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SUMMARY:AIB PORTRAIT PRIZE & AIB YOUNG PORTRIAT PRIZE
DESCRIPTION:AIB Portrait Prize and AIB Young Portrait Prize 2025 at Waterford Gallery of Art. \nMake sure to catch this must see exhibition showcasing artwork from artists across Ireland. \nFree entry\,\n10am-5pm\,\nTuesday-Saturday \nExhibition will run from 18 July – 10 October 2026 \nAn exhibition supported by AIB\, organised by National Gallery of Ireland \nImage by @dgmphotographic \nSharing & Printing\n				Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)\n				Email\n			\n				Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n				LinkedIn\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)\n				WhatsApp\n			\n				Print (Opens in new window)\n				Print\n			Like this:Like Loading…
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LOCATION:Waterford Gallery of Art\, Waterford Gallery of Art 31-32 O’Connell St\,\, Waterford\, X91 RR2R\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Art.,Exhibition,Waterford Gallery of Art
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SUMMARY:Waterford Artist Group Mentoring Scheme 2026
DESCRIPTION:Waterford Artist Group Mentoring Scheme 2026\n  \nThe Arts Office\, Waterford City and County Council is pleased to announce details of the ‘Waterford Artist Group Mentoring Scheme 2026’. This programme helps emerging visual artists with an existing practice in painting and/or drawing to make breakthroughs in their artistic practice by placing them into a cohort of peers and connecting them to established artists. The scheme is open to artists who are resident in Waterford city and County Council administrative area and provides successful applicants support through a structured programme of online group sessions and on-location meetups over the course of 12 weeks from September 2026. Learn more and apply here: https://www.biglook.art/pages/waterford-group-mentoring-scheme \nThe deadline for receipt of online applications is 31st August 2026. \nSharing & Printing\n				Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)\n				Email\n			\n				Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n				LinkedIn\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)\n				WhatsApp\n			\n				Print (Opens in new window)\n				Print\n			Like this:Like Loading…
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SUMMARY:EXHIBITION: At Night the Hens Stand and Dream
DESCRIPTION:At Night the Hens Stand and Dream\nNiamh Coffey\n20 August – 9 September 2026\nGOMA Gallery of Modern Art is delighted to present At Night the Hens Stand and Dream\, an art exhibition by Niamh Coffey. \n………….Enter under intertwined necks of birds in love. Please don’t let the PDA make you queasy. A hungry and disembodied mouth looms over you\, sputtering frantic toads and teeth out onto the floor. You step back to avoid them and bump into a small and ugly spiked creature. It scuttles past\, leaving a trail of juicy\, bespittled blackberries behind. Please do not be tempted to snack right now. A ladder tumbles down from the moon\, droplets of milk following. Two conjoined eggs whisper as you pass by. You didn’t catch the words but the tone seemed ominous\, especially in this duplicitous Gemini season. You go to leave and a sweaty hand presses something conspiratorially into your palm………………… \nThis exhibition combines two bodies of work\, Siúnta (2023-25) and Clodhoppers (2025-ongoing). Taking its name from the Irish for a seam or joint\, Siúnta weaves together past narratives to imagine new ecological relationships. Clodhoppers takes its name from how the celestial characters\, Sphinx\, Moon and Godwoman\, refer to the earthbound subjects in Marina Carr’s play The Boy. Clodhoppers widens these imagined relationships to include cosmic connections. In this exhibition\, forms of flesh\, fur\, flower and feather mingle and merge. Subjects create symbiotic and antagonistic relationships\, exhibit absurd actions and explore neoteric habits together. \nIn 1937-39\, the Irish Folklore Commission asked primary school children to collect local history from their relatives and neighbours. Nestled in exercise copies\, between thousands of stories detailed in meticulous handwriting\, lie their tales of metamorphosis and binary-blurring. Hares become milk-hungry witches\, needy children are turned to stone\, gooseberries transform sore eyes\, tadpoles swirl in boggy bellies. Siúnta uses these instances of metamorphosis as departure points to wriggle further into absurd and imaginary realms. These archives show that in an earlier Irish imaginary world\, the boundaries that separate us from nature and other entities were not so separate and fixed\, but porous and blurred. \nThe exhibition was made by gathering these stories of binary-blurring between humans and non-humans and making drawings based on them. These drawings then played together\, created links and found connections\, they were collaged together\, their elements were extended and emphasised\, their actions sped up and slowed down\, their beginnings swapped with their ends\, subjects up and left one story for another. Narratives eventually emerged from this process and were brought into a textile world\, a medium used because of its rich history with collaborative story-telling\, connotations to gender and queerness and ability to physically join separate elements together. \nIn Clodhoppers\, wider historical\, alchemical and folkloric beliefs of human connection to the universe inspire and mix with these narratives. In the textile collage To Fix in a Waxy State\, disembodied leatherette hands diligently knit\, sew and prepare skin suits from kneeling wool donors as animal eyes wait from a star-lit sea. Soft swollen constellations of blackberries spit\, gurgle and glisten. Worms wriggle in wonder among glittering moon rays. In The Twirlers\, a hand-drawn wallpaper\, subjects twist into wheels and perpetually spin from the sky\, down and down a dug path\, trowels and watering cans in hand and foot as they whirl through peeping cow-trodden piles of upturned earth. \nThese imagined narratives offer a humorous invitation to envisage new ways of interacting with and existing within the larger matrix of nature and the earth. This work is guided by the concept of queer ecology\, which asks us to abandon ideas of human exceptionalism and anthropomorphism and instead asks us to see humans as part of a complex and interwoven system\, whose patterns and processes are different from our own. \nThis work was kindly supported by a Laois Co. Council Arts Act Grant\, Bród na Gaeltachta’s Ceangal residency and GOMA’s Ten Year Anniversary residency. \n  \nAbout the artist: \nNiamh Coffey is a Dublin-based visual artist from Stradbally\, Co. Laois\, whose practice encompasses textiles\, drawings and sculpture. Their work uses ideas from ecology\, queer theory and Irish folklore to create imagined ecological relationships. Niamh graduated from NCAD in 2016 with a degree in Sculpture and Expanded Practices. Their debut solo exhibition Siúnta was shown in 2025 in Cultúrlann\, Belfast\, in Pallas Projects as part of their Artist-Initiated Projects and in Súil Gallery\, Co. Clare. Previous group exhibitions in which their work has featured include: Borders at Rua Red; Work/Force/Field/ at A4 Sounds and; Atelier Páipéar at Workhouse Union. Upcoming shows in 2026 include solo exhibitions at The Arthouse in Stradbally and Custom House Gallery in Westport. In 2022\, Niamh received an Arts Council Agility Award. Between 2024-2026\, Niamh was awarded Laois County Council’s Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary and two Arts Act Grants. Niamh’s website is niamhcoffey.ie. \nCurated by Jenna Whelan. \nSharing & Printing\n				Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)\n				Email\n			\n				Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n				LinkedIn\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)\n				WhatsApp\n			\n				Print (Opens in new window)\n				Print\n			Like this:Like Loading…
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LOCATION:GOMA\, 6 Lombard St\,\, Waterford\,\, Waterford\, X91 F2XP\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:WILD WISDOM FROM A GRÚAGACH'S LAIR - RAYLEEN CLANCY SOLO EXHIBITION
DESCRIPTION:Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair \nNew solo exhibition by Rayleen Clancy \n3–31 October 2026 \nOpening: Saturday 3 October 2026\, 6–8PM \n  \nGOMA Gallery of Modern Art\, Waterford\, is pleased to present Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair\, a new solo exhibition by multidisciplinary visual artist Rayleen Clancy. \n  \nBringing together stained glass\, moving image\, sculpture\, costume\, light and sound\, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a luminous\, handmade world of altered furniture\, hybrid beings and hidden habitats. Drawing on Irish folklore\, coastal caves\, ecological thinking and feminist storytelling\, Clancy reimagines the Grúagach — a shapeshifting “hairy woman” — as a guardian of wild wisdom\, care and transformation. \n  \nThe exhibition reclaims the domestic space from sanitised consumer culture and turns it into a living\, unruly habitat. In this world\, the monstrous is protective\, everyday objects become creaturely\, and hidden forms of knowledge emerge from the margins. Plants\, animals\, fungi\, spirits\, furniture and mythical figures form new kinds of kinship. \n  \nAt the centre of the installation\, a sofa covered in soft\, tentacular limbs wraps the sitter in a gentle embrace. An illuminated stained glass coffee table depicts an entangled woodland where plant\, animal and human forms overlap. Sculptural works suggest portals\, shrines and hybrid organisms. Humour\, folklore and the handmade sit alongside questions of ecological crisis\, adaptation and care. \n  \nRayleen Clancy is a visual artist based in Ring\, Co. Waterford. Her multidisciplinary practice includes stained glass\, installation\, film\, sculpture\, costume and sound. Her work is held in the Waterford Municipal Art Collection\, the Office of Public Works and Glasmuseum Lette\, Germany. She was selected for New Glass Review 46 by The Corning Museum of Glass\, USA\, and has been featured in Glass Ireland\, the annual publication of the Glass Society of Ireland\, and Glas – Magazine voor Glaskunst\, published by the Vereniging Vrienden van Modern Glas in the Netherlands. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at Ireland Glass Biennale\, Dublin Castle; LOOP Film Festival Barcelona\, Spain; Rua Red\, Dublin; and Pallas Projects/Studios\, Dublin. \n  \nWild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair is supported by the Arts Council Project Award 2026\, Waterford Arts Practice Grant and ArtLinks. \n  \n  \nWebsite: http://www.rayleenclancy.com \nSharing & Printing\n				Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)\n				Email\n			\n				Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n				LinkedIn\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)\n				WhatsApp\n			\n				Print (Opens in new window)\n				Print\n			Like this:Like Loading…
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LOCATION:GOMA\, 6 Lombard St\,\, Waterford\,\, Waterford\, X91 F2XP\, Ireland
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