What’s On around Ireland

IMMA Collection: Art as Agency is a major three-year display celebrating IMMA’s Permanent Collection as a source of agency and knowledge. Featuring over 100 artists, from the 1960s to the present, it highlights key works, including many recent acquisitions. This ambitious exhibition invites engagement and research over time, allowing for a rich durational experience of Ireland’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.

Through thematic, chronological, geographical, and media-based approaches, the exhibition examines how artworks connect across time and contexts, fostering new interpretations and relevance. Works from the 1960s to the 1980s evoke the foundational story of the Irish art world. While acknowledging the context of the modernist, predominantly male dominance of that era, the exhibition also spotlights the material innovation and socially engaged practices of others who persisted despite the relatively conservative status quo.

The exhibition also presents more recent practice that explores urgent global themes such as gender, hybridity, cultural histories, de-colonialism, diaspora, migration, food injustice, climate, and ecological change. Memory, imagination, and storytelling play pivotal roles in these works, offering generative ways to process fragmentation, dislocation, and survival in unfamiliar spaces. New and existing works in the IMMA grounds will extend these themes.

The exhibition includes a specially created ‘white cube’ gallery space inspired by Brian O’Doherty’s renowned series of essays Inside the White Cube – The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), that critiques the auratic, market-driven effects of the white cube gallery format. Likewise the choice of works curated for this space pushes back by highlighting works by Post-War American women, pioneering conceptualist artworks by Marcel Duchamp and Brian O’Doherty as well as a contemporary feminist response by Andrea Geyer.

By interweaving historical and contemporary narratives, Art as Agency invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings and possibilities of art in shaping our understanding of and action in the world.

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2026. The series will be part of a programme celebrating 30 years of Pallas Projects/Studios. Between January–December 2026 we will present 8 x 3-week exhibitions of new work by:

Paddy Critchley, Fiona Marron, Finn Nichol, Emma Brennan and Thomas Wells, Ciara Rodgers, Struàn Bell, Christopher Mahon, neonatus.exe

Exhibition continues from 30/01/2026 to 08/11/2026.

To celebrate our 75th anniversary, the Lyric presents this new exhibition that showcases our rich history. A history which includes an art gallery (The New Gallery, 1963–1969), a literary magazine Threshold (1957–1990), a dance centre, a drama school, Belfast’s first music academy, and of course, a theatre.

Click here to view the full programme

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.

Belfast’s Trailblazing Visionary Returns: A New Chapter of  A House of Play Explores Alice Berger Hammerschlag’s Groundbreaking New Gallery
The Lyric Theatre is delighted to present  The Return: Alice Berger Hammerschlag and the New Gallery, a new exhibition within its major anniversary show, A House of Play. This latest chapter revisits the bold legacy of the Lyric’s New Gallery (1963-1969) and its singular Curator and Director, Alice Berger Hammerschlag (1917-1969), bringing renewed focus to a remarkable and often overlooked moment in Belfast’s cultural history.

“SEANSCÉALTA, GUTHANNA BEO, What Still Lives Here” is solo exhibition by Justine G. Cappelli exploring Irish mythology as living material, continually retold, reinterpreted and reshaped.

The exhibition brings together watercolour and metallic leaf paintings inspired by the Mythological, Ulster and Fenian Cycles, alongside real testimonies about what Irish mythology means to people today, through identity, belonging, memory, migration and personal experience.

Opening at the Garage Theatre, Monaghan, on 2 September at 6.30pm, with an opening talk by Dr Lauren Cassidy at 7pm. The exhibition runs until 30 November 2026.

Inspired by artist Martina McDonald’s journey to Antarctica, this exhibition invites visitors to discover the icy landscapes and remarkable wildlife that she encountered over 17,000km from her home in Co. Kildare. Featuring original photography and hands-on creative activities, the exhibition celebrates the beauty and wonder of the frozen continent. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to explore, create, and let their imaginations wander.

One of the exhibition highlights is Martina’s recent engagement project with the Shackleton Experience and Riverbank Arts Centre – 120+ original prints created by school children from across the county.

“We do not care for what we do not know, and on the whole we do not know what we cannot name.” Robert Mcfarlane, 2015 

The works in this exhibition are inspired by Róisín Lewis’s bicycle journeys through the Irish landscape. During the summer, she is struck by the diversity of wildflowers she encounters.

On her travels, Lewis wears a small field recorder. To distract herself from the effort of cycling, she tests her botanical knowledge by naming out-loud each species that she passes. The breathless determination captured in her voice recordings, highlights the physical effort of climbing hills. The mental effort of recalling the names of flowers as she comes back downhill at speed is also clear.

As she listens back to her recordings, what appears in her mind’s eye are not intricate botanical forms, but sequences of bright colours unfolding like a woven cloth. Lewis has experimented with ways of making textiles from plant fibres using traditional techniques such as twisting, looping and weaving. These slow, repetitive processes are comparable to the rhythms of the body moving through the landscape.

Opening times:

Monday – Thursday: 10am – 8pm

Friday and Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Sunday : 12 noon – 4pm 

Gallery closed from Saturday to Monday on Bank Holidays. 

Image credit: Steps, 2025, Róisín Lewis. Photo: Lee Welch

Exhibition continues from 04/09/26-30/10/26.

LHQ Gallery is pleased to present thirty 6-inch top-down all-purpose, a new solo exhibition by artist Maitiú MacCárthaigh, exploring the shifting realities of contemporary rural Ireland through sculpture, installation and material experimentation. This exhibition coincides with Mac Cárthaigh’s exhibition hay boy, gay boy at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery, opening on 10 September. thirty 6-inch top-down all-purpose will open at LHQ Gallery on 4 September at 5pm all are welcome. The exhibition runs until 30 October. LHQ Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am – 5.30pm except for public holidays. 

Between Cloud and Ground marks a new body of work from ceramic artist Ciara Campbell-Crawford, introducing new forms that reach beyond the vessel into open space. Inspired by the vast, dramatic skies of Ireland, where light shifts in an instant and clouds gather with dramatic intensity, these pieces capture a landscape in constant motion.

At the heart of the work are birds in flight: fleeting, purposeful, free. Rendered in clay, they carry the weight of longing and the lightness of escape in equal measure. The Irish landscape below is felt rather than mapped, elemental, abstract, and intimately familiar.

Golden Thread Gallery presents NEW WORK, a major new exhibition by internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist John Carson.

Originally from Northern Ireland and now based in Pittsburgh, USA, Carson’s practice spans film, sound, installation and public art. Combining humour, research and personal narrative, his work explores themes of history, identity, place and belonging.

The exhibition brings together three new film projects that examine cultural connections between Ireland and the United States through Carson’s distinctive blend of storytelling, historical inquiry and wit.

Paul Seawright revisited and photographed the sites of Sectarian attacks during the 1970’s close to where the artist grew up in Belfast. The texts accompanying each photograph are from newspaper reports at the time and document the murders of innocent civilians, killed for their perceived religion. Reference to Protestant or Catholic background was removed from the text.
Seawright is best known for his alternative visual analysis of locations and subjects dominated by mainstream media. His photographs are devoid of obvious drama but loaded with implicit tension.

Exhibition runs 10/09/26-12/11/26.

Cork Printmakers present hay boy, gay boy, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh.
Mac Cárthaigh’s work explores the rural sexual imaginary. Within this, Mac Cárthaigh’s practice focuses on rural gentrification, homonormativity, greenwashing, and the material economies of space and place. They approach work through a Country Boy’s Make-Do methodology, drawing on a Co-Op materiality. Mac Cárthaigh’s practice examines how we construct different kinds of rural space with a materiality not rooted in rurality but with things that come in off the back of a lorry to be bought off the shelf.

Official opening 7pm on Friday the 18th September 2026.

A Sculpture and Print Exhibition by Ben Reilly.

An armada of raft-like sculptures and swaying limbs glide through the Townhall Art Centre Gallery. Floating raft-like islands are surrounded by angular, tree-like sculptures that sway overhead and reach towards the ceiling. These are accompanied by etchings and individual cast-tin relics.
Drawing, research and observation are at the core of the working methods behind this exhibition. Just as the practical process involves cutting, shaping, refitting, chopping and changing, so too does the research that informs the sculptures, etchings and casts.

An exhibition that explores the innovation of a series of flagship public art commissions initiated by Garter Lane Arts Centre and artist Garrett Phelan between 1995 & 1999.
Phelan, alongside then Garter Lane director Annette Clancy, gave no title to the programme or identified any of the events or encounters that occurred explicitly as art. Bypassing established ways in which art typically appears in public and embracing unconventional approaches and risk taking, the impact of these artworks three decades on still seem revelatory, with an abiding belief in artists to act and find new ways to critique, celebrate and investigate society.

Ormston House is delighted to present Alt-West / Alt-Thiar, an exhibition by the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.). The exhibition opens with a performance on Culture Night, Friday, 18 September from 6.30–7.30pm, and remains open until 9pm. Admission is free and no ticket is required.
The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.) was founded in 2015 by Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly. This exhibition results from an invitation by Ormston House for the O.J.A.I. to direct their focus on Limerick and the Mid-West of Ireland. The resulting body of work is the culmination of a two-year investigation.

FUNDAMENTAL 2
Under the title ‘The existence that concerns us’ George Meertens brings together a careful selection of international artists, including Irish artist David Quinn.

This exhibition is a follow-up to FUNDAMENTAL (2022), which was co-curated by George Meertens at de Halle. In 2026, he returns as curator with FUNDAMENTAL 2. In this new edition, Meertens builds on his previous research and demonstrates how material, form, and action converge to reveal the image in its most essential meaning.

Exhibition runs 12/08/26-08/11/26.

Irish painter Paul McCloskey selected for the ‘Geumgang Nature Art Biennale exhibition in Gongju, South Korea, 2026’.
Selected from 50 countries, his work will become part of the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, art collection and will be included in further permanent or traveling exhibitions.
His work ‘Natures Odyssey’ continues on the theme of landscape, imagination, memory, people, and emotions.
The Nature Art Cube Exhibition is an Art project in which artists express their reflections on nature and diverse artistic approaches. 

Exhibition runs 05/09/26-03/01/27.

Throughout the museum’s historic house, ‘The as-yet unseen’ presents site-responsive installations by Grace Weir, curated by Bridget de León. Created in response to the Herschel family’s home, the exhibition considers observation as a form of continuous and highly attuned looking, grounded in the rhythms of domestic life. Taking its title from William Herschel’s phrase for the as-yet-undiscovered planet Neptune, the project brings together new works that share a commitment to patient, repeated attention to what can be seen, what remains just beyond view, and what may only become visible through sustained, collective looking.

Exhibition runs 18/09/26-15/11/26.

Desire Lines is aemi’s 2026 touring programme, an annual selection of artist and experimental film that brings together a range of voices from Irish and international contemporary practice.

Featuring films by Chloe Brenan, Collectif Faire Part, Eóin Heaney, Olivia Normile and Basma al-Sharif, ‘Desire Lines’ premiered at the Irish Film Institute in January and has since screened in Belfast and Galway with further dates also confirmed to take place later in 2026 in Wicklow, Louth and Offaly.

Exhibition runs 13/09/26-17/01/26.

Cathy Wilkes grew up in a working-class area of East Belfast and moved to Glasgow aged 19, in 1985. After returning to Ireland for four years, she has lived in Scotland since 1994. Her art and writing are introspective, and sometimes at the edge of legibility. At the same time, out of Wilkes’ non-dualist world emerge figures and objects which are potently direct and seditious. The exhibition includes three Untitled installations from 2026, 2024 and 2019 together with paintings and sculpture from the same period. Cathy Wilkes represented Britain at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and Scotland at the 51st Venice Biennial in 2005.

Opening Evening: Thursday 24 September 2026, 6pm – 9pm.

Exhibition continues: 24 September – 21 November 2026.

Sarah Lee-Byrne (aka Ayeen) will be showcasing a new body of work in the form of small scale etchings as well as screenprints at Seacourt Print Workshop, Co. Down, this Autumn. “Reflections” is as the name suggests, a reflection of life seen through exploring and discovering quiet moments in nature. Sarah’s small scale artwork invites you to take a closer look and appreciate the often seemingly small and overlooked moments.

An exhibition not to be missed, by one of our members and studio holders, Ayeen. A series of brand new intricate etchings, monotone screen prints and some old favourites too. Opening as part of Late Night Art Bangor on the 24th September from 6-9pm.
Sarah will also be talking about her work and leading a demo of her printing process on Friday 23rd Oct 5pm.

Curated by Dr. Margarita Cappock

The End, Once More is a solo exhibition by Tamsin Snow, curated by Margarita Cappock for The LAB Gallery, Dublin. Bringing together new and existing works across sculpture, photography and CGI animation, the exhibition explores cycles of obsolescence, repetition and renewal, and the increasingly unstable relationship between physical objects and their digital representations.

The Breathing Wall marks the first solo exhibition by artist Daniel Godínez Nivón in the UK and north of Ireland. The exhibition is an invitation to dream with a place, and the many forms of life and memory it holds. Daniel’s practice investigates dreaming as a shared space for encountering other forms of life and sparking collective imagination. Bringing together ecological relationships and different forms of knowledge, his work explores the possibility of an ecosystem of dreams: a territory shared by humans, plants, stones and other beings.

Launches: Saturday 26 September 2026, 6-8pm

Leanne McDonagh is an Irish artist from the Traveller community. McDonagh records her community’s life and heritage from an insider perspective, subtly yet vividly capturing its circumstances and experiences. As she puts it, “If somebody else is showing what it is to look like a Traveller, I am showing what it is to feel like a Traveller.” McDonagh’s images portray family meetings, celebrations, scenes of labour and trade, domestic interiors and activities, and public gatherings. They emphasise both the distinct characteristics of Traveller culture and universal aspects of social relations.

SHIFT Reflections of unknowing. Paintings by Patrick Conyngham
29 Sept – 9 Nov 2026
The paintings are in the hidden language of change and its numerous manifestations and
are an assimilation of that process in all its mystery. Sometimes the sources are known,
sometimes they are not, but either way they become part of the painting. They are a visual
diary with markers or indicators that occur naturally working with a mix of intention and
intuition. Colour is used to heighten sensation and with the aim of a raw dynamic, they come
into being sequentially and organically. They are an interpretative filtering of the world and
universe around us.

Exhibition runs 01/10/26-23/12/26

An exhibition of landscape paintings by Wexford artist Martina Furlong. Her work explores our spiritual ties to the land, and how it links us to our ancestors, history and culture. These paintings tell the stories the land holds and celebrate the connection between us, the earth and life beyond. This is where our ancestors sat, where they harvested their food, celebrated, lamented and were laid to rest. Their ancient conversation, now whispers in the wind.

The exhibition runs from October 1st to the end of December with the official opening on Saturday, September 24th at 6pm.

Draíocht is delighted to present Sharon Murphy’s Mise en Abyme, which focuses on Parisian carousels and theatrical décor during moments of stillness and silence. Drawing on her background in theatre and informed by concepts from psychoanalysis and magic realism in literature, this work highlights Murphy’s longstanding interest in staged spaces and the performative in photography.

Mise en Abyme was originally commissioned by Nora Hickey M’Sichili, Director Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, where it premiered in 2024. In association with Photo Museum Ireland and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, the exhibition toured in Ireland in 2025.

Opening reception Thursday 01 October, 5.30-7.30pm. Wine by Bubble Brothers.

Artist talk, Saturday 10 October, 12pm

“I create paintings that explore work and the human experience of working. My artwork focuses on the routines, pressures, and expectations that shape everyday life, often highlighting how work can become repetitive, exhausting, or overwhelming. Alongside this, my paintings include a quieter subplot about the importance of free time. I am interested in the contrast between moments of labour and moments of rest, and how rare and meaningful unstructured time can be.”

Within the present backdrop of late capitalism and austere technological advancement, All Manner of Things Shall Be Well explores how humankind navigates this alienating and dissociative landscape.

How do we connect to the natural world? How do we forge relationships and maintain them? What moments do we witness, recognise as beautiful? How do they resonate in our memory?

With work from visual artist/filmmaker, Éanna Mac Canna and sound artist, Nathan Harper, they acknowledge the gentle moments and details of everyday existence holding such profound weight, which arguably surpass domineering technological forces, if we listen closely.

Coláiste Feirste to showcase their artwork in Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich. This exhibition gives us an insight into the young people in our community and the subjects that inspire them to create their art. This exhibition is now a yearly event which showcases the immense talent coming out of the Coláiste Feirste art room. The pieces will include work by A-Level and GCSE students across a range of mediums. We are delighted to celebrate the fantastic artistic ability in our community courtesy of budding young artists.

Liminal Spaces – Interpretations of Samhain

Belfast artists: Farhad O’Neill, Andrew Whitson, Deirdre Mackel, Hugh Clawson, Vicky Visser, Leah Davis, Patricia Mooney, Niamh Mooney.

Seoladh taispeántas/Opening Night Thursday October 1, 7pm
Closing Party October 31, 7pm

All works for sale via Hotel staff.

Opening reception with performance on 2nd October 7-10pm. Then exhibit remains on view at normal hours until October 30th.

Imposter imagines the life and art collection of an illustrious Madame, whose pursuit of social standing and a lasting legacy leads her to obsessively commission portraits of herself.

Menopause affects half the population yet remains largely absent from visual culture. In this new solo exhibition, painter Éadaoin Glynn explores ageing, visibility and the changing female body. Drawing on an anonymous survey in which women described menopause through images and phrases: “drowning, adrift, grief, rage; but also “metamorphosis, rebirth, freedom”. Glynn responds with paint, allowing it to bleed, pool and leave tidemarks on canvas. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with texts by critic Cristín Leach and curator Kim Crowley. Éadaoin Glynn and Kim Crowley will be in-conversation at 1pm on Saturday 17 October.

Exhibition continues from 02/10/26.

Voices of Peace Visual Art Exhibition reflecting on Peace, Equality and Human Rights. A multidisciplinary exhibition reflecting on peace, equality and human rights through contemporary visual and creative expression. Featuring work by writer Féilim James and visual artists Jessica Rodrigues, Gillian Lambe, Viktoriia Yevsiukova, Hina Khan, Aman Walayat and Mary Moynihan, the exhibition explore peace and human rights, sparking dialogue and new visions for the future. Supported by the dlr County Council Universal Grant Scheme and the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office. 

For more information, click here.

Avenues into Modern & Contemporary Art
Dates: Saturday 3 October 2026– Saturday 3 April 2027 (excl. 24 October 2026 and 28 March 2027 Bank Holidays)

This series of illustrated art history lectures will look at the diverse range of influences, subject matter and artistic movements explored by some of the most innovative artists from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Throughout the course artworks from the Hugh Lane Gallery’s permanent collection will be among the artworks explored. These illustrated lectures will offer the opportunity for exploring engaging and wide-ranging themes from art history to contemporary visual art practice.

SO Fine Art Editions is delighted to present Symbiosis, an exhibition by Luxembourgish sculptural textile artist and experimental embroiderer Yanis Miltgen.

His practice brings together embroidery, knitting and contemporary materials such as metal and silicone, extending the possibilities of thread as a sculptural medium. Following the development of his first collection, Miltgen has expanded his work into artworks and gallery installations, establishing an increasingly experimental approach to the relationship between textile, structure and space.

GOMA Waterford, is pleased to invite you to ‘Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair’, a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary visual artist Rayleen Clancy.
Opening: Saturday 3 October 2026, 6–8PM.

Bringing together stained glass, moving image, sculpture, costume, light and sound, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a luminous, handmade world of altered furniture, hybrid beings and hidden habitats. Drawing on Irish folklore, coastal caves, ecological thinking and feminist storytelling, Clancy reimagines the Grúagach — a shapeshifting “hairy woman” — as a guardian of wild wisdom, care and transformation.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney is delighted to present Wild Irish Plants in Autumn, an exhibition by Sheelagh Keane.

Sheelagh grew up in County Clare and has always loved the wild flowers – particularly on the Loop Head peninsula in summer, when the light makes the flowers glow. She aims to have her work rooted in close observation of the natural world. Her botanical paintings combine botanical illustration with a sensitive approach to colour, form and detail, celebrating the beauty of native plants, fruits and flowers.

Wexford Arts Centre is pleased to present Cut-Flow, a solo exhibition by Lar O’Toole. The exhibition will run in D’lush Cafe from Wednesday, 7th October, to Wednesday, 18th November, 2026.

Through photography and video, Cut-Flow explores the intersecting histories, rituals and environmental realities of Our Lady’s Island. The exhibition considers how cultural memory, belief and ecological change become embedded within a landscape shaped by both natural processes and human intervention.

O’Toole’s practice has long focused on south Wexford, exploring cycles of environmental change and the relationship between human and geological timescales.

Acclaimed Father and Daughter To Exhibit Together at ArtisAnn in Belfast

Graham and Lisa Gingles.

Wednesday 7th to Saturday 31st October

Late Night Opening WED 7th October 6 to 8pm

All Welcome and No Booking Necessary

Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

Graham Gingles is internationally renowned for his complex, intricately built boxes. These contain scenes which comment on his major themes of life and death From happiness to trauma, travel and autobiography the dioramas and scenes reveal something new on each viewing.

Anthony D Kelly in collaboration with the University of Galway Art Gallery and Project RARE, is excited to announce the launch of an upcoming exhibition of ‘The Lexicon of Wonder’ project. Opening on Thursday the 8th of October at 6pm and running until Friday the 6th of November.

This project featuring an exhibition, workshops, discussions and an artist talk is inspired by recent research into the emotions of Wonder & Awe and into the arts as a deep technology for evoking these states in both practitioner and audience.

Come join us to encounter artworks which instill a viewer with a sense of wonder and boundless curiosity.

Exploring colour in art: from Impressionism to the present day.

This six part online lectures series with art historian Jessica Fahy will explore the theme of colour in art from Impressionism to the present day. Drawing on Irish and international art from the Hugh Lane Gallery collection and elsewhere including works by artists Claude Monet, Roderic O’Conor, Mainie Jellett, Sonia Delaunay, Paul Klee, Agnes Martin, Josef and Anni Albers and others. Presented live via Zoom webinar with recording also sent to all enrolled to watch at their leisure.

Tralee Art Group (TAG) is delighted to return to Siamsa Tíre with Draíocht, an exhibition celebrating the enchantment found in everyday life, people, places and landscapes. Through a diverse collection of artworks, TAG artists explore the beauty, wonder and inspiration that surround us, from the dramatic Kerry landscape to moments of colour and imagination

Founded in 1979, Tralee Art Group has supported and promoted visual arts in Kerry for over four decades. With more than 55 members, the group brings together artists of varying styles, interests and experience, fostering creativity through exhibitions, workshops and community engagement.

Opening: 9th October 5.30pm All Welcome
Exhibition: runs 9th – 31st October
For twenty-one years, Ranelagh Arts has made the village a place for creativity – the work of its own community, and of the many artists, performers, writers, and speakers it has drawn to Ranelagh from far beyond. This exhibition gathers what we have found so far – the festivals and first nights, the singers, storytellers and one-off wonders, and the people who made them happen – and lays it out year by year.

Exhibition runs 09/10/26-21/11/26.

Transmissions opens at The Courthouse Gallery & Studios with Beth Fox’s Grateful Patients, an experimental two-channel film installation examining belief, trust and misinformation. Bringing contemporary wellness disinformation into conversation with the story of a nineteenth-century medical charlatan, Fox explores how comforting narratives persist, and how technology, media and mediated identities influence behaviour, culture and our sense of what is real. From 9 October 2026, Ennistymon.

All the People We Will Never Meet
A solo exhibition by Thomas Brezing

Curated by Cherry Smyth

at Wexford Arts Centre
10th October – 16th December 2026

Opening Event: Saturday, 10th October at 4pm
Guest Speaker: Writer and Critic Niall MacMonagle

This exhibition grew out of a 15-year correspondence between artist Thomas Brezing and writer Cherry Smyth, founded in their common addiction to painting and poetry. It includes a potent and tender series of ‘Head Paintings’, 2020-2026, beside earlier large paintings, 2008-2020, which establish themes of transcendence and obliteration.

Chorus – A solo exhibition by Richard Malone
Wexford County Council

Curated by Karla Sánchez Zepeda and Catherine Bowe

12th October – 20th November 2026
Opening: Saturday 10th October at 2 p.m.

Guest Speaker: Seán Kissane, Curator – Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art

Working across sculpture, textiles, drawing, installation and performance, Malone has developed a distinctive practice rooted in material, skill and craft. His work explores ideas around Irishness, identity, queerness, place and cultural history, drawing on both personal experience and wider histories of making and labour.

The Rosslare Gallery proudly presents a solo exhibition of watercolour paintings by Japanese artist, Keiko Tanabe as part of the Wexford Festival Opera fringe exhibitions.
Keiko painted the works en pleinair around Wexford and the south east this year as guest artist to Wexford’s plein air festival Art In The Open.

Róisín is a new exhibition by Elinor O’Donovan exploring the life of her ancestor Charlotte Grace O’Brien (1845–1909), a writer and campaigner who advocated for Irish women emigrating to America. Through film, archival material and installation, O’Donovan traces O’Brien’s journeys between Ireland and New York and explores connections between migration, women, ecology and Irish national identity. The exhibition culminates O’Donovan’s Sample-Studios Spike Island Summer Residency, delivered with Spike Island and Sirius Arts Centre.