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
IN THEIR OWN LIGHT
13th November – 22nd November, 2026
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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 dailyAdditional Openings & Artist-Led Events
Tuesday 17th – Friday 20th November 2026
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List of Artists
Serena Brabazon
John Jobson
Naomi Jobson
Suki Jobson
Robert Moore
Rebecca Jobson
UPCOMING SHOWS
LOUISE SHEARER
Wicklow-based artist Louise Shearer creates expressive abstract paintings inspired by the landscapes, sea and skies around her.
Through vibrant colour, intuitive mark-making and layered textures, she explores our emotional connection withnature. Her recent work draws inspiration from birdsong, reflecting on the restorative qualities of art and the natural world. Louise will be exhibiting in 2027. With Private View Saturday the 6th of Febuary at 3pm.
DIANE MAGEE
Cork-based artist Diane Magee creates atmospheric oil paintings exploring biodiversity, climate and the natural world. Working between representation and abstraction, she builds layers of colour, light and texture, drawing inspiration from landscapes and their wildlife. Her work invites us to consider our relationship with nature and its changing environment. Diane will be exhibiting with us in April. Opening to be announced.
Past Shows
GROUP SHOW INTERWOVEN -12th September, 2026- 8th November, 2026
Interwoven brought 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 considered ecologies and human intervention,cycles of cultivation and decay, and the tension between cultivated landscapes and native wildness. The selected artists responded to these ideas through approaches that werweobservational, abstract, poetic, conceptual and process-led.
Bernadette Kiely - A limpid pool of time18th June - 6th September, 2026
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.
SIMON G WHEELER - WET FEET11th April - 14th June, 2026
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.
Group Show - Shifting Brilliancies4th October, 2025 - 4th January, 2026
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 - Murmuration8th March, 2025 - 8th May, 2025
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.
John Jobson - A Brush With The Past2nd May, 2024 - 30th September, 2024
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.
Yeoung A Yeo - Flowers And Light14th September, 2023 - 29th October, 2023
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.
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Artist Residence
Read MoreFounded 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.




