Gallery hours: Monday - Friday 12 - 5 pm
and by appointment at the weekends (winter hours).
The Ballinglen Gallery was established in 2000. Its exhibitions relate directly to works made by Ballinglen Fellows and recipients of the Student Artist Award. Thus the community and visitors to the area have continual access to works of the highest international standard, inspired by this locality, created by artists many have met in their community.
-
Ballinglen Gallery Exhibitions
-
Lucy O'Donnell - our little earth bound tales
The Ballinglen Gallery 9 November 2024 - 6 January 2025Dr. Lucy O'Donnell, a Ballinglen fellow, puts drawing at the centre of her practice to explore the medium within the context of loss, and pregnancy without birth. This exhibition plays... -
Bridget Flannery - A Retrospective
7 September - 31 October 2024Opening Event: Saturday, September 7th, 2024. 5-7pm. Opening remarks by Artist and Ballinglen Fellow / Director, Mick O'Dea. Bridget writing about her Ballinglen residency: 'The time there opened me up,... -
Frances Ryan - A Meditation on Birds
The Ballinglen Gallery 31 May - 29 August 2024Opening Event on June 1 2024, 5pm-7pm An exhibition recalling encounters with birds using paint, collage, photography, drawing and monoprint. Ideas developed at residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co.... -
Cré - Believing Earth
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation Gallery 8 April - 28 May 2024 20 April - 28 May 2024The exhibition draws attention to human interaction with the Irish boglands, focusing on the folklore, mythology, traditions and the materiality associated with the bogs. Image: Alex Boyd, The hags tooth... -
Fernando Villena Exhibition
26 October - 28 November 2023Opening October 26th, 2023, 6pm - 8pm. Nov 28, 2023 Fernando Villena (Bilbao 1974) graduated in Fine Arts by the University of the Basque Country in 2001, later furthering his... -
The Odyssey and Segment Drawings | Samuel Walsh
The Ballinglen Gallery 17 June - 24 July 2023'The Odyssey drawings were mostly made in Berlin during a month-long artists residency in 2018. On my return they became the basis for more drawings and an exhibition of those... -
Debbie Dawson & Helle Helsner: Desire Lines
16 March - 28 April 2023Opening remarks Dr Orla Flynn, President GMIT/ATU Curated by Peader Lamb Desire Lines is an exhibition of artwork by Debbie Dawson and Helle Helsner curated by Róísín Foley. An artist... -
Diane Henshaw, "Cloud Drawings"
Ballinglen Gallery 17 October - 10 November 2022This collection of small drawings was made during the lockdown-one subject, one drawing a day, themed to clouds, abstracted in every way imaginable. Originally from Islandmagee in Co. Antrim, Henshaw... -
'Inherit’, Place|Lab Collective
Ballinglen Gallery 27 August - 27 September 2022Artists Joanna Kidney, Nuala Clarke, (Ireland) Joe Ostraff, Melinda Ostraff and Karina Nöel Hean (USA) met as fellows at Ballinglen. They formed a collective which expanded becoming Place|Lab Collective when... -
Signifiers: Prints by Claudia R. Fieo
Ballinglen Gallery 3 - 24 August 2022Artist Statemen t Claudia Fieo's prints consider the complex tensions between humanity and the natural world. Through her work she seeks to highlight the potential for reconciliation in the face... -
Growth: A lantern light box installation
Ballinglen Gallery 29 April - 6 May 2022Growth is the title of a joyous exhibition of 70 light box lanterns by the pupils of Scoil Naomh Bríd, Ballycastle in North Mayo. The project is the result of... -
Moving Still, a solo exhibition of work by Kate MacDonagh
Ballinglen Gallery 4 March - 20 April 2022Opening Event: Friday March 4th at 7pm. Opening speaker: Hugo Hamilton Kate MacDonagh is an abstract artist whose work explores dualities of light and dark, scale and ephemerality, stillness and... -
Fumi Masaki: In Between
Ballinglen Gallery 17 September - 30 October 2021I'm always curious and look at things which are 'in between' every day in my life that is undefined - not a specific place, time, species and feelings. These 'in... -
not yet saved / Jo Killalea
Ballinglen Gallery 2 - 31 August 2021not yet saved is an exhibition of new paintings by Mayo artist, Jo Killalea, started during a residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation in early 2020. The exhibition title not yet... -
mergemerge: A Collaborative Drawing Project by Michael Geddis and Joanna Kidney
Ballinglen Gallery 2 - 30 July 2021This project began as purely visual conversation by way of a series of small drawings posted back and forth between two artists. What emerged from this silent contemplation is a... -
Together Now - The Engagement Project
Ballinglen Gallery 22 February - 23 March 2020Curated by Catherine Marshall, the exhibition will occupy three separate venues in Mayo; Linenhall Art Centre, Ballina Civic Offices and Ballinglen Art Foundation. Opening on Saturday 22nd of February in... -
Between Presence and Absence: Two Winter Weeks in North Mayo
Ballinglen Gallery 4 September 2020A exhibition of works by Gabrielle Flynn, this year's Sligo IT recipient of the Ballinglen residency award. This exhibition features portraits of many loved locals which Gabrielle got to know...
-
