"Transmissions" Beth Fox, Frances Hennigan,
Redcouch Gallery and Green Room
Opening 9th October
Artists: Beth Fox (www.beth-fox.com), Frances Hennigan (www.franceshennigan.com)
Across CHG&S’s 2026 programme, we return to what is carried forward, what is obscured, and what quietly reshapes us over time. Transmissions brings that enquiry into the realm of signal and mediation: the images, scripts, and messages that travel through screens, institutions, and public life, and how these transmissions settle into the private self. In a world shaped by constant information flow, digital distortion, and shifting realities, Transmissions interrogates the influence of technology, surveillance, and virtual identities in contemporary culture. Through a fusion of painting, digital media, and immersive installation, Fox, Hennigan, and Keogh explore the psychological and political dimensions of the digital age.
Transmissions unfolds in two parts, beginning on 9 October 2026 with Beth Fox’s moving-image installation, Grateful Patients, at The Courthouse Gallery & Studios. A presentation by Frances Hennigan will follow, with dates and further details to be announced. Together, the two presentations explore how images, messages and stories shape our understanding of contemporary life.
Fox’s practice works across installation, drawing and moving image, building layered modes of storytelling that capture the strange textures of contemporary life online and offline. Her work can be grounded in personal essay and lived experience, exploring labour, anxiety and absurdity, while staying alert to the systems that organise behaviour at a distance.
Her work reflects on the enduring power of comforting lies. Her moving image installation presents, Grateful Patients, an experimental art film that will be presented as a 2-channel installation. One channel tracks the current rise of anti-medicine disinformation in online wellness spaces, the other follows a 19th-century medical charlatan whose patients remained loyal despite his exposure as a fraud.
Frances Hennigan’s work sits at the intersection of celebrity culture and political narrative, using the visual language of social media and internet fame to interrogate how influence is produced and how “truth” is staged in a post-truth era.
Working across video, large-scale projection, painting and drawing, she draws from headline scandals, algorithmic trends, and manipulated imagery, where spectacle, scandal and misinformation circulate as culture.
Her practice stays close to the mechanics of attention, and to the way political messaging and “activism” can be performed through the rhythms of fandom, branding, and virality. Within Transmissions, Hennigan’s work brings the exhibition into direct contact with the public theatre of power, asking what
This exhibition will feature a mix of large-scale paintings, interactive projections, and installation-based works, transforming the gallery into a space where physical and digital realities blur. By disrupting narratives of authenticity, desire, and surveillance, Transmissions challenges viewers to confront the mechanisms shaping contemporary perception.
Artist biographies
Elizabeth “Beth” Fox
Elizabeth “Beth” Fox is a multimedia artist working across installation, drawing and moving image. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2011), a BA in Sculpture from Limerick School of Art and Design (2010), and completed an Erasmus exchange at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2008).
Fox has exhibited in solo and group contexts in Ireland, the UK, South Korea, the US, and India. Her recent presentations include solo projects such as SOUVENIR (East Quay Watchet, Somerset, 2023) and Independent Contractor (Platform Arts, Belfast, 2023), alongside wider exhibition activity across film, installation and contemporary visual arts contexts.
Frances Hennigan
Frances Hennigan is an Irish artist who lives and works between Essen and Duisburg, Germany. She works across video and painting to interrogate the dynamics of internet fame and its intersections with misinformation, scandal, self-obsession, and performative political activism, examining how attention is accumulated, manipulated, and distributed in rapid cycles of online image production.
Through harvested imagery and text, Hennigan interweaves fragments of memes, viral infographics, and celebrity quotes to reflect on social media’s relationship to politics, highlighting the mechanics of “attention-hacking” and the strategic re-use of canonical and political imagery for maximum impact.
She completed an MA in Art and Research Collaboration at IADT (2022) and is a co-founder of CRUX, a collective of working-class and queer artists engaged in experimental, nomadic exhibition-making. Hennigan was awarded a fellowship in Urban Digital Culture with Kulturforum Witten (2023), is the recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award, and has undertaken residencies including Kulturforum Witten (2023–24), Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024), and Killenure Lodge (2022).