Dreamtime Ireland and Artworks 2025
An exhibition and research project by artist Sean Lynch at VISUAL and Carlow County Museum.
Visual Arts 5 June - 31 August 2025
An Odd Job
A job centre for artists of all ages
5 June - 31 August 2025
Lunchtime Exhibition Tours
Take a break and explore 'Dreamtime Ireland' up close with a relaxed, conversational tour led by our programming team.
Tuesdays, 1 July - 26 August 2025, 1pm
Family Workshops: Dreamtime Ireland
Join us for a series of special family workshops inspired by the exhibition, Dreamtime Ireland.
Tuesday mornings, 1 + 8 July, 19 + 26 August | Wednesday mornings, 2 + 9 July, 20 + 27 August, 10am
Ukrainian Art Club
Art afternoons for children in Carlow | мистецький клуб для дітей
Saturdays; 21st June - 5th July 2025, 3pm
The Straight Story
A biographical drama film directed by David Lynch, known for its gentle, heartfelt narrative about an elderly man's cross-country journey on a lawnmower to reconcile with his ailing brother.
Sunday 13 July 2025, 7.30pm, Age Rating: G
Do The Right Thing
This 1989 American comedy-drama film explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension culminating in tragedy and violence on a hot summer's day.
Wednesday 23 July 2025, 7:30pm, Age Rating: 18
Art & Ideas
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The Lumpies
Erica Van Horn
Responding to Deirdre O'Mahoney's exhibition Between A Rock and A Hard Place, artist and writer Erica Van Horn presents a diaristic text reflecting upon landscape, infrastructure, and living in rural Ireland.
Kingdom
Irenosen Okojie
Written in response to Dominique White's exhibition Cinders of the Wreck, author Irenosen Okojie presents a specially-commissioned piece of speculative fiction, giving an powerful imagined history to the sculptural assemblages on show at VISUAL.
All this will feel impossible soon
Sophia Al-Maria
In this text, the artist, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria responds to Amie Siegel’s video installation Asterisms. The text is written in the style of a voiceover, taking its cue from Werner Herzog’s 1992 documentary on the burning oil fields of Kuwait, Lessons of Darkness.
News
Artworks Award 2025 Winners Announced
VISUAL and Carlow Arts Festival are delighted to announce the recipients of the Artworks Award 2025, part of this year’s annual open call exhibition presented under the theme Dreamtime Ireland.
