Upcoming Exhibitions
July - Aug 2026
Upcoming Exhibition:
'On the Edge and In-Between'
by James Hayes
Exhibition Dates: 3rd July - 1st Aug 2026.
An exhibition of artwork reflecting six months living and working as the Caretaker of the Great Blasket Island, with the objective of expressing the contemporary life of the island that has not yet found visual expression.
In these paintings Hayes brings to bear his longstanding exploration of the relationship between self and surroundings upon a unique context. The work examines the relationship between the past and the present on the island, the nature of ‘islandness’; the ‘sense of place’ of islands more generally and their distinctly liminal nature. In his re-presentations of contemporary island life he has painted what he encountered with honesty and sincerity, suspending some of the more persistent binary preconceptions and metaphors about islands with a view to creating a more nuanced picture that might challenge and re-contextualise them.
His aim was to best capture an expanded sense-of-place and communicate the islands' complex phenomenological reality; its specific spatiality and temporality. https://www.theliminalpage.com/
View our Current Exhibition: HERE
Aug 2026
Upcoming Exhibition:
'How do you Sew the Night'
by Gráinne Mulligan
Exhibition Dates 8th Aug - 19th Sept 2026
An exploration of intergenerational memory, absence and the maternal, explored through an examination of gender craft in Kerry in the context of contemporary art.
The artist's grandmother’s quilt, which she crocheted over 100 years ago in Beale in North Kerry, acts as a repository of the memory of the hands that made it and the bodies it covered in life and death. In the digital era of ephemera and immediate stimuli it is also a reflection on the durational process of crocheting which like painting and other art forms uniquely holds ones presence and memory.
The work is materialised in paintings drawings and thread sculptures, the latter, a visual metaphor for maternal/ mitochondrial DNA. https://grainnemulligan.com/
View our Current Exhibition: HERE
