1. “Still Between”, Gormleys Gallery
Bold, colourful, and cubist, Jenny Belton’s floral and interior paintings take the stage in this, the newest exhibition for the self-taught Dublin artist. With sharp, flowing lines, Belton filters everyday objects through “colour and abstraction” in an effort to “reimagine them as something joyful, slightly unfamiliar, and open to interpretation”. Running March 5th to March 23rd. Walking time: six minutes.
2. “Blue Moon Shadow”, Kerlin Gallery
Marcel Vidal’s paintings are, Kerlin states, “refined and restrained, incarnating brightly lit fragments of photographs or digital images”. Cropped images and skewered close-ups reveal as much as they hide in this Dublin artist’s work. Crisp, intense, and near-unsettling, a collection of Vidal’s paintings will go on display from March 12th to April 18th. Walking time: seven minutes.
3. “Connections Arts Collective Exhibition”, Royal Hibernian Academy
The Connections Arts Centre is a social enterprise focused on promoting artists in Ireland’s disability community. Works from artists who are neurodivergent or have intellectual disabilities make up this exhibition, and find expression in a myriad number of mediums, from pencil sketches, to illustrations, and oil paintings. On display from March 19th to April 19th. Walking time: 15 minutes.
4. “Gairdín Rós | Rose Garden”, Olivier Cornet Gallery
Motherhood takes centre stage in Vicky Smith’s work. These exhibited paintings, made in her early years of motherhood, interrogate memories and moments of a mother’s life with an intimate and sensitive touch. Akin to a documentarian, Smith employs art as an explorative search into the “psychological impact of the domestic space”, with her newest exhibition running from March 8 to April 12. Walking time: 19 minutes.
5. “Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman”, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Camille Souter and Alberta Whistle are placed in conversation in this unique and outward-facing exhibition. Souter’s Icelandic paintings, completed in the 1950s, find a reflective echo in Whittle’s installation works, reimagined in IMMA. Hailing from Ireland and Barbados respectively, and with fifty years of age between them, a focal through-line can be located in these artists’ intense ecological and humanitarian focus. Opening March Walking time: 30 minutes (a fast pace will be required for this one, admittedly).
