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In this exhibition, Casey-Brogan works at an intimate, closely held scale, letting colour, shape, and surface 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. She holds a first-class honours degree in Fine Art (2007) and Master’s degrees in Embroidery (2009) and Painting (2015) from The Belfast School of Art. Her work has been exhibited across the UK and Ireland, most recently at the Ulster Museum (2025), CCA Derry (2025), and The MAC Belfast (2023), as well as internationally. Hannah was nominated for New Sensations (2014) and received The Alice Berger Hammerschlag Award (2014). Her practice has been supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council, with residencies in Iceland and Japan. Hannah lives and works in Belfast.

Curated by Feargal O’Malley