Exhibition News 2026

HERmetics_In_The_Studio - How Painters Think @ The Outset Gallery, Galway.

Opening Thursday 22 May at 18.00.
@hermetics_in_the_studio

Artists: @louisewallaceartist‍ ‍@majellaclancy. @marytkeown‍ ‍@patriciadoherty.visualartist. @sineadaldridge1

Poster design :@luke.deezine

Artist’s Statement and Project Statement here

Thanks to Dr Louise Wallace from the University of Ulster in Belfast for inviting me to give a lecture on the 30th October 2025.

What does it mean to have a painting practice? My work operates on a couple of different levels. I talked about my use of diptych formats and the dangers of binary thinking; how time and contingent response feature in my process; how ‘awkwardness’ can become a subject for painting; how the gimlet eye (as seen through Amy Sillman) informs the way we feel when looking at painting and how ambiguity, humour, and hesitation can be strengths - not flaws - in painting.

Six abstract paintings hung on a white gallery wall, with a wooden floor and ceiling lights.

Difficult Joys at Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Oct 2024

A HERmetics group show, paintings and drawings.

Empty art gallery with paintings on white walls, polished concrete floor, exposed ceiling with pipes and lighting.

Messy Business at Queen Street Gallery, Belfast, 5th - 26th October 2023.

A HERmetics group show, paintings and sculptures. Read our statement.

A colorful abstract painting hangs on a white gallery wall, viewed through an open doorway.

Hyphen-Nations at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, 26 Nov - 18th Dec 2021

Solo show

You can read my project statement here.

Four artists working in their studios, creating paintings and artwork, with the words 'messy business' written across the image in purple.

I am a member of HERmetics in the Studio, a painting group.

Sinéad Aldridge studied at Camberwell and IADT Dublin. Her solo and group exhibitions include Belfast, Düsseldorf (Germany), and Sligo. She worked 12 years as a Fine Art Lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Sligo and today mostly lives and works in Germany. Patricia Doherty studied at Camberwell and at the Royal Academy where she was awarded a scholarship. She lives and works in Sligo and has had exhibitions in Germany, Wales, Ireland and N. Ireland. Louise Wallace has recently had a solo show Wallace at The Mac, Belfast. She is lead supervisor on a collaborative doctorate with the Ulster Museum and is one of the founders of Uncovered: Female Visibility in NI Art, a research project at the Ulster University. Wallace has been a lecturer in painting at the UU since 2007. Majella Clancy Born in Co. Leitrim, Clancy is a painter and lecturer in Fine Art Painting at Ulster University Belfast. She presented a paper at Painting in the Expanded Field: A Symposium, Crawford College of Art, Cork (2024). Her chapter ‘The Oblique Gesture; Painting Gender and Materiality after de Kooning will be published in The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Painting (2026). Her work is held in public and private collections including, Department of Finance NI, Queens University Belfast, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Ulster University Permanent Collection.