- Launch: Saturday 3 October 2026, 7–9pm
The Night Journal is an exhibition considering constructed realities of the night by four, intergenerational artists working in Northern Ireland. These four vantage points feature new and existing work including print, drawing, installation, film and a new text by Michaela Razafima Nash. Written from the perspective of an insomnia-driven walk, the journal encounters the different artists’ worlds in a haze of sodium lit grit and fantasy.
Aisling O’Beirn’s Secondhand Nightscapes are a series of framed drawings of the night sky chronicled every month for a year. Because urban light pollution obscures the view, O’Beirn reconstructs what should be visible, pulling in references to how humans look to the stars to construct meaning—from maritime navigation to astrology, feeling our scale, and seeing through time via light-years.
Wilhelmina Peace brings a surrealist approach to her printing and drawing. Dreamscapes bubble up across the walls, playing with scale, symbolism, memory, internal processing, folded time, and hints of mysticism.
More information: https://www.ccadld.org/exhibitions/the-night-journal
