The Molesworth Gallery

The Molesworth Gallery The Molesworth Gallery is one of Ireland's leading contemporary art galleries.

The Molesworth Gallery is one of Ireland's leading contemporary art galleries, representing some of the most accomplished and exciting artists working in the country today. We host eight solo and two curated group exhibitions annually at our gallery space in Dublin’s city centre. Exhibitions are documented in gallery publications ranging from brochures to hardback books. We also collaborate with a

rts centres and museums to maximise public access to the work of our artists, as well as promoting them at international art fairs. The gallery covers the ground and first floors of a large Georgian house in Dublin's city centre. A changing display of work by gallery artists may be viewed in our upstairs exhibition space.

FACEMAKER opens at the gallery on September 10th. In his latest series of paintings, Patrick Redmond replaces individual...
03/09/2026

FACEMAKER opens at the gallery on September 10th.
In his latest series of paintings, Patrick Redmond replaces individual subjects with ventriloquist dummies and mannequins, occupying an uncanny territory between object and person. Painted in monochrome, the works evoke classic studio publicity stills while quietly undoing their promise of charm and control.
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With an exhibition text by 𝗝𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗺𝗮𝗻.
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𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗
F A C E M A K E R
Molesworth Gallery
Sept 10th - Oct 27th
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Patrick Redmond

Some more works by Roxana Manouchehri, Catherine Barron, Zsolt Basti and Oscar Fouz Lopez from our current exhibition, T...
30/07/2026

Some more works by Roxana Manouchehri, Catherine Barron, Zsolt Basti and Oscar Fouz Lopez from our current exhibition, Totems.
We’re open until 9pm this evening as part of After Hours at the Museum and Dublin by Dusk. Drop in to view the exhibition and to browse through a selection gallery publications and other art-themed books.
After Hours at the Museum and Dublin by Dusk are initiatives by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, supporting venues to stay open longer so that people can explore more of the city’s cultural life after 6pm.
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Image 1: Roxana Manouchehri, No kings 1, acid washed mirror, mixed media on board
Image 2: Catherine Barron, The Descendants, acrylic ink on gesso panel, in tinted Perspex frame, 120 x 80 cm
Image 3: Zsolt Basti, Well-behaved, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm
Image 4: Oscar Fouz Lopez, Chill time, oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm
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Catherine Barron Roxana Roxy Manouchehri Zsolt Basti Oscar Fouz Lopez Dublin By Dusk

The Mummers’ Tongue Goes Wh***ng Amongst the People (Figures I-IV) are from a series of works by Tim Shaw in our current...
29/07/2026

The Mummers’ Tongue Goes Wh***ng Amongst the People (Figures I-IV) are from a series of works by Tim Shaw in our current exhibition, Totems. Part of an ongoing project by the artist, they currently exist as a group of six small figures that were modelled in wax, sacking and straw, then cast into bronze. The title is inspired by a verse from a poem entitled The Last Mummer by Seamus Heaney

‘He came trammelled
in the taboos of the country

picking a nice way through
the long toils of blood

and feuding.
His tongue went wh***ng

among the civil tongues,
he had an eye for weather-eyes

at cross-roads and lane-ends
and could don manners

at a flutter of curtains.
His straw mask and hunch were fabulous

disappearing beyond the lamplit
slabs of a yard.’

The artist’s ultimate goal is to celebrate the significance of the Mummers’ Tongue with the creation of a grouping of large, sculpted figures which would be placed on a hill in South Armagh, close to the Irish border on a site where a British army look-out once stood.
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Image: Tim Shaw, The Mummers’ Tongue Goes Wh***ng Amongst the People (Figures I-IV), bronze on slate plinth, edition of 9, 33 x 73 cm
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We’re open until 9pm tomorrow evening as part of After Hours at the Museum and Dublin by Dusk. Drop in and browse throug...
29/07/2026

We’re open until 9pm tomorrow evening as part of After Hours at the Museum and Dublin by Dusk. Drop in and browse through a selection gallery publications and other art-themed books and also to view our current group exhibition, Totems.

After Hours at the Museum and Dublin by Dusk are initiatives by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, supporting venues to stay open longer so that people can explore more of the city’s cultural life after 6pm.
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Dublin By Dusk Department of Culture, Communications and Sport

Vera Klute’s ‘Self-portrait’, in tufted wool, showing as part of our group exhibition, Totems.“Klute is an extraordinary...
14/07/2026

Vera Klute’s ‘Self-portrait’, in tufted wool, showing as part of our group exhibition, Totems.

“Klute is an extraordinary, compelling artist. The 2015 Hennessy Portrait Prize winner, she has a string of honours and accolades to her name. Working across a range of means and media, she is fascinated by how we see, experience and deal with the external world “as subjective agents”. She observes us – and herself – as the strange creature we are.”
The Irish Times, May 8, 2016

Since graduating in fine art from IADT in 2006 with a first-class honours degree, Klute has had solo exhibitions at the RHA Gallery, Dublin, the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, and at The Molesworth Gallery. She has shown in the group exhibition Rencontres Internationales at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She won the 2015 Hennessy Portrait Prize, awarded under the auspices of the National Gallery of Ireland, and the Hennessy-Craig Scholarship at the 2015 RHA Annual Show. Her portrait of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy, commissioned by The National Gallery of Ireland, was added to the National Portrait Collection in 2014, as was her porcelain and concrete bust of Garry Hynes in 2017. Major public commissions undertaken include the sculpture of Luke Kelly on the North Wall in Dublin and an installation in the entrance lobby of the National Children’s Hospital. Vera is a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
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Totems
Molesworth Gallery
June 13th - July 17th
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Image: Vera Klute, Self-portrait, tufted wool, wood, stone base, 43cm high

There are only two days left to see ‘Artists’ Studios in Henrietta Street 1976 - 2026’, at the City Assembly House. The ...
09/07/2026

There are only two days left to see ‘Artists’ Studios in Henrietta Street 1976 - 2026’, at the City Assembly House. The exhibition includes works by artists Mick O’Dea, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Eithne Jordan, Geraldine O’Neill, Alice Hanratty, Paul Nugent, Diana Copperwhite, Gwen O’Dowd, Michael Cullen, Fergus Martin, Daniel McKeon, Louise Peat, John Kelly and Charles Cullen. Also included are photographs by Anna Rackard, David Davison and Perry Ogden.
The show celebrates the creative heritage of one of Dublin’s finest Georgian streets. Over the past half century, many painters, printmakers and sculptors have lived or worked in this inner city street.
In the accompanying exhibition text Peter Murray writes: ‘As if emphasising the close communal bond that existed between the artists of Henrietta Street, many of the subjects of Mick O’Dea’s portraits are of other artists in and around Henrietta Street, including Fergus Martin, Geraldine O’Neill and Martin Folan. In the 1980s, O’Dea and Alice Hanratty (1939-2025) served on the committee of the Independent Artists. His painting of Hanratty on the steps of her house at No. 4 is a homage not only to a great artist but also to the Georgian grandeur of the street. Equally, his portrait of Michel Cullen who had a studio in No. 6 for over forty years is a tribute by one artist to another.’
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‘Eigenface EF_43 (Self-portrait)’ by Cian McLoughlin, currently on view at the gallery as part of our group exhibition, ...
08/07/2026

‘Eigenface EF_43 (Self-portrait)’ by Cian McLoughlin, currently on view at the gallery as part of our group exhibition, Totems.
The Eigenface series is a collaboration between McLoughlin and mathematician and neuroscientist Prof John Butler of TU Dublin. Together, they explore the connections between art, machine learning, and neuroscience in the context of facial recognition.
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Totems
Molesworth Gallery
June 13th - July 17th.
Image: Cian McLoughlin, ‘Eigenface_43 (Self-portrait)’, chalk on paper, 75 x 55 cm

“Small, skewed pictures that cast a spell: the art of Mollie DouthitThe novelist Sara Baume describes how her admiration...
04/07/2026

“Small, skewed pictures that cast a spell: the art of Mollie Douthit
The novelist Sara Baume describes how her admiration for Douthit’s idiosyncratic oil paintings led to a strange, tentative friendship”

- Stuart Kelly reviews Sara Baume’s ‘Opening Night’ ahead of it’s launch at the gallery next week

‘Vintage Fag with bra 1940, when really it’s a fag with a fag in a bra’ by Alan Phelan, showing as part of our group exh...
02/07/2026

‘Vintage Fag with bra 1940, when really it’s a fag with a fag in a bra’ by Alan Phelan, showing as part of our group exhibition, ‘Totems’.

This piece is from a series of self-portraits where different q***r identities are performed and forms part of a broader project to give the Joly screen process a visual history it never had, as it was quickly superseded by cheaper, more efficient colour photography methods in the early twentieth century. Like many of his early self-portrait shots, Phelan used a vintage photo as a reference, in this case, a random one with no identifiable author. Through these shots, Phelan explores figurative poses from various q***r photographers, not as strict re-enactments, but as re-readings or approximations, with some based on famous images and some, like this one, totally anonymous.

Alan Phelan is one of the 111 selected participants exhibiting at the 61st Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh. The exhibition consists of individual artists, collaborative duos, collectives, and artist-led organisations, and runs until November 22nd, 2026...
𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒔
Molesworth Gallery
June 13th - July 17th
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Image: Alan Phelan, ‘Vintage Fag with bra 1940, when really it’s a fag with a fag in a bra’, Joly screen photograph, unique

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