Dreamtime Ireland

Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Carlow have announced Dreamtime Ireland as the title and theme of Artworks 2025; the annual open-call exhibition hosted by VISUAL as part of Carlow Arts Festival

Dreamtime Ireland exhibition is part of a wider research project by artist Sean Lynch that brings together overlooked, forgotten, controversial or unrealised artworks, pointing to often undervalued yet vital cultural forms of commentary, interaction, exchange, and provocation towards the shape of the world and its environment, both today and historically.

Carlow Arts Festival & Visual Gallery

The 2025 exhibition will be presented in the galleries at VISUAL from Thursday 5 June-Sunday 31 August 2025.

Artist Entry | Caroline Cunningham

Entry Title: Saoirse

Medium: Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

Description: Finding freedom; the eternal quest for a life of authenticity, escaping conformity even if only for a short time. What does freedom mean to you?

Entry Title: Earthlings

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Paper | Framed with Glass Protection

Description: Who are the true Earthlings? A self-portrait painted prior to cataract surgery, trees have always been a grounding energy and source of self-healing. 

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Art Bio Caroline Cunningham

Visual arts background in life drawing, a colourist, deeply influenced by creative studies in vocal expression (20+years).

Drawn to themes of connection through nature and places, quest for authentic self and the life experiences of women. Author of 2 self published books (wellness and poetry genres).

Favourite art quoth:

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

Cesar A. Cruz

In 2025, there is much need for comfort as our civilisation moves further away from all that's authentic, gentle and kind.

We'll find peace outside when we find it within, for this to work we need listening, acceptance, with a good deal of compassion. Peace for one is not enough however. Peace is an ongoing search and practice.

Doing the little that I can.