Longford artist launches new exhibition in Luan Gallery
The solo exhibition of Eimear Walshe's newly commissioned work will be taking place this Saturday April 26
A solo exhibition of newly commissioned work by Longford artist Eimear Walshe will be launched at Luan Gallery, Athlone this Saturday, April 26 at 2pm.
VASSALDOMS UNITED is is Walshe’s first solo exhibition in Ireland following their national representation at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.
The exhibition launches on Saturday, with an exhibition walkthrough with the artist and curator Aoife Banks at 2.30pm and all are welcome to attend.
Born in Longford in 1992, Walshe’s work has long focused on representations of Ireland, and the local and international politics at play behind those representations, including questions of external optics and internal incoherencies.
The artworks in VASSALDOMS UNITED are concerned with places where the historic legacies and contemporary presence of empire are palpable – through law, bureaucracy, infrastructure, land, and language. It comprises of works newly commissioned by Luan Gallery in video, sculpture, sound, and vinyl installation.
The exhibition takes place across all three gallery spaces in Luan Gallery.
Video installation FREE STATE PANGS (2025) is an absurd and unfurling fable of administrative paper chase through state funding, the courts, and the health system.
AIRE (2025) wraps Luan’s Shannon-facing River Gallery in an image of Shannon Airport – a landscape through which Ireland is wedded to the US Military’s wars of aggression, while Study for the Athlone to Derry train (Queen Medb Line) (2025) outlines the artist’s fantasy of a high-speed local service train between Connacht and Ulster.
This exhibition is funded by the Arts Council, with works commissioned by Luan Gallery and supported by the Arts Council Project Award.
A programme of accompanying events will take place during the run of the exhibition.
VASSALDOMS UNITED will continue until Sunday, June 22.
Luan Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm and from 12 pm to 5 pm on Sundays. Admission to the gallery is free, and guided tours are accessible to all but require advance booking.