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In this exhibition, Casey-Brogan develops her exploration of expanded drawing, presenting new works that move beyond the confines of the traditional rectangle. Elements are now lifted, rearranged, allowed to drift, and re-form; images become constellations rather than contained scenes. What begins as the intimacy of drawing and scale of the hand has progressively opened outward.

Within them, colour moves gently across these pieces like weather — slow fronts warming and cooling upon the surface. Shapes hover between cloud, cave, horizon, planet. The palette feels borrowed from elsewhere: the soft-saturated neon’s of children’s picture books, galaxies imagined at the kitchen table, the kind of colour 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 the time when thought loosens, when inner and outer landscapes dissolve, when the real world and the imagined one share the same light. The landscapes that appear here are familiar yet not entirely ours—Ireland, yes, but seen from a slight distance; this planet, perhaps, but tilted toward another possible version of itself. They are places just slightly out of reach, close enough to recognize, far enough to long for: the world we know, and the world we hope might yet be possible.

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