What’s On around Ireland

This exhibition, by visual artist, Karen Hamilton, translates the intangible phenomenon of light—the force that enables us to see and engage with our environment—into tangible woven textiles. Showcasing work developed throughout the artist’s undergraduate degree and new experimental weaving, Hamilton explores the characteristics of light, both artistically through colour and form, and scientifically.

‘The Heavenly (In)Visibles’ is Patsy Atkinson’s MA by Research final exhibition in which she materialises Mary Oliver’s deep reverence for the natural world and her gentle call to notice nature with wonder.

In keeping with Mary Oliver’s contemplative creative processes, Patsy uses slow, meditative and nature-based processes, including ecoprinting, paper-making, monoprinting and natural dyeing using plants sustainably foraged from the hedgerows of Sherkin Island.

Join us in Axis on Thursday August 27th to hear Ballymun artist Fiona O’Brien talking about her exhibition, Urban Landscapes in conversation with Aaron Sunderland Carey, chaired by Axis Programme Manager, Aifric Ní Ruairc. 

A long-time Ballymun resident, Fiona has turned her experience of living in an area that is constantly changing into a vibrant new body of paintings. Inspired by Ballymun’s buildings, construction, changing spaces and everyday surroundings, as well as music, nature, weather and the energy of urban life, Fiona’s work is full of colour, texture and movement. The exhibition also reflects on more personal experiences of change, loss and renewal.

Aaron Sunderland Carey is a mixed-media and socially engaged artist from Dublin. His work bridges art, community, and social change. Aaron held his exhibition Stones in Axis in September and November 2024.

Come along to hear Fiona talk about her journey as an artist, Aaron and Fiona’s connection to Ballymun, and how the places and experiences around us can become the starting point for creative work.

For more information and to book a free ticket, click here.

In this exhibition Claire French explores how both form and surface of a vessel can embody a personal narrative and energy, enabling exploration of human memory and experience. While the surface encompasses artistic expression, it also acts as a canvas extending the narrative within the form. Eroded, scraped surfaces will metaphorically reflect how time wears down body and mind, transforming alluring, smooth textures into dry, skins that are not what they seem.

This is a work-in-progress curation of Jenni’s Motherhood Places project work.

Previously described as a landscape painter, during the pre-school years she made art in bits and pieces as time allowed. Much of that was in-situ wherever she was paused with free hands, and eventually her sketchbooks no longer contained just landscapes, but the wider scope of places. Some domestic, featuring objects and ideas – these fragments chart the building of a childhood and in assembling the collection, ask questions about identity and heritage to be answered in future work.

Dr. Peter Moonlight, Assistant Professor, Botany and Curator of Trinity Herbarium, gives a talk on the plant species referenced in Nour Jaouda’s work in the Douglas Hyde’s current exhibition, Matters of time.

The talk will take place at the Botany Lecture Theatre in Trinity College Dublin.

This event is presented as part of Dublin by Dusk, when spaces across the city open late on the last Thursday of each month.

To register, click here.

‘According to my Eyes’ is a solo exhibition by Siobhán Collins at MTU Cork School of Music. In this new body of work, paintings of familiar subjects hover between recognition and uncertainty, inviting viewers to linger and look again. The works draw attention to the physical act of painting as much as to what is represented. The artist will be present at the exhibition for a few informal sessions:

Sat 29 August, 2–4pm

Sat 5 September, 2–4pm

Fri 18 September, 6–8pm

This is an opportunity to see the paintings and have a conversation about the work. The show is open daily, including weekends. All welcome.

INSIDE OUT: THE WATERSIDE CAMERA OBSCURA
Seeing our shared spaces in a whole new light

Join us on 29 & 30 August at the Waterside Women’s Centre for a special Camera Obscura & Pinhole Photography Workshop, as part of Waterside Together, a PEACEPLUS shared green spaces project.

Sessions:

10am-12:30pm

1:30pm-4-pm

Four sessions, maximum 6 participants per session. Free admission.

For more information or to book, email watersidetogether@gmail.com or phone +44 (0)28 7134 2959

The Rogue’s Gallery turns its attention to the human-made systems driving instability, and the ways power is staged, performed, and normalised. These portraits operate like contemporary history painting, using the language of classical figuration to confront a culture where influence is theatrical and “truth” is increasingly negotiable. In a year that repeatedly returns to what endures, and what collapses, Walton asks what we are choosing to preserve, and what we are willing to overlook.

An exhibition centered around a group of satirical portraits of the most powerful individuals shaping (and destabilizing) our world order.

A day of workshops, talks and discussions led by the art ensemble Drop Table about art, data centres, community infrastructure and environment. The day will feature presentations about the history and environmental impact of data, community-led infrastructure, care and collaboration.

The day will have contributions from seven artists who are working on a year-long project ‘Another Infrastructure (AI)’ based at North Clondalkin Library.

Tickets for the event are free and include a vegan lunch prepared as an artistic work. 

For more information, to view the timetable and to book, click here.

Join Catalyst Arts for a seasonal vegetarian supper celebrating Lughnasa, the harvest festival of the Celtic year. Enjoy locally sourced, organic food and non-alcoholic drinks in the Commons space on the Ormeau Road. Prepare for an evening of simple and thoughtful food as well as space to celebrate the last days of summer.

For more information and to book, click here.

Opening day: Saturday 19th September 11am. 

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present It’s not what it SEAMS by Anita Nagy. Anita Nagy is a Hungarian-born surrealist and fantasy artist, who also creates commissioned portraits. This show contains a series of highly textured acrylic paintings, full of flower motifs. With her unique technique she creates the illusion of realistic embroidered tablecloth and lace decorations with the aim of paying tribute to her late mother, who was an embroidered artist, and to celebrate the beauty of embroidery art which is a very important part in her culture.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to present Lifework, an exhibition of artworks by seven artists who work at the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent (KCAT) Studio. The exhibition opens at the Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire on Saturday 9 May and runs until Wednesday 26 August 2026. Admission is free.
The artists featured are Thomas Barron, Declan Byrne, Lorna Corrigan, Sinéad Fahey, Fergus Fitzgerald, Andrew Pike, Jason Turner. Lifework presents examples of each artist’s earliest artwork beside examples of recent artwork.

Crawford Art Gallery in partnership with Triskel Arts Centre presents Artists Film International 2026: A Kind of Power.

Bringing together artists and partner organisations from across the globe, this year’s edition explores how systems of power shape the act of looking and the conditions under which we are seen.

All films will be presented on a loop throughout the day in Triskel Arts Centre. The AFI programme will be presented on a loop (approx. 45 minutes) between 10:00 – 15:30 each day, with films changing weekly. Free screenings, no booking required.

Dates:
Tues 11, Wed 12, Thurs 13
Tues 18, Wed 19, Thurs 20
Tues 25, Wed 26, Thurs 27

Exhibition continues from 06/08/26.

Local artist Val McLoughlin has two exhibitions running at the moment in Ballina, including Out of Ink at Ballina Library. Ink painting has elements of calligraphy with suggestions of landscape, paintings made using brushwork and line in balanced compositions. The medium displays its capacity to render movement and energy through its inherent fluidity. These paintings mainly take the form of abstract expressionism with references to Chinese and Japanese aesthetics. They can be described as an integration of contemporary western art and traditional eastern ink paintings.

Monday: Closed 
Tuesday: 10.00am – 7.00pm 
Wednesday: 10.00am – 7.00pm 
Thursday: 10.00am – 5.00pm 
Friday: 10.00am – 5.00pm 
Saturday: 10.00am – 4.00pm 

Dr. Peter Moonlight, Assistant Professor, Botany and Curator of Trinity Herbarium, gives a talk on the plant species referenced in Nour Jaouda’s work in the Douglas Hyde’s current exhibition, Matters of time.

The talk will take place at the Botany Lecture Theatre in Trinity College Dublin.

This event is presented as part of Dublin by Dusk, when spaces across the city open late on the last Thursday of each month.

To register, click here.

Join us in Axis on Thursday August 27th to hear Ballymun artist Fiona O’Brien talking about her exhibition, Urban Landscapes in conversation with Aaron Sunderland Carey, chaired by Axis Programme Manager, Aifric Ní Ruairc. 

A long-time Ballymun resident, Fiona has turned her experience of living in an area that is constantly changing into a vibrant new body of paintings. Inspired by Ballymun’s buildings, construction, changing spaces and everyday surroundings, as well as music, nature, weather and the energy of urban life, Fiona’s work is full of colour, texture and movement. The exhibition also reflects on more personal experiences of change, loss and renewal.

Aaron Sunderland Carey is a mixed-media and socially engaged artist from Dublin. His work bridges art, community, and social change. Aaron held his exhibition Stones in Axis in September and November 2024.

Come along to hear Fiona talk about her journey as an artist, Aaron and Fiona’s connection to Ballymun, and how the places and experiences around us can become the starting point for creative work.

For more information and to book a free ticket, click here.

Discover the inaugural photography work “Gone Dark” by Irish artist Ciara Lyden available at https://gone-dark.com/. The online interactive exhibit offers you the opportunity to enjoy the photography and reflect on the experience of the Iberian Peninsula Black Out of 28th April 2025. Thirteen fine art photographs taken during the electricity blackout, presented as an immersive online exhibition that reconstructs the experience of examining the city in a new “light”.

Navigate through the images and when the light fades, use your mouse to find your focus in the dark.

‘Urban Landscapes’ is a body of work created without boundaries or fixed rules, embracing creative freedom and open interpretation. Fluid, expressive, and imaginative, it explores colour, texture, and design as a means of navigating and escaping the realities and challenges of the contemporary world. The exhibition reflects Fiona O’Brien’s experience as a long-time Ballymun resident, documenting and responding to the constant construction, transformation, and evolution of the environment around her. Influenced by urban living, music, nature, weather, culture, diversity, architecture, developing spaces, and punk aesthetics.

OPENING: 19th June 7-9pm

An exhibition of new drawings by Damien O’Reilly. Top floor gallery, Wicklow Library.
Launch night: 4th August 2026 6:00-8:00pm

Opening Reception: Saturday 20 June, 2.30pm.

Bassam Al-Sabah, George Bolster, Alan Butler, Cecilia Danell, Willie Doherty, Rachel Doolin, Mark Garry, Hammerheads (Marie Farrington, Sibyl Montague, Liliane Puthod, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín), Elaine Hoey, Patrick Hough, Bernadette Kiely, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Niamh McCann, Eleanor McCaughey, Lucy McKenna, Isabel Nolan, Barbara Knežević, Emily Waszak, Grace Weir.

The Future is Open marks the 20th anniversary of Solstice Arts Centre, brings together a selection of previously exhibited artists whose work explores expansive theories of space, time and the cosmos. More information on the website.

Diarmuid Delargy is an internationally recognised painter, print-maker and sculptor.

He is renowned for his paintings of fish and sharks inspired from the Atlantic coast close to his studio in Sligo. His paintings are a personal commentary on the changing nature of the coast.

Over the past thirty years he has produced a body of work on the theme ‘Art and Extinction’ and more specifically the ‘Shark Series’ which relates to this broader theme.

“My interests don’t necessarily lie just in painting, I’ve had protracted spells of making prints, particularly etching and lithography. This experience has certainly affected my painting.”

Golden Thread Gallery presents The Ignorant Art School: Outside the Circle x Belfast, an exhibition and event programme inviting you to witness and respond to radical emancipation, resistance, survival and collective action inspired by and generated from feminist and queer movements.

Come and explore a dazzling array of archives, drawings, ephemera, manifestos, paintings, performance, photographs, sculptures, video works and writings reverberating with the attitude, poise and pose of feminist and queer ‘acting up’ and speaking the difficult truths of lived experience and social knowledge courageously to power.

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

For more information, click here.

Running over six weeks and featuring 30-40 artists and makers the Summer Exhibition at Lavit Gallery is an annual group show of fine art and craft. Participating artists and makers this year include Ailbhe Barrett, John Behan, Johnny Bugler, Mary Burke, Patrick Cashin, Tom Climent, Carmel Creaner, Debbie Dawson, Megan Fahy, Sean Farrell, Billy Foley, David Fox, Deirdre Frost, Tim Goulding, Etain Hickey, Joe Hogan, Rachel Joynt, Jo Kelley, Ronja Lagerqvist, Andrew Ludick, Linda McCann, Hannah Mooney, Janet Murran, Deirdre O’Brien, Marta Ozog, Linda Plunkett, Victor Richardson, Aisling Roche, Katrina Treml and Sarah Wren Wilson.

Exhibition launch at 31st of July, 5-8pm.

In this new body of work, Rusek explores movement and dwelling through the interconnected relationships between land and sea. Drawing on edge-zone ecology as a metaphor for dynamic cooperation, the exhibition invites abundant thinking inspired by biological rhythms and natural systems. Filtration mechanisms in fungi, plankton, and nitrogen-fixing plants become metaphors for metabolising emotion and memory. Through ceramics, mixed-media works, and found materials, Rusek gives tangible form to grief, absence, remembrance, and the unseen, from intimate votive objects to large-scale installations.

Portumna Castle and Gardens is proud to present Art and Time Enfolded, an exhibition of 2D and 3D works by GRID Collective. Including pieces by the three artists (Fifi Smith; Helen Blair; Mary Catherine Nolan) created before GRID Collective was formed, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the impact that working collaboratively has had on the individual artists’ practice over the years of the collective’s existence. A selection of works from GRID Collective’s previous exhibitions, presented in chronological order, demonstrates how the ethos of working collaboratively has found expression while meeting the needs of specific locations.

Join Catalyst Arts for a seasonal vegetarian supper celebrating Lughnasa, the harvest festival of the Celtic year. Enjoy locally sourced, organic food and non-alcoholic drinks in the Commons space on the Ormeau Road. Prepare for an evening of simple and thoughtful food as well as space to celebrate the last days of summer.

For more information and to book, click here.

A day of workshops, talks and discussions led by the art ensemble Drop Table about art, data centres, community infrastructure and environment. The day will feature presentations about the history and environmental impact of data, community-led infrastructure, care and collaboration.

The day will have contributions from seven artists who are working on a year-long project ‘Another Infrastructure (AI)’ based at North Clondalkin Library.

Tickets for the event are free and include a vegan lunch prepared as an artistic work. 

For more information, to view the timetable and to book, click here.

INSIDE OUT: THE WATERSIDE CAMERA OBSCURA
Seeing our shared spaces in a whole new light

Join us on 29 & 30 August at the Waterside Women’s Centre for a special Camera Obscura & Pinhole Photography Workshop, as part of Waterside Together, a PEACEPLUS shared green spaces project.

Sessions:

10am-12:30pm

1:30pm-4-pm

Four sessions, maximum 6 participants per session. Free admission.

For more information or to book, email watersidetogether@gmail.com or phone +44 (0)28 7134 2959

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

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

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

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

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

Official opening Thursday 1st July at 6.30pm, all welcome

Field Station: Cornafulla by Amanda Ralph is centered on Cornafulla Bog and the Shannon Callows. The exhibition brings the visible landscape into tension with what it contains: shifting ecological conditions, field records, measurement, and material evidence. Through moving image, sound and sculpture, Ralph re-encounters the farm landscape without resolving it into a single authoritative image. This exhibition has been developed with support from the Accenture Digital Innovation in Art Bursary, awarded through Business to Arts. Supported by Accenture.

Runs until Sunday 30th August

Official opening Thursday 1st July at 6.30pm

States, Stations by Samir Mahmood draws on key concepts from Sufi mysticism to explore themes of identity, transformation, and queer experience. Through newly commissioned textiles, sculpture, painting, and mixed-media works, the exhibition considers the intersections of spirituality, embodiment, and belonging.

Runs until Sunday 30th August

Exhibition continues from 30/05/26.

Drawing Light, a unique exhibition of newly hand woven tapestries made in response to the ancient monuments of Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth and Four Knocks will hang in Brú na Bóinne visitor centre from May 30 until August 30 2026.
The collected works of Contemporary Tapestry Artists Ireland, nine of the group’s weavers each brings a distinct voice to this exhibition, united by a deep engagement with the core elements of tapestry weaving – time, material, technique, colour, pattern, surface, and narrative.

Irish abstract figurative artist Ana Carey will open GASP, her new exhibition at Ana Carey Gallery, located above The International Bar, 23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2, on Saturday, 1 August 2026.

Opening with a reception from 2:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., GASP will present approximately 18 to 20 works by Carey, combining new and current pieces with a small selection of earlier work. The exhibition will also feature selected works by guest artists Aran Devereux and Stephen Cheung, each bringing additional perspectives to the presentation.

The exhibition follows a significant year for Carey, including her selection for the 165th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Women Artists 2026 at Mall Galleries, Westminster, London, one of the UK’s longest-running exhibitions dedicated to women in visual art.

In another recent milestone, Carey’s painting Boss sold for €20,000 at a black-tie charity auction held at the House of Lords, with proceeds donated to Vision Ireland.

GASP continues Carey’s commitment to making contemporary fine art more accessible by placing it within a lively cultural setting. Located above The International Bar, one of Dublin’s best-known venues for comedy, theatre, live music and performance, Ana Carey Gallery reflects the artist’s vision of creating a welcoming and connected arts community in the heart of Dublin.

“GASP is about the moment between fear and visibility,” says Carey. “If you don’t reveal yourself, you can be forgotten. For me, putting the work out there, even when it feels frightening, is part of being an artist. I like short, simple, snappy titles, and I hope GASP captures the audience’s reaction to the show.”

Visitors will be able to view and purchase works on the day.

Opening Hours After Launch:

From 2 August, the gallery will generally be open from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with selected dates, including 12 to 15 August, closing at 4:00 p.m. 

Exhibition continues from 01/08/2026.

Sarah Loughnane presents Where Water Moves, a solo exhibition of fluid acrylic paintings, 1 – 30 August, at Secret Garden Gallery, Kinvara.

The exhibition explores water as both movement and surface event – current, drift, and the bloom phenomena that appear when algae spreads across a lake or ocean. The work uses pour techniques to enact rather than depict these processes, treating fluid paint as a parallel system to water itself.

Exhibition continues from 08/08/2026.

Only Handle it Once is an exhibition and publication by artists Cillian Finnerty & Cóilín O’Connell, curated by Alice Quinn Banville. The project emerges from the multiple meanings of the term ‘hoard’: as the compulsive accumulation of (often worthless) objects, the amassing of wealth for its own sake, or as a valuable archaeological find.

The exhibition is open at the RSAI every Thurs-Sun 12-6pm until 30th August, when there will be a special performance by Isadora Epstein from 6pm.

Please send general/press inquiries to alicequinnbanville@gmail.com.

Exhibition continues from 01/08/26.

AND AGAIN brings together the work of 64 Artlink member artists in a celebration of contemporary artistic practice.

Curated by Róisín Doherty – a visual artist, curator, and Co-Director of Galway’s 126 Artist-Run Gallery – this exhibition presents a wide range of work across painting, sculpture, installation, film, sound, mixed media, and digital practices.

The artists explore ideas of memory, belonging, ritual, landscape, and collective care through diverse materials, approaches, and perspectives. Some works draw on personal histories, while others reflect on shared experiences, the natural environment, and the ways place shapes identity.

Exhibition continues from 21/08/26.

Oliver Bennett and Claire Mulcahy explore two distinct pathways into abstraction.
Claire’s work draws inspiration from the ever-changing beauty of coastal landscapes and is inspired by the ever-changing coastal landscape of Lighthouse Hill, Mayo, where six days of observation in February 2025 became the starting point for her new body of work.
Oliver’s large-scale paintings explore the emotional and psychological landscape through colour, texture, gesture, and the richness of oil paint.
Together, their work creates a dialogue between the external and internal worlds.

Window of Imperfection explores the relationship between material, time and attention through a series of works using traditional and alternative photographic processes.

Rooted in slow, tactile methods, it reflects patterns of growth, erosion and renewal. Rather than seeking perfection, the pieces embrace variation, imperfection and material traces, where marks and textures remain visible.

The exhibition invites a quieter, more attentive way of looking, encouraging pause and deeper engagement with subject and process.

Alison Barry is an artist working from her home in Limerick. Her current use of soft pastel, charcoal and oils allow a sense of freedom to my expression as an artist. Being self-taught she is constantly learning and developing her style which has been described as contemporary in its feel, emotive, moody and atmospheric.
‘Capturing the antics and character of Irish wildlife, ‘A storytelling’ is a new collection of mixed media work to include rooks, hares and foxes..
This exhibition can be viewed in full at www.tseac.ie or in our Easter Snow Gallery open daily.

‘The Heavenly (In)Visibles’ is Patsy Atkinson’s MA by Research final exhibition in which she materialises Mary Oliver’s deep reverence for the natural world and her gentle call to notice nature with wonder.

In keeping with Mary Oliver’s contemplative creative processes, Patsy uses slow, meditative and nature-based processes, including ecoprinting, paper-making, monoprinting and natural dyeing using plants sustainably foraged from the hedgerows of Sherkin Island.

Hidden Light is a solo exhibition by contemporary Irish artist Karen McLaughlin, featuring over 30 abstract paintings exploring the relationship between an internal meditative space and the Irish landscape. Through layered acrylic paint, texture and intuitive mark-making, the work considers how memory, emotion and lived experience shape our perception of place, inviting moments of stillness, contemplation and personal connection. Curated by Dino Notaro.

Margaret Mathews is a retired dentist with a lifelong interest in art, but studied and practiced dentistry in her own practice for many years.

She is an Honorary Diploma holder in the Ulster Society of Women Artists and belongs to various Art Societies including the Pastel Society of Ireland, the Medical Art Society, East Antrim Artists and is a Friend of the Equestrian Art Society.

Equestrian art, life drawing, still life and portraiture are favourite subjects and her work can be found in exhibitions both here and abroad.

Some of Margaret’s work can be viewed here.

Solas Art Gallery is delighted to present its Summer Group Exhibition at the Island Theatre, Ballinamore. This selected exhibition welcomes submissions from both members and non-members, showcasing an exciting collection of contemporary visual artworks. Featuring an inspiring mix of established exhibitors, returning favourites and talented new artists, this year’s exhibition promises to be one of the most diverse and captivating to date. From striking paintings and intricate textiles to sculpture, photography, collage and mixed media artworks, every submission offers its own unique story and creative perspective.

Opening night: 24th of July at 7:30pm.

Exhibition continues from 30/07/26.

Townhall Arts Centre Gallery and Cavan Arts present: ’74 Summers’
A solo exhibition by Brigid Mulligan.

Brigid Mulligan presents a new body of work that explores grief through process-based rituals. ‘74 Summers’ includes monumental artwork and experimental film with community at its core. The exhibition will include a life-sized cyanotype print installation titled ‘My Father’s Tractor’.
In creating this monumental four-sided installation, the artist considers the importance of remembering as they come to terms with loss. ‘74 Summers’, an experimental film, explores communal grieving and the ritual of fire.

A solo show of paintings on canvas with an accompanying publication.

‘Some paintings of young women do not depict individuals, they are amalgams drawn from found images, their unsmiling looks atmospherically unsettling alongside brightly coloured blooms. Browne describes them as portraits of female energy and their nearly-always-direct gaze is unerring.

Extract from an accompanying text written by Cathy Lomax

Liz Johnson’s art practice is project-based. Her recent work explores themes of transience and impermanence, and presence and memory. 

In this series of landscape paintings, she approaches presence and memory from the periphery, as a space of fragility and quiet tension. Where boundaries soften and shift, and form is suggested rather than fixed. She revisits familiar landscapes to reflect on the subtle unease of being tethered to places that are continually in flux – echoing Seamus Heaney’s ‘Postscript’, where the landscape leaves one being “neither here nor there”.  

This sense of being suspended in a moment that can’t be held reflects the Buddhist concept of impermanence, and of how all things arise and pass away. In these moments, the landscape becomes both presence and disappearance. Within these settings, memory exists as something both hidden and tangible — traces of what has been, are held quietly within.  

A Sense of Place invites a moment of stillness and contemplation, to consider how places continue to shape us even as they change or disappear. Rather than resisting transformation, this work reflects on what it means to live alongside it; to accept change and the passing of time as fundamental parts of human experience. 

The team at Void Art Centre invite you to the launch of ‘Animale’, a solo exhibition by British-Finnish artist and composer Hanna Tuulikki that brings together new and existing film and sound works to explore how gendered identities are shaped through entanglements between humans and the more-than-human world.

The launch will take place on Saturday 4 July 2026, from 6-8pm at Void Art Centre. Refreshments will be provided, and we welcome BYOB!

For more information, click here.

Ormston House presents ‘Energy Made Visible’.

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

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

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

PORTAGE brings together paintings, sculptural forms, ceramic vessels, and sculptural light to explore journeys shaped by wind, water and myth. Featuring artists Aibhainn Wheeler, Andrew Murphy, Gildas O Laoire and Mark Redden.
The title refers to the act of carrying a boat across land to reach new waters — an enduring image of migration, resilience, and the search for new horizons. It echoes Werner Herzog’s film ‘Fitzcarraldo’, where a steamship is hauled over a mountain in pursuit of an impossible dream. In PORTAGE, that same gesture becomes a metaphor for movement, risk, and for the persistence required to cross from one world to another.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney is delighted to present an exhibition by members of Limerick Art Society. Limerick Art Society has been a major contributor to the visual arts in Limerick City and County for over 80 years making it one of the oldest societies of its kind in Ireland. “The aims of the society are to bring art to people of all walks of life and to help the less experienced as well as accomplished artists to achieve artistic excellence”. Its focus is on the visual arts: painting in oils, watercolours, acrylic and pastel and photography.

Group exhibition with work from local artists. Showing paintings, mixed media, milllinery and felting artworks.

Exhibition continues from 14/08/26.

An exhibition of works by Jessica Callan – ‘As it is’
By looking at our phones, we live our lives with the captured image.
We live in a time, when the individual has access to others, and others have access to the individual. The phone has many uses: vicarious living some of the time, at other times for direct communication, and used as a tool for visual documentation.
Some of the images have been altered by the artist, embellishing the narrative. There is a play between the realities existing, the reality seen by the artist, the reality sent as communications, and the reality received.
Opening hours Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm