Two Exhibitions at Ranelagh Arts Autumn 2025

Ranelagh Arts
Jul 10
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Updated: Jul 14

Esther O’Kelly

Solo Exhibition & Project Space
26th Sept - 5th Oct

Esther O’Kelly presents her studio practice at Ranelagh Arts with a selection of recent paintings and works in progress. Rooted in memory, folklore, and embodied experience, her landscapes explore disorientation, uncertainty, and discovery.

During the project, O’Kelly will lead an artist talk and a walking sketchbook session through Ranelagh Gardens. Drawing from her instinctive, movement-based sketchbook practice, she invites viewers into a process of getting lost—of letting go of the map to rediscover place, memory, and meaning through paint.

Margot Galvin

Solo Exhibition & Project Space
16th - 30th Oct

Margot Galvin is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Dublin. She has combined her art practice with community engagement and environmental activism in her current project: an exploration of the river Dodder near where lives in Dublin. Galvin’s intense engagement with the river is used to explore the impact of our surroundings on the way we experience our place in the world. The resulting works combining printmaking, paint and assemblage are a composite of visual fact, memory and imagination and reflect the Dodder site as a palimpsest of nature, history and human geography.

In the project space, visitors can enjoy a short documentary on the Dodder and will host a panel discussion about the importance of its ecosystem. Galvin is a member of the Dodder Action community group organising clean-ups of the river and promoting it as a resource for local communities. She is also involved with the DCU Urban Citizen project that involves citizens in scientific surveys that determine the health of the Dodder and other Dublin rivers.