What a year 2025 has been! A massive thank you to all of our visitors throughout the year who came to see Triskel Arts Centre, whether it was to check out the abundance of creativity happening in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space with our Residencies and Exhibitions, to enjoy a piece of live music, or to come for a cosy screening of your favourite film on the big screen. Each year, Triskel brings some of the finest talent in music, visual arts, and cinema together to celebrate uniqueness and creativity, and we couldn’t be happier to reveal our 2026 Residencies & Exhibitions line-up.
2025’s programme included solo exhibitions by Tetiana Milshyna, Viktoria Kondratieva, Kate McElroy, and Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh, who also undertook focused month-long residencies along with Fiona Boniwell, Annie Mar, and Ava Hayes. The 2025 programme culminated in a Cork Zine Fest takeover in November and solo exhibition by local artist Conor O’ Brien throughout this December into the New Year. The programme for 2026 promises to be even more jam-packed with a diverse range of artist residencies, public exhibitions, workshops, and free events. The space will see the development of photography, painting, artistic research, writing, a children’s play space, and a festival.
The 2026 Artists in Residence will be:
January/February: Síomha Callanan
Síomha Callanan is a photographer currently based in Cork. She graduated in 2016 from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography and Lens Based Media. The images Callanan creates are real and direct extracts from the everyday world. The places we inhabit on a daily basis can often get overlooked. By wandering through the city and observing these everyday details, she considers what may otherwise be seen as boring or mundane as worth capturing. Through the simple act of walking she engages with the urban environment using a psycho-geographical approach.
March/April: Kim Crowley
Kim Crowley is a curator based in Cork City. Her practice is rooted in the role of expanded publishing within visual art. She explores how publishing can transcend its traditional forms, moving into the gallery space and translating to physical space. She looks to work with artists who embrace process and push the boundaries of media and form. Through exhibitions, collaborative projects, events and instructional-based interactions, Kim looks to encourage an exchange between art and its viewers. The gallery can become a site of transformation, where art can shift from being an object of observation to an experience that invites interaction, interpretation, and dialogue. Kim’s practice also engages with conceptual themes related to publishing, such as language, ownership, censorship, and knowledge sharing.
May/June: Chris Finnegan
Chris Finnegan is a visual artist and arts educator from Cork City, working across photography, sculpture and participatory practices. Recently moved back to Ireland after a decade in the UK, his practice centres on the home and suburbia; critically interrogating ideas of home-making, childhood and the domestic sublime. He regularly collaborates with his young sons and incorporates games and play-strategies in his image and exhibition making.
July/August: Billy Lingwood
A Cork native, Lingwood’s research is rooted in queer ecology. The resulting work explores the subjective impacts of social, policy and colonial legacy structures on Ireland’s communities while working through the media of printmaking, installation & collaboration. His work has been exhibited in curated, DIY, solo and group shows in Ireland & internationally. He also delivered group exhibitions, workshops and festivals in Cork, fostering community engagement with contemporary arts practices.
September/October: Sarah Long
Sarah Long is an artist based in Cork City. She creates autofiction which she translates across painting, installation, performance and writing. She identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these references with personal stories and motifs. She views this rearranging and reinterpreting of histories and visualities as an act of feminist fictioning, highlighting moments and ideas that haunt, shape and subjugate our collective consciousness.
November: Cork Zine Fest
Cork Zine Fest (CZF) is a zine-maker festival that runs an annual market and engagement programme alongside a monthly Zine Club that offers open zine-making workshops to the general public. CZF has a strong focus on growing and nurturing the wider zine community within Cork, fostering new collaborations and sharing how the format of the zine can be a powerful tool for self expression, community building and political engagement.
December: Siobhán Collins
Siobhán Collins is an Irish visual artist living in Cork, Ireland. She works primarily in drawing and painting, using several mediums. She has an interdisciplinary background in fine art, English literature and critical theory. She has published articles on poetry, embodiment, perception and aesthetics. Siobhán’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 2019, and she is planning her first solo exhibition in 2024.
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