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What’s On around Ireland

Discover what’s on around Ireland for visual arts with our all-in-one events guide: from Dublin’s landmark gallery openings at the National Gallery and IMMA to Cork’s vibrant street-art festivals and Limerick’s immersive light-art installations along the River Shannon. Journey west to Galway’s artist-run studios and Mayo’s open-air sculpture trails, then northeast for Derry’s printmaking masterclasses and Belfast’s avant-garde pop-up exhibitions. Explore Kerry’s ceramic workshops in the Ring of Kerry, Waterford’s glass-blowing demos in the Crystal Quarter, and Kilkenny’s medieval castle gallery talks. Our Ireland-wide roundup brings you weekly updates on solo shows, collaborative installations, family-friendly art trails, and exclusive curator-led tours—complete with early-bird tickets to masterclasses and insider previews. Stay inspired and plan your next artistic adventure with the definitive “What’s On in Ireland” visual arts calendar.

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Mise en Abyme | Sharon Murphy at GOMA Waterford

Mise en Abyme | Sharon Murphy at GOMA Waterford

15/07/2026 - 16/08/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
GOMA Waterford
6 Lombard Street, Waterford City, Waterford, X91 F2XP

GOMA is delighted to present ‘Mise en Abyme’ by Sharon Murphy, which focuses on Parisian carousels and theatrical décor during moments of stillness and silence. Drawing on her background in theatre and informed by concepts from psychoanalysis and magic realism in literature, this new work highlights Murphy’s longstanding interest in staged spaces and the performative in photography. Through recurring symbols such as curtains, deserted stages, and performative environments, she investigates the thin line between illusion and reality, presence and absence.
Official Launch 23rd of July, 6-8pm

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Flippin'over the Table | Group Exhibition at the MAC

Flippin'over the Table | Group Exhibition at the MAC

16/07/2026 - 30/07/2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The MAC
10 Exchange St, Belfast

Flippin’over the tableis an exhibition of work from Belfast’s LGBTQIA+ community looking at the past, present and future relationship with Pride.

This exhibition focuses on Pride as a protest and how we continue to support everyone in the community.

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Summer 2026 | Group Exhibition at Lavit Gallery

Summer 2026 | Group Exhibition at Lavit Gallery

16/07/2026 - 29/08/2026
10:30 am - 6:00 pm
Lavit Gallery
Wandesford Quay, Clarke's Bridge, Cork, Cork

Running over six weeks and featuring 30-40 artists and makers the Summer Exhibition at Lavit Gallery is an annual group show of fine art and craft. Participating artists and makers this year include Ailbhe Barrett, John Behan, Johnny Bugler, Mary Burke, Patrick Cashin, Tom Climent, Carmel Creaner, Debbie Dawson, Megan Fahy, Sean Farrell, Billy Foley, David Fox, Deirdre Frost, Tim Goulding, Etain Hickey, Joe Hogan, Rachel Joynt, Jo Kelley, Ronja Lagerqvist, Andrew Ludick, Linda McCann, Hannah Mooney, Janet Murran, Deirdre O’Brien, Marta Ozog, Linda Plunkett, Victor Richardson, Aisling Roche, Katrina Treml and Sarah Wren Wilson.

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Event | Opening for Afterimage- Photography In The Digital Age at Photo Museum Ireland

Event | Opening for Afterimage- Photography In The Digital Age at Photo Museum Ireland

16/07/2026
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Photo Museum Ireland
Meeting House Square,, Dublin 2, Ireland, D02 X406, Dublin

Join us at Photo Museum Ireland on Thursday 16 July 2026 to celebrate the official opening of Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age.
Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age brings together a selection of cutting-edge work by Irish and international artists exploring the
material and conceptual transformations that have profoundly altered our sense of what a photograph is and can be. Curated by Darren Campion.

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Creative Art Collective | Group Exhibition at Tuar Ard Arts Centre

Creative Art Collective | Group Exhibition at Tuar Ard Arts Centre

17/07/2026 - 08/08/2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuar Ard Arts Centre
Church St, Aghanargit, Moate, Co. Westmeath, N37 X8P6

Exhibition continues from 17/06/26.

Drop in, take your time, enjoy the company and discover a wide variety of original artworks from members of the collective, perhaps even find a piece that speaks to you.

Artists exhibiting: Carole Shubotham, Richie Delaney, Katie Delaney and Stephanie Glynn.

Opening event: 17th July 7pm.

Free parking on site.

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Summer in Dublin | Group Exhibition at Kerlin Gallery

Summer in Dublin | Group Exhibition at Kerlin Gallery

17/07/2026 - 22/08/2026
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane, Dublin, Dublin

Artists: Dorothy Cross, Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Willie Doherty, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Justin Fitzpatrick, Mark Francis, Guggi, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine, Zhou Li, Stephen McKenna, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Isabel Nolan, Hazel O’Sullivan, Sean Scully, Liliane Tomasko.

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TÚATH | Group Exhibition at Courthouse Oughterard

TÚATH | Group Exhibition at Courthouse Oughterard

17/07/2026 - 26/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Courthouse Oughterard
Main Street, Oughterard, Co Galway, H91 XWH9

The Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme (OCAP) presents TÚATH, featuring Connacht artists Natalie Folan, Donal Kelly and Madeleine Shinnick. Exploring the relationship between people, place, history and belonging, the exhibition brings together painting, photography and mixed media inspired by heritage, landscape and nature. Opening by Sharon O’Grady, Galway County Arts Officer, on Friday 17 July at 7pm, the exhibition runs 7–26 July. Open Mon–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 11am–5pm. Free admission. All welcome.

Image by Donal Kelly

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Event | Eating the Sun Closing with Alessandra Azeviche at Project Arts Centre

Event | Eating the Sun Closing with Alessandra Azeviche at Project Arts Centre

17/07/2026
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin

Invited by curator Fatoumata Gandega, Alessandra will perform a special piece responding to the current exhibition Eating the Sun by Liliana Zeic. Exploring the themes of the show, the audience is invited to take part in an intimate experience alongside the artist, fostering queer feminism, care and body exploration.

Throughout 2026, curator Fatoumata Gandega will be responding to our Visual Arts programme through development of a new, ambitious series of collaborative interventions. This is part of our new guest curator initiative that extends our curatorial platform to emerging practitioners. 

To reserve a ticket, click here.

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Event | Field Work Screening at The Dock

Event | Field Work Screening at The Dock

18/07/2026
12:00 am
The Dock
St. George's Terrace, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, N41T2X2

To accompany The Green Loy exhibition, The Dock presents Field Work, a remarkable documentary film by acclaimed director Pat Collins (That They May Face the Rising Sun) on the work and philosophy of renowned American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie. Field Work honours the work of folk artists — sculptors, potters, ceramic artists, storytellers, and musicians — across five continents, and captures Glassie’s unique approach to the study and documentation of art, anthropology, and people.

To reserve a ticket, click here.

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Event | Word Sparks 3- The Blackened Circle at the South Tipperary Arts Centre

Event | Word Sparks 3- The Blackened Circle at the South Tipperary Arts Centre

18/07/2026
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
South Tipperary Arts Centre
Nelson Street, Clonmel, Tipperary

Rescheduled to Saturday the 18th of July.

Word Sparks is back for its third session of 2026! Through Word Sparks, poet and writer Jenny Cox invites writers to step in and engage with the 5 diverse exhibitions that will be running in STAC throughout our 30th anniversary year. These morning sessions offer creatives the opportunity to use varied and thought-provoking works of art as prompts for sparking interesting conversations and fresh writing ideas.

Session 3: Saturday 18th July, 11am to 12.30pm
Artist: Seamus Nolan in collaboration with members of the Clonmel Traveller community
Exhibition: The Blackened Circle

Free
No Booking requirements
Refreshments provided

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Events | Kerry Arts and Human Rights Festival at The Barracks Heritage Centre

Events | Kerry Arts and Human Rights Festival at The Barracks Heritage Centre

18/07/2026 - 19/07/2026
11:00 am - 4:30 pm
The Barracks Heritage Centre
Bridge Street The Old Barracks, Cahersiveen, Kerry , V23 VR62

Featuring photography, poetry, and storytelling to celebrate the lives of 12 remarkable women from Irish history who championed equality and the empowerment of others

For more information on the events and to book, click here.

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Event | STAC Residencies with Marie Brett and Joe Brennan at the STAC Chapel

Event | STAC Residencies with Marie Brett and Joe Brennan at the STAC Chapel

18/07/2026
1:00 pm
STAC Chapel
Kickham Plaza, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Munster

Join resident artists Marie Brett and Joe Brennan for a free, work in progress event at STAC Chapel, exploring the artists’ combined practices after a week of working together for the very first time.

Marie Brett is a visual artist creating audio-visual work and immersive, multi-media installation events that consider methods of processing ill-health, trauma, conflict and control.

Joe Brennan is a Wexford storyteller and children’s playwright/theatre maker who has been weaving tales of magic, wisdom and wonder for the past 25 years.

STAC’s residency programme 2026 is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Tipperary County Council.

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Talk | The City is the Gallery with Declan McGonagle at Void Art Centre

Talk | The City is the Gallery with Declan McGonagle at Void Art Centre

18/07/2026
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Void Art Centre
10 Waterloo Place, Derry, BT48 6BU

We are delighted to announce an illustrated talk about the Orchard Gallery’s programme, delivered by its first director Declan McGonagle.

Declan McGonagle will chart the founding and development of the Orchard Gallery over his tenure from 1978 to 1991. He will discuss how the different approaches to programming engaged communities of place and communities of interest from further afield and contributed to Derry’s cultural ecosystem. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss the strategic approach of the Orchard Gallery – understood as a public service – in relation to Declan McGonagle’s experiences and curatorial vision. The audience is encouraged to participate, to discuss and ask questions during the event.

We expect this event to reach full capacity, so please cancel your free booking if you cannot attend the talk any longer so the place can be given to another person.

To reserve a ticket, click here.

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Echoes Across an Island | Group Exhibition at Europa Gallery

Echoes Across an Island | Group Exhibition at Europa Gallery

19/05/2026 - 16/07/2026
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Europa Gallery
Europe House, Chatham Street, Dublin, Ireland

Echoes Across an Island brings together emerging artists from SETU Waterford and Belfast School of Art at Ulster University in a shared process of listening, making, and reflection. Working across distance, the students entered into dialogue, exploring how place shapes the ways we see, remember, and belong. Their collaborations trace the often unseen threads that connect communities across Ireland. Threads of story, memory, and live

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Scapes | William Grace at Mayfair Library

Scapes | William Grace at Mayfair Library

07/07/2026 - 16/07/2026
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Mayfair Library
Parliament Street, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, R95 N23R, Kilkenny

Exhibition of new work including landscapes and seascapes of Ireland.
This exhibition celebrates William’s thirty five year career to date.

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Members and Friends 2026 | Group Exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre

Members and Friends 2026 | Group Exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre

20/06/2026 - 16/07/2026
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
Off Main Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, P81VW98

Running annually for more than 40 years, this exhibition showcases work by artists from across West Cork and beyond at all stages of their careers. Submission is open to the many artists who subscribe to our Membership and Friendship schemes. This gives our artist Members and Friends the opportunity to exhibit across both the James O’Driscoll Gallery on the ground floor, and upstairs in Gallery II.
Including over 100 artworks by professional, student and amateur artists, this exhibition really has something for every taste and budget.

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Events | Outdoor Dance Performances at Spencer's Dock

Events | Outdoor Dance Performances at Spencer's Dock

14/07/2026 - 16/07/2026
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Dublin's Spencer Dock
Spencer Dock, Dublin

BENCH #1 is returning as part of a double-bill of lunchtime performances with the world premiere of BENCH #7 by Simone O’Toole from 14-16 July 2026 at 1pm & 2pm in Spencer’s Dock, Dublin. A collection of dances inspired by Dublin’s canals and surroundings to highlight everyday spaces as creative places through vibrant choreographic commissions by distinctive emerging dance artists.

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Event | Opening for Afterimage- Photography In The Digital Age at Photo Museum Ireland

Event | Opening for Afterimage- Photography In The Digital Age at Photo Museum Ireland

16/07/2026
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Photo Museum Ireland
Meeting House Square,, Dublin 2, Ireland, D02 X406, Dublin

Join us at Photo Museum Ireland on Thursday 16 July 2026 to celebrate the official opening of Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age.
Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age brings together a selection of cutting-edge work by Irish and international artists exploring the
material and conceptual transformations that have profoundly altered our sense of what a photograph is and can be. Curated by Darren Campion.

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SOFTctrl | Billie Adele at Studio 12

SOFTctrl | Billie Adele at Studio 12

11/06/2026 - 17/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Studio 12
First Floor, Backwater Artists Group, Wandesford Quay, Cork, Cork, T12 E26D

SOFTctrl is a new solo exhibition by emerging artist Billie Adele at Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork.

Running 11 June – 17 July 2026, developed through the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, awarded to Adele in 2025.

The exhibition is a series of oil paintings exploring the tension between constructed feminine experience and something more unstable and uncontrollable beneath it.

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Wish you Were Here/Reflections | Tony Lock and Damien O'Rourke at Solas Art Gallery

Wish you Were Here/Reflections | Tony Lock and Damien O'Rourke at Solas Art Gallery

19/06/2026 - 17/07/2026
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Solas Art Gallery
Island Theatre, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim, N41 K0D6

Solas Art Gallery presents solo exhibitions by two local artists, showcasing digital culture and the seascape environment.

This joint solo exhibition series brings together two distinctive, artistic voices uniting across contrasting mediums; the immersive realm of digital artistry by Damien O’Rourke and expressive language of abstract seascape painting by Tony Lock.

Experience this fascinating dialogue between screen and sea by joining us for the opening of this exhibition on Friday 19th June at 7:30pm at Solas Art Gallery in the Island Theatre, Ballinamore. The exhibition runs until Friday 17th July.

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Event | Eating the Sun Closing with Alessandra Azeviche at Project Arts Centre

Event | Eating the Sun Closing with Alessandra Azeviche at Project Arts Centre

17/07/2026
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin

Invited by curator Fatoumata Gandega, Alessandra will perform a special piece responding to the current exhibition Eating the Sun by Liliana Zeic. Exploring the themes of the show, the audience is invited to take part in an intimate experience alongside the artist, fostering queer feminism, care and body exploration.

Throughout 2026, curator Fatoumata Gandega will be responding to our Visual Arts programme through development of a new, ambitious series of collaborative interventions. This is part of our new guest curator initiative that extends our curatorial platform to emerging practitioners. 

To reserve a ticket, click here.

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SEX! DEVIANCE! DANGER! | Arlene Caffrey at An Táin Arts Centre

SEX! DEVIANCE! DANGER! | Arlene Caffrey at An Táin Arts Centre

24/06/2026 - 18/07/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
An Táin Arts Centre
Crowe St, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Dundalk, Louth

This playful, embodied art-based research moves through muscle, skin and memory to explore how gender identity, self-expression and self-actualization are experienced among individuals practicing recreational pole dancing in Ireland. Here, pole dancing becomes a site of discovery, creation and expression of both the individual and collective socio-political self. The solid and the ephemeral dance together through sculpture, words, images, light, sound and colour. The exhibition is accompanied with live performance art.

This art-based research is funded by Research Ireland’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme.

Opening Launch Wednesday 24th June 7pm.

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Pinky Ring | Struàn Bell at Pallas Projects

Pinky Ring | Struàn Bell at Pallas Projects

02/07/2026 - 18/07/2026
12:00 am - 6:00 pm
Pallas Projects/Studio
115–117 The Coombe, Dublin 8, Dublin

Pallas Projects are pleased to present Struàn Bell—Pinky Ring, the sixth exhibition of our 2026 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.
Pinky Ring presents a series of plaster relief carvings shaped by ideas of speculative function, symbolic architectures, and objects of personal affection. Faceted gemstones appear throughout the works, functioning like small acts of emphasis or attachment.
Chosen in the way one might select a piece of jewellery to mark a moment of significance, they introduce a sense of private importance to scenes, systems, and objects that otherwise remain speculative and unresolved.

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Event | Field Work Screening at The Dock

Event | Field Work Screening at The Dock

18/07/2026
12:00 am
The Dock
St. George's Terrace, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, N41T2X2

To accompany The Green Loy exhibition, The Dock presents Field Work, a remarkable documentary film by acclaimed director Pat Collins (That They May Face the Rising Sun) on the work and philosophy of renowned American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie. Field Work honours the work of folk artists — sculptors, potters, ceramic artists, storytellers, and musicians — across five continents, and captures Glassie’s unique approach to the study and documentation of art, anthropology, and people.

To reserve a ticket, click here.

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Event | Word Sparks 3- The Blackened Circle at the South Tipperary Arts Centre

Event | Word Sparks 3- The Blackened Circle at the South Tipperary Arts Centre

18/07/2026
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
South Tipperary Arts Centre
Nelson Street, Clonmel, Tipperary

Rescheduled to Saturday the 18th of July.

Word Sparks is back for its third session of 2026! Through Word Sparks, poet and writer Jenny Cox invites writers to step in and engage with the 5 diverse exhibitions that will be running in STAC throughout our 30th anniversary year. These morning sessions offer creatives the opportunity to use varied and thought-provoking works of art as prompts for sparking interesting conversations and fresh writing ideas.

Session 3: Saturday 18th July, 11am to 12.30pm
Artist: Seamus Nolan in collaboration with members of the Clonmel Traveller community
Exhibition: The Blackened Circle

Free
No Booking requirements
Refreshments provided

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New Lens | Group Exhibition at Laneway Gallery

New Lens | Group Exhibition at Laneway Gallery

30/06/2026 - 18/07/2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Laneway Gallery
120A Shandon Street, Cork, Cork, T23 NA46, Munster

Exhibition continues from 30/06/26.

New Lens – Re-interpreting Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window 100 Years On

New Lens, curated by Joshua Dyson and Daniel Gillick of the Arísbeo Collective, brings together fifteen incredible commissions to celebrate the centenary since Harry Clarke started working on his (in)famous Geneva Window which was commissioned by the Irish Government in 1926 to represent the country at the International Labour Building in Geneva. However it was ultimately hidden away because it fell foul of censorship laws, and eventually sold to the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami where it now resides.

The exhibition showcases the legacy of the window and takes a new perspective on its place in the contemporary art world.

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Eating The Sun | Liliana Zeic at Project Arts Centre

Eating The Sun | Liliana Zeic at Project Arts Centre

01/05/2026 - 18/07/2026
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin

Exhibition continues from 01/05/26 until 18/07/26.

The Polish-born, Warsaw-based artist Liliana Zeic works with craft techniques, video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects based on artistic research.

Eating the Sun is part of a research-led curatorial project, developed in collaboration with Dr Aleksandra Gajowy (UCD), designed to introduce Central and Eastern European (CEE) lesbian artistic practices to an Irish audience. The current heightened interest in the region – spurred by events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing attacks on queer and trans lives, as well as women’s reproductive rights – has also highlighted the persistent lack of understanding of the CEE region, particularly in the global North.

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Event | STAC Residencies with Marie Brett and Joe Brennan at the STAC Chapel

Event | STAC Residencies with Marie Brett and Joe Brennan at the STAC Chapel

18/07/2026
1:00 pm
STAC Chapel
Kickham Plaza, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Munster

Join resident artists Marie Brett and Joe Brennan for a free, work in progress event at STAC Chapel, exploring the artists’ combined practices after a week of working together for the very first time.

Marie Brett is a visual artist creating audio-visual work and immersive, multi-media installation events that consider methods of processing ill-health, trauma, conflict and control.

Joe Brennan is a Wexford storyteller and children’s playwright/theatre maker who has been weaving tales of magic, wisdom and wonder for the past 25 years.

STAC’s residency programme 2026 is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Tipperary County Council.

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Talk | The City is the Gallery with Declan McGonagle at Void Art Centre

Talk | The City is the Gallery with Declan McGonagle at Void Art Centre

18/07/2026
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Void Art Centre
10 Waterloo Place, Derry, BT48 6BU

We are delighted to announce an illustrated talk about the Orchard Gallery’s programme, delivered by its first director Declan McGonagle.

Declan McGonagle will chart the founding and development of the Orchard Gallery over his tenure from 1978 to 1991. He will discuss how the different approaches to programming engaged communities of place and communities of interest from further afield and contributed to Derry’s cultural ecosystem. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss the strategic approach of the Orchard Gallery – understood as a public service – in relation to Declan McGonagle’s experiences and curatorial vision. The audience is encouraged to participate, to discuss and ask questions during the event.

We expect this event to reach full capacity, so please cancel your free booking if you cannot attend the talk any longer so the place can be given to another person.

To reserve a ticket, click here.

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Events | Kerry Arts and Human Rights Festival at The Barracks Heritage Centre

Events | Kerry Arts and Human Rights Festival at The Barracks Heritage Centre

18/07/2026 - 19/07/2026
11:00 am - 4:30 pm
The Barracks Heritage Centre
Bridge Street The Old Barracks, Cahersiveen, Kerry , V23 VR62

Featuring photography, poetry, and storytelling to celebrate the lives of 12 remarkable women from Irish history who championed equality and the empowerment of others

For more information on the events and to book, click here.

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BIND | Eimearjean Mc Cormack at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery

BIND | Eimearjean Mc Cormack at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery

02/06/2026 - 22/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery
Wandesford Quay Clarke’s Bridge, Cork, Cork

BIND is a programme of three exhibitions of individual artist books as part of Cork Printmakers artist book library across 2026.
The programme will activate the existing library and celebrate the new and innovative approaches to artists books as a both social and intimate durational art object. 

The first in the series will present the work of Eimearjean Mc Cormack. Limited-edition books and experimental publications have become an integral extension of Eimearjean’s printmaking practice. For her the book format functions simultaneously as an archive of process and as a platform for new ideas to emerge.

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Ceiliúradh 25 -25th Anniversary | Group Exhibition at Joan Clancy Gallery

Ceiliúradh 25 -25th Anniversary | Group Exhibition at Joan Clancy Gallery

08/07/2026 - 22/07/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Joan Clancy Gallery
Mweelahorna, An Rinn, Dungarvan, Waterford, X35 YE83, Munster

Joan Clancy Gallery is celebrating a major milestone with Ceiliúradh 25, with Catherine Barron, Blawnin Clancy, Orla Clancy, Rayleen Clancy, John Cullinan, Ivan Daly, Ann Dunphy, Catherine Foley, Mary Foley, Miriam Foley MacLeod, Deirdre Frost, Katarzyna Gajewska, Rosemary Gaynor, Ciara Gormley, Kieran Heffernan, Sinead Hehir, Andrea Jameson, Bernadette Kiely, Damaris Lysaght, John McCarthy, Leah Murphy, Sinead Ní Chionaola, Gooee O’Brien, Beatrice O’Connell, Eilis O’Toole, Annie Shaw, Anne Whelan, Sheila Wood and Gillian Wright reflecting the diversity of the gallery’s artistic community over the past quarter-century.

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The Skiapod of Ballymaccus | Stephen Brandes at LHQ Gallery

The Skiapod of Ballymaccus | Stephen Brandes at LHQ Gallery

05/06/2026 - 24/07/2026
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
LHQ Gallery
County Library, Carrigrohane Road, Cork, Co. Cork, T12 K335, Munster

In ‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ Stephen Brandes re-imagines the scarcely credible event of the skiapods, in a body of newly made work that includes drawings, painting and a collection of hand-built figurines, set into a construction of timber and found materials.

‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ opens on Friday, 5th of June and runs until Friday, 24th of July at LHQ Gallery. An opening reception will take place on Friday 5th of June from 5.30pm. Stephen will be in conversation with Curator of Collections & Special Projects Crawford Art Gallery, Michael Waldron at the LHQ Gallery on Saturday, 20th of June at 12noon. LHQ Gallery is open Mon – Fri.

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Unbroken | Jennifer Allen at Hall of the Red Earl

Unbroken | Jennifer Allen at Hall of the Red Earl

01/07/2026 - 24/07/2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Hall of the Red Earl
Custom House, Druid Lane, Galway , Galway, Galway , H91 XV2C, Connacht

Unbroken, an exhibition of white pencil drawings by Jennifer Allen. Atmospheric, evocative images, capturing a story in every line and minute detail.

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Exhibition | Ade Adesina at Seacourt Print Workshop

Exhibition | Ade Adesina at Seacourt Print Workshop

15/05/2026 - 25/07/2026
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Seacourt Print Workshop
75 Main Street, Bangor, Co. Down, BT20 5AF

Ade is an Aberdeen based artist whose artwork reflects a deep interest in ecology mixing motifs and symbols which reflect his Nigerian culture, love of landscape and science fiction.
Ade is best known for linocuts, often large scale and with a dreamlike quality which combine striking visual beauty with sharp political and environmental commentary.
Ade will be talking about his work & showing examples of some plates & working materials on the 15th May at 2pm.

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idir | Blaine O'Donnell  at Wexford Arts Centre

idir | Blaine O'Donnell at Wexford Arts Centre

13/06/2026 - 25/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wexford Arts Centre
Cornmarket, Wexford, CO.WEXFORD, Y35 X5HF, Leinster

The exhibition will open on Saturday, 13th June, from 2pm to 4pm

Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council Arts Department, in partnership with South East Technological University, are pleased to present idir, a solo exhibition by Blaine O’Donnell, recipient of the 2024 EMERGENCE Visual Art Award. .

For idir, O’Donnell has drawn upon geological sites in County Wexford and the architecture of the Wexford Arts Centre building. He has developed a new body of sculptural work incorporating moving image elements to explore questions of temporality, repetition, and translation.

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TOSS | Midden Collective Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

TOSS | Midden Collective Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

25/06/2026 - 25/07/2026
12:00 am
QSS
The Arches Centre, 11-13 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AA

MIDDEN collective are Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne – who together focus on the interpretation of evidence, creating decidedly unscientific work combining fact with fiction to create new narratives.

Opening Thursday 25 June, 6-8:30pm.

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Paper Palace | Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

Paper Palace | Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

25/06/2026 - 25/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
QSS
The Arches Centre, 11-13 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AA

Paper Palace brings together works on and off paper, exploring everything that is painted, printed, or pressed. Considering works on paper and printmaking as an expanded, interdisciplinary field where artists meet at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and installation.

Paper Palace is anchored in a community of practice, including artists, graduates, and staff connected to Belfast School of Art, celebrating the exchange of shared knowledge across generations and ongoing experimentation. This exhibition celebrates printmaking as a living, interdisciplinary, and inventive medium. 

Invited Artists: Majella Clancy, Pauline Clancy, Gerry Devlin, Kathryn Graham, Ria Czerniak Le-Bov, Late Bill Penney, Anushiya Sundralingham, Adam McIlwaine, Nicole Hastings, Lydia Bell, Wilhelmina Covington, Mia Stewart, Anna Brown and, Alyssa Donaghy .

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The Journey | Mary Kpakra at Strule Arts Centre

The Journey | Mary Kpakra at Strule Arts Centre

02/07/2026 - 25/07/2026
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Strule Arts Centre
Townhall Square, Omagh, Tyrone, BT78 1BL

Art lovers are invited to the launch of “The Journey”, a captivating exhibition by acclaimed fine art printmaker Mary Kpakra, at 2.00pm on Thursday 2 July in Strule Arts Centre, Omagh.

The exhibition celebrates Mary’s remarkable artistic journey and lifelong determination to pursue her passion for printmaking despite losing most of her sight in her early twenties. Living with just 5% central vision and colour blindness, Mary’s work reflects a deep appreciation of colour, texture and the natural world.

‘The Journey” can be viewed in the Strule Gallery until 5.00pm on Saturday 25 July, from 9.30am–5.00pm, Monday to Saturday. Admission is free.

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As it Darkens |  James Wellwood at Engage Art Studios

As it Darkens | James Wellwood at Engage Art Studios

12/07/2026 - 25/07/2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Engage Art Studios
Churchfields , Salthill , Galway

Engage Art Studios is pleased to present As It Darkens, an exhibition by James Wellwood, curated by Mark O’Gorman, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Exploring themes of memory, transience, and place, the exhibition draws on Wellwood’s ongoing engagement with the rural landscape of the Kilkenny dairy farm where he grew up.

Exhibition runs from 15th–26th July, Wednesday to Saturday, 11am–4pm. The launch will take place on 12 July at 12pm. James and artist Laura Fitzgerald will discuss the work and the exhibition at an event on July 16th, between 2pm and 3pm.

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The Courthouse Artists | Group Exhibition at The Courthouse Arts Centre

The Courthouse Artists | Group Exhibition at The Courthouse Arts Centre

12/07/2026 - 25/07/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Courthouse Arts Centre
Main Street, Tinahely, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

The Courthouse Artists Group facilitated by Tina Mouritzen are exhibiting their work in The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely

Opening Sunday July 12th 12pm
Closing Saturday July 25th 4pm

Gallery Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm

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Meantime | David Stephenson at Butler Gallery

Meantime | David Stephenson at Butler Gallery

23/05/2026 - 26/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Butler Gallery
Evans' Home, John’s Quay, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, R95 YX3F

Butler Gallery is pleased to present ‘Meantime’, a mixed media exhibition combining photography and film by David Stephenson with a selection of poetry by Mark Granier.

The central theme of ‘Meantime’ is transience—the spirit of passing and life’s marginality.

Interspersed throughout the exhibition are prints of Mark Granier’s poems. These do not interpret or comment on the film or photographs, but compliment them tonally, encounters that are in the same orbit.

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Setting | Mary O'Malley at Artlink Fort Dunree

Setting | Mary O'Malley at Artlink Fort Dunree

27/06/2026 - 26/07/2026
10:30 am - 4:00 pm
Artlink Fort Dunree
Linsfort, Buncrana, County Donegal, F93C424, County Donegal.

Mary O’Malley is an Irish-American artist raised outside New York City.
Setting is an exhibition of new work that brings together ceramic sculpture, gold, flora, and pollinators to explore relationships between place, material, and time.

Made from Lizella clay native to Middle Georgia, the work creates a dialogue between landscapes shaped by empire, extraction, and division. Traces of gold evoke both the sacred and the extractive, linking divinity, wealth, colonial histories, and ecological renewal. Set against geological and celestial time, Setting reflects on the fragility of human systems and the impermanence of borders and identities.

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AWASH | Ciarán MacChoncarraige at Satellite Projects + Studios

AWASH | Ciarán MacChoncarraige at Satellite Projects + Studios

11/07/2026 - 26/07/2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Father Griffin Place
Father Griffin Place, Galway, Ireland, H91 Y628, Galway

Satellite Projects + Studios x Galway International Arts Festival 2026

Join us on Sunday 12 July, 12–3pm, for the launch of Awash, a solo exhibition by Ciarán MacChoncarraige.

Awash is a collection of street photography in which the camera acts as a salve for the deluge of modern life. Painterly, expressionistic and vibrant, the work presents an intimate portrait of the urban experience, using Galway City as its canvas. Through textured foregrounds, reflections and motion blur, MacChoncarraige creates images that sit between observation and abstraction, blending the surreal with the documentary traditions of street photography.

To reserve a spot for the opening, click here.

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Still Life | Group Exhibition at Artlink

Still Life | Group Exhibition at Artlink

01/07/2026 - 26/07/2026
10:30 am - 4:00 pm
Artlink
Linsfort, Buncrana, County Donegal, F93C424, County Donegal.

Exhibition continues from 01/07/26.

‘Still Life’ is a group exhibition to coincide with ‘Setting’, by Mary O”Malley, artists are invited to interpret this theme in their unique styles, through any medium.

Traditionally, a still life is a composition of objects arranged in quiet suspension: fruit in
a bowl, flowers in a vase, things gathered and made momentarily permanent. Still Life
expands this definition, treating the term not only as a genre but as a question. What is
“still”? What counts as “life”?

Irish American Ceramic artist Mary O’Malley presents ‘Setting’ at Artlink, Fort Dunree.

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TÚATH | Group Exhibition at Courthouse Oughterard

TÚATH | Group Exhibition at Courthouse Oughterard

17/07/2026 - 26/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Courthouse Oughterard
Main Street, Oughterard, Co Galway, H91 XWH9

The Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme (OCAP) presents TÚATH, featuring Connacht artists Natalie Folan, Donal Kelly and Madeleine Shinnick. Exploring the relationship between people, place, history and belonging, the exhibition brings together painting, photography and mixed media inspired by heritage, landscape and nature. Opening by Sharon O’Grady, Galway County Arts Officer, on Friday 17 July at 7pm, the exhibition runs 7–26 July. Open Mon–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 11am–5pm. Free admission. All welcome.

Image by Donal Kelly

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GRETB Castlerea Graduates | Group Exhibition at Áras an Chontae

GRETB Castlerea Graduates | Group Exhibition at Áras an Chontae

26/06/2026 - 28/07/2026
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Áras an Chontae
Roscommon County Council HQ, Roscommon, Co. Roscommon, F42 VR98, Connacht

Exhibition continues from 26/06/26.

The official opening of the exhibition by artists completing the L5 and L6 Art courses in GRETB Castlerea Further Education and Training Centre, took place on Thursday 25th of June in Áras an Chontae. This was made possible by invitation and support from Roscommon County Arts Officer, Rhona McGrath.

The exhibition provides a rich and engaging display of works in Painting, Collage, Combined Media, Sculpture, Photography, Sound and Video across a variety of themes, with artists exploring concerns and concepts that resonate on different levels in response to our contemporary world. All Welcome.

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IMMA Collection: Art as Agency | Group Exhibition at IMMA

IMMA Collection: Art as Agency | Group Exhibition at IMMA

08/02/2025 - 06/02/2028
IMMA
Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Dublin

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.

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Jack B. Yeats- A Painted Universe | The Nilend Collection at The Model

Jack B. Yeats- A Painted Universe | The Nilend Collection at The Model

15/11/2025 - 27/09/2026
The Model
The Mall, Sligo, Co. Sligo, F91 TP20, Connaught

Exhibition continues from 15/11/25 until 27/09/26.

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.

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Events | Artist-Initiated Projects 2026 at Pallas Projects/Studio

Events | Artist-Initiated Projects 2026 at Pallas Projects/Studio

21/01/2026 - 12/12/2026
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Pallas Projects/Studio
115–117 The Coombe, Dublin 8, Dublin

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

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

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Painting Ulysses | Aidan Hickey at the Irish Cultural Centre, London

Painting Ulysses | Aidan Hickey at the Irish Cultural Centre, London

26/01/2026 - 31/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith
5 Black’s Road, London, W6 9DT

Exhibition continues from 05/01/2026 to 31/07/2026.

To mark the 100th anniversary year of the publication of James Joyce’s masterpiece “ULYSSES”, the Irish Cultural Centre is delighted to Present this Spectacular Visual Art Exhibition.

‘Painting Ulysses’ comprises 18 magnificent paintings, depicting each of the 18 Episodes in James Joyce’s novel.  As each of Joyce’s episodes in ULYSSES was written in a different literary style, Hickey has designed each painting in a different visual style.

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A House of Play | Exhibition & Events at The Lyric Theatre

A House of Play | Exhibition & Events at The Lyric Theatre

02/02/2026 - 08/11/2026
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
The Lyric Theatre
55 Ridgeway Street , Belfast, BT9 5FB

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.

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Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman | Alberta Whittle and Camille Souter at IMMA

Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman | Alberta Whittle and Camille Souter at IMMA

03/03/2026 - 13/09/2026
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 , Dublin , Dublin , D08 FW31, Leinster

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.

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Of the Earth | Group Exhibition at Glass Attic Gallery

Of the Earth | Group Exhibition at Glass Attic Gallery

17/04/2026 - 31/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Glass Attic Gallery
Jerpoint Glass, Glenmore, Stoneyford, Kilkenny, R95 WN67

“Of the Earth” – A Three-Person Exhibition at Glass Attic Gallery, Jerpoint Glasss Studios, Kilkenny Of the Earth, a three-person exhibition featuring the paintings of Debra Bowden, Ross Stewart, and Krisztina Rozanich, opening on Friday, April 17th at 6pm at the Glass Attic Gallery, Glenmore, Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny (R95 WN67). The exhibition will be opened by Sue Nunn and runs Monday to Saturday, 10am–5pm.
Of the Earth brings together three distinct yet deeply interconnected artistic practices, each grounded in a shared engagement with landscape, material, and the passage of time.

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Online Exhibition | Gone Dark by Ciara Lyden

Online Exhibition | Gone Dark by Ciara Lyden

28/04/2026 - 28/08/2026
Online
Online, Online

Discover the inaugural photography work “Gone Dark” by Irish artist Ciara Lyden available at https://gone-dark.com/. The online interactive exhibit offers you the opportunity to enjoy the photography and reflect on the experience of the Iberian Peninsula Black Out of 28th April 2025. Thirteen fine art photographs taken during the electricity blackout, presented as an immersive online exhibition that reconstructs the experience of examining the city in a new “light”.

Navigate through the images and when the light fades, use your mouse to find your focus in the dark.

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Eating The Sun | Liliana Zeic at Project Arts Centre

Eating The Sun | Liliana Zeic at Project Arts Centre

01/05/2026 - 18/07/2026
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin

Exhibition continues from 01/05/26 until 18/07/26.

The Polish-born, Warsaw-based artist Liliana Zeic works with craft techniques, video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects based on artistic research.

Eating the Sun is part of a research-led curatorial project, developed in collaboration with Dr Aleksandra Gajowy (UCD), designed to introduce Central and Eastern European (CEE) lesbian artistic practices to an Irish audience. The current heightened interest in the region – spurred by events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing attacks on queer and trans lives, as well as women’s reproductive rights – has also highlighted the persistent lack of understanding of the CEE region, particularly in the global North.

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Lifework | KCAT Studio Artists at Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon

Lifework | KCAT Studio Artists at Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon

09/05/2026 - 26/08/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon
Haigh Terrace, Moran Park, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, A96 H283

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is delighted to present Lifework, an exhibition of artworks by seven artists who work at the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent (KCAT) Studio. The exhibition opens at the Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire on Saturday 9 May and runs until Wednesday 26 August 2026. Admission is free.
The artists featured are Thomas Barron, Declan Byrne, Lorna Corrigan, Sinéad Fahey, Fergus Fitzgerald, Andrew Pike, Jason Turner. Lifework presents examples of each artist’s earliest artwork beside examples of recent artwork.

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How The Light Gets In | Group Exhibition at MART Grainstore Studios

How The Light Gets In | Group Exhibition at MART Grainstore Studios

09/05/2026 - 26/09/2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Grainstore Cabinteely
MART Studios at The Grainstore, , Cabinteely Park , D18 PDD0

Join us every weekend celebrating creativity at MART Grainstore Studios, Cabinteely Park.
Discover a vibrant selection of original paintings, prints, and cards from small treasures to statement pieces all created by our talented studio members.

‘How the Light Gets In’ is the summer exhibition showcasing the work of artists based in the The MART Grainstore Cabinteely studios from May to August.

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Harmony in Diversity | Group Exhibition at Walters Bar Cafe

Harmony in Diversity | Group Exhibition at Walters Bar Cafe

13/05/2026 - 18/09/2026
Walters Bar Cafe
Georges Street Dun Laoghaire, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, A96Y981, Dun Laoghaire

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

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In the Fold of the Earth | Lisa O’Sullivan & Leslie Allen Spillane at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery

In the Fold of the Earth | Lisa O’Sullivan & Leslie Allen Spillane at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery

14/05/2026 - 30/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery
Wandesford Quay Clarke’s Bridge, Cork, Cork

Exhibition continues from 14/05/2026.

This exhibition explores poetic and symbolic connections between the human and non-human world. Working primarily through print-based practices, photography, and expanded media, both artists reflect themes of eco-consciousness, ritual, and psychological transformation within an environmentally precarious world. Nature is a metaphorical and philosophical anchor in both artists’ practice. The exhibition aims to consider how ancient knowledge, embodied awareness, and material practice can act as a form of resistance, healing, and renewal.

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Exhibition | Ade Adesina at Seacourt Print Workshop

Exhibition | Ade Adesina at Seacourt Print Workshop

15/05/2026 - 25/07/2026
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Seacourt Print Workshop
75 Main Street, Bangor, Co. Down, BT20 5AF

Ade is an Aberdeen based artist whose artwork reflects a deep interest in ecology mixing motifs and symbols which reflect his Nigerian culture, love of landscape and science fiction.
Ade is best known for linocuts, often large scale and with a dreamlike quality which combine striking visual beauty with sharp political and environmental commentary.
Ade will be talking about his work & showing examples of some plates & working materials on the 15th May at 2pm.

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New Irish Works 2026 | Group Exhibition at International Centre for the Image

New Irish Works 2026 | Group Exhibition at International Centre for the Image

15/05/2026 - 09/08/2026
11:00 am - 5:30 pm
International Centre for the Image
Coopers Cross, Mayor Street Upper, North Wall, Dublin, D01 E5Y8

PhotoIreland presents the exhibition of the 5th edition of New Irish Works in 2026, a triennial programme of activities launched in 2013 to support Irish photographers, bringing new works by 10 selected artists to local and international audiences.

Featured artists:
Austin Hearne, Billy Kenrick, Ciara Richardson, Debbie Castro, Dorje De Burgh, Emily O’Connell, Garry Loughlin, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, and Miriam O’ Connor.

Launch: Thu 14 May at 6pm
Artist Tour: Sat 16 May at 12pm

All events are free; booking is required.

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A New World is Possible, I Can Hear Her Breathing | Ben Sloat at The Cash Shop

A New World is Possible, I Can Hear Her Breathing | Ben Sloat at The Cash Shop

16/05/2026 - 08/08/2026
The Cash Shop
The Cash Shop, Gort, Co. Galway, H91 VH21

Taiwanese-American artist Ben Sloat’s exhibition, A New World is Possible, I Can Hear Her Breathing bridges the animist cultures of Taiwan and Ireland through use of materials which transform from raw to cultural states. Employing the respective craft traditions of these countries, Sloat proposes a new kind of syncretism of the handmade: one that blends histories, provides for coalition, and points to new possibilities for the future. Sloat will be working with two local Irish craftspeople, Brid Kivneen for traditional straw and Angela Nolan for willow, in the production of his installation in Gort.

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Echoes Across an Island | Group Exhibition at Europa Gallery

Echoes Across an Island | Group Exhibition at Europa Gallery

19/05/2026 - 16/07/2026
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Europa Gallery
Europe House, Chatham Street, Dublin, Ireland

Echoes Across an Island brings together emerging artists from SETU Waterford and Belfast School of Art at Ulster University in a shared process of listening, making, and reflection. Working across distance, the students entered into dialogue, exploring how place shapes the ways we see, remember, and belong. Their collaborations trace the often unseen threads that connect communities across Ireland. Threads of story, memory, and live

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Meantime | David Stephenson at Butler Gallery

Meantime | David Stephenson at Butler Gallery

23/05/2026 - 26/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Butler Gallery
Evans' Home, John’s Quay, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, R95 YX3F

Butler Gallery is pleased to present ‘Meantime’, a mixed media exhibition combining photography and film by David Stephenson with a selection of poetry by Mark Granier.

The central theme of ‘Meantime’ is transience—the spirit of passing and life’s marginality.

Interspersed throughout the exhibition are prints of Mark Granier’s poems. These do not interpret or comment on the film or photographs, but compliment them tonally, encounters that are in the same orbit.

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TO LAND- Living Roots Awaken | Group Exhibition at Highlanes Gallery

TO LAND- Living Roots Awaken | Group Exhibition at Highlanes Gallery

23/05/2026 - 09/08/2026
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Highlanes Gallery
St Laurence St, Drogheda, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Crawford Art Gallery and Highlanes Gallery proudly present To Land: Living Roots Awaken, in collaboration with the Artist-Teacher-Researcher Curatorial Group. Drawing from the rich collection of Crawford’s contemporary works, the exhibition explores how identity is shaped by our relationship with land, history, and memory. We are an island formed by rupture and renewal, rooted in ancient cultures yet continually re-forming in the wake of colonisation. The exhibition conveys the persistence of history in the present, while themes of displacement and the urge to put down roots resonate quietly in the selected artworks.

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Our Place | Group Exhibition at VISUAL Carlow

Our Place | Group Exhibition at VISUAL Carlow

28/05/2026 - 30/08/2026
11:00 am - 5:30 pm
VISUAL Carlow
Old Dublin Road, Carlow, Carlow

Everyone is welcome in Our Place. Experience an immersive sound and light exhibition that playfully explores themes of human rights, happiness and belonging.

Our Place is a socially engaged art project that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities. This project places the ideas, talents and lived experience of people with an intellectual disability at the centre of artmaking and exhibition design.

Led by AlanJames Burns and Sinead McCann, and co-designers Patrick Fitzgerald and Tony Davis, in collaboration with people supported by Delta Centre, Our Place have developed a new installation for VISUAL Carlow

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Life, Death, Legacy - Ireland's Connected Bronze Age | Group Exhibition at Cork Public Museum

Life, Death, Legacy - Ireland's Connected Bronze Age | Group Exhibition at Cork Public Museum

29/05/2026 - 30/04/2027
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cork Public Museum
Fitzgerald Park, Mardyke, Cork, Cork, T12 V0AA, Munster

University College Cork Museum Studies Students and Cork Public Museum are proud to present ‘Life, Death, Legacy: Ireland’s Connected Bronze Age’. This exciting, student-curated exhibit explores the dynamic world of the Irish Bronze Age and shows how people from the past were not so different from us now.
‘Life, Death, Legacy’ offer visitors a thought-provoking experience using ancient artefacts from the Munster region. Themes such as feasting, death, luxury and metalworking are shown using burial urns, jewelry, and weapons, making it an unmissable exhibition. The exhibition opens on May 29th and is free for all visitors.

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Drawing Light- Solas a Léiriú | Group Exhibition at Brú na Boinne

Drawing Light- Solas a Léiriú | Group Exhibition at Brú na Boinne

01/06/2026 - 30/08/2026
9:00 am - 6:30 pm
BRÚ NA BOINNE VISITOR CENTRE
DONORE, DONORE, MEATH, A92EH5C, LEINSTER

Exhibition continues from 30/05/26.

Drawing Light, a unique exhibition of newly hand woven tapestries made in response to the ancient monuments of Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth and Four Knocks will hang in Brú na Bóinne visitor centre from May 30 until August 30 2026.
The collected works of Contemporary Tapestry Artists Ireland, nine of the group’s weavers each brings a distinct voice to this exhibition, united by a deep engagement with the core elements of tapestry weaving – time, material, technique, colour, pattern, surface, and narrative.

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A Storytelling | Alison Barry at the Easter Snow Gallery

A Storytelling | Alison Barry at the Easter Snow Gallery

01/06/2026 - 31/08/2026
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre,
Naul, Co. Dublin., Dublin, Dublin, K32AY27, Dublin

Alison Barry is an artist working from her home in Limerick. Her current use of soft pastel, charcoal and oils allow a sense of freedom to my expression as an artist. Being self-taught she is constantly learning and developing her style which has been described as contemporary in its feel, emotive, moody and atmospheric.
‘Capturing the antics and character of Irish wildlife, ‘A storytelling’ is a new collection of mixed media work to include rooks, hares and foxes..
This exhibition can be viewed in full at www.tseac.ie or in our Easter Snow Gallery open daily.

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BIND | Eimearjean Mc Cormack at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery

BIND | Eimearjean Mc Cormack at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery

02/06/2026 - 22/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery
Wandesford Quay Clarke’s Bridge, Cork, Cork

BIND is a programme of three exhibitions of individual artist books as part of Cork Printmakers artist book library across 2026.
The programme will activate the existing library and celebrate the new and innovative approaches to artists books as a both social and intimate durational art object. 

The first in the series will present the work of Eimearjean Mc Cormack. Limited-edition books and experimental publications have become an integral extension of Eimearjean’s printmaking practice. For her the book format functions simultaneously as an archive of process and as a platform for new ideas to emerge.

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On the Edge and In-Between | James Hayes at Siamsa Tíre

On the Edge and In-Between | James Hayes at Siamsa Tíre

04/06/2026 - 01/08/2026
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Siamsa Tíre Theatre & Arts Centre
Town Park, Tralee, Kerry, V92XW44

Exhibition continues fro 04/07/2026.

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.

Siamsa Tíre invites you to the opening reception on Saturday 4 July at 5:30pm – free entry, all welcome. 

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.

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The Skiapod of Ballymaccus | Stephen Brandes at LHQ Gallery

The Skiapod of Ballymaccus | Stephen Brandes at LHQ Gallery

05/06/2026 - 24/07/2026
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
LHQ Gallery
County Library, Carrigrohane Road, Cork, Co. Cork, T12 K335, Munster

In ‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ Stephen Brandes re-imagines the scarcely credible event of the skiapods, in a body of newly made work that includes drawings, painting and a collection of hand-built figurines, set into a construction of timber and found materials.

‘The Skiapod of Ballymaccus’ opens on Friday, 5th of June and runs until Friday, 24th of July at LHQ Gallery. An opening reception will take place on Friday 5th of June from 5.30pm. Stephen will be in conversation with Curator of Collections & Special Projects Crawford Art Gallery, Michael Waldron at the LHQ Gallery on Saturday, 20th of June at 12noon. LHQ Gallery is open Mon – Fri.

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Colourings | Lucy Hill at Draíocht

Colourings | Lucy Hill at Draíocht

06/06/2026 - 12/09/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Draíocht
The Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15, Dublin

Draíocht is delighted to announce Colourings by Lucy Hill, curated by Helen O’Donoghue, a Draíocht Children’s Commission, part of a series of initiatives to mark Draíocht’s 25th birthday.

Colourings centres on the artist’s own abstract colourings, which she has reimagined through collaboration with fashion designer Orla Langan and sound designer Adam Kennedy.

Colourings celebrates scribbling as a practice of becoming, where colours, shapes, textures and lines merge with sound, touch and movement, emphasising how the experience of colouring can nurture empathy, curiosity and collective imagination.

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THE RETURN | Alice Berger Hammerschlag at The Lyric Theatre

THE RETURN | Alice Berger Hammerschlag at The Lyric Theatre

08/06/2026 - 08/11/2026
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Lyric Theatre Belfast
55 Ridgeway Street, Belfast, BT9 5FB

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

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Whispers of the Countryside | Paul Galligan at the Townhall Arts Centre Gallery

Whispers of the Countryside | Paul Galligan at the Townhall Arts Centre Gallery

08/06/2026 - 30/07/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Townhall Arts Centre Gallery
Townhall Street, Cavan, H12 WV82

Exhibition continues until Friday, 10th July 2026.

A solo exhibition by Paul Galligan, designed by Mark St. John Ellis.

Paul’s work consists of large-scale charcoal and soft pastel drawings that focus on the local Irish rural landscape.

He approaches these subjects as individual presences, creating oversized images that generate an almost three-dimensional effect. The drawings are highly physical and expressive. He walks the surrounding roads and farms, photographing in monochrome, from which the artworks are developed.

Farm animals, along with the ever-eroding trees and ditches – familiar yet often overlooked, intimate yet utilitarian – occupy a complex position within Irish culture. By isolating and enlarging these subjects, the artist seeks to grant them a sense of directness and authority, encouraging viewers to acknowledge their presence. Charcoal is central to the process. Its immediacy and fragility mirror the subjects’ vulnerability.

Rather than presenting an idealised rural image, the work acknowledges the quiet realities of coexistence between humans, animals, and land. In a time of environmental uncertainty and shifting relationships with agriculture, these drawings invite a pause – a moment to look closely at lives that are deeply interwoven with our own.

Open 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday.
12pm to 4pm Saturday or by appointment
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SOFTctrl | Billie Adele at Studio 12

SOFTctrl | Billie Adele at Studio 12

11/06/2026 - 17/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Studio 12
First Floor, Backwater Artists Group, Wandesford Quay, Cork, Cork, T12 E26D

SOFTctrl is a new solo exhibition by emerging artist Billie Adele at Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork.

Running 11 June – 17 July 2026, developed through the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, awarded to Adele in 2025.

The exhibition is a series of oil paintings exploring the tension between constructed feminine experience and something more unstable and uncontrollable beneath it.

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idir | Blaine O'Donnell  at Wexford Arts Centre

idir | Blaine O'Donnell at Wexford Arts Centre

13/06/2026 - 25/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wexford Arts Centre
Cornmarket, Wexford, CO.WEXFORD, Y35 X5HF, Leinster

The exhibition will open on Saturday, 13th June, from 2pm to 4pm

Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council Arts Department, in partnership with South East Technological University, are pleased to present idir, a solo exhibition by Blaine O’Donnell, recipient of the 2024 EMERGENCE Visual Art Award. .

For idir, O’Donnell has drawn upon geological sites in County Wexford and the architecture of the Wexford Arts Centre building. He has developed a new body of sculptural work incorporating moving image elements to explore questions of temporality, repetition, and translation.

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Watching a sunset 8.51 pm | Andy Parsons at the Ballina Arts Centre

Watching a sunset 8.51 pm | Andy Parsons at the Ballina Arts Centre

13/06/2026 - 01/08/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Ballina Arts Centre
Barrett Street, Ballina, Mayo, F26NW83, Connaughht

An current body of work is about Watching a sunset. It is based on people coming together to experience things collectively. The work depicts a group that has convened for the purpose of joy. The work is based on a scene he witnessed where a group of people sat by a riverbank quietly watching a sunset. There were a huge number of people, as though a concert was about to begin, but it was just people coming together to enjoy the beauty of nature.

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A Sense of Place | Liz Johnson at dlr Mill Theatre

A Sense of Place | Liz Johnson at dlr Mill Theatre

17/06/2026 - 05/09/2026
12:00 am
dlr Mill Theatre
Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum, Dublin 16 , D16 C5X6

Liz Johnson’s art practice is project-based. Her recent work explores themes of transience and impermanence, and presence and memory. 

In this series of landscape paintings, she approaches presence and memory from the periphery, as a space of fragility and quiet tension. Where boundaries soften and shift, and form is suggested rather than fixed. She revisits familiar landscapes to reflect on the subtle unease of being tethered to places that are continually in flux – echoing Seamus Heaney’s ‘Postscript’, where the landscape leaves one being “neither here nor there”.  

This sense of being suspended in a moment that can’t be held reflects the Buddhist concept of impermanence, and of how all things arise and pass away. In these moments, the landscape becomes both presence and disappearance. Within these settings, memory exists as something both hidden and tangible — traces of what has been, are held quietly within.  

A Sense of Place invites a moment of stillness and contemplation, to consider how places continue to shape us even as they change or disappear. Rather than resisting transformation, this work reflects on what it means to live alongside it; to accept change and the passing of time as fundamental parts of human experience. 

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Cumha i ndiaidh an Bhaile / Longing for Home | Sophia Sickorova at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

Cumha i ndiaidh an Bhaile / Longing for Home | Sophia Sickorova at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

18/06/2026 - 30/07/2026
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich
216 Falls Rd, Belfast, BT12 6AH

‘’Longing for Home’’, presents a collection of artworks that explore Slovak folk identity and memory through narrative retelling and reclaim. Drawing from personal female experiences while reflecting on the historical traditional years of Slovakia and the women that have lived it. Living away from my motherland leaves me with a persistent sense of longing. I frequently struggle with where I fit and feel torn between two different countries, attempting to reconnect with my heritage. Every piece of work reflects longing for a place familiar yet distant and its history.

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The Interrogation of Bridget Cleary | Lorraine Cleary at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

The Interrogation of Bridget Cleary | Lorraine Cleary at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

18/06/2026 - 30/07/2026
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich
216 Falls Rd, Belfast, BT12 6AH

This exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive environment of paintings and embroidered texts which narrate the horrific story of Bridget Cleary, a young woman from rural Ireland who was brutally murdered in 1895 after being accused of witchcraft. The work is presented in a mapping fashion, connected by a trail of red ribbon that weaves though the space, with dates and locations inviting us to trace the events that led to Bridget’s death. The work attempts to reclaim Bridget’s silenced voice, turning domestic craft into acts of storytelling and resistance.

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CHGS Summer Open 2026 | Group Exhibition at The Courthouse Gallery

CHGS Summer Open 2026 | Group Exhibition at The Courthouse Gallery

19/06/2026 - 14/08/2026
The Courthouse Gallery
Parliament Street, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ennistymon

The CHGS Summer Open Exhibition is a key annual showcase for emerging and established artists from Ireland and beyond. Presenting a diverse range of practices in a professionally curated group show, the exhibition is selected each year by an independent guest judge, this year Sarah Fuller Wallis.

The Summer Open 2026 brings together over 80 artists and more than 100 artworks from across Ireland in a vibrant celebration of contemporary Irish art. Visitors can expect an inspiring mix of paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works that reflect the richness and diversity of creative voices across the country.

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Urban Landscapes | Fiona O'Brien at Axis Arts Centre

Urban Landscapes | Fiona O'Brien at Axis Arts Centre

19/06/2026 - 28/08/2026
9:00 am - 10:00 pm
Axis Arts Centre Ballymun
Axis, Main Street, Ballymun Dublin 9, D09 Y9W0, Dublin

‘Urban Landscapes’ is a body of work created without boundaries or fixed rules, embracing creative freedom and open interpretation. Fluid, expressive, and imaginative, it explores colour, texture, and design as a means of navigating and escaping the realities and challenges of the contemporary world. The exhibition reflects Fiona O’Brien’s experience as a long-time Ballymun resident, documenting and responding to the constant construction, transformation, and evolution of the environment around her. Influenced by urban living, music, nature, weather, culture, diversity, architecture, developing spaces, and punk aesthetics.

OPENING: 19th June 7-9pm

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I AM WOMAN | Lise McGreevy at Belfast Cathedral

I AM WOMAN | Lise McGreevy at Belfast Cathedral

19/06/2026 - 30/09/2026
10:30 am - 4:00 pm
Belfast Cathedral
Donegall Street, , Belfast 1

Exhibition continues from 19/06/26.

This exhibition is part of a self-initiated creative and educational programme by Lise McGreevy.

Currently NI and Ireland still have vast gender inequality across all aspects of society. At a time when the adult population in NI is a majority 52% female and 50.5% in Ireland. Inequality still reigns across all sectors of our community. This programme aims to support and promote female equality and diversity across race, religion, sexual orientations. Known for their emotion dexterity, by stripping away their differences, Lise has instead focused on the complex emotions that are felt by ALL females. With the aim of uniting us across NI.

Please note there is a £5 entrance fee into Belfast Cathedral.

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Wish you Were Here/Reflections | Tony Lock and Damien O'Rourke at Solas Art Gallery

Wish you Were Here/Reflections | Tony Lock and Damien O'Rourke at Solas Art Gallery

19/06/2026 - 17/07/2026
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Solas Art Gallery
Island Theatre, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim, N41 K0D6

Solas Art Gallery presents solo exhibitions by two local artists, showcasing digital culture and the seascape environment.

This joint solo exhibition series brings together two distinctive, artistic voices uniting across contrasting mediums; the immersive realm of digital artistry by Damien O’Rourke and expressive language of abstract seascape painting by Tony Lock.

Experience this fascinating dialogue between screen and sea by joining us for the opening of this exhibition on Friday 19th June at 7:30pm at Solas Art Gallery in the Island Theatre, Ballinamore. The exhibition runs until Friday 17th July.

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Exhibition | Phil Collins at The Model

Exhibition | Phil Collins at The Model

20/06/2026 - 22/08/2026
The Model
The Mall, Sligo, Co. Sligo, F91 TP20, Connaught

Phil Collins
Sat. 20 Jun. – Sat. 22 Aug. 2026
The Model is delighted to present a major exhibition by the internationally renowned visual artist and filmmaker Phil Collins. Over the course of a deeply engaged practice spanning three decades, Collins has realised ambitious projects that shift perspective between the individual and the collective, situating personal experience within broader historical contexts. Balancing intimacy with social critique, he consistently challenges the conventions of documentary representation, creating works that are emotionally charged, formally adventurous and attentive to the poetics of the everyday.

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Members and Friends 2026 | Group Exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre

Members and Friends 2026 | Group Exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre

20/06/2026 - 16/07/2026
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
Off Main Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, P81VW98

Running annually for more than 40 years, this exhibition showcases work by artists from across West Cork and beyond at all stages of their careers. Submission is open to the many artists who subscribe to our Membership and Friendship schemes. This gives our artist Members and Friends the opportunity to exhibit across both the James O’Driscoll Gallery on the ground floor, and upstairs in Gallery II.
Including over 100 artworks by professional, student and amateur artists, this exhibition really has something for every taste and budget.

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The Green Loy | Group Exhibition at The Dock

The Green Loy | Group Exhibition at The Dock

20/06/2026 - 22/08/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Dock
St. George's Terrace, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, N41T2X2

Join us for the launch of The Green Loy at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday 20 June from 2—4pm.

The Green Loy is a celebration of local folk art and culture, grounded in the life and traditions of Leitrim and the north-west. A cock of hay, a loy, and a vividly reimagined dresser form part of a vision that elevates everyday objects into the realm of art.

The exhibition is curated by writer and broadcaster Vincent Woods, ceramic artist Katy West, and dancer and community artist Edwina Guckian.

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The Kite Ballet | Thaís Muniz at The Dock

The Kite Ballet | Thaís Muniz at The Dock

20/06/2026 - 22/08/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Dock
St. George's Terrace, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, N41T2X2

Join us for the launch of The Kite Ballet at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday 20 June from 2—4pm.

The Kite Ballet by Thaís Muniz intertwines poetic and mythical elements with political, historical, and symbolic themes, amplifying the voices of local activists from the Itapuã area in Salvador, Brazil.

The eponymous film portrays a group of kite runners in their weekly communal ritual, highlighting the threat of private development and ecological displacement of Afro-Indigenous sacred territory, where joy and spiritual practices have thrived for centuries.

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The Future is Open | Group Exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre

The Future is Open | Group Exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre

20/06/2026 - 29/08/2026
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Solstice Arts Centre
Railway street, Navan, Meath

Opening Reception: Saturday 20 June, 2.30pm.

Bassam Al-Sabah, George Bolster, Alan Butler, Cecilia Danell, Willie Doherty, Rachel Doolin, Mark Garry, Hammerheads (Marie Farrington, Sibyl Montague, Liliane Puthod, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín), Elaine Hoey, Patrick Hough, Bernadette Kiely, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Niamh McCann, Eleanor McCaughey, Lucy McKenna, Isabel Nolan, Barbara Knežević, Emily Waszak, Grace Weir.

The Future is Open marks the 20th anniversary of Solstice Arts Centre, brings together a selection of previously exhibited artists whose work explores expansive theories of space, time and the cosmos. More information on the website.

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SEX! DEVIANCE! DANGER! | Arlene Caffrey at An Táin Arts Centre

SEX! DEVIANCE! DANGER! | Arlene Caffrey at An Táin Arts Centre

24/06/2026 - 18/07/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
An Táin Arts Centre
Crowe St, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Dundalk, Louth

This playful, embodied art-based research moves through muscle, skin and memory to explore how gender identity, self-expression and self-actualization are experienced among individuals practicing recreational pole dancing in Ireland. Here, pole dancing becomes a site of discovery, creation and expression of both the individual and collective socio-political self. The solid and the ephemeral dance together through sculpture, words, images, light, sound and colour. The exhibition is accompanied with live performance art.

This art-based research is funded by Research Ireland’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme.

Opening Launch Wednesday 24th June 7pm.

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TOSS | Midden Collective Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

TOSS | Midden Collective Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

25/06/2026 - 25/07/2026
12:00 am
QSS
The Arches Centre, 11-13 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AA

MIDDEN collective are Sarah Edmondson, Mary Martin and Niamh McGuinne – who together focus on the interpretation of evidence, creating decidedly unscientific work combining fact with fiction to create new narratives.

Opening Thursday 25 June, 6-8:30pm.

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Paper Palace | Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

Paper Palace | Group Exhibition at QSS Gallery

25/06/2026 - 25/07/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
QSS
The Arches Centre, 11-13 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AA

Paper Palace brings together works on and off paper, exploring everything that is painted, printed, or pressed. Considering works on paper and printmaking as an expanded, interdisciplinary field where artists meet at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and installation.

Paper Palace is anchored in a community of practice, including artists, graduates, and staff connected to Belfast School of Art, celebrating the exchange of shared knowledge across generations and ongoing experimentation. This exhibition celebrates printmaking as a living, interdisciplinary, and inventive medium. 

Invited Artists: Majella Clancy, Pauline Clancy, Gerry Devlin, Kathryn Graham, Ria Czerniak Le-Bov, Late Bill Penney, Anushiya Sundralingham, Adam McIlwaine, Nicole Hastings, Lydia Bell, Wilhelmina Covington, Mia Stewart, Anna Brown and, Alyssa Donaghy .

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Quantum Listening | Trudi van der Elsen at Limerick City Gallery of Art

Quantum Listening | Trudi van der Elsen at Limerick City Gallery of Art

25/06/2026 - 30/08/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Carnegie Building, Pery Square, Limerick, Limerick, V94 E67F

Limerick City Gallery of Art is delighted to present ‘Quantum Listening’ by Trudi van der Elsen, a contemporary multi-media artist, originally from the Netherlands and now based in the West of Ireland.

‘Quantum Listening’ the title given to a body of work by Trudi van der Elsen that explores the relationship between the human body and the wider world, and the invisible frequencies that connect them. Working across painting, photography, video and performance, the artist weaves together forms of matter, agency, subjectivity and objectivity.

 

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GRETB Castlerea Graduates | Group Exhibition at Áras an Chontae

GRETB Castlerea Graduates | Group Exhibition at Áras an Chontae

26/06/2026 - 28/07/2026
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Áras an Chontae
Roscommon County Council HQ, Roscommon, Co. Roscommon, F42 VR98, Connacht

Exhibition continues from 26/06/26.

The official opening of the exhibition by artists completing the L5 and L6 Art courses in GRETB Castlerea Further Education and Training Centre, took place on Thursday 25th of June in Áras an Chontae. This was made possible by invitation and support from Roscommon County Arts Officer, Rhona McGrath.

The exhibition provides a rich and engaging display of works in Painting, Collage, Combined Media, Sculpture, Photography, Sound and Video across a variety of themes, with artists exploring concerns and concepts that resonate on different levels in response to our contemporary world. All Welcome.

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Lá Brea Álainn | Gina O'Connor on Inis Mór

Lá Brea Álainn | Gina O'Connor on Inis Mór

26/06/2026 - 22/08/2026
11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Teach Nan Phaidi Restaurant
Kilmurvey, Inis Mór, Aran Islands, Co. Galway, H91VX31, Galway

Gina O’Connor is delighted to present her solo exhibition Lá Breá Álainn (Lovely Fine Day) at Teach Nan Phaidi Restaurant on Inis Mór Island, County Galway. This exciting collection of oil paintings by West of Ireland artist Gina O’Connor is a celebration of a typical Irish Lá Breá Álainn.

This exhibition showcases Gina’s dynamic style, inspired by her exhilarating experiences in Inis Mór and Connemara. The winds, colours and light of the West have a tossing-and-turning effect on the human soul, and it is with great joy that Gina recreates this in her paintings. Fáilte, tar isteach and enjoy the sceitiminí (excitement) of Gina’s exhibition.

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