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5th April 2026
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Featured Listing
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Exhibitions & Events - Connaught
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 | Date: 10/04/2026
Location: Galway, Nun's Island Theatre SYNAESTHESIA is an immersive, Irish-language theatre experience that follows a single thread of thought as it weaves through music, painting, and light. Over the course of one hour, audiences are invited into a living, breathing canvas where ceremonial instruments are played live alongside synths, larger-than-life paintings unfold before your eyes, and interactive projections blur the boundary between electronic and organic creation. SYNAESTHESIA gently draws you beyond the surface of the senses. No Irish is required to attend. A full translation will be provided to every guest at the beginning of the show. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Leinster
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 | Date: 06/04/2026 - 12/04/2026
Location: Bray, Signal Arts Centre Exhibition continues from 30/03/2026 to 12/04/2026. Established in 2001, the Signal Arts Society has long been a cornerstone of the local arts community. This annual exhibition stands as a vibrant testament to its mission: to support, connect, and celebrate artists at all stages of their creative journey. Visitors can expect a rich and varied collection of works spanning painting, photography, mixed media, and more—each piece offering a unique perspective and voice. This much-anticipated exhibition brings together over 80 member artists, highlighting the remarkable breadth of talent within the Society. | Read more →
 | Date: 06/04/2026 - 09/05/2026
Location: Drogheda, Highlanes Gallery Exhibition continues from 28/03/2026 to 09/05/2026. A major solo exhibition by internationally recognised photographer Jackie Nickerson, Stateside draws on a decade of travel across the United States. Through layered photographic compositions, the exhibition explores patterns of sameness across different American landscapes, offering a nuanced reflection on the systems that shape everyday life. | Read more →
 | Date: 11/04/2026 - 25/04/2026
Location: Dundalk, An Táin Arts Centre Dundalk Photographic Society were formed in 1979. From the start the Society has been affiliated to the Irish Photographic Federation (IPF) and has taken part in and indeed hosted many regional and national events. Dundalk Photographic Society have published a limited edition book entitled “Dundalk Photographic Society, Celebrating 40 Years: The Art of Photography” in November of that year. The book featured over 200 images from members of the club. Image:David Martin, Titled ‘Kylemore Tree’, winner of last year’s exhibition and DPS’s image of the year. | Read more →
 | Date: 11/04/2026 - 06/06/2026
Location: Navan, Solstice Arts Centre Boy Dancer is a Solstice commissioned collaboration between poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin and artist Niamh McCann. Blending poetry, drawing, sound and sculpture. It reflects on grief, ritual and remembrance, inspired by Ní Churreáin’s foster brother. Accompanying the exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre is hosting an opening event on April 11th at 2.30 PM, a special public conversation featuring Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Niamh McCann, and poet and critic Gerard Smyth. This event offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from the collaborators about the creative process behind Boy Dancer. | Read more →
 | Date: 11/04/2026
Location: Kilkenny, Tea Houses The Tea Houses is delighted to invite you to the launch of 'BERNADETTE KIELY: We look at the world once... Selected Works and Words 2015–2025'. This beautiful book will be officially launched by Dr. Ciara Healy, Head of Fine Art and Education at Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), Technological University of the Shannon. Join us for a few words from Dr. Healy, further excerpts read from the book and light refreshments. Signed copies of the book will be available for sale throughout the afternoon. Supported by Kilkenny Arts Office and Kilkenny County Council. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Munster
 | Date: 07/04/2026
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 fifth installment of this six part lecture series, Áine will focus on Self Portrait, by Gwen John, recounting its history, as well as that of the artist and her story. With her hair parted in the middle the artist’s gaze is direct but withdrawn as if holding the secret of her inner life intact. The painting glows from within like a dark room lit only by firelight. A brown shawl is half-slipping off her shoulders: a brilliant device that adds movement. | Read more →
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 | Date: 11/04/2026 - 24/04/2026
Location: Ballyvaughan, Burren College of Art MFA Graduate Exhibition Elana Morchower Karen St Pierre Sarah Vandermeer April 11-24, 2026 Opening Reception | April 11 | 6:00-8:00pm Opening Remarks at 6:45 by Ruby Wallis Through diverse mediums, (UN)EARTHED: through air, tied to each other explores ideas of nonlinearity and dreamspaces in a world marked by environmental change, displacement, and eroding certainties. With disorientation as an underlying theme, these artists suggest that entanglement is found not in fixed roots, but in the shared exposure of continuous (un)earthing. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Northern Ireland
 | Date: 10/04/2026 - 11/04/2026
Location: Belfast, Ulster Museum A special two-day seminar at Belfast's Ulster Museum brings together a range of contributors to the Recording History oral history project focusing on independent film in the north of Ireland from 1968. The event will include screenings and panel discussions among filmmakers, researchers and project advisors. 10 Apr 2026 / 2pm–6.30pm 11 Apr 2026 / 11am–5pm Admission free, book online at imma.ie | Read more →
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 | Date: 11/04/2026 - 08/05/2026
Location: Lisburn, R-Space Gallery Presenting composer Matthew Whiteside’s immersive sound installation responding to the Wallace Collection - through its archives as much as its objects, tracing the systems of labour, wealth, and administration that sit beneath the museum’s refinement. The piece turns attention towards those largely absent from its narratives: the workers whose labour underpinned the wealth from which such collections emerged. In bringing together the language of record-keeping with the machinery of production, we invite audiences to listen to what has been seen as significant enough to preserve, and notice what has been excluded from those records. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Rest of Ulster
 | Date: 09/04/2026 - 30/04/2026
Location: Bailieborough, Bailieborough Library An Act of Madness is a collaboration between writer Martin Towey and photographic artist Suella Wynne, inspired by the few details known about his great-grandmother, Bridget Towey (née Flanagan), and her committal to Connaught District Lunatic Asylum in 1914. Suella’s images provide a visual context for the story, exploring Ireland’s history of mental health care, wrongful institutionalisation, and societal attitudes toward postnatal depression and mental illness. The project aims to spark dialogue about how mental health is understood and discussed today, confronting the silence and stigma that have persisted across generations. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Other
 | Date: 07/04/2026 - 09/05/2026
Location: Chicago, Co-Prosperity In April 2026, Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues a growing relationship with the city of Chicago, presenting a series of exhibitions bringing together artist-led activities of the Irish art scene and American Midwest. As part of this initiative Co-Prosperity host Tuneful Places, a group exhibition exploring artists that disrupt and challenge representations of geography, state and capital within an Irish idiom. The participating artists are John Carson, Martin Folan, Max Guy, Léann Herlihy, Niamh Schmidtke, and Frank Wasser. Curated by Michele Horrigan and Sean Lynch Image: John Carson, American Medley, 1981-6 | Read more →
 | Date: 08/04/2026
Location: Chicago, Ireland House Join us at Ireland’s Consulate in downtown Chicago to meet participating artists and guests in Askeaton Contemporary Arts 2026 programme, discussing the key issues and themes in contemporary art and how it is made in Ireland and Chicago today. The event foregrounds three key cultural voices and inspirations for Askeaton Contemporary Arts’ activities, with Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, Mark O’Gorman and Risa Puleo Accompanied by artworks from Stuart Whipps and John Carson. This is a free event, please RSVP in the link provided. Doors open 11.20am with light lunch served Image: Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, Risa Puleo and Mark O’Gorman | Read more →
 | Date: 10/04/2026
Location: Chicago, Patient Info Andy Fitz’s new exhibition continues a recent series of sculptures debuted at VISUAL Carlow, curated by Benjamin Stafford. Unremarkable domestic objects are balanced in precarious abstraction from their usual surroundings, each building on these unresolved tensions; the personal in the political, and the present in light of the past. Memory, like the nature of Fitz’s materials, is mutable; open to use, misuse, interpretation, corruption. Memory failure can be understood as a technological fault but also a human one, prompting one to look again, and again. Part of Askeaton Contemporary Arts' April programme of Irish art in Chicago. | Read more →
 | Date: 11/04/2026
Location: Chicago, GERTIE Curated by Mark O’Gorman in collaboration with Met him pike hoses An exhibition with Locky Morris in dialogue with artist Liz Vitlin and the local Chicago art scene, you see the thing of the thing is is gives form to a sustained and growing conversation between Mark O’Gorman and Julian Van Der Moere, whose exhibition programmes focus on site-specific work and durational conversational approaches with artists. Runs until 24 May Part of Askeaton Contemporary Arts' April programme of Irish art in Chicago. Image: Liz Vitlin, Nobody Knows Me, 2026 | Read more →
 | Date: 11/04/2026
Location: Chicago, Good Weather Seanie Barron makes his North American debut at Good Weather, Chicago. For decades he has carved and shaped wood in his workshop in Askeaton. His creations, made with simple handtools and an intuitive approach, are borne out of his understanding of nature and the environment around him. He roams the countryside looking for the right branch or root to then shape into a walking stick. These often take on surreal forms, with his current work referencing seahorses, dancers, Hollywood films, soccer’s World Cup trophy, Greek myth and wasps, all of which seem to emerge organically and effortlessly from the wood. Runs until June 6. | Read more →
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