A winter group show surveying a year of exhibitions at the gallery

A ‘souvenir’ exhibition as it were, but devoid of nostalgia and simply reaffirming the old adage that it’s good to look back when it can help us move forward…

The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to present Memorandum, our 2025-2026 winter group exhibition.

Artists: Annika Berglund, Hugh Cummins, Colin Eaton, Mary A. Fitzgerald, David Fox, Conrad Frankel, Nickie Hayden, Daniel Lipstein, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Miriam McConnon, Sheila Naughton, Bart O'Reilly, Yanny Petters, Kelly Ratchford and Vicky Smith.

This year, we decided to look back at the year gone by and pay tribute to our artists and their fantastic work, the unabated dedication to their craft and their ingenuity.

The exhibition surveys the 4 important solo shows that were held at the gallery: Symbols of Revival by Nickie Hayden, Springs Opens Forever In Eternity by Conrad Frankel, An ghaoth aniar/This too will pass by Eoin Mac Lochlainn, and Self Portrait with a Pet and a Bathtub by guest artist Daniel Lipstein. 

The exhibition also includes works from our Bloomsday/Summer group show Out of Lines, an homage to the Art Déco period as we celebrated the centenary of the first Art Déco exhibition held in Paris in 1925.

Last but not least, our Dublin Gallery Weekend 2025 group show Ode to Giant, also an homage, but this time, to favourite pieces held in 3 Dublin museums, features very prominently in this winter group show.

Other highlights include David Fox's The Ridge of Capard, which we showcased at the gallery in August as part of National Heritage Week 2025. Yanny Petters, whose works created for both Ode to Giants and Out of Lines were sold, will present for the very first time at the gallery her recent series of gnarls in watercolour.

The show opens on Sunday 14 December 2025 and runs until 28 February 2026. We are closed from 21 December 2025 to 5 January 2026 included. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our artists, visitors and customers for their continued support this year.

We would loke to extend our thanks to our special guest speakers this year: the poet Rachael Hegarty who opened Nickie Hayden's show, the architect Joerg J. Berchtold who opened Conrad Frankel's show, Catherine Connolly TD -and now president of Ireland- who opened Eoin Mac Lochlainn's show, the artist and creativity researcher Catherine Barron who opened Daniel Lipstein's show and finally Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator and Head of Collections at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) who opened our group show Ode to Giants.

Notes about accompanying information in the show :

Works accompanied by a QR code sticker on the wall were part of the Ode to Giants tribute exhibition. Visitors can just scan the QR code to visit the page featuring the museum artwork the artist chose to respond to. They can also see the artists’ notes and reproductions of some of the original works in the black folder on the large table in the centre of the room.

Works from the four above-mentioned solo exhibitions are accompanied by a copy of the invite on the wall: visitors can scan the QR code on that carton to visit the page of the artist’s solo show. Works without any QR codes featured in our Out of Lines group show. However, visitors can scan the Memorandum QR displayed in the gallery and follow the link to that exhibition page where the artists have also documented their responses to the Art Déco theme. Relevant notes about this show also feature in the second part of the black folder too.

Image: Daniel Lipstein, Pet, oil and pebbles on canvas, 80x100 cm