Photos: Jenny Callanan Photography
For the opening talk, artists Anthony Haughey, Dorota Borowa, Tom Climent, James Hayes, and Ciara O’Connor were introduced, with contributions from the Artist-Teacher-Researcher curatorial team, featuring Mary McCarthy, Director of the Crawford Art Gallery, and Dr Michael Waldron, Curator of Collections & Special Projects at theCrawford Art Gallery.
Crawford Art Gallery and Highlanes Gallery proudly present a new strategic touring partnership, To Land: Living Roots Awaken, curated by Highlanes Gallery’s Artist-Teacher-Researcher Curatorial Group.
Drawing from the rich collection of Crawford Art Gallery’s contemporary artworks, the exhibition explores how identity is shaped by our relationship with land, history, and memory. We are an island formed by rupture and renewal, rooted in ancient cultures yet continually re-forming in the wake of colonisation. The exhibition conveys the persistence of history in the present, while themes of displacement and the urge to put down roots resonate quietly throughout the selected artworks.
Bringing together painting, printmaking, textile, drawing, ceramics, and sculpture, the exhibition considers our connection to nature and asks how we relate to the world around us.
The exhibition features artworks from Crawford Art Gallery’s collection by Karen Conway, Barrie Cooke, Dorothy Cross, Stephen Doyle, Anthony Haughey, Katie Holten, John Keating, Fiona Kelly, Anne Kiely and Mary Palmer, Elizabeth Magill, Alice Maher, Frieda Meaney, Nuala O’Donovan, and John Rainey. The exhibition also features the work of invited artists Dorota Borowa, Tom Climent, James Hayes, and Ciara O’Connor.
The Artist-Teacher-Researcher (ATR) Curatorial Group are Eileen Brennan, Kieran Gallagher, Bairbre Geraghty, Veronica Lavin, Róisín O’Sullivan, and Ciarán Power.
Open Tuesday – Saturday 10.30am – 5.00pm
Summer Sunday Opening from 21st July, 11.00am-3pm
23 May – 9 August 2026
