25/04/2026
"Boxed In" is a new solo exhibition by Julianne Guinee that runs at the Laneway Gallery in Cork City until the 16 May.
Moments where space begins to close in. Figures are placed within boxes, interiors, and fragments of everyday life, hovering between play and restriction.
Across the work, domestic space becomes unstable. Familiar settings — a bath, a hallway, a child at play — carry a subtle tension, where something feels slightly off or unresolved.
Rather than resolving these scenes, the paintings hold them in suspension. Figures appear contained but not fixed, caught between movement and stillness. The work lingers in this unstable space, where control begins to slip and something less certain emerges.
Julianne Guinee is an Irish painter based in Buttevant, County Cork. Working in oils, her practice explores motherhood, memory, and the emotional weight of domestic life. Her paintings centre on women and children within interior spaces, where tenderness and unease sit side by side.
She has painted full-time since 2019 and exhibits widely throughout Ireland, including the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibitions (2024–26). In 2025, she was awarded the Accenture Women on Walls commission to paint eight pioneering women for permanent display at University College Cork and appeared on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year.
