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21st September 2025
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Exhibitions & Events - Connaught
 | Date: 27/09/2025 - 11/10/2025
Location: Claremorris, Claremorris Gallery Opens Saturday, September 27th at 5pm.Claremorris Gallery is proud to present Slow Heat, a new body of work by contemporary painter Emma Stroude, opening on Saturday, September 27th at 5pm. The exhibition will be preceded by a guided tour with the artist at 4pm, offering visitors a rare opportunity to gain insight into Stroude’s creative process and the inspirations behind her work. Attendance for the tour is free but booking is essential through Eventbrite.Slow Heat emerges from a collaboration between Stroude and three actors, who explored themes of women’s potentiality, endurance, and the necessity of moving beyond inherited preconceptions. Their embodied performances became the catalyst for Stroude’s striking new works, which weave together performance, archetypes, and art historical references.Virginia Woolf’s writings were a persistent influence during the making of Slow Heat. Woolf’s metaphors of fire and heat—as forces of transformation and resistance—resonate deeply within Stroude’s paintings, which reflect a simmering intensity rather than sudden revolution. The works explore archetypes embedded in our cultural DNA, reinterpreting figures from Incy Wincy Spider to Mary Magdalene, while engaging in dialogue with feminist artists such as Paula Rego, Rebecca Horn, and Ana Mendieta.In these works, Stroude paints the performed experiences of women through a [...] | Read more →
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 | Date: 22/09/2025 - 11/10/2025
Location: Galway City, Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery Exhibition continues from the 20th of September to the 11th of October 2025. An Exhibition of New Works in Bronze.OFFICIAL OPENING SATURDAY, 20TH SEPTEMBER. Join John Behan RHA and guest speaker Louis de Paor at The Kenny Gallery on Saturday, September 20th to celebrate the opening of A Terrible Beauty. Presenting a compelling new series of bronze sculptures that reaffirm John Behan's postion as one of Ireland's foremost sculptors, A Terrible Beauty blends technical mastery with deeply felt narrative. John Behan, A Terrible Beauty opens at The Kenny Gallery, Galway on Saturday, 20th September from 2.30pm. Admission is free, all are welcome! | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Leinster
 | Date: 22/09/2025 - 30/11/2025
Location: Ennis, Select cinemas nation wide THE SWALLOW, Tadhg O’Sullivan’s new feature, starring Academy Award winner Brenda Fricker, will open in select Irish cinemas from 19 September.The film presents a meditation on art, memory and solitude in later life, through an artist exploring memories and fragments of the past while trying to make sense of her own unwillingness to let go. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/marmaladefilms/theswallowofficialtrailer Tickets available via https://linktr.ee/marmaladefilms The Swallow was funded by The Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon, under the Authored Works scheme. | Read more →
 | Date: 22/09/2025 - 24/10/2025
Location: Dublin, Goethe-Institut Irland Exhibition continues from the 19th of September to the 24th of October 2025 Presented by the Crespo Foundation and Goethe-Institut Irland, and curated by Ben Livne Weitzman, this exhibition brings together the work of two artist groups and former artists in residence in Glenkeen Garden, West Cork: Through two installations and an accompanying book, the artists take us on a journey to the transitional zones surrounding Glenkeen Garden, reflecting on time preserved in the bogs of the Irish landscape, and the ever-shifting rhythms and forms of the coastline. Transitional Terrains is the fifth exhibition in The Glenkeen Variations series. | Read more →
 | Date: 22/09/2025 - 26/09/2025
Location: Dublin, TU Dublin Grangegorman Exhibition continues from the 19th of September to the 26th of September 2025 We look forward to inviting you to our 2025 Graduate Exhibition at the East Quad, TU Dublin, Grangegorman. Opening Night: 5-9pm Friday 19th September Open Daily: 10am - 5pm, 20th - 26th (Closed Sunday) 3D Design Katerina Nikoletti Visual Communication Harigovind Sajimon, Jessie Doyle, Rovena Leitao Interior Design Anagha Elsa Dominic, Ece Kaymaz, Kağan Tan, Muhammed Sadique, Nishtha Chauhan, Semen Ruzgar, Seshadri Ghosh, Smriti Jessie Masih, Vandhana Ramesh | Read more →
 | Date: 24/09/2025 - 27/09/2025
Location: Tallaght, Rua Red Participating Artists: Emma Brennan, Tara Carroll, Austin Hearne, Mariya Hoyin, Rachel Macmanus, Shiro Masuyama, Katherine Nolan, EL PutnamBecoming Tallaght Performance Art Festival will take place from 24—27 September in Rua Red and at various sites across Tallaght. This will mark the third in a series of Performance Art Festivals commissioned by Rua Red. Curated by Olivia Hassett and Paul Regan Becoming Tallaght is an ambitious four-day Festival showcasing the work of eight performance artists, including three bespoke workshops, and culminating in an artists’ symposium. We are also delighted to announce that the first iteration of Xchange, an open improvised performance jam, will also form part of Becoming Tallaght, and will include performance artists from Bbeyond Belfast. The state of becoming is a transformative process. Just as live performances often involve a transformation through embodied action at a specific site and in the presence of an audience, Tallaght is also experiencing a cultural evolution, reflected in its people and urban landscape. Join us in September as we embark on the journey of Becoming Tallaght. | Read more →
 | Date: 25/09/2025 - 18/10/2025
Location: Dublin 2, Solomon Gallery The woman who put a tree on top of a castle is back with a brand-new 18-piece exhibit. Collection reflects on global and personal challenges, from war and climate change to growing up with dyslexia and losing a parent. ‘From the depths of shadow, light takes shape’ In her new exhibition Out of the Shadows in the Solomon Gallery, Dublin, 25thSeptember – 18th October, Irish sculptor Orla de Brí invites us into a world where the unseen resides. A sculptural 18-piece exploration of the individual and collective shadows we all encounter in life - fear, change, loss, silence - this ninth solo collection of work from de Brí is about resilience and transformation, nurturing strength and finding unexpected light. As de Brí describes it, each piece offers an opportunity to witness vulnerability, wildness and endurance, as from the depths of shadow, light takes shape. Dublin-born de Brí took her first sculpture course at the young age of 12, an adult night class in North Strand Technical School, her mother persuading the school to let her daughter join the class despite her young age. This was the first step in a career that has led to the creation of 27 large-scale [...] | Read more →
 | Date: 25/09/2025
Location: Dublin 2, Hodges Figgis Please join us for a conversation between author CATHERINE MORRIS, Irish critic EVE PATTEN, and Spring editor KLAUS OTTMANN about Morris’s new book, Intimate Power: Autobiography of a City, at HODGES FIGGIS in Dublin on September 25 from 6 to 8 pm. Intimate Power: Autobiography of a City is a meditation on forms of personal losses that we carry with us all our lives. It simultaneously serves as a recovery of voice for the kinds of trauma that the city has carried through successive generations, be it slavery, famine, war, asylum, or exile. The book is a series of walks through Liverpool made on a return journey from a feeling of long exile. It is a recovery of voice through which the author situates parts of her own life into a collective solidarity that she sought out in conversations, chance encounters and in the stories that she uncovered in the city’s local and international multimedia archives. CATHERINE MORRIS is a writer, academic, and curator based in Dublin. Her first book Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012) uncovered the forgotten cultural feminist arts practice of one of the founders of modern Ireland. In 2023, Spring [...] | Read more →
 | Date: 26/09/2025 - 01/10/2025
Location: Dublin , Reds Gallery Dublin OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER. 6PM.CLOSED SUNDAY/MONDAY Artist Chad Keveney embarks on a solo exhibition of his vivid paintings at Reds Gallery Dublin in September. This Exhibition celebrates Brasilieras, which like the forests in Brazil are something to possess, exploit and abandon once you are finished with them. The images behind the paintings come from social media and the freedom made possible by the world wide web allows these women to aspire to middle class dreams. The titles are those of HB ice creams that remind us of the colourful, hot Summers of our youth. Chad was born in Dublin and studied at L'Éole Supérieur des Béaux-arts de Toulouse before returning to Trinity College Dublin to study political science. CURATED BY TONY STRICKLAND | Read more →
 | Date: 26/09/2025
Location: Dublin 6, Ranelagh Arts Centre Esther O’Kelly presents her studio practice at Ranelagh Arts with a selection of recent paintings and works in progress. Rooted in memory, folklore, and embodied experience, her landscapes explore disorientation, uncertainty, and discovery. During the project, O’Kelly will lead an artist talk and a walking sketchbook session through Ranelagh Gardens. Drawing from her instinctive, movement-based sketchbook practice, she invites viewers into a process of getting lost—of letting go of the map to rediscover place, memory, and meaning through paint. | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025
Location: Rathmines , Segotia Me Aul Segotia Festival - Sat 27th Sept This September, we’re opening the gates to our vibrant multi-purpose building and community yard for a one-day experiential festival celebrating yoga, art, movement, and culture. In partnership with our neighbours — Fadsaoil, Bow Street, Envisagym, and TwoFifty — we invite you to a day that promises connection, creativity, and collective joy. From 11am to 9pm, explore an immersive lineup of creative and wellbeing experiences designed to energize, inspire, and connect. Whether you’re here to stretch, sketch, sweat, or simply soak it all in — the day is yours to shape. Roam freely through our studios, open-air spaces, and hidden corners. Discover what calls to you, follow your curiosity, and craft a festival experience that’s entirely your own. From morning yoga and immersive art installations to live performances, hands-on workshops, and community showcases, this festival isn’t just about yoga or art or movement — it’s what happens when a neighbourhood of creators comes together and opens its doors. What’s on offer: Yoga + Movement | Live Music | Sauna + Cold Plunge | Film Screenings + Talks | Food Trucks | Life Drawing | Coffee Masterclasses | Breathwork + Meditation | Acting Workshops [...] | Read more →
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 | Date: 27/09/2025 - 11/01/2026
Location: Carlow, VISUAL Carlow VISUAL is pleased to present Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood. This landmark touring exhibition has been conceived by Hettie Judah in collaboration with Hayward Gallery Touring. Following a successful tour of the UK, Acts of Creation comes to VISUAL augmented by the inclusion of works from Irish artists and collections.Spanning all of VISUAL's galleries, Acts of Creation presents work in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography and sound that speaks to the experience of motherhood in all its complexity. At VISUAL, an accompanying in-depth learning programme will respond to the exhibition's themes and works. A reading area, a reflection space and specialist workshops and tours will further provide visitors with ways to engage with the ideas and experiences reflected in this powerful exhibition. Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the Women’s Movement of the 1960s and 70s to the present day.While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see art about real motherhood, in all its complexity. Acts of Creation addresses this blind spot in art history, asserting the artist mother as an important cultural figure.How [...] | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025
Location: Bray, Mermaid Arts Centre Join artist and Composting Colonialism: Towards the Radical Garden co-curator Elida Maiques for a walking tour of some of Edible Bray’s growing sites, where members of Common Ground Bray nurture tiny gardens in often forgotten ‘common areas’ around the town. This event is part of the supporting programme for the group exhibition Composting Colonialism: Towards the Radical Garden (26 July - 4 October). This is a free offsite event - meet at Albert Walk near Bray DART Station at 11am and visit some gardens along the trail, ending at The Mermaid Garden Project at 1pm. No need to book. | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025
Location: Bray, Mermaid Arts Centre As part of our current exhibition Composting Colonialism – Towards the Radical Garden, we invite anyone interested in gardening or growing to bring spare cuttings, harvested seeds, unwanted house plants, pots or compost to share, swap and exchange knowledge and expertise – or simply talk plants! If you do not have anything to offer don’t worry – you are welcome to attend and take the opportunity to visit The Mermaid Garden Project, meet fellow aspiring gardeners, have a cup of tea and a chat, and of course, visit the exhibition. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Munster
 | Date: 23/09/2025
Location: Cork, Triskel Arts Centre Art Historian Dr. Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation. Week 2: Impressionism & Modern Life This lecture explores the development of Impressionism, the style most commonly associated with the beautiful paintings of Claude Monet. These paintings and their loose style have become almost universally familiar. What drove these artists to paint like this? What does this new style seek to do? This lecture begins with the artist Édouard Manet, credited as one of the first artists to turn resolutely from the past and paint modern life. Following the advice of writer Charles Baudelaire, Manet resolved to make his art relevant by painting the present rather than the past. His focus on the fast and fleeting nature of French modernity spurred on the Impressionists to develop a new approach to capturing movement and atmosphere, the effects of modernity that would prove elusive to the new technology of photography. 1. Tues 16 September The Pre-Raphaelites & The Birth of Modernism 2. Tues 23 September Impressionism & Modern Life 3. Tues 30 September Post-Impressionism 4. Tues 7 October [...] | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025 - 25/10/2025
Location: Skibbereen, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre Night Study presents a unique collection of artefacts collected from over a decade of artistic exploration and experimentation by artist and educator Glenn Loughran. The works on display serve as traces of events of enquiry, a diverse constellation of things that have mediated practices, from artistic research to critical pedagogy to social engagement. The opening event will be a Gallery Conversation between the artist Glenn Loughran and historian and philosopher of art, Prof. Thierry de Duve on Saturday 27 October at 3.00pm. | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025 - 25/10/2025
Location: Cork , MTU Blackrock Castle Observatroy Up There, for Space Week, and from 27th September - 25th October 2025, at MTU Blackrock Castle Observatory, Marie Bryan explores elements of scale and dimension, undescribed and unfathomable, using her vivid imagination. She seeks new ground. Her aspiration to adventure and to the magical lead her to paint a ‘parallel’ with astrophysics, and she now finds herself artistically inspired, Up There, investigating dark matter. High-octane colour is how she sees it. Opening Reception 7pm Monday 29th September. Artist Talk 6pm Saturday 11th October. Marie Bryan is a student of Fine Art at MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. Her collection of portraits of residents of Cork Simon Community, "Pleased to meet you", was exhibited at Cork Airport in November 2023, and in eight Cork City Libraries from June 2024 to March 2025. Her solo exhibition "Shadow Side and the Artist's Escape" was hosted at MTU Cork School of Music, January - February 2025. She was contracted by the Irish Defence Forces to paint for the Irish Navy, June - August 2025. | Read more →
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 | Date: 22/09/2025 - 18/10/2025
Location: Ennis, Clare Museum “Fite Fuaite - Connections with Land, Nature and One Another” is an art exhibition by members of the West Clare Artist Collective. The West Clare Artist Collective was established in 2023 by Ceri Garfield, Aine Rynne, Claire Frawley and Caroline Lernihan to build creative connections through discussions and sharing of information, techniques and ideas. They now come together to bring you their dynamic exhibition Fite Fuaite. Fite Fuaite, meaning interlaced or intertwined, aims to showcase their individual expressions of the land and their connections to it through varying mediums. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Northern Ireland
 | Date: 25/09/2025 - 29/09/2025
Location: Belfast , Portview Trade Centre FUSE, Creative Exchange Artist Studios annual group exhibition 2025. Taking place in the iconic main hall upstairs in Portview Trade Centre, this year’s show will bring together work from 19 artists spanning painting, sculpture, installation and more. Exhibiting Artists: Eimear Campbell, Katrina Darcy-Smith, Ray Duncan, Isabel Duffy, Jude Fenton, Nic Eames Wilson, Nichola Irvine, Paloma King, Bernie McAdam, Katie McFadden, Meadhbh McIlgorm, Emma Mulholland, Stephanie Noble, Caragh O’Donnell Delaney, Ted Pim, Emma Quin, Katherine St Angelo, Paul Van Reid, Derek Wilson. | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025
Location: Belfast, Pollen Studio & Gallery You’re invited to an exclusive preview of In The Beginning, There Was Only…—the brand new stand-up comedy special from the world-renowned Nathan Crothers & the Voices. Part theatre, part comedy, part art, this performance dismantles the banal while exploring identity, humour, and consumption with punk energy and anarchic flair. Nathan Crothers & the Voices—Belfast’s loudest one-man band—thrives on chaos and unpredictability. Currently Artist in Residence at The MAC, Belfast, supported by ACNI. Free BYOB at Pollen Studios. | Read more →
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 | Date: 22/09/2025 - 26/09/2025
Location: Bangor, The Curve Gallery, Bangor Library Exhibition continues from the 4th of September to the 26th of September A new exhibition of abstract paintings by Pauline Little, inspired by the poetry of Michael Longley. Through 25 vibrant works arranged by season and year, the exhibition explores how climate change is subtly altering the rhythms of nature. Colours once unique to spring or summer now extend into autumn, reflecting a quiet but visible transformation in the environment. Rooted in personal observation, from the artist’s garden to the local landscape, the paintings echo Longley’s attention to everyday beauty and deeper emotional undercurrents. | Read more →
 | Date: 25/09/2025
Location: Bangor, Seacourt Print Workshop Seacourt Print Workshop is delighted to host this travelling exhibition of work by artist Barbara Rae. The work was originally shown in Ballinglen Museum of Art during Spring 2025, and will travel to Seacourt to open on Thursday 25th September 2025. Work created over the past twenty three years during Rae's almost annual visits to County Mayo, reflecting her deep long standing connection with the area. Working, most often in the winter months, when the sun casts long shadows and reveals hidden features Rae captures the shifting character of the terrain in a way that the summer light conceals. | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025 - 24/10/2025
Location: Lisburn, R-Space Gallery Flaxen is a collection of new works by Alice Fox, exploring the flax plant at every stage: from whole dried stems to unspun fibre. The works are woven or otherwise constructed to highlight the plant’s strength and delicacy, resulting in textured, structural pieces across different scales. Opening Reception and a chance to meet the artist: Saturday 27 September, 2–4pm, all welcome The exhibition will include an online artist talk on 14 October 2025 at 6pm (book via eventbrite) Gallery Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025 - 13/12/2025
Location: Derry, Void Art Centre Pollanroe Burn or An Pollán Rua - the little red pool - unfolds through a series of new films and archival fragments, forming part of artist Emily McFarland’s ongoing long-term research into the shifting ecology of the Sperrin Mountains of West Tyrone, in the North of Ireland, in the shadow of proposed major industrial-scale gold extraction. The project asks: How can we cultivate modes of thinking that allow intellect and empathy to apprehend the long-standing and delicate connections between humans and their environments? Launching: Saturday 27 September 2025 at Void Art Centre, 6-8pm | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Rest of Ulster
| | Date: 23/09/2025
Location: Linsfort, Saldanha Gallery Talk & Workshop by PercyNii Nortey. Tuesday 23rd September at The Saldanah Gallery 10:30am. Artist in Residence at Artlink Fort Dunree September 2025. Percy Nii Nortey, a multidisciplinary artist from Kumasi, Ghana, explores identity, memory, labour, and decolonisation through installations, performative objects, and moving sculptures. Rooted in personal history and Ghana’s socio-economic realities, he transforms second-hand fabrics into large-scale textile archives that honour resilience and collective memory. Exhibited internationally, his work turns everyday materials into acts of resistance, storytelling, and healing. Thread of Resistance is a workshop with the Buncrana community, using fabric to explore memory, identity, and power. Participants are invited to bring fabric carrying personal history or everyday traces. Date & Time: Tuesday 23rd of SeptemberTalk begins at 10:30am and will lead into workshop(you can just come to the talk if you like)Potluck Lunch at 1:00pm (Bring food to share)Workshop ends at 4:30pm | Read more →
 | Date: 27/09/2025 - 11/10/2025
Location: BUNDORAN, The Kevin Lowery Gallery The Kevin Lowery Gallery is excited to present a selection of work by artists based on the North West coast in their annual exhibition 'Between Land and Sea, Reflections on the North West Coast', as a part of the Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival. Three counties, Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo, are linked by their western shorelines on Donegal Bay, an inlet that lies in the North West of Ireland. Bound together by the Atlantic, this wild expanse of coastline has inspired artists for generations. Celebrate with us at 6PM on Friday September 26th to mark the opening of the exhibition. | Read more →
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Exhibitions & Events - Other
 | Date: 22/09/2025 - 30/09/2025
Location: 9724 LD Groningen NL, Portiersloge /Gatekeeperslodge Exhibition continues from the 8th of September to the 30th of September 2025. In Agency for Nature, Northern Irish artist Diane Henshaw invites us to view the natural world not as passive scenery, but as a vibrant, politically potent agent. Influenced by philosopher Jane Bennetts concept of vibrant matter, her work foregrounds the agency of both living and non-living phenomena. Originally from Islandmagee, County Antrim, and now based in rural Tempo, County Fermanagh, Henshaw works within the Irish tradition of dinnseanchas mapping place through story to create landscapes that are at once abstract and narratively rich. Through layered inks, acrylics, | Read more →
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