Eoin Mac Lochlainn in conversation with art historian Jackie Ryan, Wednesday 1 October 2025

The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to host a special conversation between Eoin Mac Lochlainn and the art historian and producer Jackie Ryan.

6:30pm, Wednesday 1 October 2025

Jackie Ryan has garnered over 25 years of collaboration with Irish artists on projects, commissions, and exhibitions in Ireland and around the world. She has been following the artist Eoin Mac Lochlainn since the start of his career.

This conversation is taking place in the context of An ghaoth aniar / This too will pass, Eoin Mac Lochlainn's current solo show running here at the Olivier Cornet Gallery.

The conversation will focus on the artist's current body of work while also looking back at this career to date: from abstract art to portrait and landscape, from a practice of oil painting to the almost-exclusive use of watercolour painting of late, the exploration of the artist's various themes of interest such as homelessness, the Irish diaspora, the Irish civil war and climate change, and in more general terms, maybe, the artist's deep historical inquiry, interlinked with personal interrogation and empathy.

Milestones in the career of the artist will also be discussed, such as the production of the Cogadh na gCarad video projected in the Garden of Remembrance and its later acquisition by the OPW – one of only two film works in their contemporary Irish Art collection.

No booking required unless you'd like to secure a seat: info@oliviercornetgallery.com or text 0872887261.