Killruddery Arts

Killruddery Arts is an evolving programme that seeks to give a platform for artistic practice across the estate.

Our year-round rotating exhibitions on the heritage walls of Killruddery Yard invite visitors to engage with artistic impressions of the natural world. Accompanied by studio conversations and craft workshops, we celebrate biodiversity across the wild and cultivated landscapes of our working farm, flowering woodlands, shrublands, and 17th-century Gardens. 

Killruddery Yard is open daily, with free admission and parking.

Current Exhibition

Interwoven: Between Cultivation and Wildness

12th September – 8th November, 2026


Interwoven brings together contemporary artists exploring land, biodiversity, material culture and our place within the natural world.

Through painting, print and other wall-based practices, the exhibition considers ecologies and human intervention,cycles of cultivation and decay, and the tension between cultivated landscapes and native wildness. The selected artists respond to these ideas through approaches that are observational, abstract, poetic, conceptual and process-led.


Set within the reclaimed Victorian farm buildings of Killruddery Yard, the exhibition enters into dialogue with a place shaped by agriculture, history and everyday public life. Killruddery’s commitment to sustainable farming and ecological stewardship further grounds these artistic enquiries in a living, working environment.


Interwoven asks us to recognise ourselves as part of nature, while considering whether nature and humans can or should be truly separated. It presents the land as a shared and evolving fabric, shaped by the inter-weaving of the natural world and the ways we inhibit it.

List of Artists

  • Clifton Rooney
    Aga Grandowicz
    Ailbhe Beatty
    Aisling Holden
    Anne McGlynn
    Bex Shelford
    Caroline Byrne
    Caroline Lernihan
    Catherine Ward
    Cathy Reddy

  • Colleen Fitzpatrick
    Dave Madigan
    David Begley
    Elizabeth Porritt Carrington
    Ewa Schreiber
    Freda Stack
    Geraldine O’Reilly
    Gillian Murphy
    Hanna Van Aelst

  • Hanna Zabudska
    Jane Murtagh
    Jason Lowe
    Jillian Murphy
    Karolina Di Luca
    Kevin Ryan
    Louise Shearer
    Mary O’Connor
    Niamh O’Connell
    Nicholas Anthony

  • Nina Patterson
    Noelle O’Keeffe
    Nova Hynes
    Olena Karpenko
    Róisín Carey
    Róisín Coyle
    Sarah Randle
    Susan Harris
    Tetiana Milshyna

UPCOMING SHOW

IN THEIR OWN LIGHT

13th November – 22nd November, 2026

  • Distinct Grounds

    WEFT Foundation × Killruddery Arts

    In Their Own Light brings together artists working independently across painting, sculpture, and craft.

    Rather than presenting a shared identity or a single visual language, the exhibition considers the distinct territories each contributor has developed through material observation and sustained practice.


    Within the historic and working landscape of Killruddery, these individual positions enter into a temporary conversation. Landscape shifts between subject, setting and memory; matter moves through wood, clay, plaster, bronze, and pigment; and making becomes a means of locating oneself in relation to place.

    The exhibition will take place in the Long Room, Killruddery Yard.

    Public Opening Dates

    Friday 13th – Monday 16th November 2026

    Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd November 2026

    9:00 am– 5:00 pm daily

    Additional Openings & Artist-Led Events

    Tuesday 17th – Friday 20th November 2026






List of Artists

  • Serena Brabazon

    Jim Jobson

    John Jobson

    Naomi Jobson

    Suki Jobson

    Robert Moore

    Rebecca O’Connor

    Kareen Pennefather

Past Shows

A Limpid Pool of Time brings together a selection of drawings and works on paper made by Bernadette Kiely between 1997 and 2020.

Inspired by land and water, and created using charcoal, pencil, pen and felt tip, many of these works were made outdoors in locations across Ireland, from Kilkenny and Waterford to Mayo and Donegal. Through close observation and a deep engagement with landscape, Kiely's drawings explore place, memory and the passage of time.

Bernadette Kiely is one of Ireland's most respected contemporary artists. Represented by Taylor Galleries, Dublin, and a member of Aosdána, she has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and internationally over a career spanning more than four decades.

Rather than hosting a formal opening, we are planning a mid-exhibition gathering where visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about her work.

Further details will be announced shortly.

An exhibition of photographs exploring the ancient oak and yew woods, lakes and mountains of the Killarney National Park, Co. Kerry in Ireland.

Irish photographer Simon Wheeler has built a distinguished career spanning global advertising and editorial work, with commissions for brands including Dunhill, Swatch, Wedgwood and Range Rover. At the same time, his work regularly featured in The World of Interiors, House & Garden, Elle, Condé Nast Traveller, Arkitectur und Wohnung and Vogue. His acclaimed work on travel and food books includes the award-winning River Cottage series with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and In Search of Perfection with Heston Blumenthal. In 2014, Eye Magazine named him among the UK’s most influential food photographers.

Shifting Brilliancies, a title inspired by a Seamus Heaney poem, brought together painters and printmakers exploring the shifting moods of landscapes, flora, and wildlife across changing light and seasons. Curated by Niamh Mac Gowan, the exhibition invited visitors to engage with the Estate through alternative perspectives.

Participating Artists: Yoko Akino | Jean Bardon | Leah Beggs | Carmel Benson | Lynda Bremner | Róisín Coyle | Gráinne Cuffe | Cliona Doyle | Niamh Flanagan | Clare Henderson | Louise Leonard | Niamh Mac Gowan | Niall Naessens | Caroline Patten | Robert Russell | Brien Vahey

Vincent Sheridan presented Murmurations at Killruddery, a striking series of prints exploring the intricate social behaviours and mesmerizing flight patterns of birds. The exhibition was inaugurated by broadcaster and journalist Ella McSweeney.

This exhibition featured a curated selection of John Jobson’s paintings, exploring the interplay of light, form and texture across landscapes, captured both en plein air and in his studio.

South Korean artist Yeoung A Yeo’s exhibition drew inspiration from Ireland’s shifting light and striking contrasts. Her paintings explored the subtle interplay of light and shadow, to capture beauty in unexpected places.

  • Artist Residence

    Founded by Fionnuala Brabazon (Lady Ardee), Killruddery has hosted an artist residency programme, on an invitation basis, since 2006. Reciprocal in nature, it supports artistic practice while enriching the estate’s cultural life. 

    Residencies are typically offered to artists whose work aligns with the Killruddery Arts exhibition series or who may be presented within our annual programme. Residencies range from immersive short stays to longer-term engagements.

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