to rediscover their unique characters. Smit studied Design and Visual Communication and has worked in the design industry producing commercial artwork for 30 years. Throughout this time, fine arts practice has remained central to his life, working primarily with oil on canvas and mixed-medium printmaking.

The Glen Tavern in partnership with F.L.P. (Fun Limerick Productions) present Seomra Comhrá (Conversation Room), combining the convivial setting of the traditional Irish Public House and the imagination of artists. Melanie O’Rourke, will be the 2nd artist to exhibit, showing a selection of small works spanning the past 20 years. O’Rourke’s practice is rooted in close observation of everyday life, drawing attention to objects and scenes that often go unnoticed. Reflective surfaces and shifting textures draw the viewer in, while an underlying tension between light and dark, nostalgia and unease, gives the work a lingering sense of ambiguity.

Exhibition continues from 15/05/2026

‘From Clare to Here’ is a collection of paintings inspired by the Atlantic coastline of Counties Clare and Galway — landscapes shaped by weather, tide, limestone, and light.
These works explore the changing moods of the west coast: the movement of the ocean against rock, shifting skies over the Burren, distant headlands, and the ever-present Atlantic wind.
Drawn from a lifetime living along the coastline, the exhibition reflects a personal connection to the west of Ireland and the elemental nature of this landscape.
Through these paintings, viewers are invited to pause and reconnect with the rugged beauty of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic edge.

Curated by Katherine Waugh
29th May, 6 – 8.30pm

Screening followed by a discussion with the artists and the curator.

Pallas Projects presents a screening programme bringing together works by seminal UK artists David Burrows and Maggie Roberts. Curated by Katherine Waugh, the programme explores practices operating within the field of “fictioning” – where speculative narrative, philosophy and moving image intersect to reframe questions of intelligence, subjectivity and non-human agency.

Developed in response to Mark Cullen’s Prototypes for Cyborgs – A Space Opera (Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, 2025), the programme includes selection

The Dock presents Soft Spot, an exhibition by Irish artist Helen O’Leary that foregrounds reuse, repair, and ecological thinking as generative artistic strategies.
Raised in rural Ireland in the 1960s and 70s, O’Leary’s formative ethos — “if you can’t make it, you can’t have it” — continues to inform her materially rigorous practice. Over decades, she has developed a distinctive formal language built from modest materials and unglamorous gestures. Her works occupy a dynamic space between painting and sculpture, blurring categorical boundaries while insisting on the physicality of their making.

Daisy Chains || Data Trails expands on the recurrent theme in Ciara Tuite’s practice ”body memory’. In this exhibition she explores ‘old practices’ and ‘ancient rituals’ which are embedded in our DNA Modern technology can’t replace the act of mark-making, storytelling, dance etc. In our ever-evolving world, the artist uses painting, text and installation as a conduit to ask the question – how can ancient rituals and digital culture walk side by side to promote peace? What if stone skimming, and barefoot walking are a necessity rather than a novelty to thrive in todays world? What if for a moment we swapped the screen for the sky?

‘Even now there are still places where a thought might grow.‘ – Derek Mahon

I wrote the phrase ‘keep the burning world at bay’ in a notebook during a deep sense of uncertainty at the start of the global pandemic and partly as an answer to my young daughter’s worried question when her school closed – ‘Will it be like this forever?’ I didn’t know, bluffing I told her it would be back to ‘normal’ soon.

Éireann and I is a community archive and memory work platform dedicated to chronicling stories of Black life in Ireland. Initiated and led by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba, the project creates spaces for migrants to engage
with archives and explore practices of memory work through participatory workshops, publications, and installations. This special commission for Bealtaine explores older migrants’ relationships with Dublin city with newly produced images made during a sound walking workshop, together with images from participants’ personal archives.

This photo series brings together images from participants’ personal archives with newly

As part of Bealtaine Festival 2026, we are delighted to collaborate once again with the IFI and aemi to present two films from Kilkenny-based artist filmmaker Juana Robles’ ongoing Bodyverses series, begun in 2024 and featuring performance artists Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Juana Robles, as well as Frances Mezzetti and Alastair MacLennan, chaired by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick.

At Lavit Gallery, fXILE unfolds across two vaults. In one, a long-form film commissioned by Sirius Arts Centre, an essay in image and sound built from the excavation of place as memory. In the second vault, a suspended ladder is activated by a feedback system, sending tremors through its body that sound the vault. Architecture here is a resonant structure, held under tension. Visitors move between film and mechanism, image and matter.

fXILE Exhibition Opening and Conversation with Artem Trofimenko and Max Le Cain on 9/05 at 12 Midday.

“Intellectual / Emotional and Observed responses to nature and the environment”. Fine Art Print exhibition from one of Ireland’s finest painters.
‘Making Prints has always been part of my working method.
Each process informing, scrutinizing, and complementing the other’.

 Exhibition continues from 25/04/2026 to 30/05/2026.

Void Art Centre are excited to announce our upcoming project, Re-turning, which launches on Saturday 25 April 2026, from 6-8pm. This multifaceted project will consist of contributions from PhD student Ashab Arif Ahmad and research and output from previous and ongoing projects such as contributions from artists Daniel Godínez Nivon, Stéphane V Bottéro, Joey O’Gorman, and Barbara Steveni; researchers Matthew McAlister-Colacio, Oliver Hopkinson and Oileán Galligan, Roy Nelson and Kathryn Nelson; and our series of reading groups on institutional practice ‘Closing Circles’.

Award winning artist Paul Porter has been nationally recognised from a young age, winning the Kellogg’s Young Artist Competition at age 12. He went on to graduate from Ulster University and balance a career in graphic design with producing exceptional photo realistic fine art paintings.

Down Arts Centre is delighted to present ‘Mad as Birds’, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculpture by Joanna Cantillon.
Joanna is a contemporary artist based in Newcastle County Down. She has a BA (Hons) Degree in fine art specialising in oil painting.
This exhibition invites viewers to consider their relationship with the natural world and the consequences of ecological neglect.

This the first edition of ‘STAC Talks’ is part of the public programme around STAC’s ‘STAC at 30’ exhibition, looking at the question ‘What is an Arts Centre anyway?’ and ‘Making art in a regional context’. The title is a provocation of sorts and a loose umbrella under which to discuss the variety of ways artistic practice is supported, produced, and disseminated in rural/de-centred locations.

11am – ‘What is an Arts Centre anyway?’
2pm – ‘Making art in a regional context – an artist’s perspective’

Both talks are free, but booking is essential (available via our website).
One ticket includes admission to both talks.

For more information and to book, click here.

The Model is delighted to present Polyrhythms, a solo exhibition by German-Irish painter Tinka Bechert. Bringing together painting, sculpture and textile works made since 2018, the exhibition centres on a decisive shift in Bechert’s practice away from narrative imagery toward abstraction. Accompanying this development has been an increased attention to musical thinking, with rhythm, repetition and pacing guiding how the works unfold.

Vestiges brings together 2 practices that ask how we live with what remains—traces of place, labour, & memory,& the ongoing work of belonging. Through sculpture, text, performance & printmaking, the exhibition reflects on infrastructures, both physical and psychological, that shape identity & connection within a continually shifting landscape.

O’Shea presents a deconstructed modular home examining housing precarity, instability, and creative labour. Galvin’s Flow draws on walks along the River Dodder, using expanded printmaking and community engagement to map environmental change, memory, and belonging.

A solo exhibition of new and retrospective paintings by Fermanagh artist Rachael Johnson.

Rachael was educated in Enniskillen. She left in 1980 to study Fine Arts and spent some years travelling and working abroad. When she returned to Ireland she worked as an illustrator and community artist in Dublin. Inspired by worldwide travels she began to develop and exhibit personal artwork.
Rachael is currently living and working in Derry.

Rachael uses mixed media to create collage paintings on canvas including paints, inks, pastels, charcoal, textured paper, organic material, fabrics & natural fibres, metal, stone, wood and glass.

Exhibition continues from 07/04/2026 to 31/05/2026.

We are delighted to have Daniel Chester exhibit in our Easter Snow Gallery. Daniel is a visual artist based in County Leitrim. His exhibition “Bog To Bloom” is a body of paintings that are inspired by the landscapes of rural Leitrim, Fermanagh, Sligo and Donegal. The Artist invites viewers into these spaces to engage with the works. The artist is highly influenced by the ecology of these wetlands and how they are vital carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, yet, these places are often undervalued and threatened. This exhibition can be viewed in full online at www.tseac.ie or at our gallery.

This is LJ Phelan’s first solo exhibition, marking a move from digital art into acrylic painting. With a background in animation, children’s media and graphic design, LJ creates bold, colourful interpretations of Irish landscapes.

Running from 2 – 31 May 2026 at Ardgillan Castle Gallery, with an opening reception on 2 May from 2 – 4pm, all are welcome.

The exhibition features paintings of locations across Fingal, inspired by its varied landscapes, light and atmosphere, and a strong sense of place.

A journey into the myths and “bright stones” of the Boyne Valley in sculpture and drawing.
Irish artist, harpist, and singer Sheila Moylan will present a solo exhibition of drawing and sculpture at the Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith.

The exhibition’s title is “bright stones” or quartz in the irish language, the stones that cover the ancient monument Newgrange in Co. Meath which inspires the exhibition.

The art installation 600 is a site-specific piece which artist Jenny Wood-Sullivan originally made in 2018, but is delighted to be showing it again to coincide with the 2026 National Famine Commemoration event taking place at the Irish Workhouse Centre 17th May.
600 refers to this workhouse’s maximum capacity of paupers who could avail of poverty relief. This work gives a nod to the Japanese artform Senbazuru, which is the tradition of folding 1000 paper cranes as a gift of honour, healing and peace. Wood-Sullivan has folded 600 doves from 100 year old book paper which are then hung from the rafters of what was once the girls school room.

Exhibition continues from 02/05/2026.

Art in the Park V brings together nine artists across Swan Park in Buncrana, transforming this public space into an open-air gallery. This year’s exhibition invites visitors to explore artworks that engage with themes such as ecology and land use, migration, memory, belonging, walking as an artistic practice, colonial histories, and the creative reuse of everyday materials. These ideas come together under a shared theme At the Threshold.

Exhibition continues from 16th May 2026 to 31st May 2026.

Calm Between Planes offers a moment of rest—spaces for the eye and mind in environments like waiting rooms, where emotions often sit between uncertainty and anticipation. Each canvas and panel is made from raw materials, with sizes that both follow and disrupt the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio. Subtle gradients evoke calm, while contrasting palettes create an illusion of depth. Some compositions draw from local architecture, others from hand-built models exploring three-dimensional form on a flat surface.

‘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.

Flowers & Sound is an exhibition which brings together, for the first time, Katherine Boucher Beug’s large-scale works, revealing the fascinating weave between abstraction and representation. Her deep study of colour and drawing underpins this fluid movement between genres. Smaller works on paper, including written pieces, offer insight into her process.

Oughterard Courthouse is delighted to host an upcoming exhibition entitled “Tropic Signal in Grey light”. Haitian – American Hansel Vieuxpatinaeh and Brazilian Arthur Rosa will launch their joint exhibition on Friday 29th May at 7pm , the exhibition will run from Saturday 30th to May to bank holiday Monday 1st June.

Opening reception Wednesday 27th May. 6pm. Exhibition Thurs 28th – Sun 31st May, 11am – 6pm. Monday 1st June 11am – 5pm. An exhibition of Carlow based visual artists presented as part of the 2026 Carlow Arts Festival at Saint Patrick’s College. The theme of the exhibition is HOPE. Presented by artist Rennie Buenting and curated by Tony Strickland. This project is supported by Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow Arts Office and by Creative Ireland Carlow.

Paperwork is a solo exhibition by Tom Doig at Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork, running 1 May – 5 June 2026. Developed through a residency and curatorial collaboration with Benjamin Stafford, the exhibition explores collage and found paper imagery as a way of rethinking how knowledge is organised and understood.

The Tea Houses is delighted to present ‘At The Waterline’ by artist and ecologist Tasneem Khan, a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring the artist’s lived experience of islandness, using it as a lens for thinking about change, adaptation and our relationship to place. The exhibition emerges from an ongoing body of artistic research exploring how islands can be understood not only as geographical locations or terrain, but as spaces through which to consider ecological systems and human experience in a time of environmental instability. Opening Friday May 29th at 5pm, we hope to see you there!

Boy Dancer is a Solstice commissioned collaboration between poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin and artist Niamh McCann. Blending poetry, drawing, sound and sculpture. It reflects on grief, ritual and remembrance, inspired by Ní Churreáin’s foster brother. Accompanying the exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre is hosting an opening event on April 11th at 2.30 PM, a special public conversation featuring Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Niamh McCann, and poet and critic Gerard Smyth. This event offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from the collaborators about the creative process behind Boy Dancer.

Glimmers is a new body of work that explores abstraction as an embodied and responsive process whilst highlighting the artist’s use of colour, surface and gesture. Yasmine’s work explores painting as both a material process and a site for reflection, memory and perception. This show reflects her ongoing engagement with the physical and emotional possibilities of paint, as well as her intuitive approach to mark-making.

Exhibition Continues from 14/05/2026.

The Irish Contemporaries will take place across two venues with three events in 2026:
18th Street Arts Center | Opening Friday 15th May @1pm
Runs: 15th May – June 6th
Angels Gate Cultural Center | Opening Saturday 16th May 1pm
Runs: 16th – June 6th
Featured Artists across both venues: Deirdre Mulrooney & Gearóid O’Dea

‘where oxlips and the nodding violet grows’ | Joseph Heffernan
Official opening: Sat 9 May 2026, 4–6pm
Exhibition runs: 9 May–6 June 2026, GOMA Waterford
Joseph Heffernan is a Cork-based Irish artist working across painting, drawing, text and assemblage. His practice explores identity, memory and ritual, using found and reclaimed materials to examine how objects carry meaning. This exhibition imagines a speculative world governed by ‘The Ceremony of the Flowers’ – an enigmatic synthesis of poetry, mathematics and esoteric knowledge.
Curated by Aideen Quirke. Free admission. Tues–Sat, 11am–5pm.

Gallery 545 presents a new group exhibition at La Roche House, Belfast, bringing together original artworks by accomplished artists based in Northern Ireland within this striking modernist venue. The exhibition features a wide and exciting art selection, including atmospheric landscapes, nature-inspired paintings, vibrant abstracts and intriguing works on paper, alongside unique sculptures and exquisite textile and glass pieces. Together, the works reflect the richness and diversity of artistic talent in the region.

Exhibition continues from 30th April 2026 to 6th June 2026

The Push and Pull brings together a series of works that reflect on motherhood through everyday moments of care, closeness, and connection. The work draws on time spent in the west of Ireland, where landscape and light shape a quiet, attentive way of looking and making.

Working with tactile materials, these pieces focus on small, often unnoticed exchanges between parent and child; holding, waiting, watching, returning. The work moves between ideas of nature, the body, and memory, where motherhood is understood as something lived and changing over time.

Exhibition continues from 23/04/2026 to 07/06/2026.

From the Forest to the Ocean by Mary Moynihan is now open at the Smashing Times Gallery, 30 Sandycove Road, Dublin, A96V9P1, running from Sunday 8 March to Sunday 7 June 2026, Wednesday to Friday 1-6pm, Sat + Sun 10am-6pm. All welcome.
From the Forest to the Ocean is a powerful solo exhibition featuring the work of Irish artist Mary Moynihan. Bringing together photography, poetry, and film, this multidisciplinary exhibition draws inspiration from the physical landscapes of nature and the deep interconnectedness of life — from forests to the ocean.