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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 4h

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin 2 Elizabeth Magill: Northern Sky Opening Thu 8 Oct Details → dnote.website/e948936 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Elizabeth Magill: I never saw moons (after Hiroshige's Foxfires), 2026 oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm / 15.7 x 11.8 in | Elizabeth Magill: Northern Sky | Friday 9 October – Saturday 14 November 2026 | Kerlin Gallery | Elizabeth Magill: I never saw moons (after Hiroshige's Foxfires), 2026 oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm / 15.7 x 11.8 in | a grouping of very pale animals – sort of alpaca-fox-deer-kangaroo creatures; it is dark; there is a tree to the left, ghostly pale blues and greens and grey; there is a hint of creatures above or just clouds; and there is a large, low-lying pink-ish moon-sun

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SIRIUS, Co. Cork Florin Nolan: A World in Bloom Opening Sat 3 Oct Details → dnote.website/e954146 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Cork #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Florin Nolan: A World in Bloom | Saturday 3 October – Saturday 21 November 2026 | SIRIUS | Florin Nolan | this may be a collage using brightly coloured tissue paper or similar; what we see is probably a landscape at the edge of a sea; a gentle sky with plurply blue and pink clouds, very blue sea curving up and over as it comes from the left to the centre of the artwork, the point at which it meets the land, which equally curves towards the water in streaks of green and red and pink and orange and more colours

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1 Sheila Naughton: Presence Opening Sun 4 Oct Details → dnote.website/e952409 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Sheila Naughton: Aura, stone dust, earth pigments, acrylic, 50x70cm | Sheila Naughton: Presence | Sunday 4 October – Sunday 1 November 2026 | Olivier Cornet Gallery | Sheila Naughton: Aura, stone dust, earth pigments, acrylic, 50x70cm | the canvas is in four vertical sections of equal width; the first is mud brow, the second a sort of twilight purple, the third a concrete grey, the fourth a dusk blue-grey

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SIRIUS, Co. Cork Shirani Bolle: When We Are Trees One-day event, Sat 3 Oct Details → dnote.website/e954149 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Cork #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Shirani Bolle: When We Are Trees | Saturday 3 October | SIRIUS | Shirani Bolle: video still | we see a bird, plumage grey and white, a bit haggard, a bit faded; we see the head and most of the body, wings folded, head turned to the right somewhat to look straight at us; across the centre of the screen, corssing over the bird, are the letters ‘INTERVULNERABLE’ (sic) in capitals, in sans-serif, neon green font with black outline

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin 2 Aleana Egan: dove passages Closing Sat 3 Oct Details → dnote.website/e940182 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Aleana Egan | Aleana Egan: dove passages | Friday 4 September – Saturday 3 October 2026 | Kerlin Gallery | Aleana Egan

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket Wexford Memory of a Free Festival Closing Sat 3 Oct Details → dnote.website/e931560 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Wexford #Art #Ireland #Dnote

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford Rayleen Clancy: Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair Opening Sat 3 Oct Details → dnote.website/e943685 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Waterford #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Rayleen Clancy: Wild Wisdom from a Grúagach’s Lair | Thursday 3 September – Saturday 31 October 2026 | GOMA Gallery of Modern Art | a detail of an artwork, probably; it shows what looks to be a very hairy, glowing, green yeti in a forest setting against black; this appears like one motif in stained glass, and we see another motif – multiple eyes in purple against black – in an adjoining element

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2 Morgan Quaintance: I’ll Always Remember… Opening Thu 1 Oct Details → dnote.website/e948945 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Morgan Quaintance: I’ll Always Remember… | Friday 2 October – Sunday 22 November 2026 | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios | this is a black-and-white iamge, which looks like it was recorded from an old TV set, including distortion and static; we see a sign, outdoors, branches of trees against the sky, the sign in front, which reads “APPLICATIONS FOR HOUSING IN ROBERT TAYLOR HOMES : ACCEPTED HERE.”

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin 1 Jeff Lowe & William Tucker: The Language of Sculpture From Thu 1 Oct Details → dnote.website/e948932 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Jeff Lowe: Three Movements No. 1, 2026, painted brass, 19 x 30 x 11 cm | Jeff Lowe & William Tucker: The Language of Sculpture | Thursday 1 October – Saturday 31 October 2026 | Hillsboro Fine Art | Jeff Lowe: Three Movements No. 1, 2026, painted brass, 19 x 30 x 11 cm | this appears to be a maquette for a larer sculpture; although here it is painted brass – the colour isyellow ochre – it is easy to imagine it as a much larger sculpture; these are interlocking shapes, somewhat cartoonish, somewhat organic, bending in and out of each other on a brown rectangular surface

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Solomon Fine Art, Dublin 2 Eilis O’Connell: Ope, There Goes Gravity From Thu 1 Oct Details → dnote.website/e948941 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Eilis O'connell: ope, there goes gravity, cast white bronze, resin, 82.5 x 29 x 26cm, 2026 | Eilis O’Connell: Ope, There Goes Gravity | Thursday 1 October – Saturday 24 October 2026 | Solomon Fine Art | Eilis O'connell: ope, there goes gravity, cast white bronze, resin, 82.5 x 29 x 26cm, 2026 | photo of a sculpture in an almost-white space; it feels like we a looking at a bird, one whose body is mostly orange and brown, with a yellow beak point skyward, in fact the whole body is pointing skyward; it is sitting on what like an incomplete cone of stainless steel, or a conical hat

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Atypical Gallery, Belfast Susanne Horsch: Tender Ruins Opening Thu 1 Oct Details → dnote.website/e941934 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Belfast #NorthernIreland #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Susanne Horsch: Tender Ruins | Thursday 1 October – Sunday 4 October 2026 | Atypical Gallery | Suzanne Horsch | it is hard to make out exactly what is happenig here; the photo appears to be capturing a corner where three very clourful and cartoon-style fabrics meet, though there seems also to be a white-with-red-veines shape hanging down from above

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rua Red, Dublin 24 Cross // Ways Tallaght From Wed 30 Sep Details → dnote.website/e950682 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

selina-bonelli: Rossnowlagh, 2023; photo by Thomas Reul | Cross // Ways Tallaght | Wednesday 30 September – Saturday 3 October 2026 | Rua Red | selina-bonelli: Rossnowlagh, 2023; photo by Thomas Reul | photo taken by the sea, on a broad beach, clear sand farther from us, seaweeded nearer to us; there is a large cube (possibly) of rough concrete and stone and maybe seaweed; there is a round hole through the block and a figure is peering through it from the side nearest us; the figure is wearing a pale top, dark trousers, possibly holding a white cloth, possibly has long black hair

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1 Miriam McConnon: No Mirrors Left in Gaza Closing Sun 27 Sep Details → dnote.website/e936722 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Miriam McConnon: Hunting the Wounded, oil on canvas, 40 x 40cm | Miriam McConnon: No Mirrors Left in Gaza | Sunday 30 August – Sunday 27 September 2026 | Olivier Cornet Gallery | Miriam McConnon: Hunting the Wounded, oil on canvas, 40 x 40cm | we see a bowl, viewed from the side, against a dark background; it is presumably of the type that might be excavated in an archaological dig; pale surface, pattern, figures – but in this case the figure, depicted in red ochre, are clearly modern, possibly fleeing, possibly searching for survivors; a group of three or four to the left, another group to the right, a pale void in the middle

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rua Red, Dublin 24 Orla Barry: The Collie, The Cheviot & The Crouched Skeleton Closing Sat 26 Sep Details → dnote.website/e928106 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Orla Barry: The Collie, The Cheviot & The Crouched Skeleton | Friday 10 July – Saturday 26 September 2026 | Rua Red | black-and-white photo of three collies (?) in an installation that seems to be parodying, maybe, a rural scene; one dog is on the ground (a fake ground of some sort?) to the left, the second on a cushion on a fairly modern, utilitarian chair, and the third is on the right, again on the ground; the background is a stone wall of stones large and small with, above the middle dog, writing on a large stone that reads ‘Donie’s Language’

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin 2 John Fitzsimons: The World Outside Closing Sat 26 Sep Details → dnote.website/e943716 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

John Fitzsimons: Carbon Dioxide, Oil & pigment on canvas, 60h x 70w cm, €2150 framed | John Fitzsimons: The World Outside | Saturday 5 September – Saturday 26 September 2026 | SO Fine Art Editions | John Fitzsimons: Carbon Dioxide, Oil & pigment on canvas, 60h x 70w cm | this is a bit like looking down on cubicles in an open-plan office, only: no people, overlapping translucent walls, hints at microscopic bodies or quantum activity; colours are dark purple, darker purple, creamy white, and acid yellow-green

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taylor Galleries, Dublin 2 Brian Bourke: Evocations Closing Sat 26 Sep Details → dnote.website/e943693 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Kildare #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Brian Bourke:Fallen Tree, Spring II, 2023, mixed media, 76 x 57 cm | Brian Bourke: Evocations | Friday 4 September – Saturday 26 September 2026 | Taylor Galleries | Brian Bourke:Fallen Tree, Spring II, 2023, mixed media, 76 x 57 cm | painting, landscape showing grees against a blue sky with clouds; the execution makes the trees look sinuous, dynamic; no clear sign of the eponymous fallen tree

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Solomon Fine Art, Dublin 2 John Behan RHA: New Work Closing Sat 26 Sep Details → dnote.website/e940208 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

John Behan: Callow bull, bronze, unique, 25 x 53 x 18cm | John Behan RHA: New Work | Thursday 3 September – Saturday 26 September 2026 | Solomon Fine Art | John Behan: Callow bull, bronze, unique, 25 x 53 x 18cm | photograph of the artwork in a very white space; the work feels very gestural in the way it depicts the animal, more or less just the essentials

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin 1 Claire Halpin: Empirical Outposts Closing Sat 26 Sep Details → dnote.website/e938452 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Claire Halpin: Outpost: Ceylon, 2026, oil on tea chest, 60 x 150 x 50 cm | Claire Halpin: Empirical Outposts | Thursday 3 September – Saturday 26 September 2026 | Hillsboro Fine Art | Claire Halpin: Outpost: Ceylon, 2026, oil on tea chest, 60 x 150 x 50 cm | on three side of what may be crates for shipping tea, and in the manner of multi-panel altar pieces, we see three views of a colonial scene from Ceylon – landscapes, military action, plantations, burning…; the centre panel faces us, the side panels are at an angle and somewhat face each other

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Co Cork Leanne McDonagh: Community & Connection Opening Sat 26 Sep Details → dnote.website/e941943 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Cork #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Leanne McDonagh: Pavee Presence, 2020, inkjet print, 59 x 83cm | Leanne McDonagh: Community & Connection | Saturday 26 September – Saturday 31 October 2026 | Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre | Leanne McDonagh: Pavee Presence, 2020, inkjet print, 59 x 83cm | photographic work, presumably; impression of layers and movement, some strong colours, a focus point slightly right of centre, probably a figure, maybe legs, an arm, maybe skirt or dresss, maybe head, dazzles, chiffon effects

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The LAB, Dublin 1 Tasmin Snow: The End, Once More Opening Thu 24 Sep Details → dnote.website/e948921 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Tasmin Snow: The End, Once More | Thursday 24 September – Saturday 31 October 2026 | The LAB | mustard-tinted close-up photo of the head of a Greek (or Roman) statue face-down on a white surface; the angle is roughly pointed at the right eye, which is blank

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2 Vanessa Donoso López Closing Sun 20 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=vanessa-donoso… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Vanessa Donoso López | Vanessa Donoso López | Friday 24 July – Sunday 20 September 2026 | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios | Vanessa Donoso López | photograph or video still; we see just the hads of a dark-clad figure; the right hand is holdig what seems to be an udder with maybe four teats, and fashioned possibly in bronze with an uneven coating of white

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Co Cork Anseo / Elsewhere: Cork County and City Artists Summer Showcase Closing Sat 19 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=anseo-elsewher… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Cork #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Dick Richards: Red Door Reverie, 31 x 31cm | Anseo / Elsewhere: Cork County and City Artists Summer Showcase | Thursday 2 July – Saturday 19 September 2026 | Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre | Dick Richards: Red Door Reverie, 31 x 31cm | this appears to be a mix of painting and collage, thematically referencing, probably, black-and-white films, possibly with an emphasis on those depicting rural Ireland; top lef we see a couple kissing, bare arms around shoulders, a left hand clawlike as it grasps the hat on the other figure; the centre area of the image is mostly painted: a red door, a small window, a possibly whitewashed wall; from the top middle a crowd scene curves over to the right and down that side; a baby in arms is the most distinguishable

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Co Cork Siobhán McGibbon et al.: Love beyond the species and the sexual Closing Sat 19 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=siobhan-mcgibb… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Cork #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Siobhán McGibbon et al.: Love beyond the species and the sexual | Saturday 25 July – Saturday 19 September 2026 | Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre | photo of a fairly domestic scene – cushion of the sort that you might find on a sofa, patterned with images of flowers (roses), underneath it a blanket of the older, raspy sort, pink-trimmed; something that looks like a pale-blue leaf intrudes from the left; and on the cusion there is lying, slightly floppy, what seems to be a fabric or plastic TV remote control

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The LAB, Dublin 1 John Noel Smith: Earth Solace & Blight Closing Sat 19 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=john-noel-smit… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

John Noel Smith: Earth Solace & Blight | Thursday 20 August – Saturday 19 September 2026 | The LAB | The image is of a painting, presumably; approximately the top three-quarters of the image is almost entirely a single dark-blue line weaving back and forth from left to right across the support, initially just flat, but becoming more wave-like half-way down, then slowly reverting to flat; water-like, somewhat; then the bottom 20% is entirely different: a bit like bockety steel pipes criss-crossing each other against a mustard background

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ormston House, Limerick Alt-West / Alt-Thiar Opening Sat 19 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=alt-west-alt-t… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Limerick #Art #Ireland #Dnote

courtesy of O.J.A.I. | Alt-West / Alt-Thiar | Saturday 19 September – Saturday 14 November 2026 | Ormston House | Image courtesy of O.J.A.I. | We see a map of Ireland most of Britain; Britain and Northern Ireland are in grey, the Republic in Navy with ‘Ireland’ in white across it; the surrounding sea is largely pale blue, but what is possibly the Republic’s exclusive economic zone is in slanting stripes of dark orange and yellowy grey; a red arrow points across this stripery at Limerick; a pasted on slightly wonky piece of paper has the text ’Culmination Compression Phase Alt-West/ Alt-Thiar -68 days’

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Limerick City Gallery, Limerick David Lilburn and Jim Savage: Cuimhníodh (remembered) From Sat 19 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=david-lilburn-… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Limerick #Art #Ireland #Dnote

(top image) Jim Savage, Connemara Landscape, mixed media on paper, (bottom image), David Lilburn, Blacksod Day 1, drypoint, (photo - Matt Gidney) | David Lilburn and Jim Savage: Cuimhníodh (remembered) | Saturday 19 September – Sunday 8 November 2026 | Limerick City Gallery | (top image) Jim Savage, Connemara Landscape, mixed media on paper, (bottom image), David Lilburn, Blacksod Day 1, drypoint, (photo - Matt Gidney) | two images of artworks, one above the other, with a brown background framing them and holding them apart; the top image is very much a realist portrayal of Connemara; possibly the Twelve Pins / Bens in the background, boggy land with stone outcroppings nearer us; the second image, below, is much sparer – dark-brown marks against a creamy white, rough sketching of hills, vegetation, telephone poles, sky; atmospheric

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Roscommon Arts Centre, Circular Road Roscommon Town Kate Oram, Conor O’Connell and Marita O’Hanlon: Holding Ground Opening Fri 18 Sep Details → dnote.website/e940187 #Art #Roscommon #Ireland #Dnote Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l

Kate Oram: Grow (detail), photo Sean O’Reilly | Kate Oram, Conor O’Connell and Marita O’Hanlon: Holding Ground | Friday 18 September – Saturday 31 October 2026 | Roscommon Arts Centre | Kate Oram: Grow (detail), photo Sean O’Reilly | photo probably taken in a gallery space; we are looking along a white wall that is receding from us; close to us, on the right is a simple pattern nailed, apparently, to the wall; it is just branches, ot many of them, like the branching of veins or trees; a similar object seems to be a bit farther down the wall, blurred, and bigger versions farther away, more blurred

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Trust Artists Unconditionally – Public Art of 1990s Waterford Opening Fri 18 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=trust-artists-… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Waterford #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Theo Sims, Oh When The Saints Go Marching Out (detail), 1998 | Trust Artists Unconditionally – Public Art of 1990s Waterford | Friday 18 September – Saturday 7 November 2026 | Garter Lane Arts Centre | Theo Sims, Oh When The Saints Go Marching Out (detail), 1998 | photo of two people holding a football jersey; above them is a sign: Wlecome to St. Josephs F.F. Founded 1923 John Ran Park, with two footballs on it; the pari ar in front of a pale pink wall; the jersey they are holding is striped horizontally, alternating dark blue and white; in the middle of the front we see the word ‘Art’ spelt in black

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2 Dublin Fringe Festival: Ella de Búrca: Hard Mouth Show & Tell Performances from Wed 16 Sep Details → dnote.website/e938466 Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Dublin Fringe Festival: Ella de Búrca: Hard Mouth Show & Tell | Wednesday 16 September – Sunday 20 September 2026 | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios | photographic collage, probably; we are in some sort of fairyland / magic land; towards the viewer, a figure is on hands and knees, well dressed, looking upwards to our left, wearing a muzzle probably suitable for a horse; burther back, a long-black-haired figure is, very probably, an artist, as they are wearig what could be a painter’s smock and holding a large paintbrush in the right hand, though the left hand is hold reins that control the poor aforementioned creature

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Green On Red Gallery, Dublin 1 September Opening Fri 18 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=september Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

September | Saturday 19 September – Friday 16 October 2026 | Green On Red Gallery | the image is just the name of the exhibition, its subtitle, and a list of the artists

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

IMMA, Kilmainham Dublin 8 Camille Souter & Alberta Whittle: Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman Closing Sun 13 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=camille-souter… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

SIRIUS, Co. Cork Leanne McDonagh: Community & Connection Closing Sat 12 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=leanne-mcdonag… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Cork #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Leanne McDonagh: Community & Connection | Saturday 4 July – Saturday 12 September 2026 | SIRIUS | probably a photographic piece, with superpositioning of various shots, colour alteration; there is a hint of a face towards the left edge, and something smooth seems to be swirling in water towards the right side

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

CCA, Derry Christopher Steenson: All I See is the Present Closing Sat 12 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=christopher-st… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Derry #NorthernIreland #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Christopher Steenson: Kockanacuig 7 | Christopher Steenson: All I See is the Present | Friday 19 June – Saturday 12 September 2026 | CCA | Christopher Steenson: Kockanacuig 7 | black-and-white photo of what appears to be a partial mandible of an animal, in situ during an archaeological excavation; a square area has been cleared, tarpaulin to two facing sides, dirt to the other two; pebbles, dirt

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

IMMA, Kilmainham Dublin 8 Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989-2026) From Sat 12 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=technologies-o… #Art #Ireland #Dublin #Dnote

Siniša Labrović, Bandaging a Wounded Man, 2000, Video documentation of action, Video, sound 22:55 min, loop, Camera: Emil Tomasović, Artist’s assistant: Damir Šodan,© Siniša Labrović, Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia. | Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989-2026) | Saturday 12 September 2026 – Sunday 9 May 2027 | IMMA | Siniša Labrović, Bandaging a Wounded Man, 2000, Video documentation of action, Video, sound 22:55 min, loop, Camera: Emil Tomasović, Artist’s assistant: Damir Šodan,© Siniša Labrović, Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia. | location is possibly an urban park; we see a statue on a chunky, somewhat raised plinth; the statue may depict a mother holding across her lap the body of a fallen soldier; however, much of the statue is covered by white tape or toilet roll; the plinth bears the word ‘ROMEO” in green, and ‘NIRVANA’ in black; a figure is posing in fron of the statue, in t-shirt and shorts

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Solstice Arts Centre, County Meath The First Frontier Was the Horizon From Sat 12 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=the-first-fron… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Meath #Art #Ireland #Dnote

William O'Neill, Night-time imposter, Oil on linen, 110 x 140 cm, 2022. Courtesy the artist. | The First Frontier Was the Horizon | Saturday 12 September – Saturday 24 October 2026 | Solstice Arts Centre | William O'Neill, Night-time imposter, Oil on linen, 110 x 140 cm, 2022. Courtesy the artist | both photorealist and idealised depiction of what feels like an office setting, but could be domestic; close-up of various retro items: bins of somesort, backed-up against an old-style boxy TV set which seems to be on backed up against a flowerpot and something else on which a plastic box is resting, some sort of empty filing system; and to the left what might be part of a suitcase, partially open; strong daylight illuminating and casting shadows

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Source Arts Centre, Thurles Co Tipperary Shane Hynan: ‘Beneath | Beofhód’ From Sat 12 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=shane-hynan-be… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Tipperary #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Shane Hynan: Bog Self-Portrait, Carbury Co. Kildare, 2019 | Shane Hynan: ‘Beneath | Beofhód’ | Saturday 12 September – Saturday 17 October 2026 | The Source Arts Centre | Shane Hynan: Bog Self-Portrait, Carbury Co. Kildare, 2019 | it is not obvious how this is done: we see the artist's (presumably) head and a bit of torso and what may be the right arm folded in on itself, possibly to support the head which is out over water, apparently; the view is from above and to the sid, so that we see the left side of the face; the head is reflected in the very still water

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 2 Adrian Duncan: Buildings from a Novel Opening Thu 10 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=adrian-duncan-… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Adrian Duncan, Haus Alois, 2026, Tulipwood, deal, teak, 50 x 50 x 90cm, Image courtesy of the artist | Adrian Duncan: Buildings from a Novel | Friday 11 September 2026 – Sunday 10 January 2027 | Royal Hibernian Academy | Adrian Duncan, Haus Alois, 2026, Tulipwood, deal, teak, 50 x 50 x 90cm, Image courtesy of the artist | photo of a maquette of a buildig on stilts, all made of wood; floor plan appears to be square, bullding effectively one storey, though with slopig roofs with odd gaps and apparently some sort of construction, ziggurat-like, under it

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 2 Una Sealy: Time Lines: Selected Works 2016 – 2026 Opening Thu 10 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=una-sealy-time… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Una Sealy, Brave New World, 2025, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, image courtesy of the artist | Una Sealy: Time Lines: Selected Works 2016 – 2026 | Friday 11 September – Sunday 20 December 2026 | Royal Hibernian Academy | Una Sealy, Brave New World, 2025, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, image courtesy of the artist | probably a view from an office building; in the foreground we see a modern, green chair to the left, facing right, and in front of it is a low round glass-topped coffee table; the room somes to a corner about 80% across the canvas, and in that corner is a large plant with very large dark-gree leaves; steel supports appear to be supporting very large plate-glass windows; the view outside is pretty grey, industrial, tall chimneys, one releasing dark smoke which rises vertically before dispersing slowly up and to the left; nearer to the office is a river in which the industries are reflected

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 2 Fionn McCann: Deconstructing a Mountain Opening Thu 10 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=fionn-mccann-d… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Fionn McCann, Deconstructing a Mountain, Untitled, 2026, Archival Print, 65 x 56cm, Image courtesy of the artist | Fionn McCann: Deconstructing a Mountain | Friday 11 September – Sunday 8 November 2026 | Royal Hibernian Academy | Fionn McCann, Deconstructing a Mountain, Untitled, 2026, Archival Print, 65 x 56cm, Image courtesy of the artist | black-and-white photo of what is probably a workbench, on which we see what may be three chisels and an associated hammer; there is dust, planks that make the surface of the workbench, a cube-like shape to the left, cropped by the edge of the photo, possibly a wall of planks behind the workbench

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 2 Maïa Nunes: Lake Burst Opening Thu 10 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=maia-nunes-lak… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Maïa Nunes, Lake Burst, 2026, Double Vinyl Album, 12 x 12”, Photography by Aoife Long, Image courtes | Maïa Nunes: Lake Burst | Friday 11 September – Sunday 25 October 2026 | Royal Hibernian Academy | Maïa Nunes, Lake Burst, 2026, Double Vinyl Album, 12 x 12”, Photography by Aoife Long, Image courtesy of the artist | it is probably dusk; clear blue sky, glowing white towards the horizon; black slopes go down to the lakeshore; a figure stands to the right mostly dark silhouette against the sky, arms raised, figers touching

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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Molesworth Gallery, Dublin 2 Patrick Redmond: Facemaker Opening Thu 10 Sep Details → dnote.website/?dnote=patrick-redmon… Get weekly mailshot → dnote.website/l • #Dublin #Art #Ireland #Dnote

Patrick Redmond, 'Dummy 3', oil on linen, 25 x 20cm | Patrick Redmond: Facemaker | Friday 11 September – Tuesday 27 October 2026 | Molesworth Gallery | Patrick Redmond, 'Dummy 3', oil on linen, 25 x 20cm | greyscale painting of a figure in a fur coat; the figure looks like a ventriloquist's dummy – young, neat, plastic, red nose and red cheeks (if the painting were in colour), somewhat wonky eyes; we are viewing somewhat from the side, seeing more of the left cheek; but it is looking straight at or through us

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