Richard Gorman’s exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery, ‘Hinge’, is a collaboration with the Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce and the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art. Centred on a new site-specific installation and sculpture, the exhibition showcases the artist’s manipulation of colour, form and metaphor on the flat plane of a canvas, and the dynamic interplay of geometric forms created from handmade Japanese paper.
Richard Gorman: 8 March – 20 August
Josephine Geaney’s ‘Soul of Truth’ at the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre in the Naul takes its title from ‘Slievenamon’, the well-known song associated with Tipperary. Using a rich palette, Geaney’s paintings draw on the Tipperary landscape and incorporate themes of folklore, cartography and the natural world.
Josephine Geaney: 3 April – 31 May
Mary O’Connor’s ‘Stacks’ at the Pigyard Gallery references islands, land boundaries and other geographical locations. The artist uses a strong colour palette and bold abstract designs to suggest movement and environmental collapse. Sea stacks are by-products of erosion and geographical transformation. As such, they tell us about the earth’s formation and change.
Mary O’Connor: 1 – 22 April
In ‘The Colour of Things’ at the Molesworth Gallery, artist Catherine Barron explores our perception of colour, noting that, like pain, it is a subjective experience. Recognising each person’s unique understanding of colour – how it is made and perceived – her work is not about capturing how things look, but the artist’s experience of them.
Catherine Barron: 20 April – 12 May
‘People and Places’, a National Library of Ireland exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, features photographs from the NLI collections. The archive extends to five million photographs that date from 1858 to 2001. The exhibition highlights the diversity of stories from Ireland’s towns, villages and townlands and it is accompanied by a hybrid programme of online and in-person events.
People and Places: ongoing
‘Beyond the Studio’ at dlr LexIcon shows work by UCD Parity Studios artists in residence: Sarah Browne, Rhona Byrne, Lorna Donlon, Emma Finucane, Maria McKinney, Michael McLoughlin, Méadhbh O’Connor, Rosie O’Reilly and Sonia Shiel. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and sound works.
Beyond the Studio: 24 March – 28 May
A member of the Backwater Artists Network, Samir Mahmood presents an exhibition at MART Gallery in Rathmines, drawing on his research on experiences of migration, citizenship, identity and spirituality. His work comprises of digital photo-collages, paintings, objects and video. Mahmood also draws on the history of Indo-Persian miniature and manuscript art, altering its grammar to express the realities of life for queer migrants.
Samir Mahmood: 11 – 24 March
The SCOOP Foundation’s annual art auction at the Royal Hibernian Academy features work from over 100 artists this year. One-of-a kind artworks are on offer on unusual canvases such as cardboard pizza boxes, mirrors and even skateboards. The foundation supports educational programmes that help young refugees at home and abroad. Auctioneer George Mealy leads the proceedings. Viewing is from 6pm on the night; the auction is at 8pm.
Outside the Box Charity Art Auction: 28 March
Draíocht’s current resident artist, Ellen Duffy, presents an exhibition, ‘Pushing into Space’. Working across sculptural assemblage, expanded painting, mixed-media collage and drawing, Duffy has adapted found and sourced materials. Her process is playful and seeks to create a dialogue between the objects and materials used in her work.
Ellen Duffy: until 29 April
‘To Walk in the Image’ at Lismore Castle Arts shows the work of Phoebe Cummings, Sabine Mirlesse and Alexander Mourant. The gallery is a former chapel and the artists explore ideas of spirituality, ritual and the land through the lens of expanded photography. Considering the layered possibilities of the site – early Christian chapels were built on pagan sites of worship – the artists seek to reveal past histories.
To Walk in the Image: 25 March – 7 May
‘The Disappointed Tourist’ at the Butler Gallery is an ongoing series of paintings by Ellen Harvey of places and sites around the world that no longer exist, erased by forces of war, time, ideology, greed and natural disaster. The artist notes that her work is prompted by a need to repair what has been broken, but also recognises the inadequacy of her simulacra.
Ellen Harvey: 15 April – 28 May
Painter Nickie Hayden’s ‘Safe Harbour’ at the Olivier Cornet Gallery is the culmination of four years of work on the theme of sanctuary. Recognising that sanctuary can manifest in different ways, the artist investigates the theme of guidance – for example, how a lighthouse guides a ship to safety.
Nickie Hayden: 9 April – 7 May
The Kerlin Gallery presents ‘The Clock Winds Down’, a series of large-scale paintings by Brian Maguire. The artist travelled to Brazil to witness the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, seeing the devastation caused to indigenous people by industrialised farming. The paintings in the show capture this social and ecological crisis.
Brian Maguire: 3 March – 8 April
Marking forty-three years since its foundation, the Dundalk Photographic Society hold an exhibition at An Táin Arts Centre in which the members’ work is judged by an international expert. The society is affiliated with the Irish Photographic Federation and is an active participant in regional and national photographic events.
Dundalk Photographic Society: 22 April – 6 May
Padraig Parle’s exhibition at SO Fine Art Editions spans the last four years, encompassing life before and after the pandemic. The work in ‘Beneath the Surface’ focuses on colour, texture and composition, incorporating elements from nature that Parle transforms into abstract structures.
Padraig Parle: 8 – 29 April
The Oliver Sears Gallery present an exhibition by painter Sophia Campbell, ‘Is It Still Raining’, at the Irish Architectural Archive. Campbell explores the relationship between humans, water and flowers. Her flower images are drawn from bunches chained to lamp-posts next to fatal car accidents, a memorial that is found all over the world. The water imagery is a confection of the imagination but relates to climate change and the dissonance between the danger that water presents to mankind and the pleasure it affords.
Sophia Campbell: 14 March – 5 April
The Droichead Arts Centre First Solo Award enables emerging artists to hold their first solo exhibition at the gallery. Iollann Ó Murchú’s ‘Tarraingíonn Scéal Scéal Eile (One Story Leads to Another)’ is a body of photographic work drawing on mythology and folklore. Aligned with the natural landscape, Ó Murchú’s images question the contemporary need to exploit the earth’s resources.
Iollann Ó Murchú: 4 – 22 April
The Complex presents an exhibition of works by Louisa Casas, Isabel English, Niamh O’Malley and Jan McCullough. Sitting between abstraction and representation, the artists explore mark-making, shifting viewpoints and alternative narratives. The exhibition is associated with the Irish Tour of Ireland at Venice 2022.
Louisa Casas, Isabel English, Niamh O’Malley and Jan McCullough: 25 March – 7 April
The exhibition ‘Taking Care’ at Riverbank Arts Centre presents work from the Kildare Municipal Art Collection, drawn from the county’s public buildings. Established by the architects’ department in 1976, the collection includes work by Evie Hone, Patrick Pye, Patrick Collins, Charlie Brady, Seán McSweeney, Robert Ballagh, Norah McGuinness and Niamh O’Malley.
Taking Care: 21 April – 27 May
The richness of the National Gallery of Ireland‘s pastel collection is highlighted in their exhibition ‘Pastel Revealed’, with works that explore the history of the medium and how it has changed over four centuries. Artists include Edmund Ashfield, Thomas Frye, Rosalba Carriera, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Jean-François Millet, Edgar Degas, Maurice Marinot, Harry Kernoff and Brian Bourke.
NGI: 25 February – 5 June
IMMA presents a retrospective of the artist Patricia Hurl’s practice over the last forty years. Hurl’s work is political and traverses the disciplines of painting, multi-media and collaboration. Since the 1980s, she has created work that deals with loss, pain, frustration and loneliness.
Patricia Hurl: 10 February – 2 July
The Butler Gallery celebrates its 80th anniversary with an exhibition of existing works and recent acquisitions. Featured artists include: Peter Bradley, Michael Beirne, Edward Delaney, Flor Garduño, Vera Klute, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Tony O’Malley, Gypsy Ray, Emma Roche and Blaise Smith. Commissioned responses by performance artist Suzanne Walsh will also be part of the celebrations.
Butler Gallery: 28 January – 26 March
The exhibition ‘Liked and Shared’ at Marsh’s Library brings together treasures from the library’s collection that found widespread popularity when shared on social media. These include a five-foot map of Venice, 18th-century avian watercolours and examples of Dublin-made bindings, as well as doodles and drawings.
Liked and Shared: until March 31
A new exhibition at the Chester Beatty focuses on the important collection of manuscripts known as the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri. Dating from the 2nd to the 4th century AD, these ancient books reveal the material histories of writing and bookbinding, textual histories of translation and transmission, and later object histories of ownership, publication and display.
First Fragments: Biblical Papyrus from Roman Egypt: 28 October – 30 April
