Rothe House hosted a vibrant and uplifting International Women’s Day event featuring artist Michelle McMahon, delivered by Kilkenny County Council’s Biodiversity Office in collaboration with the Kilkenny Creative Ireland Programme Michelle shared
Read More +Tea Houses | 14–21 March 2026 In partnership with Butler Gallery, the Tea Houses presents Reading Room: I Took a Hammer in My Hand, a week-long public reading room curated by Rachel
Read More +From Hide to Heel (2025 – 2027) by visual artist Pauline O’Connell is a Public Arts project commissioned by Kilkenny County Council for their 2024 – 2027 programme and is supported by
Read More +Artist Connect Mentoring is a contemporary visual art subsidised mentoring programme. Big Look in partnership with Kilkenny Arts Office is offering this online mentoring programme designed to provide subsidised access to a
Read More +The Nore Review, Issue 2, is available to purchase online. An annual art journal that offers a small insight into art practices and artists working in Kilkenny – inviting contributors and commissioning
Read More +Meet our current artist-in-residence, Kathryn Ashill (b. Neath, Wales), here on a short residency developing a new body of work for a 2026 exhibition! Join us for an Open Studio on Wednesday
Read More +Following on from the success of the previous three years, our fourth and final programme continues to support the professional development of writers across the county of Kilkenny. In 2026, we’ve added
Read More +A research and development residency with artist Niamh Seana Meehan and practitioner Cecelia Graham at the Tea Houses, 28 January to 2 February 2026. “Our short residency in Kilkenny unfolded through warmth,
Read More +As part of Kilkenny Arts Office’s community arts and climate action 2025 programme we continue to deliver projects as part of our Waste Not Want Not programme. This programme is a natural
Read More +Kilkenny County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce the annual call for submissions for the twenty‑sixth issue of the Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet. We invite Kilkenny‑based poets, or poets born in Kilkenny,
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