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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

20/05/2026

🌇 Dublin By Dusk, Thursday 28 May
⏰ Late opening until 9pm
🎉 Exhibition Walk-Through with Dr. Yvonne Scott, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Yvonne Scott to lead an exclusive walk-through of Kathy Prendergast’s Stasis Field.

Following the talk, visitors are very welcome to stay and explore the exhibition, as the gallery will remain open until 9pm.

Dr. Yvonne Scott is an Emeritus Fellow and former Associate Professor of History of Art at Trinity College Dublin. She was awarded the RHA Gold Medal for 2025 in recognition of her services to Irish art. She has researched and published extensively in modern and contemporary art, including analysis of various aspects of the work of artist Kathy Prendergast. Her most recent book is Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art, published by Churchill House Press in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2023.

About Dublin by Dusk
On the last Thursday of each month, all CAGA galleries—along with other cultural institutions and museums across the city—extend their opening hours, welcoming visitors late into the evening until 9pm.

Stasis Field continues until Saturday 30 May.

17/05/2026

Final day of ✨

Over the past 30 years Callum Innes has refined one of the most distinctive approaches to abstract painting. Through a process of applying and dissolving paint his work carries a powerful tension between control and fluidity, revealing the many layers of nuance that lie beneath the surface. In ‘Untitled Cobalt Blue Light’ Innes has dissolved or washed away all but the very edge of the painted surface, redacting almost all that has gone into its making.

The result is painting with no discernible form or structure but instead, an immeasurable depth and a quiet forceful gravitational pull. Innes’s new paintings offer an alternative space, one filled with suggestive shadows and floating worlds.

Don’t miss the last chance to see Dorothy Cross, Callum Innes & Hazel O’Sullivan 💥

👀 Independent Art Fair, Booth 305
📍 Pier 36, 299 South Street
📅 14-17 May

📸: Callum Innes, Untitled Cobalt Blue Light, 2025, oil on canvas, 160 x 156 x 4 cm / 63 x 61.4 x 1.6 in

With support from

15/05/2026

now open ✨

Dorothy Cross
Callum Innes
Hazel O’Sullivan

👀 Independent Art Fair, Booth 305
📍 Pier 36, 299 South Street
📅 14-17 May

With support from

14/05/2026

✨Kathy Prendergast, Stasis Field
🪸Continues until Saturday 30 May 2026

Just over two weeks left to visit Stasis Field by Kathy Prendergast at Kerlin Gallery. This intimate experience transforms our gallery space into geological installation, merging hand sculpted objects with collected cartography.

📍Kerlin Gallery
👋All welcome

13/05/2026

Hazel O’Sullivan at ✨

Hazel O’Sullivan is a multi-disciplinary artist examining visual discourse from Irish culture. Her work imagines a combination of ancient and future narratives as artefacts, devices and mythological architecture through a retro-futuristic lens. O’Sullivan explores the symbolic and mythological resonance of ancient artefacts, challenging histories of imperial extraction and reimagining them as both historical objects and new, contemporary forms.

👀 Independent Art Fair, Booth 305
📍 Pier 36, 299 South Street
📅 14-17 May

📸: Hazel O’Sullivan, Gold Crannóg (Torc), 2026, acrylic on canvas, 86.6 x 55.1 in / 220 x 140 cm

With support from

11/05/2026

Presenting Dorothy Cross at ✨

The breathtaking beauty, subtly and craft that is the hallmark of Dorothy Cross’s practice comes to the fore in ‘Pillow’.

‘Pillow’ presents a hand-carved marble pillow resting in quiet stillness, its surface soft in appearance but its form is solid, an ancient stone with the telling grain of geological time. From its center emerges an ear, delicately formed, as though the object itself is listening, a place of rest and dreams, is transformed into something alert, almost sentient.

👀 Independent Art Fair, Booth 305
📍 Pier 36, 299 South Street
📅 14-17 May

📸: Dorothy Cross, Pillow, 2026, hand-carved Greek Marble, 42 x 43.5 x 14 cm / 16.5 x 17.1 x 5.5 in

With support from

09/05/2026

💥 Mark Francis, Sea of Sound
📍Pavilion of the San Marino Republic at the 61st Venice Biennale

‘Sea of Sound’ will present a new body of work by the artist, who has long explored the physical and poetic relationships between art, sound, and science.

Since the 1990s, Mark Francis has developed a body of work primarily focused on abstract painting – an emotional and sonic experience that translates into artworks evoking auditory sensations through visual representation, in a synesthetic and multisensory dimension.

The title of the Pavilion, ‘Sea of Sound’, alludes to the vast ocean of sounds and frequencies that surround us and to our capacity to perceive, select, and transform them into personal experiences, filtered through emotion. The Pavilion will unfold across two rooms: in the entrance space, a projection titled Listening Field will immerse visitors in the artist’s world of images; in the second room, a focused selection of large-scale, previously unseen oil paintings on canvas and aluminum will allow viewers to explore his research in depth.

‘Sea of Sound’ by Mark Francis is curated by Luca Tommasi. The Pavilion is designed and produced by FR Istituto d’Arte Contemporanea S.p.a.

03/05/2026

💫Isabel Nolan, Dreamshook
✨Pavillion of Ireland at the 61st Venice Biennale
✨9 May - 22 November 2026

Curated by Dr. Georgina Jackson with The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art

The word Dreamshook describes the feeling of waking from a dream, when reality is destabilised and realms of possibility linger and dissipate. In the Irish Pavilion, Nolan’s installation of hand-tufted tapestry, drawing, and sculpture, represents thresholds, dream states and narratives that strain the distinctions between the immaterial and the actual. The work develops from her sustained fascination with the frameworks that shape any understanding of the world and the widespread human desire to make order within chaos.

Nolan looks to the Middle Ages and early Renaissance as an era mirroring our own time. It was a profoundly turbulent period marked by religious and political upheaval, a time transformed by plague, wars and famine. It was also a time when cultural and technological developments in Europe reshaped what it is to be human, challenged the nature of authority, and both witnessed and cultivated profound ideological change.

Dreamshook by Isabel Nolan is commissioned by Culture Ireland in partnership with The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, curated by Dr. Georgina Jackson with The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art and produced by Cian O’Brien. Isabel Nolan’s Dreamshook exhibition will return home to Ireland for a national tour in 2027.

Pavilion of Ireland
Arsenale di Venezia, Campo de la Tana, 2169
30122 Venice
9 May - 22 November 2026

📸 Portrait by Marc O’Sullivan

23/04/2026

Kathy Prendergast 💥
Join us to celebrate the opening of ‘Stasis Field’ from 12 - 2pm, Saturday 25 April 🎉

📍Kerlin Gallery
👋 All welcome

22/04/2026

🖼️ Merlin James, Elizabeth Magill, Stephen McKenna in Salon, curated by Matthew Higgs
📍 Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford
📆 25 April - 25 October 2026

“Salon is a painting exhibition. It is also an exhibition of paintings. Some forty paintings, made by an intergenerational group of artists are staged throughout Lismore’s galleries in a theatrical mise-en-scène.

The exhibition’s title describes a formal device, where the paintings are choreographed in a salon-like hang, often in close proximity to one another – as well as alluding to the idea of the gallery as an animated, social space: literally a ‘salon’, a place where people might come together. The paintings are accompanied by an informal gathering of chairs – sourced from both private and public settings in the Lismore community – which visitors are encouraged to make use of.

The paintings in Salon at Lismore Castle Arts are mostly figurative or representational. They are mostly domestically-scaled. If a large-scale painting suggests perhaps a more public intent – for example the declarative ambitions of “history painting” – then the works in Salon operate instead in a more intimate fashion, almost insisting upon closer scrutiny from the viewer.

The artists who made these works ultimately have very little in common. Several explore genres such as landscape, portraiture or the still-life, yet together they do not represent a school or an art historical tendency. Several could be described as outliers or even mavericks – certainly some embrace folk or outsider mannerisms in their approaches. The works are presented in such a way that preserves each artist’s autonomy whilst simultaneously allowing them to be in concert with one another, to create a polyphony of determinedly distinct voices”. - Matthew Higgs, February 2026.

Image: Stephen McKenna, Clouds, 2014. Oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm

19/04/2026

🔴 Kathy Prendergast, Stasis Field
▫️opening Saturday 25 April, 12-2pm

Kerlin Gallery is pleased to present Stasis Field, an exhibition of sculpture, work on paper and installation by Kathy Prendergast.

Stasis Field features a selection of sculpture, work on paper and installation, offering an intimate experience that intertwines memory, transformation, and the passage of time. Prendergast uses an array of textile, chalk, stone, fabric, wool and found objects to create art that resonates on both personal and universal levels.

Since the beginning of her career, maps have been a core element of Prendergast’s practice. Reimagining maps through artistic intervention, Prendergast subverts historic symbols of power, identity and exploration, creating works that reflect more personal and emotional narratives. Included in Stasis Field are hand-coloured works which invite viewers to reflect on human connections to land, borders, and the histories they carry. Pigmented chalk, gouache and watercolour create a saturated geological installation, merging hand sculpted objects with collected cartography. In Stasis unites the physical and emotional, featuring a collection of colourful hand-painted volcanic maps, creating a kaleidoscopic reinterpretation of the peaks Chimbarazo to Mount Kenya. Through colour, the static arial views radiate an energetic sense of movement. In Comet, rust coloured string radiates from an encased roll of fabric and wool. A carefully placed pattern of stones sit on the webbed string, some like small anchors, others seemingly guiding the material further. Elsewhere against the gallery wall, a painted red branch stretches three metres high, coupled with a vibrant painted arial of Cotopaxi, Ecudaor.

Stasis Field will continue until 30 May 2026.

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