Lavit Gallery

NEXT SATURDAY

ARTIST TALK & CLOSING EVENT
In association with Peter Morgan's installations in The Vaults

Saturday 22 August, 3pm*
Tea & cake served

Featuring Peter Morgan in conversation with artist Orla O'Byrne

*if you wish to see the installations please arrive early or visit earlier in the day

About Peter Morgan: “I have been working as an artist for over 40 years, living many different lives: as lecturer, illustrator, artist's book maker, curator, and forester. My work has been exhibited, published, projected, performed, broadcast and commissioned, nationally and internationally. My practice is diverse: I work with photography, text, moving images and 3-D objects. I am interested in work that is provocative, humorous, intuitive, conceptual, aesthetic, and collaborative. Work that has the capacity to engage both the eye and the mind.”

About Orla O’Byrne is an artist, researcher, and curator of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork City, Ireland. She holds an MA in Art & Process from MTU Crawford, Cork, and is a PhD candidate, writing her dissertation on artists working with archival materials. Her previous awards include Lavit Gallery Student of the Year, the CIT Registrar’s Prize and The Valerie Gleeson Bursary Award. She teaches life drawing at MTU Crawford in Cork and she is chair of the board at Backwater Artist’s Group, where she has been a studio member since 2020. Orla works across a variety of media and methods such as drawing, photography and sculptural installation. She uses chalk, charcoal and plaster and adopts an experimental approach, constantly exploring and testing the limits of these and other materials. She also uses analogue photographic methods. The ideas behind Orla’s work come from the overlooked histories of specific sites or artefacts and she has a particular curiosity about what’s concealed within the vastness of the institutional archive.

PETER MORGAN
Vaults, Lavit Gallery
Until 22 August, 2026
Opening hours: Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm

Outer vault:
BANQUET, 1995–2026
Inner vault:
ON BEING AN ARTIST, OR, ANOTHER OAK TREE, 2016

IN STOCK

1. Angela Fewer, Melding Opposites, Acrylic on Canvas, 70 x 93 cm, €2000
2. Angela Fewer, Into The Woods, Acrylic on Canvas, 94 x 77 cm, €2000
3. Angela Fewer, Urban Garden, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas Board, 50 x 50 cm, €1200
4. Angela Fewer, Building Reflections, Acrylic on canvas, 106 x 106 cm, €5000

All available artworks can be browsed and purchased in gallery and on our website by following the link provided here or in bio:
https://lavitgallery.com/shop/

FEATURED ARTIST | ETAIN HICKEY

Images:
1: Heron by the Argideen, Bowl, Ceramic, €200
2: Summer Hares, Wall dish, Ceramic, €220
3&4: Bluetit Amongst Daffodils, Bowl, Ceramic, €190
5&6: A Scorcher, Bowl, Ceramic, €200
7: The Happy Couple, Wall dish, Ceramic, €220
8&9: Bluebird (cobalt), Bowl, Ceramic, €140
10: Abstract Land, Wall dish, Ceramic, €200

“In my ceramics, I try to explore a meditative approach to working with clay and creating paintings on the surface, which involves the subconscious connections between hand, heart, and head. The best work is when you follow your intuition, your heart, when your head follows your hand.
My ceramics for the Lavit Summer Exhibition all reflect my love of nature and the beauty of the natural world. I am particularly grateful to be living in a rural idyll in West Cork and hope this can be seen in my work."

Etain Hickey is a renowned Irish ceramicist whose vibrant, intricately decorated works have become a signature of contemporary Irish ceramics. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in the natural world, celebrating life, capturing the beauty of nature with vibrant colours and fluid mark making, combining painterly surface decoration with joyful, nature-inspired forms.
She draws inspiration from Japanese Ikegai philosophy, happiness is in the making, not the result. It is about becoming completely absorbed in your art, taking pleasure in work, flowing, losing a sense of time.

Originally from Dublin, Etain has lived in West Cork for over 40 years where she shares her studio with artist and partner Jim Turner.

SUMMER EXHIBITION 2026
Until 29 August

All available works in the show can be viewed and purchased on our website via the link provided here and in bio: https://lavitgallery.com/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2026/

FEATURED ARTIST | TIM GOULDING

Image: Passing Chords 2, 2022, Acrylic on board, 74 x 43.5 cm, €2400

From the Music series -
"The paintings are schematic and reference the disposition of notes. In many ways they are like scores. There is a suggestion of staves in the horizontal lines on which the patches of colour, the notes, hang. I envisage orchestration, background singers and soloists, these later are the solid colours up front, usually four or five in each painting. The paintings are arranged akin to a musical work, paying attention to counterpoint, harmony and the spaces between that imply rhythm. Outside of this rather dry framework, I am attempting to imply a feeling of uplift, joy, and harmony. Singing with colour is a good analogy."

For many years Tim has worked in series, often spending three or four years on one subject. These collections can be radically different in both style and content but always stay true to a response to what appears in his life both visually and emotionally. The modus operandi remains 'see and play'.

Tim Goulding was born in Dublin in 1945 and has lived and worked near Allihies on the Beara peninsula, West Cork since 1969. He is a member of AOSDANA (Aosdana was established in 1981 to honour those artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.) Since 1964 he has exhibited extensively, including solo and group shows in Ireland, England, Portugal and the USA.

His current solo show, VI Decades in Taylor Galleries, Dublin celebrates his artistic journey over sixty years.

SUMMER EXHIBITION 2026
Until 29 August

All available works in the show can be viewed and purchased on our website via the link provided here and in bio: https://lavitgallery.com/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2026/

HERITAGE DAY TOURS

Saturday 15 August
Tours begin at 1pm & 2pm
Booking via Cork Printmakers Eventbrite Page. Link provided / in bio

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/heritage-day-tours-tickets-1991978910544

Join us for a special tour of our historic building on Wandesford Quay, led by staff of the three resident arts organisations, namely Backwater Artists Group, Cork Printmakers and Lavit Gallery.

The tour will take you on a journey through the building’s history as part of Cork’s wider heritage story, exploring how its spaces have been adapted over time and are now home to three of Cork’s leading arts organisations.

We will guide you through the building, sharing the stories of its past and the work of the organisations based there today. The tour will include a visit to the historic vaults at Lavit Gallery, an introduction to Cork Printmakers and its printmaking community, and a look at Backwater’s artist-led studios and creative spaces.

We look forward to welcoming you and sharing the stories of this unique building and the organisations that now call it home.

Tour 1: 13:00 – 14.00
Tour 2: 14.00 – 15:00

Meeting Point: Lavit Gallery

FEATURED ARTIST | DEIRDRE FROST

Images
1. Fall, 2025, Oil and acrylic on panel, 36 x 30 cm, €1200
2. Glioscarnach, 2025, Oil and acrylic on panel, 61 x 82 cm, €2200

Fall - "This is one of a series of recent paintings. They are made on pieces of plywood where I cut the outline with a bandsaw, so that vignettes of beauty and exuberant plant life are captured within box like structures - much like an endeavour to simplify and structure our lives and desires - while the structures that contain these snapshots split and crack."

Glioscarnach - "Glioscarnach is an Irish word that perfectly describes the sparkling sea in sunshine. My paintings feature parts of broken buildings and slabs, throughout which plants burst forth as signifiers of regeneration and hope. Here they float in curved shapes over broken fragments, as the eye escapes to a distant sea."

Deirdre Frost is based at Backwater Artist Studios, Cork and is represented by Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin. Frost works primarily in oil painting on wood, using imagery from her everyday built and natural environments, reconfigured in order to consider new narratives.
Solo exhibitions include Blue Skies, Black Earth, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford, Tumbling Earth (2025) Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, and Big Crush (2023) Kilkenny Arts Festival. Two person exhibitions include Civilisation Blooming/文明開花 (2024) with Seiko Hayase at Lavit Gallery, Cork. Recent group exhibitions include New Irish Art (2025) Lavit Gallery, Cork and The Thread Between Us (2025) Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
Work by Frost has been commissioned by Glucksman, UCC via project Memory of Place (2022), in collaboration with Cork City Partnership and UCC academic Denis Linehan. DCU commissioned an artwork for the main reception area at Glasnevin, through a project Your Collection, Your Choice, (2022). Her work is also represented in the collections of the Office of Public Works and Cork City Council.

SUMMER EXHIBITION 2026
Until 29 August

All available works in the show can be viewed and purchased on our website via the link provided here and in bio: https://lavitgallery.com/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2026/

PRESS

Many thanks to Philip Carlton from the Business Post for this feature. Online article is accessible via link in bio and here:
https://www.businesspost.ie/life-luxury/meet-the-gallerist-brian-mac-domhnaill-on-why-theres-no-substitute-for-seeing-art-in-person/

The Business Post

DOGS OF LAVIT – FLASH

Flash was in yesterday! He is a 13 year-old Jack Russel / Corgi mix (maybe) from Dungarvan, County Wateford. He has a very cool name and an amazing eyebrow. He loves water and is very happy swimming at the beach. Flash is mostly unsociable but likes the company of his cousin Ash, a whippet.

Flash is quite a nosy little guy and at home he is head of security for shopping bag and suitcase inspection. After his evening meal at 6pm he takes payment for his hard work in the form of a carrot, his favourite treat. Orange is his favourite colour so he was particularly drawn to a large piece by Linda McCann in our Summer Exhibition.

Flash’s human guardian, , is a recent graduate of MTU CCAD and one of the joint recipients of our Student of the Year Award 2026. The associated group show will be in 2027.

Flash is a good boy.

Dogs are very welcome in the gallery as long as they are on a leash. Our Gallery Director Brian is particular keen to meet and greet our four-legged audience members and would encourage you to bring them in rather than leave them outside. Dogs, as well as our two-legged visitors, find the gallery very quiet and calming compared to the hustle and bustle of the city outside. We want to know all about your dog and we will do our best to show them art that gets their attention so you can buy it for them.

Featured artwork: Linda McCann, Factor 32, 2026, Ink and acrylic on canvas, €3850

FEATURED ARTWORK

PETER MORGAN, ON BEING AN ARTIST, OR, ANOTHER OAK TREE, 2016
Showing in the inner vault

"I bought Michael Craig-Martin’s memoir On Being an Artist and read it from cover to cover. I enjoyed its jargon-free clarity, sprinkled with humour. As soon as I finished reading it I had an urge to cut out an oak tree through the covers and all the pages. Inside the presentation box is a text derived from the book’s uniformly positive reviews, printed in red. Michael Craig Martin inspired a generation of Young British Artists to challenge the status quo. His artwork An Oak Tree consisted of a glass of water on a glass shelf. It was refused entry into Australia as it was thought to be vegetation!"

PETER MORGAN
Vaults, Lavit Gallery
30 July – 22 August
Opening hours: Tue-Sat 10.30am-6pm, Closed Tue after Bank Holiday Mon

Artist talk and finissage event, Saturday 22 August, 3pm. Featuring the artist in conversation with artist Orla O'Byrne

The 2026 Cork Arts Society t/a Lavit Gallery visual arts programme is kindly supported by Arts Grants from the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork City Council. See less