International Centre for the Image, Mayor Street Upper, North Wall, Dublin (2026)

08/06/2026

Debbie Castro is a visual artist exploring psychological portraiture, the unconscious, and the death instinct through photography and mixed media. Using physical interventions such as cutting and altering images, she reveals hidden tensions, questioning identity, memory, and perception. Influenced by psychoanalytic theory, her work maps the psyche through fragmentation and material disruption.
Castro has exhibited internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and was selected by PhotoIreland for FUTURES Photography in 2024.

Castro revisits and intervenes in her father’s photographic archive to explore Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss, and anticipatory grief, drawing on recorded conversations to determine what is remembered, partially recalled, or forgotten. Through physical acts of cutting, scraping, and the symbolic use of colour-coded stickers, the work renders cognitive decline tangible, merging two photographic practices into a universal meditation on vulnerability, care, and the fragile persistence of memory.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.

Image Credit: Brian Cregan

04/06/2026

Ciara Richardson is an Irish photographer working with collage, fine art, and sculptural photography, alongside experimentation across media. Their practice explores social issues and how they shape human emotion and behaviour, with a strong focus on materiality and recontextualisation. Collaboration is central, using photography as a participatory, investigative tool. Through layered, experimental processes, they create accessible visual narratives that encourage critical engagement. 
‘How would you like it to happen to you?’ critiques the persistence of traditional gender stereotypes in contemporary media by subverting the male gaze and questioning dynamics of power, visibility, and objectification. Using found online imagery, the artist transforms flat photographs into interactive, three-dimensional sculptural forms through photomontage and mechanical processes. Challenging historical portrayals of men as active subjects and women as passive objects, the work fragments and reassembles the male body to expose vulnerability and insecurity. Influenced by Dadaist ideas, it creates tension between surface and volume while reconsidering how bodies are constructed, viewed, and valued.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026.]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.

Image Credit: Brian Cregan

02/06/2026

✨BOOK LAUNCH✨ Stray Sod, Maria Lax

Join us at the International Centre for the Image to mark the launch of a new publication by Setanta Books, Stray Sod by artist Maria Lax.

Maria Lax will be joined in conversation by Jonny Dillon, Interim Director of the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin.

6pm Thursday 25 June at the International Centre for the Image

Attendance is free, but booking is required - link in bio.

Stray Sod investigates the phenomenon of the same name in Irish folklore: enchanted patches of earth that will lead astray whoever steps on them. Inspired by first-hand accounts found in the National Folklore Collection, Maria Lax reimagines rural Irish landscapes through this otherworldly lens.

The stories describe instances in which individuals are forced to navigate a world characterised by sudden shifts into unfamiliarity and strangeness. A world in which established reference points distort and slip away, causing great distress to those experiencing it. Stray Sod draws timely parallels between these stories and the destabilising effects of the fast-changing political and technological environment of today.

30/05/2026

Billy Kenrick is an artist specialising in analogue photographic techniques combined with contemporary technologies. His practice also encompasses experimental sound and moving image. Working through a process-led approach, he places particular emphasis on the materiality of images and print media.
He develops work in series, often consolidating projects into formats such as handmade artist books, zines, and darkroom prints. His work is informed by the history of photography, as well as experimental film and painting, with a background spanning literature, philosophy, and fine art.

‘The Very End of Everything’ examines the material qualities of photographic media and indeterminate peripheral landscapes through the use of multiple analogue formats. Drawing inspiration from the story of Antonin Artaud’s troubled 1937 visit to Inis Mór, the work positions both landscape and image as ambiguous sites that invite interpretation while simultaneously resisting it.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026.]

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.
Find out more about Billy Kenrick at billykenrick.com

Image Credit: Brian Cregan

29/05/2026

Austin Hearne is an artist working across installation, performance, and film. Most recently, Hearne has recently completed an episodic project, ‘The Raymo series’, which comprised a number of solo exhibitions around Ireland. In 2025, he was commissioned by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios to make a work titled Terrible Certainty for the annual Dublin Art Book Fair. Austin is also a founding member and one half of the post-punk, goth band Satin Shadow with Glenn McQuaid. He is a recipient of the Arts Council Bursary Award (2020–2025).

‘Slabs’ is an ongoing, open-ended photographic project that uses damaged wallpaper pasting tables to display selected images from a personal archive spanning over 30 years, reflecting an ongoing struggle with the volume, value, storage, and meaning of photographic material amid the shift from analogue to digital practice. Through juxtaposed images that move between the personal and political, the work interrogates memory, authorship, and trust in technology, while situating a q***r lived experience within profound social and cultural changes in Ireland.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026.

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.
Find out more about Austin Hearne at bishopaustinhearne.com

Image Credit: Brian Teeling

26/05/2026

We recently hosted a group session at the International Centre for the Image with the 10 artists currently featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition, alongside our Library Fellowship recipient, Clodagh Assata Boyce, and OVER Journal co-editor Aidan Kelly Murphy.

The session created a space for everyone to share their projects and learn more about each other’s artistic practices and research. It was a valuable opportunity to deepen connections and spark conversation.

Thank you to Austin Hearne, Billy Kenrick, Ciara Richardson, Debbie Castro, Dorje de Burgh, Emily O’Connell, Garry Loughlin, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, Miriam O’ Connor, Clodagh Assata Boyce, and Aidan Kelly Murphy.

25/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ Artist Tour at the International Centre for the Image on 15 May!

A special thank you to the participating artists who generously shared insights into their projects, creative processes, and practices. It was a pleasure to experience the works through your perspective.

The exhibition is free and open Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5.30pm, and runs until 9 August.

Find out more about the exhibition and plan your visit at image.museum or through the link in bio.

22/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the International Centre for the Image on 14 May for the launch of ‘New Irish Works 2026’, presenting 10 outstanding artists.

The exhibition is part of ‘New Irish Works’, PhotoIreland’s triennial project, which aims to support Irish and Ireland-based artists by offering public-facing activities such as the exhibition, as well as a range of behind-the-scenes professional development opportunities.

We wish to extend our deepest thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland, the British Journal of Photography, Kennedy Wilson, PhotoIreland’s Board of Directors, the production team, and, of course, the artists Austin Hearne, Billy Kenrick, Ciara Richardson, Debbie Castro, Dorje de Burgh, Emily O’Connell, Garry Loughlin, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, and Miriam O’ Connor.

The exhibition is free and open Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5.30pm, and runs until 9 August.

Find out more about the exhibition and plan your visit at image.museum or through the link in bio.

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20/05/2026

Austin Hearne is an artist working across installation, performance, and film. Most recently, Hearne has recently completed an episodic project, ‘The Raymo series’, which comprised a number of solo exhibitions around Ireland. In 2025, he was commissioned by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios to make a work titled Terrible Certainty for the annual Dublin Art Book Fair. Austin is also a founding member and one half of the post-punk, goth band Satin Shadow with Glenn McQuaid. He is a recipient of the Arts Council Bursary Award (2020–2025).

‘Slabs’ is an ongoing, open-ended photographic project that uses damaged wallpaper pasting tables to display selected images from a personal archive spanning over 30 years, reflecting an ongoing struggle with the volume, value, storage, and meaning of photographic material amid the shift from analogue to digital practice. Through juxtaposed images that move between the personal and political, the work interrogates memory, authorship, and trust in technology, while situating a q***r lived experience within profound social and cultural changes in Ireland.

[In this series of posts, we introduce you to the artists featured in the ‘New Irish Works 2026’ exhibition at the International Centre for the Image, running until 9 August 2026.

Find out more at image.museum or through the link in bio.
Find out more about Austin Hearne at bishopaustinhearne.com

19/05/2026

✨MEMBERS EVENT✨ Artist Talk: Liss Fenwick

📍International Centre for the Image 🗓️27 May 2026 at 12pm

Join Australian artist Liss Fenwick at the International Centre for the Image for an exclusive Members talk on her recent work and new photobook ‘The Colony’.

Most recently, Liss has exhibited at ‘On Country: Photography From Australia’ at the Rencontres d’Arles (2025), and readers may also recognise this work from ‘OVER Journal Issue 4’. Liss will speak about her work and most recent photobook, ‘The Colony’, published with Perimeter Books, now available to pre-order.

Set in the distant north of the Australian continent, ‘The Colony’ reflects on the book as a dominant form of human knowledge, and its role in a long, often destructive relationship with other forms of intelligence and history.

❗This is an exclusive event for Members only. Not yet a Member? Join today through the link in bio!

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