The Ulster University Art Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Hannah Casey-Brogan: Iarmhaireacht, in which the artist extends her exploration of landscape, colour, scale, and composition through a new body of small watercolour paintings on aluminium and drawings.
In this exhibition, Casey-Brogan works at an intimate, closely held scale, letting colour, shape, and surface carry a quiet intensity. Colour moves gently across the works like weather—slow fronts warming and cooling the surface. Forms hover between cloud, cave, horizon, and planet. The palette feels borrowed from elsewhere: the soft-saturated neon’s of children’s picture books, galaxies imagined at the kitchen table, colours chosen before hesitation intervenes.
The title Iarmhaireacht — the hush of the early hours when the house has finally stilled—marks the threshold space in which these worlds are made. It is the time when thought loosens, when inner and outer landscapes dissolve, when the real world and the imagined one share the same light. The landscapes that appear here are familiar yet not entirely ours—Ireland, yes, but seen from a slight distance; this planet, perhaps, but tilted toward another possible version of itself. They are places just slightly out of reach, close enough to recognize, far enough to long for: the world we know, and the world we hope might yet be possible.
Curated by Feargal O’Malley
Biography
Hannah Casey-Brogan is a landscape painter. She holds a first-class honours degree in Fine Art (2007) and Master’s degrees in Embroidery (2009) and Painting (2015) from The Belfast School of Art. Her work has been exhibited across the UK and Ireland, most recently at the Ulster Museum (2025), CCA Derry (2025), and The MAC Belfast (2023), as well as internationally. Hannah was nominated for New Sensations (2014) and received The Alice Berger Hammerschlag Award (2014). Her practice has been supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council, with residencies in Iceland and Japan. Hannah lives and works in Belfast.
More information: www.ulster.ac.uk/ulsterpresents/whats-on/2025-26/hannah-casey-brogan-exhibition-at-ulster-university-art-gallery
- Ulster University Art Gallery, McCraken Building (Block BC), 2-24 York Street, Belfast, BT15 1AP
- 23rd of April – 29th of May
- Gallery Opening Hours : 9:30am – 5:30pm, Monday – Friday
