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🎨Artist-led | Not-for-profit Art Gallery | Ballinamore.
🎨Exhibitions & Events Supporting emerging & established artists.
🎨Membership Open (16+)

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🎨 ARE YOU FREE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT? 🎨
✨ You’re Invited! ✨

Join artist Sharon Dollar at Solas Art Gallery for her exhibition, “Hang on a Moment,” opening jointly with fellow artist Michael J Lane and his exhibition, “25 Years.”

🐦‍⬛Discover Sharon’s beautiful watercolours of birds, alongside her ceramic and glass sculptures, inspired by the natural world and the beauty of Leitrim’s flora and fauna.

🎤 We’re delighted to welcome Lindsay LeBlanc, multidisciplinary artist, educator, curator and researcher based in County Leitrim, as our guest speaker for the evening.

⏰ This Friday, 16 October 🕢 7:30pm 📍 Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Convent Road, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
🥂 Bring a friend — everyone is welcome, and refreshments will be served!

Come along, enjoy a wonderful evening of art and conversation, and help us celebrate the work of two talented artists. We’d love to see you there! 🧡

#SolasArtGallery #SharonDollar #HangOnAMoment #MichaelJLane #LeitrimArts taken in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim. by @gallerysolasart

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A Special Invitation!🎨

Join artist Michael J Lane as he presents his solo exhibition, “25 Years,” opening jointly with fellow artist Sharon Dollar and her exhibition, “Hang on a Moment,” at Solas Art Gallery!

🌿 Discover Michael’s reflections on the River Shannon, Lough Ree and the beauty of the Irish landscape.

🎤 The Guest speaker for the evening is Lindsay LeBlanc, multidisciplinary artist, educator, curator and researcher based in County Leitrim.

⏰ Friday, 16 October 2026 🕢 7:30pm 📍 Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Convent Road, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
🥂 Everyone is welcome, and refreshments will be served!

Come along for an enjoyable evening of art, conversation and celebration.
We look forward to seeing you there! 🧡

#SolasArtGallery #MichaelJLane #25Years #SharonDollar #LeitrimArts by @gallerysolasart

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How wonderful to receive my invitation from SOLAS ART GALLERY to the opening of two individual exhibitions this Friday evening — SHARON DOLLAR: Hang on a Moment and MICHAEL J LANE: 25 Years.

And now you know where you shall see me this Friday 😃

📅 FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER · 7.30 PM 📍 SOLAS ART GALLERY Island Theatre Convent Road Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim N41 K0D6

Guest speaker: Lindsay LeBlanc

EVERYONE IS WELCOME — perhaps I shall see you there.

#solasartgallery
#irishart
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#artexhibition
#holgerbaehr taken in Solas Art Gallery by @gallerysolasart

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From Laura Jean Zito’s Solo Exhibition ‘Cultural Similitudes’ at @gallerysolasart in the @islandtheatreballinamore

Visit our website www.solasart.ie for more information on Laura’s exhibition 👏👏

@auracle1 by @gallerysolasart

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If you’re looking for something interesting to enjoy during the week, why not pop into Solas Art Gallery in Ballinamore and discover Cultural Similitudes by Laura Jean Zito?

Bringing together photographs from Ireland and the Sinai Desert, Egypt, this fascinating exhibition explores the connections between people, places, traditions and everyday life.

Take your time, have a wander and see how Laura’s photographs invite us to look beyond differences and discover the things we share.

📅 Runs until 9th October 🎟️ Free entry — everyone welcome!
📍 Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim

Open Tuesday–Friday, 12–5 pm & Saturday, 10 am–3 pm.
We’d love to welcome you! 🧡 taken in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim. by @gallerysolasart

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Cultural Similitudes by Laura Jean Zito📸
🔶An invitation to plan a visit…
If you’re looking for something interesting to enjoy during the week, why not pop into Solas Art Gallery in Ballinamore and discover Cultural Similitudes by Laura Jean Zito?
Bringing together photographs from Ireland and the Sinai Desert, Egypt, this fascinating exhibition explores the connections between people, places, traditions and everyday life.

Take your time, have a wander and see how Laura’s photographs invite us to look beyond differences and discover the things we share.

📅 Runs until 9th October 🎟️ Free entry — everyone welcome!
📍 Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
⏰ Open Tuesday–Friday, 12–5 pm & Saturday, 10 am–3 pm.

As always we’d love to welcome you🧡

#gallerysolasart #solasartgallery #laurajeanzito #ballinamore #photographicexhibition taken in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim. by @gallerysolasart

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📸 Cultural Similitudes by Laura Jean Zito
Have you visited Cultural Similitudes yet?
This fascinating exhibition at Solas Art Gallery brings together Laura Jean Zito’s photographs from Ireland and the Sinai Desert, Egypt, revealing unexpected connections between places, people and everyday life.

Through Laura’s photographs, familiar moments and distant landscapes become part of a wider conversation about tradition, resilience, community and change. It’s an exhibition that invites you to slow down, look closely and perhaps discover that two very different cultures can have more in common than we might imagine.

📅 On until 9th October 2026 📍 Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim 🎟️ Free entry - everyone welcome!
🕐 opening Hours - Tuesday–Friday: 12–5 pm Saturday: 10 am-3 pm Closed Sundays & Mondays.

#gallerysolasart #laurajeanzito #leitrimtourism #leitrimarts #photographeryexhibition taken in Island Theatre Ballinamore by @gallerysolasart

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For an artist, being invited to take part in an exhibition — whether solo or as part of a group — is always something special.

There is the excitement of seeing the work leave the studio. The anticipation of seeing it hung in a gallery. And perhaps most importantly, there is the chance for the painting to be seen by people who may never otherwise have encountered it.

Of course, not every exhibition ends with every painting sold.

That is simply part of the life of an artist.

But I have never believed that this makes an exhibition unsuccessful.

A painting has had another life outside the studio. It has been looked at, considered, perhaps remembered. It has become part of an exhibition and part of its own history.

And I believe every painting eventually finds the place where it belongs — sometimes immediately, sometimes months or even years later — when it speaks to the right collector and finds its new home.

And when the exhibition ends?

The painting may return to the studio, move on to another gallery, or eventually find its way into a private collection. Whatever happens next, the exhibition remains part of its story.

I am very grateful to SOLAS ART GALLERY, BALLINAMORE, for inviting me to take part in their SUMMER EXHIBITION 2026, and for giving my work the opportunity to be seen.

That opportunity matters enormously.

Because before a painting can find a collector’s heart, it first has to find their eyes.

#irishart  #artistlifestyle  #artexhibition  #irishartist  #holgerbaehr taken in Island Theatre Ballinamore by @gallerysolasart

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We are delighted to invite you to the Opening Night of Cultural Similitudes, a compelling solo exhibition by acclaimed photographer Laura Jean Zito, at Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.

📅 Friday 11th September 2026
🕢 7.30 pm
📍 Solas Art Gallery, Ballinamore

The exhibition runs from 11th September until 9th October 2026.

Cultural Similitudes brings together photographs from Laura’s extensive archive of Ireland and the Sinai Desert, Egypt, exploring the striking connections between two cultures and communities shaped by tradition, austerity, resilience and profound social change.

Through pairings of black and white gelatin silver photographs, colour C-prints and archival pigment ink photographs, Laura creates visual conversations between Ireland and Sinai.

Her photographs capture what might be described as “decisive moments”, ways of working by hand, glimpses into private worlds and the character of communities across changing landscapes giving everyday occurrences a deeper symbolic significance.

Laura’s long-standing connection with Sinai enabled her to photograph aspects of Bedouin life rarely accessible to outsiders. Through her familiarity with local dialects and relationships within communities, she offers a unique perspective: one that moves beyond conflict and stereotype to reveal universal experiences of making a living, raising a family, pursuing dreams and finding happiness.

Cultural Similitudes invites us to look beyond cultural differences and discover common ground. Ultimately, it is a reflection on memory, resilience, tradition and change and a reminder that, wherever we come from, we are all seeking meaningful lives in a rapidly changing world.

The exhibition will be opened by Mariette Baptist-Fruin, who grew up in Egypt in the mid-seventies and worked in and with communities across the Middle East until 2018. Now living in County Leitrim, Mariette expresses herself through poetry, photography and presence.

Both will share keen observations about the photographs in an insightful dialogue exploring the ideas and connections within the exhibition.

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. taken in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim. by @gallerysolasart

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Its a wrap! It has been a wonderful few weeks and we @gallerysolasart would like to thank all the artists who took part in our 19th Annual Group Summer Exhibition 🎉👏🎉

Also we wish to thank absolutely everyone behind the scenes who dedicated their time, support and assistance in making this event the great success it was 🫶👏👏👏👏 it is truly appreciated 👏👏👏

#artlovers #gallerysolasart #solasartgallery taken in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim. by @gallerysolasart

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