***All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun*** The Coach House, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
14.2.25 - 11.5.2025
*All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun* explores the dualities that shape art and life, inspired by Flann O’Brien’s layered contrasts of rural and urban, reality and imagination, and seriousness and humour. Curated by artists Paul Hallahan and Lee Welch, the exhibition features Irish and international artists working across painting, sculpture, and video, showcasing how opposites coexist and connect. A highlight is the rediscovered self-portrait of Christy Brown, offering a rare glimpse into the resilience and creativity of one of Ireland’s most iconic artists.
Artists: Christy Brown, Nina Canell, Lauren Conway, Aleana Egan, Genieve Figgis, Paul Hallahan, Samir Mahmood, Maria Maarbjerg, William McKeown, Mairead O’hEocha, Adrian O’Carroll, Elizabeth Peyton, Linda Quinlan, Eva Rothschild, Anne Tallentire, Luke van Gelderen, Marcel Vidal, Michael Warren, and Lee Welch.

IN CONVERSATION @ 7pm, 12th December 2024 on the occasion of ***Footfalls***, a group exhibition of Irish contemporary artists at
**Britta Rettberg** Gallery, Gabelsbergerstraße 51, 80333 Munich
**Nora Gomringer** (poet, writer and director of the International Künstlerhaus, Villa Concordia, Bamberg) **Yara Sonseca** (Munich-based independent curator) & **Mairead O’hEocha** (Irish artist) will explore ideas presented by the exhibition and ask questions of their wider significance within European art and culture today.
Artists: Artists: Bassam Al-Sabah, Laura Ní Fhlaibhin, Mairead O’hEocha, Niamh O’Malley, Alice Maher, Lauren Gault, Laura Gannon, Alan McGee. Curated by Yara Sonseca
***Footfalls*** exhibition is part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, a joint Initiative between Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany

***P420 Gallery, Bologna Italy.*** 9th April - 11th June 2022
*Di semplicità e di brivido* consists of a dialogue between 25 works by one of the most important painters of the 20th century in Italy, Filippode Pisis (Ferrara, 1896 – Milan, 1956), and the works of seven international painters – Richard Aldrich (Hampton, 1975), Michael Berryhill (El Paso, 1972), Luca Bertolo (Milan, 1968), Paul Housley (Stalybridge, 1964), Merlin James (Cardiff, 1960), Mairead O’hEocha (Dublin, 1962), Maaike Schoorel (Santpoort, 1973) – invited to establish an interaction with the works of de Pisis.

Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast announce a collaborative exhibition partnership presenting WE ARE HERE, SONGS OF A FORGOTTEN PAST Artists’ Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX.

Exploring themes of marginality and its representation, community, storytelling, world-building and critically reframing histories, these linked exhibitions present films from SONGS OF A FORGOTTEN PAST, one of five artists’ film programmes curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices.
WE ARE HERE at Highlanes Gallery will include work from a range of media including moving image, sculpture, painting and photography and will include the work of artists Ayo Akingbade, Ursula Burke, Duncan Campbell, Tom Fitzgerald, Luke Fowler, Cliona Harmey, Anthony Haughey, Susan Hiller, Samson Kambalu, Brian Maguire, Colin Martin, Mairead O'hEocha, and Daphne Wright.

Pallas Projects are pleased to present ‘Dubliners’ – the international section of the 6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb, curated by Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy. The exhibition affords a unique opportunity to present together for the first time, an intergenerational grouping of painters who were born, bred, studied (and taught), or live and work in Dublin. What does it mean within the expanded topography of contemporary art with its multiple and unlimited forms? What does such an exhibition say about artists (or painters) working together in a city. Can we trace traits of influence, exchange and conversation, of a ‘community of painting’, or is painting the ‘purest form of individualism’?

Ringsend Church & Diner, Oil on board, 63 x 84cms, 2018 Mairead O’hEocha
‘Dubliners’ – the international section of the 6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb
Artists: Gemma Browne, Natasha Conway, Colin Crotty, Gabhann Dunne, Oscar Fouz López, Patrick Graham, Eithne Jordan, John Lalor, Gillian Lawler, Stephen Loughman, Salvatore of Lucan, Brian Maguire, Colin Martin, Fergus Martin, Eleanor McCaughey, Seán Molloy, Mairead O’hEocha, Mark O’Kelly, Alison Pilkington, Liliane Puthod, Sven Sandberg, Sonia Shiel, Kathy Tynan, Marcel Vidal, Harry Walsh Foreman, Orla Whelan. Sculptural installation by Tom Watt & Tanad Williams

Orangutang, Natural History Museum, Dublin, 2020, oil on canvas, 150 x 100cms

This work is a recent acquisition by the National Gallery of Ireland. It will be on view in the upcoming exhibition New Perspectives at the NGI, Merrion Square, Dublin.

New Perspectives is an exhibition of newly acquired Irish art, Western art, portraiture, works on paper, and archival material, featuring artists from Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) to Alice Neel (1900-1984), and Ilya Bolotowsky (1907–1981) to Mandy O’Neill (b.1967).

Works selected by Sean Rainbird Curated by Janet McLean & Niamh McNally

National Gallery Of Ireland - Artists' Voices: Life in a Pandemic | Mairead O’hEocha in conversation from her studio in Dublin

Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes, Installation view, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, 2020

An installation of paintings and drawings which re-create and reflect on Natural History Museum display. The paintings ask how we can better acknowledge the limitations of archetypal conventions of display, while also celebrating the complexities of representing the natural world today. The work goes beyond the urgency of current environmental concerns to present artworks that chart human anxieties, such as fear, desire and control

Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes originally opened in February 2020 but closed shortly after, as Ireland went into lockdown, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
To acknowledge the unique circumstances and the reopening of the exhibition, the artist produced new works on paper and continued to add to and expand and re-configure the installation. It was as if the animals have reproduced, inviting questions on how the animal kingdom might survive in a post-human world.