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29th March 2026
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Featured Listing
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Exhibitions & Events - Connaught
 | Date: 04/04/2026 - 30/05/2026
Location: Ballina, Ballina Arts Centre Daisy Chains || Data Trails expands on the recurrent theme in Ciara Tuite’s practice ”body memory’. In this exhibition she explores ‘old practices’ and ‘ancient rituals’ which are embedded in our DNA Modern technology can’t replace the act of mark-making, storytelling, dance etc. In our ever-evolving world, the artist uses painting, text and installation as a conduit to ask the question – how can ancient rituals and digital culture walk side by side to promote peace? What if stone skimming, and barefoot walking are a necessity rather than a novelty to thrive in todays world? What if for a moment we swapped the screen for the sky? | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026 - 30/05/2026
Location: Ballina, Ballina Arts Centre ‘Even now there are still places where a thought might grow.‘ – Derek Mahon I wrote the phrase ‘keep the burning world at bay’ in a notebook during a deep sense of uncertainty at the start of the global pandemic and partly as an answer to my young daughter’s worried question when her school closed – ‘Will it be like this forever?’ I didn’t know, bluffing I told her it would be back to ‘normal’ soon. | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026 - 25/04/2026
Location: Sligo, Hamilton Gallery New works, new meditations from one of Ireland’s most outstanding still life artists. Trudie Mooney has the powerful effect of stopping and holding the viewer. Objects are still, the light they are washed in is still; all movement is stilled, giving pause, forcing us to look again at the world through offerings of sublime detail. | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026 - 31/05/2026
Location: Sligo, The Model The Model is delighted to present a major solo exhibition with the artist Tinka Bechert, presenting a ten-year retrospective of her work. Based in the northwest of Ireland for over two decades, Bechert has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of the region. Over the past decade, Bechert’s practice has undergone a significant evolution – moving firmly from figurative painting to a more expansive and experimental abstraction. Her recent work incorporates textiles and sculptural forms, reflecting a deepening exploration of space, materiality, and formal language. | Read more →
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 | Date: 01/04/2026 - 14/04/2026
Location: Galway, Hall of the Red Earl Galway based artist Heather Young has been creating artwork for over 15 years across multiple disciplines. "Unearthed" features a selection of original works and prints that helped shape her original style, allowing us a glimpse into the artist's development in her first solo exhibition. This includes key early works that grounded her attention to intricate details along with a passion for rich depth and contrasts. A playful and sometimes whimsical expression of nature developed over many years along with explorations of the entangled cycles of decay and growth. FREE ADMISSION | Read more →
 | Date: 01/04/2026
Location: Galway, The Portershed Join us for one night for a pop-up exhibition of work by artist Eilis Fanning. Signals End features work from her series of landscape paintings on copper sheet. Exploring the fragmentary borderland infrastructure of open spaces that lie outside the urban and rural, these works draw together themes of isolation, change, transcendence, and a search for connection with the world. 6-8pm. Further viewings of the exhibition can be arranged through the month of April at request. | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026 - 26/04/2026
Location: Galway, 126 Artist-Run Gallery 126 Artist-Run Gallery presents It Felt Like A Dream, a collection of work by Asha Murray. Her work combines experimental film, wool tufted objects, collage and sculpture to explore identity, consumerism and memory in everyday objects. The exhibition traces her progression to date. It opens Saturday April 4 at 6pm with a reception and runs until April 26. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12–6pm. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Leinster
 | Date: 30/03/2026 - 01/04/2026
Location: Dublin, National College of Art & Design CCC: Connecting + Collaborating + Co-Creating – An Open Invitation to Come Together - exploring contemporary Fine Art teaching, research, practice, reflecting on art's role in civic life, critical thinking, and democratic societies. PARADOX Forum 2026 will take account of the exceptional contribution of art education to civic life and education; critical thinking and creative action to democracy of future societies, considering interrelated impacts and potentials of fine art, technologies, cultural and creative industries. | Read more →
 | Date: 30/03/2026 - 10/05/2026
Location: Dublin , Gerard Byrne Gallery Exhibition continues from 27/03/2026 to 10/05/2026. Before I Go: Vanishing Dublin, gathers over fifty characteristically Dublin cityscapes by Gerard Byrne — Georgian terraces, Victorian facades, charming pubs, and beloved corners that continue to define his practice. Working en plein air in both oil and charcoal, Byrne captures architecture and atmosphere in equal measure, incidentally continuing the work of Harry Kernoff and Flora Mitchell, exemplified in her book Vanishing Dublin (1966). 60 years on, he faces the same conviction that what is not recorded is lost forever. Before I go, before you go, I'll make sure someone remembers. | Read more →
 | Date: 31/03/2026 - 03/05/2026
Location: Dublin 2, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Exhibition continues from 13/03/2026 to 03/05/2026. Lucy Stein’s expressive, emotionally and psychologically charged paintings result from what the artist describes as a ‘cosmic symbolic feminist headspace’. Her work has a deep connection to the principles and imagery of goddess culture and mystical esotericism stemming from her studies in psychoanalysis and feminist theory. Iconography from classical mythology, medieval and ecclesiastical illuminations, as well as ancient rites and folkloric illustrations interact on her paintings' amorphous surfaces. | Read more →
 | Date: 02/04/2026 - 26/04/2026
Location: Dublin, Phoenix Park Visitor Center Gallery Feltmakers Ireland presents 'Water and Flow', a group exhibition featuring over 50 members exploring water through felt. From gentle streams to powerful oceans, the show reflects water’s energy, stillness, renewal, and emotional depth—from joy to sorrow. Works include sculpture, wall art, and wearable pieces using diverse felting techniques. Launched by knitwear designer Conor O'Brien on 4 April at 3 PM, the exhibition runs 2–26 April at Phoenix Park Visitor Centre Gallery. Poster artwork: Waterfall by Joanne Turner. | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026
Location: Dublin, International Centre for the Image To mark the end of AS IF at the International Centre for the Image, join photographer Eamonn Doyle, artist-designer Niall Sweeney, and composer David Donohoe in conversation with radio presenter and filmmaker Donal Dineen. The conversation will offer insights into the prolific and exciting process behind the artists’ collaborative work, origins, and influences, with the opportunity for the public to join in the discussion. Free Event - Booking Required | Read more →
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 | Date: 31/03/2026 - 30/04/2026
Location: Wexford, Wexford Arts Centre In 2013, the Living Arts Project was established as an artist-in-residency scheme in primary schools. The aim of the project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art. The exhibition represents a selection of work produced by the participating schools. The artists and schools selected for the 2025-26 programme were Sonya Weston and Kate Tyrrell with Castlebridge NS, Deirdre Meehan-Buttimer and Shannon Jade Wilson with Clonroche NS, David Begley and Hanneke van Ryswyk with Curracloe NS, and Laura Flood and Mayumi Nakabayashi in Scoil Mhaodhóig. | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026 - 27/06/2026
Location: Tullamore, Esker Arts Official opening Saturday 4th April at 3pm by Carmel Duffy, Athlone Arts & Tourism Manager Pause is a body of work by Hilary Kinahan, a visual artist based in the Midlands working from her home studio. The exhibition responds to recent bog fires and their impact on the local landscape, documenting the scorched land through painting and printmaking. Created as a meditative series, the works invite viewers to slow down and reflect. The series includes sonographs of birdsong, signalling renewal and the gradual return of life to the damaged boglands. Runs until Saturday 27th June | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026 - 27/06/2026
Location: Tullamore, Esker Arts Curated by Benjamin Stafford Official Reception Friday 1st May, 2.30pm KCAT is a multi-disciplinary arts centre located in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, supporting inclusive arts practices, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025. Here, things are not easily categorised or separated from each other; common songbirds sit alongside five-legged cats, which sit alongside distant countries, rural landscapes, intimate portraits, and science-fiction worlds. These exist in the minds of some of the artists, but the ongoing success and resilience of KCAT shows that with work, dedication, and care, sometimes other worlds can become real. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Munster
 | Date: 30/03/2026 - 18/04/2026
Location: Cork, Lavit Gallery Exhibition continues from 26/03/2026 to 18/04/2026. An exhibition of artwork by artist members including painting, sculpture, print, photography, ceramics and textiles. The judging panel for 2026 were Katie O'Grady, Curator of Exhibitions + Projects at The Glucksman, Michael Quane RHA, artist and Sarah Foster, Lecturer at MTU Crawford College of Art & Design. This year 393 artworks were submitted with a maximum of 3 pieces allowed per artist member. A total of 107 artworks were selected. Of the approximately 147 members who submitted 72 are participating in the exhibition. | Read more →
 | Date: 31/03/2026
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 fourth installment of this six part lecture series, Áine will focus on Ecce Homo by Titian, recounting its history, as well as that of the artist and his story. ‘Ecce Homo’, meaning ‘behold the man’, refers to the episode from the Passion of Christ in which Christ is presented by Pontius Pilate to the Jews assembled outside the judgement hall after being flagellated and subjected to the crown of thorns | Read more →
 | Date: 01/04/2026 - 05/04/2026
Location: Cork, BOLT Theatre Bare is an intimate, immersive theatre experience that invites audiences into a living gallery of human vulnerability. Set within a museum-style space, the production presents a collection of “live exhibits” — individuals suspended in moments of emotional and psychological exposure. Each character stands at a crossroads, grappling with private struggles, inner conflicts, and the quiet battles that shape their lives. There is no fourth wall here. Instead, the audience steps inside the world of the piece, moving through the space as witnesses to raw, unfiltered humanity. | Read more →
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 | Date: 30/03/2026 - 25/04/2026
Location: Kilkee, Culturlann Sweeney Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026. Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Culturlann Sweeney is delighted to present ‘Ethereal” an exhibition by Christopher Quinn. Following on from the success of his first exhibit “Colours in the Landscape”, Christopher Quinn returns with his follow up showing “Ethereal”. Christopher Quinn, a native of Ennis, Co. Clare fell in love with landscape photography whilst living in the Canadian Rockies. Persistence in learning from one photograph to the next engrained the need to succeed. “Ethereal” is something that resonates deeply with his approach to photography, calmness, serenity, less obtrusion, it’s the perfect signature of his work. | Read more →
 | Date: 30/03/2026 - 25/04/2026
Location: Scariff, Scarriff Library Gallery Exhibition continues from 23/03/2026 to 25/04/2026. Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Edna O’Brien Library in Scariff is delighted to present “In Clondorney Bog - An exploration of a local peatland” by the Artist Caitríona O’Sullivan. Caitríona O'Sullivan is a landscape artist and floral designer from Tulla, Co. Clare. Her work is inspired by the colours, forms, textures and moods of the East Clare landscape. Working in pencil and pastel, her drawings express her emotional connection to the environment, highlighting its beauty, complexity and fragility. Her locality also inspires the botanical installations and arrangements she makes using dried and fresh wild plant material. | Read more →
 | Date: 30/03/2026 - 12/04/2026
Location: Killorglin, Grilse Gallery Exhibition continues from 14/03/2026 to 12/04/2026. Contemporary Irish painter Rebecca Peart’s solo exhibition, 'Mariner', shows new work from 14 March until 12 April. Invoking the intrepid mariners of yesteryear setting out to discover new worlds, Peart’s painting Sail leads the viewer into the exhibition and through her mind’s eye yielding colourful emotive abstracts. Colour hues scale from whispering landscapes to heightened tones at sea; her paintings conjure abstract compositions travelling through longitudes of time and space, a nautical journey between lands. Rebecca has drawn inspiration from Kerry since childhood and has exhibited extensively in Dublin, London and New York. | Read more →
 | Date: 01/04/2026 - 24/04/2026
Location: Waterford, Coastguard Cultural Centre A group of artists awarded a mentoring programme through Big Look and the Kilkenny Arts Office reunite one year later to showcase the evolution of their work. Originally brought together over three months of intensive weekly sessions, this exhibition traces each artist’s journey from the first spark of an idea to fresh developments in process and vision. By capturing the progression from initial inception to refined execution, the collection reveals the endless possibilities that emerge when artistic practices are nurtured and given the essential space and time to expand, reflect, and grow. Note: Opening times on weekends/bank holidays are 10am - 4.30pm | Read more →
 | Date: 02/04/2026 - 25/04/2026
Location: Waterford City, GOMA Waterford Join us at GOMA Waterford for the opening reception of Sanctum on Thursday 2 April 2026, 6–8pm. All welcome. Sanctum explores contemporary spirituality through personal, non-institutional belief and ritual, drawing on pre-Christian practices, folklore, and reimagined religious symbols to address today's environmental, political, and existential uncertainties. Curated by Anna Jeznach & Ciara Magee, recipients of GOMA Waterford's Emerging Curator Award 2026. Artists: Sam Comerford, Fionn Mac Tiomáin, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh, Lara Quinn, Zuzanna Romańska, Milan Zientara. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Northern Ireland
 | Date: 01/04/2026 - 02/05/2026
Location: Belfast, ArtisAnn Gallery Prizewinning artists Tracie Corry and Rosalind McConaghy come to the ArtisAnn Gallery in Belfast for a joint exhibition of new paintings. Late Night Opening: WED 1st April from 6 to 8pm. | Read more →
 | Date: 02/04/2026 - 22/04/2026
Location: Belfast, Belfast Print Workshop Derive is a step into a journey around the urban landscapes of Belfast. Inspired by the works of Guy Debord and the Situationist International 1956-72, using Detournment: Cut-up, collage, montage, juxtapose. Fracturing official narratives and curated memories, allowing room for new relations and encounters to be discovered. Derive is a solo exhibition by Irish artist Mia Stewart at Belfast Print Workshop, presented as part of the Belfast Print Workshop Graduate Award 2025. Working across disciplines, Mia Stewart’s current practice focuses on mono and screenprinting urban landscapes, removing and replacing aspects to manipulate narratives. | Read more →
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 | Date: 03/04/2026 - 25/04/2026
Location: Larne, Larne Museum & Arts Centre The term “thin place” refers to a location where the veil between the physical and the transcendental appears permeable or “thin”, a mystical space where the boundary between our tangible world and the unseen world seem to touch. Peatlands (bogs) are considered to have this special characteristic where there is a connection between the material and the numinous. In the artist’s own words “My art is currently informed by habitual wanderings through different levels of moor and bog”. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Rest of Ulster
 | Date: 01/04/2026 - 20/06/2026
Location: Letterkenny, Regional Cultural Centre The AIB Portrait Prize and AIB Young Portrait Prize bring outstanding contemporary portraiture from the National Gallery of Ireland to Letterkenny. Featuring shortlisted artists selected by an expert panel of judges, the exhibition celebrates excellence, innovation and strong local representation, while reflecting the vitality of portrait practice across Ireland today. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Other
 | Date: 31/03/2026 - 30/04/2026
Location: n/a, Online ‘Clare’s Stained Glass’, an extensive online archive by John Glynn documenting the county’s stained glass heritage, will be officially launched on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.Supported by Clare County Council’s Heritage Office, the launch will take place on Zoom from 7pm to 8pm. To attend, email ic...@museum.ie. Dr David Caron, a leading authority on Irish stained glass, will officially launch the archive after an introduction by Clare County Council Heritage Officer, Congella McGuire. Image Caption:Our Lady of the Fertile Rock, by George W. Walsh, 1992, New Quay (St Patrick’s Catholic Church). | Read more →
 | Date: 04/04/2026
Location: Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center The Jackman Goldwasser artist-in-residence at Hyde Park Arts Center. Developed through an exchange partnership between Askeaton Contemporary Arts and Hyde Park Arts Centre, Léann Herilhy travels to Chicago to continue work on their ongoing transdisciplinary project With Everything We’ve Got! Highlighting the urgency of queer and trans* self-defence clubs in preserving community existence, Léann will actively support the strong network of community defence within the Chicago region, and witness how these communities offer complex and nuanced narratives of place and identity. | Read more →
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