The team and Board of Directors at Ormston House thank you for your support this year and wish you a happy and safe holiday season.

The gallery will close to the public at 6pm on Saturday, 13 December 2025, and our office will remain open until Friday, 19 December. We reopen to the public on Wednesday, 14 January 2026.

2025 at Ormston House

Our programme this year has seen an emphasis on solo presentations by artists at different career stages: Daniel Tuomey, Kerry Guinan, and Susan MacWilliam. We also collaborated with EVA International on the group exhibition Bíodh Orm Anocht, and we welcomed various artists, researchers, and experts for talks and workshops.

We have hosted a selection of experimental and ambitious performances, including Limerick’s independent music festival Féile na Gréine and the second edition of our concert series Gleo. We also welcomed the five dance artists of The Parsley Collective for a micro-residency and performance as part of their Dance-Artist-in-Residence at Dance Limerick and Limerick City and County Council. A commission by Ormston House produced two works by our Artists-in-Residence about the late actress Constance Smith: the public sculpture A Star for Connie, created by our Artist-in-Residence Mary Conroy, and the theatrical event CONNIE, written and created by Ann Blake and Joanne Ryan. Research by Historian-in-Residence Sharon Slater was central to both these works.

Fostering professional development remains a core tenet of Ormston House. Shirani Bolle and Alice Harrold joined our Artist Affiliate Scheme, a support mechanism tailored to the needs of the individual artist. We also collaborated with Kunstverein Aughrim, Superprojects, and Limerick School of Art and Design (TUS) on various sessions around technical and professional skills for artists and curators.

Special Thanks

We are sincerely grateful to everyone who has helped Ormston House this year. We would like to extend our thanks to the exhibiting artists of our 2025 programme: Kerry Guinan, Seán Hannan, Susan MacWilliam, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Kiera O’Toole, and Daniel Tuomey.

Thank you to all other individuals and organisations who contributed to our programme this year: Ann Blake, Christopher Boland, Shirani Bolle, David Bremner, Bea Brennan & Minced Oath, Jack Brolly, Kieran Cashell, Jon Collin, Mary Conroy, all at Dance Limerick, all at EVA International, all at Féile na Gréine, David Fleming, Forerunner, Muriel Foxton, Harry Górski-Brown, Alice Harrold, Conor Lucey, Christodoulos Makris, Feá McCoy, Aonghus McEvoy, David Murphy and Ether Ensemble, Nathan O’Donnell, Larissa O’Grady, One Leg One Eye, The Parsley Collective, Péist, Sarah Pierce, Roy Claire Potter, Joanne Ryan, Sharon Slater, TENGGER, and Jasmine Wood.

We would also like to thank the organisations who have supported the running of the organisation: the Global Training Scheme supporting María Eugenia Larreina, Limerick School of Art and Design (TUS) supporting Lauren McCullough, National College of Art and Design supporting Ross McHale, and the Umbrella Project supporting Anna Gormley and Clara Laherty.

Ormston House and our programme was made possible through the generous support of The Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick Arts Office, Creative Ireland, and Limerick Festivals and Events. Individual artist projects were also supported by the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary, Sweden and the Mondriaan Fund, the public fund for visual art and cultural heritage in the Netherlands.

We look forward to seeing you in 2026!

Installation view of Susan MacWilliam’s Onwards and Upwards. Image by Jed Niezgoda.