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Run by Peter FitzGerald, artist, who is currently doing a PhD in the Media & Entertainment Lab at University College Dublin; former lots of things.
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GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford
Lunatraktors: Our Deepest Apologies
Closing Sat 24 Jan
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Image credit: Joe Lang | photo of (presumably) two figures outside on a slightly wet cobbled street; each figure is entirely draped with strips of traffic / warning / safety tape of different colours • “In Our Deepest Apologies, Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur bring together nine years of Lunatraktors practice, moving between costume, video, audio, sculpture, performance and installation. The root of ‘apology’ is apologia-a formal defense of ideas, beliefs, or actions, rather than an expression of regret. At the heart of Lunatraktors’ work is a similar tension: how do we grapple with the past? How do we connect to heritages so tainted with imperial violence and misrepresentation? Who have we been, who are we now, and who might we become? Please join us at GOMA Waterford on Saturday 10th January 2026 from 6-8pm for the official launch of Our Deepest Apologies, with an opening night reception and performance by Lunatraktors. Entry is free and all are welcome!…”
January 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin 1
Winter Exhibition
Closing Sat 24 Jan
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Image: Eileen Leonard Sealy, Someone come to the door, 2024, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm | we see a fairly naked figure squatting near a probably disused Aga-type cooker; there is a mask over the face, though we can see under it a bit, from the side; there is very large headscarf that trails down the back; there is a blue, striped skirt; and patterned shows / slippers; the left foot seems to be resting on a bit of newspaper; mood is sombre • “Annual winter exhibition with artworks by gallery and invited artists including: Anthony Caro, Sandro Chia, Seán Connolly, Peter Cleary, John Gibbons, Patrick Graham, Claire Halpin, Marcelle Hanselaar, Jonathan Hunter, Eithne Jordan, Eddie Kennedy, Kevin Mooney, Hannah Ní Mhaonaigh, Gwen O’Dowd, Eamon O’Kane, Eileen Leonard Sealy, Tim Scott, John Noel Smith, George Warren, Michael Warren, Karl Weschke, Orla Whelan and many others…”
January 19, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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The Source Arts Centre, Thurles Co Tipperary
Erin Lawlor: divining
Closing Sat 24 Jan
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Image: swirls of Renaissance-coloured paint, like a doom-laden cloud our a Raphael painting in a swirling blender; two panels, vertical, pressed against each other • “Erin Lawlor’s recent work delves more deeply into the idea of place. While she has long seen painting as a space for both imagination and psychological exploration, her process - working horizontally and using a wet-on-wet [alla prima] technique - turns the canvas into a physical ground, shaped by focused, immersive labour. Each painting captures a layered, evolving process - a moment in time built up through action and intuition - yet each one must ultimately hold together as a complete, cohesive whole. The title divining speaks to both a careful, almost scientific reading of the surface, and an instinctive, emotional response. It also points to the search for something ideal or imagined, a sense of discovery that lies somewhere between the real and the hoped-for. A Highlanes Gallery National Tour curated by Aoife…”
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Caoimhe Glennon: The Invisible Visible
Closing Sun 18 Jan
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Image: Caoimhe Glennon: detail from installation The Invisible Visible | photo – close-up of a bird’s nest (presumably) – lots of sticks, some straw; it’s on a metal-and-glass plinth, by the look of it, in a gallery space, presumably again at LCGA; behind we see what may be a large photo / x-ray / possibly ultrasound framed within a metal structure; white walls behind • “Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) is delighted to present the installation The Invisible Visible by Caoimhe Glennon, the Graduate Award winner from the Limerick School of Art & Design, Sculpture & Combined Media 2025. The Invisible Visible centres around the Glennon’s diagnosis of PCOS, a condition that causes the formation of polycystic ovaries. Her work explores personal narrative connections discovered between rookeries and polycystic ovaries, both of which require specific circumstances to be revealed, and when they are, are found as clusters of dark circles. The artist’s work is a poetic construction that…”
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
SORE SPOT
Closing Sun 18 Jan
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Image: Eva O'Leary, Curler, 2018, archival pigment print, variable dimensions | close-up photo of a pink eyelash curler, somewhat blurry, with a brown eye looking straight back at us • “Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) is delighted to launch a new exhibition entitled SORE SPOT, by artists Helen and Eva O’Leary. This exhibition features works that, when combined, aim to find moments of clarity and connection offering a meditation on care, resistance, and the stubborn hope that emerges from making sense of a broken world. SORE SPOT notes the distance between both artists as mother and daughter - geographic and generational, a map of crossings. It’s about what the hands can make when words fail, how materials can offer a kind of reconciliation - or at least a pause in the noise. SORE SPOT notes the distance between both artists as mother and daughter - geographic and generational, a map of crossings. It’s about what the hands can make when words fail, how materials can offer a kind…”
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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CCA, Derry
Thomas Hunter, Sabi Nicholson, Lucy Tevlin: IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE
Opening Sat 17 Jan
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Image: Sabi Nicholson: Dislocations, 2025 | photo; a hand is holding an open shellfish shell; all we see of the hand is a bit of the of the left thumb, basically the fingernail; the shell is empty; the background is blurred – possibly a beach • "Guest Curator: Ashleigh Wilson CCA Derry~Londonderry in collaboration with NI Screen are pleased to present IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE, a group exhibition curated by Ashleigh Wilson, opening as part of New Curating 2026. The exhibition features work by Thomas Hunter, Sabi Nicholson and Lucy Tevlin. IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE draws on archival material and lens-based media to explore how images are shaped by time, technology and the act of looking. The exhibition considers the gallery as a space where narratives shift and meaning is continually re-formed. Archives are unearthed and disrupted, environments seep into the gallery space, and obsolete technologies are reanimated. Across photography and film, the works reflect on technological…”
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Solstice Arts Centre, County Meath
Mark Francis: TRACING ECHOES
Open from Sat 17 Jan
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Image: Mark Francis: Oscillator I, 2025 Oil on canvas 183 x 153 cm | there are maybe up to 50 notional vertical bars in this image, each of them containing some colour, often stain-like, usually towards the vertical centre; the effect is like seeing a bunch of people through a distorting sheet of glass, looking at a bit of x-ray spectroscopy, or bands of DNA • "Solstice Arts Centre is delighted to announce TRACING ECHOES, a major exhibition by acclaimed Irish artist Mark Francis. Known for his dynamic and visually arresting paintings, Francis creates works charged with movement, sound, and rhythm. His practice combines intense sequences of colour within tightly gridded structures, generating a compelling tension between order and chaos. There is an agitation in Francis’s work - a pulse, a vibration - as if the forms and colours are trying to break free, bleed into one another, or shift beyond their boundaries. His longstanding engagement with science provides fertile ground for…”
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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photo of waves out to sea; sky just visible towards top of the image – pale-pink horizon with hints of land; superimposed on the wave are sinusoidal waves – thin white lines; towards the bottom is the text "The Weaving of the Waves Lunatraktors x Myles O'Reilly x Aideen Macken GOMA Waterford | 17.1.26 | 6-8pm" plus three logos.
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Draíocht, Dublin 15
Bridget Flannery: Unquiet Layers
Closing Sat 17 Jan
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Image: an abstract work; to simplify a bit, it is largely three bands of colours from left to right: a ruddy red towards the top, a troubled white across most of the middle, and a purple band at the bottom; right at the top, there are two half-bands: an orangey yellow to midway, then black for the rest of the wey, just for about the top 7% of the image; paint applied with gusto; marks visible, and layers let layers below them peep through • “Opened on Wednesday 15 October at 7pm by John P. O’Sullivan, Writer and Arts Critic, with a live performance by Benjamin Dwyer, Guitarist & Composer 'Unquiet Layers - Selected Works of Bridget Flannery’ is a celebration of the artist's process and practice. It brings together a selection of her paintings, notebooks and sketchbooks, enabling the viewer engage with a range of works inspired by the artists’ interests and travels as well as her methodologies. Flannery’s paintings emerged from her deep connection to and study of the natural world…”
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Co. Wicklow
WAAG – an archive
Opening Fri 16 Jan
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Image: against a uniform charcoal-coloured background, the letters ‘WAAG’ in chunky sans-serif capitals centred on the square image; the A letters lack the usual gap in the middle; under and to the right of WAAG we read ‘an archive’ in lower case and much smaller font, though still white; slightly below 'an archive' there is a grey horizontal layout bar across most of the image and on it we see four words, 'WOMEN’, ‘’ARTISTS, ‘ACTION’, and ‘GROUP’; it looks quite like a menu bar on a website • “WAAG - an archive examines the lasting legacy and impact of the Women Artists Action Group (1987-1991) on contemporary Irish art, revisiting its work and activism through a rich archive of documents and images. WAAG was founded in April 1987 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, and was active until 1991. A collaboration of women artists, art historians and professionals working in the arts, the group was established in response to the lack of representation of women artists in Ireland. The main pur…”
January 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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The LAB, Dublin 1
Siobhán McDonald: Passage
Open from Fri 16 Jan
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Image: photo, probably taken from a drone a hundred metres or so above the beach that we see; we see shallow water and in it there seems to be the remains of a wrecked boat – just an outline from which plantlife, possibly, is sprouting upwards • “Curated by Margarita Cappock  Passage charts a two-hundred-year arc of Dublin’s watery history, shaped by the wetlands. At its heart, the project traces Dublin’s layered identities, exploring water through cultural, historical, and anthropological perspectives. It reimagines the history of Dublin’s waterways, the relationship between submerged sites, shipwrecks, and Dublin’s history as a wetland. The show comprises new video, sculpture, drawing, and sound works, as well as a performance by acclaimed composer Mel Mercier on 16th January 2026. The work calls to mind ancient  myths surrounding the rivers and seas as well their raw and fragile beauty. The presentation of Passage at The Lab is the culmination of a major series of international…”
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2
Dragana Jurišić: The Last Balkan Cowboy
Opening Thu 15 Jan
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Image: photograph, taken by a lake, probably; sunny – we see a sun reflection in the water, bottom left; a right arm, clad in plaid to mid-forearm, extends in from the left side of the image; it is holding a cowboy hat which appears, more or less, to be on the head of the central figure in the photo; that figure is turned towards the left side of the image, bare left shoulder towards us, long dark hair; blurry trees in the background ¨“The Last Balkan Cowboy is the outcome of Dragana Jurišić’s long-term research project following the footsteps of cult Yugoslavian film director, Hari Džekson. Renowned for his interpretation of Wild West genre archetypes, Džekson lived a cowboy fantasy inspired by the rugged landscapes of Bosnia Herzegovina, and the conflicts across borders and race that led to the fragmentation of a nation. Jurišić mythologises Džekson’s legacy in the aftermath of the Balkan war. She is drawn to the symbolism of a wandering outsider roaming the landscape for…”
January 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford
Ann McCafferty: Wexford’s Wonderful Coastline
Closing Thu 15 Jan
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Image: Ann McCafferty: Left: Peat Ponds, 2025, digital print on photographic paper; Right: Seaweed Cakes, 2025, digital print on photographic paper | two photos side by side; the left photo shows an unusual combination of islands of stones among islands of raw peat among pools of water; subdued colours on a bright day; the second photo is of clumps of seaweed in shallow water, possibly at a sandy beach; filaments coming from the clumps are a strong orange • “A solo photography exhibition by Ann McCafferty During the lovely summer of 2025, I spent many days by the sea, in particular at a special beach from my childhood days - Ballytrent. On one of my many walks when the tide was out, I noticed what I thought was a sandbank in the distance. When I explored further I was presented with a wonderful array of golden seaweed (not sand). This was surrounded by rocks covered in vivid lime green sea grasses lazing in amazing shapes over rocks. Close to all this wonder were large knotty…”
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Atypical Gallery, Belfast
twixt – group exhibition
Open from Wed 14 Jan
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Image: photo a figure of whom we just see head and bare shoulders with white top; the head, though, is a bright yellow funky house with a shape for a nose and a hole for the mouth, in which we see lips making an O; there are trees / bushes behind and a blue sky • “Edel Murphy, CEO and Artistic Director says that the group exhibition ‘twixt takes its name from the notion of being in between, at an interval and interweaving. Recipients of our d/Deaf and Disabled Support Fund grant programme have used the funding to deliver new pathways towards their own goals, some artists pursuing experimental directions or new ambitions - each at their own stage of development and discovery between concept and realisation. ‘twixt showcases the work of some of our twenty d/Deaf and Disabled Artists Support Fund 2025 (DDASF) awardees, including Darlene Corry, Elly Makem, Emma Brennan, Eve Belle, Finn Nichol, Hana Abri Smith, Indigo Azidahaka, Jamie Baker, Jayne Cherry, Kate Guelke, Brian McAvera…’
January 12, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Kilkenny Design Workshops: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Closing Sun 11 Jan
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Image: Patrick Scott, 'Gold Painting', 1979, gold leaf & tempera on unprimed canvas, 121 x 121cm (Detail) | mostly raw canvas, probably, but in the middle a 'sun' – a gold disk with a square in the middle, its sides about a quarter the diameter of the disk; radiating from this ‘sun’ are pale white rays forming an outer disk; they are in a slight swirl, as though the sun disk is turning • "Butler Gallery is very pleased to honour the 60th Anniversary of the Kilkenny Design Workshops with a special display of works by artists long associated with KDW. They include works by Oisin Kelly, Sonja Landweer, Louis le Brocquy and Patrick Scott, all artists who are featured in the Butler Gallery Permanent Collection. The opening of the Kilkenny Design Workshops (KDW) in 1965, established Kilkenny as the national home of design excellence in Ireland and over its tenure (1965-1988) played a significant role in shaping both our cultural heritage and identity. KDW was established to…”
January 9, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Director’s Cut
Closing Sun 11 Jan
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Image: installation shot at LCGA – five artworks on three walls, parquet floor, doorway into another exhibition room, ‘LCGA Permanent Collection 2015 – 2025’ in black letters on the wall facing us; walls white • “Selected works from the Permanent Collections running to end of November 2025"
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford
Lunatraktors: Our Deepest Apologies
Open from Sat 10 Jan
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Image credit: Joe Lang | photo of (presumably) two figures outside on a slightly wet cobbled street; each figure is entirely draped with strips of traffic / warning / safety tape of different colours • “In Our Deepest Apologies, Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur bring together nine years of Lunatraktors practice, moving between costume, video, audio, sculpture, performance and installation. The root of ‘apology’ is apologia-a formal defense of ideas, beliefs, or actions, rather than an expression of regret. At the heart of Lunatraktors’ work is a similar tension: how do we grapple with the past? How do we connect to heritages so tainted with imperial violence and misrepresentation? Who have we been, who are we now, and who might we become? Please join us at GOMA Waterford on Saturday 10th January 2026 from 6-8pm for the official launch of Our Deepest Apologies, with an opening night reception and performance by Lunatraktors. Entry is free and all are welcome!…”
January 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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SIRIUS, Co. Cork
Artem Trofimenko: FXILE
Exploration Sat 10 Jan
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Image: Artem Trofimenko: FXILE | this appears to be a double-exposed black-and-white photo; it appears to show two people standing at some railings looking out to sea Artem Trofimenko is a Ukrainian Irish artist based in Cork City. His practice encompasses moving image, performance, photography, and sound, employing the body through endurance and spirituality. He experiments with analogue film, darkroom processes, found light, and sound design. Artem has a background in theatre and dance, including Butoh, which informs his engagement with various media and investigations of themes of displacement. He explores how memory and perception inhabit the body, as well as how the act of seeing constitutes a form of exile. FXILE is a somatic exploration of the SIRIUS building and its surroundings. It features audio-visual elements and live outputs that examine the relationships among self and architecture, stillness and movement, and land and water. The works elicit moments of communion…”
January 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 2
Eimearjean McCormack: Survey Series
Opening Thu 8 Jan
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Image: Eimearjean McCormack, Survey series, Silkscreen on Somerset paper, Image courtesy of the artist | against a dark cyan background we see leaves of a plant, maybe a thistle? on the left side of the image, and a single large leaf, possibly, of a tree, possibly; the coloration of these leaves is pale cyan; the leaves on the left also have a pale grid behind them; the effect is somewhat that of a cyaotype • “McCormack’s exhibition captures fleeting beauty and memory, inviting reflection on the delicate world around us. McCormack’s show will address a variety of themes, from intimate moments of reflection to broader glimpses of fleeting beauty, weaving a unified narrative that encourages viewers to contemplate the delicate nature of our environment and delve into the subtle complexities of the world we live in. She is interested in how repetition can evoke the dissolution of memory and how art can function as a record of both the process and the mind’s reflection. Eimearjean…”
January 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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The LAB, Dublin 1
Missy Brinkmeyer: Seen
Closing Sat 10 Jan
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Image: photo; head and upper body of a figure sitting in what may be a pub window; smiling somewhat; lower-lip and nose rings, long hair, long lashes, leopard-print furry coat • “Curated by Margarita Cappock Missy Brinkmeyer’s practice is grounded in how we navigate each other in public—inhabiting space together while remaining separate. The resulting photographs feel like encounters with empathy itself: driven by instinct and emotional intelligence, a form of quiet contact. As the artist herself says "separation is just an illusion, we are all connected". We are seen. For Seen, curator Margarita Cappock focuses mainly on images from central Dublin, including the area around the gallery. It is not intended as a conclusive statement on Brinkmeyer’s practice, but as one way to slice through her prolific image-making and reveal something about how she works. – Neva Elliott Missy Brinkmeyer has shown internationally in the US, EU, and UAE, as well as, and prominently in, Ireland…”
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 8
Urban Myth
Opening Thu 8 Jan
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Image: the words URBAN MYTH in capitalised serif sky-blue font against a grey background; a horizontal sky-blue line comes in from the left to the base of the U and a line departs from the right bottom of the H to the right edge of the image; the words are one above the other but displaced horizontally such that the M is just left of the N • “Urban Myth: Michael Boran | Elaine Byrne | Gary Coyle | Dragana Jurišić | Sean Lynch | Scott Nokia | Adrian O’Carroll | Izabela Szczutkowska Kevin Kavanagh presents 'Urban Myth', a group exhibition of photography by gallery and invited artists. These artists demonstrate the changing role of photographs in our digital world. No longer just records of the real or of a moment in time, they have become the basis of our modern folklore. Where once we gathered round the fire to share stories, now we pass images from screen to screen. For all the solidity of the phone in our hand, these images flow by in a turbulent stream. As urban myths, this…”
January 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Solomon Fine Art, Dublin 2
Tim Morris: Boxcars
Opening Thu 8 Jan
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Image: Tim Morris: Boxcar 8, bronze, unique 12 x 25 x 12cm | photo of a bronze object – a boxcar viewed from the side, only the patterning of the surfaces if very much like you would see with cardboard, where parts of the surface have been torn away to reveal the rilling; the view is from the side; the wheels look almost like biscuits; the background is a photo-studio white with soft shadows • "Solomon Fine Art is delighted to present an exhibition of sculpture by artist Tim Morris. Boxcars is an installation of over 200 unique bronze structures which the artist has been creating since 2020. Conjuring images of transport, trade and travel these Boxcars sit in wait, stationary yet charged with history, intrigue and anticipation. Constructed of discarded corrugated cardboard and cast in bronze, Morris began building boxcars during lock-down. The project, initiated to occupy the artist and to express a sense of ‘waiting’ during that prohibitive time has continued, with some boxcars…”
January 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City
Conor O’Brien
Closing Wed 7 Jan
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Image: organic shapes, a bit like cells, spotted, pinks against a white background • “Exploring the relationship between transgender bodies and the alien-other of science fiction & horror, Conor’s paintings act as a gateway to a dimension occupied by divine queer bodies. With Trans & Genderqueer bodies being weaponised politically by right wing movements worldwide, the discussion around trans identity in media, which largely seems to ignore or underrepresent trans voices, has reduced the issue to ‘us’ and ‘them’. This dehumanises and alienates trans people, who instead become a scapegoat to be feared, rather than individuals to be understood.” Abjection as termed by Julie Kristeva in her book Powers of Horror refers to that which does not “respect borders, positions, rules,” instead “disturbs identity, system, order”. Conor’s work looks to utilise this concept of Abjection as a liberatory field to explore ways of being that challenges paternal law. The bodies that appear in these …
January 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Molesworth Gallery, Dublin 2
Winter Group Show
Closing Tue 23 Dec
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Ronnie Hughes: Blooshown, 2024, acrylic co-polymer on plywood, 54.5 x 52cm | a solid strong blue swirls around the canvas against a background of strong yellow – think Ukrainian or Swedish flag. bit very swirly • “We’re delighted to present a group exhibition of work by gallery artists. Gabhann Dunne's solo show continues on the ground floor.”
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM