Main Street, Bray, Co Wicklow

A98 N5P1. T: (353) 1 272 40 30; info@mermaidartscentre.ie; mermaidartscentre.ie; mermaidarts; FB: MermaidCountyWicklowArts Centre. Box office: Mon-Sat: 11am-4pm. On performance evenings: Until start of event - phone calls answered up to 30 minutes before event begins. Sun & bank hol: Office opens one hour before event's start time. Free adm. Map​

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​Until May 2: A Playful River - Elida Maiques. Interactive installation that acts as a temporary studio, where a durational drawing experiment invites participants to join the artist in creating a monumental
drawing using handmade inks, alongside the artist's willow work and practice as seed librarian. The exhibition title refers to the 30-metre scroll of paper that
changes during the exhibition, with artist-made inks, drawn and painted in by visitors, workshop participants, and the artist. The exhibition includes micro-performances on and off-site, as well as workshops

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May 9-18: Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf - Nell Regan and Cathy
Henderson. Inspired by the 19th century Japanese artist Hokusai’s celebrated wood block prints of Mount Fuji, this collaboration between poet Nell Regan and
the late artist Cathy Henderson offers images of the iconic Wicklow mountain alongside letterpress prints of Regan’s words by Mary Plunkett. It marks the publication of Regan’s new poetry collection, Thirty-Six
Views of the Sugarloaf (Arlen House, 2026). This joint project creates a set of artworks and poems drawing on the landscape of Co Wicklow’s Sugarloaf, its
archaeology, art, history and dinnseanachas (the lore
of a place) of the mountain as well as “all those lives
lived about the peak”

 

From May 23: 3+5 = Evgenia Martirosyan. Cork-based artist Martirosyan’s installation examines knowledge manipulation and the reframing of history. Coexisting or opposing versions
of truth become more apparent in times of conflict. Censorship and information contamination are
explored using books in various languages and other printed materials to build up a sculptural installation, suggestive of a classroom environment

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