In Iarmhaireacht (pronounced ee-war-acht), Hannah Casey-Brogan extends her exploration of landscape, colour, scale, and composition through a new body of small watercolour paintings on aluminium and drawings.

In this exhibition, Casey-Brogan deepens her engagement with drawing as a spatial and perceptual practice. Working at an intimate , closely held scale, she allows colour, shape, and surface to carry a quiet intensity. Colour moves gently across the works like weather—slow fronts warming and cooling the surface. Forms hover between cloud, cave, horizon, and planet. The palette feels borrowed from elsewhere: the soft-saturated neons of children’s picture books, galaxies imagined at the kitchen table, colours chosen before hesitation intervenes.

The title Iarmhaireacht—the hush of the early hours when the house has finally stilled—marks the threshold space in which these worlds are made. It is a time when thought loosens and inner and outer landscapes dissolve, allowing the real and the imagined to share the same light. The landscapes that appear here are familiar yet not entirely ours: Ireland, perhaps, seen from a slight distance; this planet, maybe, but tilted toward another possible version of itself. They are places just out of reach—close enough to recognise, far enough to long for.

Biography

Hannah Casey-Brogan is a landscape painter based in Belfast. She holds a first-class honours degree in Fine Art from The Belfast School of Art, as well as Master’s degrees in Embroidery and Painting. Her work has been exhibited across the UK and Ireland, including the Ulster Museum, CCA Derry, and The MAC Belfast, and internationally. Her practice has been supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council.

Curated by Feargal O’Malley