A. Stanley
Worship
(2024)
Oil on canvas.
30 x 30 cm Unframed, 37 x 37 cm Framed.
This painting reflects those subjects central to my work, the feminine, nature, transience, transformation and temporality.
Annemarie Stanley was born in New York , she attended UCC and life drawing at the Crawford College of Art. She lives and works in Cork City where she has a studio.
She taught English, History and Art before leaving teaching 10 years ago to paint full time .
Her main artistic inspiration is the portrayal of the interior landscape of a subject. She will often suggest this by placing the figure in a landscape which reflects this.
Textures, surfaces and the stillness of light are the physical elements present in the scenes she paints. She uses these to reflect the psychological elements of the subject The concept of Temporality set in opposition to the isolation of the figure is for her central.
She has exhibited in Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. Presently she is working on a painting for the West Cork Creates exhibition “Listen to the Land Speak“ a tribute to the work and ideas of the late Machan Mangan .
Amna Walayat
The Red cypress with a bowed head. سرخ سر خمیدہ سرو
(2026)
Watercolour, gouaches and tea wash on Wasli paper
Triptych, 8"x12" ea.
I am a Cork-based, Pakistani-born visual artist working from Backwater Artists’ Studios. A member of Sample-Studios and Art Nomads, my practice explores themes of identity, colonialism, and feminism, shaped by my dual heritage. I am the founder and annual organiser of the Cork Basant Festival, a celebration of South Asian culture that fosters intercultural dialogue and community connection in Ireland and beyond.
I hold an MA in the History of Modern and Contemporary Art from University College Cork and an MA in Fine Art from the University of the Punjab. Recently, my painting received the Jury Prize at the Sample-Studios Summer Show. I was invited to participate in Tigers and Dragons at the Glynn Vivian Museum, UK, where my work was included in the accompanying book and catalogue.
I have exhibited widely, with work included in the Arts Council Collection, and have undertaken residencies with Cork County Council and SIRIUS/Create. My awards include multiple Arts Council supports, notably the Next Generation Award, reflecting my ongoing contribution to contemporary visual art in Ireland.
Ana Colomer
Free Fall
(2026)
Oil on oval canvas
100 x 70 cm
Ana Colomer is a Spanish-born visual artist (University of Seville, BFA) now based in Ennis, County Clare. Working across painting, puppetry, animation, film and multimedia, she creates expressive, symbolic portraits and installations that explore identity, emotion, and human connection . As a community artist and educator, she tutors for Creative Youth (LCETB), serves as a Creative Associate for the Arts Council’s Creative Schools, and is an Associate Artist with Helium Arts.
Her recent solo show, “Silent Conversations” (19 June–17 July 2025), was presented at the Edna O’Brien Library Gallery, Scarriff, as part of the Mountshannon Arts Festival. The exhibition highlighted her quiet, introspective portraits, inviting viewers to engage with unspoken narratives . In 2023, she was shortlisted for the prestigious Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland, for her evocative work Sea (Urchin), a 40 cm tondo canvas reflecting on fragility—both personal and ecological .
Holding diplomas in Art Therapy from CIT and an H Dip, Ana is active in community arts, notably through projects like “A Book of Hope” (2021) and a mural of Edna O’Brien (2023). Her practice blends studio work with collaborative and healing arts, rooted in curiosity, inclusivity and emotional depth
Ann McBride
Clare Vessel
(2026)
Plaster mould designed and cast, Earthenware clay, transparent glaze, watercolours converted to decal transfers
28 x 26.5 x 6.5cm, Edition 1 of 20 ( 18 available)
The ceramic form is created from bespoke plaster moulds, which are slip cast with earthenware clay. Surface decoration is applied using hand painted underglaze on the bisqued form. After the glaze firing, decal transfers made from original watercolours, are applied and fired.
Ann McBride is an artist and illustrator. She returned to college to gain a degree in ceramic design, transferring her skills in illustration and graphics onto the 3D clay form. Her work is recognizable by bold, colourful surface decoration, whimsical, unique and subversive. She creates visually impactful wall installations and plinth based slip-cast ceramics. The core of her practice are the rich illustrations that take inspiration from nature and the traditional decorative arts.
The work has a joyful aesthetic, creating fun and movement on the static ceramic surface. Inspired by figurative female forms from historical works of art, which are lifted from the past and subverted with tattoos to address feminist issues.
She creates one-off or limited edition pieces. Since graduating she has won numerous awards, with her work held in public and private collections.
Antoinette O'Mahony
The Pink Room (Chair 1)
(2026)
Hand embroidery and Inks on calico
24 x 20 cm
Antoinette O’Mahony is a Galway‑based visual artist working primarily with hand‑embroidered textiles. Her most recent work uses sparse interiors, isolated objects, and carefully controlled colour to explore absence, loneliness, and quiet psychological states. Extracted from the wider Pink Room series, this work (Chair 1) employs minimal imagery and material restraint to create a sense of suspended space, encouraging slow, attentive looking. O’Mahony has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the RHA Annual Exhibition, Sligo Arts Festival, and London Frieze Fringe. She is a finalist for the John Richardson French Residency Award, a recipient of Arts Council Agility Awards, and a board member of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.
Ava McKenna
The Last Catch
(2026)
Oil on Canvas
20 x 35 cm
Ava McKenna is an emerging artist based in Kerry, currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at LSAD. Her work weaves together themes of Irish cultural traditions, heritage, mythology and folklore. Images of old Ireland remain at the centre of her practice. Working primarily in oil paint, Ava uses this visual language to explore memory and identity. Drawing from old photographs and oral tradition, she creates evocative compositions that reconnect viewers with the past, bridging personal and collective histories. Ava has exhibited in the Siamsa Tíre, The Hunt Museum and at KFest arts festival.
Barbara Dunne
Reflections
(2024)
Encaustic on board
27 x 27 cm framed
"This is an encaustic piece I made after a visit to the Inagh Valley in Connemara."
Barbara Dunne is a multi-disiplinary artist and writer living in the Connemara Gaelteacht. She holds a Hons. degree in in Fine Art and has taught art, creativity and craft for many years. She works in encaustic, textile, print, paint and the written word. Her work explores the human condition, death, memory and the transience of existence. She is a member of uactarARTS Community Arts Group. She has exhibited her work in many group shows in Ireland and abroad and in a solo show.
Carol Feeney
Eabha Mae on the Boreen Galway
(2025)
Oil on canvas
25 x 25 cm
Carol Feeney is an Irish artist residing in Inverin, Connemara, in the West of Ireland. She graduated from Atlantic Technological University, Galway, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Art and Design.
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Cairde Visual Sligo, Boyle Arts Festival, Corrandulla Arts Trail, Clifden Arts Festival Trail, Westival, Kava Gallery, Courthouse Gallery Ennistymon, Galway City Library 100 Years Anniversary, Saolta Arts Annual Staff Exhibitions, as well as a two-person exhibition at Saolta Arts Galway. Additionally, she was selected for Artist’s Eye on Galway and Artist’s Eye on Kerry publications. In 2024, she was awarded the Agility Award by Galway City Council and is a member of the Uachtararts Art Group.
Catherine Weld
Fish Stack
(2026)
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
72 x 101 cm
My creative career began in the UK as a social documentary photographer, followed by seven years as facilitator of a hospice-based project making books and films with people at the end of life. A graphic design degree followed but finding commercial work restrictive, I moved to West Cork in 2012 and committed fully to life as a painter, which offers the solitude, risk and freedom to which I am temperamentally best suited.
Alongside painting, I love life drawing and teaching. I also enjoy the challenges of exhibition curation and have been involved in several environmental campaigns through the arts.
I have exhibited widely including at the RA Summer Show in London, the RUA in Belfast, and the Vue Art Fair, RHA, Dublin. Paintings are in the OPW and Cork County Council art collections as well as in private homes in Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, the U.S.A. and the U.K.
Ceri Garfield
Scoilt/Slánú (Rupture/Repair)
(2024)
Watercolour on paper
73 x 55 cm framed
Ceri Garfield is an artist and writer from Mullagh, Co. Clare. She has a BA (First Class Honours) in Fine Art, Printmaking from Limerick School of Art and Design 2009, and a Higher Diploma in Television Production through the Irish language from WIT/Nemeton TV 2015. Ceri’s work is primarily nature based; she's "fascinated by the beauty of our natural world and our innate complexity as it reveals itself in quiet moments.” Visual art work encompasses photography, video, drawing and watercolour. In recent work she has began focusing on our interconnectedness with one another and our natural world, incorporating portraiture into her pieces.
Recent exhibitions include “Fite Fuaite - Connections with Land, Nature and One Another,” with the West Clare Art Collective, Clare Museum, 2025. Recent selected exhibitions include “194th RHA Annual Exhibition,” 2024, “Summer Open Exhibition,” The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon 2022.
Ceri was awarded Glór Artist to Artist Mentoring in 2024. Taylor Award winner RDS Student Art Awards 2007.
Christopher Clarke
Sunday, May 14th
(2026)
Oil on Linen
30 x 30 cm
"I am a visual artist working primarily in oil paint, sticks and pastels. I create paintings that explore the relationship between figure, landscape, and light. My work often focuses on solitary moments within contemporary environments. I am interested in how light colours both a physical space and its emotional tone, and how painting can capture these moments in my life."
Clifton Rooney
In Good Company
(2026)
Digital Painting - Giclée archival limited edition print
60 x 54 cm, Edition 1 of 12 ( 12 available)
A reminder of how the artefacts within our lives are evidence of our relationships
"Trained as a designer, I try to bring a keen sense of composition, color, and balance to my work. After 2 decades of working as an art teacher, guiding students to develop their creative voices, I have turned that same passion for observation and curiosity toward a personal artistic practice currently centered on digital painting. My subjects generally involve observation of everyday life.
My work simply celebrates seeing; an invitation to experience the joy of looking deeply, to rediscover quiet visual pleasures often overlooked.
Having spent years helping others find meaning through making, I am turning my attention to my own journey. I welcome all to join me.
Cristian Gavarrete
Bacchus and Ariadne
(2026)
Mixed media on canvas
40 x 50 cms
I am a visual artist, sculptor, and educator from Honduras (b. 1994), currently based in Dundalk, Ireland. My practice engages with symbolism, memory, and identity, and is currently focused on an ongoing investigation into the archaeology of colour.
In Ireland, I am developing the project In Between, which explores the transformation of classical painting into more contemporary and spatial forms.
In 2025, I presented work as part of Surveyor / Tracing the Seen and Unseen at An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk and Transformation of Territory at The Outhouse Centre in Dublin.
I hold a Technical Degree in Visual Arts and have presented three solo exhibitions, as well as multiple group exhibitions in Honduras and internationally.
Dawn West
Vessel and Vault
Oilstick on paper
29.5 x 41 cm
I am a visual artist and printmaker living and working in Co. Waterford, Ireland. My practice is rooted in repetition and guided by intuition, rarely beginning with a fixed outcome in mind. Each piece unfolds through the act of drawing or printing on paper to slowly build up layered surfaces over time until unexpected forms begin to emerge. The process is meditative and deliberate.
I favour awkward forms and a minimal aesthetic, using limited colour and controlled or uncontrolled lines. The work is shaped less by intention than by response and a quiet tension between discipline and surrender to process. What emerges is not always a resolution, but a record of these exchanges.
Recent exhibitions include Drawing (Paper) Show 2025, Liverpool UK, Ironbridge Printmaking Competition 2025 and Halftone Print Fair 2025, Dublin.
Deirdre Gallagher
The Beauty of a Perfect Form
(2026)
Oil on Canvas
80 x 80 cm
Qualified with a fine art honours degree through print from LSAD in 2008 and based my art practice in Limerick Printmakers. In this supportive environment my art practice has grown. Having created large scale prints works I wished to develop a more spontaneous approach by working in the medium of paint. My practice is now painting based enabling greater freedom in relation to scale and methods.
The painting starts with a thought, a thin layer of paint an idea to imbue the surface with meaning. Oil paint is layered, and the slow drying allows me to bring mood and feeling through the layers. Emotion and connection is released intuitively.
Exhibitions & Residency:
2026 – Selected for the 196th Annual Exhibition, Dublin. 2019 – Limerick Printmakers 20/20 at the Hunt Museum and The Source Gallery, Thurles. 2016 & 2015 – Plan A, Plan B, Limerick City Gallery and Impact 2016. 2013 & 2010 – RHA 183rd & 180th Annual Exhibition, Dublin. 2012 – “Impressions” Print exhibition, Galway. 2012 – Group show with Limerick Printmakers, The Source Gallery, Thurles. 2012 – 3-month Art Residency at Kilkenny County Arts office with Blackstack print studio. 2009 – Solo Exhibition “Dark Falls The Night,” Limerick.
Deirdre Ní Argáin
Glimpse
(2023)
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 36 cm
I graduated from TCD with a degree in Natural Sciences, curiosity about the world and a conviction that I wanted to make art.
I trained as an art therapist and worked in palliative care for 25 years, maintaining an active studio practice and developing my art education through courses with the Open College of the Arts. In 2022 I received an Agility Award to focus on studio practice. Experiments with new media and ideas have developed from this period. I share a home studio with an artist friend who like me balances studio time with family caring. I have exhibited work in Sculpture in Context (1994,1995, 2020, 2021,2023,2025) Courthouse Open (Summer 2025) and Artnet Dunlaoighre (Winter 2025). Glimpse is part of an occasional series of overpaintings where I take an older image and paint a pattern over it so that just some shows through.
Donna Romano
Slumber
(2026)
Acrylic on gesso panel
15 x 21 cm
Born in New York, Donna Romano studied at Queens College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work explores our complex relationship to the natural world, specifically the common assumption of a hierarchical order within and between species. Recent work is an attempt to portray the range of emotions expressed by dogs who have experienced the trauma of abuse, abandonment and rescue. The work stems from observation of an animal’s unconscious state of sleep - where vulnerability and comfort coexist - and its body language of prohibition and trust.
She works primarily on a small scale in charcoal, aquarelle pencils and acrylic paint. Selected exhibitions include Pluid Project - National Comfort Blanket, 2021, Farmleigh; More than Words, 2023, the Micro Gallery, NCAD; Borders, 2024, Rua Red Open Submission; Summer Open, 2025, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon; Open Submission Group Show, 2025, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise; Pre-selection, 2026, RHA Annual Exhibition.
Edel Campbell
Conversations
(2024)
Oil on circular board
20cm diameter
Edel Campbell is a visual artist based in Dublin. She studied fine art in NCAD and completed an M. Sc in Multimedia Systems in Trinity college Dublin. Her work has been selected for many group exhibitions including The Royal Hibernian academy, Dublin, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, The Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, The Hunt Museum, Limerick and The Royal College of Physicians Dublin. Solo exhibitions include Cavan County Museum, The United Arts Club, Dublin, The Torah Gallery, Ashbourne Civic Offices and most recently in The Customhouse studios and Gallery, Westport. Her work has been purchased for many corporate and private collections, including The Office of Public Works, AXA Insurance and The Irish Management Institute.
Edel Hogan
Furze & Peatlands
(2026)
Oil on board
30 x 22 cm
A practicing visual artist from the Tulla Stables Studios and a lecturer in LSAD’s Fine Art and Education Dept, Hogan’s creative practice emerges from her innate and critial understanding of rural life. Her work is a response to the rural vernacular and cultural activities associated with traditional smallholdings and peatlands. Recurring motifs in her work include reference to traditional farm / domestic hand tools, found objects and natural material collected from the land, resulting in forms which retain an innate familiarity while inviting a sense of curiosity and contemplation. More recently, working in oils, her paintings are emotionally charged references to rural sites of significance to her. Hogan’s research is driven by broader critical questions (political, social and economic) that surround contemporary rural life.
‘my work represents a story of resilience, flexibility, and steadfastness in the face of adversity and change. It is borne from a rural place and innate experiences, made from ‘the obsolete’, the ‘off cuts’ of previous forms. This produces a particular language and ‘skin’ that must either be felt or known.’
Eileen Carroll
Tobar Segais – Slí Eile (Well of Segais – Another Way)
Ceramic, Hazel, Mirror
38 x 33 m
Eileen Carroll lives on the fringe of the Burren, in Co. Clare. Eileen Carroll lives on the fringe of the Burren in Co. Clare. She developed her creativity in her 40’s, initially building her skill and practice in community arts education and spending some time in ATU studying textiles. She is continuously developing her practice through workshops and short courses.
She predominantly works in clay, textiles and drawing. Her work is inspired by Irish mythology, metaphor and symbolism, exploring old stories as a way to make sense of current narratives. She has an interest in depth psychology and is drawn to processes that actively open the imagination as a means to explore stories. She is curious about the juncture where the human meets the more than human and the insights that are offered from these liminal places.
Emilie Martinolles
Submerge
(2026)
Ceramic
27 x 21 x 17 cm
I am a Belfast–based ceramic artist originally from the south of France. My practice explores tactility, play, and the emotional resonance of everyday vintage objects. Working primarily in clay, I create sculptural forms that reimagine familiar items through organic growth, erosion, and transformation. Inspired by marine life, environmental change, and overlooked domestic objects, my work often contrasts surfaces through transformations. Through intricate construction, richly textured surfaces and glazes, I aim to create pieces that invite curiosity, close looking, and a sense of quiet discovery.
Emily McCulla
Luathrán
(2026)
Oil on Board
25 x30 cm
As an artist originating from Louisiana, I have called Ireland home since 2013 after partaking in a study abroad program at the Burren College of Art. The Burren remains a constant source of inspiration to my work, whether it be the stark contrast between the limestone hills and rolling green fields, the ever-changing light cast by the Atlantic elements, or the rich wildlife that is encountered on a daily basis. My painting has sought to have a conversation with these things, and to reflect the beauty, drama and texture of day-to-day life in West Clare.
Emma Stewart-Liberty
Solo Flight
(2026)
Graphite
56 x 38 cm
I trained and worked as a goldsmith for many years. I now concentrate on drawing, mostly in pencil or silverpoint. I have exhibited in Ireland both in group and two person shows, in Dublin and Clare.
Enagh Farrell
The Ecological Self
(2022)
Graphite and watercolour on paper
28 x 22 cm
In this particular drawing I wanted to think about lichens as the community they are, different species living reciprocally together to form one organism. How can we learn from lichens? The ecophilosopher Arne Naess coined the term The Ecological Self. The idea that we can expand the story of ourselves and self-interest to include other beings in the body of the Earth. Remembering our deep kinship with all life forms.
I am a multidisciplinary artist. My practice incorporates illustration, drawing, painting, and sometimes writing and teaching. I am curious about embodiment and interconnectivity with our surroundings. Our individual and unique relationship with the planet and the perceived separation we sometimes feel from nature.
Evie Regan
Dawning
(2026)
Oil on Canvas
70 x 50 cm
Evie is a figurative artist based in Dublin. Although her primary focus is portraiture, for she has begun to explore interactions of her subjects with their surrounding environments, particularly their interaction with light. She favours oil paint however she also engages in life drawing across multiple mediums and creates watercolour pieces depicting architecture and urban scenes. Coming from a background as a biomedical engineer, she has studied anatomy extensively and continues this practice through life drawing.
This piece depicts a tender moment between father and daughter. It appears as if the man has had bad news or is perhaps simply struggling with the thought of the impending day. I was struck by the peaceful expression on the young girl's face as she offers comfort and embodies that glimmer of light for her father. It is interesting to see the role of parent and child appear to be reversed. We can almost imagine her singing a lullaby to soothe him as the sunlight coming in the window marks the start of a new day. Or perhaps she is seeking his attention and is unaware of his stupor. I like the ambiguity of this interaction, as the true meaning stays between the two of them. The foliage just creeping into view from the window was an interesting element to add to the composition to show the source of that dappled light and hints at the nature of all things. The world goes on outside while inside the house this moment appears frozen in time.
Fiona Byrne
Éinín
(2025)
Oil on board
18 x 18 cm
My work is mainly portraits and abstract art using a variety of materials and techniques – painting & drawing, encaustic, digital and generative art. Sometimes one piece of work can pass through various process, for example a pencil drawn portrait is digitally altered and then used with code (Not AI) to generate an animated version.
Fionna Murray
Go Into The Garden
(2023)
Acrylic on Canvas
25 x 30 cm
Fionna Murray studied at Chelsea College of Art, London, gaining a BA Honours in Painting before moving to Ireland to complete an MFA at University of Ulster, Belfast. She now lives and works in Galway and is a member of Artspace Studios. She has exhibited widely throughout Ireland, the UK and internationally.
Recent exhibitions include: Bow, The City Gallery, Limerick 2025; Borders, Rua Red, Dublin 2024; Go Under The Ivy, Away From The Party, 126 Gallery, Galway 2024; Fionna Murray, The Dock, Leitrim 2023; Metropolitan Pastoral, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo 2019; Beep Biennial, Swansea 2022; Night Walking, The Eagle Gallery, London 2019. Her work is held in a number of public and private collections in Ireland and abroad, including: The University of Galway; The State Collection: Office of Public Works; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo; University of the Arts, London."
Freya Lawton
Untitled
(2025)
Encaustic (beeswax, damar resin, pigment)
14 x 14 cm Unframed - 25 x 25 cm framed
I began my art career as a Sculptor but had to change direction after a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. I began working with found 16mm film, text and printmaking. I began working with encaustic in 2018. All of my work is an exploration of the realm beyond the material world.
Gerri O' Brien
Fruit of My Celibacy
(2026)
Hand-knitted wool with hand stitching
50 x 22 x 95 cm
Gerri O' Brien's artistic practice crosses the definable categories of Art, Craft and Design, where she predominantly employs hand-stitch to explore pertinent issues relating to the human condition and socio-political subjects including identity, encroachment, violation, disability, mental health and gender-based violence.
'Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only' - Clarissa Pinkola Estès . Making work, particularly skilled work such knitting is often created in and around fulfilling other tasks and daily duties. Snatching time, rather than having a dedicated time to create, often through the night (must not make noise… click click!) as if pursuing a furtive occupation. For me, it often means that working way into the night is reality, not a choice, but there's a darker side to this piece; it's about the derisory comments that often are attached to needlework - knitting sewing, inferring these skills are devoid of meaningful and cultural value, which may be an (in)direct way of refusing to bestow value upon the work as well as the creator.
Goldie
Ditch
(2026)
Acrylic and mixed media on heavy cotton canvas
61 x 61.5 cm
Goldie Moloney is a visual artist working and living in Killaloe in east Clare. Her interests include landscapes and finding the place between the real, the remembered and the imagined.
She studied Fine Art at The Crawford College of Art and Design graduating with first class honours along with several awards and bursaries. Subsequently she went on to do an MA at the Winchester School of Art in the UK graduating with Distinction (2002). Goldie has returned to the studio on a full time basis in recent months and is currently working on a new body of work with an aim to exhibiting in 2027.
Gosia Kamieniecka
Between Two Homes
(2026)
Ink pen, pencil, colour pencil, watercolour on paper
38 x 28.5cm cm
Gosia Kamieniecka is originally from the Mazury region in north-east Poland. She arrived in Ireland in 2005, living first in Cork, then in Galway for many years, and since early 2025 has relocated to West Clare, where she works from her home studio. A graduate in Fine Art from Atlantic Technological University (formerly GMIT) in 2013, she was a member of Artspace Studios Galway from 2013 to 2025. Her work has been shown across Ireland, including Súil Gallery (Ennis) and the Courthouse Gallery Ennistymon, and is held in private collections in Europe and the United States.
“Between Two Homes” considers belonging as something formed through distance, memory, and return. This mixed media drawing — ink, pencil, and watercolour — holds disused railway tracks by my parents’ house in Poland, which I used to walk as a child and still walk when visiting them, alongside my cat waiting for me in Ireland, my chosen home. Living away from my motherland for the last 21 years places me in a state of continual longing, held between here and there.
Grace Mitchell
Bere Cottage
(2025)
Acrylic on canvas
25 x 35 cm
Grace Mitchell is a Cork-based visual artist with a background in Printmaking and Arts Management. After years in curation and arts administration, she has returned to her studio practice, inspired by the visual storytelling of children’s folk tales and themes of nostalgia, nature, and transformation.
In 2021, during Ireland's housing crisis, Grace began renovating a derelict farmhouse for her family, which deepened her awareness of the many abandoned homes across the countryside. These structures now serve as the focal point of her current work, where she reimagines them as spaces filled with memory and potential.
Her paintings blend the reality of decay with the dreamlike quality of folklore, depicting scenes where nature intertwines with forgotten architecture. Through this fusion, Grace transforms neglect into beauty, inviting viewers to see the potential for renewal in both her art and her life.
Graham Carew
Our Secret Place
(2025)
Acrylic on deep edge canvas
69 x 69 cm framed
Uskerty
Castlecomer
Co. Kilkenny
Art teacher and community art project facilitator with KilkennyCarlowETB since 2018.
Directed The Artist in the Shop Window Project at Fogartys, Castlecomer (July 2019 - January 2022), a self-directed artist residency supported by Kilkenny LEADER Partnership.
Co-Founder and Art Director of Wall Poems, Inc. (2013-present), a nonprofit mural project in Charlotte, NC, with over 20 installations. Received multiple grants including the 2015 Neighborhoods in Creative pARTnership and 2016 Knight Foundation Grant.
Co-Director and Design Artist at Goodyear Arts (2015-2018), focusing on artist residencies and community engagement. Celebrated ten years in 2025 with various grants received.
Previous projects include Artspace 525 (2013-2015), mural projects in Kilkenny, and community art initiatives. Recent exhibitions include murals at Loreto Secondary School and the Old Auxiliary Hospital.
Publications include contributions to The Beautiful Book of Exquisite Corpses (2018) and Pog Mo Goal magazine.
Hana Abri Smith
Between
(2025)
Oil on Canvas
90 x 80 cm
I explore the intersection of memory, performance and constructed realities through staged figurative paintings. I work predominantly in oil paint; my mediums include paper, card, canvas and wood. I am obsessive about organising and rearranging. As part of my practice, I use collage to construct compositions that blend remembered experiences with imagined narratives. Painting allows me to offload thoughts into physical space and make sense of unresolved emotions.
The work explores the tension between real and fake, public and private, and how we perform within different contexts. I am drawn to the behind-the-scenes aspects of human behaviour, what is hidden and what is revealed. I want the audience to feel a false sense of security when they look at my work, drawn in by structure and familiarity, only to sense the instability beneath.
My paintings are rooted in the real but skew toward the surreal and dystopian. I reflect on the inconsistencies of memory and how information becomes distorted as it is passed between people. The paintings often depict groups of figures that merge into a singular entity, unified by colour and gesture, blurring the line between the individual and the collective."
Hazel Walker
Monument (modern nature)
(2026)
Oil on gesso panel
45 x 60 cm
Hazel Walker was born in Scotland and studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Wimbledon School of Art.Since 1993 she has lived and worked in Co Clare andhas exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad. Her work is in public and private collections and she is represented by Paul Kane Gallery Dublin."
Hilda Goold
The full moon scalded their eyes
(2025)
Photocollage on Hahnemuhle Photorag
15 x 21 cm, Edition 3 of 5
Hilda Goold is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Fine Art from MTU CCAD. Her practice involves drawing, collage and photography. Her work was selected for exhibitions at Lavit Gallery (Cork), LHQ Gallery (Cork), Hunt Museum (Limerick), RHA Gallery (Dublin) and The Centre for Fine Art Photography (Colorado, USA) among others. She was awarded residencies by Ayuntamiento de Cádiz (Cádiz City Council, Spain) and the Cill Rialaig Project (Kerry). Hilda is a member of Backwater Artists Network and Visual Artists Ireland.
Ireland 3000
St Sebastian
(2024)
Woodblock on canvas
160 x 80 cm
Brian O’Shea (b. 1987), working under the artist name Ireland 3000, is an Irish artist based in Co. Limerick, working across printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Their practice uses humour to explore Irish identity, post-colonial theory, religious imagery, and the construction of national and cultural narratives.
Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), the Royal Scottish Academy, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Deutsche Internationale Grafik-Triennale."
Irina Mc Auley
Adam and Eve
(2026)
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm
Born in Belarus, Irina Mc Auley moved to Ireland over two decades ago, where she completed both BA and MFA at the NCAD. Living and working in Ireland has profoundly shaped her artistic voice, allowing her to explore the emotional resonance between place, identity, and migration. Themes such as impermanence, erosion, and transformation are central and become metaphors for people’s real lives — their mistakes and regrets, as well as their beliefs, longing, and hope. Irina is drawn to the quiet poetry of rust, where decay becomes colour and time, symbols of fragility, endurance, and the hidden beauty found in transformation.
Jane Glynn
Night is falling
(2026)
Oil & pigment ink monotype on Agawami Shiramine paper
15.2 x 15.2 cm
Jane Glynn is an artist printmaker that makes fine art prints, photographs and drawings using a small archive of found film as source material. She is an award-winning printmaker who has exhibited in the UK and Europe on topics such as heterotopic space & archives, liminality & war and landscape and memory."
Jane Queally
Portal to a Disappearing World
(2026)
Oil paint and Encaustic wax on Canvas
30 x 30cm (unframed)
I completed an MA in Visual Art Practice from IADT 2012 and a BA in Fine Art From Sligo Institute of Technology 2002. I live in Galway City, and I am an Orbital Member of Engage Art Studios.
I have exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, upcoming group exhibition with Artspace Studios celebrating their 40th Anniversary in conjunction with GIAF 2026. My work is in a number of private and public collections,including HETAC, Dublin, and Bank of Ireland.
Janet Mercer
Headland (Bray Head)
(2025)
Carved slate relief
24 x 16 cm
Janet was born in Co. Tyrone and studied Fine Art in Belfast and Loughborough, and 20C art and design history in Winchester.
She now lives and works in Northwest Connemara and her work is inspired by the west of Ireland landscape. As well being drawn to its visual and physical properties, she has a strong emotional pull to this landscape - its wild openness, imposing mountain landscape, bogland, rocky shorelines as well as the traces of human history and settlement.
Her work explores the highly sculptural forms of the mountains, both natural and man-made forms, working with these structural elements in drawing, clay, plaster and stone, seeking ways to translate the landscape’s sculptural qualities and expansive scale into a 3D object within the finite size and shape of a block of carved stone or plaster.
Jillian Murphy
Haunt
Oil on Canvas
30 x 40 cm
Jillian Murphy is a Dublin based artist whose practice primarily focuses on painting where she explores themes relating to time, identity and hauntology; where people and places are haunted not only by the past but also past ideas of the future. She is interested in ghosts and specters and how they relate to memories and traumas that we experience as moments out of time.; rupturing our perception of a present that we never experience and might not exist.
Joan Finnegan
The Way
(2025)
Acrylic on canvas
30cm x 30cm
I am an abstract artist from Galway, with a BA in Fine Art from ATU, Galway. I use the visual elements of my surroundings to influence but not dictate my paintings, using them as points of departure to create my art. My artwork departs from traditional landscape depictions, employing bold shapes and vibrant colours to evoke curiosity and wonder. An image or feeling can conjure up a memory, or the feeling of having a recollection.
Each painting is a snapshot of these captured memories, and the colours and shapes that the impressions evoke. The painting develops organically from there, the memory distilled as it develops on my easel.
Johanna Connor
Holding
(2026)
Clutch pencil and watercolour on HP Waterford paper 300gms
90 x 90 cm framed using AR70 glass
With a diploma in painting from LSAD in 1994, Johanna continued her studies at the renowned Motley Theatre Design Course, London in 1997. She worked successfully as a set and costume designer, for theatre, dance, opera and film, including at the Abbey.
As a consequence of a life altering health event in 2000, her creative path altered. Returning to her art studies in 2018 she received a master’s degree from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork and in recent years she has exhibited her work in group, solo and joint exhibitions including open selection at the RHA Annual 2024 and 2025.
In 2025 Johanna exhibited jointly with Michael Quane RHA. in PAPER - PENCIL - CHISEL - STONE at the Lavit Gallery and at Kelly’s Cafe, during the Wexford Opera Festival.
Commissioned by The Glucksman to make work for Domain of the Dinosaurs 15 Nov - April 12 2026.
Her drawings will remain part of The Glucksman’s Art Library Programme collection.
Her work is held in both County Council, National collections and private collections.
John Brady
The Buffalo Fields, Koh Phangan
(2025)
Oil on Canvas
30 x 35 cm
John Brady was born in Mayo and studied Painting at RTC Galway and Crawford College of art. After graduating in 1995 he moved to Barcelona and Winchester where he gained an MA in European Fine Art with distinction from the Winchester School of Art. He now lives in County Mayo and works in his studio in Artspace studios Galway. He has exhibited in Europe and Ireland and his work is held in several private collections in Ireland and Europe.
Joy Kavanagh
Tongue / Cheek
(2024)
Oil on wooden board
43 x 34cm (framed)
Joy Kavanagh is a visual artist and educator based in Cork City. She has a Fine Art bachelors degree from CCAD (2019) and an MA in Art and Design Education, jointly awarded by CCAD and UCC (2023). Joy has worked in visual art education while developing her artistic practice through portraiture painting. In 2024, her self-portrait work ‘Self-subject; In Bloom’ was shortlisted for the AIB Portrait Prize and was exhibited in the National Gallery of Ireland from November 2024 to March 2025. Her portrait work has been shown in group exhibitions such as ‘Cruthú Ó Mhná’ (2024) in Limerick Museum and 'Kilkenny Portrait Show' (2025) in An Chead Tine Gallery. She exhibited in the 144th annual RUA exhibition in 2025.
‘Tongue Cheek’ draws on the relationship between the sitter’s bold confidence and the bright, blooming hydrangeas to depict something honest about their individuality. The portrait captures an authentic moment of both self-expression and creative interaction. The sitter’s expression engages the artist and the viewer, playfully antagonizing their gaze. ‘Tongue Cheek’ confronts the performativity of portraiture, depicting an active sitter, staking a claim in their portrayal.
Kathleen Furey
Dream Fragment 2, Church
(2022)
Drypoint print using Tetra Pak with collage
22cm x 23cm unframed, 40cm x 43cm framed
Kathleen Furey is from Galway and is a founder member of Artspace Studios, Galway. She studied painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design graduating in 1984. Her work responds to her experiences and surroundings, explores narrative and image relationships and deals with loss, memory and moments of realisation. Recent work reflects on how we discover traces of people who lived before us and how we interpret their stories and histories. Her work is included in public and private collections."
Katie Prior
Peach Parfait Pie
(2026)
Oil on Paper
24.5 x 32.5 cm framed
Katie Prior is a Dublin based figurative artist working in paint and traditional print techniques. Her images feature a combination of figures and objects observed both from life and from a personal collection of old photographs and ephemera. Through marrying these elements she seeks to create paintings and prints that evoke the experience of looking at old photographs - a feeling of familiarity and distance.
Kirsti Kotilainen
Flag (Progress)
(2025)
Mixed Media
50 x 75 cm
Kirsti Kotilainen is a Finnish born, Dublin based artist who works in multiple media ranging from textiles to paint and sculpture. She often works with found or left over materials that bring their own narratives to the pieces. Her work concerns itself with themes of identity, memory and belonging.
Quilted and embroidered progress pride flag, made out of scraps, bits and bobs and a hand woven doily made by the artist’s dead grandmother
Kodjo Kossovi
Guessing Conversation
(2026)
Mixed media, paint on canvas, repurposed fabrics, hand sewn jewelries.
59.7 x 43.0 cm unframed
Kodjo (Isac) Kossivi b.2000, is a socially- engaged, multidisciplinary artis based in Limerick . he works across sculpture, performance and mask making. His practice explores the immigrant identity, cultural heritage and his position as an artist in the community.
This work explores a personal and shared experience of learning a new language from scratch in a new country, when I often find myself guessing or finding a key word to make out the whole coversation
Lady Milo
Invisible World
(2023)
Oil on paper
38 x 29 cm, 51 x 42 cm (framed)
Lady Milo is a contemporary painter based in Swinford, Co. Mayo.
Born and raised in Silesia, Poland, a region characterised by cultural diversity and international influence, she moved to Ireland in 2007. She studied culture, including Art History and after moving to Ireland she developed interest in the subconscious processes and underwent a training in Celtic shamanism (2015-2016, Dublin) and holotropic
breathwork with facilitators from Ireland and USA.
Shortly after settling in in County Mayo in 2022 she returned to painting. Lady Milo exhibited in shows across Ireland and beyond."
Lena Willryd
The empty chair (for my mother)
(2023)
Acrylic yarn; rya technique; wooden chair
85 x 45 x 43 cm
Lena Willryd is a Swedish-born visual artist based in Dublin. She holds a Masters degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design. Using a diverse range of media, including textiles, painting, sculpture and light projections, she is currently working with a traditional Swedish knotting technique called ‘rya’ to create pieces that explore themes of home, loss, memory and nature. Her work is in the Irish state collection and private collections worldwide, and has been shown in various Irish exhibitions, including the OPW 2024/25 cross-border exhibition ""Connections"".
'The empty chair' speaks of loss and absence, but also of happy memories. The colours and shapes are inspired by the Linnea flower. It is the regional flower of the province in Sweden where I grew up, and is also part of my mother's name - Elsa Ingrid Linnea.
Linda Plunkett
In The Quiet Light #2
(2026)
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
79 x 90 cm Framed, Edition of 10
Linda Plunkett is a photographic artist based in Dublin, Ireland, with an Honours BA in Photography from IADT, Dublin (2014). She was awarded the IPPA (Irish Professional Photographers Association) Award for Photographic Excellence in 2015.
Her work is included in various private and public art collections in Ireland and abroad, represented by SO Fine Art Editions in Dublin.
Exhibitions
- 2025 RHA 195th Annual Exhibition
- 2025 Drawing with Light, SoFine Art Editions, Dublin
- 2024/25 Winter Group Show, SoFine Art Editions, Dublin
- 2023 Winter Group Show, SoFine Art Editions, Dublin
- 2022 “Opening the Gates”, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle Printworks
- 2022 ‘Still’, SoFine Art Editions, Dublin
- 2021 Royal Hibernian Academy 191st Annual Exhibition, Dublin
- 2021 A Smith Gallery, Texas, USA, ‘botanical’ group show
- 2016 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, Gallery X, Dublin
- 2014 Emerging Artists Showcase, National Centre for Arts and Health, Dublin
- 2014 Royal Hibernian Academy 184th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
M M
ORIGIN (BONÚS) IV.
(2026)
Natural ochre and charcoal, and enamel on board
74 x 74 cm
Matthew Mitchell is a fine artist and painter based in County Clare. His work is grounded in the west of Ireland, where he draws on the region’s geological history to explore the relationship between deep time and the digital present. Through layered processes, naturally sourced pigments, and reflective surfaces, he traces a dialogue between the material landscape and the invisible infosphere that shapes how we experience place.
In 2017, he completed his MFA at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), and was awarded both an NCAD Studio Residency at NAStudios, Dublin, and the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award at the Burren College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout Ireland, and his work is represented in national, corporate, and private collections.
Pigments made from materials collected from the landscape of North Clare
Mags Dunne
Tree Lined View
(2025)
Monoprint and pen on porcelain paper clay and recycled colour catcher sheets
24.5 x 82 cm unfolded
Mags Dunne, originally from Co. Tipperary, is a graduate of the Limerick School of Art and Design with a Bachelor’s Degree in Ceramic Design. Based in Limerick, Mags has held studio spaces in Limerick and Cork and exhibited nationally. She has long drawn inspiration from the land and natural forms, with her artwork deeply rooted in the exploration and contemplation of her environment. Mags’s work offers a reflection of the natural world and our connection to it. Her current work seeks to explore our paradoxical relationship with nature - the duality of admiring and drawing inspiration from our natural environment, while simultaneously causing its destruction.
Concertina piece comprising of 7 alternating panels. Ceramic panels of tree patterned ‘wallpaper’ design with tidy tree lines and uniform textured spaces between. Slight imperfections in the ‘wallpaper’ hint at flaws that betray the mask. Alternating panels in monoprint recycled laundry colour catcher sheets illustrating natural, random and unstructured reality of trees and branches. The concertina presentation provides a different view of trees depending on what angle you see the panels. The title of this piece bringing to mind tree lined avenues of old estates with vast landscaped gardens. Long, straight, formally arranged rows of trees were a hallmark of grand estate design and demonstrating control over land.
Maria Hanly
Lazy Days
(2026)
Oil on canvas panel
61 x 61 cm
Maria Hanly is an Irish artist whose practice includes drawing, painting and is continually inspired by their endless creative possibilities. . After working for a number of years in business, she studied Fine Art at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Hanly is interested in art as a way to respond to changes happening in the world. As she lives in rural countryside, she sees the subtle changes in the landscape, the seasons and the weathers. In her current work, she is exploring how to visualise aspects of climate change and the Anthropocene (human impact on Earth).
This work reflects the importance of pausing to appreciate our natural environment when we can be distracted by so many other influences. Hanging instructions There is a Z bar/French cleat fixed to the rear of the painting and the other part of the cleat would be fixed to the gallery wall when they will then both connect together for a flush mount.
Marianne Potterton
Exodus
(2026)
Oil on canvas
60 x 76 cm
Marianne Potterton has over 25 years experience working as a professional artist. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Painting from Crawford College of Art and a Masters in Europe Fine Art in Barcelona through Southampton University in Barcelona. Potterton is a visual artist based in Doolin Co. Clare. Though her first love is painting, her practice spans across and connects a diverse range of disciplines, bridging ways of making and seeing; from painting and poetry to long distance walking, interventions in the landscape and working with found materials such as her painted buoys. Potterton’s art is in many private collections globally. Some of Potterton's most recent exhibitions have included Forging Wild a three person Show in The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran(2024) Beyond Brushstrokes Between Matter and Memory curated by Sara Foust in The Burren College of Art and The Courthouse Gallery Ennistymon (both 2024). TRASNÚ The Art of Motherhood The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon (2024) Walks from The Pollock Holes to Santiago one person show in Cultúrlann Sweeney, Kilkee(2024). One person show Scariff Library Gallery (Nov 2023). Upcoming exhibition at The Clare Museum, Ennis (October 2025)
Marie Connole
Metamorphosis (Clahane)
(2026)
Oil on Board
40 x 30 cm
Marie Connole is an award-winning visual artist and educator whose work is inspired by the nature and folklore of her native County Clare. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Irish Arts Center, New York; the National Gallery of Ireland; and EVA International. She is a recipient of several awards, including the Decade of Centenaries Arts Award and the Agility Arts Award. Connole’s illustrations are included in the Clare County Biodiversity Action Plan 2025–2031, and her work will also feature in an upcoming solo exhibition at Birr Theatre and Arts Centre.
Marilyn Gaffney
Immersive Garden
(2024)
Aqueous Dispersion on Canvas
13 x 18 cm
Marilyn Gaffney graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin obtaining a Masters in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design. She received the D.O. Sullivan Medal Award in 2009 and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in 2010 from Sligo IT.
She is the recipient of the John O'Leary Award (2010) which entailed her to pursue residencies abroad, to which she has created a network of artists groups. Her works were described as 'very impressive' by Aidan Dunne, Art Critic from the Irish Times and the RHA gallery have her work in private collection.
She is an independent curator. Most recent project exhibitions include international collaborations of the travelling exhibition 'Landscape and Memory' with Iranian, Greek and American Curators. Marilyn is an avocate at creating artist networks since undertaking the John O’Leary Award.
Mark Walsh
Bound
(2026)
Archival print on Canson Prestige II
39 x 31 cm, Edition 1 of 19 ( 1 available)
Mark Walsh is a lens-based artist living in Galway, Ireland. He is a member of Interface Inagh. He predominantly works in black and white in digital and film photography. He has been part of group shows both domestically and Internationally.
His photographic work started in 2020 with a street photography project called “Raintown” which was recently exhibited in Galway and was described by Lens based artist and lecturer, Ruby Wallis, “it reveals the gritty reality of life here, a place where people live, work, travel, and exist in a state of economic precarity”. Mark “walks through the city like a dual poet and a detective, uncovering a myriad of existential, surreal, and Gothic elements in everyday life. Like the best photography, it’s back to the artist's psyche from which these images come.”
In 2025, Mark self published a limited edition zine titled, “Towards an empty sea”.
“Towards an empty sea” is a macabre tale of dark origins, metamorphosis, and a eery nightmare escape down a dying river towards an empty sea and nothingness.
The publication was part of the Dublin Artbook Fair 2025 and the Tsundoku Art Book Fair, 2026, at The International Centre for the Image, Dublin.
Mark is currently working on a zine with the working title “I nearly married a human”.
It is a Sci-Fi tale of invasion, colonization, attraction and control.
Martina Hynan
Ode to Dreaming with Dandelions
(2026)
Muslin, straw, flower paper, embroidery thread and dandelion seed heads, wire, and hagstone.
35 x 25 x 20 cm
Martina Hynan is an artist-researcher based in Ennis, Co. Clare. Her eco-social art practice explores how human and more-than-human life is deeply interconnected. She is especially interested in learning from plants, working with vegetal materials and plant processes as active partners in making and thinking through art.
Her PhD research at the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway (2018–2023) explored how place, environment, and different forms of life shape one another. It developed a practice-based approach to understanding entanglement, how people, plants, materials, and landscapes are connected in ongoing relationships.
Her work often brings together collaboration, participation, and hands-on experimentation. She works across papermaking, biomaterials, video, photography, sewing, drawing, and painting, using these processes to explore care, interdependence, and ecological awareness.
Recent awards include a Creative Bursary Award from Clare Arts Office (2025), an Arts Council Agility Award (2024), and an artist mentorship with glór, Ennis (2021), as well as the Galway Doctoral Scholarship (2018–2023). She has taken part in programmes including the Pallas Project Entangled Life Programme (2025) and Transforming Birthspace: A Global Colloquium at OCAD University, Toronto (2025). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has published widely on maternity care in Ireland.
Mary Fahy
Lose the Head
(2023)
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm
Brigid's Well Series
Mary graduated from LSAD in 2001 (1st). Her degree show was awarded the Revenue Commissioners Purchase Prize and selected for The Young Contemporaries exhibition, Belltable Arts Centre. Winner of the Larkin Memorial Award and the Irish Times Award 2003. Recent awards include Clare Arts Office Creative Bursary 2026, the Arts Council Agility Award 2024, Hunt Museum Studio Award 2024, Clare Arts Office Project funding ’24 and ’23 and the Clare Arts Office Bursary Residency Award 2023. Recent selected exhibitions include RHA 2026; 2025: Hunt Museum Open, Súil Open, Cairde Visual, The Sir William Orpen Self Portrait Prize; Courthouse Gallery Summer Open; Áras Éanna 25th Anniversary Exhibition, 2024: Beep Painting Biennial; Pulchri Studio, The Hague; Europa Gallery Dublin; Hamilton Gallery; Signal Arts Centre; Burren College of Art; The Hunt Museum; Dunamaise Arts Centre; Boyle Arts Festival; Mermaid Arts Centre; Linenhall Arts Centre; RUA Red, Áras Éanna Arts Centre, Inis Oírr. Mary was twice shortlisted for the Markievicz Medal for Painting.
Michelle Ryan
Nasc
(2025)
Pâte de Verre Glass
45 x 35 x 14 cm
Michelle Ryan is a glass artist who creates unique handmade sculptures in her studio in Whitegate, County Clare. She graduated from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin with a double major in Glass and Art History, and also studied in the Estonian Academy of Art.
She has work included in the state collection at the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and has been included in numerous international competitions and exhibitions, including the Bullseye Glass Emerge competition in the USA, Stanislav Libenský Awards in Prague, and the Future Makers Awards in Dublin.
This sculpture is formed by repurposed litter collected on local nature walks and community litter collections at my generational family home place, where I now live. Made with an alternative pâte de verre technique, tiny glass particles are layered directly on the litter, in this instance, a Supermac’s drink cup and a crisp packet. Once fired in the kiln, the original object is burned away and the glass particles fuse together to take the form of that object. Signs of the litter’s disintegration is evident in the flow within the glass. An abundance of glass leaves will be emanating from each object referencing nature’s attempted reclamation of these objects and where they were found.
Nicholas Anthony
Deep water things
(2026)
Acrylic on cradled birch panel
40 x 50 cm
Nicholas Anthony is a visual artist based in Kilkenny whose work explores our evolving relationship with land and water. Through layered, atmospheric painting, he reflects on Irish landscapes as spaces shaped by natural forces and human activity over time.
His practice considers how places are formed, altered, and gradually reclaimed, focusing on sites such as ruins, lighthouses, and former centres of industry, farming, mining, and fishing. These remnants hold traces of both presence and absence, where landscape and memory intersect.
His recent and ongoing work expands this focus through an engagement with environmental instability and natural forces, drawing on phenomena such as storms, flooding, and other extreme events, alongside folkloric frameworks that shape cultural understandings of landscape and change.
Deepwater things (2025) reflects on the often-overlooked life beneath the water’s surface, where forms emerge and fade through layered paint, suggesting both fragility and our quiet responsibility to protect what we rarely see.
Norah Brennan
Searching
(2019)
Oil on Panel
55 x 71.5 cm
Norah Brennan has been a professional artist for over 15 years. She is an abstract visual artist who specialises in printmaking and collage. She holds an MA in Fine Art from LSAD,TUS (2023) and a BA (Hons) from Galway ATU (2011) She works from her own studio in Claremorris, Co. Mayo and is a member of Limerick Printmakers.
Norah has had several solo shows in Ireland and Northern Ireland, numerous group shows throughout Ireland and internationally including America, France, Australia, UK and has been selected for juried exhibitions including “RDS Student Awards, “Impressions” Galway Arts Festival. “Cairde Visual”, The Model, Sligo, “Legacy”, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo. She has completed residencies in Wales, Kenya and Spain.
Norah teaches art workshops, mainly in printmaking and bookbinding and she has been an Azure Tour facilitator since 2020. She is the artist in residence at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar since 2023 and is one of the “Hearth” artists in Mayo.
Norah’s work is in the collections of National University of Ireland, The Office of Public Works, Mayo and Roscommon County Councils and private collectors.
Olga Evenden
Gloaming
(2025)
Acrylic on canvas
30 × 30 cm
Olga Evenden is a Dublin-based Irish abstract painter whose work explores tension, light, and spatial ambiguity through layered compositions. She holds a BA (Honours) in Visual Communications from TU Dublin. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally, including exhibitions at Mermaid Arts Centre (Bray), Boyle Arts Festival, Outset Gallery (Galway), and the Beep Painting Biennial in Swansea, Wales. Her work has also been longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize and the RHA Annual Exhibition. Alongside her studio practice, Olga works as an art and design educator in Dublin.
Gloaming is part of the Penumbra series, Gloaming refers to the time just before night, when light is fading and things become less defined. In this piece, layers shift between light and dark, with some areas coming forward and others receding. Across the Penumbra series, I’m exploring how light and shadow shape the surface, and how forms can feel unstable or in transition rather than fixed.
Olivia Henchy
Solitude
(2026)
Mixed media on cradled panel
50 x 60 cm
Olivia Henchy is a visual artist based in County Clare and she takes inspiration from the landscape around her. Having graduated from LSAD with a BA honours degree in graphic design, her early career in composition and colour comes through in her work today as a painter.
Her work is at the intersection between landscape and abstraction and her curiosity lies in expressing a sensory feel of horizon lines and coastal structures through a sense of visual stability and balance.
Having featured in solo exhibitions in Limerick Museum and Edna O’ Brien gallery Scariff Olivia regularly takes part in annual exhibitions in the Art Riddler Charlemount square, Artform in Mountcongreve, Carickahowley group shows Maine USA, Outset OXO Galway, The Courthouse Ennistymon and RUA Annual Belfast, winning the Hillsboro Castle Landscape of the year Award 2025."
Oonagh O'Toole
Winter Traffic Lights
(2026)
Oil on canvas
53 x 43 cm
Oonagh O’Toole is visual artist living in Dublin. She lives in Dublin city and studied Visual Communications at the National College of Art and Design. She worked as a designer and illustrator before focusing on painting and art education. She teaches art in a Secondary school in Dublin
Oonagh paints the colours, tones and shapes around her, noticing the beauty and drama in the details of ordinary scenes.
Through still lifes, portraiture and cityscapes she explores the colours and light of the everyday, observing objects, buildings and people and the spaces between them
Her work is shown by Kilbaha Gallery, Loop Head Co Clare
Recent exhibitions include:
- RHA Annual 195th Exhibition, 2025
- ArtNetdlr curated exhibition ‘Looking Out’ (Walters, Dun Laoghaire), April-June 2025
- Kilkenny Portrait Exhibition, curated by An Chead Tine, April 2025
- ‘Bloodroot’ at Hamilton Gallery, The Hague, Feb 2025
- Ranelagh Arts Christmas Show, Dec 2024
- An Chead Tine Annual Exhibition, Kilkenny, Oct-Nov 2024
- Current show: Crosscurrents at Municipal Gallery, Lexicon Dunlaoghaire, curated by Claire Halpin
- Dublin Painting and Sketching Club, 2024
- Signal Arts Open Exhibition, Aug 2024
- ArtNetdlr Open Submission ‘Trees’ (Walters, Dun Laoghaire), Dec 2023-March 2024
- Signal Art Centre Group Exhibition, April 2023
- RHA Annual Exhibitions, 2022-2023
- Dublin Painting and Sketching Club, 2022
- Westival Arts Festival, 2022
- ArtNetdlr Open Submission ‘Pause’ and ‘Convergence’, Oct-Dec 2022
- Dublin Painting and Sketching Club, 2021
- Green Acres Open Exhibition, Wexford Town, 2020
Oonagh is a member of Artnetdlr, Dublin Painting and Sketching Club, Signal Arts, and Visual Arts Ireland. She participated in an artist residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and has a painting in the Dunlaoghaire Rathdown County Council collection.
Orla Barry
All Bow to Badger
(2024)
Acrylic paint on hinged MDF panels
31 x 23 cm
Orla Barry graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art from Dublin Institute of Technology in 2007 and is currently based in Bridge Street Studios, Dundalk.
As a painter, her work focuses on animals and nature, exploring our connection to the natural world through visual storytelling and symbolism. Influenced by Iconography and Sacred Art, her decorative style emphasizes the significance of her subjects.
Orla has exhibited widely across Ireland, including solo shows at An Táin Arts Centre and Riverbank Arts Centre, and participated in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in 2025. She has also completed artist residencies in various countries, including Iceland and Spain.
Two of her paintings are in Taisce Lú, the Visual Art Collection of Louth County Council and The Office of Public Works, Irish State Art Collection.
This painting balances best when hung on nail on wall rather than hanging system. Large lumps of blue tack stuck on bottom two corners will keep piece secure so people can open/close doors and stop piece from swinging on nail. The blue tack also need to be large enough that piece is even against wall and doesn’t tilt forward. Thank you! If wrapping please put bubble wrap inside doors as well as around outside painting.
Patrick Fitzpatrick
There is a music
(2026)
Charcoal/pastel drawing
1.8 m x 1.5 m
As a mature student, I was lucky enough to be accepted into Limerick School of Art and Design where i received my BA Hons in Art (print) and went onto receive my Masters in Fine Art (print) from the Limerick School of Art and Design.
Received the John Shinnors Open Drawing Award (twice: 2008/09), the James White Award for Drawing (2009). solo show in Dunamaise Arts Center, Bourne Vincent Gallery (common ground )UL, Damer House, Gallery, Roscrea ( 'the raven and the writing desk' and 'On The Blink', two shows, of three artists, 2012/23) various open submissions shows.
My work is about memory and landscape, and I try to convey my fascination of the texture/beauty/energy of nature in my drawings
Patrick Hickey
What the Water Knows
(2025)
Oil on Canvas
75 x 55 cm
Patrick Hickey is a Northern Ireland-based artist whose practice is informed by both studio research and academic inquiry. He graduated from Ulster University in 2015 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and completed a practice-based PhD there in 2025. Hickey has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, including selected group shows at The MAC, Belfast (2022–23) and the Cavan Townhall (2023). Recent solo exhibitions include Ards Arts Centre (2025) and QSS, Belfast (2026). In 2023, he was shortlisted for Bloomberg’s New Contemporaries, and his work has been featured in The Irish Arts Review and the Irish Independent (both 2023). His doctoral research has been published as a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Irish Art, reflecting the strong dialogue between his academic and studio practices. In 2026, his work was acquired by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Paula Kearney
Boundary Of Silence
(2025)
Oil paint on framed board
107 x 77 cm
Paula Kearney is a fine art painter who studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. With over 30 years of experience, her work has evolved into a unique exploration of landscape as a reflection of memory and absence.
After teaching life drawing and painting in Dubai and Singapore, she returned to Ireland, where her art has been exhibited at notable venues like the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Ballinglen Arts Museum.
Her current paintings depict landscapes marked by barriers—both natural and man-made—symbolizing the separation of people from their land. A hovering bird often appears in her work, representing resilience in the face of disconnection.
Each piece features three distinct zones: the land, applied with a palette knife; the atmospheric sky, brushed softly; and the foreground boundary, rendered with stark realism. Paula’s art invites viewers to reflect on themes of belonging and the complex ties between people and their environments.
Peter Mac Clancy
Build their futures ( faster )
(2026)
Oil on linen
50 x 61 cm
Peter Mac Clancy is a visual artist and architect, graduate of Technical University Dublin (TUD). His work is deeply rooted in the interplay of light, space, and memory. Their work explores how light and spatial composition interact, evoking the intimate, fleeting moments. His paintings aim to bring a sense of nostalgia and reverence for the quiet beauty that exists in everyday moments .
Through his use of colour, texture, and light as a language to express the profound connection between space and the human experience.
Signed on verso, 2026. Building housing is hard in Ireland. Amidst construction delays, layers of material form unoccupied space, that could contain their futures, eventually.
Regina O'Dea
Snapdragon and Calendula
(2024)
Wet Cyanotype on Hahnemuhle Sumi-e
53.5 x 43.5 cm
Regina is a mixed media artist living in the Burren. She has a BA honours in Interior Architecture from London Metropolitan University. She has experience working in Community Arts and as a model maker. Place is extremely important to Regina and her artistic practice. Regina favours low tech processes which have minimal environmental impact. Currently she works mainly with Cyanotype which is an alternative photographic process. Regina has taken part in a number of group exhibitions and has had two solo exhibitions in KAVA Kinvara.
This is a wet cyanotype I made in my garden of flowers I grew in summer 2024
Robin Jones
Landscape 4
(2026)
Ink on Found Wood
36.5 x 13.5 cm
Robin Jones is a (recently) Wexford based artist, who has shown widely in open submission, group and solo shows. His work is broadly concerned with space, how we engage with it and what we co-exist with in these spaces.
He mostly works with painting and drawing and occasionally, three dimensional work. Educated at Limerick School of Art, GMIT (now ATU) and the Slade School of Fine Art, London.
He has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, as well as participating in many other open submission shows - Members' Shows at 126 Gallery Galway, EV+A, Claremorris Open, National Portrait Award London, Iontas etc. He has been involved in Open Studio: A Conversation on Drawing, curated by Mary Ruth Walsh at the RHA among a number of group exhibitions in Ireland, France and the UK. He has had one-person shows at 126 Gallery, Galway; Siamsa Tire, Tralee; Roscommon Arts Centre and Galway Arts Centre.
Robyn Daly
Inside Is A Woman
(2026)
Archival Print
86 x 70 cm, Edition of 10 ( 9 available)
Robyn Daly is an Irish-South African fine art photographer based in Ireland. After a career as a photojournalist and commercial product photographer, she transitioned to fine art in 2025. She has served on judging panels for various African photography competitions and co-authored books on travel and photography.
With a Master's in English Literature from Rhodes University, focusing on women’s studies and 19th-century fairy tales, her work often reflects Irish folklore and the liminality of her subjects. Influenced by artists like Botticelli and Picasso, her photographs exhibit a painterly quality. Since moving to Ireland in 2020, she has been creating art in a semi-derelict 1920s house in Ballymahon.
Inside Is A Woman is the title piece of an ongoing body of work that stages a lone female figure inside abandoned and derelict houses, photographed around Ireland. Situated within several currents in contemporary figurative art that interrogate female identity, the work engages questions of presence, absence, agency and the politics of looking. In a world where social media scrutiny and AI-generated imagery pressurise us to present perfect identities, the gap between body and soul/self grows wider, made more complicated for women by gendered expectations. Through slow-exposure photography, light and time intersect to offer new ways of seeing. The works portray a fleeting female sense of being in this world, replete with mood and sensuousness, all the more engaging due to its elusive quality.
Ruby Staunton
In the hands of the maker.
(2024)
Mixed media, collage, oil, sackcloth, canvas, staples and cotton thread.
25 x 25 cm
Ruby Staunton is a visual artist based in County Mayo. Her work draws on the western landscape — its organic forms and the political histories that have shaped it — explored through a mixed media practice spanning screenprinting, collage, stitching, printmaking, oils and performance art.
She exhibits extensively both nationally and internationally.
She holds a BA (First Class Honours) in Visual Art Practice from IADT Dún Laoghaire and an MA in Art in the Contemporary World from NCAD Dublin.
Sally Hasson
Blue Stripe
(2026)
Oil on board
40 x 40 cm
I studied in NCAD and graduated in 1999 South a degree in Craft Design specialising in metalwork. Since then i have work across multiple areas of art and design, including jewellery, interiors, teaching and weaving. I am currently focusing on painting and have been attending classes at the RHA.
Sarah Ruttle
One Voice II
(2025)
Pencil on Paper
30 x 40 cm
Tyrone born visual artist Sarah Ruttle, living in West Cork, graduated in Constructed Textiles from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Scotland in 2002. The focus of Sarah’s work is People & Place, concentrating on capturing moments of humanity, emotion, courage and hope in contemporary figurative works, often featuring portraiture. With a foundation in textiles Sarah’s interest in creating layers and depth in her art continues to evolve. Drawing is central to her latest collections with an emphasis on creating detail through mark-making, while she also creates work in textiles and paper art. In January 2024 Sarah held a significant solo exhibition in Working Artist Studios, Ballydehob, sharing a new body of work. This was the first step in the evolution of her new work which included creative writing giving the audience of her work a deeper understanding of the works background.
Seán O'Riordan
Fool II
Ceramic
31 x 31 cm
Seán O’Riordan (Galway) is an artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans ceramics, woodwork, textiles, writing, and digital processes. They hold a BA from NCAD, Dublin (2016), and an MA from Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2023).
Seán’s work explores the politics of desire, value, and iconographic histories of consumption.
Ofton combining architectural and industrial techniques with craft and found materials - such as discarded scratch cards and nightclub tokens - they encode perceptions of value through sexuality, folklore, and non dominant language.
Seán often thinks about how linguistic, material, and sexual economies can re-evaluate our sense of value, place, and identity. By subverting these cultural narratives, they use sculpture as a tool for semi-fictional worldbuilding. These works confront normative structures through both large-scale installations and smaller, detailed pieces that ofton spill out as rebellious built environments.
Their work presents “caverns of joyous queer abandon: a currency of no value to those who can’t read it, yet meaningful for those proficient in evading banality.
Selma Makela
Fading Shadow
(2024)
Oil on linen
25 x 21 cm
Selma Makela is a visual artist of Finnish and Turkish Cypriot descent, born in London and based in County Galway, Ireland. She graduated form GMIT - Galway Mayo Institute of Technology with a First Class Honours in Fine Art - Painting in 2007.
Her practice engages with themes relating to environmental concern, climate emergency and our relationship to place. The work reflects upon concepts of distance and dislocation, both in terms of geological timelines, and our position within them, and also in terms of displacement and migration in a time of great of uncertainty.
Sheilann Kearney
After Matisse
Oil on canvas
21 X 29 cm
I began painting ten years ago at 65. I am enjoying colours.
Shivani Luithle
Summer I (Day)
(2024)
Linocut on paper
50 x 40 cm, Edition 3 of 3 ( 1 available)
Shivani (b. 1992) is an Australian-born multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and image-making. She is currently based in County Limerick, having recently relocated from Berlin.
Born to German and Indo-Fijian parents, she left Australia as a teenager and has since lived and studied across Europe, including in London and Denmark, where she completed a BA in Art and Technology. Her diasporic background and lack of connection to any one place form a central context for her practice.
In recent years, Shivani has presented work in project spaces in Berlin and was a member of the international Ilali Art Collective. In 2025 she completed an artist residency at TURBA Factory, further developing her sculptural practice. Her work unveils the beautiful and the grotesque in the hybrid and in-between, shaped by migration, transition and shifting conditions of belonging. She continues to develop her practice with site-responsive work, grounding loose roots in tangible environments.
Sinead O'Connell
Looking Through
(2026)
White earthenware, oxide slip
13 x 12 cm
From a series exploring the loss of trees in Ireland
Sinéad received her BFA in ceramics at ATU Cluain Mhuire in 2012 and was selected to exhibit at the RDS student award show that year. She has exhibited in Cork, Galway, Dublin and Clare. She works primarily in porcelain and white earthenware using this medium like pages from a book to make up snippits of stories on passing thoughts. She incorporates underglaze, slips and monoprint. Her current work explores loss of habitat.
Sinéad Reilly
Dockland
(2024)
Photograph, Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308
36 x 29 cm framed
Sinéad Reilly is a visual artist living and working in Galway. Her work reflects on living spaces and utilitarian environments we move through. Working with paint and photography, she is interested in compositions of daily life. Her most recent work has been shown in Vibrant Matter, 126 Gallery, Galway; Artform at The Dunmore, Dublin; and Surveyor, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath.
Siobhan McCooey
Storm, Inishowen
(2026)
Oil on Canvas
100 x 100 cm
Native of belfast. Lives and works in Inishowen, Donegal. Graduate of Ontario College of Art & Design Toronto. Studied painting, drawing, printmaking. Original studio member and guest curator CHGS&S 1997
EXHIBITIONS
1986 Univ. Of Toronto, St. Michaels College, 1987. Hart house Univ. Of Toronto. 2004 Group show. Courthouse Gallery. Limerick Art Gallery. 3 Artists. 2023. Exhibition. Summer Festival, Letterkenny. DESIGN Posters. New Music Concerts Univ of Toronto, John Cage, ROARATORIO, Poster. INT. Celtic Festival. U of Toronto
Siobhán Moore
Ethereal bloom
(2025)
oil on canvas
36 x 46 cm
Based in Galway, Siobhán Moore is a contemporary painter working across oil, acrylic, ink, and encaustic wax. Her practice is rooted in a deep engagement with the natural environment, drawing inspiration from sea, land, and sky. Through layered colour and subtle tonal shifts, Siobhán creates a sense of depth and quiet movement, where forms hover between recognition and abstraction. Her paintings invite a slower, more contemplative way of looking—one that is attuned to fleeting moments and the subtle rhythms of the natural world, where atmosphere, memory, and emotion quietly emerge.
Siobhán has exhibited widely in recent years, with solo exhibitions including The Commute at the PorterShed, Galway (2025) and As Far as the Eye Can Sea at Galway City Library (2024). Her work has also featured in group exhibitions and festivals including the RBSA Summer Show, Boyle Arts Festival, Clifden Arts Festival Arts Trail, and K-Fest Arts Festival, Kerry. Her paintings are held in private and corporate collections in Ireland and Europe.
In this work, soft, luminous forms emerge within a field of blue, suggesting delicate plant or sea life suspended between presence and dissolution. Layered colour and glazes create subtle tonal shifts and a sense of depth. Inspired by sea swimming and the fleeting encounters with creatures within it, the forms remain loose and suggestive rather than fixed or representational. The work seeks to evoke a sense of quiet calm and stillness in the viewer.
Studio Gaffrig
Under the Waterline
(2026)
Ceramics with raku glaze
7 x 25 cm
Roisin's practice heavily engages with studio space, as an impact on the work itself. Currently this space occupies a 100 year old wooden boat, where the shapes, the flaking paint, barnacles that live below the waterline, as well as underwater seascapes, provide alluring influence on the hand-built ceramic work.
Earthenware ceramic set of sculptures with raku glaze. All made and fired on the water, at Studio Gaffrig.
Tess Vera
A Year Without Running (Triptych)
(2026)
Cyanotype and thread on cotton rag, oil on board, Polaroid emulsion lift on cotton rag
15 x 90 cm
Tess Vera is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, filmmaker and film curator from Dublin, Ireland with a FETAC in Digital Film and TV Production from The Digital Exchange, an M.Phil in Film Theory and History from Trinity College Dublin and a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from IADT Dún Laoghaire.
Heavily informed by her interest in analogue processes including 35mm film, Polaroid, cyanotype, found footage, Super8 and organic materials, Tess' multi-disciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, photography, film and performance. Responding to themes of feminism, bodily autonomy, memory, identity and displacement,Tess' work negotiates tensions between movement and stasis, belonging and detachment, manipulation and interpretation - through contemplative, materially-grounded work.
To date, Tess’ work has been shown at exhibitions, festivals and events across Ireland, the UK, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Switzerland, Berlin and New York.
Thomas O'Connor
Schrödinger's Effusive Enfant
(2025)
Kiln formed glass
20 x 20 x 1cm
Biography
Thomas O'Connor studied Structural Engineering at DIT Bolton before setting up a glass studio at the turn of the millennium. He completed a HDip in Community Arts Education at NCAD in 2005. He was artist in residence at the CDVEC's Stoneybatter Youth Service from 2005-08 producing visual art, a publication, interventions and exhibitions over the duration of his time there. He has developed and delivered a number of education programmes in collaboration with and on behalf of the Chester Beatty Library from 2005-17. Between 2009-10 he collaborated with artist Jah Koh on a cross cultural project called, ""Reading the Self, Reading the Others with the Chinese and Irish communities. Recent group exhibitions include; 2025, Data, Humans, Alriwaq Art Space, Bahrain, What We Make of the Ruins, Ilkeston Contemporary Arts, England and SIGN, SYMBOL, WORD, Visual Arts Trail, Birr, Co. Offaly.
Thomas Scerri
LinkedIn Bio
(2025)
Acrylic on panel
40 x 30 cm
Thomas Scerri (b.1990) is a Maltese visual artist residing in Cork. He earned a BA and MFA in Digital Arts from the University of Malta. His work merges painting and sculpture, prominently featuring metal, and explores the dynamic between human-made and natural environments.
Scerri's art reflects on the impact of human actions on nature, urging viewers to consider the repercussions of unsustainable practices. He seeks meaning and calm in a fast-paced, tech-driven world, emphasizing materiality and texture in his creations. His series, LinkedIn Bio, critiques the obsession with job titles, highlighting envy through the use of green, a color symbolizing jealousy. This work questions how status influences self-worth and personal identity.
LinkedIn Bio forms part of the mini-series Chasing Titles, a satirical comment on the ego-driven obsession with advancing job titles - even if it means earning less. These titles often become more important than the work itself. Our jobs often end up defining who we are, and personal identity is reduced to a job title. The series touches on three of the seven deadly sins: envy, greed and pride. LinkedIn Bio particularly focuses on envy as denoted by the use of green - a colour that is associated with resentment and jealousy. The work aims to shed light on how easily status can dictate self-worth.
Tina O' Connell
The Weight of Yesterday
(2026)
Oak Wood, Oil Paint, Decking Oil
86 x 54 x 34 cm
Tina is a multidisciplinary artist from North Clare and a recent graduate of LSAD (BA Fine Art Sculpture and Combined Media). Her practice explores motherhood, identity, memory, and mental health through autobiographical storytelling. Working primarily with wood and mixed materials, she combines traditional carving techniques with contemporary approaches to create tactile, narrative sculptures.
Her work blends humour and introspection, examining familial relationships and the evolving role of women in contemporary Ireland. Tina has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions, including at Limerick City Gallery of Art, and is currently developing her practice through ongoing MFA research.
Carved from oak, this inward-folding figure reflects the physical and emotional weight of memory, held quietly within the body.
Tom Weld
No Further
(2024)
Oil paint on canvas
90 x 63 cms
I am self-taught as a painter. In UK and elsewhere I had a strong connection with the land.
The work grew from a lyrical, non-topographical approach, towards being more conscious of the effects of agriculture.
This developed when I started to use the idea of the map, specifically to express my fears and hopes, environmental, philosophical and political, about our world, past, future and present.
Tommy Brennan
Come back to me
(2024)
Limestone
47 x 25 x 15cm
Tommy Brennan is a self taught sculptor living in Tubber Co Clare. He creates mostly small scale figurative pieces in stone. He uses off-cuts or fragments of broken or discarded stone which he acquires from monumental sculptors, salvage yards or building sites. These pieces of stone, instead of being discarded are given a new lease of life. This recycling element is an important aspect of his work.
His sculptural practice begins with a clay model created from drawings and photographs which acts as a 3D guide for the finished piece.
He is currently focussing on figurative pieces which comment on environmental issues and also a series of fertility figures .
'Come back to me ' is sculpted from a piece of found Burren stone. It was unearthed when I was transplanting some pear trees in the garden. It had a flat base a slant which matched the angle in which I wanted to carve the figure. The stone is heavily fossilised and has many small fissures and cracks which are visible in the finished piece. The sculpture depicts a female figure lamenting loss
Trudi van der Elsen
Yellow Studio
(2018)
Oil on Canvas
50 x 50 cm
TRUDI VAN DER ELSEN, is a contemporary multi-media artist, based in Ireland since 2004. Her practice includes painting, drawing, installation work, performance and lens-based media. She exhibits regularly both nationally and internationally.
Upcoming solo exhibition in Limerick City Gallery of Art in June 2026
Recent exhibitions have included; Portals, solo exhibition at Burren College of Art Gallery 2026, Director's Cut, selected works by Úna McCarthy from Permanent Collection, LCGA 2025, Beyond Brushstrokes: Between Matter and Memory, curated by Sara Foust, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon and Burren College of Art 2024, ECHO, solo exhibition at Walters, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin 2023, Estuary, solo exhibition at Custom House Gallery, Westport, Co Mayo 2023, Sionainn, solo exhibition, Limerick Museum 2023, OPERE, Weber & Weber Gallery, Turin, Italy, 2023, Breaking Borders, Curated by Valeria Ceregini, Luan Gallery, Athlone & GOMA, Waterford, 2022, Artists from Ireland, online exhibition, Sasse Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA, 2021, Fragmented Perception, solo exhibition, Weber & Weber Gallery, Turin, Italy, 2021, RHA Annual, Dublin, Ireland, 2020, Notes From A Digital Sea, solo exhibition, Burren College of Art Gallery, Ireland 2020. XR-Extended Reality, solo exhibition, Toledo, Spain 2019.
Her work has been supported by the Arts Councils of Holland and Ireland, as well as Culture Ireland and Clare County Council. Her work is in private and public collections internationally, and in Ireland in collections of OPW, LCGA and Clare County Council.
Will O’Kane
Self-Portrait
(2025)
Oil on Canvas
50 x 40cm
Will O’Kane is an artist based in Co. Clare.
