On Show | Athlone Arts and Tourism

Luan Gallery in collaboration with Westmeath Arts Office, presents Let The Mirror Express The Room, a Westmeath Artists Awards exhibition featuring work by 32 Westmeath artists selected by guest Curator Benjamin Stafford. The exhibition will be officially opened at 6 pm on Friday 29th November, with guest speakers Cllr. Liam McDaniel, Cathaoirleach, Westmeath County Council; Laura McCormack, Acting Arts Officer, Westmeath County Council; and Benjamin Stafford, Curator of Visual Art at VISUAL, Carlow.

Luan Gallery presents Tuberclerosies a solo exhibition of newly commissioned work by Cork-based artist Kevin Mooney. Mooney’s work is informed by historical and mythological research. 

Luan Gallery is pleased to present The Tides of Monumental Gesture, a multi-disciplinary group exhibition in collaboration with Museum of Everyone: Communal.

Apocalypse Anxieties — an exhibition at the end of the world — responds thematically, aesthetically, and affectively to an underground “nuclear bunker” installed by the Irish Government under Custume Barracks, Athlone during the Cold War.

Featuring the work of selected recent graduates: Peter Bjoerk, Aoife Ní Dhuinn, Laura Grisard, Shane Malone-Murphy, Aisling McConville, and Patsy Tyrrell, TAKE CARE TO LEAVE A TRACE offers insight into the practice of emerging Irish artists working across mediums such as sculpture, performance, film, photography, and drawing.

Luan Gallery in collaboration with Westmeath Arts Office presents SA LAR, a Westmeath Artists’ Awards Exhibition featuring works by thirty Westmeath artists selected by guest Curator, Emer McGarry, Director of The Model, Sligo. Exhibition continues until Thursday 8th February.

An Exhibition of works from the Technological University of the Shannon’s Modern Art Collection. The autumn group exhibition at Luan Gallery presents work from renowned Irish artists on loan from the TUS Modern Art Collection.

Official Opening: 6pm on Wednesday 20th September. Exhibition runs: Tuesday 12th September – Thursday 16th November.

Summer Group Exhibition at Luan Gallery that explores themes of climate change, sustainability, Irish ecology, and postcolonialism.

Exhibiting artists: Mark Clare, Teresa Dillon, and Rosie O’Reilly - Curated by Aoife Banks. Exhibition runs from Saturday 8th June – Sunday 3rd September. Official opening night: Friday 7th July, from 6pm to 8pm with Guest Speaker, Sarah Searson.

PORTALS is a group exhibition that delves into playful dreamscapes and journeys across fictional realms. PORTALS will be launched by Miriam Mulrennan, Arts Officer, Westmeath County Council, on Saturday 29th April at 2:00pm. All are welcome to attend. 

At The Gates of Silent Memory Solo Exhibition by Clare Langan; curated by Eamonn Maxwell. A major exhibition of rarely seen photographs by one of Ireland’s most important artists. Saturday 18th February – Thursday 20th April