Visual Arts

Representing Irish and international artists of excellence, Sirius exhibits some of the finest contemporary artists, both emerging and established. Sirius has a long history of presenting a wide range of artistic practice from photography to sound, painting to installation. For information on upcoming exhibitions, please refer to the “What’s on” section of this website.

Sirius Arts Centre opening hours:
11 AM to 5 PM - Wed through Friday.
2 PM to 5 PM - Saturdays and Sundays
(except when otherwise noted)

Exhibiting your work at Sirius

Exhibitions 2011

Charlie Jouvet - "Geheimnistrager" and "The Pier" photographs
Photographic exhibitions in Cork City and County during February 2011 as part of supporting events for "All My Lovin" - exhbitions included:
"Pat the Picket", photographs by Doug Dubois and the installation "The Tributaries" by Charlie Jouvet in in association with Camden Palace Hotel, Cork.
"Prisoner of Damp Patches" works by April Gertler in association with Basement Project Space, Cork.
International Photographic Portfolio Reviews held in Cobh in February 2011
Cutters/Cork in association with West Cork Arts Centre.
"All My Lovin" in association with the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.

Open House 4 - a unique group exhibition
Suzy O'Mullane "The Blue Snake in the Shape of Infinity"
Cobh Community College - "Serious Art"
David Barett and Gary Kearnet - painting
Allan Giddy and Cliff Dolliver
Abstracted Landscapes - curated by Sarah Iremonger
Deirdre Nelson with the Cork Textile Network and the Cork Lacemakers

Exhibitions 2010

Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody - Lost Souls, Pioneers & Long Distance Travellers
Open House 3/2010 - a group community exhibition
Jackie Nickerson - "Photographs"
Mark Wheelan "Imagination & the Abstraction of Symbolic Forms"
Aisling Keeting "Time and Tide"
Cobh Community College - "All Sorts"
David Eisenlord - "Fragments of Ireland"
Robert, Joe and Jasper Wilson - "Three Generations of Photography in Cobh"
Jerry Cox - "Undercurrents"
Charlotte Hug - "Slipway to the Galaxies"
Sandra Minchin "Leave Your Little Heart in the Lost and Found"
Maleonn Ma "King of the Ridiculous"
Gilles Perrin, "People of the Sea" (in partnership with West Cork Arts Centre, iophotoworks and Cork County Council).

Exhibitions 2009

Open House 2 - a group exhibition
A Tale of Two Cities/ Harry Moore & Malcolm McClay (Photography)
Athina Chroni - modern stereoscope portraits
Eithne Twomey - painting
Cobh Community College - Mature Students
Michael McSwiney - Painting
Stuart Coughland & Declan Rooney - "Post"- Mixed Media
St Raphael's - At The Edge of My Sky
RDS National Craft Competition 2009
Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody - Lost Souls, Pioneers & Long Distance Travellers

Exhibitions 2008

Open House - a group/community exhibition
Forsaken - Images of Afghan Women by Lana Slezic
Michelle Sank - "Tidal" Photographs
Look Closer, Closer Look - works by the Cobh Community College Mature Students
Cobh Maritime Song Festival
Aileen Lambert - Tide
July- Art from the East - artists living and working in East Cork
Marie Brett - The Loan Bush
Cork Harbour Project - drawn from workshops with local, national and international artist in 2007
Sileziany "Onthe Wind's Wings" international group textile exhibition

Exhibitions 2007

Double Vision - Photographs by Young Offenders from St. Patrick's Prison & Klavdij Sluban
Imogen Cunningham, A Life's Work - In Celebration of International Women's Day
Death and Desire a group exhibition by contemporary artists, curated by Sandra Minchin
City Of Shadows - Photographs by Russian Artist, Alexey Titarenko
Cobh Maritime Song Festival and Cobh Community College
Components - An installation by Irish Artist, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling
The Birthday Party photographs by Vee Speers, Australian artist based in Paris
"Commemoration" - Harry Thuillier Jr. Photographs
The Man in the Middle - Photographs by Paul Gofferje
Installation by Martin Simms, English Artist based in Australia
Teraz Malpolska - photographs by contemporary Polish photographers
New work, painting by Mark Hathaway

Exhibitions 2006

The CASA East Cork Every Child Project
Women's Work, Group exhibition: Lucia Nimcova, Silvia Saparova, Wendie Young, Simona Barbeara and Arja Hyytianinen
The Possibility of an Island Photographs by Reiner Riedler
Brian Flynn
Cobh Maritime Song Festival
Cobh Community College exhibition
Raymond Watson

Exhibitions 2005

Trunk, American & Irish Group Exhibition
Breaking Boundries, Cobh Women's Group
Time to stand And Stare, Artwork from Irish Prison & Detention Centres
Topography of Titanic photographs by Kai Olaf-Hesse
Cobh Community College
Cobh Maritime Festival
Sticker Book Project, Hendrike Kuehne and Beat Klein
The Architect's Brother, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison
Hymn to Travellers and the Absent, Julie Bacon
Keeping Peace & Conflicted Landscapes, photographs Simon Norfolk
Christian Maychack

Exhibitions 2004

Home and Away, Mark Hathaway
Art Trail Group Exhibition
Album and the People's Taxi Series Patrick McCoy
East Art, group exhibition juried by Julie Bacon
Yearlings, Cobh Community College
Cork Harbour Islands Project
War & Peace, Cobh During the War Years, Cobh Historical Society
Cobh Maritime Song Festival
Translation Mick O'Shea
Decade II, Group Exhibition
Soundwave, sound art event of installations, talks and performances_
Women and War, photographs, Jenny Matthews
Distances in Europe Hisao Suzuki
Cobh Youth Through the Lens 2 - community arts exhibition

Exhibitions 2003 (selection)

Dressing Room, Kim Jones
Afghanistan:Chronotopia, photographs, Simon Norfolk
East Cork Camera Group - group exhibition
This is US TOO!_St. Laurence Cheshire Home
arc Gale Ritchie
Store My Time, Mark Clare
Small World, photographs Martin Parr
Works Frank Mansfield

Exhibitions 2002 (partial list)

Hugh Davies - Soft Winds Do Blow
Maia Navariani - Singer/Songwriter Maia Navariani
Ann Wilson - works
Fiona Woods - Nurture
AKIN Galway Women Artists Collective
Andre Stitt - South of No North
Sverine Hubard, Stephan Weitzel and Joao Pedro Vale - Echo (from the Ppinres Europennes pour Junes Artistes programme)

Exhibitions in 2001 (partial list)

Beyond the Point Danny McCarthy
Departure, Installation - Maura Sheehan
Remains of Grace, photographs Peggy Sue Amison
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Renegade Arts Studios
Sea and Sky, Mark Hathaway
This is US!, St. Laurence Cheshire Home

Sirius Arts Centre, The Old Yacht Club, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland | Phone/Fax +353 21 481 3790 | email: cobharts@iol.ie
Gallery Hours Wednesday - Friday - 11AM - 5PM Saturday & Sunday - 2PM - 5PM Monday & Tuesday - closed