Powerful new exhibition launching in Lismore

Lismore Castle Arts is presenting 'Origins', selected from the 2025 undergraduate shows across Ireland. 

This is an annual exhibition held each autumn as a way of presenting emerging artists.

Origins 2025 presents a solo exhibition by Andra Postolache, a Romanian-born, Cork-based visual artist, who recently graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. 

Andra considers the 'female gaze' through an expanded photographic practice, experimenting with the fragmentation of images. 

Her works inspires introspective moments through the production of a multi-faceted viewing experience comprising installation, projection and print-making.

Her most recent body of work, 'Under Scrutiny', creates an immersive and surveillant space that interrogates the dynamic between viewer and subject in order to reveal female subjectivities. 

Simultaneously tender and confronting, Andra's work reveals moments of vulnerability, elation, tension, pleasure and poignancy.

Her research process involves interviewing participants about their lived experiences of womanhood. 

She asked such questions as: How do you know you're a woman? Are you caring? Are you bitter?  Are you enough? 

Through this, she invites the viewer to answer similar questions, creating a ripple effect and encouraging an introspective study of femininity regardless of one's gender identity or expression.

The exhibition launch takes place at 3pm, on Saturday October 4 at St Carthage Hall.

The exhibition is open Saturdays and Sundays, 12noon  - 5pm and other times by appointment. 

It is admission-free.