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Willie Doherty
Aleana Egan
Callum Innes
Merlin James
Elizabeth Magill
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
Liliane Tomasko

 

 

with support from
Culture Ireland

 

Selected Works

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Willie Doherty 

Inversion 2, 2025

pigment print on Hahnemühle Rag Baryta 325gsm edition of 5 + 1AP  

51.5 x 61.5 cm / 20.3 x 24.2 in framed  

 

Willie Doherty 

Inversion 2, 2025

pigment print on Hahnemühle Rag Baryta 325gsm edition of 5 + 1AP  

51.5 x 61.5 cm / 20.3 x 24.2 in framed  

 

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Aleana Egan 

rubber bones, 2025

mixed media on canvas with solid American white oak and linen mount 

109.5 x 144 x 6.3 cm / 43.1 x 56.7 x 2.5 in framed

 

Aleana Egan 

rubber bones, 2025

mixed media on canvas with solid American white oak and linen mount 

109.5 x 144 x 6.3 cm / 43.1 x 56.7 x 2.5 in framed

 

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Callum Innes 

Untitled Lamp Black / Magenta, 2024

oil on linen

180 x 175 cm / 70.9 x 68.9 in   

Callum Innes 

Untitled Lamp Black / Magenta, 2024

oil on linen

180 x 175 cm / 70.9 x 68.9 in   

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Merlin James 

Bandstand, Night, 2024-25

acrylic and graphite on canvas

47.5 x 83.5 cm / 18.7 x 32.9 in   

Merlin James 

Bandstand, Night, 2024-25

acrylic and graphite on canvas

47.5 x 83.5 cm / 18.7 x 32.9 in   

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Merlin James 

Coastal Huts, 2024-25

acrylic, ash, graphite, wood and paper on canvas

87 x 59.5 cm / 34.3 x 23.4 in 
Merlin James 

Coastal Huts, 2024-25

acrylic, ash, graphite, wood and paper on canvas

87 x 59.5 cm / 34.3 x 23.4 in 
Merlin James 

Coastal Huts, 2024-25

acrylic, ash, graphite, wood and paper on canvas

87 x 59.5 cm / 34.3 x 23.4 in 

Merlin James 

Coastal Huts, 2024-25

acrylic, ash, graphite, wood and paper on canvas

87 x 59.5 cm / 34.3 x 23.4 in 

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Elizabeth Magill 

Lamentation (of swans), 2025

oil on canvas

41 x 51 cm / 16.1 x 20.1 in   

Elizabeth Magill 

Lamentation (of swans), 2025

oil on canvas

41 x 51 cm / 16.1 x 20.1 in   

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Elizabeth Magill 

My North, 2025

oil on canvas

25 x 30 cm / 9.8 x 11.8 in   

Elizabeth Magill 

My North, 2025

oil on canvas

25 x 30 cm / 9.8 x 11.8 in   

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Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Interval VII, 2025

Jacquard tapestry, cotton, wool, silk, edition of 3 + 2AP

280 x 406.5 cm / 110.2 x 160 in   

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Interval VII, 2025

Jacquard tapestry, cotton, wool, silk, edition of 3 + 2AP

280 x 406.5 cm / 110.2 x 160 in   

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Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Untitled (plant), 2025

diptych, pigment print and brass panel in stained walnut frames, edition of 3 + 2 AP

152.5 x 111 cm / 60 x 43.7 in each framed 

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Untitled (plant), 2025

diptych, pigment print and brass panel in stained walnut frames, edition of 3 + 2 AP

152.5 x 111 cm / 60 x 43.7 in each framed 

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Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (bridging), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (bridging), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in

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Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (taking a primordial bath), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in   
 

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (taking a primordial bath), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in   
 

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Willie Doherty 

Inversion 2, 2025

pigment print on Hahnemühle Rag Baryta 325gsm edition of 5 + 1AP  

51.5 x 61.5 cm / 20.3 x 24.2 in framed  

 

Willie Doherty 

Inversion 2, 2025

pigment print on Hahnemühle Rag Baryta 325gsm edition of 5 + 1AP  

51.5 x 61.5 cm / 20.3 x 24.2 in framed  

 

Aleana Egan 

rubber bones, 2025

mixed media on canvas with solid American white oak and linen mount 

109.5 x 144 x 6.3 cm / 43.1 x 56.7 x 2.5 in framed

 

Aleana Egan 

rubber bones, 2025

mixed media on canvas with solid American white oak and linen mount 

109.5 x 144 x 6.3 cm / 43.1 x 56.7 x 2.5 in framed

 

Callum Innes 

Untitled Lamp Black / Magenta, 2024

oil on linen

180 x 175 cm / 70.9 x 68.9 in   

Callum Innes 

Untitled Lamp Black / Magenta, 2024

oil on linen

180 x 175 cm / 70.9 x 68.9 in   

Merlin James 

Bandstand, Night, 2024-25

acrylic and graphite on canvas

47.5 x 83.5 cm / 18.7 x 32.9 in   

Merlin James 

Bandstand, Night, 2024-25

acrylic and graphite on canvas

47.5 x 83.5 cm / 18.7 x 32.9 in   

Merlin James 

Coastal Huts, 2024-25

acrylic, ash, graphite, wood and paper on canvas

87 x 59.5 cm / 34.3 x 23.4 in 

Merlin James 

Coastal Huts, 2024-25

acrylic, ash, graphite, wood and paper on canvas

87 x 59.5 cm / 34.3 x 23.4 in 

Elizabeth Magill 

Lamentation (of swans), 2025

oil on canvas

41 x 51 cm / 16.1 x 20.1 in   

Elizabeth Magill 

Lamentation (of swans), 2025

oil on canvas

41 x 51 cm / 16.1 x 20.1 in   

Elizabeth Magill 

My North, 2025

oil on canvas

25 x 30 cm / 9.8 x 11.8 in   

Elizabeth Magill 

My North, 2025

oil on canvas

25 x 30 cm / 9.8 x 11.8 in   

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Interval VII, 2025

Jacquard tapestry, cotton, wool, silk, edition of 3 + 2AP

280 x 406.5 cm / 110.2 x 160 in   

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Interval VII, 2025

Jacquard tapestry, cotton, wool, silk, edition of 3 + 2AP

280 x 406.5 cm / 110.2 x 160 in   

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Untitled (plant), 2025

diptych, pigment print and brass panel in stained walnut frames, edition of 3 + 2 AP

152.5 x 111 cm / 60 x 43.7 in each framed 

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 

Untitled (plant), 2025

diptych, pigment print and brass panel in stained walnut frames, edition of 3 + 2 AP

152.5 x 111 cm / 60 x 43.7 in each framed 

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (bridging), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (bridging), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (taking a primordial bath), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in   
 

Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (taking a primordial bath), 2025
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in   
 

about the artists

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Willie Doherty
b. 1959, Derry, Northern Ireland
Lives and works in Donegal and Derry

Willie Doherty has been a pioneering figure in contemporary art film and photography for four decades. Exploring the relationship between landscape and memory, Doherty responds to mysterious isolated settings that conceal a troubled past. Whether in the US or his native Northern Ireland, the artist studies these terrains in forensic detail, as if leaking the stories contained within the landscape. Doherty’s video and photo works reveal the impossibility of objectivity and historical truth, using powerful language and disorientating imagery to reflect on how we approach histories of trauma. 'Inversion' is a new series of photographic works that continues Doherty’s exploration of landscape and extends his use of the diptych form. Constructed from a single black and white negative, the image is split and inverted to create an enigmatic and visually ambiguous hybrid.

Doherty has exhibited in many of the world’s leading museums and international exhibitions including Documenta, Manifesta, the Carnegie International, FRONT International Cleveland Triennial and the Venice, São Paulo and Istanbul biennales. The photographs shown at Art Basel Miami Beach are from a recent institutional touring solo exhibition, Remnant, visiting Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland and Matts Gallery, London, UK (both 2024).

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Aleana Egan
b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland

Working with sculpture, painting and film, Aleana Egan engenders psychological states through enigmatic arrangements of objects and forms. A meandering, sensuous line is carried from her sculptures into her paintings, populated by fragmentary shapes that hint at solid forms or gesture towards movement. Creating atmospheric shifts that feel open-ended, or in a state of flux, Egan articulates a distinct worldview infused by literary, cinematic, and architectural references as well as memories imprinted deep in the psychic landscape.

Aleana Egan has exhibited at Sculpture Center, New York; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Landesmuseum Münster; The Drawing Room and Jerwood Space, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and IMMA, Dublin, and the Berlin Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Material Flux, a two-person exhibition with Isabel Nolan at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda (2024); Lismore Castle Arts, Co Waterford (2024); Kerlin Gallery (2023); Void, Derry (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021).

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Callum Innes
b. 1962, Edinburgh, Scotland
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Edinburgh, Scotland

Callum Innes creates abstract paintings that carry a powerful tension between control and fluidity. Dissolution is central to his practice: layers of deep pigments are brushed over with turpentine, breaking down sections of paint and leaving watery, trace elements, before being painted over again. Repeating this process of painting, dissolving and repainting multiple times, Innes builds depth and a sense of history: oblique panels of dense pigments become embedded and fortified, while tiny trickles or rivulets of liquified paint point to their underlying fragility. Though Innes’s works may seem minimal or geometric at first glance, they are in fact always slightly “off kilter”, governed by imperfectly drawn lines and slightly softened shapes. This fallibility and humanity, put in contrast with the artist’s skill and precision as a painter, results in works of great poetic and contemplative power – cementing Innes’s place as one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation.

Callum Innes has been the subject of solo exhibitions at De Pont Museum, Tilburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Neues Museum, Nürnberg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the ICA, London; the Scottish National Gallery, and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Modern Art Oxford; the Whitworth, Manchester; IMMA, Dublin; Château La Coste, Provence and Kode, Bergen, where a new public artwork has just been installed on the building’s facade. His work can be found in the collections of Albright-Knox, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museé des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; National Galleries of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York and Tate Gallery, London.

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Merlin James
b. 1960, Cardiff, Wales
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Merlin James approaches the history and legacy of painting with a highly considered and unconventional viewpoint. Generally small in scale, his works depict diverse subject matter including vernacular architecture, riverside views, post-industrial landscapes, empty interiors, mysterious figures and scenes of sexual intimacy. James has a deep engagement with the history of art and this knowledge shapes and informs his practice. His works refine and renew many of painting’s most time-honoured concerns – genre and narrative, pictorial space and expressive gesture, the emotive resonance of colour and texture.

Merlin James’s solo exhibitions include at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Venice Biennale, Wales Pavilion; Sikkema Jenkins, New York; KW Institute, Berlin; Kunstsaele, Berlin; CCA, Glasgow; Kunstverein, Freiberg; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; OCT, Shunde & Shenzhen; Anton Kern, New York; Philadelphia Art Alliance. Current exhibitions include Drawing the Unspeakable, Towner Eastbourne (5 October – 27 April) and Hobby Horse, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA (Solo, 21 February – 5 April). Selected international collections include Tate, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

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Elizabeth Magill
b. 1959, Canada
Lives and works in London, UK and County Antrim, Ireland

Elizabeth Magill’s highly idiosyncratic paintings present subjective and psychological takes on the landscape genre. Rich with kaleidoscopic patterning and fragmented forms, these vistas are embedded in place – usually rural settings on the edges of settlements – but transported through the artist’s imagination, memories, photographs or moods to be presented as something other. The term ‘inscape’ has been used to describe Magill’s practice: landscapes not based on direct observation, but imbued with a sense of interiority and reflection. 

Elizabeth Magill has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; PEER, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Milton Keynes Gallery; BALTIC, Gateshead; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Southampton City Art Gallery and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Recent exhibitions include Moments of Being – Contemporary Irish Painting, Solstice Art Centre, Navan (2025); Collecting Contemporary, British Museum; Now You See It, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (both 2024); Contemporary British Landscape Painting, University of Leeds; Bringing To Light, Towner Eastbourne, both UK (2022). Collections include the Tate; the British Museum; the Government Art Collection; the Arts Council of Great Britain, all London; the National Gallery of Australia; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; The Hugh Lane Gallery, both Dublin; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Ulster Museum; and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, both Belfast.

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Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
b. 1978, Clare, Ireland
Lives and works in Cork, Ireland

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain is an Irish artist working with film, computer-generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. Ní Bhriain’s work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene. These intertwined subjects are approached through an associative use of narrative and a deeply crafted visual language that verges on the surreal. She sidesteps directive positions and familiar binaries, exposing instead the layers of ambiguity and contradiction embedded in these fraught issues. The resulting worlds she creates are at once idiosyncratic, irresistible and unsettling. 

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work has been shown widely internationally, at venues including Broad Museum, Michigan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hammer Museum, LA; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France; the 16th Lyon Biennale and the 3rd Lahore Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include The Dream Pool Intervals, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2025); Inscriptions VI, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (2025); An Experiment with Time, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (2024); Kerlin Gallery (2023); CCA Glasgow (2022). Public collections include Dallas Museum of Art; MAC Lyon; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Trinity College Dublin; and The Arts Council of Ireland.

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Liliane Tomasko
b. 1967, Zurich, Switzerland
Lives and works in New York, USA.

Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist began her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, using the intimate textures of our lives to open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming. Tomasko’s approach to abstraction is rooted, therefore, in the physical realm but ultimately transcends it. Fusing material observation with intuition and association, the artist produces vigorous, imaginative expressions of familiar environments and psychological states. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Conundrum of the Organically Angular, Maison La Roche, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris (2025); Liliane Tomasko: The Psyche of the Portrait. Tomasko meets Bonnard, van Dongen, Paolozzi, and Auerbach, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Museums, Sheffield, UK (2025); Twofold, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2024); The Artist’s Eye, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Name me not, CAB Burgos, Spain (both 2023); S P E L L O F T H E W O O D, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Evening Wind, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, USA (both 2022); and Morpheus, Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany (2021). She has also exhibited at Château la Coste, Aix-en-Provence; Hôtel des Art, Toulon; ROCA Rockland Center for the Arts, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Lowe Art Museum, Miami and Museo MATE, Lima.