What’s On around Ireland

The Architecture of Containment brings together a body of paintings by Janet Graham with poetic responses from invited poets, addressing the physical, social, and psychological architectures through which lives were controlled and silenced in Ireland’s institutional past. The project is hosted and funded by Mill Cove Gallery and presented as a not-for-profit public event.

Once production costs are met, all proceeds from the accompanying poetry anthology will be donated to a survivors’ support group. The anthology will be available on the evening for €10.

Everyone Must Go Studio Relocation Sale.
The time has come when Everyone Must Go (from our Marlborough House building). But before we do we’re having a sale. Artists are notorious hoarders and our studios are filled with every type of stuff and things known to humanity. Much of this needs to go and it needs to go in the Everyone Must Go Sale.
So, if you want to find a bargain, give aways, free stuff, new-to-you tools, music tech, home wares, clothes, books, toys and of course art of every description so that you may add to your very own hoarded pile, then this is a good way to spend your Sunday.
Good dogs are always welcome.

This multidisciplinary event is a unique tribute to Rosa Luxemburg – revolutionary, feminist, visionary ecologist and rebel – featuring a hybrid of performance, painting, music, poetry and film with a Brechtian vibe.
Conceived and presented by Noël O’Callaghan and Douglas Henderson, this event intertwines the life, death and legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) with remnants and recollections of Berlin’s war-torn past.
From the poem ‘Du liegst | You lie’ by German-Jewish poet Paul Celan to present-day Berlin, it weaves through time and place, memory and character. It is presented as part of Bandon Brigid’s Festival 2026.

Exhibition continues from 22/01/2026 to 21/02/2026.

Three artists, Sheena Devitt, Rozzi Kennedy and Rosalind Lowry, investigate their moment of illumination through the processes of painting, sculpture and installation.

Rooted in the lands across the three Counties of Antrim, Armagh and Down, and finding strength in the gentleness of slowing down, they present their life stages, their inspiration, and their works of ensoulment.

Embracing the slow rhythms of Winter as a productive time. Their choice to withdraw from the exterior world to focus on an inner world of creating, preparing, investigating, incubating, illuminating and evaluating.

Exhibition continues from 22/01/2026 to 21/02/2026.

Kim Montgomery is a visual artist whose work combines figurative representational drawing, painting and collage, with real and imagined autobiographical narratives.

She observes and gathers sources from life, personal photographs, and collected ephemera – exploring romanticism for the throwaway treasure, and the space between memory and aspiration.

DCU Art Collection is honoured to receive a significant donation of fine art prints from artist and master printer James McCreary, one of Ireland’s most respected figures in printmaking, and his wife Elizabeth McCreary.

To celebrate this generous donation DCU are hosting an exhibition of of selected works from the James and Elizabeth McCreary Collection on DCU St. Patrick’s Campus. Featuring works by Jane O’Malley, A.R. Penck, Niall Naessens, James McCreary, Tony O’Malley, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Michael Cullen and others, the exhibition offers a rich insight into contemporary printmaking and the spirit of personal collecting.

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

Exhibition continues from 30/01/2026 to 05/04/2026.

This is the last iteration of the exhibition, Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics following its presentation at Sirius Arts Centre, Galway Arts Centre, and Highlanes Gallery.

Alice explores expressions of both personal and broader historical and cultural narratives informed by their lived experience as a person with Irish and Sierra Leonean heritage. They practice across sculpture, expanded painting, digital collage, film, and performance, and use clay, found and collected images and objects, reclaimed and repurposed furniture, and memorabilia and heirlooms.

A programme bringing together a network of artistic and academic practices through the exchange of viewpoints, and the creation of new social bonds.
Opening: Thursday, 29 January 2026, 6PM – 8PM. All are welcome to attend.

EXHIBITING PRACTITIONERS
Dr Richard A. Carter, Michele Horrigan, Dr Ameera Kawash, with Studio Bark’s U-Build.
PUBLIC EVENTS
All events fixed to the time zone in Ireland (GMT+0)
(See further below for event descriptions. Ticket links forthcoming)

PUBLIC EVENTS
1. The NCAD School for Un/Learning Workshops Wed, 11 Feb 2026, 5-7PM, Gallery, Foyer, Street.
2. Multi-Story Symposia Sat, 21 Feb 2026, 10AM-2PM, Gallery.

Jean Doyle at group exhibition for Arte Fiera White Night.

Exhibition continues from 31/01/2026 to 14/03/2026.

This major retrospective celebrates over 40 years of work by acclaimed press photographer Declan Doherty, whose images have powerfully documented life across Donegal through his role at the Donegal News.

The exhibition includes more than 400 photographs, presented both digitally and in print, capturing moments from 1980 to 2023. Many feature the people and everyday events that define the county’s character and community.

Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

The lectures can be attended as a series, but are also designed as standalone talks, which can be attended individually.

This week will illuminate how Irish artists engaged with Enlightenment ideals while negotiating questions of identity, place, and modernity.

Exhibition continues from 15/01/2026 to 28/02/2026.

STREAM is a new solo exhibition of drawings, photographs and a video by Jack Hogan (Ireland, 1986), on view now at 15 Beautreillis.
The video work, Stream, cuts a slice of the free flow of mundane, magical life. A cinematic choreography of carrying on emerges, equal parts melancholy and ecstasy. Jack recorded hundreds of hours of their commutes, capturing people’s everyday organisation alongside Jack’s. The photographs and drawings are a sequence of black, white and grey details, gestures, formal interactions, body parts, patterns, masks and facades. Supported by Culture Ireland.

Exhibition continues from 29/01/2026 to 21/02/2026.

Taylor Galleries presents Daphne’s Theatre, a new exhibition by Dublin-based multidisciplinary artist Beatrice O’Connell. The exhibition features paintings in which nature has begun to take over, suggesting a fragile balance where decay and renewal coexist.
Drawing on the myth of Daphne and informed by the work of Samuel Beckett, O’Connell combines painting, photography, and mixed-media collage. Recurrent motifs of scaffolding and derelict structures reflect on the instability of systems designed to endure, while nature emerges as a transformative force.

Artists and Scientists Celebrate Maps for Science Festival Show.

A Group Show Celebrating the Use of Maps.

Part of NI Science Festival.

Late Night Opening: WED 4th February from 6 to 8pm.

Maps have always been the foundation of how humans understood their surroundings. Historians and Artists make use of the science of maps to interpret and comment on the world.

The artists and scientists in the show use maps in different ways to highlight how the earth and space can be underst

Brady Izquierdo is a Cuban artist based in Kildare. Working across caricature, illustration and painting, his practice engages with pressing themes such as the misuse of technology, climate change and migration. ‘Suspended in the Landscape’ presents a diverse and compelling body of paintings that highlights the enduring influence of illustration within the artist’s work while also revealing a new dialogue between himself and his lived reality.
‘Suspended in the Landscape’ is co-curated by Brady Izquierdo and AnneMarie Saliba.

Opening reception Thursday 05 February, 5.30-7.30pm.

Anna Barden was an artist who worked and lived in Cork city. She passed away unexpectedly on 31 December 2024. This commemorative exhibition is a shared initiative involving family, friends and colleagues, with key involvement from Elaine Coakley, Studio Director, Backwater Artists Group; Katherine Boucher Beug, artist, friend and mentor; and Gillian Cussen, artist and friend. Anna’s art practice encompassed drawing, painting sewing, short text pieces and ceramics. The display is built around a variety of finished works, studies and archival material spanning Anna’s career.

Our annual members group show.

We are excited to showcase our growing Golden Thread Gallery Collection this Late Night Art with a pop up exhibition in our Lower Gallery by Belfast artist Clement McAleer.

PhotoIreland presents the premiere of internationally acclaimed photographer Eamonn Doyle, artist-designer Niall Sweeney and composer David Donohoe new and extensive interdisciplinary body work AS IF, at the International Centre for the Image.

Their latest project, AS IF, presents an ambitious body of work that builds into a visceral and psychological articulation of the physical world and the psyche. It comprises silver gelatin prints, filmworks, montages, sound, music, painting, drawing and text.

Launch 6pm Thu 5 Feb 2026
Free Event. RSVP Mandatory

The Four Elements, a group show exploring Earth, Air, Fire, and Water through contemporary photographic practice. This exhibition looks beyond simple documentation of the natural world, encouraging artists to reimagine the elements as both physical forces and symbolic spaces.
The Four Elements aims to bring together diverse voices in a shared meditation on time, resilience, and photography’s ability to make the unseen felt and visible.

Black Church Print Studio is delighted to present Slow Image curated by Noémie Cursoux, winner of Black Church Emerging Curator Award ‘26.

Preview: Thursday 5 February 2026 from 6 – 8 pm at The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Featuring selected Black Church and invited artists: Svenja Michelle Behle, John Graham, Eva Nielsen, Sam O’Reilly, Tracy Staunton and Lee Welch.

Basic Space is delighted to present Jane Cassidy for our February BASIC TALK – 1pm on Friday the 6th of February 2026, online. Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Galway City whose practice spans installation, video, music composition, electronics, and visual design for theatre. She creates immersive audiovisual environments that evoke a sense of synesthesia, blending sound and image into meditative multisensory experiences. Please see our website to book a free ticket to receive the zoom link.

STAC’s 2025 Artist in Residence, Zoe Velthuysen, will be conducting a free walk-through of her exhibition of new work, ‘Liminal Imprints’, at South Tipperary Arts Centre, February 6th at 5:30pm, followed by an opening reception at 6pm. Opening remarks will be delivered by Melanie Scott, Tipperary Arts Officer.

A recent graduate of Fine Art at MTU Crawford College, this new work, comprising drawing and sculpture, interrogates the experience of adapting to new surroundings, questioning what it means to belong, to move, and to carry a sense of home within one’s body.

No pre-booking required.

“Sunlight on my lover’s elbow, sunlight in the kettle’s steam” brings together three artists from the same family: Grace Wallis, Sarah Fuller/Wallis and Ruby Wallis. Working across painting, drawing, print, installation and lens-based media, the exhibition explores place, time and embodied experience. Grace presents fictional landscapes shaped by memory and emotional transition; Sarah documents suspended moments of waiting and movement through sketchbooks; Ruby’s films and prints examine walking, night-time space and how environments shape feeling and behaviour.

This exhibition by STAC’s 2025 Artist in Residence, Zoe Velthuysen, explores how migration and place shape identity, drawing from the artist’s own experience of moving from Australia to Tipperary.

Motivated by the internal and often quiet ways in which place interacts with identity, Velthuysen’s work engages with how surroundings, systems, and social dynamics leave their mark on a person over time, asking: what happens when the contours of a new place meet the inner workings of a migrant?

STAC’s Tipperary Artist in Residence Award is supported by the Tipperary Arts Office and the Arts Council of Ireland.

Hamilton Gallery introduces the work of Rachel Martin, a recent graduate of LSAD. It depicts coastal scenes of Sligo through collagraph, aquatint and cyanotype prints. Martin explores the ocean’s surface and what unfolds beneath it, building a bridge between a collective view and personal experience.

Exhibition continues from 31/01/2026 to 07/03/2026.

Deliberate/Deliberate brings together the work of Alastair Keady and Helen O’Sullivan, Through constraint, repetition, and attentiveness to process, the work considers how meaning can emerge slowly; through structure and deviation, articulation and restraint.  Approaching making as a reflective process and a cultivated sensibility.

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.

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.

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

Artists: Vicky Ochala, Nicole Manning, Lily Mannion,

Opening Reception: Saturday, 31 January, 1–3pm.

Exhibition Runs: 31 January – 14 February 2026.
Venue: The MART Gallery, 190a Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 1–6pm.

A Myth of the Last Wolf is an exhibition by internationally renowned artist Karen Daye-Hutchinson. Each print in the show is a gateway into an imagined mythology. Animals appear as messengers or witnesses, their forms dissolving into human gestures and vice versa.

The landscapes they inhabit are fractured and dreamlike, haunted by traces of conflict, tenderness, and the slow erosion of time.

Karen Daye-Hutchinson studied Fine Art at the Art College, Belfast, and Manchester School of Art.

In 2021 she was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (ARE) and a member of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts (ARUA).

Learn more about the artists and artworks on display at the Glucksman with our monthly Reading Group led by Curator of Exhibitions + Projects Katie O’Grady.

Drawing on texts and essays across theory, fiction, biography, and poetry, we invite you to learn more about and discuss selected artworks from our current exhibition, Eilis O’Connell: HAPPENSTANCE. Over the course of an hour, you will be invited to read a text aloud together and discuss its themes, ideas, and context in relation to select artworks. This month, we will be reading Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag.

Free to attend with booking required.

Exhibition continues from 03/01/2026 to 31/01/2026.

Following the success of Connected, a joint exhibition by Elaine Cunningham and Siobhán Moore, held in November, we are delighted to share that the exhibition is now on tour. Connected – Connemara is currently showing in the Visitor Centre at Connemara National Park, Letterfrack.

Together, their work celebrates connection — between people, nature, and creative expression — offering a thoughtful and visually captivating experience. We are delighted with the opportunity to present the work in this beautiful space, set within such a stunning landscape. The setting feels like a natural extension of the themes explored in the exhibition.

All welcome. Free, no booking required.

Throughout January, ReVerve Artist Collective have been engaging in creative research in Swift Cultural Centre, Trim.

ReVerve invite you to join them and see the results of their experimentations, how creative ideas are developed and the many ways artists explore and experiment with different materials.

ReVerve Artist Collective are a dynamic group of artists based in County Meath, each bring a unique and diverse artistic practice to their collaborative work.

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)”

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

Sharú is a group exhibition bringing together the work of ten artists. The exhibition reflects a multicultural and multinational group of artists working in Ireland today. Together they present painting drawing sculpture and photography that explore ideas of identity roots and ongoing transformation.
At the heart of Sharú is the belief that the artist is someone who transcends. From the first spark of an idea through engagement with materials and into the final act of making the work the everyday practice of art becomes an act of transformation.

Exhibition continues from 19/10/2025 to 01/02/2026.

Callum Innes creates abstract paintings that carry a powerful tension between control and fluidity. Dissolution is central to his practice: layers of deep pigments are brushed over with turpentine, breaking down sections of paint and leaving watery, trace elements, before being painted over again. Repeating this process of painting, dissolving and repainting multiple times, Innes builds depth and a sense of history: oblique panels of dense pigments become embedded and fortified, while tiny trickles or rivulets of liquified paint point to their underlying fragility.

Everyone Must Go Studio Relocation Sale.
The time has come when Everyone Must Go (from our Marlborough House building). But before we do we’re having a sale. Artists are notorious hoarders and our studios are filled with every type of stuff and things known to humanity. Much of this needs to go and it needs to go in the Everyone Must Go Sale.
So, if you want to find a bargain, give aways, free stuff, new-to-you tools, music tech, home wares, clothes, books, toys and of course art of every description so that you may add to your very own hoarded pile, then this is a good way to spend your Sunday.
Good dogs are always welcome.

This multidisciplinary event is a unique tribute to Rosa Luxemburg – revolutionary, feminist, visionary ecologist and rebel – featuring a hybrid of performance, painting, music, poetry and film with a Brechtian vibe.
Conceived and presented by Noël O’Callaghan and Douglas Henderson, this event intertwines the life, death and legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) with remnants and recollections of Berlin’s war-torn past.
From the poem ‘Du liegst | You lie’ by German-Jewish poet Paul Celan to present-day Berlin, it weaves through time and place, memory and character. It is presented as part of Bandon Brigid’s Festival 2026.

We are thrilled to announce the opening of ‘CROSS POLLINATE’, a group show featuring works by participants in our 2025-26 Clancy Quay Studios + Superprojects Professional Development Programme for recent art graduates.

Join us for the Opening Night on Thursday, 29 January 2026, from 6 PM to 8 PM at Clancy Quay Studios, Kilmainham, Dublin, D08 RPF8.

The exhibition will continue until Sunday, 1 February. Free and open to all! We look forward to welcoming you.

Follow along with all the updates at @clancy_quay_studio and @superprojects_

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.

The fifth edition of Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women returns from Friday, 30 January to Monday, 2 February 2026, marking a milestone year with its most expansive programme to date. Supported by Dublin City Council, the festival will present over 120 thematic events across the city, celebrating women’s contributions to Irish culture, society and history, while marking St Brigid’s Day and the ancient festival of Imbolc.

Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

The lectures can be attended as a series, but are also designed as standalone talks, which can be attended individually.

This week will illuminate how Irish artists engaged with Enlightenment ideals while negotiating questions of identity, place, and modernity.

Jean Doyle at group exhibition for Arte Fiera White Night.

The Four Elements, a group show exploring Earth, Air, Fire, and Water through contemporary photographic practice. This exhibition looks beyond simple documentation of the natural world, encouraging artists to reimagine the elements as both physical forces and symbolic spaces.
The Four Elements aims to bring together diverse voices in a shared meditation on time, resilience, and photography’s ability to make the unseen felt and visible.

PhotoIreland presents the premiere of internationally acclaimed photographer Eamonn Doyle, artist-designer Niall Sweeney and composer David Donohoe new and extensive interdisciplinary body work AS IF, at the International Centre for the Image.

Their latest project, AS IF, presents an ambitious body of work that builds into a visceral and psychological articulation of the physical world and the psyche. It comprises silver gelatin prints, filmworks, montages, sound, music, painting, drawing and text.

Launch 6pm Thu 5 Feb 2026
Free Event. RSVP Mandatory

Black Church Print Studio is delighted to present Slow Image curated by Noémie Cursoux, winner of Black Church Emerging Curator Award ‘26.

Preview: Thursday 5 February 2026 from 6 – 8 pm at The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Featuring selected Black Church and invited artists: Svenja Michelle Behle, John Graham, Eva Nielsen, Sam O’Reilly, Tracy Staunton and Lee Welch.

To diverge is to become different, to change form. This exhibition reflects on the cyclical, transformative nature of life and the process of growth as a fundamental part of the human condition. Growth requires change, often leaving us in an unfamiliar place. It is in learning to navigate the unknown, we are able to transform. This process is letting go the comfort of what we know, and embracing what is yet to come.

30 Jan – 6 March 2026
Studio 12 | Tuesday to Friday 10am – 5pm

Basic Space is delighted to present Jane Cassidy for our February BASIC TALK – 1pm on Friday the 6th of February 2026, online. Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Galway City whose practice spans installation, video, music composition, electronics, and visual design for theatre. She creates immersive audiovisual environments that evoke a sense of synesthesia, blending sound and image into meditative multisensory experiences. Please see our website to book a free ticket to receive the zoom link.

STAC’s 2025 Artist in Residence, Zoe Velthuysen, will be conducting a free walk-through of her exhibition of new work, ‘Liminal Imprints’, at South Tipperary Arts Centre, February 6th at 5:30pm, followed by an opening reception at 6pm. Opening remarks will be delivered by Melanie Scott, Tipperary Arts Officer.

A recent graduate of Fine Art at MTU Crawford College, this new work, comprising drawing and sculpture, interrogates the experience of adapting to new surroundings, questioning what it means to belong, to move, and to carry a sense of home within one’s body.

No pre-booking required.

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.

Painter / Painter is an exhibition and performance by Paddy Critchley. In this exhibition, Paddy reflects on recent explorations within his work. This exhibition brings together work that reacts to his lived experience of contemporary folk culture in Ireland, along with references to his work as a painter and decorator. Paddy’s paintings work as a body, each one in dialogue with another. From portraits of friends and flowers to words and meditations, Paddy uses paint as his way of understanding the world. Paddy’s love of Irish ballads and songs, especially the work of Brendan and Dominic Behan, underpins the work in this exhibition.

We are excited to showcase our growing Golden Thread Gallery Collection this Late Night Art with a pop up exhibition in our Lower Gallery by Belfast artist Clement McAleer.

Karl Hagan’s paintings combine image and abstraction, using photography and digital collage to create layered, thought-provoking compositions. Featuring fragmented forms and distorted figures, his work explores memory, the subconscious, and the ephemeral nature of human experience, inviting viewers to uncover the hidden narratives.

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.

‘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

Exhibition continues from 09/01/2026 to 08/02/2026.

McCormack’s show will address a variety of themes, from intimate moments of reflection to broader glimpses of fleeting beauty, weaving a unified narrative that encourages viewers to contemplate the delicate nature of our environment and delve into the subtle complexities of the world we live in. She is interested in how repetition can evoke the dissolution of memory and how art can function as a record of both the process and the mind’s reflection.

Exhibition continues from 16/01/2026 to 08/02/2026.

126 Artist-Run Gallery & Studios warmly invites you to the opening of our 2026 Members’ Exhibition, Vibrant Matter, on Friday 16th January at 6pm.

A celebration of our members, Vibrant Matter features works by 63 artists across sculpture, oils, acrylics, print, mixed media, photography, and video, responding to the theme of colour as a radical act. Vibrant Matter will run from 16th January until 8th February. 126 Gallery is open from 12-6pm, Wednesday to Sunday.

Featuring: Kirstin Arndt, Alan Butler, John Cronin, Electronic Sheep, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce, Niamh McCann, Caroline McCarthy, Fergus Martin, Bridget Riley, Nigel Rolfe, Oisin Tozer, Luke van Gelderen, Emily Waszak

The Master of Fine Art 2024-2026 Cohort invites you to the showing their final artworks in a pop-up style exhibition at the Limerick School of Art and Design, Clare Street. Starting on January 28th and running through February 13th, various artwork and discussions from these artists will be on display during college open hours in three different spaces – the Confessional Space, Main Lecture Theatre, and the Elevator Foyer. All are welcome to visit!

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.

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.

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.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘The Heart of the Ocean” an exhibition by Beata Rosik.

Photography has been her passion since arriving in Ireland. While her portfolio includes landscapes from Clare and across Ireland, her greatest artistic focus is fine art portrait photography.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “Song and Dance” an art exhibition at the Clare Museum by Fiona Faulkes.
Fiona Faulkes works with oil, painting what she sees, landscapes, portraits and how she feels, abstract, conceptual.
She is also a classical pianist and music weaves through her art whether she’s painting musicians, characters from operas or her own manuscript.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “Passage” by the Artist John Stokes.
Like most children John was a creative force. Like most children, that fell away as his education progressed. By the time he left school it had vanished under the stress of exam competition. Unlike many, a personal tragedy, the death of both his father and brother at the same time, opened him up again. The Creative process was the only way that he could access, to navigate through the ocean of Grief, where he found himself. Creativity is now a natural strand of his Being.

Exhibition continues from 21/01/2026 to 14/02/2026.

Dorothy Cross’s Bloodlines series comprises unique works that layer archival photographs with hand-poured, red-veined glass. Taken by the artist’s father in the 1940s, these images reveal an inherited fascination with the sea—a personal history caught within a geological frame.

Opening reception Thursday 05 February, 5.30-7.30pm.

Anna Barden was an artist who worked and lived in Cork city. She passed away unexpectedly on 31 December 2024. This commemorative exhibition is a shared initiative involving family, friends and colleagues, with key involvement from Elaine Coakley, Studio Director, Backwater Artists Group; Katherine Boucher Beug, artist, friend and mentor; and Gillian Cussen, artist and friend. Anna’s art practice encompassed drawing, painting sewing, short text pieces and ceramics. The display is built around a variety of finished works, studies and archival material spanning Anna’s career.