Grilse Gallery

Screenprint studio & artist-run gallery in Killorglin, Kerry

12–5pm Wednesday–Sunday

087 604 7559 / either@grilse.ie

Free entry to all & group visits welcome

Maria Simonds-Gooding

What land and country is this?

19 April – 18 May 2025

Simonds-Gooding’s artworks, spanning four decades of practice, appear like maps of the landscape and more especially of agriculture. While they are monuments to the struggle to survive and claim a place in the natural world, her landscapes are occupied by humans by implication only: the human presence in her paintings, plaster works and prints is that of the artist herself and of her spiritual journey in search of encircling, protective boundaries. Maria was born in India, educated in Dublin, Bruxelles and Bath. She settled in Kerry in 1947, was elected a member of Aosdána in 1981 and to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2012. Maria and Poppy Melia introduced the exhibition; a video of their conversation can

be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3pFA3uBrUw

Fermoyle Pottery x Michael Mulcahy

A unique collaboration between renowned painter Michael Mulcahy and Fermoyle Pottery – Stephen O'Connell and Alexis Bowman – has produced a remarkably vibrant range of platters, plates and bowls, a selection of which is now available at Grilse Gallery.

GAZA EMERGENCY— All proceeds to MSF


Lisa Fingleton, Speaking peace while selling arms, now half price: €95


100% of proceeds of this sale will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza and their West Bank Emergency Regional Fund. See Shop for details . . .


Available as one-, two- or three-colour screenprint. Edition of 18 printed by Grilse Gallery, 35 x 26 cm on watermarked 285 gsm Fabriano with deckled edge at foot.

The print is a collaboration between Lisa Fingleton and screenprinters Lucy & Robert Carter. 


'It is so distressing to see the levels of violence and aggression in the world. It is particularly shocking to witness the hypocrisy of those who advocate for peace on one hand while making billions from the sale of arms and weapons on the other. We hope that art can be a catalyst for change and advocate for the peaceful transformations that the world needs.'


Lisa Fingleton is an artist, writer and grower who has spent over twenty years cultivating deep-rooted connections between art, food, nature and peace. She is the embedded artist with the Creative Climate Action Project Brilliant Ballybunion and is also the Kerry Visual Artist in Residence with Kerry County Council Arts Office. Her studio is based at The Barna Way, an organic farm, woodland and wildlife sanctuary near Ballybunion. Her work is held in the OPW and other national collections.

Artists exhibited at Grilse Gallery include: Charles Tyrrell, Debbie Godsell, Katherine Boucher Beug, Regine Bartsch, Paul Mosse, Maria Simonds-Gooding Cormac Boydell, Rachel Parry, Aisling Roche, Lisa Fingleton, Geraldine O’Reilly, Na Cailleacha (Helen Comerford, Barbara Freeman, Patricia Hurl, Therry Rudin, Carole Nelson, Catherine Marshall), Bernadette Cotter, Tim Goulding, Gerda Teljeur, Marie Coveney, Carol Hodder, Denis O’Reardon, Jenny Richardson, Robert Rasmussen, Niall Naessens, Paul Bokslag, Danny Osborne, Denis Kelly, Miriam Barry, Sean McCarthy, Ciara O’Connor, Dorota Borowa, Karen Hendy, Maria Levigne, Alan Raggett, Noël O’Callaghan, Con Kelleher, Darragh Kinch, Silke Michels, Lucy & Robert Carter, Mary G Sheehan, Eddie Ryan, Úna Ni Shé, Rochelle Lucey, Deirdre McKenna, Zoë Green, Cathy Giles, Kate Buckley, Michael Flaherty, Jock Nichol, Audrey Fleming, Susan Montgomery, Mike Ahern, Edwina Bracken, Fermoyle Pottery, Patrick Groneman, Ava McKenna. Also in Kerry Art Now! Kathy Cronin, Clodagh Edwards, Laura Fitzgerald, Holger Lönze, Poppy Melia, Aran Mulvihill, Christopher Steenson.