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Kerlin Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

Artists:
Phillip Allen
Gerard Byrne
Dorothy Cross
Willie Doherty
Aleana Egan
Mark Francis
Maureen Gallace
Mark Garry
Liam Gillick
David Godbold
Richard Gorman
Guggi
Siobhán Hapaska
Callum Innes
Jaki Irvine
Merlin James
Sam Keogh
Samuel Laurence Cunnane
Elizabeth Magill
Brian Maguire
Eoin Mc Hugh
Stephen McKenna
William McKeown
Isabel Nolan
Jan Pleitner
Kathy Prendergast
Sean Scully
Paul Seawright
Liliane Tomasko
Paul Winstanley

12/10/2026

Frieze London l 2026
📍Booth D30
📆 14 - 18 October

Kathy Prendergast 🎨

Kathy Prendergast has been employing maps in her practice since the beginning of her career in the late 80s. Reimagining maps through artistic intervention, Prendergast subverts historic symbols of power, identity and exploration, creating works that reflect more personal and emotional narratives. Presented at Frieze London are a series of hand-coloured works which invite viewers to reflect on human connections to land, borders, and the histories they carry. Prendergast has merged handmade objects with collected cartography. She pairs these objects together in ‘Falling Awake’, which is compiled of a 16-part map of Mount Fuji and grounded by a plinth covered in a woven sculptural element. The gouache and watercolour on the maps create a saturated geological installation. Through colour, the static arial views radiate an energetic sense of movement.

🖼️ Dorothy Cross, Pillow, 2026, Greek Marble, 14 x 42 x 43.5 cm / 5.5 x 16.5 x 17.1 in

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Featuring work by
Aleana Egan
Siobhán Hapaska
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Callum Innes
Elizabeth Magill
Mark Francis
Dorothy Cross

With support from ✨

11/10/2026

Frieze London l 2026
📍Booth D30
📆 14 - 18 October

Dorothy Cross 🎨

Working in sculpture, film and photography, Dorothy Cross examines the relationship between living beings and the natural world. Living in Connemara, a rural area on Ireland’s west coast, the artist sees nature, the ocean and the body as sites of constant change and flux. Her works harness this fluidity and generative power, staging unexpected encounters between plants, animals, body parts and everyday objects, resulting in strange, hybrid forms that range from the lyrical, sublime and meditative, to the erotic, humorous and playful. Her sculptures might incorporate classical materials such as Carrara marble, cast bronze or gold leaf alongside discarded antiques, old boats, washed-up jellyfish, whale bones or animal skins found on the shore. Treating these materials with equal reverence, Cross honours the legacy of art history but also the geological and ecological histories that far predate it, reflecting upon our place within the environment. Her works also draw upon a rich store of symbolic associations across cultures to investigate the construction of religious, social and sexual mores, subjectivity, memory and vulnerability.

🖼️ Dorothy Cross, Pillow, 2026, Greek Marble, 14 x 42 x 43.5 cm / 5.5 x 16.5 x 17.1 in

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Featuring work by
Aleana Egan
Siobhán Hapaska
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Callum Innes
Elizabeth Magill
Mark Francis
Kathy Prendergast

With support from ✨

10/10/2026

Frieze London l 2026
📍Booth D30
📆 14 - 18 October

Callum Innes 🎨

Callum Innes creates abstract paintings that carry a powerful tension between control and fluidity. Dissolution is central to his practice: layers of deep pigments are brushed over with turpentine, breaking down sections of paint and leaving watery, trace elements, before being painted over again. Repeating this process of painting, dissolving and repainting multiple times, Innes builds depth and a sense of history: oblique panels of dense pigments become embedded and fortified, while tiny trickles or rivulets of liquified paint point to their underlying fragility. This meticulous approach to materials is carried across into the artists’ watercolours and pastels, in which pigment is built up into velveteen layers. Though Innes’s works may seem minimal or geometric at first glance, they are in fact always slightly “off kilter”, governed by imperfectly drawn lines and slightly softened shapes. This fallibility and humanity, put in contrast with the artist’s skill and precision as a painter, results in works of great poetic and contemplative power - cementing Innes’s place as one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation.

🖼️ Callum Innes, Exposed Painting Gold Green / Violet, 2025, oil on linen, 162 x 160 x 4 cm / 63.8 x 63 x 1.6 in

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Featuring work by
Aleana Egan
Siobhán Hapaska
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Dorothy Cross
Elizabeth Magill
Mark Francis
Kathy Prendergast

With support from ✨

09/10/2026

Frieze London l 2026
📍Booth D30
📆 14 - 18 October

Elizabeth Magill 🎨

Described by critic Isobel Haribson as “epic, enigmatic and evocative”, Elizabeth Magill’s highly idiosyncratic paintings present subjective and psychological takes on the landscape genre. Rich with kaleidoscopic patterning and fragmented forms, these vistas are embedded in place – usually rural settings on the edges of settlements – but transported through the artist’s imagination, memories, photographs or moods to be presented as something other: lush, visionary recollections of hills, lakes, hedges and skies glowing with ambient light.

🖼️ Elizabeth Magill, Never, 2026, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 x 2 cm / 11.8 x 9.4 x .8 in

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Featuring work by
Aleana Egan
Siobhán Hapaska
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain �Dorothy Cross
Callum Innes �
Mark Francis
Kathy Prendergast

With support from ✨

07/10/2026

Elizabeth Magill 🌙
Join us tomorrow evening to celebrate the opening of ‘Northern Sky’ from 6-8pm 🎉

02/10/2026

GUGGI — 空義

📍 Château La Coste, Jean Prouvé Gallery

Bringing together works on paper and sculpture, GUGGI explores traditional Japanese materials and techniques.

The two-dimensional works are created using Sumi ink on handmade washi paper produced in Nara. Moving away from the oil and acrylic traditions of Western painting, ink speaks through gradation, emptiness and silence rather than colour.

The sculptural works begin as forms carved from single blocks of wood by craftsmen in Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa. Finished using traditional Japanese urushi lacquer techniques and enriched with gold and platinum powder, their surfaces achieve a quiet, restrained luminosity.

On view until 1 November 2026.

Also travelling across Europe this October is GUGGI, the 2026 documentary directed by Ian Thuillier, with screenings at three international film festivals:

🎬 10 October: Artecinema, Naples
🎬 7 - 11 October: Dinard Film Festival
🎬 13, 15, 18 October: Warsaw International Film Festival

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29/09/2026

Aleana Egan 'dove passages' closes this Saturday 3 November

27/09/2026

🎉Elizabeth Magill, Northern Sky opening Thursday 8 October, 6-8pm 🥂

Kerlin Gallery is pleased to present Northern Sky, an exhibition of new paintings by Elizabeth Magill.
Elizabeth is one of Kerlin Gallery’s longest-standing artist collaborations, established when the gallery first opened in 1988. Since then, she has enjoyed a wonderful international career exhibiting in multiple public and commercial galleries across UK, Europe and Asia.

The exhibition is accompanied by a major new monograph 'Northern Sky' with an illuminating text from celebrated Irish writer Colm Tóibín. Published by Kerlin Gallery, Miles McEnery Gallery, NYC, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, this full colour hardcover text will span Magill’s career over 240 pages.

Northern Sky will continue until 14th November

🖼️ Elizabeth Magill, Northern Sky, 2026, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm. Book designed by Tony Waddingham.

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24/09/2026

Last week of Aleana Egan's 'dove passages'✨ & Dublin By Dusk tonight 🌙

Join us at the gallery tonight at 6PM for a late opening and exhibition walkthrough with Michael Hill. Michael is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.

'dove passages' ends next Saturday 3rd September

🖼 Aleana Egan, Lullaby, 2026,
mixed media on canvas with solid white oak and linen mount,
60.5 x 49 x 7 cm

23/09/2026

Sean Scully has been named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honours.

The ceremony was held at the Ministry of Culture in Paris on Tuesday 22 September. Minister of Culture Catherine Pégard presented the title, recognising what the ministry described as Scully’s profound contribution to contemporary abstraction and his sustained influence on the visual arts over a career now spanning more than five decades.

Address

Anne's Lane, South Anne Street
Dublin
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Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 5:30pm
Thursday	10am - 5:30pm
Friday	10am - 5:30pm
Saturday	11am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+35316709093

Website

http://www.kerlingallery.com/

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