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16th August 2026
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Exhibitions & Events - Connaught
 | Date: 22/08/2026 - 19/09/2026
Location: Sligo, Hamilton Gallery Earthly Basin of Attraction is a solo exhibition by Irish artist Rebecca Jobson commissioned for Sligo's Tread Softly Festival. She explores the geographical and metaphysical layers of County Sligo’s 6,000-year-old passage tomb landscape through painting, print, textile, and installation. Jobson frames this ancient region as a literal and spiritual basin that draws in and cradles life. Her work capturing themes of deep time, lore and life rooted in the land for millennia. An internationally exhibiting artist, her work is held in public and private collections in Europe and the USA. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Leinster
 | Date: 18/08/2026
Location: Dublin, The Douglas Hyde Gallery Artist Holly Pickering leads an audio described tour of the current exhibition Matters of time. While made with Blind and partially sighted visitors in mind, the tour is open to everyone. Booking is free, and more information can be found here. | Read more →
 | Date: 20/08/2026 - 19/09/2026
Location: Dublin, The LAB Gallery 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. | Read more →
 | Date: 20/08/2026
Location: Dundrum, dlr Mill Theatre Explore landscape, memory and place with artist Liz Johnson through the paintings in her current exhibition A Sense of Place. Followed by tea, coffee and an informal gallery conversation. A Sense of Place by Liz Johnson runs at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery from 17th June - 5th September. For more information and to register for a free ticket, click here. | Read more →
 | Date: 22/08/2026 - 23/08/2026
Location: Dublin, Leopardstown Racecourse Dublin Maker returns to Leopardstown Racecourse this Summer – Join us on the 22nd and 23rd of August for a free, family-friendly celebration of creativity, invention, and hands-on fun. With over 70+ maker stands, 15+ large-scale outdoor exhibits, and a jam-packed schedule of interactive workshops, there’s something for everyone - whether you're a curious kid, an experienced hobbyist, or just looking for an inspiring day out. To register for a ticket, click here. | Read more →
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 | Date: 22/08/2026
Location: Wexford, Sleedagh, Wexford As part of August Craft Month I am running an introduction to Pâte de Verre, French meaning paste of glass. A technique that came to a fame in the art deco period and used by the renown Lalique. This is a great first taste of this fascinating process of working with glass powders to create a small but beautiful bowl. We will cover the basics of mould making, preparing the glass, packing the moulds and firing your work. A great overview of the process condensed into a one day. The workshop will run from 9:30am to 5pm. Lunch and all materials are included.Complete beginners welcome! For more information and to book, click here. | Read more →
 | Date: 22/08/2026
Location: Athlone, Luan Gallery Join exhibiting artist Samir Mahmood in conversation with Luan Gallery Curator Aoife Banks. Moving through Mahmood’s solo exhibition States, Stations, the conversation will explore the ideas, materials and processes that inform his practice, offering insight into the exhibition’s conceptual framework and the relationships between the individual works. Together, artist and curator will consider themes of perception, consciousness, materiality and embodied experience. This event is free to attend and suitable for all ages. No booking is required. This event is supported by The Arts Council. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Munster
 | Date: 18/08/2026
Location: Cork, Cork City Library Discover what secrets lie beneath the surface of artworks… Join Crawford Art Gallery’s Dr Chiara Chillè, Conservator, and Dr Micheal Waldron, Curator of Collections and Special Projects, this Heritage Week for a rare behind-the-scenes look at the research, technology, and expertise involved in caring for and interpreting Ireland’s National Collection. Because caring for a collection isn’t just about preserving objects—it’s about safeguarding their stories for future generations. Free event, but booking is essential. Reserve your place today. This work is kindly supported by the Heritage Council under the Heritage Stewardship Grant 2026. For more information and to reserve a place, click here. | Read more →
 | Date: 21/08/2026 - 25/09/2026
Location: Cork, Studio 12 Room Innate presents a new body of work by artist Danny Foley, developed through the Backwater Artists Group Moving Image Bursary, awarded to Foley in 2025. This installation explores artistic play as a creative strategy for negotiating the self as shapeshifting, multifaceted, and inherently vulnerable. The show consists of black-and-white paintings on canvas, a stop-motion video, re-edited archival footage from his childhood, and small-scale clay sculptures. Through making, experimentation, and repetition, Foley uses these processes as a way to engage with uncertainty, doubt, and ambiguity rather than seeking to resolve them. | Read more →
 | Date: 22/08/2026
Location: Cork, Cork City Library This National Heritage Week, celebrate Lúnasa with Crawford Art Gallery and artist Seiko Hayase by creating a unique harvest wreath inspired by Irish and Japanese traditions. In this workshop, you'll use the Nanohana Musubi knot, symbolising strong bonds, to create a wreath inspired by Irish Lúnasa harvest knots while learning techniques to make your own Mizuhiki wreaths in the future. This workshop is free to attend but must be booked in advance. All materials provided. For more information and to book, click here. | Read more →
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 | Date: 17/08/2026 - 12/09/2026
Location: Scariff, Edna O'Brien Library 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. | Read more →
 | Date: 17/08/2026 - 12/09/2026
Location: Ennis, Clare Museum Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Clare Museum is delighted to present: Marked: Bodies, Barcodes and Binding an art exhibition by Barry Wrafter.Barry Wrafter is a Clare-based artist and public sculptor. In this exhibition, Wrafter turns his precision at sculpting toward the painted surface, rendering hyper-real, faceless figures, bulbous-headed and stripped of individuality, as if poured from the same anonymous mould. What emerges is less a series of images than a ledger, a quiet, methodical account of what we manufacture when we decide a body is only ever material. | Read more →
 | Date: 20/08/2026 - 09/09/2026
Location: Waterford City, GOMA Waterford GOMA Waterford is delighted to invite you to 'At Night the Hens Stand and Dream', an art exhibition by Niamh Coffey.Official opening: 20th of August, 6-8PM. Free Entry, all welcome! In this exhibition, forms of flesh, fur, flower and feather mingle and merge. Subjects create symbiotic and antagonistic relationships, exhibit absurd actions and explore neoteric habits together. This work is guided by the concept of queer ecology, which asks us to abandon ideas of human exceptionalism and anthropomorphism and instead asks us to see humans as part of a complex and interwoven system, whose patterns and processes are different from our own. | Read more →
 | Date: 21/08/2026 - 02/10/2026
Location: Ennistymon, The Courthouse Gallery Veiled Realms draws attention to how lived experience can surface indirectly, through trace, interruption, and what remains partially obscured. In a year shaped by questions of endurance and aftermath, Kielt’s work offers a space where images shift, collide, and refuse fixed resolution. Brian invites audiences into visual explorations of trauma, memory, and subjective experience. Alongside the work on canvas, Kielt intends to utilise the space between the works, creating a series of charcoal-based drawings directly on the gallery walls that relate to and /or confront the paintings. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Northern Ireland
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 | Date: 17/08/2026 - 05/09/2026
Location: Newry, Newry City Library Group exhibition with work from local artists. Showing paintings, mixed media, milllinery and felting artworks. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Rest of Ulster
 | Date: 18/08/2026
Location: Milford, Milford Library Enjoy a pop-up exhibition of a coastal community archive of images and recordings of how life was, not so long ago, with a talk from Máire Nic Fhearraigh, community engagement officer with the Machaire Beo / LIFE on Machair conservation project, and Fidelma Maher, coastal ecologist with National Parks and Wildlife Service. Raising awareness of how special and unique our coastal areas are in the West and NorthWest of Ireland. The farming families and communities descended from farming backgrounds are at the heart of our work. Machair grassland which lies behind the sand dunes supports a variety of rare beautiful wildflowers and herbs, essential for the survival of some of our bees, butterflies and moths and supports our breeding wader species of birds. To book your place, email mil...@donegallibrary.ie | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Other
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