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Discover what’s on in Leinster for visual arts with our comprehensive events roundup: explore cutting-edge gallery exhibitions in Dublin’s vibrant art districts, hands-on sculpture workshops in Kildare, and avant-garde pop-up installations in Meath. From exclusive artist talks and curator-led tours in Wicklow’s historic venues to youth-focused street-art festivals in Louth and immersive light-art experiences across Kilkenny, our Leinster visual arts guide brings you the region’s hottest creative happenings. Stay informed with weekly updates on gallery openings, limited-run masterclasses, and community art trails—perfect for art enthusiasts, collectors, and culture seekers alike. Unlock the best of Leinster’s visual arts scene today and elevate your cultural calendar with unmissable events across Ireland’s east coast.

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Do It Together Phase I| Group Exhibition at Pallas Projects

Do It Together Phase I| Group Exhibition at Pallas Projects

03/09/2026 - 26/09/2026
12:00 am - 6:00 pm
Pallas Projects/Studio
115–117 The Coombe, Dublin 8, Dublin

This major exhibition features work by artists representing significant moments in Pallas’s 30 year history, from its early days in Foley Street to the present day, with new or restaged works by Katie Holten, Brendan Earley, Jesse Jones, Brian Duggan, Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy, John Smith, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, E.S.P. TV (Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie), Robert Dunne, Venus Patel, and Paul O’Neill, alongside invited contributions by artist-run projects and spaces over 2 phases.

Phase I shares the work of PUBLICS (a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, and exhibition space in Vallila,

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GURU GURU MEGURU -ぐるぐる めぐる | Teruri Yamawaki at Fumbally Stables

GURU GURU MEGURU -ぐるぐる めぐる | Teruri Yamawaki at Fumbally Stables

03/09/2026 - 05/09/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Fumbally Stables
Fumbally Stables, Fumbally Lane, Dublin 8, Dublin, D08CP27, Dublin

GURU GURU MEGURU — ぐるぐる めぐる
Works by Teruri Yamawaki

Exhibition Details

Opening Reception:
Thursday 3 September, 6–9 PM

Exhibition:
Thursday 3 – Friday 4 September, 10 AM–6 PM
Saturday 5 September, 10 AM–1 PM

The exhibition is presented with Throwing Shapes, staycity, ÓL Irish Cocktails and The Fumbally.

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Close to Home | Tetiana Tsarenko at Reds Gallery Dublin

Close to Home | Tetiana Tsarenko at Reds Gallery Dublin

03/09/2026 - 09/09/2026
12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Reds Gallery Dublin
21 Dawson Street , Dublin , Dublin , D02 TK33, Dublin

Opening reception Thursday 3rd September. 6pm. Opening speaker Artem Nedostup, Ukrainian Action in Ireland.

Exhibition continues Friday 4th – Wednesday 9th September. 12 – 7pm.

Ukrainian artist Tetiana Tsarenko embarks on her first Irish solo exhibition at Reds Gallery Dublin in September. The works in Close to Home explore a sense of belonging and our connection to nature, animals and the places around us. Tetiana explores landscapes, architectural rhythms, animal portraits and everyday encounters, using painting as a means of processing displacement and resettlement. Curated by Tony Strickland.

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Satellite Salon |Group Exhibition at the Library Project

Satellite Salon |Group Exhibition at the Library Project

03/09/2026 - 26/09/2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Library Project
4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Black Church Print Studio is pleased to present Satellite Salon, a group exhibition curated by Colin Martin at the Library Project in Temple Bar. The works in Satellite Salon represent a fully inclusive representation of members work and embraces the medium specificity of the printmaking process, the exhibition contains approximately 60 works in a formal uniformity offset with a choreographed scatter hang that accommodates the diverse print languages that comprise the artistic community of the Black Church Print Studio.

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Not Just a Park | Linda McCann at Signal Arts Bray

Not Just a Park | Linda McCann at Signal Arts Bray

03/09/2026 - 13/09/2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Signal Arts Bray
1a Albert Ave, , Bray, Wicklow, A98 Y229, Leinster

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

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dove passages | Aleana Egan at Kerlin Gallery

dove passages | Aleana Egan at Kerlin Gallery

04/09/2026 - 03/10/2026
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane, Dublin, Dublin

“Criticism is one artist discerning the secrets of another artist, who understood that something was decided perhaps by the passage of a bird, or a color.” – from Hèléne Cixous interview in The Paris Review, Issue 254

The sculptures and paintings in dove passages are initiated by a sense of touch and movement alongside a sense of sight. For Aleana Egan, painting is imagined as an activity of passage and continuum; an internal language that permeates the artists‘ practice in indirect and associative ways. In this exhibition the compositional power of dreaming is given focus. It’s ephemeral nature, the having and then losing of an area of a pa

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An Antarctic Journey | Martina McDonald at Riverbank Arts Centre

An Antarctic Journey | Martina McDonald at Riverbank Arts Centre

05/09/2026 - 31/10/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Riverbank Arts Centre
Main Street, Newbridge, Kildare, W12D962, Kildare

Inspired by artist Martina McDonald’s journey to Antarctica, this exhibition invites visitors to discover the icy landscapes and remarkable wildlife that she encountered over 17,000km from her home in Co. Kildare. Featuring original photography and hands-on creative activities, the exhibition celebrates the beauty and wonder of the frozen continent. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to explore, create, and let their imaginations wander.

One of the exhibition highlights is Martina’s recent engagement project with the Shackleton Experience and Riverbank Arts Centre – 120+ original prints created by school children from across the county.

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Event | PARÉA PARTY- Life Drawing and Live Music at The United Arts Club

Event | PARÉA PARTY- Life Drawing and Live Music at The United Arts Club

05/09/2026
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The United Arts Club
3 Upper Fitzwilliam St, Dublin 2, Dublin, D02 RR50, Dublin 2

Join us for an evening of life drawing, live music, drinks and nibbles in the beautiful setting of the United Arts Club at the heart of Dublin city.

It’s a chance to practise drawing and painting in a relaxed, social atmosphere with a live band. Enjoy a few hours of life drawing without pressure or expectations – switch off, relax and see what you create.

What’s in store:

-Life drawing with a life model

-Live music

-Drinks and nibbles to fuel your imagination

This event isn’t a drawing class, your drawing skills won’t be analysed. It’s a chance to practise drawing in a relaxed, social atmosphere with a live band, some food, drinks and παρέα.

For more information and to book, click here.

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Events | Buried with the Machine Programme at Courthouse Arts Centre

Events | Buried with the Machine Programme at Courthouse Arts Centre

05/09/2026
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Courthouse Arts Centre
Main Street, Tinahely, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

‘Buried with the Machine’ co-curated by Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, is a programme of screenings and performances featuring Rebecca Barten, Matt Calderwood, Jem Cohen, Megan Conery, David Crowley, Amelia Durac, Brian Dillon, Mikala Dwyer, Liss Fenwick, Barbara Hammer, Brian Hand, Bea McMahon, Jasmine Parsley, Elizabeth Price, Elisabeth Subrin, Nathan Truesdell, and Yuyan Wang, at the Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Wicklow, from 7–10pm on Saturday 5 September 2026. Booking is free via Eventbrite with optional return minibus from Bray Dart Station. Everyone welcome!

For more information, click here.

To book a free ticket, click here.

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Twist and Shout | Roísín Lewis at dlr LexIcon

Twist and Shout | Roísín Lewis at dlr LexIcon

06/09/2026 - 01/11/2026
10:00 am - 8:00 pm
The Studio, dlr Lexicon
Haigh Terrace, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, A96 H283, Dublin

“We do not care for what we do not know, and on the whole we do not know what we cannot name.” Robert Mcfarlane, 2015 

The works in this exhibition are inspired by Róisín Lewis’s bicycle journeys through the Irish landscape. During the summer, she is struck by the diversity of wildflowers she encounters.

On her travels, Lewis wears a small field recorder. To distract herself from the effort of cycling, she tests her botanical knowledge by naming out-loud each species that she passes. The breathless determination captured in her voice recordings, highlights the physical effort of climbing hills. The mental effort of recalling the names of flowers as she comes back downhill at speed is also clear.

As she listens back to her recordings, what appears in her mind’s eye are not intricate botanical forms, but sequences of bright colours unfolding like a woven cloth. Lewis has experimented with ways of making textiles from plant fibres using traditional techniques such as twisting, looping and weaving. These slow, repetitive processes are comparable to the rhythms of the body moving through the landscape.

Opening times:

Monday – Thursday: 10am – 8pm

Friday and Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Sunday : 12 noon – 4pm 

Gallery closed from Saturday to Monday on Bank Holidays. 

Image credit: Steps, 2025, Róisín Lewis. Photo: Lee Welch

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Event | Open Studio Day at Patrick Street Studios

Event | Open Studio Day at Patrick Street Studios

20/09/2026
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Patrick Street Studios
64 Patrick Street, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, A96 P5X9, Leinster

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

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Hidden Light | Karen McLaughlin at the Ranelagh Arts Centre

Hidden Light | Karen McLaughlin at the Ranelagh Arts Centre

06/08/2026 - 03/09/2026
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin 6
26 Ranelagh, Ranelagh, Dublin, 6

Hidden Light is a solo exhibition by contemporary Irish artist Karen McLaughlin, featuring over 30 abstract paintings exploring the relationship between an internal meditative space and the Irish landscape. Through layered acrylic paint, texture and intuitive mark-making, the work considers how memory, emotion and lived experience shape our perception of place, inviting moments of stillness, contemplation and personal connection. Curated by Dino Notaro.

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Event | GUGGI Screenings at the IFI

Event | GUGGI Screenings at the IFI

28/08/2026 - 04/09/2026
IFI
6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin

Three years in the making, and after an incredible festival journey, we are delighted to finally bring GUGGI to cinemas in Ireland from next Friday, August 28th.

We kick things off with a special premiere screening at the IFI at 6.30pm, followed by a Q&A. I can’t wait to see everyone there.

A huge thank you to our Ireland and UK distributors Wildcard Films and to Screen Ireland for all their support in helping us bring the film to the big screen.

GUGGI – in select cinemas from August 28th.

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Ashes of Roses | Gemma Browne at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

Ashes of Roses | Gemma Browne at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

06/08/2026 - 05/09/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
3 Chancery Lane, Dublin 8, Dublin, D08 TC03

A solo show of paintings on canvas with an accompanying publication.

‘Some paintings of young women do not depict individuals, they are amalgams drawn from found images, their unsmiling looks atmospherically unsettling alongside brightly coloured blooms. Browne describes them as portraits of female energy and their nearly-always-direct gaze is unerring.

Extract from an accompanying text written by Cathy Lomax

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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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Portage | Group Exhibition at the Tøn Gallery

Portage | Group Exhibition at the Tøn Gallery

30/07/2026 - 05/09/2026
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Tøn Gallery
25a Temple Lane South, Dublin

PORTAGE brings together paintings, sculptural forms, ceramic vessels, and sculptural light to explore journeys shaped by wind, water and myth. Featuring artists Aibhainn Wheeler, Andrew Murphy, Gildas O Laoire and Mark Redden.
The title refers to the act of carrying a boat across land to reach new waters — an enduring image of migration, resilience, and the search for new horizons. It echoes Werner Herzog’s film ‘Fitzcarraldo’, where a steamship is hauled over a mountain in pursuit of an impossible dream. In PORTAGE, that same gesture becomes a metaphor for movement, risk, and for the persistence required to cross from one world to another.

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Event | PARÉA PARTY- Life Drawing and Live Music at The United Arts Club

Event | PARÉA PARTY- Life Drawing and Live Music at The United Arts Club

05/09/2026
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The United Arts Club
3 Upper Fitzwilliam St, Dublin 2, Dublin, D02 RR50, Dublin 2

Join us for an evening of life drawing, live music, drinks and nibbles in the beautiful setting of the United Arts Club at the heart of Dublin city.

It’s a chance to practise drawing and painting in a relaxed, social atmosphere with a live band. Enjoy a few hours of life drawing without pressure or expectations – switch off, relax and see what you create.

What’s in store:

-Life drawing with a life model

-Live music

-Drinks and nibbles to fuel your imagination

This event isn’t a drawing class, your drawing skills won’t be analysed. It’s a chance to practise drawing in a relaxed, social atmosphere with a live band, some food, drinks and παρέα.

For more information and to book, click here.

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As it is | Jessica Callan at the Courthouse Arts Centre

As it is | Jessica Callan at the Courthouse Arts Centre

14/08/2026 - 05/09/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Courthouse Arts Centre
Main Street, Tinahely, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

Exhibition continues from 14/08/26.

An exhibition of works by Jessica Callan – ‘As it is’
By looking at our phones, we live our lives with the captured image.
We live in a time, when the individual has access to others, and others have access to the individual. The phone has many uses: vicarious living some of the time, at other times for direct communication, and used as a tool for visual documentation.
Some of the images have been altered by the artist, embellishing the narrative. There is a play between the realities existing, the reality seen by the artist, the reality sent as communications, and the reality received.
Opening hours Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm

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Events | Buried with the Machine Programme at Courthouse Arts Centre

Events | Buried with the Machine Programme at Courthouse Arts Centre

05/09/2026
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Courthouse Arts Centre
Main Street, Tinahely, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

‘Buried with the Machine’ co-curated by Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, is a programme of screenings and performances featuring Rebecca Barten, Matt Calderwood, Jem Cohen, Megan Conery, David Crowley, Amelia Durac, Brian Dillon, Mikala Dwyer, Liss Fenwick, Barbara Hammer, Brian Hand, Bea McMahon, Jasmine Parsley, Elizabeth Price, Elisabeth Subrin, Nathan Truesdell, and Yuyan Wang, at the Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Wicklow, from 7–10pm on Saturday 5 September 2026. Booking is free via Eventbrite with optional return minibus from Bray Dart Station. Everyone welcome!

For more information, click here.

To book a free ticket, click here.

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GURU GURU MEGURU -ぐるぐる めぐる | Teruri Yamawaki at Fumbally Stables

GURU GURU MEGURU -ぐるぐる めぐる | Teruri Yamawaki at Fumbally Stables

03/09/2026 - 05/09/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Fumbally Stables
Fumbally Stables, Fumbally Lane, Dublin 8, Dublin, D08CP27, Dublin

GURU GURU MEGURU — ぐるぐる めぐる
Works by Teruri Yamawaki

Exhibition Details

Opening Reception:
Thursday 3 September, 6–9 PM

Exhibition:
Thursday 3 – Friday 4 September, 10 AM–6 PM
Saturday 5 September, 10 AM–1 PM

The exhibition is presented with Throwing Shapes, staycity, ÓL Irish Cocktails and The Fumbally.

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Close to Home | Tetiana Tsarenko at Reds Gallery Dublin

Close to Home | Tetiana Tsarenko at Reds Gallery Dublin

03/09/2026 - 09/09/2026
12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Reds Gallery Dublin
21 Dawson Street , Dublin , Dublin , D02 TK33, Dublin

Opening reception Thursday 3rd September. 6pm. Opening speaker Artem Nedostup, Ukrainian Action in Ireland.

Exhibition continues Friday 4th – Wednesday 9th September. 12 – 7pm.

Ukrainian artist Tetiana Tsarenko embarks on her first Irish solo exhibition at Reds Gallery Dublin in September. The works in Close to Home explore a sense of belonging and our connection to nature, animals and the places around us. Tetiana explores landscapes, architectural rhythms, animal portraits and everyday encounters, using painting as a means of processing displacement and resettlement. Curated by Tony Strickland.

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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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Scale-up | Group Exhibition at Greenacres Gallery

Scale-up | Group Exhibition at Greenacres Gallery

08/08/2026 - 12/09/2026
9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Greenacres
2 Lower George’s St, Selskar St, Ferrybank South, Wexford, Y35 RW7C, Wexford, Wexford, Y35 RW7C

Scale Up; Greenacres Gallery, Wexford; 10 August – 12 September 2026
Opening: Saturday 8 August
Scale Up is a group exhibition of contemporary printmaking curated by Ann Kenny. The exhibition brings together artists working at scale within contemporary print traditions, placing large-format prints in dialogue with smaller works.
Featuring Gwen O’Dowd, Vincent Sheridan, Ailbhe Barrett, Linda Uhlemann, Ann Kavanagh, Aoife Dwyer and Sioban Piercy.

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PRESENCE | Sheila Mac Nally at The Pigyard Gallery

PRESENCE | Sheila Mac Nally at The Pigyard Gallery

20/08/2026 - 12/09/2026
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Pigyard Gallery
13 Selskar Street, Wexford, Wexford, Southeast

Exhibition continues from 20/08/26.

PRESENCE: An exhibition of original oil paintings made directly from the source of inspiration.
Working directly from life brings an immediacy and freshness to my paintings. The title refers both to the physical presence of my subject matter and to my need to be fully present and engaged in that moment of creative flow.

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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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Matters of time | Nour Jaouda at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

Matters of time | Nour Jaouda at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

03/07/2026 - 13/09/2026
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Dublin, Dublin

Exhibition continues from 03/07/2026.

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

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Not Just a Park | Linda McCann at Signal Arts Bray

Not Just a Park | Linda McCann at Signal Arts Bray

03/09/2026 - 13/09/2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Signal Arts Bray
1a Albert Ave, , Bray, Wicklow, A98 Y229, Leinster

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

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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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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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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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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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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.

Read more →
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. 

Read more →
Matters of time | Nour Jaouda at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

Matters of time | Nour Jaouda at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

03/07/2026 - 13/09/2026
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Dublin, Dublin

Exhibition continues from 03/07/2026.

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

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The Collie, The Cheviot and The Crouched Skeleton | Orla Barry at Rua Red

The Collie, The Cheviot and The Crouched Skeleton | Orla Barry at Rua Red

10/07/2026 - 26/09/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Rua Red
Belgard Square, Tallaght, Dublin, D24 KV8N

In 2024, Rua Red Director/Curator Maolíosa Boyle invited Orla Barry to create a new work in response to the rural communities of South Dublin. In this work, Barry uses the farm walk as a method of research and a form of encounter. The commission reflects on the complexities of rural life at the edge of the city, exploring how landscape is shaped by inheritance, lineage, survival, friendship, economic pressure and the stories that pass between people.

The Collie, The Cheviot and The Crouched Skeleton launches on Friday 10 July at 6pm and continues until 26 September.

All welcome. Admission free.

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(O-O-O) | Vanessa Donoso López at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

(O-O-O) | Vanessa Donoso López at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

24/07/2026 - 20/09/2026
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
5 – 9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Dublin, D02 AC84, Dublin

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

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

Opening reception: Thursday 23 July 6–8pm.

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Ar an Imeall | Pamela de Brí at Esker Arts

Ar an Imeall | Pamela de Brí at Esker Arts

25/07/2026 - 26/09/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Esker Arts
Esker Arts Centre, Tullamore, Co Offaly, R35 NY50

The exhibition Ar an Imeall – On the Edge is a bilingual project which explores and documents a large selection of Ireland’s offshore islands.

Having researched the history, landscape, demographics, and topography of the islands over the last few years, the artist has painted them, as seen from the mainland, trying to capture their essence. Almost 60 islands are investigated, mainly those that are or were once inhabited and, except for Achill, are not connected to the mainland by a bridge. The project seeks to record, celebrate, respect and remember the individual world that each island is and was to those that lived and still live on it.

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Portage | Group Exhibition at the Tøn Gallery

Portage | Group Exhibition at the Tøn Gallery

30/07/2026 - 05/09/2026
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Tøn Gallery
25a Temple Lane South, Dublin

PORTAGE brings together paintings, sculptural forms, ceramic vessels, and sculptural light to explore journeys shaped by wind, water and myth. Featuring artists Aibhainn Wheeler, Andrew Murphy, Gildas O Laoire and Mark Redden.
The title refers to the act of carrying a boat across land to reach new waters — an enduring image of migration, resilience, and the search for new horizons. It echoes Werner Herzog’s film ‘Fitzcarraldo’, where a steamship is hauled over a mountain in pursuit of an impossible dream. In PORTAGE, that same gesture becomes a metaphor for movement, risk, and for the persistence required to cross from one world to another.

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Hidden Light | Karen McLaughlin at the Ranelagh Arts Centre

Hidden Light | Karen McLaughlin at the Ranelagh Arts Centre

06/08/2026 - 03/09/2026
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin 6
26 Ranelagh, Ranelagh, Dublin, 6

Hidden Light is a solo exhibition by contemporary Irish artist Karen McLaughlin, featuring over 30 abstract paintings exploring the relationship between an internal meditative space and the Irish landscape. Through layered acrylic paint, texture and intuitive mark-making, the work considers how memory, emotion and lived experience shape our perception of place, inviting moments of stillness, contemplation and personal connection. Curated by Dino Notaro.

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Ashes of Roses | Gemma Browne at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

Ashes of Roses | Gemma Browne at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

06/08/2026 - 05/09/2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
3 Chancery Lane, Dublin 8, Dublin, D08 TC03

A solo show of paintings on canvas with an accompanying publication.

‘Some paintings of young women do not depict individuals, they are amalgams drawn from found images, their unsmiling looks atmospherically unsettling alongside brightly coloured blooms. Browne describes them as portraits of female energy and their nearly-always-direct gaze is unerring.

Extract from an accompanying text written by Cathy Lomax

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Scale-up | Group Exhibition at Greenacres Gallery

Scale-up | Group Exhibition at Greenacres Gallery

08/08/2026 - 12/09/2026
9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Greenacres
2 Lower George’s St, Selskar St, Ferrybank South, Wexford, Y35 RW7C, Wexford, Wexford, Y35 RW7C

Scale Up; Greenacres Gallery, Wexford; 10 August – 12 September 2026
Opening: Saturday 8 August
Scale Up is a group exhibition of contemporary printmaking curated by Ann Kenny. The exhibition brings together artists working at scale within contemporary print traditions, placing large-format prints in dialogue with smaller works.
Featuring Gwen O’Dowd, Vincent Sheridan, Ailbhe Barrett, Linda Uhlemann, Ann Kavanagh, Aoife Dwyer and Sioban Piercy.

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Memory of a Free Festival | Group Exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre

Memory of a Free Festival | Group Exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre

08/08/2026 - 03/10/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wexford Arts Centre
Cornmarket, Wexford, Co. Wexford, Y35 X5HF, Leinster

Wexford Arts Centre in partnership with the Ormston House, is pleased to present Memory of a Free Festival. The exhibition will run in the lower and upper galleries from Saturday, 8 August, to Saturday, 3 October, 2026.

Conceived by Ormston House, the project responds to the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear festivals that took place in Wexford between 1978 and 1981. Organised by a coalition of groups, the festivals were attended by thousands of people. Featuring works by Orla Barry, Brian Duggan and Alanna O’Kelly, the exhibition also includes photos by Derek Speirs and original archival material produced by the Irish Anti-Nuclear Movement.

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The Shared Studio | Tony and Jane O'Malley at the Butler Gallery

The Shared Studio | Tony and Jane O'Malley at the Butler Gallery

08/08/2026 - 26/10/2026
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Bultler Gallery
Evans' Home, John’s Quay, Kilkenny, Kilkenny, R95 YX3F, Leinster

Butler Gallery, in association with Kilkenny Arts Festival, is delighted to present a building- wide exhibition honouring the work of the late Tony O’Malley (1913-2003) and Jane O’Malley (1944-2023). This expansive exhibition marks the receipt of the bequest of both artists’ estates by Jane O’Malley to Butler Gallery where the artists had a long association.

See full details on our website.

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As it is | Jessica Callan at the Courthouse Arts Centre

As it is | Jessica Callan at the Courthouse Arts Centre

14/08/2026 - 05/09/2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Courthouse Arts Centre
Main Street, Tinahely, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

Exhibition continues from 14/08/26.

An exhibition of works by Jessica Callan – ‘As it is’
By looking at our phones, we live our lives with the captured image.
We live in a time, when the individual has access to others, and others have access to the individual. The phone has many uses: vicarious living some of the time, at other times for direct communication, and used as a tool for visual documentation.
Some of the images have been altered by the artist, embellishing the narrative. There is a play between the realities existing, the reality seen by the artist, the reality sent as communications, and the reality received.
Opening hours Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm

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PRESENCE | Sheila Mac Nally at The Pigyard Gallery

PRESENCE | Sheila Mac Nally at The Pigyard Gallery

20/08/2026 - 12/09/2026
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Pigyard Gallery
13 Selskar Street, Wexford, Wexford, Southeast

Exhibition continues from 20/08/26.

PRESENCE: An exhibition of original oil paintings made directly from the source of inspiration.
Working directly from life brings an immediacy and freshness to my paintings. The title refers both to the physical presence of my subject matter and to my need to be fully present and engaged in that moment of creative flow.

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Earth Solace & Blight | John Noel Smith at the LAB Gallery

Earth Solace & Blight | John Noel Smith at the LAB Gallery

20/08/2026 - 19/09/2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
The LAB Gallery
Foley Street, Dublin 1, Dublin

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

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

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

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Event | GUGGI Screenings at the IFI

Event | GUGGI Screenings at the IFI

28/08/2026 - 04/09/2026
IFI
6 Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin

Three years in the making, and after an incredible festival journey, we are delighted to finally bring GUGGI to cinemas in Ireland from next Friday, August 28th.

We kick things off with a special premiere screening at the IFI at 6.30pm, followed by a Q&A. I can’t wait to see everyone there.

A huge thank you to our Ireland and UK distributors Wildcard Films and to Screen Ireland for all their support in helping us bring the film to the big screen.

GUGGI – in select cinemas from August 28th.

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Refractions | Ioana Petcu-Colan at The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre

Refractions | Ioana Petcu-Colan at The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre

31/08/2026 - 04/10/2026
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre
Naul, Co Dublin, Co Dublin, K32 AY27, Dublin

Exhibition runs from 17/08/26-04/10/26.

Well known to Irish audiences as violinist, collaborator, educator and Leader of The Ulster Orchestra, Ioana Petcu-Colan’s creative curiousity has opened new doors in recent years. An emerging visual artist, her drawing has featured in exhibitions including both the RUA Belfast and RHA Dublin Annual Exhibition, online and in print.

Refractions invited viewers to experience one sense through another, reframing music as visual art in a collection of memories and references from Ioana’s life as a professional musician.

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