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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)”

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 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.

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.

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

Exhibition continues from the 8th of November 2025 to the 28th of February 2026

Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957) is one of Ireland’s most celebrated twentieth-century artists. The Niland Collection, housed at The Model, holds an extensive body of his work spanning the full arc of his career – from early pen-and-ink illustrations and lively watercolours, to the expressive oil paintings that define his mature style. ‘A Painted Universe’ invites visitors to step into Yeats’s artistic world, where memory, emotion and experience are transformed into colour, form and light.

The Model is delighted to present once more The Sunset Belongs to You – a series of portraits commissioned from two of Irelands most distinguished painters, Mick O’Dea + Geraldine O’Neill. The portraits capture young people from diverse backgrounds living across County Sligo, and were painted between 2022–23. Looked at together, they provide a hopeful glimpse into the Ireland of the future.

Penti Menti at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is Sarah Dwyer’s first institutional exhibition in Ireland. Born in Cork, Dwyer has a significant international profile. The artist frequently combines drawing with painting, printmaking and sculpture, employing exuberant colour palettes and lively mark-making to depict semi-figurative and abstract imagery. Taking cues from Surrealism, Cobra and Abstract Expressionism, her practice explores image and form through the iterative nature of storytelling and poetry. Dwyer’s dynamic compositions process her own surroundings and the everyday experience—while also indulging our desire for play.

Droichead Arts Centre is delighted to announce its partnership with fellow North East Network members, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, and An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, in a unique extension of Solstice’s annual selected survey of local professional arts practice.

North East Network supports, values and encourages visual artists in the North East to develop their practices and creative careers. The exhibition presents an overview of contemporary visual arts practice in County Louth and Meath. There will be a visual arts award of €2,000 selected by each curator in each arts centre.

Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) is delighted to launch a new exhibition entitled SORE SPOT, by artists Helen O’Leary and Eva O’Leary. This exhibition features works that, when combined, aim to find moments of clarity and connection between different media – paint and photography. Together, through works considering fragmentation and cohesion, they offer a meditation on care, resistance, and the stubborn hope that emerges from making sense of a broken world.
SORE SPOT notes the distance between both artists as mother and daughter — geographic and generational.

Hymn to Him is a guilty pleasure, a sustained glance at the relationship between the unstable and convoluted lives of artists and the composed stillness of the characters they create. In her painting and photographic work, she lingers on the surfaces of things – bellies, primroses, house keys, vegetables. Costello inserts herself into her compositions and, as her own model, she remains in control of both sides of the canvas.

Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) is delighted to launch SORE SPOT, by artists Helen and Eva O’Leary. This exhibition features works that, when combined, aim to find moments of clarity and connection offering a  meditation on care, resistance, and the stubborn hope that emerges from making sense of a broken world.

SORE SPOT notes the distance between both artists as mother and daughter — geographic and generational, a map of crossings.  It’s about what the hands can make when words fail, how materials can offer a kind of reconciliation — or at least a pause in the noise.

Ormston House presents ‘Table Turning’, a solo exhibition by Susan MacWilliam.

Since 1997, Susan MacWilliam has had an ongoing fascination with how humans have sought to document and quantify the spirit realm. She explores the study of psychic phenomena by drawing from printed archives, scientific apparatus, and interviews with experts.

This exhibition of new work has emerged out of the cutting, stitching, and moulding of paper, felt, and clay. For MacWilliam, “the realisation of ideas and objects in the studio” is akin to “the manifestations and materialisations of the séance room”.

Ormston House is open Wednesday to Saturday, 12–6pm.

Waking the Land is a collective based in Leitrim. Our five members are Tara Baoth Mooney, Shane Finan, James Kelly, Laura McMorrow, and Sonya Swarte. We collectively occupy an artist-led studio and experimental space in Manorhamilton that opened in September 2022. Over the past three years, we have led events in north Leitrim in response to environmental grief, care, and tending to the land.

Opening 3.00pm – 5.00pm Saturday 22nd November. All Welcome. Butler Gallery is very pleased to present a solo exhibition by the Kinsale-based artist Brian Harte. This solo exhibition comes at a pivotal point in Harte’s career and is his first museum exhibition in Ireland. For the past nine years his career has focused on international commitments. Harte creates paintings that deconstruct interior settings which embrace components from his own domestic family life. This exhibition invitation has allowed the artist to step back from commercial gallery demands to reflect and experiment.

In November 2025 Golden Thread Gallery will be presenting a new exhibition by artist Sharon Murphy, curated by Sarah McAvera.
Drawing from her background in theatre and shaped by influences from psychoanalysis and magic realism, Murphy’s work delves into theatrical settings, captured in moments of quiet and stillness. Through recurring symbols such as curtains, deserted stages, and performative environments, she investigates the thin line between illusion and reality, presence and absence.

The Border That Crossed Me is a multi-sensory collaborative exhibition exploring surveillance technology, border infrastructures, and climate-induced migration. This exhibition has been devised for the Golden Thread Gallery in collaboration with FLAX Artist Studios, Belfast and Azzedine Saleck. Presented in our Upper Gallery, The Border That Crossed Me examines the political and emotional geographies of divided territories across the globe.

Exhibition continues from the 21st of November 2025 to the 9th of January 2026.

As this year’s inspiring exhibition activities at Solas Art Gallery come to a close, our members celebrate the unveiling of the final exhibition of the season. This Winter Group Exhibition brings together over 20 artists whose works yet again will showcase an extraordinary mixed array of intriguing mediums, diverse materials & vibrant artistry. From traditional fine art processes (drypoint, pen & ink, oils, acrylics, watercolours and photography) to contemporary and textural forms (embroidery, knitting, wet felt, decorators emulsion and mixed media collage), together these pieces celebrate texture, technique and the shared joy of making.

Exhibition continues from the 17th of November to the 18th of Janurary 2025

LCGA is delighted to present this installation by Caoimhe Glennon the Graduate Award winner from LSAD Sculpture & Combined Media 2025.
The Invisible Visible centres around the Glennon’s diagnosis of PCOS, a condition that causes the formation of polycystic ovaries. Her work explores personal narrative connections discovered between rookeries and polycystic ovaries, both of which require specific circumstances to be revealed, and when they are, are found as clusters of dark circles.

Hamilton Gallery’s annual” Winter Gathering” brings you the work of over 20 gallery artists. Opens on November 27th, at 6.30pm. Please join us for this festive celebration of Irish art. This year Winter Gathering Catherine Fanning, Cormac O’Leary, Daniel Chester, Donncadh O’Callaghan, Eileen Healy, Joe Dunne, Joesphine Geaney, Daniel Chester, Paul Colreavy, Mags Duffy, Joe Dunne, Catherine Fanning, Joesphine Geaney, Medbh Gillard, Julianne Guinee, Martina Hamilton, Eileen Healy, Stephanie Hess, Kaye Maahs, Leonora Neary, Marylin North, Donncadh O’Callaghan, Cormac O’Leary, Kate Oram, Pat Owen, Rae Perry, Karen Webster, MaManon West and more

Lyónn Wolf’s De-production creates an installation running through a succession of spaces in Flat Time House. Playing upon the narrative and spatial tropes of popular Science Fiction, De-production has grown into an ongoing project for Wolf, tracing states of transition through what he describes as ‘an intentional re-patterning of reproductive logics’. Themes drawn from close readings of Ridley Scott’s Alien motion picture and subsequent sequels from 1979 to 1997 are a dominant aspect explored – monstrous motherhood, alienated embodiments and transitional states.

‘Tapestry’ brings together four bodies of work, each rooted in a deep engagement with the emotional potential of abstraction. It begins with a series of recent pencil-on-paper drawings, intimate in scale and delicately rendered. Alongside these are a number of hand-woven tapestries, produced in collaboration with master craftsmen at Mourne Textiles. These are shown in conversation with new large-scale paintings from the Stack series — shown here for the first time — these works merge drawing, painting and spray paint to create layered works that hover between architectural weight and painterly gesture. 

Woven through threads of memory and emotion, “Threads” explores the fragile tapestry of human experience. Through the textile works of Neva Elliott and Ciara O’Connor, themes of loss, identity, and renewal intertwine. Together, they speak to resilience and transformation, inviting reflection, connection, and healing through the quiet strength of fabric and form.

A New Horizon: Launch of linn gallery and Inaugural Exhibition, skylines

A vibrant new chapter for the visual arts in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary begins with the official launch of linn gallery and its inaugural group exhibition, skylines, on Saturday, November 29th, at 2:00 PM.

We’re building on the 22-year legacy of The Narrow Space (1st Floor, 14 Mitchell Street) with a fresh vision: a calm, reflective space dedicated to connecting you with the best of Ireland’s contemporary art.

The launch exhibition skylines features the work of seven incredible Irish artists: Alison Barry, Lynda Bremner, Eugene de Leastar, Gary Kearney, Marine Kearney, Diane Magee, and Lee Shanahan. The show invites artists to explore visions beyond the literal horizon, resulting in beautiful representations of artistic innovation and personal journeys.

Come celebrate with us! linn gallery is set to enhance Tipperary’s reputation as a cultural hub, providing a vital new platform for emerging and established Irish artists in the South East. All are truly welcome to attend the opening.

Image credit: ‘Dingle Swallows’, Lynda Bremner, Oil on old OP Maps, 55 x 78 cm.

O’Connell’s sculptural work often evokes states of becoming and transformation, reflecting her long-standing fascination between the organic and geometric in the natural world. This way of working melds irregularity and flow to the precise and mathematical, emblematic of a human relationship to nature.

Her attentive process is of happenstance: a responsiveness to a materials behaviour and chance occurrences that are worked through and feel not imposed but discovered. Through careful observation of the everyday landscape in her Cork home, O’Connell’s practice instills curiosity and an unexpected sense of discovery and awareness.

Exhibition continues from the 29th of November to the 2nd of February 2026.

Luan Gallery, in partnership with Westmeath Arts Office, presents Mythologies of the Personal and the Land, the Westmeath Artists Award exhibition showcasing the work of thirty talented Westmeath artists, selected by guest curator Miguel Amado. The exhibition will be officially opened at 6 p.m. on Friday, 28th November, with addresses from Cllr. Paul Hogan, Leas-Chathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council; Laura McCormack, Acting Arts Officer, Westmeath County Council; and Miguel Amado, Director of Sirius Arts Centre.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney Library Gallery is delighted to present “Kilkee Abstracted”, an art exhibition by Jacinta Moody.
Jacinta is a Clare based artist and art teacher whose work is rooted in the rich cultural and natural landscape of County Clare. She works mainly through the medium of oils and acrylics exploring the moods, shapes, colours and shifting energy of the Clare landscape. She would like her work to go beyond simply depicting a scene. She wants to convey the vitality, atmosphere and abstract nature of the landscape and seascapes that surround us.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “Le Solas : With Light” by the Artist Sharon Ní Chuilibín. This exhibition explores the play of light, colour and shape in the Irish landscape through the lens of the Irish language with drawings, paintings and guided audio meditation.

You are cordially invited to join us at Custom House Studios + Gallery to celebrate the opening of our annual Winter Exhibition , on Sunday 30th November @2pm, Exhibition continues until Sunday 11th January, 2026. Official opening by Keira Keogh TD.

Many of the artists who have exhibited here, practice here, and governed the organisation throughout 2025 will present work

Missy Brinkmeyer’s practice is grounded in how we navigate each other in public—inhabiting space together while remaining separate. The resulting photographs feel like encounters with empathy itself: driven by instinct and emotional intelligence, a form of quiet contact. As the artist herself says “separation is just an illusion, we are all connected”. 

We are seen.

For Seen, curator Margarita Cappock focuses mainly on images from central Dublin. It is not intended as a conclusive statement on Brinkmeyer’s practice, but as one way to slice through her prolific image-making and reveal something about how she works. 

Black Gives Way to Blue is an exhibition of new work by Cork-based painter Ava Hayes. Working on large scale canvas, Hayes produces abstract, performative paintings which arise from an exploration of intense bodily feeling; the physical tension that arises when language and verbal expression fails. Her painting strategies play with the intimacy of memory and soundscapes to create a bodily charge that transfers onto the canvas. As this builds, she utilises this anxious energy, creating fervent marks that leave traces of this happening in their wake. Hayes is interested in the moment when internalised experience breaks to the surface.

This new body of work by Liudmila Kalinka explores clarity, calm, and joy through accepting thoughts, feelings, and sensations as a continuous flow of energy.

This exhibition, shaped by an intuitive process and based on personal experience, reflects an inner flow as a cycle of states that arise, dissolve, and renew. Each series grows from the previous one, as if one state naturally gives rise to the next and each piece is part of this unfolding process.

The work brings awareness into inner presence, showing how every moment, as it comes, becomes part of a path toward clarity and joy, revealing the beauty of simply being.

Even in the Darkest Times, Ranelagh Arts’ Winter Exhibition supporting Médecins Sans Frontières and their ongoing work in Gaza. Curated by Taffina Flood and Ria Czerniak, the exhibition features invited artists including Aideen Barry, Rachel Fallon, Maser, Corban Walker and Joy Gerrard, alongside selected works from our open call. This Christmas, buying art is a meaningful gift that supports artists and vital humanitarian aid. Exhibition runs 5 Dec–9 Jan. Image: Susan Buttner Studio.

Erin Lawlor’s recent work delves more deeply into the idea of place.

While she has long seen painting as a space for both imagination and psychological exploration, her process — working horizontally and using a wet-on-wet technique — turns the canvas into a physical ground, shaped by focused, immersive labour.

Each painting captures a layered, evolving process — a moment in time built up through action and intuition — yet each one must ultimately hold together as a complete, cohesive whole.

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to present Lucid Dreaming, dlr Open Exhibition of visual art by artists who have studied in, are originally from, or are living or working in the County. Artists were invited to submit work on the theme Lucid Dreaming. The exhibition is selected and curated by Royal Hibernian Academy Curator, Davey Moor, through an open submission process. The exhibition is accompanied by a Gallery Learning Programme.

Image credits: Eimear Carvill, Tranquility 1, 2025

Exhibition continues from the 4th of December 2025 to the 29th of March 2026.

Each piece in the exhibition involves the artist intervening in some way on a found image. Although collage has long been part of Jeffers’ approach, both the disaster paintings and the intervention works differ from traditional collage: rather than cutting up found material for its colour or specific imagery, Jeffers uses the entirety of the original scene, adding a new element that completely alters the depicted narrative.

In this exhibition, Helen Merrigan Colfer explores a personal journey from childhood to adulthood in the ongoing search for belonging and self-acceptance.

Through emotionally resonant sculptures, Colfer reflects on the universal human desire to find one’s “Tribe.”

Audiences can expect totemic forms representing inner strength, transformation, and resilience. The works confront themes of conformity, identity, and personal power, moving through darkness and light.

As Colfer asks, “Is that journey complete or still underway?” the exhibition invites reflection, hope, and a sense of shared humanity.

Launching 12 Dec, @6pm.

Patient Labyrinth is both a maze and a labyrinth – exploring the delicate boundary between two worlds: the one in which we lose our way, and the one we try to find our way out of. The exhibition weaves together myth, folk magic, and ritual to explore how we navigate uncertainty, entrapment, and transformation. As our constructed and natural world unravels to near collapse, we rely on storytelling as a tool for connection, a tool for protection. The labyrinth is a mirror, a code, a key, a tensabarrier, a narrative and a fabrication, a reflection of ourselves and our worlds.

‘Still, We Gather’, brings together artists working across a wide range of mediums to celebrate the social and political potential of coming together, recognising gathering as a practice of care, joy, protest and collective imagination.

Developed through an open call, the exhibition brings together a constellation of contemporary Irish artists whose practices emerge from layered geographies and diverse lived experiences and whose works explore how forms of connection and resistance are sustained and reimagined across borders, cultures and times.

Image: ‘Calling the Bird Ancestors’ (2025), Dervla Baker, Marilyn Lennon & Andy Ingamells

An overview of all the shows held at the gallery this year, surveying 4 solo exhibitions: Symbols of Revival by Nickie Hayden, Springs Opens Forever In Eternity by Conrad Frankel, An ghaoth aniar/This too will pass by Eoin Mac Lochlainn, and Self Portrait with a Pet and a Bathtub by Daniel Lipstein. The exhibition also includes works from two group shows: Out of Lines and Ode to Giants. Artists: Annika Berglund, Hugh Cummins, Colin Eaton, Mary A. Fitzgerald, David Fox, Conrad Frankel, Nickie Hayden, Daniel Lipstein, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Miriam McConnon, Sheila Naughton, Bart O’Reilly, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford and Vicky Smith.

Exhibition continues from 06/12/2025 to 01/03/2026

Birr Theatre & Arts Centre is proud to present the 18th Common Ground, our annual group exhibition, bringing together artists from the Midlands. This year, exploring the given theme of “A Terrible Beauty” the selected artists explore a shared space, physical, emotional, and imaginative — where human experience converges.

Exhibition continues from 02/12/2025 to 16/01/2026

Showcasing the talent of visual artists across the length and breadth of our beautiful county, carefully selected by Curator Aoife Banks this is an opportunity to rejoice in the talent of visual artists across the length and breadth of Mayo.

Come support local and experience the thrill of seeing an extraordinary collection of artwork by extraordinary artists. Artworks are available for purchase and would make an excellent gift for a loved one this Christmas.