The Glucksman

The Glucksman Award-winning contemporary art museum on University College Cork campus.
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The Glucksman is situated in the
picturesque lower grounds of University
College Cork’s historic campus. The
stunning contemporary architecture is a hive
of cultural activity that includes display spaces, lecture facilities, a riverside restaurant and gallery shop.

Join NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library and the Glucksman this Wednesday for a special double event: a walking tou...
15/06/2026

Join NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library and the Glucksman this Wednesday for a special double event: a walking tour of an casadh and an afternoon workshop to talk through the steps of artists' archiving

📍 Elizabeth Fort and The Glucksman (beginning at Elizabeth Fort)
🗓 Wednesday June 17
⏰ 11am-3.30pm
🎟 Free to attend but booking is required - follow the link in our bio under 'Events'

Curator Katie O’Grady will lead a 45-minute morning tour of an casadh (the turn) by artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín at Elizabeth Fort. Commissioned by The Glucksman in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival, an casadh is a bio-sculptural installation and live performance exploring ideas of kinship, ritual and nourishment.

In the afternoon, Ruth Hallinan will lead a workshop in the River Room of the Glucksman to talk through NIVAL's new Toolkit for Artists' Archiving. The workshop will cover the steps of self-documentation as laid out in the toolkit's chapters and how to best use the toolkit to build your own archive. The session will be suitable for beginners and those who are interested in keeping track of their work or would like to know more about how to collect, choose, organise and preserve their documents. The workshop will not address how to archive artwork.

Head to the Glucksman website to learn more about the event and NIVAL's artist toolkit - follow the link in our bio🔗

Image 1 by Jed Niezgoda
Image 2 by Clare Lymer, National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), NCAD, Dublin

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library

Thank you to all who joined us yesterday in Elizabeth Fort for the opening performance of an casadh (the turn) by Laura ...
14/06/2026

Thank you to all who joined us yesterday in Elizabeth Fort for the opening performance of an casadh (the turn) by Laura Ní Fhlaibhín!

an casadh is a bio-sculptural installation and live performance by Laura Ní Fhlaibhín exploring ideas of kinship, ritual and nourishment commissioned by The Glucksman in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival.

Thank you to the Director of Cork Midsummer Festival Lorraine Maye for providing opening remarks alongside our Director Professor Fiona Kearney and our Curator of Exhibitions and Projects Katie O'Grady. We would also like to thank the staff at Elizabeth Fort for hosting us for the duration of the festival.

an casadh is curated by Katie O'Grady and is funded by a project award from the the Arts Council of Ireland, and created for Cork Midsummer Festival

an casadh is open to the public at Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street from 13th to 20th June, open daily 10am–5pm (12pm-5pm on Sunday).

Find out more about an casadh through the link in our bio🔗

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | Cork Midsummer Festival

Images by Clare Keogh

an casadh: the radio show🪱In accompaniment to an casadh (the turn), we are delighted to present a radio show on éist, wh...
13/06/2026

an casadh: the radio show🪱

In accompaniment to an casadh (the turn), we are delighted to present a radio show on éist, which broadcasts at 12pm on Sunday 14 June

This radio show is a sonic survey of the project's development. It explores composting, interspecies care, biodiversity and soil health, illness, desire, and disgust to turn towards a deeper engagement with what it means to live and care within the shifting, squishy, and often alien terrains of our shared world.

Produced by Glucksman Assistant Curator Julie Landers, the show features readings of texts by Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Beulah Ezeugo, Laura Fitzgerald and Emily Steer along with interview excerpts from Dr. Fidelma Butler and Dr. Israel Ikoyi of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC and an interview with Aisling Kett of Soil Savers, TEST SITE

Throughout the show a commissioned soundscape by musician and sound designer Ruairí De Búrca plays. Using worm field recordings taken throughout the project, De Búrca's piece amplifies chthonic murmurations that often go unnoticed and offers us an invitation to apply practices of deep listening to our understanding of the ecological.

The radio show will be available to listen back to via our project page- click the link in our bio to find out more🔗

an casadh is curated by Katie O'Grady, curator of Exhibitions and Projects at The Glucksman, and is funded by a project award from the the Arts Council of Ireland, and created for Cork Midsummer Festival.

an casadh is open to the public at Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street from 13th to 20th June, open daily 10am–5pm (12pm-5pm on Sunday).

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | Cork Midsummer Festival

an casadh: the activation🪱an casadh (the turn) opens today with an activation performance by the artist Laura Ní Fhlaibh...
13/06/2026

an casadh: the activation🪱

an casadh (the turn) opens today with an activation performance by the artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín

Laura Ní Fhlaibhín’s an casadh (the turn) unfolds at Elizabeth Fort this Cork Midsummer festival as a living installation of sculptural wormeries activated by the artist in her performance rituals tae na bpéist, which consider the historical significance of the site as a women’s convict depot. This work explores kinship, ritual and nourishment, whilst also considering what it means to be implicated in conditions that are at once sustaining and precarious.

Across the duration of an casadh, local earthworms will live within sculptural cocoons processing organic waste into vermicompost. In their interconnected ovoid homes these creatures will turn over the soil to generate rich fertilizer, focusing attention on the ecological co-existence which occurs all around us. Located at multiple spaces in Elizabeth Fort, artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín will activate the exhibition through performances that consider the historical significance of the site as a women’s convict depot. Ní Fhlaibhín draws upon personal experience of endometrial illness through sculptural assemblage and ritual to consider health, virility and restoration in an environment seeped with the memory of incarceration.

Laura Ní Fhlaibhín is an artist from Wexford. She combines myth, personal recollection and oral histories through sculptural elements and writing. Her work often draws upon modes of care - of self and others, humans and animals, objects and materials.

an casadh is curated by Katie O’Grady, curator of Exhibitions and Projects at The Glucksman, and is funded by a project award from the the Arts Council of Ireland, and created for the Cork Midsummer Festival.

an casadh is open to the public at Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street from 13th to 20th June, open daily 10am–5pm (12pm-5pm on Sunday).

Head to the Glucksman website for more information about an casadh- follow the link in our bio🔗

Images by Jed Niezgoda

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | Cork Midsummer Festival

an casadh: the publication🪱We are delighted to unveil a publication featuring writings by the artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín ...
12/06/2026

an casadh: the publication🪱

We are delighted to unveil a publication featuring writings by the artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín and invited contributors Beulah Ezeugo, Laura Fitzgerald and Emily Steer which interpolate themes of illness, care and ecological entanglement.

This publication exists as a further exploration and accompaniment to the bio-sculptural installation and live performance by artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín exploring ideas of kinship, ritual and nourishment commissioned by The Glucksman in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival.

The publication also features transcriptions of interviews conducted with Dr.Fidelma Butler and Dr.Israel Ikoyi from Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC.

Edited by Katie O'Grady and designed by Katie O’Grady and David Morrison. Printing by PageMasters Risograph Printing.

The publication will be available to purchase at both the Glucksman shop and Elizabeth Fort for the duration of Cork Midsummer Festival for €10. Please note purchases at the fort are through Revolut but both cash and card are accepted in our gallery shop.

Commissioned by The Glucksman and Cork Midsummer Festival, an casadh will be presented at Elizabeth Fort from 13th to 20th June, open daily 10am–5pm (12pm-5pm on Sunday).

an casadh is curated by Katie O’Grady, curator of Exhibitions and Projects at The Glucksman and is funded by a project award from the the Arts Council of Ireland, and created for the Cork Midsummer Festival.

Head to the Glucksman website for more information about the publication and an casadh- follow the link in our bio🔗

Images by Clare Keogh

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | Cork Midsummer Festival

An casadh: the installation 🪱We have been busy working away in Elizabeth Fort this week installing ‘the five-hearted ear...
11/06/2026

An casadh: the installation 🪱

We have been busy working away in Elizabeth Fort this week installing ‘the five-hearted earthworm’, the main installation of an casadh!

an casadh is a bio-sculptural installation and live performance by Laura Ní Fhlaibhín exploring ideas of kinship, ritual and nourishment commissioned by The Glucksman in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival.

The install team have been fitting a system of interconnected pipes between the Jesmonite and blown-glass ovoid vermicomposters and bedding them in for the worms to be able to travel around, as well as setting up a system of microphones with Declan Synnott from UCC Library and Information Centre to allow audiences to hear the worms as they travel through the work.

We would like to extend a huge thanks to staff at Elizabeth Fort for hosting us this week and throughout the course of Cork Midsummer Festival. Thank you to our technicians Dominic Fee and Mazie Smallidge and thank you to Declan for your wisdom on all things sound!

Commissioned by The Glucksman and Cork Midsummer Festival, an casadh will be presented at Elizabeth Fort from 13th to 20th June, open daily 10am–5pm (12pm-5pm on Sunday).

Head to the Glucksman website for more information about the walking tour and an casadh- follow the link in our bio🔗

Images by Clare Keogh

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | Cork Midsummer Festival

As part of our offsite project an casadh for Cork Midsummer, we are teaming up with Soil Savers for a walking tour that ...
10/06/2026

As part of our offsite project an casadh for Cork Midsummer, we are teaming up with Soil Savers for a walking tour that explores composting, interspecies kinship and visual art🪱🌱

📍 TEST SITE and Elizabeth Fort
🗓 Sunday June 14
⏰ 2pm-4pm
🎟 Free to attend but booking is required - follow the link in our bio under 'an casadh | Glucksman x CMF'

Beginning at TEST SITE in Kyrl's Quay, Aisling Kett of Soil Savers will give a hands-on introduction to urban composting. Composting is the natural process of recycling organic matter. It is vital for maintaining healthy ecosystems by returning essential nutrients to the ground, improving water retention, and reducing harmful methane emissions in landfills.

Following Aisling's introduction, we will walk through the city to Elizabeth Fort for a guided tour of artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín's bio-sculptual installation an casadh. This installation features sculptural wormeries which, over the course of the Cork Midsummer Festival, will process organic waste into vermicompost. This tour will be led by Glucksman curator Katie O'Grady and artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín.

an casadh is curated by Katie O’Grady, curator of Exhibitions and Projects at The Glucksman. an casadh is funded by a project award from the the Arts Council of Ireland, and created for the Cork Midsummer Festival.

Head to the Glucksman website for more information about the walking tour and an casadh- follow the link in our bio🔗

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | Cork Midsummer Festival

This month's Little Interview is with Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, whose bio-sculptural installation and live performance an casa...
09/06/2026

This month's Little Interview is with Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, whose bio-sculptural installation and live performance an casadh (the turn) has been commissioned by the Glucksman in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival and opens to the public at Elizabeth Fort this Saturday 13 June!

Every month we ask the same set of cultural questions to one of our artistic, academic or civic collaborators.

Over the last number of years, we have interviewed diverse members of the Glucksman community - artists, academics, staff members, guests, audiences and workshop participants. The responses are funny, inspiring, revealing and always a great read.

Read Laura's responses at the link in our bio under 'Explore- Little Interview'🪱

Commissioned by The Glucksman and Cork Midsummer Festival, an casadh will be presented at Elizabeth Fort from the 13th to the 20th of June, open daily 10am–5pm (12pm-5pm on Sunday).

Image by Luana Rigolli

The Glucksman is delighted to welcome author Adania Shibli to the gallery as part of this year's Cork Midsummer Festival...
07/06/2026

The Glucksman is delighted to welcome author Adania Shibli to the gallery as part of this year's Cork Midsummer Festival

On Repetition and Absence: Adania Shibli for Cork Midsummer Festival

🗓 Saturday 13 June
⏰ 4pm
📍Glucksman Gallery
🎟 €18/€15 concession + booking fee - book via the link in our bio or on the Cork Midsummer Festival website 🔗

The award-winning author of Minor Detail, Adania Shibli delivers an unmissable keynote lecture on repetition and the absence of words.

A profound speaker on war, memory, identity, language and aesthetics, Shibli draws on her work as a novelist and essayist to explore the relationship between narrative, silence and power. Her writing spans novels, plays, short stories and essays, and engages deeply with questions of violence, justice and representation.

Minor Detail was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, longlisted for the International Booker Prize, and awarded the LiBeraturpreis. Shibli has also received the Qattan Young Writer’s Award twice and continues to teach and research in different universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University, Palestine (2012-2018), while from 2022–2025 she acted a a co-curator of the Bergen Assembly 2025, Bergen, Norway.

This event is part of the literary strand of Cork Midsummer Festival presented in partnership with University College Cork.

Image by Wiktoria Bosc

University College Cork | Cork Midsummer Festival | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Join NIVAL and the Glucksman for a special double event: a walking tour & afternoon workshop to talk through the steps o...
05/06/2026

Join NIVAL and the Glucksman for a special double event: a walking tour & afternoon workshop to talk through the steps of artists' archiving

📍 Elizabeth Fort and The Glucksman (beginning at Elizabeth Fort)
🗓 Wednesday June 17
⏰ 11am-3.30pm
🎟 Free to attend but booking is required - follow the link in our bio under 'Events'

Curator Katie O’Grady will lead a 45-minute morning tour of an casadh (the turn) by artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín at Elizabeth Fort. Commissioned by The Glucksman in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival, an casadh is a bio-sculptural installation and live performance exploring ideas of kinship, ritual and nourishment.

In the afternoon, Ruth Hallinan will lead a workshop in the River Room of the Glucksman to talk through NIVAL's new Toolkit for Artists' Archiving. The workshop will cover the steps of self-documentation as laid out in the toolkit's chapters and how to best use the toolkit to build your own archive. The session will be suitable for beginners and those who are interested in keeping track of their work or would like to know more about how to collect, choose, organise and preserve their documents. The workshop will not address how to archive artwork.

Head to the Glucksman website to learn more about the event and NIVAL's artist toolkit - follow the link in our bio🔗

Image by Clare Lymer, National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), NCAD, Dublin

University College Cork | The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon | NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library

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