Lavit Gallery

Lavit Gallery Lavit Gallery, Cork's longest established commercial gallery, is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the work of local and national artists. No.

Cork Arts Society (est 1963), trading as Lavit Gallery, is a not-for-profit arts organisation, registered charity (CHY 13297) and CLG dedicated to promoting an appreciation of art in Cork City. Our exhibition space incorporates a wide range of painting, print, sculpture, glass and ceramic work. For further details on our exhibition programme, artists in stock and becoming a member please visit our website. CHY 13297

UPCOMING Sulphur | Orla Whelan In collaboration with The Fold, art and geology research group 18 June – 11 July, 2026 O...
31/05/2026

UPCOMING

Sulphur | Orla Whelan
In collaboration with The Fold, art and geology research group

18 June – 11 July, 2026
Opening reception Thursday 18 June 5.30-7.30pm
Artist talk, as part of The Fold Symposium, Saturday 04 July, 3pm

Sulphur is an exhibition of new work by visual artist Orla Whelan. Building on her longstanding interest in geology and colour, in 2025 Orla undertook research in collaboration with The Fold art and geology group, focusing on specimens of elemental sulphur from UCC's rock collection. Initially drawn to the intense colour, Orla's research interests deepened to include the invisible crystalline structure embedded within the rocks various outward formations, as well as its historical roles in alchemy, industry and astronomy. Representing the soul in alchemy, sulphur was considered to be one of the three primes (along with mercury and salt) from which all matter was comprised, and from which any material could be created. In addition to its transformative potential and intense array of yellows, the artist considers its hidden chromatic capacities - while lemon-yellow in solid form, sulphur becomes a molten red liquid and emits a blue flame when burned. Weaving science, intuition, materiality and magical thinking through the formal language of abstraction and the materials of painting, this exhibition of new work presented at Lavit Gallery includes a floor-based painting on plywood and paintings on linen, alongside sulphur specimens kindly loaned by UCC Geology Department.


UPCOMING IN THE VAULTSSOURCE Kevin Sanderson Beecher & Jess Franklin In collaboration with The Fold, art and geology re...
31/05/2026

UPCOMING IN THE VAULTS

SOURCE
Kevin Sanderson Beecher & Jess Franklin
In collaboration with The Fold, art and geology research group

04 –27 June 2026
Artist talk as part of The Fold Symposium, Saturday 04 July, 3pm

A grain of sand begins as a fragment, separated from its source rock, it is carried by wind and water and shaped by many processes. Transforming, it moves through landscapes, gathering traces of its journey. In time, it settles. Grains settle. Layers form. What was once scattered is whole, held deep within the earth, and part of a larger, shifting landscape.

Source is an immersive sound installation, inspired by the research of former geologist Dr. Jess Franklin. Her PhD work investigated the provenance of ancient sandstones, unravelling the history of their individual sand grains, from weathering through to transport, deposition, and burial. Developed in collaboration with sound artist Kevin Sanderson Beecher, Source echoes the enormity of geological time. Using field recordings and sound manipulation, the soundscape serves as a sonic narrative that follows the long journey of sand grains through the sandstone’s life cycle.

Upon entering a darkened room, attendees are immersed in an evocative soundscape and presented with an illuminated sample of sandstone resting on a plinth. The grains of sand within the rock are over 200 million years old. They were once part of mountains that no longer exist. They traversed hundreds of kilometers before arriving at their final resting place. The simultaneously erosive and cumulative nature of this journey serves to reflect the shifting inner and outer landscapes of our own lives as humans. Through our own materiality, we weather through time, becoming contoured, curved, and cracked. Over the course of our lifetime, layers of individual and collective experience build up to form the narrative of our life’s journey.

Slow down. Listen. Return to source.


WITHIN AND BEYOND CONVERSATIONA huge thank you to our exhibiting artists Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman, and our invited g...
30/05/2026

WITHIN AND BEYOND CONVERSATION

A huge thank you to our exhibiting artists Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman, and our invited guest and chair Cristín Leach for a very illuminating conversation today. And thank you to everyone who came along.

Within and Beyond | Ita Freeney & Cathy Dorman
Until 13 June 2026

Lavit Gallery presents a two-person exhibition by painters Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman. Their respective sources are landscapes and interiors, while for both, the work lies between abstraction and representation. Although no humans appear in the paintings, their presence is implied. Both artists go through a very considered process of experiencing, observing and investigating light and shape, and distil, emphasise and manipulate these elements in their paintings.
All remaining available artworks in our current exhibition can be browsed and purchased on our website by following the link provided here or in bio. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the full gallery of images:
https://lavitgallery.com/exhibition/within-and-beyond/

30/05/2026

UNTIL 6pm - CLOSING PERFORMANCE

\f\XILE | Artem Trofimenko
Closing Performance
Saturday 30 May, 2–6pm
Vaults, Lavit Gallery, Cork

For the closing of the installation \f\XILE by Artem Trofimenko the artist will be present in the vaults for a four-hour durational performance. The exhibit will remain open throughout and visitors can come and go as they please.

ARTIST TALK TODAY 12PMToday (Saturday 30 May) at 12pm, our exhibiting artists Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman will be in co...
30/05/2026

ARTIST TALK TODAY 12PM

Today (Saturday 30 May) at 12pm, our exhibiting artists Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman will be in conversation with art critic, broadcaster and author Cristín Leach (Image credit: Clare Keogh). All welcome. Not to be missed.

Within and Beyond | Ita Freeney & Cathy Dorman
Until 13 June 2026

Lavit Gallery presents a two-person exhibition by painters Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman. Their respective sources are landscapes and interiors, while for both, the work lies between abstraction and representation. Although no humans appear in the paintings, their presence is implied. Both artists go through a very considered process of experiencing, observing and investigating light and shape, and distil, emphasise and manipulate these elements in their paintings.

All remaining available artworks in our current exhibition can be browsed and purchased on our website by following the link provided here or in bio. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the full gallery of images:
https://lavitgallery.com/exhibition/within-and-beyond/

OUR PLACE IN TIME "The work reminds me there is no such thing as trying. Time passes and we may overlook our own capacit...
29/05/2026

OUR PLACE IN TIME

"The work reminds me there is no such thing as trying. Time passes and we may overlook our own capacity, our place in time. We reach toward something we recognise in ourselves and find it already gone. The past self is unhomed and the only place to return to is the present. Coming to terms with that inability, with the impossibility of control, allows something else: a release, an immediacy of response, an attunement with one’s environment and its discreet forces."

\f\XILE · Artem Trofimenko
Vaults
Until 30 May

CLOSING PERFORMANCE
Saturday 30 May, 2–6pm
For the closing of the installation \f\XILE by Artem Trofimenko the artist will be present in the vaults for a four-hour durational performance. The exhibit will remain open throughout and visitors can come and go as they please.

THE ONE OF WALKING"The gesture came first. The one of walking. Everything else unfolded from that one gesture repeated. ...
28/05/2026

THE ONE OF WALKING

"The gesture came first. The one of walking. Everything else unfolded from that one gesture repeated. It is the anchor. All the somatic responses, all the forms that came after, stretched from that one thing: the next step, and the next step, an anchoring within the feeling of precariousness, allowing the moment to expand from one second to the next."

\f\XILE · Artem Trofimenko

Vaults

Until 30 May

ARTIST TALK THIS SATURDAY 12PMThis Saturday 30 May at 12pm, our exhibiting artists Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman will be ...
28/05/2026

ARTIST TALK THIS SATURDAY 12PM

This Saturday 30 May at 12pm, our exhibiting artists Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman will be in conversation with art critic, broadcaster and author Cristín Leach (Image credit: Clare Keogh). Not to be missed.

Within and Beyond | Ita Freeney & Cathy Dorman
Until 13 June 2026

Lavit Gallery presents a two-person exhibition by painters Ita Freeney and Cathy Dorman. Their respective sources are landscapes and interiors, while for both, the work lies between abstraction and representation. Although no humans appear in the paintings, their presence is implied. Both artists go through a very considered process of experiencing, observing and investigating light and shape, and distil, emphasise and manipulate these elements in their paintings.

All remaining available artworks in our current exhibition can be browsed and purchased on our website by following the link provided here or in bio. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the full gallery of images:
https://lavitgallery.com/exhibition/within-and-beyond/

CLOSING PERFORMANCE\f\XILE | Artem TrofimenkoClosing Performance Saturday 30 May, 2–6pmVaults, Lavit Gallery, CorkFor th...
27/05/2026

CLOSING PERFORMANCE

\f\XILE | Artem Trofimenko
Closing Performance
Saturday 30 May, 2–6pm
Vaults, Lavit Gallery, Cork

For the closing of the installation \f\XILE by Artem Trofimenko the artist will be present in the vaults for a four-hour durational performance. The exhibit will remain open throughout and visitors can come and go as they please.

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