Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh Solo Exhibition - Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre

What to Expect

Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh, winner of the 2025 Cork County Council Emerging Visual Artist Award, presents a solo exhibition that builds upon their research into rural queerness and agricultural processes in Ireland. The show includes a video projected onto a screen made of agar bioplastics, a sound piece narrating the fictional life of a young gay farmer, and family photographs printed with earth pigments. Additional installation elements use materials sourced from agricultural co-ops - polywire, baler twine, silage plastic wrap - interrogating ideas of sterility, community monoculturalism and queer assimilation into dominant heteronormative culture.

Good to Know

• Open 6 July to 5 August 2026 at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen.
• Free admission; all welcome.
• This exhibition is the result of the 2025 Cork County Council Emerging Visual Artist Award, which includes a residency and solo show at Uillinn.

Getting There

Uillinn is on Marsh Road in Skibbereen town centre, West Cork. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday. Skibbereen is on the N71 approximately 90 km from Cork City.