What’s On around Ireland

Three of my sculptures selected for Eco Aware Art Gallery ® Art Gallery
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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.

Entangled Life
Curated by Cristina Nicotra
May–December 2025

Entangled Life, supported by Community Foundation Ireland, is a programme exploring the deep connections between climate, society, and the ecosystems where art and community intertwine. This initiative unravels heterogeneous climate and social topics, by understanding ecology as a complex web of relationships—between humans, the more-than-human world, and political and natural environments.

Entangled Life aims to provide space to facilitate a network of relationships, collaboration and engagement within the community. Over the course of 8 months the project will bring together community participants, artists and experts – including Lisa Fitzsimons (Strategy and Sustainability Lead at Irish Museum of Modern Art), Eileen Hutton PhD (Head of Art and Ecology at Burren College of Art), and Gareth Kennedy (artist, lecturer and lead coordinator on NCAD FIELD) – for a series of monthly panel talks, workshops and artistic interventions at Pallas Projects, culminating in an exhibition in December 2025.

The project draws inspiration from Merlin Sheldrake’s book of the same name, which explores the interconnected mycelium worlds that allow for unexpected possibilities, and Joanna Macy’s principles of ‘Active Hope’, which emphasize knowledge, compassion and action. With the final goal of promoting a decarbonised future, the project explores the links between climate issues and society, and shows how they are relevant in our daily life and our community.

The events series will provide diverse perspectives and room for direct interaction among participants through a non-linear, non-hierarchical approach, fostering exploration and critical thinking, considering mental wellbeing. This multidisciplinary initiative feeds the need to provide opportunities for influencing and activating change effectively. It allows the community to learn about climate issues, react, and co-create diverse, dynamic and unpredictable connections and inspirations. Feedback and reactions collected throughout the programme will be compiled into a toolkit report.

In all, seven topics will be unravelled and discussed through open panel discussions, workshops beginning with The Art of Just Transition on Wednesday 14th of May, with Rachel Fallon, Artist; Dr Egle Gusciute, Assistant Professor in Sociology, UCD; and Michelle Murphy, Research & Policy Analyst with Social Justice Ireland and member of Just Transition Commission.

Events Schedule

14th May The Art of Just Transition (Talk)

11th June Discovering biomaterials in art and society (Talk)

9th July Art and biomaterials (Workshop)

3rd September Beyond Words: communicating sustainability (Talk)

1st October Intersectionality in art and climate (Talk)

29th October Climate and Art: programming & advocacy (Talk)

27th November Entangled Life (Exhibition opening)

3rd December Climate crisis and mental health (Workshops)

17th December Climate activism and socially engaged art (Talk)

Events take place Wednesdays, 6–8pm. Participants are welcome to attend some or all events. Places can be booked via Eventbrite, but there will be a places for walk-ins subject to availability

IMMA presents a solo exhibition by Sam Gilliam (1933 – 2022), one of the great innovators in post-war American painting, co-organised with the Sam Gilliam Foundation. Emerging in the mid-1960s, his canonical ‘Drape’ paintings merged painting, sculpture, and performance in conversation with architecture in entirely new ways. Suspending unstretched lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed.

Sewing Fields highlights Gilliam’s connection to Ireland, where a transformative residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in the 1990s reshaped his artistic practice. Gilliam embraced new materials, working with pre-stained fabrics that he had shipped to Ireland, cutting and layering them into sculptural compositions. A collaboration with a local dressmaker further expanded this process, reinforcing his innovative fusion of painting and textile techniques.

The dramatic, undulating forms in his work resonate with the vastness and wildness of the Irish coast, featuring loose, flowing compositions that reflect the organic and unpredictable nature of the land and sea. Gilliam’s signature vibrant colour fields were influenced by the unique Irish light, resulting in atmospheric, almost translucent hues. By moving away from the rigid geometry of modernism, Gilliam’s work in Ireland fostered an intuitive dialogue with the surrounding environment, celebrating the physicality of painting and the emotional resonance of place through abstraction and materiality.

This exhibition continues IMMA’s engagement with artists whose work has received renewed attention and accolades in recent years that has included Howardena Pindell (2023), Derek Jarman (2019), and Frank Bowling (2018).

‘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.

Exhibition continues from the 13th of June to the 4th of January 2026

An exhibition of rarely seen artworks by internationally important Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura, documenting his relationship with Ireland during the Troubles. 

From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-1985) created a powerful and largely unseen collection of photographs in Ireland, both north and south. 

After covering the Vietnam War, Akihiko Okamura visited Ireland in 1968 drawn by the connection to John F. Kennedy’s family roots. A year later, he moved to Ireland with his own family and stayed until his sudden passing in 1985. During that time, he captured everyday life with his family and the conflict in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles.

Okamura’s photographs have rarely been seen before, and show a unique artistic view of Ireland at this time. What makes his work stand out is that he chose to make Ireland his home. Among all the international photographers working at that time, Okamura stood out for his commitment to the history of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Since he became so closely connected to what he was photographing, Okamura created innovative images in both his own style and how the Troubles were shown through photography. His profound, personal relationship with Ireland allowed him to develop a new method of documenting conflict: poetic and ethereal moments of peace in a time of war.

Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others is now open in Art Gallery 4, Ulster Museum. No booking needed. 

The Memories of Others is a Photo Museum Ireland touring exhibition. Curated by Pauline Vermare, Seán O’Hagan, Masako Toda, Brendan Maher and Trish Lambe, with the support of the Estate of Akihiko Okamura, it premiered at Photo Museum Ireland in 2024. It opened in Belfast during Belfast Photo Festival.

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OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST, CURATOR MEET-AND-GREET, FILM SCREENINGS, AND MORE

“It’s terrible to think [about] where I get my inspiration, but all these things are fodder to me as an artist. I love trees. I love mountains. But I don’t want to go out and paint them. I don’t paint to make money. I paint what I want, and I’ve always been political.”

— Patricia Hurl

For the past 40+ years, the painter Patricia Hurl has portrayed the lives of Irish women and their experiences as housewives, child-bearers, caretakers, providers and warriors navigating a male-dominated world, evoking the broad spectrum of emotions felt by her subjects through expressionistic, layered brushstrokes and blending the figurative and abstract.

As part of Irish Gothic, a retrospective of Hurl’s extraordinary career presented by IAC in partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), we will be offering special opportunities this September for audiences to engage with the artist and her work, including an opening night reception; a talk with curator Johanne Mullan of IMMA; a members-only private tour of the exhibition; screenings of the documentary Dawn to Dusk, which follows the artist collective Na Cailleacha, of which Hurl is a founding member; and gallery hours for an Irish Gothic theatre installation. Admission is free.

THE SWALLOW, Tadhg O’Sullivan’s new feature, starring Academy Award winner Brenda Fricker, will open in select Irish cinemas from 19 September.
The film presents a meditation on art, memory and solitude in later life, through an artist exploring memories and fragments of the past while trying to make sense of her own unwillingness to let go.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/marmaladefilms/theswallowofficialtrailer

Tickets available via https://linktr.ee/marmaladefilms

The Swallow was funded by The Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon, under the Authored Works scheme.

Pollanroe Burn or An Pollán Rua – the little red pool – unfolds through a series of new films and archival fragments, forming part of artist Emily McFarland’s ongoing long-term research into the shifting ecology of the Sperrin Mountains of West Tyrone, in the North of Ireland, in the shadow of proposed major industrial-scale gold extraction. The project asks: How can we cultivate modes of thinking that allow intellect and empathy to apprehend the long-standing and delicate connections between humans and their environments?

Launching: Saturday 27 September 2025 at Void Art Centre, 6-8pm

VISUAL is pleased to present Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood. This landmark touring exhibition has been conceived by Hettie Judah in collaboration with Hayward Gallery Touring. Following a successful tour of the UK, Acts of Creation comes to VISUAL augmented by the inclusion of works from Irish artists and collections.

Spanning all of VISUAL’s galleries, Acts of Creation presents work in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography and sound that speaks to the experience of motherhood in all its complexity. At VISUAL, an accompanying in-depth learning programme will respond to the exhibition’s themes and works. A reading area, a reflection space and specialist workshops and tours will further provide visitors with ways to engage with the ideas and experiences reflected in this powerful exhibition.

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 70s to the present day.
While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about real motherhood, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation addresses this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important cultural figure.
How does the image of motherhood change when the artist is drawing on lived experience? What is made visible? What challenges are levelled at motherhood as an institution through which the mother is idealised as self-sacrificing, wholesome, tireless and uncomplaining?
Diverse experiences are explored across four thematic displays. Creation looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing. It imagines motherhood as a creative act, albeit one in which joy might be tempered with anxiety, pain and exhaustion.
Maintenance is dedicated to the ongoing work of motherhood and caregiving in the day-to-day. Here we find artists engaged in domestic chores, keeping children safe, and navigating a balance between art and parenting.
In Loss artists reflect on experiences of miscarriage, adoption and involuntary childlessness. Works in this section also protest the loss of women’s reproductive rights.
The Temple is a series of self-portraits in which artists explore their own identity in relation to motherhood. For decades women were told they could not be both an artist and a mother. These portraits stand in defiance of that idea.

This exhibition features artworks that include nudity and explore childbirth, (in)fertility, miscarriage, abortion, loss and domestic abuse.

William McKeown made paintings, drawings, prints and installations that captured the openness and life-enhancing power of nature.
Guided by a belief in the primacy of feeling, his paintings often appeared at first to resemble objective minimalism or the monochrome. Yet they offered much more: nature as real and tangible, all around us, something to be touched and felt.
Each painting is slightly off square, undermining the perfection of geometry, and scaled roughly to the size of the human chest, as if mirroring the capacity of our lungs to breathe in air.

Picasso lived surrounded by his art. His personal life and his work, his homes and his studios were always intimately linked. The exhibition places Picasso in the context of his studios, highlighting the various facets and phases of his art and life. It will explore the key locations that defined him, from his arrival in Paris at the start of the twentieth century to his studio in Mas Notre-Dame de Vie (1961-1973) in Mougins. The exhibition will feature paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and works on paper, as well as photographic and audio-visual works.

Sea Skin features a tactile soft sculpture inspired by the experience of sea swimming and encounters beneath the ocean’s surface.

Drawing from site visits to the islands of West Cork, the textures and colours of the piece reflect the diverse types of seaweed that embrace the coastal landscape.

The installation invites viewers to engage with the textile sculpture, as soft, airy fabrics gently brush against your skin, encouraging tactile exploration through hand-sewn strands.

LAST ACT at The MAC, Belfast is a synchronized video installation by artist Marie Hanlon and composer Rhona Clarke. The work presents climate change as something both real and abstract, as such it mirrors the human response to a changing earth. Visual imagery draws on footage of real weather events, sequences are coordinated to make them different from daily media reportage. Opening and closing sections allude to industry and rise of emission levels following the industrial revolution. Rhona Clarke’s choral music takes its text from the latin poem Dies Irae, referencing the final judgement.

Curated by Emer McGarry.

The exhibition spans installation, film, drawing, and sculpture, with works by Marcus Coates, Miriam de Búrca, Susan Hiller, Anna Maria Maiolino, Kathy Prendergast, Cornelia Parker, and the collaborative research project Selvagem – Cycle of Studies. Each proposes different strategies for navigating what we inherit and what we pass on.

A celebration of the artists’ process and practice, this exhibition brings together a selection of her paintings, notebooks and sketchbooks, enabling the viewer engage with a range of works inspired by the artists’ interests and travels as well as her methodologies.

Flannery’s paintings emerged from her deep connection and study of the natural world and from the very different landscapes that she immersed herself in. From her home in Carlow, to Waterford, Wexford, Mayo and further afield in places such as Yamba, New South Wales, Flannery distilled landscape, sky, sea and land.

Exhibition continues 1 October – 30th November 2025.

Fine Point – Details in Pencil. A solo exhibition by artist Gillian Cullen featuring a series of intricate, detailed drawings paying homage to the enduring art of the pencil. Drawing is one of the oldest and most direct ways that artists try to convey truth and honesty — the desire to understand one another and our environment in time and space. Gillian invites the viewer into a world of minute details, each detail as important than the next, using different tones, textures, and subtle shading, as well as the power of negative space. 

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “The Land of Olives” by Marianne Potterton.

Marianne Potterton is a visual artist based in Doolin Co. Clare. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Painting from Crawford College of Art and a Masters in Europe Fine Art in Barcelona through Southampton University.

Though her first love is painting, her practice spans across and connects a diverse range of disciplines.

Join us for a relaxed coffee morning tour of Inheritance. An exhibition that explores the legacies shaping our present and asks how we might create better futures for humanity.

Led by a member of our team, this easy going tour is perfect for all art enthusiasts. After the tour, enjoy further conversation over a complimentary tea or coffee. We’d be delighted to welcome you to this informal and friendly tour experience.

Every second Thursday, 11.30am
€6 pp

Tour Dates

Thu. 23 & 30 October
Thu. 13 & 27 November
Thu. 4 & 18 December

Exhibition continues from the 10th of October to the 30th of November 2025

Irish in Resistance during World War II is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art, photography, film, poetry, and storytelling, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism. The installation features original artworks by Hina Khan, visual artist; Amna Walayat, visual artist; Féilim James, writer and poet; and Mary Moynihan, writer, poet, creator of art and photograph, created in response to stories of people who stood up for the rights of others. Alongside these artworks we have original artworks by Noah Sex and Jessica Rodrigues on themes of equality.

Strule Arts Centre is delighted to announce the opening of Connection, a solo exhibition by Buncrana-based artist Veronica Buchanan, launching at 7pm on Thursday 30 October in the Gallery at Strule Arts Centre, Omagh.

In Connection, Veronica explores themes of personal experience, relationships, memory, and reflection—concepts that evoke emotional responses and invite viewers to engage on a deeply human level. The exhibition presents a compelling collection of both earlier and recent works, showcasing a variety of media including drawing, painting, ceramics, and textiles.

Vague Symptom Clinic considers Ireland’s legacies of colonialism, partition, and state violence, and their relationship to intergenerational trauma and inherited chronic illness. The title is taken from the real-life NHS clinic that attempts to identify origins or causes of a range of indicators of disease, including weight loss, fatigue, brain fog and night sweats. Ó Dochartaigh makes sculptural installations with materials including blown glass, silicone, ice, lard, metal, diagrammatic images, sound recordings, electronic components and medical tools made of ceramic, marble, and granite.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) and Pearse Museum are proud to present a major retrospective of the work of Irish wood sculptor Liam Roe (1935–2010), running from 1 November 2025 to 1 February 2026.

Roe spent his life cultivating the craft of wood sculpture, developing his practice over several decades. He worked primarily with oak, walnut, Spanish chestnut, elm, yew and lime, creating human and animal forms that reflected both Irish cultural memory and everyday experience. His work explored themes of history, mythology, music, faith, the natural world, and the bond between mother and child.

Born in Marino, North Dublin, Roe began carving in his twenties. In 1962, he travelled to Oberammergau, Germany, to study traditional woodcarving, and later attended night classes at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). He held his first solo exhibition in 1963 at Brown Thomas, Dublin.

Roe played a significant role in preserving traditional woodcarving in Ireland. He contributed to teaching at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), where his deep knowledge and practical skill were respected by students and colleagues alike.

This exhibition, organised in partnership with the OPW, brings together a wide selection of Roe’s sculptures, many of which have never before been shown publicly.

Image: “Cut-out lady” in sycamore (1972)”

Public Opening: Sat 1st Nov, 6pm

This exhibition marks 15 years of the Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award, a partnership between Kildare County Council Arts Service & Riverbank Arts Centre. Pattern Recognition: Architectures of Seeing brings together the work of 15 artists who have shaped the visual landscape of County Kildare.

Curated by Paula Barrett, featuring artists Martina McDonald, Noel Hensey, Brian Cregan, Mary-Jo Gilligan, Isobel Egan, Denis Kelly, Marta Golubowska, Brenda Kearney, Michelle McBride, Caoimhe McGuckin, Shane Hynan, Katie Whyte, Gavin Casey, Kym Tracey, and Fiyin Oluokun.

Image: Michelle McBride

This exhibition offers insight into the artist’s process of gathering ideas – how observation becomes gesture and thought transforms into form. Viewers are invited to journey through points of contact and connection, where elements meet and shift, and to sense how these encounters give rise to new work.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney Library Gallery is delighted to present Mary, Mary, by London born-Irish photographer, Mary Musgrove, previously shown at the London Irish Centre, Camden.

Mary, Mary’ is set during the period 1921 – 1998, a time when the Catholic Church had significant influence in Irish society.

Mary has used Therapeutic Photography to express a semi-autobiographical account of her own family’s generational trauma. This project researches the story of Mary’s mother Teresa and her stolen sister, ‘Mary’ – a journey of understanding and forgiveness.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “Through our Artists’ Eyes” by Inis Artists. This new collection represents a fusion of traditional and modern art in a wide range of media and original styles. Founded over 20 years ago, the Clare based visual arts group currently comprises twelve talented local artists who meet regularly to organise exhibitions and events throughout the west of Ireland and to highlight their members’ work.

Cosmos Gallery and Studios in Dhaka Bangladesh and the Department of foreign affairs are delighted to invite you to the inaugural cultural exchange residency and exhibition by Oona Hyland which will be opened by the Irish Ambassador to India in Dhaka on November 4th The exhibition will run until the end of November 2025 .

Exhibition continues from the 1st of November to the 31st of January 2026

Opening reception Thursday 06 November 5.30-6.30pm

The Winter Exhibition is a seasonal showcase of the best in Irish art, craft and design including paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and much more, with prices to suit every budget in the run-up to Christmas and into the New Year. Support local artists and makers as well as Lavit Gallery, a not-for-profit arts organisation and registered charity. Each year the exhibition features work by over 50 artists and makers including regular contributors and new additions.

Exhibition continues from the 1st of November to the 29th of November 2025

Opening Saturday 1Nov 4–6pm, GOMA Waterford

Through the combined mediums of photography, textile, and sculpture, artist Isabel English extends from the literary genre of autofiction – merging autobiographical truths with fictionalised renderings – to create contextually sensitive installations. Drawing on the architecture of the home, they fuse sites of personal significance with the politics of psychology. Body and building become analogous: the body acts as an architecture housing emotional interiority, while the building aspires to protect those who dwell within it.

Gallery opens 11am–5pm, closed on Sundays and Mondays.

Exhibition continues from the 1st of November to the 28th of November 2025

Saturday 1 November, 2-4pm – Opening with talks and music performance.

‘Materials, Messages and Meaning #14’ features Lydia Bell, Michael Geddis, Patricia Kelly, Ruth Osbourne and Ioana Petcu-Colan, five visual artists selected from our annual open call, each responding to the theme ‘experimental’. The group exhibition presents the work of these five artists, allowing its ‘experimental’ nature to emerge through their diverse approaches – in the materials they choose to work with, the messages and meaning they convey through those materials, and the processes they employ to make their work.

​​Drifting Sovereignty is a multidisciplinary exhibition that critically engages with the shifting nature of borders and the performance of power at geopolitical and environmental margins. Through photography, sculpture, video, and performance, the exhibition interrogates how sovereignty is both asserted and destabilized in contested spaces.

Exhibition continues from the 19th of September to the 22nd of January 2026

Group exhibition showcasing artwork from the Waterford Art Collection as well as loans, commissions and open call submissions inspired by our relationship with the sea. Artists include Killian Browne, Maura Culbert, Mick O’Dea, Phoebe Donovan, Paul Henry, Jane Jermyn, Patrick Leonard, Tanja Novacic, Eilis O’Toole, Clare Scott, John Skelton, Jack Thompson, Síle Walsh and more.

Exhibition continues from the 2nd of October to the 14th of February 2026

Exhibition of paintings from over five decades of work by the prolific Irish painter, Michael Cullen (1946-2020). Cullen, a member of the Irish Academy of the Arts, Aosdána, was prominently associated with the Independent Artists and the Neo-Expressionist movement in Ireland in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Since the first Cork Zine Fest (CZF) hosted in St Peter’s Cork in partnership with The Friary, CZF has been focused on bringing together and promoting the Zine community in Cork and across Ireland.

Each festival includes a weekend market with a series of engagement events including workshops, zine readings and panel discussions. CZF is a zine-maker focused market and festival that runs an annual market and event programme, alongside a Zine Club that offers open zine-making sessions to the general public.

Over a three-week residency period the CZF team will facilitate and oversee a programme that is focused around zine making and use it as a tool for community building and a platform to support and promote fellow zine makers.

The outcome of these programmed events will be exhibited within Triskel Sample Project Space and will include a Zine library to showcase the zines made by all the participants. 

The celebrated watercolour artist, Barbara Allen, returns home for exceptional new show at ArtisAnn Gallery in Belfast.

She is a six-time winner of the Watercolour Prize at the Royal Ulster Academy.

She has exhibited extensively including at the White House and at Bergen in Norway. Her work is held in many important collections, including the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Invest NI and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London.

Exhibitions continues from the 4th of October to the 30th of November 2025

Irish Architecture Foundation presents 3 exhibitions that counter negative and untrue narratives about our built world. “To Not Design Is To Cost The Earth” argues the absolute value of design when it comes to building a better, fairer world. “HouseEurope!” presents evidence of the wanton, unnecessary demolition of buildings in Europe when cities and those that live in them badly need more space for housing. “Mise Le Meas” presents evidence of the loss of social, cultural and intellectual capital that is happening as our young people leave Dublin to build their lives abroad.

Free, Wed-Sun, 12-5pm

Gary Shaw’s large watercolours are composed of thousands of individual brushstrokes – small, repeated hand gestures that build a quiet sense of order. The repetition recentres the artist and draws the viewer in and out of focus, eyes falling into the mesh of marks, then pulling back to take in the whole.

Gary Shaw has a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) from the South Australian School of Art and an MFA from Belfast School of Art. His work has been shown in the US, Canada, China, Indonesia, Australia, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Northern Ireland, he has had numerous exhibitions including at PS2, Fenderesky Gallery and Queens University.

It Matters is a ground breaking exhibition of photographic work with a focus on sustainability using not so traditional darkroom techniques and chromatography. Julie was awarded the Louth Arts Office EDI Bursary last year to go somewhere she’d never been before, the darkroom. From developing her first roll of film in the darkroom to print making, this exhibition features traditional resin coated and fibre based photographic prints made with negatives developed with experimental photo chemistry; mainly ascorbic and iron developer’s. Excerpt’s from her notebook, which she now regards as her bible, will also be reproduced.

As part of Dublin Gallery Weekend, 6-9 October 2025, TØN is delighted to present an exhibition where contemporary art meets contemporary craft.
LUMEN is an exhibition of works by Gildas O Laoire and Mark Redden. Combining painting, sculpture, design, and furniture, they express the solace of living with art and the luminous effect art has on life. The viewer is prompted to examine the objects closely, drawn into a fourth dimension through the layers of paint or the myriad of details of wood grain. Light and movement are integral to the work of both artists.

The exhibition is typically interdisciplinary and features a collection of works which reflect the artist’s interest in 3D graphics, networked technologies and the mechanics of image production. ASSETS is Alan Butler’s second solo exhibition since his debut here in 2017, and since then, his work has been the subject of over one hundred exhibitions at galleries, museums and festivals around the world.

Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery presents the now annual Open Call Winter Exhibition which will run throughout November and December 2025. 76 works from 71 Cork-based artists will be presented in Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery in the County Library. You are warmly invited to the opening on Friday, the 7th of November from 6-8pm.

Exhibition Launch: Friday 7th November at 6pm 

Both shows present the perfect opportunity to support local artists and purchase unique artworks as unforgettable Christmas gifts.

Exhibition Launch: Friday 7th November at 6pm

The Pavestone Collective was established in October 2011, by clients who attend the Pavestone Centre, Coleraine. The collective was created through ‘Leisure Quest’, a programme designed to rehabilitate adults with physical or mental health conditions. Members of the Pavestone Collective have met to produce creative art for many years embracing all forms of visual arts for self-expression, skills development, and therapeutic value.

This is the first solo exhibition by renowned artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña in Ireland. For this exhibition Vicuña’s delves into themes of ancestry, ecological urgency, and the interconnectedness of humanity inspired by the discovery of her ancient ties to Ireland.

November 7th – 28th

Holding Space presents a collaboration between Mollie Douthit and Sara Baume. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture and needlework, all reflecting the artists’ common process of building pieces gradually, ritualistically, with a great deal of solicitude.

 Both also share a curiosity in spirituality and mysticism, which is referenced by the gap at the centre of the handkerchiefs Baume will be showing, which has also become a signifier of their friendship. Douthit, her paintings and their friendship are also the subject of Baume’s forthcoming book, Opening Night, which will be published by Granta in the summer of 2026.  

This November, SO Fine Art Editions is proud to present Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, an international exhibition of contemporary printmaking and photography by 20 Japanese and 20 Irish-based artists, consisting of a sumptuous array of visual interpretations of Kwaidan, the well-known book of ghost stories published in 1904 by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo. The exhibition offers a visual retelling of ghostly tales from Japanese folklore, translated through the lenses of modern artists. This exhibition forms part of Dublin Gallery Weekend 2025, please see our website for special events.

Ode to Giants is a group show at the Olivier Cornet Gallery that will be launched for Dublin Gallery Weekend 2025. 13 Artists were asked to create works in response to their favourite pieces from three Dublin museums: IMMA, the National Gallery and the National Museum at Collins Barracks. Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator & Head of Collections at IMMA, will open the exhibition on Friday, November 7, 2025.

Artists: Annika Berglund, Hugh Cummins, Mary A. Fitzgerald, David Fox, Conrad Frankel, Nickie Hayden, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Miriam McConnon, Sheila Naughton, Bart O’Reilly,Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford and Vicky Smith.

We’re proud to present the Irish premiere of The Empathy Machine at Photo Museum Ireland. Maija Tammi is known for her radical storytelling through the medium of video, photography and installations. This acclaimed work offers audiences a rare chance to engage with Tammi’s unique exploration of empathy, emotion, and human connection through the lens of contemporary photography.

Exhibition on show from 8 November 2025 – 1 February 2026

Algorithmic Random Selected AV Exhibition | Works by Aleksei Martyniuk , Alessia Damiani – Vincenzo Ascione , Alric Devotta , Ana Da Cunha Alves , AnimaeNoctis , anneke bosma , Damian Anache , Diana Rojas , Enzo Cillo and Renato Grieco , Fran Orallo , IZABELLA RETKOWSKA , Jean-Michel Rolland , Joas Nebe , Karolina Cykowska-Halczuk , Kenji Kojima , Marco Balbi , Matteo Campulla , Noel Molloy , Pixel8or , Ralf Kempf / Dietmar Kempf , Remy Ryumugabe , Sandrine Deumier , Sergey Khismatov , Simon Coates , Subrata Ghosh , Tina Šulc Resnik , Vasilis Karvounis , Wei Yang , Wieslawa Nowicka , Zack Nguyen , Zheyan Li/Yanzhen Huang