What’s On around Ireland

IMMA Collection: Art as Agency is a major three-year display celebrating IMMA’s Permanent Collection as a source of agency and knowledge. Featuring over 100 artists, from the 1960s to the present, it highlights key works, including many recent acquisitions. This ambitious exhibition invites engagement and research over time, allowing for a rich durational experience of Ireland’s Modern and Contemporary Art Collection.

Through thematic, chronological, geographical, and media-based approaches, the exhibition examines how artworks connect across time and contexts, fostering new interpretations and relevance. Works from the 1960s to the 1980s evoke the foundational story of the Irish art world. While acknowledging the context of the modernist, predominantly male dominance of that era, the exhibition also spotlights the material innovation and socially engaged practices of others who persisted despite the relatively conservative status quo.

The exhibition also presents more recent practice that explores urgent global themes such as gender, hybridity, cultural histories, de-colonialism, diaspora, migration, food injustice, climate, and ecological change. Memory, imagination, and storytelling play pivotal roles in these works, offering generative ways to process fragmentation, dislocation, and survival in unfamiliar spaces. New and existing works in the IMMA grounds will extend these themes.

The exhibition includes a specially created ‘white cube’ gallery space inspired by Brian O’Doherty’s renowned series of essays Inside the White Cube – The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), that critiques the auratic, market-driven effects of the white cube gallery format. Likewise the choice of works curated for this space pushes back by highlighting works by Post-War American women, pioneering conceptualist artworks by Marcel Duchamp and Brian O’Doherty as well as a contemporary feminist response by Andrea Geyer.

By interweaving historical and contemporary narratives, Art as Agency invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings and possibilities of art in shaping our understanding of and action in the world.

‘Art in Motion’ Exhibition to Open at Baile Mhuire Day Centre.

Tralee Art Group is delighted to announce their latest collaborative exhibition, ‘Art in Motion’, which will be officially opened on Tuesday, June 17th at 2.30pm at Baile Mhuire Day Centre, Balloonagh, Tralee. The opening will be led by special guest Paddy Garvey, Chairperson of Baile Mhuire, and all are welcome to attend. Guests can enjoy an afternoon of art, music and refreshments in a warm and inclusive setting.

This special exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration between members of Tralee Art Group and the clients of Baile Mhuire Day Centre, showcasing the creative energy and expression of both groups. Featuring a variety of works in different media, styles and subjects, Art in Motion celebrates movement, creativity, and community spirit.

TAG is committed to enriching the cultural life of Tralee and surrounding areas. The group regularly holds exhibitions, workshops, and community projects, and has built strong relationships with local organisations—including an ongoing volunteering partnership with Baile Mhuire.

This exhibition reflects that partnership, with art created not only by TAG members but also by clients of the Day Centre who engage weekly in creative workshops facilitated by the group volunteers from Tralee Art Group. The result is a joyful and inspiring collection of artworks, each piece telling its own story of imagination, connection, and collaboration.

All are welcome to attend the opening and celebrate this uplifting display of artistic expression in our community. The exhibition will run for a year and be available to the public weekdays between 4pm and 5pm.

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

Exhibition continues from 14/11/2025 to 30/04/2026.

Winter Sun is a moving-image work by Cork artist Elinor O’Donovan.

The work is a preserved piece of a warm Cork summer, saved for the months when it is most needed. Taking as its inspiration the iconic view from the top of Patrick’s Hill at Bells Field, the video work is a looping film depicting Corkonians sharing a moment of togetherness, connected by their mutual appreciation for a setting summer sun.

Projection-Mapping: Lightscape Studios
3D Artist: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah
Cinematography: Jack Desmond

Part of Island City – Cork’s Urban Sculpture Trail

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

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.

VISUAL is pleased to present DRILL, newly commissioned exhibition of moving image and sound installation by Naomi Sex. Working with both professional and non-actors, Sex has written and directed a series of scripted performances. These vignettes consider language, social interaction, absurdity and the limits of understanding. DRILL comprises a series of monitors, speakers and projectors, which present each piece as distinct but interrelated episodes, linked to each other in an installation that places the viewer in the centre of the work.

VISUAL is pleased to present Interloper, the first project by Anne Hardy in Ireland. For this exhibition of existing and newly commissioned works, Hardy has responded to the distinct architecture of VISUAL; the concrete and glass of the Link Gallery and its connection to the ornamental pond seen through the large windows, and the blank canvas of the Studio Gallery’s white cube design and its heavily patinated floor. Interloper marks a continued evolution in Hardy’s practice.

“Now now” by Andy Fitz uses language to record a passing moment in time. An out-of-date present is rearranged in minute detail as though the process might reveal something. Time remains static – the food never grows mouldy. Unremarkable domestic objects are balanced across the gallery in precarious abstraction from their usual surroundings. “Now now” is also a phrase whose function and meaning is dependent on tone; it can be understood as a warning, or a consolation. The sculptures build on these unresolved tensions; the personal in the political, the present in light of the past.

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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This exhibition presents a selection of both historic and newly acquired abstract artworks from the permanent Waterford Art Collection. Alongside artworks can also be found archival information, newspaper cuttings, and descriptions from the artists themselves, as well as critique by a cross-section of individuals invited and interested in demystifying this still often divisive visual language.

Artworks on show by: Arthur Armstrong, Shelia Naughton, Colin Middleton, Aidan Dunne, Phoebe Donovan, Julie Cusack, Anne Yeats, Susan Connolly, Ciara Rodgers, Jonathan Wade, Susan Montgomery, Darragh Lyons, Evie Hone, John McHarg and more…

Exhibition continues from 10/02/2026 to 20/06/2026.

Portraits—The Failure of the State presents Brian Maguire’s portraits from three bodies of work that investigate the catastrophic impact of systemic violence without justice in Montana, United States; Bentiu, South Sudan; and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Maguire is an artist who looks outward, beyond the studio, engaging with the world and working in close dialogue with the families and communities of those erased, displaced, and forgotten by the failure of state institutions to serve and protect. 

Missoula Art Museum commissioned the portraits of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People of Montana for an exhibition titled Outrage and supported the project over five years.

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which celebrates drawing through the mediums of etching and casting.
Opening Reception: 5pm Thursday 19 February 2026

In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material (cuttlefish/metal sheet). The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes.

Exhibition continues from 14/02/2026 to 02/05/2026.

Crawford Art Gallery and F.E. McWilliam Gallery announce an exciting collaboration on a new exhibition of contemporary Irish art. Constellations: Selected Work from Crawford Art Gallery brings artworks from the Crawford Collection to the F.E. McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland. It is an exciting moment for both galleries to collaborate and connect audiences with contemporary Irish art. Featuring the work of 14 artists based on the island of Ireland, Constellations highlights the depth and richness of Crawford Art Gallery’s
contemporary holdings within Ireland’s National Collection.

Official Launch February 28th @ 2pm, opened by artist Cecilia Bullo.
‘Outlandish’ is a meditation on the role of nature in the built environment, how it is both marginalised and idealised in the way we design and shape our cities. In this exhibition, using unconventional canvas shapes, de Forge encourages the viewer to rediscover positive relationships with nature, built on curiosity, playfulness, and respect.
Owen de Forge is a Dublin-based artist working across multiple disciplines including painting, sculpture, drawing, and documentary photography.
Tues-Sat 11:00-17:30

Waterford Gallery of Art is delighted to present ‘as below, so above’, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Robert Jackson.

This exhibition brings together a selection of Jackson’s many and distinct series of works developed over the last 15 years including miniature portraiture and skyscapes (Tiny Skies), fragmented dream infused landscapes (Interruption Paintings), meticulous lace fabric studies (Secret and Solitary Vice), and an incredibly ambitious new large scale work developed specifically for the exhibition, ‘Your soul is a chosen landscape’.

‘usual and generous ways’ presents works from artists working across a range of media, from Ireland and elsewhere, in which stone is not just a material to be shaped by the artist’s hand, but a subject-matter, object of inquiry, and an agent to be thought-with and thought-through.

Featuring: Richard Long, Barrie Cooke, Damien Hirst, Dorothy Cross, Seiha Kurosawa, David Beattie, Patrick Ireland/Brian O’Doherty, Patrick Hall, Anne Madden, Hilary Heron, Hamish Fulton.

Presented by Galway Arts Centre in partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, curated by writer & poet Padraig Regan.

Map: GSNI

This exhibition of paintings and mixed-media sculptures by Bennie Reilly draws on her interest in museum collections, natural history, and her own interactions with the natural world. Her paintings stem from an ever growing archive of personal photographs, while her sculptural works combine bric-a-brac and natural artefacts collected over many years. Together, these artworks celebrate the oddities and allure of nature and its positive impact on our well-being.
The title derives from graffiti Reilly saw in a derelict hut overlooking a scenic salt lake in Formentera: “Follow your dream.” I

Exhibition continues from 19/02/2026 to 30/04/2026.

Cork Printmakers presents Familiar, a solo exhibition by Ben Reilly at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery.
In this exhibition, Reilly works with cuttlefish casting and etching; both processes utilising similar tools to inscribe a line into his chosen material; cuttlefish and metal sheet. The former is filled with molten alloy, the latter etched in acid and printed, with the action of making a line connecting both processes. The work takes its inspiration from a mix of ideas, images and things that catch Reilly’s attention, from daily observations; an old yew tree, a disused church to the medieval cadaver stone slab of Thomas Ronan.

Curated by Aisling Prior

Featuring 26 emerging artists with a Fingal connection, part of a series of initiatives for artists to mark Draíocht’s 25th Birthday.

Maria Atanacković | Maya Brezing | Lucy Carrick | Matthew Coll | Michael Shane Cox | Alex De Roeck | Aideen Farrell | Chris Forrester | Andrew Grace | Elizabeth Hogan | Uisce Jakubczyk | Sinead Kampff | Paula Leimane | Nathan Lowry | Nicole Manning | Justine McDonnell | James McLoughlin | Sorca O’Farrell | Kerrie O’Leary | Eileen O’Sullivan | Jack Pierce | Eileen Sealy | Annette Treacy | Aoife Ward | Catherine Ward | Diarmuid Woodcock.

Intangible Bodies by Paul Moore opens in the Atypical Gallery from 5 March until 28 April 2026. Artistic Director Edel Murphy is excited to present this new exhibition in response to our Digital Exhibition Open Call. Paul utilises digital technology to explore themes and attitudes to disability in a most sensory way.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 5 March with a Late Night Art opening from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
Keep an eye on our social media for news about the artist talk.

Kim Crowley is a curator based in Cork City. Her practice is concerned with expanded artist publishing as curatorial practice.
She will establish a curatorial research ‘office’ called the Office of Work (OOW) in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space. The OOW looks to research and interrogate ideas around art making and labour. It will mirror the aesthetics of a traditional office, a nod to the need for creatives to enter environments adjacent to their practice.
The residency will culminate in an exhibition of materials gathered and recorded.

Crawford Supported Studios and LHQ Gallery present ‘This is Ireland’, a showcase of the work of sixteen artists working in supported studio settings: Angela Burchill, Bríd Heffernan, David Connolly, Eoin O’Brion, Íde Ní Shúilleabháin, John Keating, Judit Bakos, Katie Whelan, Marie Sexton, Mary Rose Marshall, Nicola Moran, Rosaleen Moore, Stephen Murray, Tom O’Sullivan, Ailbhe Barrett, and Yvonne Condon.

This exhibition has now been extended until Friday 15th of May 2026.

Exhibition continues from 06/03/2026.

The Living Ginger brings together a range of Jack Butler Yeats’s watercolours from 1895 to 1910, a formative period when his vivid sense of character and everyday life was emerging through dynamic, spirited compositions. The title comes from a phrase Yeats once used to describe the vitality he believed that all great painting should possess. That lively undercurrent gives these early works their enduring charge.

Château La Coste, an emblematic location for contemporary art in Provence, is delighted to present Stranger, an exhibition of sculptures by Northern-Irish artist Colin Davidson, running from the 7th of March to the 22nd of June 2026 at Pavillon Renzo Piano, in the south of France.

Internationally recognised for his strikingly emotional portraits, Colin Davidson proposes a major evolution in his art practice with Stranger. This exhibition marks the first large presentation of his tridimensional artworks, while staying anchored in his engagement with paint as a tactile medium, sensible and expressive.

Exhibition continues from 07/03/2026.

Flight by Sacha Hutchinson opens at Daróg Wine Bar on 02 March, bringing a study of Atlantic seabirds to focus at a time when our coastal birdlife faces increasing pressure.
Based in Barna, Co. Galway, Sacha Hutchinson is a practising artist with a Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design (2010). Working primarily in gouache and oil, her practice explores nature’s vulnerability, with a particular focus on Ireland’s Atlantic seabirds. Alongside her visual work, she writes environmental poetry and has been published in several poetry journals and art anthologies. She is also a member of the Hare’s Corner Collective.

Rooted in personal experience, this exhibition draws connections between language, culture and selfhood. The paintings visualise the aftermath of genealogical research and an emotional response to discovering a hidden familial history. Themes of identity and cultural belonging are explored through symbolic overlaying as processes include building layers of paint and marks to suggest time, generational memory, and obfuscation.

Belfast artist Farhad O’Neill, known for his sculptures, drawings, and public monuments, is proud to present at this exhibition a presentation of abstract paintings. These works, based upon both Nature and Culture, represent a new adventure in Art. Tá an t-ealaíontóir as Béal Feirste, Farhad O’Neill, a bhfuil cáil air as a dhealbha, a líníochtaí agus a shéadchomharthaí poiblí, bródúil as cur i láthair de phictiúir teibí a chur i láthair ag an taispeántas seo. Léiríonn na saothair seo, atá bunaithe ar an Dúlra agus ar an gCultúr araon, eachtra nua san Ealaín. Is é téama an taispeántais ná go bhfuil bunús na hEalaíne sa Dúlra.

MOTH is a group exhibition curated by Emma Quin, recipient of the Backwater Artists Emerging Curator Award 2026, featuring artists Lynn-Marie Dennehy, Andrea Newman and Pádraig Spillane. Inspired by research into the adaptive evolution of moths during the Industrial Revolution, the exhibition explores how individuals are shaped by their environments and the social structures that surround them. Through installation, photography, collage and object-based work, the artists examine themes of social conditioning, surveillance and identity in contemporary society.

Exhibition continues from 03/03/2026 to 08/05/2026.

Meath County Council Arts Office presents ‘Wildlife Encounters Through the Lens’ an exhibition of work by award winning photographer Tom Ormond.
Wildlife Encounters Through the Lens showcases the variety and beauty of some of the birds and animals that award-winning photographer Tom Ormond has encountered along his way.
Tom Ormond took up nature photography a few years ago, and since then he has had some of the most amazing experiences both observing and photographing wildlife.
Half of the images in this exhibition were photographed in his garden in Meath and the other half further afield in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

Sylvia Hill presents- Vintage Suite – a collection of paintings exploring the beauty of the Irish “Big House” and other interiors relating to the past. Using a rich and vibrant oil palette, she indulges our senses and imaginations suggesting themes to dream on such as nostalgia, comfort, loss and fantasy. These small works offer us a personal window into the beauty of the past and a plea for the preservation of all things antique for the future.

The Dock presents Soft Spot, an exhibition by Irish artist Helen O’Leary that foregrounds reuse, repair, and ecological thinking as generative artistic strategies.
Raised in rural Ireland in the 1960s and 70s, O’Leary’s formative ethos — “if you can’t make it, you can’t have it” — continues to inform her materially rigorous practice. Over decades, she has developed a distinctive formal language built from modest materials and unglamorous gestures. Her works occupy a dynamic space between painting and sculpture, blurring categorical boundaries while insisting on the physicality of their making.

Exhibition continues from 14/03/2026 to 09/05/2026.

SHIFT
Reflections of unknowing.

The paintings are in the hidden language of change and their numerous manifestations, and are an assimilation of that process in all its mystery. Sometimes the sources are known, sometimes they are not, but either way they become part of the painting. They are a visual diary with markers or indicators that occur naturally working with a mix of intention and intuition. Colour is used to heighten sensation and with the aim of a raw dynamic, they come into being sequentially and organically. They are an interpretative filtering of the world and universe around us.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present “Art in Progress” an art exhibition at the Clare Museum by Learners from Youthreach, College of FET, Ennis Campus

Art in Progress showcases artwork created by Youthreach learners throughout the year in the art room. Learners, aged 15–19, come from a variety of places across County Clare and bring their own ideas, experiences, and perspectives into their work. The exhibition reflects this diversity through a range of drawings, paintings, and mixed-media pieces.

Featured Image: Processed by Christopher Beau

Exhibition continues from 21/02/2026 to 03/05/2026.

Butler Gallery is pleased to present I Took a Hammer in My Hand, a new installation of photographic works and sculpture by Northern Ireland-based artist Jan McCullough. Artworks in this exhibition explore the boundaries between amateur and professional; image and object; and photography’s role in looking, learning and representing collaborative labour.

Solas Art Gallery, located within The Island Theatre in Ballinamore, is delighted to announce that its 19th Annual Spring Group Exhibition will open at 7:30pm on Friday, the 20th of March. The exhibition features a diverse collection of work by both emerging and established artists, highlighting a wide range of styles and creative approaches. All are welcome and visitors can enjoy a curated selection of paintings in oils, acrylics, watercolours, embroidery, photography, poetry and mixed media spanning realism to abstraction.

Home Body is a collection exploring the process of returning to yourself after grief. Developed from life-drawing studies, the work moves away from direct representation and instead captures the emotional weight and movement of the female form. Looser marks and an earthy palette reflect a deeper internal connection, grounding each piece in memory, presence, and recovery. The collection sits between figure and feeling, offering space for reflection and emotional clarity.

In A Fig for a Kiss, Naomi Litvack focuses on organic worlds, reflecting on memory, observation, and the fleeting act of looking – seeking to transform passing impressions through painting. The work explores materiality and process, with paintings that engage as much with the medium of paint itself as with image. Litvack explores the natural world using paint combined with print, collage and drawing to create layered surfaces filled with forms, scribbles, layers and loops.

“Forward,” said granny in the snow – “Eteenpäin,” sanoi mummo lumessa (Finnish Proverb)
Jane Hughes and Selma Mäkelä.
Curated by Paula Barrett.

The Finnish proverb “Eteenpäin, sanoi mummo lumessa” – “Forward,” said granny in the snow – evokes resilience and determination in the face of adversity. This spirit of perseverance underpins this exhibition that brings together the work of Jane Hughes and Selma Mäkelä for the first time.

A major solo exhibition by internationally recognised photographer Jackie Nickerson, Stateside draws on a decade of travel across the United States. Through layered photographic compositions, the exhibition explores patterns of sameness across different American landscapes, offering a nuanced reflection on the systems that shape everyday life.

Glimmers is a new body of work that explores abstraction as an embodied and responsive process whilst highlighting the artist’s use of colour, surface and gesture. Yasmine’s work explores painting as both a material process and a site for reflection, memory and perception. This show reflects her ongoing engagement with the physical and emotional possibilities of paint, as well as her intuitive approach to mark-making.

Exhibition continues from 27/03/2026 to 10/05/2026.

Before I Go: Vanishing Dublin, gathers over fifty characteristically Dublin cityscapes by Gerard Byrne — Georgian terraces, Victorian facades, charming pubs, and beloved corners that continue to define his practice. Working en plein air in both oil and charcoal, Byrne captures architecture and atmosphere in equal measure, incidentally continuing the work of Harry Kernoff and Flora Mitchell, exemplified in her book Vanishing Dublin (1966). 60 years on, he faces the same conviction that what is not recorded is lost forever.

Before I go, before you go, I’ll make sure someone remembers.

Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Culturlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘Ethereal” an exhibition by Christopher Quinn.
Following on from the success of his first exhibit “Colours in the Landscape”, Christopher Quinn returns with his follow up showing “Ethereal”. Christopher Quinn, a native of Ennis, Co. Clare fell in love with landscape photography whilst living in the Canadian Rockies. Persistence in learning from one photograph to the next engrained the need to succeed. “Ethereal” is something that resonates deeply with his approach to photography, calmness, serenity, less obtrusion, it’s the perfect signature of his work.

Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “In Clondorney Bog – An exploration of a local peatland” by the Artist Caitríona O’Sullivan.

Caitríona O’Sullivan is a landscape artist and floral designer from Tulla, Co. Clare. Her work is inspired by the colours, forms, textures and moods of the East Clare landscape. Working in pencil and pastel, her drawings express her emotional connection to the environment, highlighting its beauty, complexity and fragility. Her locality also inspires the botanical installations and arrangements she makes using dried and fresh wild plant material.

In 2013, the Living Arts Project was established as an artist-in-residency scheme in primary schools. The aim of the project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art. The exhibition represents a selection of work produced by the participating schools.

The artists and schools selected for the 2025-26 programme were Sonya Weston and Kate Tyrrell with Castlebridge NS, Deirdre Meehan-Buttimer and Shannon Jade Wilson with Clonroche NS, David Begley and Hanneke van Ryswyk with Curracloe NS, and Laura Flood and Mayumi Nakabayashi in Scoil Mhaodhóig.

Exhibition continues from 13/03/2026 to 03/05/2026.

Lucy Stein’s expressive, emotionally and psychologically charged paintings result from what the artist describes as a ‘cosmic symbolic feminist headspace’. Her work has a deep connection to the principles and imagery of goddess culture and mystical esotericism stemming from her studies in psychoanalysis and feminist theory. Iconography from classical mythology, medieval and ecclesiastical illuminations, as well as ancient rites and folkloric illustrations interact on her paintings’ amorphous surfaces.

‘Clare’s Stained Glass’, an extensive online archive by John Glynn documenting the county’s stained glass heritage, will be officially launched on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
Supported by Clare County Council’s Heritage Office, the launch will take place on Zoom from 7pm to 8pm. To attend, email ican@museum.ie. Dr David Caron, a leading authority on Irish stained glass, will officially launch the archive after an introduction by Clare County Council Heritage Officer, Congella McGuire. Image Caption:
Our Lady of the Fertile Rock, by George W. Walsh, 1992, New Quay (St Patrick’s Catholic Church).

The AIB Portrait Prize and AIB Young Portrait Prize bring outstanding contemporary portraiture from the National Gallery of Ireland to Letterkenny. Featuring shortlisted artists selected by an expert panel of judges, the exhibition celebrates excellence, innovation and strong local representation, while reflecting the vitality of portrait practice across Ireland today.

A group of artists awarded a mentoring programme through Big Look and the Kilkenny Arts Office reunite one year later to showcase the evolution of their work. Originally brought together over three months of intensive weekly sessions, this exhibition traces each artist’s journey from the first spark of an idea to fresh developments in process and vision. By capturing the progression from initial inception to refined execution, the collection reveals the endless possibilities that emerge when artistic practices are nurtured and given the essential space and time to expand, reflect, and grow.

Note: Opening times on weekends/bank holidays are 10am – 4.30pm

Prizewinning artists Tracie Corry and Rosalind McConaghy come to the ArtisAnn Gallery in Belfast for a joint exhibition of new paintings.

Late Night Opening: WED 1st April from 6 to 8pm.