Exhibitions

Past

John Doherty
Tempus fugit et vita brevis 3 - 25 Nov 2023 The inspiration for the current show comes from my childhood. My family would travel to Wicklow to visit Grandpa and other relatives, this was in the 50s and 60s when we also made regular epic trips to Kilkenny to visit Dad's side of the family. The journeys were long; no... Read more

Ann Quinn
Twilight Time 6 - 28 Oct 2023 There are certain rare moments in life when I feel I am witnessing magic, I try to capture this in a painting. I grew up on a dairy farm in East Donegal, where the large dramatic skies and open landscape have influenced my vision as a painter. Many of my... Read more

Martin Gale
Happenstance 8 - 30 Sep 2023 Read more

Summer Group Show
Gallery + Invited Artists 24 Jul - 31 Aug 2023 Read more

Mary Lohan
Sea 16 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Taylor Galleries are pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by gallery artist Mary Lohan. In February 2020 I headed for Wexford and a place facing the Irish Sea, where I had worked on many previous occasions. My intention was to work on a new body of work to... Read more

Bernadette Kiely
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST - [the answer is] blowing in the wind 16 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Bernadette Kiely lives beside the river Nore in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny and this has become the driving force in her work. Particularly drawn to and inspired by flooding, her work is responsive to environmental shifts, the effects of weather on land, rivers and on human lives. She depicts imagery that... Read more

Charles Tyrrell
new paintings 19 May - 9 Jun 2023 Grid thinking. I started out working with Indian ink on card and then acrylic on Yupo paper where I extruded the paint using icing tools. A breakthrough came when I started building grids in an unstructured way: placing squares and rectilinear shapes randomly on a field, either floating singly or... Read more

Pat Harris
Maybe 18 Nov - 24 Dec 2022 Maybe, the title of this exhibition refers to the artist's state of longing and uncertainty during the various Covid lockdowns. A longing to visit places, and loved ones, that through Covid restrictions became increasingly distant, almost vague memories or fragments of his imagination. But then Harris claims that artists often... Read more

Makiko Nakamura
Wings, Moons and Love Songs 7 - 29 Oct 2022 Read more

Helen Comerford
Indigo 7 - 29 Oct 2022 Read more

Louise Neiland
outpost 9 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Louise Neiland is a world-builder. Each new painting adds breadth to a painterly globe that has been expanding now for three decades. The unveiling of a Neiland solo exhibition sees the artist invite viewers to set foot on a fresh continent. Outpost is an exhibition of new paintings that document... Read more

Tim Goulding + Summer Group Show
Music Rooms 13 Aug - 3 Sep 2022 Read more

Michael Mulcahy
MULCAHY AT SEVENTY 15 Jul - 11 Aug 2022 Read more

Brian Bourke
Infinite Jest 19 May - 11 Jun 2022 Read more

Patricia Burns
Sea Road Paintings 8 Apr - 14 May 2022 Sea Road Paintings sees Patricia Burns return to a familiar place, to create paintings that are simultaneously similar to and completely unlike her previous series. Over the past two decades, she has made numerous trips to Ballycastle, spending short, intensive periods of time living and working in the expansive landscape... Read more

Winter Group Show
A selection of work by gallery and invited artists. 15 Dec 2021 - 31 Mar 2022 Sean McSweeney, William Crozier, John Shinnors, Charles Tyrrell, John Doherty, Micheal Farrell, Patrick Scott, Fionnuala D'arcy, Diarmuid Breen, Ann Quinn, Janet Pierce, Bernadette Kiely, Janet Murran, Alex Sadkowsky, Melita Denaro, Brian Bourke, George Burland, Louise Neiland, Tim Goulding, Martin Gale, Patricia Burns, Michael Cullen, Jenny Richardson, Ruth McDonnell, Tony O'Malley,... Read more

John Doherty
Totems of the Highway 18 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 John Doherty became aware of totems as a toddler from the back seat of his parent's car while on holidays. Stopping at country outposts for petrol and refreshments, sometimes at a garage or else at a shop with a pump or two on the kerbside - some with pomp others... Read more

Martin Gale
Recent Works 23 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Read more

Ann Quinn
North Calling 24 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 The work in North Calling is inspired by two different places: Ann Quinn's ancestral farm in East Donegal and the villages of Andenes and Bleik in Norway. Quinn was invited to spend time in Norway as part of a cultural exchange between Donegal County Council Cultural Services and Vesterålen Cultural... Read more

Bernadette Kiely
One Touch of Nature makes the Whole World Kin 28 May - 20 Jun 2020 The line 'one touch of nature makes the whole world kin' is taken from Ulysses' famous speech in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida. It is often used to refer to fellow feeling and comradeship in the face of calamitous events. Continuing with Bernadette Kiely's theme of mapping the changing... Read more

Makiko Nakamura
Love Songs 13 Sep - 5 Oct 2019 Born near Kyoto, Japan in 1951, Makiko Nakamura has lived and worked between Ireland and Japan since 1999. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland, Britain, the USA, Japan and France, and completed numerous residencies. Her work is represented in private collections in Europe, America and Japan as well as the public collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), the Gate Theatre, Wexford Opera House, the OPW / State Art Collection and Boyle Civic Collection, among others. Read more

Brian Bourke
Contemplating the Ineluctable 28 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 Read more

Charles Tyrrell
LINE 31 May - 22 Jun 2019 Read more

John Doherty
Enduring Aspirations 3 - 25 May 2019 Read more

Patricia Burns
Morning Commute 1 - 23 Mar 2019 Morning Commute has evolved from previous bodies of work exploring the subject of home. It begins with the largest paintings, which depict the trees outside the artist's house and act almost as portraits. Seen on dark, early mornings when Burns leaves her home to start her working day, they appear... Read more

Pat Harris
The Weight of Light 16 Nov - 8 Dec 2018 Read more

Nataly Maier | Janet Mullarney | Helen O'Leary
O Z I O 28 Sep - 20 Oct 2018 Taylor Galleries is proud to present OZIO, a three-person exhibition of new work by Nataly Maier, Janet Mullarney and Helen O'Leary. The show will open with the artists In Conversation from 6pm on Thursday 27 September and the Private View runs from 6-8pm the same evening. OZIO continues from 28... Read more

Michael Cullen
Tír na nÓg 13 Apr - 5 May 2018 Read more

Diarmuid Breen
Existing Realities 16 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 Read more

Louise Neiland
Calibration 16 Feb - 10 Mar 2018 'Calibration' can be defined as the action or process of measuring the relationship between two quantities that may, or may not, be known. The unknown quantity in these paintings is the amount of time given to an event, or even the amount of time between events. The images work in... Read more

David Quinn
undersong 9 Nov - 2 Dec 2017 Taylor Galleries is proud to present undersong, an exhibition of new paintings by David Quinn that opens at the gallery with a private view on Thursday 9 November 2017 from 6 to 8pm. The show continues from 10 November to 2 December and is accompanied by an In Conversation event... Read more

William Crozier
Landscapes 13 Oct - 4 Nov 2017 Upon establishing a studio near Roaring Water Bay, Cork in 1983 the Irish landscape became a prominent theme in William Crozier's work. In Landscapes, views of West Cork islands, inlets, fields and woods are accompanied by paintings of his garden and the fertile farmland surrounding his home in the Hampshire... Read more

Anne Madden
Life and death in the garden 30 Jun - 22 Jul 2017 Read more

Melita Denaro
On Home Ground Then 17 Jun - 9 Jul 2016 Melita Denaro was born in Donegal in 1950 and studied Ceramics at the Central School of Art in London from 1975 to 1978. In 1992 she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Painting at the Royal Academy School. Denaro lives and works between Donegal and London and her work is represented... Read more

James O'Connor
Collages & Paintings 27 May - 11 Jun 2016 Taylor Galleries is pleased to present Collages & Paintings (2014-2016), an exhibition of recent work by James O'Connor. Working with paper and making collages has always been part of James O'Connor's visual world. In 2014 he started making very small collages from printed coloured paper and cardboard that found its... Read more

Pauline Bewick
Love, Life and Launch 5 - 26 Sep 2015 Taylor Galleries is pleased to present Love, Life and Launch, an exhibition of work by Pauline Bewick that runs at the gallery from 5 to 26 September 2015. Held on the occasion of the artist's 80th birthday, the exhibition also coincides with the publication of Bewick's autobiography, 80, by Arlen... Read more

Jane O'Malley
A Selection of Recent Work 26 Sep - 11 Oct 2014 Taylor Galleries is pleased to present A Selection from Recent Work by Jane O'Malley. The exhibition opens on Thursday 25 September with a private view from 6 to 8pm and continues from 26 September to 11 October 2014. The recently published book Free Spirits: Jane and Tony O'Malley by Marion... Read more

Mary Lohan
Ocean 9 - 31 May 2014 Taylor Galleries is pleased to present Ocean, an exhibition of new paintings by Mary Lohan opening on Thursday 8 May 2014 from 6 to 8pm and running until the end of the month. Ocean is Lohan's first exhibition with the gallery since 2008's Ballyconnigar, which concentrated on a spectacular stretch... Read more

Seán McSweeney
Land and Sea 4 - 27 Oct 2012 Since moving to the west of Ireland in the 1980s the Sligo coastline has become a recurring leitmotif in Seán McSweeney's work, which is firmly rooted in the tradition of Irish landscape painting that stretches back to the 1800s. He returns frequently to the same subjects and is consistently drawn... Read more

Patrick Scott
Meditation 9 May - 3 Jun 2006 Read more

Conor Fallon
Further Small Discoveries 20 Oct - 10 Nov 2005 Read more

John Devlin
Paintings 28 Mar 2003 - 12 Apr 2013 Read more

Colin Harrison
Colin Harrison 20 Jun - 6 Jul 1996 Read more

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