Domain of the Dinosaurs is a pioneering exhibition of scientific and artistic displays that has been developed at University College Cork by Maria McNamara, Professor of Palaeontology, and Fiona Kearney, Director of the Glucksman. It features over 250 real fossil specimens from land, sea and air, bringing the world of the Irish dinosaurs to life. 

Five Irish artists were commissioned to bring a creative lens to the deep time involved in paleontological research, providing an imaginative response to Ireland’s rich fossil record that pre-dates the dinosaurs by millions of years. The commissioned artists are Tom Climent, Johanna Connor, Damien Flood, Angela Gilmour, and Emma O’Hara.

Domain of the Dinosaurs is supported by University College Cork, Research Ireland, the European Union, the Arts Council of Ireland and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.

The Glucksman, University College Cork
Ireland T12 V1WH

196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald featuring painting, print, sculpture, drawing, photography, mixed media and architectural models. Irelands’ largest and longest-running open submission exhibition will be open to the public from Monday 25 May to Sunday 9 August with free admission, at all times.

An exhibition from Crawford Art Gallery Collection selected by Salt & Pepper LGBTQI+ Art Collective with Toma McCullim, at Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.

While this National Cultural Institution, The Crawford Art Gallery is closed for its major redevelopment – Transforming Crawford Art Gallery – the opportunity arose to share parts of its collection with other organisations across the island of Ireland to create meaningful encounters for the public. With the guidance of Dr. Michael Waldron, Curator of Collections and Special Projects at Crawford Art Gallery, Salt & Pepper has explored the collection to shape a diverse, inclusive showcase for Uillinn, accompanied by a rich programme of talks, tours, workshops, and events.

Grá features key works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including the iconic Portrait of Fiona Shaw (2002) by Victoria Russell, The Red Rose (1923) by John Lavery, and Patrick Hennessy’s Self Portrait and Cat (1978), as well as Paul La Rocque’s In Her Own Garden (1998) and the photographic series Hi, Vis (2020-21) by Dragana Jurišić. The exhibition also includes works by, among others, Sara Baume, Margaret Clarke, Tom Climent, Gerard Dillon, Stephen Doyle, Mainie Jellett, Harry Kernoff, Janet Mullarney, Isabel Nolan, John Rainey, Patrick Scott, Edith Somerville, Niamh Swanton, and Mary Swanzy.

DATES

12 July to 20 September 2025

Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland, P81 VW98

The Visual Artists’ New Sheet May June Issue

Tom Climent outlines the evolution of his painting practice and his recent exhibition at CCI, Paris.

Outset Gallery

April 11th – May 4th

Volume 2 runs from April 11 – May 4, 2025, focusing on abstract and mixed media approaches to painting from some of Ireland and the UK’s leading visual artists.

Curated by Luke Reidy

A 120-page hardback monograph – with 128 illustrations and a keynote essay by Cristín Leach

additional texts by Mark Ewart, Carissa Farrell, Mary McCarthy and Michael Waldron
ISBN 978 1910140 529    120 pages (hardback)   23 x 25 cm   128 illus

This major monograph on the artist Tom Climent documents his work over the last decade or so, although his career spans three decades. His paintings have long offered a mediation on life, making and being. They embrace and make visual his understanding of the possibilities of change. For Climent, painting is an act of searching, and his works an invitation to the viewer to join in. From cave-like shelters to abstract terrains, executed in a scintillating explosion of colour, he seeks to capture something dormant that has returned to life. 

See Gandon Editions for more information

See Solomon Fine Art for more information

Solomon Fine Art | Balfe Street | Dublin 2 ( next door to the Westbury Hotel )

t: +353 (0)1 672 4429

m: +353 (0)86 814 2380

e: info@solomonfineart.ie

A 120-page hardback monograph – with 128 illustrations and a keynote essay by Cristín Leach

additional texts by Mark Ewart, Carissa Farrell, Mary McCarthy and Michael Waldron
ISBN 978 1910140 529    120 pages (hardback)   23 x 25 cm   128 illus

This major monograph on the artist Tom Climent documents his work over the last decade or so, although his career spans three decades. His paintings have long offered a mediation on life, making and being. They embrace and make visual his understanding of the possibilities of change. For Climent, painting is an act of searching, and his works an invitation to the viewer to join in. From cave-like shelters to abstract terrains, executed in a scintillating explosion of colour, he seeks to capture something dormant that has returned to life. 

See Gandon Editions for more information

See Lavit Gallery for more information

Lavit Gallery | Wandesford Quay, Clarke’s Bridge, Cork

tel: 00353 (0)21 427 7749 | email: info@lavitgallery.com

Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

Saturday 1 February 2025 to Sunday 30 March 2025

Tom Climent describes the paintings in this scintillating new exhibition as “almost a call to light”. From cave-like shelters to abstract terrains marked by explosions of colour, he seeks to capture something dormant that has returned to life. Following on from a period of more structured painting, there is a deliberate opening and unfolding in these canvases and for the first time in a long time, some intimations of human form. Petal-shapes bloom as they signal his intuitive faith in the idea of transformation through evolution and regrowth. Climent uses the word “wilding” to mean “permission for growth to express itself unimpeded. When the time is right, something will appear.” His works are an invitation to meditate on life, making, and being.

At 6.00pm on the night of the opening, Tom Climent is in discussion with art critic Cristín Leach, whose commissioned text on the artist’s work is available to read in the exhibition. (Admission free, reservation recommended, in English)

A book on Tom Climent’s work, published by Gandon Editions, is launched this evening and on sale at the Médiathèque for the duration of the exhibition. The 120-page hardback monograph – with 128 illustrations and a keynote essay by Cristín Leach – will be launched at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin and the Lavit Gallery in Cork, in March 2025 – details to follow.

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The opening of Wilding / État Sauvage is an integral part of the Imbolg celebrations at Centre Culturel Irlandais, the Celtic festival of light marking the first glimmers of spring. 

Find out more about the event here.

Opening hours :

Mon-Sun: 14h-18h
Wed: 14h-20h

Admission free

Vernissage : Friday 31 January, 5pm-8pm

Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris

+33 1 58 52 10 30

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Solomon Fine Art

2 – 25 MAY 2024

“IN THE PRESENCE OF TOM CLIMENT’S PAINTINGS WE BECOME PILGRIMS, INVITED WAYFARERS, TIME TRAVELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD OF OUR OWN ELSEWHERE”. 

Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host a much anticipated exhibition of new paintings by celebrated Irish artist Tom Climent.  In Pilgrim we are presented with a body of vibrant and exquisitely textured compositions which offer a tantalising glimpse into worlds which straddle the border between ‘real and spirit’. Climent’s paintings act as portals through which we are invited to embark on a journey of discovery, a pilgrimage to new and unexplored terrains.

Embracing the role of chance and alchemy in their creation, Climent creates paintings which touch on both abstraction and representation while challenging the materiality and mobility of paint. His masterful use of plaster, sand and collage in his compositions result in subtle and refined textures, a suggestion of the tactility of the landscapes within. Climent’s approach is largely intuitive; the act of painting begins a process of discovering unexpected connections and relationships all the while embracing the richly rewarding interplay between the subconscious emotional world and the physical and logical process of painting.

*From a specially commissioned text by Michael Waldron, curator and art historian, included in the exhibition catalogue

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