FILTRATIONS - Kate Rusek

What to Expect

FILTRATIONS is a solo exhibition by artist Kate Rusek, exploring movement and dwelling through the interconnected links between land and sea. Rusek draws on filtration mechanisms found in natural ecosystems, fungi, marine organisms and nitrogen-fixing plants, as metaphors for the way people process emotion, grief and memory. The show brings together ceramics and porcelain glazes, mixed-media works, found materials, votive objects and a large-scale, site-specific installation built for the gallery. Themes of edge-zone ecology and biological pattern run alongside more personal material around absence and remembrance, and the work asks visitors to reconsider the connections, and the boundaries, between the living world and the manufactured one. The centre’s own gallery is described by the venue as a testing ground for new work, where the creative process continues into how a piece is finally displayed to the public, and FILTRATIONS was developed as part of Rusek’s residency there rather than arriving as a finished touring show. It runs at the same time as the centre’s autumn programme of hands-on workshops in the studio building next door.

Good to Know

• Dates: Friday, 31 July to Saturday, 29 August 2026
• Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 1pm and 1.30pm to 4pm, during exhibitions only
• Venue: Leitrim Sculpture Centre, New Line, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, F91 EAW7
• Opening reception was Friday, 31 July, 5pm to 8pm, now concluded, but the exhibition continues through August
• Curator: Sean O’Reilly
• Leitrim Sculpture Centre is a purpose-built artist studio and residency complex, and FILTRATIONS is shown in its main gallery alongside the centre’s ongoing artist-in-residence programme
• The centre also runs a separate autumn programme of paid workshops, covering analogue photography in August and welding in September 2026
• Contact: 071 9855098 or info@leitrimsculpturecentre.ie

Getting There

Leitrim Sculpture Centre is on New Line in Manorhamilton, on the edge of the town. Manorhamilton sits on the N16 Sligo to Enniskillen road, roughly 30 minutes from Sligo town and 20 minutes from Carrick-on-Shannon by car for anyone travelling from elsewhere in the county.

While You’re in Manorhamilton

Manorhamilton is a market town in north Leitrim, set where several valleys meet, which is where The Glens Centre theatre and arts venue takes its name. There is more to see in Manorhamilton and across Co. Leitrim.