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

14 June – 13 July 2025

David Lilburn: Borderlands

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of David Lilburn’s exhibition on Saturday 14 June at 12 noon. This diverse show of David’s work will be introduced by the poet Tony Curtis and the architectural historian Judith Hill.


David Lilburn (1950–2021) was an Irish artist and printmaker, publisher, designer and teacher. He studied history at Trinity College Dublin, and art at the Scuole Istituto Statale D’Arte, Urbino, and Limerick School of Art and Design.

Award-winning and internationally collected, Lilburn was 'a perpetual walker, or wanderer, he drew constantly, filling pocket-sized sketchbooks and later, back in the studio, much larger sheets with fast, incisive visual accounts of the people, places and things around him. Impromptu notes, asides, diagrams, collaged fragments and revisions were all part of the process.'


Maps and map-making, landscape and intaglio printmaking were consistent sources of his inspiration. There is a vital narrative interest in his images, which are packed with topographical, historical and anecdotal information. With friend and fellow artist Jim Savage he established Occasional Press, a publishing imprint, in 2006.

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

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.



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 . . .

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, David Lilburn, 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.