Celebrating 36 years of Boyle Arts Festival, the magnificent setting of King House is yet again the centrepiece for the main exhibition.
“As a gallerist it is such an honour to curate the 2025 exhibition ‘The Collector’s Journey.’ The exhibition showcases 160 artists, with a concentration on painting, sculpture, drawing and photography.
‘The Collector’s Journey’ promises a visual thread celebrating the richness and diversity of Irish art that has characterised the exhibition annually since 1989. The enduring legacy and scale of the exhibition means that artists have been selected from across the Island of Ireland, from West Cork to the Antrim Coast. ‘The Collector’s Journey’ demonstrates the quality and integrity of the visual arts in Ireland.”
Paul McKenna, Curator
2025 will also see the presentation of the 6th Annual Fergus Ahern Award. Fergus worked tirelessly to place the Boyle Arts Festival on a national platform, earning it a place as one of Ireland’s most anticipated and prestigious summer celebrations of the arts. The 2024 award was presented to Hughie O’Donoghue.
This year’s exhibiting artists
Robert Armstrong, Cathy Bacon, Brian Ballard, Ester Barret, John Behan, Uri Blayer, Marjorie Bloch, Katherine Boucher Beug, Cormac Boydell, Diarmuid Breen, Rory Breslin, Cheryl Browne, Cornelius Browne, Ken Browne, Maureen Burke, Patricia Burns, Mike Byrne.
Anna Campbell, Steve Cannon, Cathy Carman, Comhghall Casey, James Casey, Barra Cassidy, Niamh Clarke, Hannah Clegg,Tom Climent, Daniel Coleman, Simon Cook, Elizabeth Cope, Phoebe Cope, Diana Copperwhite, Malachy Costello, Sian Costello, Catherine Creaney, Paddy Critchley, David Crone, Frances Crowe.
Mark P. Cullen, Caoimhe Dalton, Fionnuala D’Arcy, Lenka Davidikova, Debbie Dawson, Orla de Brí, Diarmuid Delargy, John Doherty, Cathy Dorman, Ana Duncan, Joe Dunne, Jason Ellis, James English, Simon English, Georgia Esler, Megan Fahy, Martin Finnin, Niamh Flanagan, Adam Frew, Annette Gaffney, Martin Gale, Matthew Gammon, Michael Geddis.
Graham Gingles, K.K. Godsee, Tim Goulding, Catherine Greene, Bill Griffin, Pat Harris, Brenda Harvey, Redmond Herrity, Stephanie Hess, Carol Hodder, James Horan, Jonathan Hunter, Raphael Hynes, Jenny Jessop, John Jobson, Molly Judd,
Alison Kay, Christy Keeney, Josephine Kelly, Paul Kelly, Jo Killalea, Peter Killeen, Gemma Kirkpatrick, Vera Klute, Miseon Lee.
Daniel Lipstein, Ava Lowry, Anne Magill, Brian Maguire, Susan Mannion, Eska Marsh, Clement McAleer, Brian McDonagh, Ruth McDonnell, Niamh McGowan, Mark F. McGreevy, Maria McGuigan, Kenny McKendry, Colleen McSheffrey, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Ed Miliano, Tim Millen, Nick Miller, John Minihan, Cecilia Moore, Jeffrey Morgan, Paul Mosse, Stephen Murphy, Olivia Musgrave, Leonora Neary
Daniel Nelis, Stephanie Noble, Conor O’Connell, Eilis O’Connell, Hughie O’Donoghue, Will O’Kane, Amy O’Riordan, Maire O’Sullivan, John Pakenham, Cilla Patton, Peter Pearson, Linda Plunkett, Michael Quane, Ann Quinn, Bob Quinn, Martha Quinn, John Rainey, Eddie Refferty, Gareth Reid, Paul Reid, Marc Reilly, Sheila Rennick, Bernard Reynolds, Robert Ryan, Anthony Scott, Mark Shields, John Shinnors, Fiona Smith, Cameron Stewart, Donald Teskey, Elke Thonnes, Vadim Tuzov, Lorcan Walshe, Michael Wann, Kathryn Warden, Colin Watson, Shelagh Wilson, Chris Wilson, Keith Wilson, Eugene Worral.
The Main Exhibition at Boyle Arts Festival is a curated programme by invitation only for professional visual artists. If you are an artist considering exhibiting at Boyle Arts Festival, please click for full Terms & Conditions.
