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16/06/2026

Emily O’Connell’s work focuses on equality and women’s health with a particular interest in phototherapy and using visual arts as a way to sensitively approach topics of trauma. She uses re-enactment and self-portraiture, as well as a research-based practice mixing documentary photography and performative elements throughout her work.
Most recently, Emily’s work has been exhibited at Peckham 24, Photo London, and was one of the Photo-book winners at Belfast Photo 2024.

‘and then I ran’ combines self-portraiture, text, and staged imagery to re-enact O’Connell’s grandmother’s escape from an Irish mother and baby home. The work examines institutional shame, trauma, and the enforced erasure of women’s identities. Through black-and-white performative images, colour landscapes, repetition, and techniques such as long exposure and distortion, the work situates personal memory within a broader history of oppression, loss, and psychological confinement in Ireland.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.
Find out more about Emily O’Connell at emioconnellphotography.com

Image Credit: Brian Cregan Brian Cregan

14/06/2026

Dorje de Burgh’s practice uses photography, archive, language, and film to examine desire, power, and image culture in a fractured present.
He received the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award (2020) and a Darkroom residency, leading to his solo exhibition ‘How To Kill Something That Doesn’t Exist’. His monograph, ‘What Are The Roots That Clutch’, was published in 2022 as part of the TLP Editions series by PhotoIreland. Recent projects include exhibitions in Ireland and Berlin. His work is held in private and public collections, including the Arts Council of Ireland.

‘Now is the Time’ is a document of protest, repression, censorship, and state control.
It is also concerned with the positionality of the photographic gaze amid complex networks of digitised self-, citizen- and state-surveillance, exploring the multiple tensions between indifference, engagement, power, and performativity within the contemporary spectacle.
The protesters’ identities are concealed both out of respect for the physical and legal risks they are taking by occupying public space and as a formal reflection of a political landscape in which peaceful protest, free assembly, and critical speech are increasingly criminalised.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.

Image Credit: Brian Cregan Brian Cregan

11/06/2026

Last month, we hosted our first Members Event at the International Centre for the Image: an artist talk by Liss Fenwick.

Liss shared insights into her recent work and discussed her new photobook, The Colony, offering a fascinating look into her artistic practice and research.

Our sincere thanks to Liss and everyone who attended, making it such an engaging and memorable event.

08/06/2026

Debbie Castro is a visual artist exploring psychological portraiture, the unconscious, and the death instinct through photography and mixed media. Using physical interventions such as cutting and altering images, she reveals hidden tensions, questioning identity, memory, and perception. Influenced by psychoanalytic theory, her work maps the psyche through fragmentation and material disruption.
Castro has exhibited internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and was selected by PhotoIreland for FUTURES Photography in 2024.

Castro revisits and intervenes in her father’s photographic archive to explore Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss, and anticipatory grief, drawing on recorded conversations to determine what is remembered, partially recalled, or forgotten. Through physical acts of cutting, scraping, and the symbolic use of colour-coded stickers, the work renders cognitive decline tangible, merging two photographic practices into a universal meditation on vulnerability, care, and the fragile persistence of memory.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.

Image Credit: Brian Cregan

04/06/2026

Ciara Richardson is an Irish photographer working with collage, fine art, and sculptural photography, alongside experimentation across media. Their practice explores social issues and how they shape human emotion and behaviour, with a strong focus on materiality and recontextualisation. Collaboration is central, using photography as a participatory, investigative tool. Through layered, experimental processes, they create accessible visual narratives that encourage critical engagement. 
‘How would you like it to happen to you?’ critiques the persistence of traditional gender stereotypes in contemporary media by subverting the male gaze and questioning dynamics of power, visibility, and objectification. Using found online imagery, the artist transforms flat photographs into interactive, three-dimensional sculptural forms through photomontage and mechanical processes. Challenging historical portrayals of men as active subjects and women as passive objects, the work fragments and reassembles the male body to expose vulnerability and insecurity. Influenced by Dadaist ideas, it creates tension between surface and volume while reconsidering how bodies are constructed, viewed, and valued.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026.]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.

Image Credit: Brian Cregan

02/06/2026

✨BOOK LAUNCH✨ Stray Sod, Maria Lax

Join us at the International Centre for the Image to mark the launch of a new publication by Setanta Books, Stray Sod by artist Maria Lax.

Maria Lax will be joined in conversation by Jonny Dillon, Interim Director of the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin.

6pm Thursday 25 June at the International Centre for the Image

Attendance is free, but booking is required - link in bio.

Stray Sod investigates the phenomenon of the same name in Irish folklore: enchanted patches of earth that will lead astray whoever steps on them. Inspired by first-hand accounts found in the National Folklore Collection, Maria Lax reimagines rural Irish landscapes through this otherworldly lens.

The stories describe instances in which individuals are forced to navigate a world characterised by sudden shifts into unfamiliarity and strangeness. A world in which established reference points distort and slip away, causing great distress to those experiencing it. Stray Sod draws timely parallels between these stories and the destabilising effects of the fast-changing political and technological environment of today.

30/05/2026

Billy Kenrick is an artist specialising in analogue photographic techniques combined with contemporary technologies. His practice also encompasses experimental sound and moving image. Working through a process-led approach, he places particular emphasis on the materiality of images and print media.
He develops work in series, often consolidating projects into formats such as handmade artist books, zines, and darkroom prints. His work is informed by the history of photography, as well as experimental film and painting, with a background spanning literature, philosophy, and fine art.

‘The Very End of Everything’ examines the material qualities of photographic media and indeterminate peripheral landscapes through the use of multiple analogue formats. Drawing inspiration from the story of Antonin Artaud’s troubled 1937 visit to Inis Mór, the work positions both landscape and image as ambiguous sites that invite interpretation while simultaneously resisting it.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026.]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.
Find out more about Billy Kenrick at billykenrick.com

Image Credit: Brian Cregan

29/05/2026

Austin Hearne is an artist working across installation, performance, and film. Most recently, Hearne has recently completed an episodic project, ‘The Raymo series’, which comprised a number of solo exhibitions around Ireland. In 2025, he was commissioned by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios to make a work titled Terrible Certainty for the annual Dublin Art Book Fair. Austin is also a founding member and one half of the post-punk, goth band Satin Shadow with Glenn McQuaid. He is a recipient of the Arts Council Bursary Award (2020–2025).

‘Slabs’ is an ongoing, open-ended photographic project that uses damaged wallpaper pasting tables to display selected images from a personal archive spanning over 30 years, reflecting an ongoing struggle with the volume, value, storage, and meaning of photographic material amid the shift from analogue to digital practice. Through juxtaposed images that move between the personal and political, the work interrogates memory, authorship, and trust in technology, while situating a q***r lived experience within profound social and cultural changes in Ireland.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026.

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.
Find out more about Austin Hearne at bishopaustinhearne.com

Image Credit: Brian Teeling

26/05/2026

We recently hosted a group session at the International Centre for the Image with the 10 artists currently featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition, alongside our Library Fellowship recipient, Clodagh Assata Boyce, and OVER Journal co-editor Aidan Kelly Murphy.

The session created a space for everyone to share their projects and learn more about each other’s artistic practices and research. It was a valuable opportunity to deepen connections and spark conversation.

Thank you to Austin Hearne, Billy Kenrick, Ciara Richardson, Debbie Castro, Dorje de Burgh, Emily O’Connell, Garry Loughlin, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, Miriam O’ Connor, Clodagh Assata Boyce, and Aidan Kelly Murphy.

25/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ Artist Tour at the International Centre for the Image on 15 May!

A special thank you to the participating artists who generously shared insights into their projects, creative processes, and practices. It was a pleasure to experience the works through your perspective.

The exhibition is free and open Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5.30pm, and runs until 9 August.

Find out more about the exhibition and plan your visit at image.museum or through the link in bio.

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