Bealtaine | Improv Workshop with Michelle Read
28 May 2026, 11am–2pm
A fun and practical workshop with Dublin Comedy Improv founding member Michelle Read in celebration of Bealtaine Festival.
30 March 2023, 6:00–7:30pm
Representatives of Ireland at Venice, Eva Rothschild (2019) and Niamh O'Malley (2022), reflect on their exhibitions for the Irish Pavilion as Ireland’s representatives of the 58th and 59th La Biennale di Venezia.
Please join us at the Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin for this exciting artist talk. This event is presented in association with The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin and lives and works in London. She represented Ireland at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, with The Shrinking Universe (2019), and presented for the Irish tour at Visual Carlow (2020), and at Void, Derry (2021). Upcoming exhibitions in 2023 include 303 gallery, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope, Modern Art, London (2022). Kosmos at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2018) and Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane (2014). Public commissions include Double Rainbow, 2022 for The Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin; My World and Your World, 2020 for The King’s Cross Project, London, and works for the forthcoming Sadler’s Wells East Bank building, Stratford, London due for completion 2023.
Niamh O’Malley was born in Mayo and lives and works in Dublin. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Vardaxoglou Gallery, London (forthcoming 2023); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (forthcoming 2023); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2021), mother’s tankstation Dublin (2020), Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2019), Lismore Castle Arts (2019), Grazer Kunstverein (2018), Bluecoat, Liverpool (2015), The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2017 and 2015).
The Irish Tour of Ireland at Venice is supported by the Arts Council as part of its commitment to promote the visual arts to Irish audiences.
28 May 2026, 11am–2pm
A fun and practical workshop with Dublin Comedy Improv founding member Michelle Read in celebration of Bealtaine Festival.
28 May 2026, 12–1:15pm
A panel discussion in celebration of Bealtaine Festival brings together Sara Baume, Laura Fitzgerald, Geraldine O'Neill, and Pat Murphy to discuss a lifetime of making art and navigating life as an artist.
28 — 31 May 2026, 11am–6pm
A visual arts showcase and special commission in celebration of Bealtaine Festival explores older migrants’ relationships with Dublin city with newly produced images made during a sound walking workshop, together with images from participants’ personal archives.