What’s On around Ireland

Exhibition continues from 11/09/26-09/10/26.

“Cultural Similitudes” is an exhibition of photographs from the archives of award-winning photographer Laura Jean Zito, pairing images she made in the Sinai Desert of the Bedouin with photos of people in Ireland over the last five decades, to foster an appreciation of the similarities that bind us together as humans rather than the oft portrayed focus on the differences that contribute to the destruction of the planet and our ability to live in it harmoniously. The exhibition will hold an opening reception at 7:30 on Friday, September 11, at which all are welcome. Gallery hours are 12-5 Tues-Fri and 10-3 Sat.

Exhibition runs 05/09/26-04/10/26.

In Ga (Radius), Donegal-based artist Sinéad Walsh explores the ways in which a sense of place is formed through memory, folklore, language and encounters with the natural world. Rooted in the coastal landscape of Donegal, the exhibition brings together sculpture, found objects, drawing and mixed-media. Recycled and natural materials are transformed, reinterpreted and given new possibilities. Ordinary things become curious objects; fragments suggest stories; familiar forms shift into something less certain. Sinéad is drawn to states of transition: the point where land meets water, waking meets sleep, and the everyday becomes strange.

Exhibition runs 27/08/26-16/09/26.

In associations with Matthews Auctioneers we are delighted to offer this collection to the market. A wonderful opportunity to acquire modern artworks by a rediscovered Irish painter offered at very attractive estimates. All directly from the studio of an artist who was at the center of the 1960s and 70s international art movements. Across more than 100 lots the life & energy of Frank Phelan can be traced through these canvases.

Exhibition runs 07/09/26-19/09/27.

Threading Memories centres on a crocheted quilt made over one hundred years ago by the artist’s grandmother in Beale, County Kerry. Through painting, thread drawing, sculpture and archival material, the exhibition explores how objects can carry memory across generations, holding the traces of the hands that made them and the lives they have touched.

For the artist, the quilt is more than a family heirloom. It is a witness to acts of care, ritual and making, connecting generations of women whose lives were shaped by thread. Repeated throughout the exhibition, the quilt becomes both subject and method. 

What happens to memory when we experience loss? How does it change with time, emotion and distance? And how much of what we remember is fixed?
Between Then and Now is Iseult McCormack’s exploration of memory and grief through intuitive abstract painting.
Working with vibrant colour, layered surfaces, mark-making, spray paint and collage, Iseult explores the fragments, gaps and shifting impressions that exist between past and present.
The paintings are deeply personal, but the questions they ask are universal.
What do we remember? What do we forget? And how does the past continue to shape the present?

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

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

Opening day: Saturday 19th September 11am. 

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

Caroline is very excited to present her first solo exhibition at Culturlann Sweeney. She is a painter working in a variety of mediums, including oil, acrylic, charcoal and encaustic.
Based in Kilrush, Co. Clare and having returned home over a decade ago from living in London, Caroline draws her inspiration from her surroundings. Memories of places visited as a child and revisited as an adult, spark images in full colour. Sight and sound often merge into experiments combing traditional and contemporary approaches which create expressive, original pieces.

The Dublin Painting and Sketching Club presents its 148th Annual Exhibition at Townhall, 1WML, Windmill Quarter, Dublin 2.
The exhibition brings together painting, drawing, printmaking and mixed-media work by established and emerging artists from across Ireland, including Club members and artists selected through the annual Open Submission.
Dates: Monday 14 to Sunday 27 September 2026
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 10.30am–4.30pm; Sundays, 12 noon–4pm
Culture Night: Friday 18 September 2026

Exhibition runs 05/09/26-04/10/26.

Yulia Gasio is a Ukrainian-born artist from Luhansk, now based in California, whose practice explores landscape, displacement, contested borders, and cultural memory. During her residency at Artlink in summer 2026, she developed this series of intimate gouache paintings responding to the landscape of Inishowen and its histories of defence, migration and occupation. Yulia is an Assistant Professor of Art at California State University, Long Beach and a PhD candidate at UCLA. Her work draws connections between places shaped by histories of conflict and transformation.

Exhibition runs 11/09/26-27/09/26.

‘A Closer Look’ is a pivotal solo exhibition by Máiréad Holohan and invites a considered engagement and appreciation for the often unnoticed species in our local environment. Máiréad Holohan is an artist from Kilkenny and has a purpose-built studio on stilts on the side of the Blackstairs Mountains, looking at Brandon Hill across the Barrow Valley. She has an eco-practice and is deeply informed by her surroundings. Through a routine of walking and looking, she is drawn to the idea of the ruderal – a plant species that evades areas impacted by human disturbance such as agriculture, habitation and construction.

This new video installation from visual artist Marta Golubowska is an investigation of ways of dwelling beyond the existential need for shelter; the artist looks for a connection between the environments and the inner sense of balance. It is an invitation to a deeply personal journey to the secluded intimacy of her spaces. It is also a journey through memories of all the homes that we carry through life. The video installation will take place inside the immersive space of 52m Barge in Robertstown, Co. Kildare.

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Tuesdays: 15, 22, 29 Sept & 6, 13, 20 Oct.
Adults/16+
These relaxed sessions are an opportunity to flex your life drawing skills and improve your drawing practice. Engaging at your own pace, focus on drawing the human figure with a variation of models and props. Artist Sadhbh McElveen will be on hand for guidance if needed, however these sessions are not recommended for complete beginners.

Participants must bring their own drawing materials and paper of choice.
Chairs, drawing boards and light refreshments will be provided.

For more information and to book, click here.

Exhibition of international portraits with two works by Noel Molloy – ‘I LOOK UPON THE INWARD EYE’ and ‘A STICH IN TIMES THREE’ FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF PORTRAIT OF THE PUBLIC INSTITUTION “CENTAR ZA KULTURU” TUZLA Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The exhibition takes its name from the Irish for a seam or joint, Siúnta weaves together separate narratives into imagined ecological relationships. Forms of flesh, fur, flower and feather mingle and merge. Subjects develop symbiotic and antagonistic relationships, display unfamiliar actions and establish new habits together.

Niamh Coffey is a Dublin-based visual artist from Laois, whose practice encompasses textiles, drawings and sculpture. Their work uses ideas from ecology, queer theory and Irish folklore to create imagined ecological relationships. Niamh graduated from NCAD in 2016 with a degree in Sculpture and Expanded Practices.

Opening by Geraldine Mitchell at 6pm 17 September.

The Faraway Nearby, a solo exhibition of new paintings of remembered geographies and stories that question the uncertainty of what is real and what is imagined and how stories can become something else in the retelling,

Mags Duffy is based in the Custom House Studios. She works across painting, textiles, photography and text. Drawing on her experience of living in a rural coastal environment in the West of Ireland, she creates real and imagined landscapes that explore inner and outer worlds and the fragility of living in these places. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Lynda’s work often focuses on seemingly forgotten places within rural landscapes; overgrown and deserted buildings, abandoned fishing boats and other traces of lives once lived. Lynda explorea the relationship these have with the terrain they are weathered in, how they become embedded into a place; returning to and becoming part of it, bearing witness to sometimes forgotten vernacular ways of life and to the people who have left them behind. Her work draws a narrative through these elements, weaving layers of meaning into each painting through the use of unusual surfaces—old Ordnance Survey maps and Admiralty charts, railway tickets and diaries.

Finissage exhibition is a celebration of Henrietta Street studios with recent works by contemporary Irish visual artists Louise Peat, joined by fellow artist Daniel McKeon working from neighbouring studios on Henrietta Street.
For more than half a century, these eighteenth-century rooms have sheltered generations of artists, offering spaces of experimentation, making, and exchange. As this extraordinary chapter draws to a close, Finissage marks both an ending and a celebration—a final gathering that honours the creative life of the studios while reflecting on the urgent need to protect affordable workspaces for artists in Dublin

“This is a Show about Grief” explores, through various mediums, the experience and processing of grief. Two of my short films will feature in an intimate, immersive setting, where the viewer will have time to connect with the emotions being expressed in the work. The award winning, MA, which deals with the loss of a Mother who’s son betrays his upbringing by his violence, and the autobiographical NOT, which explores the experience of being the other child in a family where a child with special needs is born. These losses and grief live outside the experiences with which we are more familiar, and as such are lonelier, quieter, hidden.

Live mural painting returns to rural Leitrim this Culture Night as MyfanwyNia’s Studio opens its doors for an afternoon paint jam and evening exhibition in the Iron Mountains.
Throughout the afternoon, artists will transform the studio’s purpose-built outdoor mural walls with large-scale works created live using spray paint and other mural techniques. Visitors are welcome to drop in, watch the walls develop, meet the artists and experience the creative process first-hand.
As daylight fades, the freshly painted murals become an open-air Culture Night exhibition, with live DJs, refreshments and an opportunity to meet the participating artists.

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

A Sculpture and Print Exhibition by Ben Reilly.

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

Exhibition launch 18th September 5-8pm at Leitrim Sculpture Centre.

Matters of Process is a new exhibition series exploring the work of artists who completed a Technical Development Research Residency (TDR) at the Centre the previous year. During their residencies, artists experimented with a range of materials, objects and ideas investigating the often-hidden processes and energies embedded in their making. The exhibition brings these processes into view, revealing how they shaped the emergence of new work.
Artists – Brenda Kearney, Vanessa Donoso-Lopez, Margo McNulty, Anna Spearman, David Spence.

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

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

As Above, So Below
Sara K. Dunn & Róisín Doherty
Engage Art Studios, ChurchFields, Lower Salthill

Working across pen drawing, painting, printmaking, clay and installation, Dunn and Doherty consider land as a living, layered space that holds memory, supports growth and connects the visible world with the hidden networks beneath it. The work reflects on how land can recover and transform itself beyond human ownership.

Culture Night printmaking workshop: Friday 18 September, 5-8pm, drop in.
Launch: Saturday 19 September, 2-5pm.
Open Sunday 20 and Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 September, 12-5pm.

The GAFF is hosting an open day for Culture Night!

Drop in for our artist-led workshops – and to discover our new studios, our new building, and this new creative space in Limerick city.

Tours of our newly-restored, heritage building will take place every hour on the hour. We invite you to connect and engage with local artists as they lead free, drop-in workshops in lino print, music production and more.

Get hands-on with creative participation and celebrate the opening of a new culture and community space in the city. We look forward to seeing you there!

Analog Image Poster Generator’ is an homage to 30 years of Pallas Projects/Studios, exploring our anniversary exhibition Do It Together and our rich 30 year archive. Join us this Culture Night from 4pm-8pm and become a researcher and artist yourself!
Together we will use collage techniques alongside Pallas’ vast archive of images of 30 years of events, exhibitions, performances, public interventions and artist-run spaces and engage in our 30 year anniversary exhibition Do It Together.
We invite you into our main gallery space and yard for a night of art making and reflection on how artist-run spaces are vital in an ever shifting Dublin.

For more information, click here.

We celebrate Culture Night 2026 at the International Centre for the Image, with a late evening of exhibitions and events for the whole family! Visitors are invited to a late night opening to explore three exhibitions featuring the premiere of two works and a group exhibition. The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of events, including artist studio tours, exhibition tours, and a spaceship building workshop for young people.

For the full programme, click here.

Belfast artist Farhad O’Neill will be exhibiting new works based upon Irish mythology for one night at 2 Royal Avenue in Belfast and part of Culture Night 2026.

River of Words is an immersive exploration of language inspired by written works that have come out of the Word Sparks ekphrastic writing sessions in the South Tipperary Arts Centre.

Representing how inspiration ripples from artworks to written works and beyond, this textural installation invites you to meander and muse along a River of Words, creating your own ripples. You are invited to take a seat on the ‘riverbank’, a relaxing pause for those who wish to create or to simply ponder the experience.

On Friday 18 September, Clare artist Grace Roberts opens her Cratloe home as The House Galleries for a unique, one-evening-only Culture Night experience. From 4–8pm, visitors can explore intimate, self-guided exhibition spaces featuring original works created over twenty years. The exhibition traces an evolving practice—from figurative and symbolic pieces exploring identity and memory to richly textured abstractions inspired by organic forms and the Irish landscape. Supported by Clare County Council. Admission free.

Culture Night 2026 at Siamsa Tíre. A Celebration of Community and Culture

Photography workshop with Olga. A short lecture on the history of self-portraiture in photography, followed by a hands-on workshop where participants create their own self-portraits using their cameras or smartphones – covering composition, light, and concept. Participants take home an assignment, and finished images are printed for review and display.

For more information and to book, click here.

Demo and talk with artist,
Kevin Mc Namara
Join us and meet Artist, Kevin Mc Namara who will be giving a talk and demonstration on the art of the self portrait at the Sol Art Gallery on Friday, Sept. 18th, 2026 at 5pm to 6:30 pm.
Kevin will talk a little about his approach to painting and will demonstrate how he begins a self portrait. He’ll discuss key points and influences that guide his process as a painter. “These paintings are essential and useful to me as an artist as well as an opportunity for me to examine and scrutinise my ongoing pursuit of colour”.
To learn more and book your place, contact the gallery at 01 675 0972.

‘Somewhere someone is…’ | Noel Molloy | Culture Night
For our second event for Culture Night in the Arts Centre:
Somewhere someone is … 2026 a 25 minute performance art work relating to isolation or being divorced from the world around us.
Followed by SPECIAL GUEST ARTHUR DUIGNAN in conversation with Noel Molloy: Developing an artist practice in Roscommon over the past 25 years.
Friday 18th September | 5.30 – 6.30PM | FREE EVENT

For more information and to book, click here.

Join us from 6–8pm on Friday 18 September 2026 for the opening of Jenny Brady’s new exhibition ‘Reference Library 2010–2026’ at Kunstverein Aughrim, followed by a live performance by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Aughrim as part of Culture Night. More information and booking link can be found on Kunstverein Aughrim’s website.

For more information and to book, click here.

Culture Night 2026 at Siamsa Tíre. A Celebration of Community and Culture

Photography workshop with Olga. A short lecture on the history of self-portraiture in photography, followed by a hands-on workshop where participants create their own self-portraits using their cameras or smartphones – covering composition, light, and concept. Participants take home an assignment, and finished images are printed for review and display.

Propagating Otherwise, a two-day group exhibition, hosted by Furze Arts for Culture Night 2026.

Furze Arts was founded in 2025 as an artist-led platform for residencies, site-specific exhibitions, and research-based workshops. It aims to create frameworks where art becomes a tool for ecological awareness and collective participation. For Propagating Otherwise, local and international artists were invited to work on the garden as a site for critical reflection, responding through performance, sculpture, moving image and photography.

Opening Night : 18:00 – 21:00.
Day Two : 12:00 = 17:00.

Tulach is a performance by Sandra Corrigan Breathnach created for Culture Night Galway. She will be joined by artists who have participated in her preceding workshop in 126 Artist-Run Gallery.

Tulach will look at the wonder of our existence, the cyclical nature of life and death, drawing on our past, our present and looking towards future ways of being within this world.

On the following day, Saturday the 19th of September at 2pm, workshop participants will showcase outcome performances at 126 Artist-Run Gallery.

No booking required, all are welcome.

Sarah Long is Artist in Residence in TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space from 3 September – 25 October. A Cork-based artist, she creates autofiction that she translates across painting, performance and publication.

I Want To Talk About Ireland is a work of autofiction translated into a spoken word album. This art object centres around ideas of dreams, language and nationhood through a feminist lens. Sarah will be performing part of the work on the night alongside this listening event.

Part of Culture Night.

Free – all are welcome

For Culture Night 2026, The Glen Tavern and F.L.P. (Fun Limerick Productions) present works from esteemed Printmaker and Painter Michael Culliney. His colourful, quirky and personal paintings feature pattern laced surfaces, with autobiography thrown in.

‘My work is about colour and when colours are layered how they can result in a balanced image. The image is an insight to my life’, Michael Culliney.
Exhibition continues until Friday Oct. 2. Proudly sponsored by Limerick City and County Council. Michael Culliney is an artist from Ennis, Co Clare, living in Limerick City.

Suaimhneach | Culture Night 2026

As part of Culture Night 2026, Suaimhneach is a joint visual arts exhibition by visual artist Carol Ahern and ceramic artist Lisa O’Riordan Mackessy, presented by Newcastle West Arts & The Red Door Gallery.

Meaning peaceful, calm or tranquil, Suaimhneach brings together painting and ceramics, exploring themes of peace, healing and connection through art.

Culture Night Launch: Friday, 18 September, 7:30–9:30pm
Exhibition: 18 September – 3 October 2026
Opening Hours: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 10am–4pm
Venue: The Red Door Gallery, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick

All welcome – free admission.

Exciting group exhibition of recent paintings by artists Noelle Angley, Josephine Boland, and Vanya Savov.
The different personalities and backgrounds of each artist make for a lively contrast of influences, styles and interpretations of the rich cultural heritages of Ireland and the Balkans. Paintings range from expressive, atmospheric, neo-impressionistic interpretations to more stylistic and representational work. Noelle and Josephine both share a passion for plein air painting,. Vanya by contrast is a studio painter,her highly expressive works are often gestural and emotional responses to a scene.

Doolin Cave will celebrate 20 years since opening to visitors with a special anniversary event on Saturday, 19 September 2026, where it will officially launch its vision for a new Sculpture Park.
The event will bring together representatives from tourism, culture, business and the local community to reflect on Doolin Cave’s journey over the past two decades and look ahead to an exciting new chapter for the award-winning County Clare visitor attraction.

How does Irish language and myth about the Otherworld, and the role of nature within it, speak to us in a time of environmental crisis? These workshops with bilingual collective Scaoilte Theatre use theatre and storytelling to awaken words and stories, and use them to imagine our own ‘other worlds’, of living in tune with our ecosystems. The finished piece of work will be sound recorded and exhibited at Lasta Festival 2026 at the gallery in Siamsa Tíre. Participants and their guests are welcome to attend to enjoy their finished work!

Patrick Street Studios are launching in Dun Laoghaire with an Open Studio event on Sunday 20th September 2-4pm.
Please come along and see behind the doors of our artists private work spaces.

You’re invited to H U D D L E on Sunday 20 September at 4.00pm to 5.30pm. All are welcome to this roving, inclusive event for the discussion around contemporary art and associative narratives. It is devised and chaired by Saidhbhín Gibson. The project was initiated to facilitate those interested in contemporary art, and supplementary subjects, to come together.

To book your place, or for further information, please email: hellohuddle@gmail.com. Reading material will be emailed prior to the session.

As part of Máiréad Holohan’s solo exhibition ‘A Closer Look’, Friday 11 to Sunday 27 September.

The second edition of Palestinian Cultural Days, taking place in Dublin from 25–27 September 2026.

Over three days, we will explore Palestine’s geography, identity, memory, belonging, displacement and resilience through Palestinian art, literature, photography, film, conversations, workshops and music.

The programme centres Palestinian voices and lived experiences, reflecting on occupation, restricted movement and separation, while celebrating the enduring connection between Palestinians.

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

This project is funded by the Four Nations International Fund through Arts Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales, Creative Scotland and Wales Arts International.

For more information, and to book your ticket for the event, please see The MAC’s website.

Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone or at The MAC’s box office.

For more information and to book, click here.

Exhibition continues from 06/03/26 until 13/09/2026.

This exhibition brings together two distinct art practices – of painter Camille Souter (1929–2023) and contemporary artist Alberta Whittle (b. 1980) – that insist upon working against the grain, unpicking urgencies of life and death, resistance and regeneration.

Exhibition continues from 03/07/2026.

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in Ireland by Libyan artist Nour Jaouda. Jaouda’s multi-layered textile works traverse the languages of painting, sculpture and installation to produce ‘landscapes of memory’. The forms, colours and motifs within her intricately textured surfaces gesture towards different encounters across time and space, drawing on the artist’s childhood in Libya and experiences of living between Cairo and London.
For this instalment of The Artist’s Eye, Jaouda has invited Tamara Kalo to exhibit in Gallery 2.
Open Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Thurs 12-6pm.

The celebrated sculptor was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. Her studies in Cork and Boston were followed by research fellowships in Rome and New York. After living in London for 14 years, Eilís returned to live in Ireland in 2002, exhibiting at home and abroad and working on commissions for public and private locations across Europe. She is a founder director of the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, a former member of the Arts Council of Ireland, a member of Aosdána, and a member of the RHA.

The exhibition will be previewed by IMMA curator Seán Kissane, 12–2pm, Saturday 15 August. The exhibition will be open until 13 September, Wed–Sun 12

Exhibition continues from 13/08/26.

The Weight of Air is a new site-specific exhibition by Sorcha McNamara. The exhibition reflects the artist’s material-led practice and dwells on the concept of the frame. The works in question explore how something is held, regarded and positioned in space, both literally and figuratively. Much of the work in the exhibition was developed during her time spent on residency in Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin (2025-26).

Currently based in Mayo, Sorcha holds an MA in Art & Research Collaboration from IADT Dún Laoghaire (2024) and a BA in Painting from Limerick School of Art & Design (2019).

‘Water is Life’ is the 5th annual LUA exhibition by local artists.

Official opening: 11th September 6pm.

Signal Arts Centre is hosting a solo exhibition by Linda McCann showing a new collection of paintings and textile constructs looking at public green spaces in Ireland. The work is not a direct representation of the landscape but a series of abstracted images paying attention to the seasonal colours of nature clashing with neon colour of human machinery.

Exhibition continues 13/08/26-13/09/26.

Odysseys of Self is a solo exhibition by North Clare artist Tina O’Connell. The exhibition explores motherhood, memory, identity and everyday life. Rooted in family traditions of making, she works primarily with wood, combining carving, construction, motors and simple electronics to bring tactile sculptures to life. Humour, movement and familiar objects create playful yet poignant stories about care, connection and the evolving self.

Tina is currently completing an MA in Fine Art (Research and Practice).

Tuesdays: 15, 22, 29 Sept & 6, 13, 20 Oct.
Adults/16+
These relaxed sessions are an opportunity to flex your life drawing skills and improve your drawing practice. Engaging at your own pace, focus on drawing the human figure with a variation of models and props. Artist Sadhbh McElveen will be on hand for guidance if needed, however these sessions are not recommended for complete beginners.

Participants must bring their own drawing materials and paper of choice.
Chairs, drawing boards and light refreshments will be provided.

For more information and to book, click here.

Opening reception Thursday September 10th. 6pm. Opening speaker Kwanele Nomoyi. Exhibition Fri 11th – Weds 16th Sept. 11am – 5pm. Closed Sunday. Artist William Kwaku Amo showcases a body of new paintings at Reds Gallery Dublin in September . These works were created during his month long residency at Reds Gallery in August 2026. The exhibition reflects the emotional pull between ascent and collapse, hope and fear, expansion and disappearance. Curated by Tony Strickland.

Exhibition runs 27/08/26-16/09/26.

In associations with Matthews Auctioneers we are delighted to offer this collection to the market. A wonderful opportunity to acquire modern artworks by a rediscovered Irish painter offered at very attractive estimates. All directly from the studio of an artist who was at the center of the 1960s and 70s international art movements. Across more than 100 lots the life & energy of Frank Phelan can be traced through these canvases.

Síofra Minnis is a Belfast-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and video, currently based at Queen Street Studios. Her practice investigates how archives, material culture, and systems of display shape our understanding of identity, with a particular focus on the colonial legacies embedded within the Irish landscape.

Sarah O’Brien is an Irish painter whose work explores material process, symbolic language and the relationship between making, repair and transformation. Born in Cork in 1980, she completed an MFA in Painting at NCAD in 2007 and now lives and works in Kinsale, Co. Cork.

Exhibition selected by the Art Riddler and curated by Louise Neiland. Artwork by members of ArtNetdlr.

Demo and talk with artist,
Kevin Mc Namara
Join us and meet Artist, Kevin Mc Namara who will be giving a talk and demonstration on the art of the self portrait at the Sol Art Gallery on Friday, Sept. 18th, 2026 at 5pm to 6:30 pm.
Kevin will talk a little about his approach to painting and will demonstrate how he begins a self portrait. He’ll discuss key points and influences that guide his process as a painter. “These paintings are essential and useful to me as an artist as well as an opportunity for me to examine and scrutinise my ongoing pursuit of colour”.
To learn more and book your place, contact the gallery at 01 675 0972.

‘Somewhere someone is…’ | Noel Molloy | Culture Night
For our second event for Culture Night in the Arts Centre:
Somewhere someone is … 2026 a 25 minute performance art work relating to isolation or being divorced from the world around us.
Followed by SPECIAL GUEST ARTHUR DUIGNAN in conversation with Noel Molloy: Developing an artist practice in Roscommon over the past 25 years.
Friday 18th September | 5.30 – 6.30PM | FREE EVENT

For more information and to book, click here.

Belfast artist Farhad O’Neill will be exhibiting new works based upon Irish mythology for one night at 2 Royal Avenue in Belfast and part of Culture Night 2026.

Suaimhneach | Culture Night 2026

As part of Culture Night 2026, Suaimhneach is a joint visual arts exhibition by visual artist Carol Ahern and ceramic artist Lisa O’Riordan Mackessy, presented by Newcastle West Arts & The Red Door Gallery.

Meaning peaceful, calm or tranquil, Suaimhneach brings together painting and ceramics, exploring themes of peace, healing and connection through art.

Culture Night Launch: Friday, 18 September, 7:30–9:30pm
Exhibition: 18 September – 3 October 2026
Opening Hours: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 10am–4pm
Venue: The Red Door Gallery, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick

All welcome – free admission.

River of Words is an immersive exploration of language inspired by written works that have come out of the Word Sparks ekphrastic writing sessions in the South Tipperary Arts Centre.

Representing how inspiration ripples from artworks to written works and beyond, this textural installation invites you to meander and muse along a River of Words, creating your own ripples. You are invited to take a seat on the ‘riverbank’, a relaxing pause for those who wish to create or to simply ponder the experience.

On Friday 18 September, Clare artist Grace Roberts opens her Cratloe home as The House Galleries for a unique, one-evening-only Culture Night experience. From 4–8pm, visitors can explore intimate, self-guided exhibition spaces featuring original works created over twenty years. The exhibition traces an evolving practice—from figurative and symbolic pieces exploring identity and memory to richly textured abstractions inspired by organic forms and the Irish landscape. Supported by Clare County Council. Admission free.

Culture Night 2026 at Siamsa Tíre. A Celebration of Community and Culture

Photography workshop with Olga. A short lecture on the history of self-portraiture in photography, followed by a hands-on workshop where participants create their own self-portraits using their cameras or smartphones – covering composition, light, and concept. Participants take home an assignment, and finished images are printed for review and display.

For more information and to book, click here.

Culture Night 2026 at Siamsa Tíre. A Celebration of Community and Culture

Photography workshop with Olga. A short lecture on the history of self-portraiture in photography, followed by a hands-on workshop where participants create their own self-portraits using their cameras or smartphones – covering composition, light, and concept. Participants take home an assignment, and finished images are printed for review and display.

We celebrate Culture Night 2026 at the International Centre for the Image, with a late evening of exhibitions and events for the whole family! Visitors are invited to a late night opening to explore three exhibitions featuring the premiere of two works and a group exhibition. The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of events, including artist studio tours, exhibition tours, and a spaceship building workshop for young people.

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Live mural painting returns to rural Leitrim this Culture Night as MyfanwyNia’s Studio opens its doors for an afternoon paint jam and evening exhibition in the Iron Mountains.
Throughout the afternoon, artists will transform the studio’s purpose-built outdoor mural walls with large-scale works created live using spray paint and other mural techniques. Visitors are welcome to drop in, watch the walls develop, meet the artists and experience the creative process first-hand.
As daylight fades, the freshly painted murals become an open-air Culture Night exhibition, with live DJs, refreshments and an opportunity to meet the participating artists.

Join us from 6–8pm on Friday 18 September 2026 for the opening of Jenny Brady’s new exhibition ‘Reference Library 2010–2026’ at Kunstverein Aughrim, followed by a live performance by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Aughrim as part of Culture Night. More information and booking link can be found on Kunstverein Aughrim’s website.

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The GAFF is hosting an open day for Culture Night!

Drop in for our artist-led workshops – and to discover our new studios, our new building, and this new creative space in Limerick city.

Tours of our newly-restored, heritage building will take place every hour on the hour. We invite you to connect and engage with local artists as they lead free, drop-in workshops in lino print, music production and more.

Get hands-on with creative participation and celebrate the opening of a new culture and community space in the city. We look forward to seeing you there!

Analog Image Poster Generator’ is an homage to 30 years of Pallas Projects/Studios, exploring our anniversary exhibition Do It Together and our rich 30 year archive. Join us this Culture Night from 4pm-8pm and become a researcher and artist yourself!
Together we will use collage techniques alongside Pallas’ vast archive of images of 30 years of events, exhibitions, performances, public interventions and artist-run spaces and engage in our 30 year anniversary exhibition Do It Together.
We invite you into our main gallery space and yard for a night of art making and reflection on how artist-run spaces are vital in an ever shifting Dublin.

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Sarah Long is Artist in Residence in TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space from 3 September – 25 October. A Cork-based artist, she creates autofiction that she translates across painting, performance and publication.

I Want To Talk About Ireland is a work of autofiction translated into a spoken word album. This art object centres around ideas of dreams, language and nationhood through a feminist lens. Sarah will be performing part of the work on the night alongside this listening event.

Part of Culture Night.

Free – all are welcome

The Rain Tells Us Everything

Catherine McDonald, Katie Nolan and Niamh Schmidtke (Gallery 2 + Foyer Gallery)

Curated by Clara McSweeney, The Rain Tells Us Everything investigates the encroaching transformations shaping contemporary landscapes under the pressures of the climate crisis. Through trespassing, tracking, and collective singing, the participating artists examine these shifts across sound, film, fabric, and drawing, each bringing a distinct material and conceptual approach to environmental change.

Image Credit: Catherine McDonald

Love beyond the species and the sexual by Siobhán McGibbon opening on Saturday 25 July at 2.00pm by Dr. Sarah Kelleher, writer and curator.

Love beyond the species and the sexual is a major solo exhibition by Siobhán McGibbon at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. The exhibition presents a chapter of McGibbon’s ongoing speculative world, Xenophon, a long-term project that imagines more-than-human futures through fiction, science and sculpture. Told across three acts, it moves from the artist’s unkempt garden into the ecologies, histories and more-than-human communities of Myross Woods, Leap, Co. Cork.

Seacourt Print Workshop is delighted to welcome back the renowned Master Etcher, educator and author Nigel Oxley (Hon RE) for a special celebration of his remarkable printmaking career.
Nigel is well known for his outstanding collaborative work with many significant artists but this retrospective exhibition “Into the Light” offers a rare opportunity to discover and examine in some depth his own distinctive printmaking journey and practice, with prints spanning from the early 1970s to the present day.
The exhibition opens on Thursday, 30th July at 6.00pm.

Nigel will also be talking about his work on Friday, 31st at 3–5pm.

Earthly Basin of Attraction is a solo exhibition by Irish artist Rebecca Jobson commissioned for Sligo’s Tread Softly Festival. She explores the geographical and metaphysical layers of County Sligo’s 6,000-year-old passage tomb landscape through painting, print, textile, and installation. Jobson frames this ancient region as a literal and spiritual basin that draws in and cradles life. Her work capturing themes of deep time, lore and life rooted in the land for millennia. An internationally exhibiting artist, her work is held in public and private collections in Europe and the USA.

Exhibition launch at The LAB Gallery on Thursday, 20 August from 6pm to 8pm.

Curated by Dr. Margarita Cappock. The exhibition will be launched by Dr. Róisín Kennedy, Associate Professor and Head of School of Art History and Cultural Policy at UCD.

Born in Dublin, John Noel Smith is a critically acclaimed contemporary artist known for his powerful, non-figurative paintings and sculptural installations. Following his art school education in Dublin and Germany, Smith lived and worked in Berlin for more than 20 years.

Meet the Artists event Saturday the 29th of August, 2pm.

C.A.K.E. Collective brings together 12 emerging artists united by a shared commitment to Creativity, Art, Knowledge, and Expression.

For Westward, the artists respond to the idea of the west as both place and metaphor. Through painting and mixed media, they explore themes of landscape, memory, migration, belonging and resilience. Each artist brings their own experiences, perspectives and ways of making to a collective conversation.

Together, they present the west not as a fixed destination, but as a shared orientation — personal, evolving and open to interpretation.

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

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

Exhibition runs 27/08/26-19/09/26.

The work for this exhibition looks at the female body as it collides with institutional policies and procedures. The sculptures reflect the traumatised birth with its intrusive procedures resulting in the loss of bodily autonomy. 

Women’s bodies are a landscape, a site of contention and control. It is within maternity institutions where interventions, policy, procedure and tolerances dominate and leave women outside of decisions made about their bodies. 

Lorraine Parker is an emerging visual artist based in Cork. In 2021 she graduated from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design (CCAD) with a BA First Class Hons in Contemporary Applied Art

Exhibition runs 27/08/26-19/09/26.

Psychogeography features paintings by Michaela McCann, Sarah Vandemeer and James Wellwood.
Psychogeography explores how places and spaces shape our mood and our behavior as we experience them. The term was first coined by the Marxist theorist Guy Debord in 1955, a founding member of the Situationist movement who were a group of revolutionary minded artists that aimed to make radical culture a direct part of daily life. Debord, and others influenced by him, concentrated on urban environments but for this exhibition we have turned our attention to the rural environment.

Doolin Cave will celebrate 20 years since opening to visitors with a special anniversary event on Saturday, 19 September 2026, where it will officially launch its vision for a new Sculpture Park.
The event will bring together representatives from tourism, culture, business and the local community to reflect on Doolin Cave’s journey over the past two decades and look ahead to an exciting new chapter for the award-winning County Clare visitor attraction.

Tulach is a performance by Sandra Corrigan Breathnach created for Culture Night Galway. She will be joined by artists who have participated in her preceding workshop in 126 Artist-Run Gallery.

Tulach will look at the wonder of our existence, the cyclical nature of life and death, drawing on our past, our present and looking towards future ways of being within this world.

On the following day, Saturday the 19th of September at 2pm, workshop participants will showcase outcome performances at 126 Artist-Run Gallery.

No booking required, all are welcome.

Exhibition runs 07/09/26-19/09/27.

Threading Memories centres on a crocheted quilt made over one hundred years ago by the artist’s grandmother in Beale, County Kerry. Through painting, thread drawing, sculpture and archival material, the exhibition explores how objects can carry memory across generations, holding the traces of the hands that made them and the lives they have touched.

For the artist, the quilt is more than a family heirloom. It is a witness to acts of care, ritual and making, connecting generations of women whose lives were shaped by thread. Repeated throughout the exhibition, the quilt becomes both subject and method. 

How does Irish language and myth about the Otherworld, and the role of nature within it, speak to us in a time of environmental crisis? These workshops with bilingual collective Scaoilte Theatre use theatre and storytelling to awaken words and stories, and use them to imagine our own ‘other worlds’, of living in tune with our ecosystems. The finished piece of work will be sound recorded and exhibited at Lasta Festival 2026 at the gallery in Siamsa Tíre. Participants and their guests are welcome to attend to enjoy their finished work!

Exciting group exhibition of recent paintings by artists Noelle Angley, Josephine Boland, and Vanya Savov.
The different personalities and backgrounds of each artist make for a lively contrast of influences, styles and interpretations of the rich cultural heritages of Ireland and the Balkans. Paintings range from expressive, atmospheric, neo-impressionistic interpretations to more stylistic and representational work. Noelle and Josephine both share a passion for plein air painting,. Vanya by contrast is a studio painter,her highly expressive works are often gestural and emotional responses to a scene.

Propagating Otherwise, a two-day group exhibition, hosted by Furze Arts for Culture Night 2026.

Furze Arts was founded in 2025 as an artist-led platform for residencies, site-specific exhibitions, and research-based workshops. It aims to create frameworks where art becomes a tool for ecological awareness and collective participation. For Propagating Otherwise, local and international artists were invited to work on the garden as a site for critical reflection, responding through performance, sculpture, moving image and photography.

Opening Night : 18:00 – 21:00.
Day Two : 12:00 = 17:00.

Oil painting exhibition reflecting Hayes’ six months living and working as a Great Blasket Island caretaker. Bringing his longstanding exploration of self and surroundings to this unique setting, he captures the world he encountered, its modern cast of characters, and its contemporary way of life. The paintings examine the dynamic relationship between past and present, exploring the inherent nature of ‘islandness’ and the distinctly liminal sense of place. His re-presentations of the island are painted with honesty and sincerity. Suspending some of the persistent preconceptions about islands, he challenges and re-contextualises them, creating a more nuanced picture.

James Hayes is a visual artist from county Kerry. He primarily operates as an oil-painter, but is also an accomplished muralist, illustrator and a qualified architect. His artistic practice is centred around a personal and phenomenological exploration of the complex relationship that exists between self and surroundings. His work has been characterised as a unique blended form of contemporary engagement with both the genre of ‘landscape’ painting and an intimate narrative painting tradition; eschewing hierarchy and category in favour of equal focus on both landscapes and figures. He is a self-styled painter of the space between people_and_place.

Reflecting her experiences growing up in Barcelona and living in Ireland for over twenty years, Vanessa Donoso López’s practice explores identity, migration, and cultural behaviours shaped by relocation.

Her research on ‘transitional phenomena’ refers to the developmental space between internal and external reality, where creativity and culture take form, and identities and relationships are negotiated through objects, gestures, and shared practices. She uses primordial and attainable materials like clay, soil and stones to examine how traditions, language and values adapt across cultures over time.

Opening reception: Thursday 23 July 6–8pm.

Patrick Street Studios are launching in Dun Laoghaire with an Open Studio event on Sunday 20th September 2-4pm.
Please come along and see behind the doors of our artists private work spaces.

You’re invited to H U D D L E on Sunday 20 September at 4.00pm to 5.30pm. All are welcome to this roving, inclusive event for the discussion around contemporary art and associative narratives. It is devised and chaired by Saidhbhín Gibson. The project was initiated to facilitate those interested in contemporary art, and supplementary subjects, to come together.

To book your place, or for further information, please email: hellohuddle@gmail.com. Reading material will be emailed prior to the session.

As part of Máiréad Holohan’s solo exhibition ‘A Closer Look’, Friday 11 to Sunday 27 September.

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

Sat 29 August, 2–4pm

Sat 5 September, 2–4pm

Fri 18 September, 6–8pm

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

A new three-person exhibition from Martin Wedge, Alastair MacLennan & Éanna Mac Cana – featuring a vast collection of A4 Drawings and video work from the artists. These compelling works on paper are the result of countless plein-air drawing sessions which the artists have undertaken in recent years in Botanic Park, Belfast. ‘Fós’ is the convergence of the artist’s shared relationship, a subconscious criss-crossing of personal and universal ideas. All work presented together – each with it’s own respective personality – will form part of a larger abstract, one singular textured expression within the gallery.

Inspired by Palaeolithic artefacts, this three-dimensional body of work considers the hand-made marks left by Homo sapiens. Modelled in porcelain and stoneware clay by hand, the ceramic bodies retain vitrified anatomical imprints. Fragments of shell, flint and stone debitage are interwoven into some of the pieces. These have been retrieved from the floor of the Bann Estuary and Lough Foyle at low tide, connecting the viewer with Irelands ancient history. The receptacles feature engraved cryptic messages and texts bound up within paper scrolls. Sealed behind glass, these curated, mixed-media displays represent hidden knowledge.