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From the Cradle to the Cave explores the shared origins of art and language, drawing on the visual echoes of cave markings and childhood scribbles as early, embodied forms of communication. Through gesture, repetition and intuitive mark-making, the work loosens language from fixed meaning, returning it to something physical, instinctive and felt, where a line […]

This major retrospective celebrates over 40 years of work by acclaimed press photographer Declan Doherty, whose images have powerfully documented life across Donegal through his role at the Donegal News. The exhibition includes more than 400 photographs, presented both digitally and in print, capturing moments from 1980 to 2023. Many feature the people and everyday

Painting Project #1 – Labhraim Le Stráinséirí explores mark-making, movement, and meaning through an improvised approach to painting, writing, and drawing. A painter, poet, and performer, Aodán McCardle’s work captures the energy of action and uncertainty, revealing creativity as something raw, immediate, and alive. A co-editor at Veer Books and published author, McCardle brings a

This exhibition presents a selection of printed works by two artists from Gaza, Raed Issa and Sohail Salem. Both artists have been making drawings that document life during the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis. These prints offer a powerful, first-hand reflection on what it means to live and create art under siege. Raed Issa, born

Portraits of Herstory is an exhibition celebrating extraordinary women whose contributions have been downplayed, overlooked, forgotten, or erased from history. Through a series of mixed-media portraits, this collection honours and retells the stories of remarkable women who defied convention, broke barriers, and changed the world. The series features portraits of Frida Kahlo, an artist who

Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s exhibition Sruth — the Irish for “flow” or “stream” — presents a body of work that continues her sustained engagement with the language of painting itself. Innately concerned with the material qualities of paint and the physical act of painting, Ní Mhaonaigh resists the confinements of allegory, instead approaching painting as an

Parallel Lands brings together new works by Newfoundland artists Michael Flaherty, Susan Furneaux, and Kym Greeley, curated by Philippa Jones as part of the international partnership between Artlink (Donegal, Ireland) with CRUX (Newfoundland, Canada). Their works reflect a deep dialogue with the land and sea, revealing how Ireland and Newfoundland, divided by the Atlantic, are