Announcing the second series of STAC Talks. This time, in connection with Coracle, STAC’s current exhibition celebrating the work of Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn.

Whether you’re a longtime admirer of Cutts and Van Horn’s work or new to the world of small press and artists publishing, this is a rare opportunity to hear from practitioners at the heart of the field.

SCHEDULE
11am – 12.30pm: In-conversation with Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn + Q&A

2pm – 3.30pm: Panel discussion with Sean Lynch (Artist & Askeaton Contemporary Arts), Gustavo Grandal Montero (Library Collections, TATE, London) and Sarah Long (artist and writer) + Q&A

Join artist Éadaoin Glynn and curator Kim Crowley for an in-person conversation exploring the ideas and processes behind the exhibition The Slow Moon Climbs. They will discuss Glynn’s research and her physical approach to painting while touching on subjects such as identity, midlife and the cultural invisibility imposed on women as they age. They will explore what it might mean to make space for an understanding of female midlife, positioning it as a threshold for possibility and transformation.

To register, click here.

BARE is an intimate immersive encounter with human exhibits. Audiences may observe, ask questions or enter into conversation. Performers are nude.

Four separate one-hour sessions at 4pm, 5pm, 7pm and 8pm EACH day; 10 audience places per session.

Tickets €10 plus €0.25 online booking fee. Over 16s only; ID required. Also runs 24–25 October, 7–8 and 14–15 November 2026.

For more information and to book, click here.

Join artist Rayleen Clancy for Artist Talk on Friday, 16th October at 3PM. 

Discover more about Rayleen Clancy’s practice and the ideas behind her current exhibition ‘Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair’. The conversation will be followed by a short walkthrough of the exhibition, giving visitors an opportunity to look more closely at the works and learn more about Rayleen’s approach.

No booking required | All welcome.

FREE EVENT

Exhibition runs from  3 – 31 October.
Gallery opens daily, 11am–5pm, closed on Sundays and Mondays. Free entry.

Opening day: Saturday 19th September 11am. 

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

For this new body of work, stone sculptor Martin Lyttle draws on the ancient image of the cornucopia — the horn of plenty — as a starting point for exploring abundance, consumption and our relationship with the natural world.
Working in local stone and most usually from off-cuts and waste material, Lyttle has created a series of elegant hand-carved sculptures inspired by seeds, fruits, nuts and pods. These familiar forms, gathered from the natural world, are transformed through stone into objects of contemplation and touch.

Opening 3 pm Saturday 12 Sept, 2026 – All Welcome

Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm (or by appointment )

Macalla Taoide
September 28th to October 17th

Launch :Thursday October 1st 6.30 pm

An Exhibition by Verona Stellet and Carol Kennedy

Through printmaking, sculpture and photography “Macalla Taoide” explores Ireland’s coastal landscapes candour ever evolving relationship with the sea.

Inspired by research trips along the Irish coastline artists Verona Stellet and Carol Kennedy reflect on themes of environment, memory, pollution and change, bringing together two distinct artistic voices in a thoughtful dialogue shaped by shared experiences of place.

Join artist Éadaoin Glynn and curator Kim Crowley for an in-person conversation exploring the ideas and processes behind the exhibition The Slow Moon Climbs. They will discuss Glynn’s research and her physical approach to painting while touching on subjects such as identity, midlife and the cultural invisibility imposed on women as they age. They will explore what it might mean to make space for an understanding of female midlife, positioning it as a threshold for possibility and transformation.

To register, click here.

You are invited to the opening of Strategies (of simultaneous presence and invisibility) Sat 26th Sep 6-8pm. the final installment of Laurie Legrand’s research on the delicate balance of standing one’s ground in times when protection and rights are “given” as quickly as they are “taken away”, and personal data is routinely taken for ransom.
Through painting, writing and installation, the exhibition interweaves Effaced portraits, Codified mark making, and figures shining their light, spilling their sacred findings, creating a feeling of reverence conveyed by the vulnerability of this act. Supported by Galway County Council Arts Office.

Announcing the second series of STAC Talks. This time, in connection with Coracle, STAC’s current exhibition celebrating the work of Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn.

Whether you’re a longtime admirer of Cutts and Van Horn’s work or new to the world of small press and artists publishing, this is a rare opportunity to hear from practitioners at the heart of the field.

SCHEDULE
11am – 12.30pm: In-conversation with Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn + Q&A

2pm – 3.30pm: Panel discussion with Sean Lynch (Artist & Askeaton Contemporary Arts), Gustavo Grandal Montero (Library Collections, TATE, London) and Sarah Long (artist and writer) + Q&A

BARE is an intimate immersive encounter with human exhibits. Audiences may observe, ask questions or enter into conversation. Performers are nude.

Four separate one-hour sessions at 4pm, 5pm, 7pm and 8pm EACH day; 10 audience places per session.

Tickets €10 plus €0.25 online booking fee. Over 16s only; ID required. Also runs 24–25 October, 7–8 and 14–15 November 2026.

For more information and to book, click here.

Limerick 9 & 16 September

Online 22 & 23 October

Free, registration required.

We are delighted to announce the return of New Life Old Buildings, our national programme exploring how caring for the buildings we already have can help shape more connected, sustainable and resilient places.

New Life Old Buildings brings people together to rethink vacant and underused buildings as spaces for connection, creativity and everyday life. Through shared learning and local action, the programme is helping to build a culture of care that values existing places as vital foundations for thriving, sustainable communities.

For more information and to register, click here.

Exhibition continues from 24/09/26.

For the 2026 Burren Annual, Burren College of Art presents Original Copy: Mushrooms, Megaliths and Maculate Monuments. The exhibition features Riccardo Carbone and John Strutton’s Original Copy in collaboration with John Cage, George Shaw and Marissa Stoffer. Through sound, performance, film and installation, the artists explore place, ritual, chance and ecology including a new response to Cage’s Mushroom Book works, loaned by Limerick City Gallery of Art. Supported by Clare Arts and Limerick Arts Office. The Burren Annual series of exhibitions brings Irish and international artists to the Burren to engage local and visiting audiences.

Exhibition runs 19/09/26-24/10/26.

Sister Weather is the latest instalment in The Glenkeen Variations exhibition series at the Goethe-Institut in Dublin. The exhibition brings together artists Susanne Bürner, Ines Kaag, Annette Kelm and Alexandra Leykauf in the Return Gallery at Goethe-Institut Irland. Drawing on their shared experience of Glenkeen Garden in West Cork, they transform the exhibition space into a car boot sale inspired by the Irish market tradition as a place of encounter, exchange and storytelling. Through photography, sculpture, video and installation, the exhibition interweaves observations of landscape, weather and everyday culture.

Sarah Long is an artist based in Cork. She creates autofiction that she translates across painting, performance and publication. Sarah identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these references with personal stories and motifs.

During this exhibition and residency in Triskel Sample Project Space, Sarah takes up the position of the girl or girlishness, to obfuscate archetypes such as woman or mother. Through her character Mary, Sarah engages in an autofictionalised approach. She will develop a new body of autofictional writing into a new performance.

Shortt’s paintings explore an underwater world where observation and imagination mingle. Her collaboration with Bantry Marine Research Station and her exploration of the wild kelp forests of West Cork draw on scientific research and encounters with the marine environment. Inspired by wildness and abundance, the paintings evoke a luminous world just out of reach, offering glimpses of the richness and possibility held within these marine environments, probing biodiversity, belonging, deep time and future long time. Preview by Dr Julie Maguire of Bantry Marine Research Station, 12–2pm, 26 September; thereafter Wed–Sun 12–5pm. Free entry.

Exhibition continues from 04/09/26-30/10/26.

LHQ Gallery is pleased to present thirty 6-inch top-down all-purpose, a new solo exhibition by artist Maitiú MacCárthaigh, exploring the shifting realities of contemporary rural Ireland through sculpture, installation and material experimentation. This exhibition coincides with Mac Cárthaigh’s exhibition hay boy, gay boy at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery, opening on 10 September. thirty 6-inch top-down all-purpose will open at LHQ Gallery on 4 September at 5pm all are welcome. The exhibition runs until 30 October. LHQ Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am – 5.30pm except for public holidays. 

Tralee Art Group (TAG) is delighted to return to Siamsa Tíre with Draíocht, an exhibition celebrating the enchantment found in everyday life, people, places and landscapes. Through a diverse collection of artworks, TAG artists explore the beauty, wonder and inspiration that surround us, from the dramatic Kerry landscape to moments of colour and imagination

Founded in 1979, Tralee Art Group has supported and promoted visual arts in Kerry for over four decades. With more than 55 members, the group brings together artists of varying styles, interests and experience, fostering creativity through exhibitions, workshops and community engagement.

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.

Sarah Long is an artist based in Cork. She creates autofiction that she translates across painting, performance and publication. Sarah identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these references with personal stories and motifs.

During this exhibition and residency in Triskel Sample Project Space, Sarah takes up the position of the girl or girlishness, to obfuscate archetypes such as woman or mother. Through her character Mary, Sarah engages in an autofictionalised approach. She will develop a new body of autofictional writing into a new performance.

Exhibition continues from 04/09/26-30/10/26.

LHQ Gallery is pleased to present thirty 6-inch top-down all-purpose, a new solo exhibition by artist Maitiú MacCárthaigh, exploring the shifting realities of contemporary rural Ireland through sculpture, installation and material experimentation. This exhibition coincides with Mac Cárthaigh’s exhibition hay boy, gay boy at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery, opening on 10 September. thirty 6-inch top-down all-purpose will open at LHQ Gallery on 4 September at 5pm all are welcome. The exhibition runs until 30 October. LHQ Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am – 5.30pm except for public holidays. 

Limerick 9 & 16 September

Online 22 & 23 October

Free, registration required.

We are delighted to announce the return of New Life Old Buildings, our national programme exploring how caring for the buildings we already have can help shape more connected, sustainable and resilient places.

New Life Old Buildings brings people together to rethink vacant and underused buildings as spaces for connection, creativity and everyday life. Through shared learning and local action, the programme is helping to build a culture of care that values existing places as vital foundations for thriving, sustainable communities.

For more information and to register, click here.

For this new body of work, stone sculptor Martin Lyttle draws on the ancient image of the cornucopia — the horn of plenty — as a starting point for exploring abundance, consumption and our relationship with the natural world.
Working in local stone and most usually from off-cuts and waste material, Lyttle has created a series of elegant hand-carved sculptures inspired by seeds, fruits, nuts and pods. These familiar forms, gathered from the natural world, are transformed through stone into objects of contemplation and touch.

Opening 3 pm Saturday 12 Sept, 2026 – All Welcome

Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm (or by appointment )

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

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

Opening day: Saturday 19th September 11am. 

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

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

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

Exhibition runs 19/09/26-24/10/26.

Sister Weather is the latest instalment in The Glenkeen Variations exhibition series at the Goethe-Institut in Dublin. The exhibition brings together artists Susanne Bürner, Ines Kaag, Annette Kelm and Alexandra Leykauf in the Return Gallery at Goethe-Institut Irland. Drawing on their shared experience of Glenkeen Garden in West Cork, they transform the exhibition space into a car boot sale inspired by the Irish market tradition as a place of encounter, exchange and storytelling. Through photography, sculpture, video and installation, the exhibition interweaves observations of landscape, weather and everyday culture.

You are invited to the opening of Strategies (of simultaneous presence and invisibility) Sat 26th Sep 6-8pm. the final installment of Laurie Legrand’s research on the delicate balance of standing one’s ground in times when protection and rights are “given” as quickly as they are “taken away”, and personal data is routinely taken for ransom.
Through painting, writing and installation, the exhibition interweaves Effaced portraits, Codified mark making, and figures shining their light, spilling their sacred findings, creating a feeling of reverence conveyed by the vulnerability of this act. Supported by Galway County Council Arts Office.

Leanne McDonagh is an Irish artist from the Traveller community. McDonagh records her community’s life and heritage from an insider perspective, subtly yet vividly capturing its circumstances and experiences. As she puts it, “If somebody else is showing what it is to look like a Traveller, I am showing what it is to feel like a Traveller.” McDonagh’s images portray family meetings, celebrations, scenes of labour and trade, domestic interiors and activities, and public gatherings. They emphasise both the distinct characteristics of Traveller culture and universal aspects of social relations.

Shortt’s paintings explore an underwater world where observation and imagination mingle. Her collaboration with Bantry Marine Research Station and her exploration of the wild kelp forests of West Cork draw on scientific research and encounters with the marine environment. Inspired by wildness and abundance, the paintings evoke a luminous world just out of reach, offering glimpses of the richness and possibility held within these marine environments, probing biodiversity, belonging, deep time and future long time. Preview by Dr Julie Maguire of Bantry Marine Research Station, 12–2pm, 26 September; thereafter Wed–Sun 12–5pm. Free entry.

Macalla Taoide
September 28th to October 17th

Launch :Thursday October 1st 6.30 pm

An Exhibition by Verona Stellet and Carol Kennedy

Through printmaking, sculpture and photography “Macalla Taoide” explores Ireland’s coastal landscapes candour ever evolving relationship with the sea.

Inspired by research trips along the Irish coastline artists Verona Stellet and Carol Kennedy reflect on themes of environment, memory, pollution and change, bringing together two distinct artistic voices in a thoughtful dialogue shaped by shared experiences of place.

Exhibition continues from 24/09/26.

For the 2026 Burren Annual, Burren College of Art presents Original Copy: Mushrooms, Megaliths and Maculate Monuments. The exhibition features Riccardo Carbone and John Strutton’s Original Copy in collaboration with John Cage, George Shaw and Marissa Stoffer. Through sound, performance, film and installation, the artists explore place, ritual, chance and ecology including a new response to Cage’s Mushroom Book works, loaned by Limerick City Gallery of Art. Supported by Clare Arts and Limerick Arts Office. The Burren Annual series of exhibitions brings Irish and international artists to the Burren to engage local and visiting audiences.

Opening reception Thursday 01 October, 5.30-7.30pm. Wine by Bubble Brothers.

Artist talk, Saturday 10 October, 12pm

“I create paintings that explore work and the human experience of working. My artwork focuses on the routines, pressures, and expectations that shape everyday life, often highlighting how work can become repetitive, exhausting, or overwhelming. Alongside this, my paintings include a quieter subplot about the importance of free time. I am interested in the contrast between moments of labour and moments of rest, and how rare and meaningful unstructured time can be.”

Menopause affects half the population yet remains largely absent from visual culture. In this new solo exhibition, painter Éadaoin Glynn explores ageing, visibility and the changing female body. Drawing on an anonymous survey in which women described menopause through images and phrases: “drowning, adrift, grief, rage; but also “metamorphosis, rebirth, freedom”. Glynn responds with paint, allowing it to bleed, pool and leave tidemarks on canvas. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with texts by critic Cristín Leach and curator Kim Crowley. Éadaoin Glynn and Kim Crowley will be in-conversation at 1pm on Saturday 17 October.

GOMA Waterford, is pleased to invite you to ‘Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair’, a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary visual artist Rayleen Clancy.
Opening: Saturday 3 October 2026, 6–8PM.

Bringing together stained glass, moving image, sculpture, costume, light and sound, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a luminous, handmade world of altered furniture, hybrid beings and hidden habitats. Drawing on Irish folklore, coastal caves, ecological thinking and feminist storytelling, Clancy reimagines the Grúagach — a shapeshifting “hairy woman” — as a guardian of wild wisdom, care and transformation.

Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney is delighted to present Wild Irish Plants in Autumn, an exhibition by Sheelagh Keane.

Sheelagh grew up in County Clare and has always loved the wild flowers – particularly on the Loop Head peninsula in summer, when the light makes the flowers glow. She aims to have her work rooted in close observation of the natural world. Her botanical paintings combine botanical illustration with a sensitive approach to colour, form and detail, celebrating the beauty of native plants, fruits and flowers.

Tralee Art Group (TAG) is delighted to return to Siamsa Tíre with Draíocht, an exhibition celebrating the enchantment found in everyday life, people, places and landscapes. Through a diverse collection of artworks, TAG artists explore the beauty, wonder and inspiration that surround us, from the dramatic Kerry landscape to moments of colour and imagination

Founded in 1979, Tralee Art Group has supported and promoted visual arts in Kerry for over four decades. With more than 55 members, the group brings together artists of varying styles, interests and experience, fostering creativity through exhibitions, workshops and community engagement.

Exhibition runs 09/10/26-21/11/26.

Transmissions opens at The Courthouse Gallery & Studios with Beth Fox’s Grateful Patients, an experimental two-channel film installation examining belief, trust and misinformation. Bringing contemporary wellness disinformation into conversation with the story of a nineteenth-century medical charlatan, Fox explores how comforting narratives persist, and how technology, media and mediated identities influence behaviour, culture and our sense of what is real. From 9 October 2026, Ennistymon.

Róisín is a new exhibition by Elinor O’Donovan exploring the life of her ancestor Charlotte Grace O’Brien (1845–1909), a writer and campaigner who advocated for Irish women emigrating to America. Through film, archival material and installation, O’Donovan traces O’Brien’s journeys between Ireland and New York and explores connections between migration, women, ecology and Irish national identity. The exhibition culminates O’Donovan’s Sample-Studios Spike Island Summer Residency, delivered with Spike Island and Sirius Arts Centre.

Creative Places Shannon and Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum are delighted to present the exhibition “Museum of Self” by students at St. Aidan’s National School, Shannon. This project was funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport. Creative Places Shannon commissioned artist Ana Colomer to work with the students to create mini museums. The students had an informative session with John Rattigan, Curator of Clare County Museum, and Carole Glynn from the Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society, before working with Ana to create mini museums representing themselves, their loved ones and their lives.

Flesh and Stone brings together Vanessa Jones, Margaret Fitzgibbon and Edwina Bracken at The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Ennistymon. Across painting, sculpture, drawing and mixed media, the exhibition explores feminine identity, embodied memory and the connections between body, landscape and the built world. From self-portraiture and Surrealist influences to ancient field systems and digital networks, these three practices ask what endures, what is passed on and how meaning is remade amid social and ecological change.

Join artist Rayleen Clancy for Artist Talk on Friday, 16th October at 3PM. 

Discover more about Rayleen Clancy’s practice and the ideas behind her current exhibition ‘Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair’. The conversation will be followed by a short walkthrough of the exhibition, giving visitors an opportunity to look more closely at the works and learn more about Rayleen’s approach.

No booking required | All welcome.

FREE EVENT

Exhibition runs from  3 – 31 October.
Gallery opens daily, 11am–5pm, closed on Sundays and Mondays. Free entry.