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Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Co Cork: Sarah Dwyer: Penti Menti
Open from Sat 15 Nov
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Image: Sarah Dwyer, Lumber Out, 2025, Oil and Oil Bar on Linen | it could be taken as a purely abstract artwork, but it is hard not to detect something like a face looking out at us – two eyes, something like a nose, something even more like a mouth with uneven rows of teeth, and something somewhat resembling a dog and its shadow towards the right; the colour scheme is quite saturated and tonally from very dark blue to white or almost white; shapes are very ambiguous; brushstrokes visible, some layering of colours • “Penti Menti at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is Sarah Dwyer’s first institutional exhibition in Ireland. Born in Cork, Dwyer has a significant international profile. The artist frequently combines drawing with painting, printmaking and sculpture, employing exuberant colour palettes and lively mark-making to depict semi-figurative and abstract imagery. Taking cues from Surrealism, Cobra and Abstract Expressionism, her practice explores image and form through the…"
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Butler Gallery, Kilkenny: Kilkenny Design Workshops: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Open from Sat 15 Nov
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Image: Patrick Scott, 'Gold Painting', 1979, gold leaf & tempera on unprimed canvas, 121 x 121cm (Detail) | mostly raw canvas, probably, but in the middle a 'sun' – a gold disk with a square in the middle, its sides about a quarter the diameter of the disk; radiating from this ‘sun’ are pale white rays forming an outer disk; they are in a slight swirl, as though the sun disk is turning • "Butler Gallery is very pleased to honour the 60th Anniversary of the Kilkenny Design Workshops with a special display of works by artists long associated with KDW. They include works by Oisin Kelly, Sonja Landweer, Louis le Brocquy and Patrick Scott, all artists who are featured in the Butler Gallery Permanent Collection. The opening of the Kilkenny Design Workshops (KDW) in 1965, established Kilkenny as the national home of design excellence in Ireland and over its tenure (1965-1988) played a significant role in shaping both our cultural heritage and identity. KDW was established to…”
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Rua Red, Dublin 24: Dominick Sorace: When Stars Collide
Closing Sat 15 Nov
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Image: Dominick Sorace: When Stars Collide. Sand, gravel, bronze, and a 23-minute durational audio piece. Dimensions vary. 2025 | photo of a bronze, hollow head lying on its side; heroic Graeco-Roman style; much detail in the hair, which we notice because the head is photographed hovering above and a short distance away from the top left of the face; background: pure white • “The gallery is now a transitional space, altered, just for a while. It’s now a contemplative space, left behind from when Stars Collide. A tunnel to lead you in, and a voice to hold you here. When Stars Collide is a multimedia installation, landscaping the gallery floor with sand and heaps of gravel to accommodate an array of fallen stars and a decapitated head. Once inside, a voice questions and contemplates upon the embodiment of the night sky, a few recalled memories, beliefs, the body it used to inhabit, and its disappointments and hopes, all while…waiting. The “voice” analytically and poetically loops…”
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Rua Red, Dublin 24: Right Here Right Now – Annual Open Exhibition 2025
Closing Sat 15 Nov
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Image: Installation shot, Annual Open Exhibition 2024 | we see two figures, foreground left, contemplating three sculptural pieces that look somewhat like a cross between boat oars and bare trees; on the wall behind we see most of a framed artwork, possibly flat, possibly not, but it looks like a black coat and back trousers, as they might hang together on a hanger, against a white background; the piece is bisected vertically by one of the tree-oar sculpture • “Featuring: Reuben Brown, Dee Byrne, Geraldine Carton, Emanuela Carvisiglia, Rayleen Clancy + Beatrice O'Connell, Tomas Correa Monteiro Machado Antunes, Paddy Critchley, Gemma Crowe, Jane Cummins, Alicia Donnan, Hannah Farrell, Sophie Gough, Susan Gogan, Nickie Harrington, Annie Hogg, Conor Horgan, Elizabeth Hogan, Jim Xi Johnson, Gary Kearney, Lucy Lambe, Sarah Lincoln, Sarah Long, Maeve Lynch, Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh, Maria Maarbjerg, Tadhg McGreevy, Constance McKenna, Joanna McNulty, Asha Murray, Aoife Ní Dhuinn, Augustine…”
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 8: Geraldine O’Neill: Flicker, Flicker
Closing Sat 15 Nov
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Image: Geraldine O'Neill, Mise en scène, 2025 | this is presumably a photo taken in the artist’s studio; we see a rake of stuff – a step ladder on the left, a vacuum cleaner on the floor, an animal skull on the floor, etc.; on a wall to the left hang various images, possibly source material; facing the camera a very large canvas on which there is a possibly finished painting in a representational style; in it we see a background that is possibly based on a Renaissance painting of saint-in-wilderness variety; there is also a fish or two, a vacuum cleaner, an animal skull, a mallard duck, a Peppa the Pig, a baby on a white tray, a yellow balloon with a face on it…; and in front of a cloth in the painting stands a young figure with long blond hair and a yellow t-shirt holding the vacuum-cleaner shaft thing • “…”
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Solomon Fine Art, Dublin 2: Corban Walker: Resist
Closing Sat 15 Nov
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Image: Corban Walker: Untitled (In Less Than One Month), patinated bronze, 20 x 22 x 18 cm | photo of a stack of rectangular shapes, roughly comparable to short-ish novels or roof slates; they are patinated dark • “Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host an exhibition by one of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists, Corban Walker. In this, Walker’s second solo exhibition with Solomon Fine Art, he continues his explorations of scale and architectural constructs, shaped by his perception of a world mapped out to accommodate a different measure from his own. This new body of work reflects a deep engagement with the current volatile global landscape on multiple levels, while also addressing his experience of navigating his surroundings with reduced mobility.“
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Roscommon Arts Centre, Circular Road Roscommon Town: Cut From The Same Cloth
Opening Fri 14 Nov
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Image: Photo Credit: Anthony Hobbs | a photo, it seems at least, of a square quilt; the background is white, textured; there is a golden border, which is made up of some letters and some other symbols, mostly A, somewhat funkily, T, C and G – so DNA; there is a swirl of very various textile patterns in a band that looks like a very very long tie that someone might wear; below this swirl is a QR code; if you scan it with your phone, it takes you to cutfromthesamecloth.org, which is fabulous!! The UCD Patient Voice initiative is part of the Conway Institute, they support this project and are at patientvoice@ucd.ie • “Curated by Lorna Donlon Honouring the power of human trust and connection, this exhibition is a song to cloth and to story. Icon, symbol, talisman, relic, portal, cure: cloth, imbued with meaning, is a carrier of story; a universal language, spoken without words. As people, made from a set of biological materials, we share the same internal patterning of cells and…”
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork: Parallax Emerging Film Artist Exhibition: Stolen Sealskin
Opening Fri 14 Nov
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Image: black-and-white still image of a naked figure standing on a seaweed-covered rock surrounded by water; the image is flipped, so that the actual legs of the figure are stretching towards the bottom of the image, whereas we see almost the entire figure reflected in the water • “Stolen Sealskin is a solo exhibition by Sarah Lou Kinneen, recipient of the Parallax Emerging Film Artist Bursary 2025, a collaboration between CIFF, National Sculpture Factory and Sample-Studios to champion emerging film artists and moving image work. Stolen Sealskin reimagines the enduring Selkie legend through an immersive installation that drifts between myth and memory. The legend follows a shapeshifting seal-woman who becomes bound to land and severed from sea when her sealskin is stolen. Through moving image, sculpture and sound, Stolen Sealskin navigates…” autonomy, coercion, and biopolitics, drawing from folklore and cultural memory. Established in 2022, the Parallax Award seeks out, supports a …
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Atypical Gallery, Belfast: Charys Wilson: Half Light
Open from Thu 13 Nov
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This appears to a a moody, greyscale photo of the pattern of leaf shadows on a pale wall • “UofA’s CEO and Artistic Director Edel Murphy welcomes Charys Wilson with her new work Half Light saying: “As the dark evenings come in, this exhibition of light could not be more welcome. Half Light comes to UofA as the successful response to our Green Open Call asking d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists to connect audiences with climate, environment, and creating a sustainable future through an innovative and engaging visual arts work. Charys Wilson is an Irish visual artist working primarily in installation. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University, and an MFA from Ulster University. Her immersive, contemplative works explore light, space, and time and often draws on natural elements. She has exhibited widely across Ireland, the UK, Germany, and Japan, with solo exhibitions in Berlin, Belfast, and Derry-Londonderry. Charys often creates installations using light…“
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Taylor Galleries, Dublin 2: Pat Harris: Niks
Opening Thu 13 Nov
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Image: pale rose-coloured painting of a rose, just the flower, viewed from the side • “Taylor Galleries is pleased to present Niks, a solo exhibition of new paintings by gallery artist Pat Harris, opening on Thursday 13 November and running from 14 November to 6 December 2025. In this exhibition, Harris brings together two complementary bodies of work: a series of oil paintings inspired by the coastline of North Mayo, and a group of large-scale paintings featuring a single flower motif. While these flower paintings mark a new direction in the artist's practice, they remain deeply connected to his experience of the Mayo landscape. Harris's fascination with the light, space, and profound sense of nothingness that he encounters on long walks through the boglands of North Mayo informs both strands of this exhibition. The flower and landscape motifs stand side by side as testaments to the silvery light and quiet expansiveness of this western terrain. Through these works, Harris renders…”
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Luan Gallery, Co. Westmeath: Science Week at Luan Gallery: Systems and Cyborgs
Open from Tue 11 Nov
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Image: Colin Martin, Humanoid, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist | in the painting we see head an shoulders of what appears to be a normal human, viewed from the left, slightly to the front – except that the top of the head has been removed and we see mechanisms and circuitry; we also glimpse mechanics at the top of the two arms • “As part of Science Week 2025, Luan Gallery presents Systems and Cyborgs - a series of talks, workshops, screenings, and creative activities in dialogue with the current exhibition SYSTEM ARMING. Science week events will run from Tuesday 11th to Saturday 15th November at Luan Gallery. The exhibition examines the entanglement of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism, investigating how data mining, algorithms, and machine learning shape our daily lives - influencing everything from human behaviour and perception to ecological and psychological wellbeing. Throughout Science Week, audiences of all ages are invited to explore how…”
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Municipal Gallery, Co. Dublin: Karen Ebbs: An Outer Reflection of an Inner Reality
Closing Sun 9 Nov
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Image: Karen Ebbs: Once a day, find yourself lost, 2025 | largely a purely abstract painting, but some perspectival effects hint at an open door-frame onto a bright outdoors, indicated by a white rhomboid stretching towards the viewer; other shapes contradict or reinforce the spatial illusion, and there is a feel of walls painted with high-colour shapes in pinks, oranges, greens, etc. • “Paintings of hope at centre of art exhibition at dlr LexIcon • Artist Karen Ebbs explores colour, reflections, and reality in this new body of artworks Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is pleased to present An Outer Reflection of an Inner Reality, an exhibition of new artworks by Karen Ebbs. This is a striking exhibition featuring large, colourful oil paintings, mirrored plexiglass, and sculptures. Karen’s work invites viewers to explore themes of reflection, perception, and the nature of reality. At the heart of the work is colour - life-affirming and transformative. She uses colour as a…”
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford: Ciara O’Connor: Grief’s Current Shape
Closing Sat 8 Nov
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Image: A drawing using dark thread against a pale uniform background; which we are seeing only a cropped part of a larger image; two figures are looking out at us; drawn quite figuratively, though long threads hang down randomly; the figures appear to be in jackets, maybe, and we can see hints of other figures; a tractor may be involved as well, as we can see the first eight and a half letters of the name Massey Ferguson • “Ciara O’Connor is a Kerry-based visual artist who works primarily with textiles and free motion embroidery. Her work is figurative and deals with themes of identity, feminism, trauma and recovery. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of traditional techniques to tell contemporary stories. Since returning to her practice in 2019 she has been selected for 15 group shows, including Following Threads in Crawford Art Gallery, and RUA and RSA Annuals. She had her first solo show in Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2022, and has featured in FAIRE, Image Magazine, The…”
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Baileborough Courthouse, Co Cavan: Elena Duff: The Old Gods
Closing Sat 8 Nov
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Image: painting; we see a side voew of what is probably a mythical beast, looking somewhat like a Tasmanian devil; its bodly black and hairy … only that its side, or an x-ray-like view of its inside – is a pattern of flowers – green leaves, pink florets; behind is a colourful, fariy-tale-like scene of trees, birds in the air, the moon, colourful trees, a jaguar climbing a tree, a human bottom right apparently interacting with / confronting / about to be a meal of the beast; the human is holding what seem to be a very long club in one hand and a somewhat similar stick in the other hand, is wearing a patterned blue dress-like garb, and wearing a crown; the beast it sticking its tongue out at the figure • “Join us this October and explore the work of artist Elena Duff, who brings her fascinating solo art exhibition to Bailieborough. Inspired in part by the local folklore of Knockbride, this fantastically creative and vibrant collection is a fantastic showcase of the local talent…”
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1: Group show: Ode to Giants
Open from Fri 7 Nov
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Image: Vicky Smith, Obair bhaile, Homework, oil on canvas, 50x70cm, 2025 | In what is possibly a kitchen + living-room area, we see a child / young teen sitting at a large table, presumably doing homework though looking towards us; there is a dog – golden retriever? – on a cushion on the floor, a blue sofa in the background, some fruit in a bowl on the table, signs of paintings on the wall in the background. plus a possible door, a chair at the table, tiled floor in two different patterns, much sunlight from what is probalby a large window to the left, or a patio door, overall orange tone, looks nice! • "Artists: Annika Berglund, Hugh Cummins, Mary A. Fitzgerald, David Fox, Conrad Frankel, Nickie Hayden, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Miriam McConnon, Sheila Naughton, Bart O'Reilly, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford and Vicky Smith. Artists have been asked to respond to their favourite artworks from three Dublin museums: IMMA, The National Gallery of Ireland and The National Museum of…”
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin 1: Patrick Graham: Gilboa Iris
Opening Fri 7 Nov
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Image: Patrick Graham: Gilboa Iris, 2025, mixed media, 81 x 110 cm | against a grey background we see two blocks of what may be soil or some sort of substitute, portrayed as a sort of gridded brick, from which two irises emerge, just a single flower, the one on the left no more than outlined except for the green stem, the one on the right meanwhile has the iris itself coloured as well; above the irises we read ‘Gilboa Iris’ on one line, and ’Iris Haynes’ beneath that; under the soil bricks, we can read ‘Gilboa Iris’; the writing is hand-drawn and seems a bit hesitant • "Graham’s work is made of and by his heartfelt obsessions – nature, beauty, horror, history, politics, philosophy, religion – and how life’s heart and mind plays out in the shadow of the soul. A strength of such art is that it can feel like a heavy blow to the heart or a kiss full of promise and hope, levers to open the eye to finding a silence in which truth remains hidden and assurance is offered only in going…”
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Green On Red Gallery, Dublin 1: Alan Butler: ASSETS
Opening Fri 7 Nov
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Image: Alan Butler: Ghost Mussels, 2025, Acrylic Paint on PETG (Detail) | hard to describe; photo (?) of a 3D object that looks somewhat like a very faceted mountain, though the colours appear to be blue and purple into strong pink; on one side of this possible mountain there appears to be a row of seeds, like from a melon, pale, overflowing, like they are coming out of a mouth, upwards; the object is in a grey photographic space • "ASSETS is Alan Butler’s second solo exhibition since his debut here in 2017, and since then, his work has been the subject of over one hundred exhibitions at galleries, museums and festivals around the world. His work is known for delving into the mechanisms of digital technologies and image production, and in recent years, both concepts and media have focused heavily on connecting physical materials and hand-made production processes to digital cloud technologies, ecology and simulated worlds. The exhibition is typically interdisciplinary and features…"
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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IMMA, Kilmainham Dublin 8: Cecilia Vicuña: Reverse Migration a Poetic Journey
Opening Thu 6 Nov
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Image: Cecilia Vicuña, Medusa, 1972/2023, oil on canvas. 91.44 x 71.12 cm. Private collection. Courtesy the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: Thomas Merle. © 2025 Cecilia Vicuña | painting of a seven-(bald-)headed figure with mostly bare body frolicking apparently mountainous territory; the right hand holds a lead or leash that leads down to a red box with gold interior, apparently a sort of cage, one from which, possibly, the seven pale fish we see swimming among bare trees in the distance may have escaped or been released; a red line or thread links these black trees and the right foot of the happy dancer, if that is happiness; there is a window to the left, piercing a hill and a mountain; it is open; through it we see sky and hills • “IMMA presents Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey, the first solo exhibition in Ireland by internationally renowned artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña. This ground breaking presentation delves into themes of ancestry, ecological…”
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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NCAD Gallery, Dublin 8: Meaning In Mulitples: Contemplations on Risograph printing
until Thu 6 Nov
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Image: black-and-white image; the letters of ‘MEANING IN MULTIPLES circle a photo of someone loading funky tubes into a funky-tube holder; we just see a torso and two arms, the right one tattooed with what may be a dragon; a few bits of text and a logo are outside the ring of text • “Meaning in Multiples: Contemplations on Risograph printing is a process-based research project output led by Kate Brangan and Isobel Rose Grange, produced in the NCAD Gallery from 29 October — 06 November 2025, that includes a series of workshops, public talks, and roundtable discussions, within a generative exhibition space. Through hosting this live, discursive gathering, the aim is to encourage contemplation of Risograph printing, to increase awareness around the capabilities of the machine, and to develop the conversation among a diverse group of participants and audiences within NCAD and beyond. Inviting participants to come together to contemplate the Risoprinter is the central theme of the…"
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City: Cork Zine Fest
Open from Wed 5 Nov
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Image: cartoonish drawing of a black cat apprently in the process of making a zine – it looks happy as it sits at a pink desk and cuts a piece of paper; we see a landline and a typewriter on the desk, and bits of actual paper; the cat is wearing a jacket that is white with squiggly green lines; its nose is pink, its eyes green; on the ‘wall’ behind the cat we read “Nov 2025” in pink, and “Cork Zine Fest” in black, white grey • “Cork Zine Fest (CZF) is back for 2025 and bigger than ever before! This year we will be taking part in a residency in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space from 5 to 30 November. Partnering with Sample-Studios and the Crawford Art Gallery, we are excited to deliver a series of free workshops and events with community groups and the zine-making public throughout the month, concluding with a week-long CZF Exhibition and Library showcase and our 2025 Cork Zine Fest Market on 29 and 30 November at the South Parish Community Centre. We are grateful to Sample-Studios…”
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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National Sculpture Factory, Cork City: Career of an Artist
Open from Tue 4 Nov
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Image: photo view of NSF floor, in slightly blue-ish greyscale; we see a lot of people sitting on chairs having the chats; ther are bits of works in progress to be seen in the background • "Session schedule Tuesday 04 November – 5PM | The Studio – in person Tuesday 11 November – 5PM | The Residency – online Monday 24 November – 5PM | The Network – online Tuesday 02 December – 5PM | The Gallery – in person Cornerstones of The Career of an Artist include the Studio, the Residency, the Network, the Gallery; all which require planning and coherence. These building blocks of the approach to the Career of An Artist are the subjects of this series of talks/discussions. NSF director and independent curator Helen Carey will suggest a number of steps to consider or to reject, in a series of four sessions, two of which will be in person in NSF, and two which will be virtual via Zoom. Each session will last 45 minutes, with 30 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of discussion. Six…"
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford: Isabel English: first-person
Open from Sat 1 Nov
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Image: slightly pale tan- or lemon-coloured greyscale bands, maybe 20 of them down the image, purely horizontal, with multiple gradients from dark to light and back; like some sort of interference pattern, with a hint of something being hidden • “Through the combined mediums of photography, textile, and sculpture, artist Isabel English extends from the literary genre of autofiction – merging autobiographical truths with fictionalised renderings – to create contextually sensitive installations. Drawing on the architecture of the home, they fuse sites of personal significance with the politics of psychology. Body and building become analogous: the body acts as an architecture housing emotional interiority, while the building aspires to protect those who dwell within it. In autofiction, the author shields themselves from true representation. This shield, a type of representational gauze or armour, acts as a layer upon which intimacies and vulnerabilities can be tried but not proven…"
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1: Daniel Lipstein: Self Portrait with a Pet and a Bathtub
Closing Sun 2 Nov
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Image: Daniel Lipstein, Self Portrait with a Pet and a Bathtub (Climb 8), oil on linen, 71x85 cm, 2025 | country scene, by a narrow water channel between two green fields in wintertime; on the right we see a purple-haired someone, presumably the artist, given the work’s title, standing on the first and second step of a step-ladder; from the right hand a lead stretches towards a large fish that may be trying to escape into the gully but is, perhaps, restrained by. the lead; a bit farther from us is a bathtub, lying in the grass, looking pretty grubby; the sky is white • “Self, pet and a bathtub is a triangle of elements arranged as a composition in this oil on linen painting whose title is also the title of the whole show. The bathtub is from my locality at the fields around my studio in county Donegal where farmers arrange bathtubs arbitrarily on the landscape for their cows and bulls to drink from. Once an intimate function in a household now these are curious shapes in open spaces…”
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM