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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.

27/05/2026

‘Dream’ is a painting by Alison Pilkington from her solo show at the gallery, on view until tomorrow. ..
𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡
𝘛𝘞𝘖 𝘚𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘚
Molesworth Gallery
April 30 - May 28
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Image: Alison Pilkington, ‘Dream’, oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm
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15/05/2026

’Shoreline mystery’ a painting by Alison Pilkington from her exhibition at the gallery, on view until May 28th.
In the catalogue essay for Pilkington’s solo show at The Model, Sligo, in 2021, Francis McKee writes of the artist that she draws heavily on ‘our historical and instinctual sense of the still mysterious sea and its role in the shaping of human culture. The amorphous figures that populate the shoreline of her island incorporate aspects of her own memories of Sligo with wider aspects of her identity as a woman and artist. The figures, perhaps aspects of her own self, shape-shift in the unstable zone of the shoreline drifting back and forth across boundaries of the animate (consciousness, emotions, the nervous system to the inanimate (stone, mist, light, flame).’
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𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡
𝘛𝘞𝘖 𝘚𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘚
Molesworth Gallery
April 30 - May 28
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Image: Alison Pilkington, ’Shoreline mystery’, oil on canvas, 80 x 70cm
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05/05/2026

From the first preview day at the 61st Venice Biennale, some images of Alan Phelan’s works spread across the Arsenale and the Central Pavilion of the Giardini, including an installation of Joly screen prints and the re-purposing of a window designed by Carlo Scarpa.
Open to the public from May 9th, the Biennale runs until November 22nd.
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Many thanks to Culture Ireland, IPUT and all the other generous supporters of Alan’s participation in the Biennale. ..
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30/04/2026

‘Lord of the hollow’ is a painting by Alison Pilkington from her solo show opening at the gallery this evening.
The show takes its title from the Syliva Plath poem, ‘Two sisters of Persephone’, where the poet offers two archetypes of femininity framed as sisters - one constrained by social expectations or internal repression, with the other embodying a freer, more instinctual self. Pilkington’s work draws on a similar binary, exploring dualities and tensions within the self and within the role of a woman in society more broadly.
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The artist was awarded a practice-led PhD in painting from the National College Art and Design, Dublin, in 2015. She was awarded the British Institution Award for painting at the Royal Academy Summer Show, London (2012), and was selected for the Marmite Painting Prize exhibition, London (2012 and 2016), the MePaintsMe International painting exhibition (2025) and was shortlisted for the Kurt Beers 100 Painters of Tomorrow publication (2013).
Recent exhibitions include: the Complex Dublin (2025); the Canopy Program, Chelsea, New York (2024); the Schonfeld Gallery Brussels (2022); the Model Sligo (2021); and the RHA Ashford Gallery (2018).
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𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡
𝘛𝘞𝘖 𝘚𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘚
Molesworth Gallery
April 30 - May 28
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Image: Alison Pilkington, ‘Lord of the hollow’, oil on canvas, 120 x 100cm..

20/04/2026

Our solo exhibition of work by Francis Matthews continues until Thursday, April 23rd.
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‘Francis Matthews is in many ways a remarkable painter. For EXT / INT, his sixth solo show at Molesworth Gallery, he continues his meticulous oil-on-board explorations of the urban fabric – alleys, junctions, facades and boundaries – while also expanding inward with a series of four studies of domestic interiors.
All are similarly muted in tone, and there are instructive affinities to be found across his indoor and outdoor scenes. Kitchen, an interior viewed through and partially obscured by a patio door, echoes the obstructed vantage points presented in Sarsfield, Crumlin and New, while Newel, a quarter-turned view of a staircase landing shares a certain sense of liminality with Matthew’s four renderings of a traffic junction in Inchicore.’
- excerpted from a review of the show by Aengus Woods in The Irish Times (April 8, 2025)
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𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒
𝑬𝑿𝑻 / 𝑰𝑵𝑻
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
March 21st - April 23rd, 2026
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09/04/2026

‘Meticulous explorations of the urban fabric.’
- Francis Matthews’ solo exhibition at the gallery is reviewed by Aengus Woods in The Irish Times.
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𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒
𝑬𝑿𝑻 / 𝑰𝑵𝑻
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
March 21st - April 23rd, 2026
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03/04/2026

‘Francis Matthews explains that he specialises in night scenes because he is interested in the dynamics of light. This seems, initially, to be a contradiction, but makes sense when it is considered that man-made illumination – the gleam of streetlights, the beam from traffic headlamps, the glow from domestic and commercial windows – only becomes fully visible once daylight has faded. Matthews’ vision is therefore at its most acute in the hours of darkness. At that time also, the streets are relatively deserted of human and vehicular traffic. His built milieu is redolent of its creators and users, yet without their embodied presence. There are no distractions from the urban landscape environment he projects; it is at once a subject in its own right, and a world presented for the viewer to imaginatively occupy.’

- taken from ‘The Dynamics of Light’, an essay on the artist by Dr Yvonne Scott..

𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒
𝑬𝑿𝑻 / 𝑰𝑵𝑻
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
March 21st - April 23rd, 2026
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Please note, the gallery is closed for the Easter bank holiday weekend and will re-open on Tuesday, April 7th.
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Image: Francis Matthews, ‘Kitchen’, oil n board in artist-made steel frame, 60 x 45cm
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01/04/2026

We’ve published a hardback book to accompany the solo exhibition of new work by Francis Matthews currently on view at the gallery. The book has an introductory text by architectural and cultural historian, Dr Ellen Rowley. Copies available from the gallery.
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𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒
𝑬𝑿𝑻 / 𝑰𝑵𝑻
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
March 21st - April 23rd, 2026
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27/03/2026

We’re showing at ArtEvolve in the RDS, open today from 11am to 8pm, and tomorrow and Sunday from 11am to 6pm. Hope to see you there!
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24/03/2026

The Molesworth Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings by Francis Matthews. In this latest body of work, followers of the artist will recognise the familiar subject matter of urban architecture: details of streets and buildings that might otherwise go unnoticed or be cursorily dismissed as unworthy of representation due to a drab or discordant appearance. For Matthews, however, these mundane elements of the urban landscape are ripe with possibilities, energized by the sophisticated interplay of light and shadow.

Francis Matthews graduated with a first-class honours degree in architecture from UCD before pursuing a career as an artist. He has won multiple awards, including the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the RHA Annual.

The gallery has published a hardback book to accompany the exhibition, with an introductory text by architectural and cultural historian, Dr Ellen Rowley.
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𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒
𝑬𝑿𝑻 / 𝑰𝑵𝑻
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
March 21st - April 23rd, 2026
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Image: Francis Matthews, ‘Inchicore 3’, oil on board in artist-made steel frame, 22 x 30cm
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10/03/2026

Michelle Conway’s solo show continues at the gallery until Friday evening. ..
The show conists of a body of work begun in 2023 and documents the rooms - the kitchens, the parlours, the bedrooms - that were the crucible of the maternal line of Conway’s family. The number 598 references the address of the house in Upstate New York that the artist’s Italian great-grandmother bought and all succeeding generations of women in the family have occupied at some point. There are also scenes from the house where she now lives in Ireland and the house in Candela, in southeast Italy, where her great-grandmother was born, and the artist recently spent an extended period of time.
The paintings have a spectral quality, as memories of place form and dissolve on the canvas, with some details omitted or misremembered and others heightened with a flash of colour that leaps out from the muted background tones. As a painter, Conway’s process begins with darkness, which she scrapes away like an archaeologist, uncovering a sense of place as much as an actual representation of it.
Conway holds a first-class honours degree in fine art from ATU Galway (2011) and an MFA from Goldsmiths, London (2014). She has shown at the RA Summer Exhibition; the Contemporary British Painting Prize Exhibition (where she was a shortlisted artist); Éigse; Tulca; the Royal Ulster Academy; Sid Motion Gallery and Bolee Gallery (London); and Beep Biennal (Wales). She lives and works in Galway.
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𝑴𝑰𝑪𝑯𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑬 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑾𝑨𝒀
𝘛𝘏𝘌 598 𝘚𝘌𝘙𝘐𝘌𝘚
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
February 13 - March 13
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Image: Michelle Conway, ‘Benny’s middle room’, oil on linen, laid on board, 45 x 35cm..

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