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12th April 2026
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Featured Listing
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Exhibitions & Events - Connaught
 | Date: 17/04/2026 - 29/05/2026
Location: Belmullet, Áras Inis Gluaire A Group Exhibition by Artists: Colleen Fitzpatrick, Maria Laffey & Linda Proudfoot “Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu We are all rooted in Mother Nature but look to the sky where we dream of flying on the wild wind. This exhibition is a celebration of the vastness, beauty and vulnerability of nature in these uncertain times. If we slow down and tune into nature we learn so much. We live in an age of soundbites and instant gratification. Art can point us to the world and help us to see things we don’t usually notice, such as the pace and beauty of the natural environment. | Read more →
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 | Date: 16/04/2026 - 24/05/2026
Location: Westport, Custom House Studios + Gallery Tanawin is a solo exhibition by Vivian Hansbury, an Irish artist from Co.Offaly, who resides in Dublin. Her work relates to her experience growing up in the midlands near the bogs in Co. Offaly, her drawings are the embodiment of memories and experiences, inextricably aligned with the physical & cultural landscape of the boglands. She creates site-specific installation works that are informed by their surroundings. She graduated from the University of Ulster,with a MA in Fine Art in 2000. She teaches sculpture, drawing & bronze casting at the Centre for Continuing Education in NCAD. Image: Tanawin, Willow Withies, Jesmonite & Turf Castings | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Leinster
 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 31/05/2026
Location: Naul, The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre Exhibition continues from 07/04/2026 to 31/05/2026. We are delighted to have Daniel Chester exhibit in our Easter Snow Gallery. Daniel is a visual artist based in County Leitrim. His exhibition "Bog To Bloom" is a body of paintings that are inspired by the landscapes of rural Leitrim, Fermanagh, Sligo and Donegal. The Artist invites viewers into these spaces to engage with the works. The artist is highly influenced by the ecology of these wetlands and how they are vital carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots, yet, these places are often undervalued and threatened. This exhibition can be viewed in full online at www.tseac.ie or at our gallery. | Read more →
 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 17/04/2026
Location: Dublin 8, NCAD Gallery Exhibition continues from 20/03/2026 to 17/04/2026. RESEARCHER - PRACTITIONERS / EXHIBITORS Áine Byrne | Michelle Browne | John Conway | Niall Cullen | Yvonne Cullivan | Janine Davidson | Neil Dunne | Sarah Durcan | Emma Finucane | Mary A Fitzgerald | Rory Hanrahan | Vivian Hansbury | Catherine Harty | Ramon Kassam | Anne Kelly | Gareth Kennedy | Emma Mahony | Jamie Murphy | Kathy Mooney | Tom O'Dea | Rónán Ó Raghallaigh | Jye O'Sullivan & Renato Pera | Seoidín O'Sullivan | David Timmons | Rachel Tuffy | Fiona Whelan | Aoife Ward & Eve Woods. | Read more →
 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 19/04/2026
Location: Dublin, International Centre for the Image Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 19/04/2026.Scannán Glas is an exhibition and screening programme exploring ecology, nature, and our relationship with the nonhuman world through experimental film and moving image. The programme features works by Irish artists Sarah Browne and Laura McMorrow, alongside Mexican artist Elena Pardo. The exhibition also includes an installation of work created during community workshops held at Mud Island Community Garden.Scannán Glas highlights artists working with experimental film practices that engage with environmental awareness, observation, and ecological thinking. Explore the full programme at image.museum | Read more →
 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 19/04/2026
Location: Dublin, International Centre for the Image Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 19/04/2026. Still Looking presents new works by Ciara Richardson, Conn McCarrick, Evanna Devine, Finbar Flanagan, and Jake Hughes to mark the conclusion of their cycle of participation in PhotoIreland’s annual RADAR programme. Still Looking is a testament to the artists’ devotion to their practice, and the new works presented signal a deepening in their critical enquiry. It is with delight that PhotoIreland presents them at the International Centre for the Image in the context of the Five Arts Lamps Festival. RADAR is a year-long residency programme for recent graduates of any Photography and Visual Arts degree on the island of Ireland. | Read more →
 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 09/05/2026
Location: Dublin, Green On Red Gallery Exhibition continues from 11/04/2026 to 09/05/2026. Wandering Star is a reference to the physics of light and celestial mechanics, and also a nod to an artistic journey over the decades through the indeterminacy of painting. Joyce uses an arc motif, an elemental unit of human invention and expression, with oblique reference to early human structures, manuscripts and notations, or, as the artist likes to say, ‘stuff holding stuff up’. From a rhythmic and mechanical foundation, a bending of the light, familiar, like the Rings of Saturn, or the passing lights on the nearby orbital motorway, errors accumulate, an entropic unspooling, fragmenting towards chaos and disorder. | Read more →
 | Date: 13/04/2026
Location: Dublin, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Explore the current exhibition Lunula by Lucy Stein through slowing down to look at the artworks and experiment with mark making. This informal conversation-based tour explores how we experience the art and how it makes us feel. Through giving extended time to look at a selection of artworks, the tour allows for a mindful space to experience and connect the art. There will be time after to consider the work further through experimenting with mark making and colour. Booking required. | Read more →
 | Date: 16/04/2026 - 19/04/2026
Location: Dublin, International Centre for the Image PhotoIreland presents the return of the Tsundoku Art Book Fair, hosted for the first time at the International Centre for the Image, with a programme of events for all audiences. Tsundoku Art Book Fair returns with a programme of events running 17–19 April at the International Centre for the Image. During the weekend, visitors can enjoy publications from 79 publishers from around the world. There are several events accompanying the fair, from book launches to workshops, free and paid, for everyone to enjoy. Running in parallel, the Centre presents a series of exhibitions and screenings coinciding with the Five Lamps Arts festival. | Read more →
| | Date: 16/04/2026 - 15/05/2026
Location: 59 South William Street, SO Fine Art Editions Following the success of Art Evolve, we are delighted to announce What Happens Next, a compelling new group exhibition bringing together a dynamic selection of contemporary artists. | Read more →
 | Date: 16/04/2026
Location: Dublin, TU Dublin Grangegorman We welcome colleagues, students, industry partners, policy makers, and members of the wider community to what promises to be a stimulating lecture entitled: Real (talk) > True (talk): Making space for making presented by Dr. Rilla Khaled Date: Thursday, 16th April, 2026 Time: 3pm - 4:30pm Venue: The Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman, Dublin 7 Registration: Free - All welcome | Read more →
 | Date: 17/04/2026
Location: Thomas St, NCAD Basic Space is delighted to present Chloe McDonagh, in conversation with Basic Space Co-Director Laura Harvey-Graham for our April BASIC TALK - 1pm on Friday the 17th of April 2026, NCAD. Basic Talks is a series of talks with contemporary practitioners, curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery. Book free tickets: https://www.basicspace.ie/projects-basictalks/2026chloemcdonagh | Read more →
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 | Date: 18/04/2026
Location: Howth, College Lane Gallery The College Lane Gallery presents sticks and mountains and huge lone birds, the first solo exhibition by artist Róise McGagh, curated by Aoife McCloughlin. Exhibition walkthrough with the artist and curator on Saturday 18 April at 2pm. | Read more →
 | Date: 18/04/2026
Location: Dublin, International Centre for the Image Join us for a screening of experimental films by Margaret Tait, Miles McKane, Francien Van Everdingen, Claudio Caldini, Rose Lowder, Jennifer Reeves, Marie Menken, and Nathaniel Dorsky, presented on 16mm projection, alongside super8 films made in a series of collaborative workshops at the Mud Island Community Garden, building on its important social and environmental role within our neighbourhood. Explore the full programme at image.museum Book your free ticket through the link. | Read more →
 | Date: 19/04/2026
Location: Dublin, International Centre for the Image Join us for a live reading event from some of Ireland’s newest and most exciting writers of poetry and prose published in the latest issues of the journal, SWERVE 4 and SWERVE 5 – both available for sale at Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2026. Readers include Emma Conlon, Maurice Devitt, Sean Dunne, Ruth Egan, Christina Hennemann, Janet Heeran, Kemi George Simpson, Ali McGuire, Caitriona Lane, Alan McCormick, and Kevin MacAlan. Explore the full schedule at image.museum Book your free ticket through the link. | Read more →
 | Date: 19/04/2026
Location: Dublin, International Centre for the Image Join the conversation as the speakers share insights into their publishing projects, discussing the challenges and opportunities of reaching audiences locally and internationally. The talk explores the creative ways independent publishers connect with and grow their networks, making this a valuable and inspiring session for anyone interested in independent publishing. Speakers: Molly Henigan, Nathan O’Donnell, Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma, and Yoli Yang Explore the full programme at image.museum Book your free ticket through the link. | Read more →
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 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 26/04/2026
Location: Bray, Signal Arts Centre Signal Arts Centre is proud to host Woven Reflections, a solo-exhibition by textile artist Ann Mechelinck. ‘Woven reflections’ offers the audience a tactile and immersive series of wall-hangings in predominantly green colours creating a calming, soothing atmosphere in the gallery. Each piece is created through the slow and repetitive processes of weaving, crochet and embroidery, that the artist says, allows her the time to reflect, to contemplate and meditate, away from a world that often doesn’t make sense. OPENING: 19TH APRIL 3-5PM | Read more →
 | Date: 16/04/2026
Location: Dublin , Gerard Byrne Gallery As Dublin changes at pace, what do we stand to lose? Amidst Gerard Byrne's new exhibition 'Before I Go. Vanishing Dublin', this panel brings together historians, heritage advocates and cultural voices to explore architecture, memory, and civic identity. Cities grow, shift, and sometimes forget. Heritage can't be built. It can only be inherited, tended to, or betrayed. Donough Cahill of the Irish Georgian Society, Daryl Hendley Rooney of The Little Museum of Dublin, and Arran Henderson of Dublin Decoded, in conversation moderated by historian Donal Fallon of Three Castles Burning. | Read more →
 | Date: 17/04/2026 - 31/07/2026
Location: Stoneyford, Glass Attic Gallery “Of the Earth” – A Three-Person Exhibition at Glass Attic Gallery, Jerpoint Glasss Studios, Kilkenny Of the Earth, a three-person exhibition featuring the paintings of Debra Bowden, Ross Stewart, and Krisztina Rozanich, opening on Friday, April 17th at 6pm at the Glass Attic Gallery, Glenmore, Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny (R95 WN67). The exhibition will be opened by Sue Nunn and runs Monday to Saturday, 10am–5pm. Of the Earth brings together three distinct yet deeply interconnected artistic practices, each grounded in a shared engagement with landscape, material, and the passage of time. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Munster
 | Date: 14/04/2026
Location: Cork, Triskel Arts Centre Artist and art teacher Áine Andrews returns with another series of lectures on Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories. For the sixth installment of this six part lecture series, Áine will focus on Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, by James McNeill Whistler, recounting its history, as well as that of the artist and his story. Whistler's painting of Joanna Hiffernan has a meditative, dreamy appearance. This young Irish woman is depicted in a beautifully painted white dress, with delicate pink flowers, leaning against the mantelpiece in the house she shared with the artist. | Read more →
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 | Date: 17/04/2026 - 08/05/2026
Location: Limerick, The Glen Tavern Press Release; Launching Friday April 17 at 7pm, The Glen Tavern in partnership with F.L.P. (Fun Limerick Productions) present Seomra Comhrá, a new Visual Art experience in the city. Combining the convivial setting of the traditional Irish Public House and the imagination of artists, Seomra Comhrá (Conversation Room) is a new way of encouraging chat and bringing art into the public realm. First up is Tim O’Neil, a Limerick based artist working from Wickham St. Studios. His practice spans collage, installation, and drawing. Seomra Comhrá artists are Tim O’Neill (April 17-May 8), Melanie O’Rourke (May 8-29), and Dan Scully (May 29-June 18). | Read more →
 | Date: 18/04/2026 - 20/06/2026
Location: Limerick, Ormston House Ormston House presents 'Memory of a Free Festival'. The exhibition will run from 18 April until 20 June 2026. Memory of a Free Festival is a touring exhibition and events programme taking place between March 2026 to March 2027. Conceived by Ormston House, the project responds to the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear festivals that took place in Wexford between 1978 and 1981. Featuring works by Orla Barry, Brian Duggan, Alanna O’Kelly, and Cóilín O’Connell. Further information available here: https://ormstonhouse.com/programme/memory-of-a-free-festival/ | Read more →
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 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 16/05/2026
Location: Clonmel, linn gallery Changing Natures: A Celebration of Artistic Alchemy and Organic Transformation by Katie Byrne, Annie Hogg and Louise Wilde. The exhibition celebrates the artist as an alchemist. It explores the art of transformation, where natural elements are given new narratives. It examines the power of art to breathe new life into that which might otherwise fade or be forgotten. The artists work with wood, water, flowers and other organic materials. Through their craft and creative vision, they turn these materials into something beautiful and lasting. They give permanence to the fragile and bring life to the raw, inviting us to view them in new light. | Read more →
 | Date: 17/04/2026 - 19/04/2026
Location: Killarney, Killarney House In this exhibition Scairt an Dúchais, which is part of the Wander Wild Festival, Micheál presents a curated selection of his archival work alongside previously unseen photographic images. Micheál does not merely document the landscape; he interprets it, using light, shadow, and classic composition to transform his natural environment into emotive works of art. His Internationally recognised photographic work is driven by a deep-seated passion for the craft of photography and a lifelong connection to Killarney and beautiful Irish landscapes. | Read more →
 | Date: 17/04/2026 - 31/05/2026
Location: Ennistymon, The Courthouse Gallery Vestiges brings together 2 practices that ask how we live with what remains—traces of place, labour, & memory,& the ongoing work of belonging. Through sculpture, text, performance & printmaking, the exhibition reflects on infrastructures, both physical and psychological, that shape identity & connection within a continually shifting landscape. O’Shea presents a deconstructed modular home examining housing precarity, instability, and creative labour. Galvin’s Flow draws on walks along the River Dodder, using expanded printmaking and community engagement to map environmental change, memory, and belonging. | Read more →
 | Date: 18/04/2026 - 20/06/2026
Location: Clonmel, South Tipperary Arts Centre Opening reception - Friday 17th April, 6 – 8pm. This exhibition will be opened by artist Alice Maher, and accompanied by a newly commissioned essay by Catherine Marshal, curator and art historian. April 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of STAC. This group exhibition ‘STAC at 30’ will showcase contemporary work from our national collections, including Alice Maher, Aideen Barry, John Burke, Patricia Hurl, Austin McQuinn, Ursula Burke, Sheenagh Geoghegan and Bridget O’Gorman. ‘STAC at 30’ is the first exhibition of a yearlong programme that focuses on the wonderful artists and work that continues to come out of the region. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Northern Ireland
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Exhibitions & Events - Rest of Ulster
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Exhibitions & Events - Other
 | Date: 13/04/2026 - 12/06/2026
Location: n/a, Online Exhibition continues from 12/04/2026 to 12/06/2026. At the Edge of Place brings together a body of paintings shaped by Carey’s time spent in Canada, especially Alberta. Informed by memory, weather, and scale, these works are not descriptive records of place, but painterly responses to atmosphere, distance, and the emotional residue of lived experience. Developed through a period of change, the paintings draw on moments that remained with the artist long after he had left them. Mountains, snow, water, light, and small human traces become vehicles for exploring awe, stillness, and psychological weather. | Read more →
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