Upcoming Exhibitions
July - Aug 2026
Upcoming Exhibition:
'On the Edge and In-Between'
by James Hayes
Exhibition Dates: 4th July - 1st Aug 2026.
An exhibition of artwork reflecting Hayes’ six months living and working as a Caretaker of the Great Blasket Island. Bringing his longstanding exploration of self and surroundings to this unique setting, he captures the world he encountered, its modern cast of characters, and its contemporary way of life. The paintings examine the dynamic relationship between past and present, exploring the inherent nature of ‘islandness’ and the distinctly liminal sense of place. His re-presentations of the island are painted with honesty and sincerity. Suspending some of the persistent preconceptions about islands, he challenges and re-contextualises them, creating a more nuanced picture. His ultimate aim being to capture an expanded sense-of-place and communicate the islands' complex phenomenological reality; its specific spatiality and temporality.
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/
