Night Study presents a unique collection of artefacts gathered from over a decade of artistic enquiry and experimentation by artist and educator Glenn Loughran. The works on display serve as traces of events of enquiry, a diverse constellation of things that have mediated a plurality of practices, from artistic research to critical pedagogy to socially engaged practice. The exhibition’s title foregrounds the educational dimension of artworks that emerge through and are produced by artistic research.

Spanning the years from 2008 – 2025, the exhibition includes a new, site-specific work developed for Uillinn, titled Night Study. Using a moveable light installation to navigate the gallery spaces, Night Study explores the history and politics of study in an automatic society. Referencing historical practices of night study from the medieval period and the emancipatory traditions of working-class evening education, Night Study invites participants to join artists and educators in a series of collective reflections at Uillinn after hours, once the building has closed and night has fallen.

Additional details about the Night Study programme will be shared in the coming weeks.