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Dunamaise Gallery

Open Submission Group Show 2025

Call for Submissions now open

11 November - 20 December

FREE admission, all are welcome

Open Submission

This Open Submission Group Show is a season highlight and an opportunity to further promote and strengthen the vibrant visual arts community in the Midlands and beyond. We’re excited to work with a different guest selector each year, bringing their experience and unique flavour to one of the most anticipated Exhibitions in the Dunamaise Calendar.

Contact the Box Office for queries on info@dunamaise.ie or by phone to 057 86 63355

Each year a different external Guest Selector is invited to curate this exhibition. The Guest Selector will consider all submissions, and curate a show suitable for Dunamaise Gallery.
Feedback to artists is it at the discretion of the Guest Selector.

Gabhann Dunne is a Dublin-based painter. His work deals with environment, time and identity. He uses plants, landscapes and narratives about how we treat natural spaces. He has a particular interest in how paint and gesture can immerse us in a work and create empathy for its subject.

Dunne studied Fine Art Painting in the Dublin Institute of Technology and the National College of Art and Design. He is a former winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award (2011) ,The Hennessy Craig Award, The Whytes Award and the ESB Keating Award for outstanding art work. Dunne has exhibited widely. His recent shows include: Eight Billion Mystics (Molesworth Gallery, 2023); Parklife (Glucksman Gallery, 2022); The End of the Sure Beginning (Molesworth Gallery, 2021) and Crossing the Salt (West Cork Art Centre 2021; Farmleigh Gallery, 2019 and Limerick Art Gallery, 2018).

His work is in public and private collections including: IMMA (The Irish Museum Of Modern Art);UCC Art Collection; Office of Public Works; Axa Collection; Facebook; Deloitte; Mason Hayes Curran; Law Society of Ireland and the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, National University of Limerick.
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One artist will be awarded a Solo Exhibition at Dunamaise Gallery. Dates subject to availability. Terms and conditions apply.

  • Online Digital Submissions Deadline Wednesday 1st October
  • Delivery of Shortlisted Artworks to Dunamaise by Sat 1st November
  • Collection of unsold artwork by Sat 10th January
  • * Exhibition Reception Date Friday 14th November, 7pm, TBC

  • Dunamaise Open Submission is open to all artists, working in all media, with an interest in exhibiting work in one of the Midlands premiere Arts Centres.
  • Please keep in mind the size of artworks submitted, as this is a Group Show and space for larger works is limited; max. 1.5m advised.
  • Ideally all work should be for sale but if preferred, you may mark it NFS. 25% commission will apply to all sales during the exhibition.
  • Artists may submit up to 2 pieces of work in .jpeg format and MAX file size 1MB each.
  • If selected: work must then be physically submitted, ready to hang, in exhibition quality condition.
  • Where prints and photographs are submitted, the number of prints available for sale from each of the editions must be stated.
  • Include recommended display instructions (Dunamaise will take into consideration all instructions but will have sole discretion on final display).

  • Artists are responsible for the safety and insurance of the work during transport.
  • Artists must ensure that submitted pieces are made of materials appropriate for transportation, normal pre/post-show handling, storage and exhibition.
  • The work will be insured by Dunamaise Arts Centre from the date the work arrives on site and is checked, up to the relevant collection date.
  • No work will be stored or insured after the collection date.
  • All work must be submitted ready to hang, with completed submission slip securely attached to each piece and all necessary fixtures securely attached.

  • Selection will be based on the work submitted; no substitutions may be made later.
  • Up to 2 but as few as none may be selected for the exhibition.
  • No work previously exhibited in Laois may be submitted.
  • The decision of the selector is final; they will have sole discretion on final display and no correspondence will be entered into.
  • Artists will be informed about selection once the Selector has made their final decision.
  • The venue reserves the right to use images of submitted work in any publicity surrounding the exhibition. Artists will be acknowledged at all times.
  • Dunamaise reserves the right not to include work it considers unsuitable for public exhibition in a civic space.

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