Muine Bheag Arts

Muine Bheag Arts Muine Bheag Arts is an artist-run organisation based in Co. Carlow, Ireland which hosts a temporary

Carlow, Ireland which hosts a temporary programme of exhibitions, workshops & events in the public realm. Our objective is to promote contemporary art outside of the city context, to collaborate with the local community through multi-disciplinary arts activities and to support emerging and established artists by commissioning new works of art.

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Is eagraíocht faoi stiúir ealaíontóirí atá lonna

ithe i gContae Cheatharlach é Ealaíona Mhuine Bheag agus cuireann si i láthair clár taispeántas, ceardlanna agus imeachtaí sa ríocht phoiblí. Tá sé mar sprioc againn ealaín chomhaimseartha i gcomhthéacs tuaithe a chur chun cinn, comhoibriú a bhunú le pobal na háite trí ghníomhaíochtaí ildisciplíneacha agus tacú le healaíontóirí atá ag teacht chun cinn nó atá seanbhunaithe trí nuashaothair ealaíne a choimisiúnú.

A reminder to listen back to our most recent Muine Bheag Arts Radio episode, Return of the Bog Body, made in collaborati...
16/06/2026

A reminder to listen back to our most recent Muine Bheag Arts Radio episode, Return of the Bog Body, made in collaboration with 6th class students from St. Brigid’s N.S. 📻

During a series of hands-on workshops, the students wrote the script for the play, acted out the roles of the characters, created foley sounds and learned how to use recording equipment.

Return of the Bog Body tells the story of a group of excited scouts arriving at Mount Leinster for the biggest orienteering competition of the year. Meanwhile, a confused bog body escapes from the museum and is searching for someone he lost a thousand years ago… ⛰️

🎧 You can listen across all major streaming services and on our radio platform: https://radio.muinebheagarts.com/archive/episodes/13-return-of-the-bog-body/

This project is kindly supported by Creative Ireland Carlow Carlow Arts Office Creative Places Bagenalstown

This weekend!
12/06/2026

This weekend!

09/06/2026

We were delighted to get the chance to work with 6th class students from St. Brigid's N.S. to make a radio play for Muine Bheag Arts Radio.

The Bog Body Returns was made as part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2026 with support from Carlow Arts Office Creative Ireland Carlow Creative Places Bagenalstown

📻 Muine Bheag Arts Radio Launch📍Project Space, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin📅 Wednesday 27th May, 6-8pmWe’re exc...
19/05/2026

📻 Muine Bheag Arts Radio Launch
📍Project Space, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin
📅 Wednesday 27th May, 6-8pm

We’re excited to launch the third season of Muine Bheag Arts Radio. Join us for a preview of our new episode in Fire Station Artists' Studios on 27th May at 6pm.
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Muine Bheag Arts Radio is an experimental broadcasting platform by artist-run organisation Muine Bheag Arts. Based on the DIY ethos of community radio, Muine Bheag Arts Radio aims to create a space for dialogue, connection and exploration through the medium of sound.

Muine Bheag Arts Radio broadcasts conversations with artists and collaborators, live performances and commissioned audio works from a shed in County Carlow to the rest of the world.

A sunny day spent at the very special Cow House Studios 🦚So nice to meet with members of the Kunstverein Creative Produc...
27/04/2026

A sunny day spent at the very special Cow House Studios 🦚

So nice to meet with members of the Kunstverein Creative Producer Programme and share our work with them.

We spoke about sustaining an art practice over time and discussed strategies for sticking around 🤝

Thanks for having us!

📣 Muine Bheag Arts Radio is excited to announce an open call for audio works.Inspired by our makeshift recording studio,...
10/04/2026

📣 Muine Bheag Arts Radio is excited to announce an open call for audio works.

Inspired by our makeshift recording studio, in a disused shed, we invite submissions which respond to the shed as the domain of the amateur. We welcome works which consider anti-professionalism, leisure time, hobbies, DIY enthusiasts, Youtube tutorials and other casual pursuits.

Submissions may take the form of an audio essay, soundscape, rough cut, voice note, radio play, field recording or other audio format.

📌 This opportunity is intended for new or existing works that are 5 - 10 minutes in duration. Selected submissions will be included in a new episode broadcast as part of Muine Bheag Arts Radio’s third season. Successful applicants will receive an honorarium.

📆 The deadline for applications is 4th May 2026. Details and application form can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YYD924ga6t9OqduUCG4hDdMHcc-HMSzs4d3SaQfAoZo/edit
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Muine Bheag Arts Radio is an experimental broadcasting platform by artist-run organisation Muine Bheag Arts. Our approach is based on the DIY ethos of community radio and aims to create a space for dialogue, connection and exploration through the medium of sound.

Muine Bheag Arts Radio broadcasts conversations with artists and collaborators, live performances and commissioned audio works, from a shed in County Carlow to the rest of the world.

🎧 Muine Bheag Arts Radio Episode 11 - Bodywork - tour de force 🎧 Muine Bheag Arts Radio is excited to bring you a new ep...
12/03/2026

🎧 Muine Bheag Arts Radio Episode 11 - Bodywork - tour de force 🎧

Muine Bheag Arts Radio is excited to bring you a new episode, Bodywork, in collaboration with tour de force 🏁

In this episode we join visual artist Liliane Puthod and writer Ingrid Lyons on the road as they embark on a national tour of Ireland in summer 2025.

During a pit stop in partnership with Muine Bheag Arts, Liliane and Ingrid invited historian, writer and contemporary art theorist, Barry Kehoe to present a psychogeographic meandering through the history of sport, medicine, media and graverobbing phenomena during the 1800s in Leinster, via stories of boxer, Daniel Donnelly, the first Irish-born heavyweight champion.

They also spoke to local residents, artists, mechanics and fellow car enthusiasts, discussing bodywork, car culture and sharing stories, personal relationships and memories connected to cars.

➡️ Bodywork is now available to listen to across all major streaming platforms and on website: https://muinebheagarts.com/Radio

tour de force was a national tour of Ireland by visual artist Liliane Puthod and writer Ingrid Lyons. At the wheel of Liliane’s late father’s Renault 4, tour de force travelled around Ireland engaging with artists, musicians, mechanics, farmers, archaeologists, craftspeople, academics and aficionados over a series of collaborative pit stops …a summer 2025 ‘buddy movie’, and a celebration of culture and creativity in the format of a mapped adventure.

Audio production and research by Jack Corbett

Muine Bheag Arts Radio is kindly supported by Carlow Arts Office and Creative Ireland Carlow

The 90th Map - Ali O’Shea & Lily O’Shea 🗺️The 90th map (an alternative way of getting somewhere) is a collaborative zine...
06/02/2026

The 90th Map - Ali O’Shea & Lily O’Shea 🗺️

The 90th map (an alternative way of getting somewhere) is a collaborative zine by sisters Ali O’Shea and Lily O’Shea The zine was made in response to Lily O’Shea’s sculptural work, a framework for me and you, which was exhibited as part of COMMUNE 2025.

Informed by the eighty-nine Discovery Series maps of Ireland, it imagines a fictional ninetieth map composed of site drawings from Cork County Council for the bungalow they grew up in, outlines of Cork, Galway, Leitrim, Dublin, and Carlow, a montage of the places the work has moved through.

Rooted in shared recollections of their childhood home, the work traces a shifting sense of belonging and place. The 90th Map speculates on what the future might look like if we imagined the future existing outside of the borders and frameworks causing our precarity.

The 90th Map is now available to order or to download as a PDF here: https://muinebheagarts.com/Print
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Ali O’Shea is an Irish visual artist and curator whose practice is rooted in speculative methodologies, storytelling, and exploring sustainable models of artistic productivity under late capitalism. I’m particularly drawn to how exhibitions can create hopeful, alternative realities and how they act not merely as sites of display but as spaces of political imagination and collective speculation.

Lily O’Shea is a visual artist based in Cork, working across sculpture, drawing, and writing. Through woodwork, she creates quasi-sculptural forms that develop into immersive installations, integrating technical drawings and reflective texts. Lily’s research-based practice explores different methods of survival in a fluctuating ideological structure, while emphasizing the need to reclaim and redefine our relationship with time.

As we begin 2026, we’re looking back on some highlights from our fifth year:👂Muine Bheag Arts Radio 🐚 Beacon, a new publ...
05/01/2026

As we begin 2026, we’re looking back on some highlights from our fifth year:

👂Muine Bheag Arts Radio

🐚 Beacon, a new publication by Niamh Seana Meehan and Lucie McLaughlin with help from Cóilín O’Connell and Emma Flynn

🏁Tour De Force pits stop with Liliane Puthod and Ingrid Lyons

🌾 Where the Field Fails to Hold, an exhibition by Cian Lawler in Bagenalstown Community Garden

🌀 COMMUNE 2025

A huge grma to the artists, contributors and supporters who made these projects possible. More to come in 2026!

Bliain nua faoi mhaise dhaoibh 🔔

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The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Creative Places Bagenalstown Carlow Arts Office Creative Places Bagenalstown Carlow Tourism Carlow Public Participation Network - PPNBagenalstown Improvement Group

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