On Show | Athlone Arts and Tourism

Luan Gallery is delighted to present SOFT SURGE; a group exhibition featuring newly commissioned, and existing work by Shirani Bolle, Ursula Burke, Rachel Fallon, Dee Mulrooney, Lucy Peters, Emily Waszak, and selected work on loan from The Irish Names Project. The exhibition will be launched by Laura McCormack, Acting Arts Officer for Westmeath Arts Office on Friday 27th June at 6:00pm. All are welcome to attend. The exhibition will continue until 7th September.

Luan Gallery presents VASSALDOMS UNITED, a solo exhibition of newly commissioned work by Eimear Walshe. This is Walshe's first solo exhibition in Ireland following their national representation at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.

Luan Gallery is delighted to present Connections, a Cross-Border Exhibition of Contemporary Art from the OPW State Art Collection and the Department of Finance, Northern Ireland (DoF) Collection.

Luan Gallery in collaboration with Westmeath Arts Office, presents Let The Mirror Express The Room, a Westmeath Artists Awards exhibition featuring work by 32 Westmeath artists selected by guest Curator Benjamin Stafford. The exhibition is open until Sunday 2nd February 2025, with seasonal closures from 23rd to 27th, and 30th to 31st December inclusive.

Luan Gallery presents Tuberclerosies a solo exhibition of newly commissioned work by Cork-based artist Kevin Mooney. Mooney’s work is informed by historical and mythological research. 

Luan Gallery is pleased to present The Tides of Monumental Gesture, a multi-disciplinary group exhibition in collaboration with Museum of Everyone: Communal.

Apocalypse Anxieties — an exhibition at the end of the world — responds thematically, aesthetically, and affectively to an underground “nuclear bunker” installed by the Irish Government under Custume Barracks, Athlone during the Cold War.

Featuring the work of selected recent graduates: Peter Bjoerk, Aoife Ní Dhuinn, Laura Grisard, Shane Malone-Murphy, Aisling McConville, and Patsy Tyrrell, TAKE CARE TO LEAVE A TRACE offers insight into the practice of emerging Irish artists working across mediums such as sculpture, performance, film, photography, and drawing.

Luan Gallery in collaboration with Westmeath Arts Office presents SA LAR, a Westmeath Artists’ Awards Exhibition featuring works by thirty Westmeath artists selected by guest Curator, Emer McGarry, Director of The Model, Sligo. Exhibition continues until Thursday 8th February.

An Exhibition of works from the Technological University of the Shannon’s Modern Art Collection. The autumn group exhibition at Luan Gallery presents work from renowned Irish artists on loan from the TUS Modern Art Collection.

Official Opening: 6pm on Wednesday 20th September. Exhibition runs: Tuesday 12th September – Thursday 16th November.