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The Molesworth Gallery is one of Ireland's leading contemporary art galleries.

The Molesworth Gallery is one of Ireland's leading contemporary art galleries, representing some of the most accomplished and exciting artists working in the country today. We host eight solo and two curated group exhibitions annually at our gallery space in Dublin’s city centre. Exhibitions are documented in gallery publications ranging from brochures to hardback books. We also collaborate with a

rts centres and museums to maximise public access to the work of our artists, as well as promoting them at international art fairs. The gallery covers the ground and first floors of a large Georgian house in Dublin's city centre. A changing display of work by gallery artists may be viewed in our upstairs exhibition space.

19/06/2026

Patrick Redmond’s Dummy paintings, 1 to 4, are on show in our group show Totems, on view until July 17th.
The series replaces individual subjects with ventriloquist dummies and mannequins, occupying an uncanny territory between object and person. They hint at the polished glamour of 1940s film actors while quietly undoing their promise of charm and control.
Watch out for a solo exhibition of works from the series this September.
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18/06/2026

115.7°F is a painting by Brian Harte from our group exhibition, Totems, currently on view at the gallery. ..
“Abstraction meets figuration in Harte’s canvases, where faceless figures and silhouettes populate domestic-looking interiors he describes as ‘arenas’ or ‘sets’. ‘I started using my family as an anchor, and the architecture of the house, the walls, floors, my wife’s clothing, the motifs and silhouettes of the kids, but these are metaphorical spaces. They’re a container for a network of things,’ says Harte.”
- taken from Cristín Leach’s feature on Harte and his work in the winter, 2025 issue of The Irish Arts Review...
TOTEMS
Molesworth Gallery
June 13th - July 17th ..
Image: 115.7°F, oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm
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17/06/2026

‘Field notes on blooming’ by Cristina Bunello, showing as part of our group exhibition, ‘Totems’, running until July 17th.
The critic, Niall MacMonagle, has written of Cristina Bunello’s work that it “is immediately recognisable for its subject matter. She almost always paints girls — girls heading towards adulthood. She’s known and admired too for her brilliantly fine and delicate technique and for something not quite pin-pointable. Her portraits are small, jewel-like, beautiful and they also have a strange, intriguing, unsettling quality. Bunello’s young girls are sophisticated. They wear elaborate clothes, sunglasses, headgear; they wear elaborate hairstyles, are sometimes blindfolded. In some you are presented with the back of their heads and in some, like this one, they look you straight in the eye. That gaze. You gaze back.”
Bunello’s work has been exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and at the Crawford Gallery of Art.
Her next solo show will take place at the Molesworth in Spring, 2027.
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𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒔
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
June 13th - July 17th
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Image: Cristina Bunello, ‘Field notes on blooming’, oil on board, 30 x 24 cm

11/06/2026

Crouching Archer’ is a painting by Vanessa Jones from our group exhibition, Totems, opening this Saturday from 2 to 4pm.
The image is inspired by an ancient roman signet ring of an archer and crouching Venus as well as a J.Crew ad with a Breton top. It also draws on Poussin’s colour and warm shadows and more broadly forms part of the artist’s ongoing investigation of ‘arrows, piercing and Eros / desire in regard to beauty’.

By blending representations of ancient myth, classical Baroque painting, and commercial marketing, the piece engages with the ongoing development and disfigurement of iconography in visual art. The figure appears posed and mythic, yet undeniably from a modern age, an ancient silhouette draped in contemporary garments.

This exhibition brings together works by a disparate group of artists who likewise use totems in their practice as a bridge between the personal and the universal. The human figure as a totem in visual art isn’t rooted in portraiture. It has served rather as a means to explore identity or an archetype, stretching from the sacred representation of ancestors and deities in prehistorical art to modern depictions of humans as ciphers for identity, power and celebrity.

The show features works by Catherine Barron, Aideen Barry, Zsolt Basti, Cristina Bunello, Mollie Douthit, Gabhann Dunne, Oscar Fouz Lopez, Brian Harte, Vanessa Jones, John Kindness, Vera Klute, Roxana Manouchehri, Cian McLoughlin, Sean Molloy, Alan Phelan, Patrick Redmond & Tim Shaw, with an accompanying text by Tom Lordan...
𝑻𝑶𝑻𝑬𝑴𝑺
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
June 13th - July 17th ..
Image: Vanessa Jones, ‘Crouching Archer’, oil on linen, 81 x 65 cm

27/05/2026

‘Dream’ is a painting by Alison Pilkington from her solo show at the gallery, on view until tomorrow. ..
𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡
𝘛𝘞𝘖 𝘚𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘚
Molesworth Gallery
April 30 - May 28
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Image: Alison Pilkington, ‘Dream’, oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm
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15/05/2026

’Shoreline mystery’ a painting by Alison Pilkington from her exhibition at the gallery, on view until May 28th.
In the catalogue essay for Pilkington’s solo show at The Model, Sligo, in 2021, Francis McKee writes of the artist that she draws heavily on ‘our historical and instinctual sense of the still mysterious sea and its role in the shaping of human culture. The amorphous figures that populate the shoreline of her island incorporate aspects of her own memories of Sligo with wider aspects of her identity as a woman and artist. The figures, perhaps aspects of her own self, shape-shift in the unstable zone of the shoreline drifting back and forth across boundaries of the animate (consciousness, emotions, the nervous system to the inanimate (stone, mist, light, flame).’
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𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡
𝘛𝘞𝘖 𝘚𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘚
Molesworth Gallery
April 30 - May 28
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Image: Alison Pilkington, ’Shoreline mystery’, oil on canvas, 80 x 70cm
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05/05/2026

From the first preview day at the 61st Venice Biennale, some images of Alan Phelan’s works spread across the Arsenale and the Central Pavilion of the Giardini, including an installation of Joly screen prints and the re-purposing of a window designed by Carlo Scarpa.
Open to the public from May 9th, the Biennale runs until November 22nd.
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Many thanks to Culture Ireland, IPUT and all the other generous supporters of Alan’s participation in the Biennale. ..
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30/04/2026

‘Lord of the hollow’ is a painting by Alison Pilkington from her solo show opening at the gallery this evening.
The show takes its title from the Syliva Plath poem, ‘Two sisters of Persephone’, where the poet offers two archetypes of femininity framed as sisters - one constrained by social expectations or internal repression, with the other embodying a freer, more instinctual self. Pilkington’s work draws on a similar binary, exploring dualities and tensions within the self and within the role of a woman in society more broadly.
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The artist was awarded a practice-led PhD in painting from the National College Art and Design, Dublin, in 2015. She was awarded the British Institution Award for painting at the Royal Academy Summer Show, London (2012), and was selected for the Marmite Painting Prize exhibition, London (2012 and 2016), the MePaintsMe International painting exhibition (2025) and was shortlisted for the Kurt Beers 100 Painters of Tomorrow publication (2013).
Recent exhibitions include: the Complex Dublin (2025); the Canopy Program, Chelsea, New York (2024); the Schonfeld Gallery Brussels (2022); the Model Sligo (2021); and the RHA Ashford Gallery (2018).
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𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡
𝘛𝘞𝘖 𝘚𝘐𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘚
Molesworth Gallery
April 30 - May 28
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Image: Alison Pilkington, ‘Lord of the hollow’, oil on canvas, 120 x 100cm..

20/04/2026

Our solo exhibition of work by Francis Matthews continues until Thursday, April 23rd.
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‘Francis Matthews is in many ways a remarkable painter. For EXT / INT, his sixth solo show at Molesworth Gallery, he continues his meticulous oil-on-board explorations of the urban fabric – alleys, junctions, facades and boundaries – while also expanding inward with a series of four studies of domestic interiors.
All are similarly muted in tone, and there are instructive affinities to be found across his indoor and outdoor scenes. Kitchen, an interior viewed through and partially obscured by a patio door, echoes the obstructed vantage points presented in Sarsfield, Crumlin and New, while Newel, a quarter-turned view of a staircase landing shares a certain sense of liminality with Matthew’s four renderings of a traffic junction in Inchicore.’
- excerpted from a review of the show by Aengus Woods in The Irish Times (April 8, 2025)
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𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒
𝑬𝑿𝑻 / 𝑰𝑵𝑻
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
March 21st - April 23rd, 2026
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09/04/2026

‘Meticulous explorations of the urban fabric.’
- Francis Matthews’ solo exhibition at the gallery is reviewed by Aengus Woods in The Irish Times.
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𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐖𝐒
𝑬𝑿𝑻 / 𝑰𝑵𝑻
MOLESWORTH GALLERY
March 21st - April 23rd, 2026
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