Archive
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Brian Harte
To the harbour place 13 Mar - 11 Apr 2025 The Molesworth is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new work by Brian Harte, his first in Ireland since establishing himself internationally with gallery representation in Japan, the US and Germany. Known for large-scale canvases that hover between abstraction and figuration, Harte creates deconstructed interior settings that hold traces... Read more -
Oscar Fouz Lopez
Tenets of growing 6 Feb - 6 Mar 2025 The work of Oscar Fouz Lopez is informed by mythological stories and their synthesis of history, metaphors and philosophical teachings. According to Carl Jung, myths are embedded in the human psyche in the form of archetypes. Lopez's paintings focus on the Hero archetype, who endures personal challenges, serving as a... Read more -
London Art Fair
Helen Blake & Sean Molloy 21 - 26 Jan 2025 The Molesworth Gallery is taking part in the London Art Fair from January 21 to 26, 2025, showing new work by Helen Blake and Sean Molloy. Contact the gallery for complimentary passes to the fair. Helen Blake is a virtuoso painter whose practice focuses on colour, engaging with rhythm and... Read more -
Winter group show
Gallery & invited artists 11 Dec 2024 - 31 Jan 2025 We're delighted to present an online exhibition of works by gallery and invited artists. All works can be viewed in-person at the gallery. Read more
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Vera Klute
Petals & Pulp 5 - 23 Dec 2024 The Molesworth Gallery presents its fourth solo exhibition of work by acclaimed contemporary artist, Vera Klute, in December 2024. Klute's latest body of work includes a series of boldly-coloured and closely-cropped images of woodlands and plants, where the sinuous, coiling branches and the densely-clustered foliage recall her earlier sculptures of... Read more -
Cian McLoughlin
Zero is an even number 8 - 30 Nov 2024 Cian McLoughlin’s fifth solo show at the Molesworth is the culmination of a year-long collaboration between the artist and the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, where is currently artist in residence. Through a residency supported by Science Foundation Ireland, McLoughlin has immersed himself in a research environment at the intersection... Read more -
Maeve McCarthy
Recollective spaces 10 - 31 Oct 2024 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings by Maeve McCarthy. Elegiac and meditative, McCarthy’s work reflects on the relationship between place, memory, identity and what it means to call somewhere home. The work has a deeply-rooted existential quality, a profound connection with the surroundings in... Read more -
Conor Foy
Bang bang 5 - 28 Sep 2024 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its fourth solo exhibition of the work of Conor Foy. Writing in The Huffington Post , Colin Darke said of Foy that he 'is an important artist, he is in the arena creating great work.... he shows that he is able to capture... Read more
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Francis Matthews
INT. / EXT. 24 May - 26 Jun 2024 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings by Francis Matthews. In this latest body of work, followers of the artist will recognise the familiar subject matter of urban architecture: details of streets and buildings that might go unnoticed or cursorily be considered unsightly by the... Read more -
Mick O'Dea
What is the stars? 19 Apr - 15 May 2024 This exhibition marks a ground-breaking collaboration between Mick O'Dea and the Druid Theatre Company where the artist has sketched and painted the actors and crew in rehearsal for the O’Casey Trilogy. We’re publishing a book to coincide with the show. The introduction by Druid creative director, Garry Hynes, can be... Read more -
Alan Phelan
& Mark Swords, The List and The Line 13 Apr - 29 Jul 2024 Alan Phelan & Mark Swords at the Casino Marino, Dublin This exhibition brings together two very different art practices in a site specific and responsive installation at Casino Marino. Both artists interconnect conflicting histories through the act of making — with complex collage paintings, layered Joly screen photographs, text works,... Read more -
Kate Murphy
A house shaped whole from bone 7 Mar - 5 Apr 2024 The Molesworth is delighted to present an exhibition of recent work by Kate Murphy, her first at the gallery. Seeing herself as a process painter, Kate Murphy is forever pushing the boundaries of her material, rarely handling paint conventionally but using it more like plastic or plaster. Underpinning all of... Read more
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Mollie Douthit
When worlds collide: the Buttler Gallery 27 Jan - 24 Mar 2024 Mollie Douthit explores ideas of intimacy, domesticity and memory in her work. Her paintings celebrate everyday moments and personal experiences where her singular sense of humour prevails. Her paintings of interiors are representations of the sensory and remembered qualities of space and objects sourced from the visual filing cabinet of... Read more -
Winter group show
Gallery & invited artists 29 Nov 2023 - 28 Feb 2024 The Molesworth is delighted to present an exhibition of recent works by gallery and invited artists. Read more -
Gabhann Dunne
Eight billion mystics 10 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 We're publishing a hardback catalogue to accompany the show. The introductory text by Dr Yvonne Scott can be read below. EIGHT BILLION MYSTICS by Dr Yvonne Scott The titles of Gabhann Dunne’s shows are never accidental; they always have a particular relevance to the body of work on display. In... Read more -
Helen Blake
A room full of altarpieces, but not a church 5 Oct - 2 Nov 2023 A ROOM FULL OF ALTARPIECES, BUT NOT A CHURCH by Aidan Dunne The title of Helen Blake’s exhibition, with its inbuilt qualification, is taken from a phrase she remembers reading. She borrowed it because it seemed to her to sum up something she aims for in her work. Historically, she... Read more
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Mollie Douthit
Dreams are important 7 - 29 Sep 2023 THE WORK OF DREAMS by Sara Baume By the time I had met Mollie Douthit every one of our grandparents was already dead. We calculated the chronological order of their deaths in my car one afternoon, in the no-man’s-land of dual-carriageway approaching the tunnel under the River Lee. We were... Read more -
Gillian Lawler
Edgelands 22 Jun - 20 Jul 2023 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings by Gillian Lawler. The former head of collections at IMMA, Catherine Marshall, has written of Lawler's work that it is pervaded by unease. 'It hangs like microscopic atoms of pollution in the air, lingers around multiple 'blind' windows,... Read more -
Ronnie Hughes
Thrum 18 May - 15 Jun 2023 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ronnie Hughes, his first at the gallery. Hughes is one of Ireland's most dynamic abstract painters. His elegant and poised works are executed with exquisite technical skill yet retain a lightness of touch. They evolve over... Read more -
Catherine Barron
The colour of things 20 Apr - 13 May 2023 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings by Catherine Barron. In her latest body of work, Barron explores the nature of colour, how we perceive it and how that translates into a broader existential understanding of the relationship between subjective experience and objective reality. ‘It’s... Read more
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Philip Moss
Haiku paintings and other works 9 Mar - 6 Apr 2023 The Molesworth is delighted to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery of the celebrated Irish artist, Philip Moss. Moss is one of the most interesting and independent-minded artists working in Ireland today. The critic Cristín Leach has described him as ‘a remarkable realist painter who opts often to... Read more -
Alan Phelan
Happiness engineering 3 Feb - 3 Mar 2023 A series of humourous aphorisms with the occasional neologism best describe the text paintings Alan Phelan has made for this, his second solo show at the Molesworth Gallery, and first ever exhibition of paintings. These new works are accompanied by several new Joly screen photographs, and the striped method of... Read more -
Winter group show
Gallery artists 5 Dec 2022 - 20 Jan 2023 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present a selection of work by gallery artists in our first-floor space. Vera Klute's solo show contunues on the ground floor. Read more -
Vera Klute
Flora 25 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its third solo exhibition of the work of Vera Klute, one of the most critically-acclaimed artists working in the country today. Her latest body of work includes a series of boldly-coloured and closely-cropped images of woodland, where the sinuous, coiling branches and the... Read more
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Maeve McCarthy
In-between places 13 Oct - 16 Nov 2022 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its sixth solo exhibition of the work of Maeve McCarthy. In this new collection of paintings, McCarthy reflects on the relationship between place, memory, identity, and what it means to call somewhere home. Having spent a number of years in rural France, she... Read more -
John Kindness
Playing with food 1 Sep - 6 Oct 2022 Long before he discovered the works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a painter whose portraits are assembled from objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, John Kindness was aware of many composite figures in the world of package design, comics and advertising. The 'Liquorice Allsort man', 'Brassneck' and ‘Bibendum', the... Read more -
Prosopopoeia
art and storytelling 7 - 30 Jul 2022 ‘Prosopopoeia’ is a term usually associated with literature and denotes a rhetorical device in which an imaginary, absent or deceased person is represented as speaking or acting. Without it, the story being told lacks immediacy, breaching the writing dictum of ‘show, don’t tell’ that allows the reader to experience events... Read more -
Shane Berkery
The Tasting Menu 9 - 30 Jun 2022 The Molesworth is delighted to present The Tasting Menu , Shane Berkery's third solo exhibition at the gallery. The title refers to the breadth of themes and styles the artist embraces, never shying away from difficult subjects, whether technically or aesthetically, but also revelling in the joy of colour and... Read more
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Francis Matthews
Recent works 7 May - 3 Jun 2022 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its fourth solo exhibition of the work of Francis Matthews. In this new series of paintings, followers of the artist will recognise the familiar subject matter of urban architecture: details of streets and buildings that might go unnoticed or cursorily be considered unsightly... Read more -
Jane Rainey
Lunar tides 24 Mar - 22 Apr 2022 'The sky has no surface and is intangible; the sky cannot be turned into a thing or given a quantity. And landscape painting begins with the problem of painting sky and distance’ - John Berger Berger, John. 1972. Ways of Seeing (London, England: BBC Books) In Lunar tides , Jane... Read more -
Oscar Fouz Lopez
Light Catchers 10 Feb - 16 Mar 2022 The work of Oscar Fouz Lopez is informed by mythological stories and their synthesis of history, metaphor and philosophical teachings. His latest paintings feature a cast of characters, the Light Catchers, absorbed in their own thoughts, travelling through surreal landscapes, engaged in activities at once mundane and metaphysical. He posits... Read more -
Winter group show
Gallery artists 9 Dec 2021 - 28 Feb 2022 The gallery presents a selection of works by gallery and invited artists that can be viewed by appointment for the month of January. Read more
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Catherine Barron
Principles of light 2 - 23 Dec 2021 In December of 2021, The Molesworth Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Catherine Barron. Barron’s current focus is the nature of creativity and consciousness. To facilitate this, she has adopted a broader-based practice that includes research, writing, interactive workshops, performance lecture, as well as painting. Her research has... Read more -
Mick O'Dea
West northwest 4 - 27 Nov 2021 In November, 2021, The Molesworth Gallery presents the debut solo exhibition at the gallery of celebrated Irish artist, Mick O’Dea. We've published a hardback catalogue to coincide wtiht the exhibiton. The introductory essay by Aidan Dunne can be read below. WEST NORTHWEST by Aidan Dunne Artists have long been drawn... Read more -
Gabhann Dunne
The end of a / sure beginning 7 - 29 Oct 2021 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its fourth solo exhibition of the work of Gabhann Dunne. We've published a hardback catalogue to coincide with the exhibition. The introductory essay by Cristín Leach can be read below, while copies of the catalogue are available from the gallery. N O P... Read more -
threadstories
Persona 3 - 30 Sep 2021 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present a selection of new work by threadstories. In her work, threadstories questions the erosion of personal privacy in our digital age and its effect on how we view and portray ourselves online. Her practice layers traditional craft techniques, performance and photography. She uses... Read more
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Mollie Douthit
Home is on the inside 3 - 30 Sep 2021 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Mollie Douthit’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Catherine Marshall, former Head of Collections at IMMA, has written of Mollie Douthit that she “shows extraordinary maturity for a very young artist. She paints objects so commonplace in everyday experience that they would be... Read more -
Alan Phelan
JOLY SCREEN PHOTOGRAPHS - FLEURS TARABISCOTÉ 9 - 30 Jul 2021 The title of the show translates as fussy, complex, over-ornate, or simply florid flowers - pointing to these photographs being more than just about blooms. The exhibition presents fifteen unique, non-editioned, Joly screen photographs of flower arrangements using the nineteenth century colour process invented in Dublin and revived by Phelan,... Read more -
Helen Blake
Recent works 9 - 30 Jul 2021 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its third solo exhibition of the work of Helen Blake. Blake is a painter whose practice focuses on colour, engaging with rhythm and formalism, chance and deliberation. Using a working method where process and contemplation guide the evolution of the work, her small,... Read more -
Cian McLoughlin
Madness and the cure for madness 29 May - 30 Jun 2021 'Perhaps it is only in the crowd that people cast off their petty day to day concerns and become subjects of history.’ George Lefebvre, a historian of the French Revolution In this new body of work, Cian McLoughlin explores the theme of crowd behaviour, the powerful phenomenon that has persisted... Read more
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Chrysalis
Gallery artists - Online only 7 - 29 May 2021 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an online group exhibition of gallery artists. Emerging from over four months of lockdown, we'll be open again as normal from May 17th but works can be viewed in-person by appointment from May 10th. We're looking forward to resuming our normal schedule of... Read more -
Maeve McCarthy
Within a thousand metres 3 - 23 Dec 2020 Maeve McCarthy moved to rural France in 2017. The artist responds to her new living and working environment in her latest body of work and reflects on the relationship between place, memory, identity, and what it means to call somewhere home. There is also a sense of regeneration in the... Read more -
Sean Molloy
The Lost Estate 3 - 23 Dec 2020 As a painter, Molloy's key concern is to investigate the relevance of painting in a digitally-mediated world. The work is constructed via a process of experimenting with a series of traditional baroque-inspired themes, spliced together with over-painted elements associated with digital-based imagery. The traditional elements have been appropriated from sources... Read more -
Francis Matthews
Figure and void 5 - 30 Oct 2020 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its third solo exhibition of the work of Francis Matthews. In this new series of paintings, followers of the artist will recognise the familiar subject matter of urban architecture: details of streets and buildings that might go unnoticed or cursorily be considered unsightly... Read more
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Vera Klute
Grounded 3 - 30 Sep 2020 As the title ‘Grounded’ might suggest, Vera Klute’s second solo exhibition at the gallery showcases a new body of work that has been developed mainly during the recent lockdown. Through paintings, monoprints and small sculptures, the artist examines her immediate natural environment. The sudden and complete reduction of activity distils... Read more -
Summer group exhibition
Gallery & invited artists 27 Jul - 28 Aug 2020 We're delighted to present a summer group show over both floors of the gallery, featuring represented and invited artists. Please note that we're open by appointment only for the month of August. Read more -
Shane Berkery
Cave paintings 22 Jun - 17 Jul 2020 The Molesworth is delighted to present ‘Cave paintings’, Shane Berkery's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition title was inspired by a casual remark from a friend of the artist who compared his practice to ‘cave painting’, so archaic does the process of painting seem in the digital age... Read more -
Gillian Lawler
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words 6 Mar - 29 May 2020 In this new series of works, Gillian Lawler explores culturally-ingrained conceptions of a futuristic ‘sublime’. She references Edmund Burke’s use of the word ‘sublime’ in an art-historical context, where a work elicits the strongest of emotional responses in the viewer. Burke wrote that ‘whatever is in any sort terrible or... Read more
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Oscar Fouz Lopez
Don't look back, baby 6 - 28 Feb 2020 The work of Oscar Fouz Lopez is informed by mythological stories and their synthesis of history, metaphors and philosophical teachings. According to Carl Jung, myths are embedded in the human psyche in the form of archetypes. Lopez's paintings focus on the Hero archetype who endures personal challenges, serving as a... Read more -
Winter group exhibition
Gallery & invited artists 6 Dec 2019 - 28 Feb 2020 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present a group show of gallery and invited artists in our first-floor space. Read more -
Gabhann Dunne
When the wolves own the island 5 - 23 Dec 2019 The Molesworth is delighted to present When the wolves own the island , Gabhann Dunne’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In his latest body of work, Dunne creates an alternative Ireland, a country re-wilded, where its human population has offered up a restitution to nature. This alternative vision of... Read more -
John Boyd
Merely conventional signs 14 - 30 Nov 2019 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new work by John Boyd. Boyd has developed a singular style, one that hints at complex and unresolved narratives replete with a quiet but profound anguish. The people in his work - invariably male and wearing a markedly glum... Read more
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Megan Burns & Francis Matthews
Penumbra 13 Sep - 18 Oct 2019 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Penumbra, a joint exhibition of new work by Megan Burns and Francis Matthews. The work of Burns challenges, alters and rearranges our perceptions of what we know to be familiar and constitutes an ongoing exploration into architectural space and the freudian terminology of... Read more -
Jane Rainey
The horizon is never still 4 - 31 Jul 2019 Drawing inspiration from Romanticism and traditional Japanese landscape painting, Jane Rainey's work is never a facsimile of the world around us, but instead expresses our longing for an escape into nature, tapping into a sense of magic and the inner self. Following a visit to the Chester Beatty museum in... Read more -
Mollie Douthit
Daily Bread 6 - 28 Jun 2019 The Molesworth is delighted to present Mollie Douthit’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. Catherine Marshall, former Head of Collections at IMMA, has written of Douthit that she “shows extraordinary maturity for a very young artist. She paints object so commonplace in everyday experience that they would be comic, were... Read more -
Mercedes Helnwein
Jerks and Soulmates 9 - 30 May 2019 “… the salient feature of the absurd age I was at - an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich - is that reason is not its guide, and the most insignificant attributes of other people always appear to be consubstantial with their personality. One lives among... Read more
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Helen Blake
Recent Works 7 Mar - 16 Apr 2019 The Molesworth is delighted to present Helen Blake's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Blake is a painter whose practice focuses on colour, engaging with rhythm and formalism, chance and deliberation. Using a working method where process and contemplation guide the evolution of the work, her small, overtly hand-made paintings... Read more -
Martin Redmond
Recent Works 8 Feb - 1 Mar 2019 On first viewing , the subject matter of Martin Redmond's work is evocative of Claudio Bravo (1936-2011), the Chilean photo-realist artist. Cardboard boxes, crumpled paper and plastic bags are observed with the rigour of someone seeing these objects for the first time, alert to every shifting hue, every interplay of... Read more -
Once upon a spacetime
Catherine Barron 6 - 24 Dec 2018 Catherine Barron's latest body of work draws on her research and theorising on the nature of creativity, brought about by a period in which she couldn't paint because of a shoulder injury, itself brought about by an intense period of art-making, reflecting on her life and her relationships. The creative... Read more -
Winter group show
Gallery & invited artists 6 Dec 2018 - 31 Jan 2019 The Molesworth Gallery presents a group exhibition of gallery and invited artists. Read more
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Back to the garden
Maeve McCarthy RHA 8 - 30 Nov 2018 The starting point for Maeve McCarthy's latest body of work is a return to where she grew up in Glenageary, Co Dublin. Although her family home is superficially unchanged from when she last lived there, both of her parents have recently passed away. The house remains as a repository of... Read more -
New Paintings
Francis Matthews 5 - 31 Oct 2018 The Molesworth is delighted to present the second solo exhibition at the gallery of the work of Francis Matthews. In this exhibition, Matthews continues his exploration of the contrasting qualities of light - nighttime, daytime, dusk - in a variety of settings, ranging from intimate interiors and neglected laneways to... Read more -
Anvil Dust
Thomas Brezing 7 - 28 Sep 2018 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Thomas Brezing. We've published a 48-page catalogue to coincide with the exhibition, with an introductory essay by Rory O'Byrne, Arts Officer with Fingal Co. Council, who have supported the production costs. Copies are available from the gallery,... Read more -
Landed
Sean Molloy 5 - 31 Jul 2018 A s a painter, Molloy's key concern is to investigate the relevance of painting in a digitally-mediated world. The work is constructed via a process of experimenting with a series of traditional baroque-inspired themes, spliced together with over-painted elements associated with digital-based imagery. The traditional elements have been appropriated from... Read more
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Bruach
Joe Dunne RHA 7 Jun - 10 Jul 2018 'Bruach', meaning border or brink in Irish, is an exhibition of landscape paintings bringing together responses to two largely peripheral locations in Ireland. As a fellow of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Joe Dunne has drawn inspiration from the coastline of North Mayo on numerous residencies there. In another favoured fringe... Read more -
Hiraeth
Gillian Lawler 11 - 30 May 2018 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Hiraeth , a solo exhibition of new work by Gillian Lawler. 'Hiraeth' is a welsh word that describes the pain of loving a place, the pain wrought by distance, a yearning for a home you cannot return to, a home that no longer... Read more -
Contemporary Paintings
Shane Berkery 1 - 31 Mar 2018 For his debut solo exhibition at The Molesworth Gallery, Shane Berkery distils an array of imagery into a group of new paintings. These images range from an archive of family photographs, documenting his Japanese-Irish heritage, to the stream of posts assailing him via social media feeds. Visual references are sampled,... Read more -
Tronies
Cian McLoughlin 9 - 30 Nov 2017 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Tronies , an exhibition of new work by Cian McLoughlin, running from November 9 - 30th, 2017. This body of work has been four years in the making, documenting the evolution of Cian's style as well as his exploration of the tronie ,... Read more
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In the presence of birds
Gabhann Dunne 9 - 31 Oct 2017 T he Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present In the Presence of Bird s, our second solo exhibition of the work of Gabhann Dunne. In this new body of work, Dunne deals with the gap perceived to exist between animals and people, in particular, those who find themselves uncomfortable with... Read more -
Imponderable images
JP Donleavy 6 - 27 Sep 2017 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present its fourth solo exhibition of the work of J.P. Donleavy. The author and playwright of The Ginger Man and other internationally-acclaimed works, Donleavy began his artistic career in Ireland as an artist. He held his first solo exhibition in Dublin in 1948 and... Read more -
Home and high ground
Conor Foy 6 - 27 Jul 2017 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Home and high ground , an exhibition of new work by Conor Foy, running from July 6th - 27th. Like the work, the title of the show is oblique. ‘Home’ has a possessive subtext: where you identify as home is considered a safe... Read more -
Recent works
Gareth Reid 9 - 29 Jun 2017 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of recent work by Gareth Reid, the overall winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year for 2017. As part of the award, Sky Arts commissioned Gareth to paint a portrait of Graham Norton that was added to the... Read more
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Whispering to the ground
Patrick Redmond 21 Apr - 26 May 2017 For his latest body of work, Patrick Redmond marshals material from old dictionaries, science encyclopaedias and reference books that predate his birth. Implying a world he cannot know or be a part of, he references and collages these sources with his own images to create paintings and charcoal drawings. All... Read more -
Recent works
Helen Blake 16 Mar - 11 Apr 2017 There is something musical in how Helen Blake’s work unfolds over time. This is true of the artist’s process; it is also true for the viewer. The longer you spend with Blake’s work, the more it yields. Blake paints meticulously, in oils, on an increasingly small scale in recent years,... Read more -
Sahasrara
Michael Beirne 10 Dec 2016 - 31 Jan 2017 For Michael Beirne, making art has been central to his experience of the pleasures and struggles of living in the contemporary world. This new work establishes a territory which is not autobiographical or 'dream-like' in its narrative suggestions. Instead he presents a terrain of psychological and physical experience which draws... Read more -
Six Streets
Francis Matthews 10 - 30 Nov 2016 Forlorn coincidence: the nighttime cityscapes of Francis Matthews by Hugh Campbell The route described in the most recent sequence of paintings by Francis Matthews runs from Heytesbury St to Harcourt St, moving across territory that varies from the domestic to the commercial and from two-storey nineteenth-century domestic to four-storey late... Read more
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Jonah and the whale
Thomas Brezing 2 - 29 Sep 2016 Like all contemporary artists, Thomas Brezing’s work responds to the world around him and his experience of living in it. While nominally a landscape painter, his work is not a straightforward depiction of mountains and valleys but rather an attempt to reconcile his understanding of the world and his interest... Read more -
Veins
Curated by Davey Moor & Peter Prendergast 8 Jul - 10 Aug 2016 Featuring work by Susan Connolly, Cecilia Danell, Gemma Fitzpatrick, Helen Hughes, Riin Kaljurand, Eimear Murphy and Doireann Ní Ghrioghair Veins peels back the layers to reveal seven artists whose work is pitched variously, between painterly sculpture and sculptural painting, taking in anatomy lessons, the collective unconscious and the music of... Read more -
Small... far away
Curated by Davey Moor & Peter Prendergast 8 Jul - 10 Aug 2016 < < < For immediate release > > > Prendergast & Moor invite submissions from artists for public monuments. These works should not respond to, reflect upon, nor bear testament to any preconceived notions the commissioning body has, nor anything outside the artist's purview. The structures will not conform to... Read more -
Where the wild things are
Animal iconography in contemporary art 15 Jun - 2 Jul 2016 Every creature of the world is like a book and a picture to us and a mirror. -Alan of Lille (Twelfth Century theologian) With work from gallery and invited artists including Catherine Barron, Michael Beirne, Gabhann Dunne, John Kindness, Vera Klute, Brendon Marczan, Bennie Reilly, Sheila Pomeroy, Patrick Redmond and... Read more
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Breeding Ground
Vera Klute 13 May - 10 Jun 2016 We are delighted to present Vera Klute's debut solo exhibition at The Molesworth Gallery. Since graduating in fine art from IADT in 2006 with a first-class honours degree, Klute has had solo exhibitions at the RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin, and the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. She has shown in the group... Read more -
Eminent domain
Gillian Lawler 8 Apr - 4 May 2016 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of recent work by Gillian Lawler, opening on April 7th. The work forms part of her ongoing investigation into the abandoned town of Centralia in the US state of Pennsylvania. The town began to burn deep under its foundations in the... Read more -
Surface Tension
John Kindness, Catherine Barron & Norman Mooney 5 - 28 Nov 2015 Surface Tension brings together the work of three artists, John Kindness, Catherine Barron and Norman Mooney, for whom the surface they work on and work with is an integral part of the aesthetic and conceptual underpinnings of their practice. K indness and Barron have made drawing, painting and engraving on... Read more -
The Flower's Pilgrim
Gabhann Dunne 9 - 31 Oct 2015 T he Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present The Flower’s Pilgrim, an exhibition of new work by Gabhann Dunne. The starting point of the work is an old Irish folk story, according to which the soul leaves the body in the form of a bee when a person dies. Hence,... Read more
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Wavelength
Helen Blake, Gillian Lawler, Bridget O'Rourke & Tom Phelan 10 Sep - 2 Oct 2015 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Wavelength, an exhibition of the work of four contemporary abstract painters, each of whom can be placed along a continuum charting a gradual detachment from the observable physical world. Along the way, there are nods to the Twentieth Century schools of abstract expressionism,... Read more -
LP
Catherine Barron 12 Jun - 25 Jul 2015 In recent years, Catherine Barron has painted on salvaged metal plates, old book covers and vintage photographs, incorporating elements of the surface support into the finished paintings. She continues in a similar vein with this latest series of works, painting on 12-inch bakelite records, as well as more traditional wooden... Read more -
Fight or Flight
Conor Foy 14 May - 9 Jun 2015 “Like all really good art, Conor Foy’s work is hard to pigeon-hole as being one thing, or as addressing one issue. Rather it addresses the question of being in a fascinating, multifaceted way.” So said Tyler Green, a columnist with Modern Painters of the work of Irish artist Conor Foy.... Read more -
The art of finding a remote place
Thomas Brezing 16 Oct - 7 Nov 2014 “It is Thomas Brezing’s insatiable curiosity - intellectually, spiritually and philosophically - and the remarkable generosity of will that he invests in his art and life that makes him such a considerable artist.” Patrick Graham, September 2014 Thomas Brezing says that he works ‘against beauty’, believing that too much ‘beauty’... Read more
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The ties that bind
Jennifer Trouton 11 Sep - 11 Oct 2014 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of recent work by Jennifer Trouton. As an artist, Trouton is drawn to the oft-overlooked banalities of human existence, giving dignity to the little losses that life inflicts; the lost generations and their culture; childhood innocence subsiding into adolescence; and community-based... Read more -
Quiver
Tom Phelan 10 Jul - 20 Aug 2014 For his debut solo exhibition at The Molesworth Gallery, Tom Phelan combines his two great passions - art and surfing. The exhibition title, Quiver is surfing slang for a collection of boards of different sizes, shapes and vintages. The word also conjures the shimmering presence of his latest work -... Read more -
No way home
Mercedes Helnwein 13 Mar - 10 Apr 2014 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present 'No Way Home', an exhibition of new work by Mercedes Helnwein. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a new monograph on the artist of the same title, copies of which are available from the gallery. Mercedes was born in Vienna, daughter to... Read more -
Bathers
Gareth Reid 15 Nov - 10 Dec 2013 The Molesworth is delighted to present, Bathers, an exhibition of new work by Gareth Reid. In this, his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Gareth returns to the figure. Like the Winter Swimmers in Finland, that were the subject of his last show, he situates his subjects outdoors. The work... Read more
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Before the flood
Robert Bates 18 Jul - 9 Aug 2013 William Blake wrote of the possibility of seeing, 'a world in a grain of sand'. Robert Bates miniature works are not quite so microcosmic but equally open up a vista of possibilities. The minute scale, achieved readily in water-colour and applied with fine-stranded sables, is in itself an object of... Read more -
Abstract Source Material
Conor Foy 18 Apr - 3 May 2013 The Molesworth gallery has been delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Conor Foy, his first solo show in Ireland. A fully-illustrated catalogue has been published by the gallery to coincide with the exhibition His work has been singled for special praise by Tyler Green, columnist with Modern... Read more -
It's hard to tell
Catherine Barron 1 - 30 Apr 2013 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Catherine Barron, her second solo show with us. A fully-illustrated catalogue has been published by the gallery to coincide with the exhibition - please contact us for a copy. Read more -
Honey Well
Sheila Pomeroy 3 - 31 Mar 2013 Using portraiture as a means of expression, painting with a distinctive sig- nature and sincerity, her paintings explore feelings of loss - without despair, of childhood and unfulfilled expectations, of family and their tensions and conflicts. Sheila’s beautifully crafted paintings combine multiple layers of oil and glaze in a classic... Read more
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Journey
Maeve McCarthy 8 - 30 Nov 2012 The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present Journey, an exhibition of new work by Maeve McCarthy RHA. Artist's statement: These images are a metaphorical search for home. I often traverse the country at night, between my rented retreat at the foot of Mt. Brandon and my childhood home in Dublin.... Read more -
Drawings
Cian McLoughlin 8 - 23 Dec 2011 A fully-illustrated catalogue was published to coincide the exhibition and is available from the gallery. Read more -
Home
Jennifer Trouton 10 - 30 Nov 2011 Jennifer Trouton has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and internationally. Previous solo exhibitions include Still at The Molesworth Gallery in 2009, as well as shows at the 18th Street Gallery Los Angeles, Spectrum Gallery London, The RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin and The Fenderesky Gallery Belfast. Her awards include a residency at... Read more -
We were here
Catherine Barron 30 Jun - 26 Jul 2011 In a moment Layers of time, mythology and memory in the work of Catherine Barron by Gemma Tipton Digital photography has changed the shape of our memories. Instant editing and deleting excludes odd expressions, cropped bodies, closed eyes and those images of us as we would rather not see ourselves.... Read more
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Depths
Bridget O'Rourke 3 Jun - 9 Jul 2010 Catalogue Introduction by Fiachra Gibbons, former Arts Correspondent with The Guardian These are the traces that memory leaves on canvas. Close your eyes and try to remember key moments in your life. Remember how we tried to guard those moments, hold onto that image or that face, and how we... Read more -
Home
Maeve McCarthy 6 - 28 May 2010 This work follows a year living in Upper Teer (or Tír), a West Kerry townland at the foot of Mt. Brandon. My rented home, a traditional two-storey farmhouse which appears in several of the paintings, had been a holiday home for 20 years and is still known locally by the... Read more -
There was a man who made a boat to sail away and it sank
J.P. Donleavy 4 - 29 Mar 2010 J.P. Donleavy, author of The Ginger Man and other internationally-acclaimed works, began his career in Ireland as an artist. He held his first solo exhibition in Dublin in 1948 and has continued to paint and draw in tandem with with his writing ever since. His work is in the collection... Read more -
Still
Jennifer Trouton 17 Sep - 14 Oct 2009 For over a decade, Jennifer Trouton has been observing the flux which the habitus has had on the physical transformations that map the Irish landscape and the houses built on this landscape, some of which have been abandoned [Re(collection), 2007] or others which have been cherished, with memories both real... Read more
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Whistling past the graveyard
Mercedes Helnwein 12 Mar 2009 - 10 Apr 2010 ‘Whistling past the graveyard’ is an American idiom, and means pretty much just that: whistling while walking past a graveyard. Faking a cheerful front. Trying to smother some fear. For some reason this idiom made sense in relation to my new body of work. It just seemed to fit. Judging... Read more -
Camden Town and the Aisling Project
Cian McLoughlin 6 - 27 Nov 2008 INTRODUCTION Pat the Wire, Pops Johnny, Terry from Derry, Gerry from Kerry Who Thinks He’s from Derry, Jimmy H from Clare, Tom ‘the Lady’ Delaney, Tony C and Sean M from Ballina, BBC Joe, Kerry Denis, Lumpy Tom and Hairy Mary, Donegal Pat, Squinty Mick, Holyhead Tom... Irish men and... Read more -
Night and day in America
Maeve McCarthy 16 - 31 Oct 2008 These paintings reflect Maeve McCarthy’s residence in the United States since August 2007. She is no stranger to America - her first two exhibitions were in Colorado and Utah in the mid 90’s. On this recent visit, she travelled through the mid-west to the west and finally to Idaho. The... Read more -
Fauvist Paintings
Stella Steyn 5 Jun - 5 Jul 2008 'Stella Steyn' An essay by Robert O'Byrne, taken from the catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition. Mystery swirls around Stella Steyn like one of the circus acrobats she was so fond of painting in her mid-twenties. A precocious talent, she enjoyed early success and critical approbation. ‘I am glad... Read more
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Solitary figure in a winter landscape and other paintings
Robert Bates 13 - 29 Mar 2008 It was George McClelland, a long-time friend and admirer of Robert's work and a neighbour of his in Kerry for 25 years, who first introduced us to these exquisitely-detailed, jewel-like watercolours. Born in 1943, Robert is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. He has had 12 successful... Read more -
New works
Mercedes Helnwein 1 - 31 Mar 2007 Mercedes Helnwein was born in Austria, but spent her childhood in Co. Tipperary. Her father is the renowned painter cum art provocateur Gottfried Helnwein and at an early age she proved true the old adage of apples and trees. Art was in her blood as well as on her mind.... Read more -
New works
Sheila Pomeroy 16 Nov - 6 Dec 2006 Sheila Pomeroy's beautifully crafted paintings combine multiple layers of oil paint and varnish, giving her work a tonal depth and opulent texture. Her use of gold leaf and the studied intensity of her figures evokes the masters of the early renaissance, while the interplay between light and shadow, between the... Read more
