Sheenagh Geoghegan | James Horan | Ciara O’Connor | Fionn Timmins
Paint Stone Thread Wood
9th July - 29th August 2026
FOUR is the second summer exhibition at 8 Arch Gallery. Bringing together the work of Sheenagh Geoghegan, James Horan, Ciara O’Connor and Fionn Timmins, the exhibition presents four artists, four materials and four distinct ways of seeing.
Within the setting of the former mill, these works speak to the enduring relationship between hand, material and place, inviting visitors to move between different textures, processes and perspectives.
Sheenagh Geoghegan completed her MFA at The Slade School of Art, London, 2013 where she was awarded the Stanford Scholarship, The Orpen Award and The Charles Heath Hayward Award.
She has exhibited widely in Europe and America including Cornell University, New York, Alma Zevi in Venice, and the Leila Heller Gallery, New York.
She has participated in the Colour and Poetry Symposium at The Slade School of Art, University College London in 2024, 2025 & 2026.
Recent solo exhibitions include Atelier Concorde in Lisbon in 2023 supported by Culture Ireland, Camera Cluj, Cluj Romania in 2024 and Limerick City Gallery in 2025.
Recent awards include The Galway Arts Centre Bursary Award and The Tipperary Artist Award.
Sheenagh has just been awarded the prestigious Derek Hill Scholarship and will be a Fellow at the British School in Rome 2026-2027.
James Horan
Born in 1980, James grew up in Dublin, leaving for Cork to attend Crawford College of Art and Design when he was 19. In 2010 James Graduated from a Masters degree course in Aesthetics and the History of Art. Since leaving art school James has mainly worked in stone, exhibiting regularly both in Ireland and internationally.
“My sculptures are expressive & figurative. I like to think of my work as a physical representation of an emotional response. It is not enough to create pretty things, My sculptures need to affect people, to tap in to something intangible while also being a powerful physical presence. Negative space within a sculpture allows it to inhabit, not invade the area it occupies”.
Ciara O’Connor is a Kerry-based visual artist whose practice centres on free-motion embroidery as a medium for investigating identity, feminism, and the psychological architecture of recovery. By utilizing the rhythmic, repetitive nature of stitch, she recontextualizes domestic craft as a vehicle for processing trauma and navigating memory. Originally trained in painting and printmaking, O’Connor transitioned to a thread-based practice in 2019. Her current work integrates sculpture, installation, and video, fusing traditional textile heritage with narrative-led conceptualism.
O’Connor’s work has exhibited at the Crawford Art Gallery, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal Ulster Academy, and the Royal Scottish Academy. In 2025, she presented her landmark solo exhibition, Grief’s Current Shape, and was invited by the National Gallery of Ireland as one of three featured artists for National Drawing Day. Her practice has been profiled in FAIRE journal, Image Magazine, and the Irish Examiner, and was the subject of an extensive interpretive essay by acclaimed art critic and broadcaster Cristín Leach. Beyond her studio, O’Connor facilitates nationwide workshops at institutions including IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Flux Studios and Artform School of Art.
Fionn Timmins is a sculptor from Waterford, Ireland. He graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design in 2024 and completed an Erasmus exchange at the Universitatea de Artă și Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2023. His practice is centred on large-scale sculpture, supported by video and sound.
His work considers our relationship with the landscape by addressing and reinterpreting references to Irish folklore and ancient Irish megalithic forms, such as stone circles and dolmens. Working primarily with ancient bog oak—a material that would have been alive in the landscape during the construction of these ancient sites—his sculptures draw on the symbolism of the circle and the Sacred Oak Tree, often referred to in Irish mythology.
Following his degree show, Fionn was awarded a residency at the National Sculpture Factory, Cork, where he produced new work for a show in GOMA, Waterford. He was selected for the RDS Visual Arts Awards at the RHA Gallery, Dublin, receiving the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award in Paris and later the RDS Dean Group Commission Award for a large-scale sculptural commission in Dublin. His work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally. In 2026, he completed an international residency at Spreepark Artspace in Berlin. Recent public commissions include large-scale sculptural works for Eli Lilly Kinsale, the Dean Hotel Group in Dublin, and private sites in Waterford.