Art Exhibition: Echoes Across an Island - SETU Waterford and Belfast School of Art, Ulster University

This collaboration traces the unseen threads that connect communities across Ireland — threads of story, memory, and lived experience.

Each artwork begins with a question: What does it mean to inhabit a landscape? To carry its histories? To add your voice to its unfolding story? Through individual responses and collective exchange, the project unfolds as a conversation — layered, attentive, and open.

Here, place is not a boundary but a meeting point. It is formed through relationship, through care, through the act of noticing. As individual creative thinking gives way to collaboration, these young artists discover that distance can hold resonance — that one gesture, made in one corner of the island, can be answered by another.

Echoes Across an Island is, ultimately, an invitation: to see place not only as where we stand, but as something we shape together.

SETU Students: Jessica Cullen, Maeve Cullinan, Molly Flynn, Leah Hodgers, Marta Jedro, Ellis Kiely Jordan, Katarina Malencikova, Viktorija Malin, Krista Mozeiko, Juliana Oliveira Da Silva, Isobelle Ryan-Daly, Mykyta Rybalko, Jodie Scallan Walsh, Caoilainn Sheahan, Tetiana Sims, Kitija Sirba, Aida Waters, Aislinn Whittle, Maija Zujeva

Ulster University Students: Caitlyn Ablett, Evie Close, Clodagh Donaghy, Enya Fitzsimons, Lucy Green, Lj Johnston, Atene Juozaityte, Ash Kerr, Amber Mallon, Chevron Malone, Clodagh Mcauley, Ciara McCrink, Olivia McCullagh, Toby McKnight, Tara Morrison, Niko Norton, Jasmine Ruddell, Eimear Scott, Alana Sousa Ua Bruadair, Aine Teer.

Project co-ordinators: Dr Laura O’Connor (UU) and Dr Susan Connolly (SETU)

Special thanks to Rachel Fallon for leading a workshop at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), and, to the teams at both IMMA and Temple Bar Gallery and Studio for hosting workshops..

Echoes Across an Island Europa Gallery

11 Chatham Street

Dublin 2

Exhibition runs from 20/05 - 20/07/2026

Open Monday – Friday 09h30 – 17h00 / Weekends 12h00-18h00