COMING SOON
FORECAST
As part of MARTHA’s FORECAST series featuring early-career artists defining visual culture in Ireland, we were invited to choose a featured practitioner.
We selected Paul McGrane. His work bridges personal memory, immediate environment, and raw pictorial instinct, with a recent shift toward an unstable, unvarnished figurative language that feels vital and distinct.
Paul McGrane , Nine (detail), 2026, acrylic canopy, paint, resin, clay, brass, 100 x 50 cm
EXHIBITIONS
27 August – 2 September 2026Colm Mac Athlaoich
In On the cusp of happiness and other people’s sunsets, Colm Mac Athlaoich tracks how modern attention shifts between private life and online exposure. Pairing wide sunsets with intimate details, these paintings mirror the rhythm of scrolling, capturing where personal intimacy ends and collective consumption begins.
Songs to the Siren
24 January – 21 March 2026Taking its title from Tim Buckley’s track, Songs to the Siren explores ambiguity and unresolved memory. Drawing on Brian O’Nolan’s dual identities, the exhibition examines concealment and melancholy while asking the viewer for a slower, more patient attention.
All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun
14 February – 11 May 2025In All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, we explore the everyday contradictions that shape art and life. Inspired by Flann O’Brien’s mix of humour, absurdity, and serious intent, this exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, installation, and video to show how opposing forces rely on one another to exist.
Hallahan & Welch is a curatorial partnership and collaborative initiative that develops conceptually driven contemporary art exhibitions, which bring together diverse international and Irish artists to explore themes of identity, memory, and spatial ambiguity.
