Right Here Right Now – Annual Open Exhibition 2025

Friday 3 October – Saturday 15 November 2025
Installation shot, Annual Open Exhibition 2024 | Right Here Right Now – Annual Open Exhibition 2025 | Friday 3 October – Saturday 15 November 2025 | Rua Red | Image: Installation shot, Annual Open Exhibition 2024 | we see two figures, foreground left, contemplating three sculptural pieces that look somewhat like a cross between boat oars and bare trees; on the wall behind we see most of a framed artwork, possibly flat, possibly not, but it looks like a black coat and back trousers, as they might hang together on a hanger, against a white background; the piece is bisected vertically by one of the tree-oar sculpture

Featuring: Reuben Brown, Dee Byrne, Geraldine Carton, Emanuela Carvisiglia, Rayleen Clancy + Beatrice O’Connell, Tomas Correa Monteiro Machado Antunes, Paddy Critchley, Gemma Crowe, Jane Cummins, Alicia Donnan, Hannah Farrell, Sophie Gough, Susan Gogan, Nickie Harrington, Annie Hogg, Conor Horgan, Elizabeth Hogan, Jim Xi Johnson, Gary Kearney, Lucy Lambe, Sarah Lincoln, Sarah Long, Maeve Lynch, Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh, Maria Maarbjerg, Tadhg McGreevy, Constance McKenna, Joanna McNulty, Asha Murray, Aoife Ní Dhuinn, Augustine O’Donoghue + Conor McCabe, Tina O’Connell, Olivia O’Dwyer, Emily Roche, Jane Skovgaard, Oisín Tozer, Stephen Turner, Lorraine Walsh

Each year Rua Red holds an annual open-call exhibition of fine and applied arts. Work is invited from artists in any discipline and at all career stages. The Annual Open serves as a platform to support and encourage emerging and established artists. It is an opportunity to see the breadth and vibrancy of the work being created today and to find new and unexpected connections.

This year, Rua Red has invited artists to submit work that responds to the theme Right Here, Right Now. Work that speaks to the urgency of the present moment, that reflects lived realities, challenges inherited systems and reimagines futures from the ground up. Whether personal, political, poetic or protest-driven, we welcome proposals/work that is rooted in the here and now, work that speaks from within communities, that is unapologetically human.

Image: Installation shot, Annual Open Exhibition 2024
Friday 3 October – Saturday 15 November 2025
Rua Red
South Dublin Arts Centre
Tallaght, Dublin 24
Telephone: +353 1 451 5860
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Monday 10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 18:00
Thursday 10:00 - 18:00
Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
Admission / price: Free

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