Kerlin Gallery

About the Gallery
Established in Dublin 1988, Kerlin Gallery has built an international reputation by providing sustained and meaningful representation for leading contemporary Irish and international artists.

For over three and a half decades, the gallery’s programme has reflected trends in international contemporary art with significant solo shows of Dorothy Cross, Liam Gillick, Willie Doherty, Siobhán Hapaska, Callum Innes, Merlin James, Albert Oehlen, Sean Scully and Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner and Nathalie Du Pasquier among others.

In recent years, the gallery has introduced a new generation of artists working across diverse media including Gerard Byrne, Hannah Fitz, Sam Keogh, Aleana Egan, Marcel Vidal and Liliane Tomasko. In 2023 artists Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Nathalie du Pasquier and Justin Fitzpatrick joined the gallery.

The gallery continues to publish artists’ catalogues and monographs independently and in association with public institutions, including in career spanning monographs for Dorothy Cross, Merlin James, Mark Francis, William McKeown and Isabel Nolan and currently Siobhan Hapaska in association with Kunst Museum St. Gallen & Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.

Many of Kerlin Gallery’s artists have participated in Documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Turner Prize, including Dorothy Cross, Gerard Byrne, Willie Doherty, Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, Callum Innes, Merlin James, Isabel Nolan, Kathy Prendergast and Sean Scully, amongst others.

About the Presentation
Kerlin Gallery will present work by Dorothy Cross, Callum Innes, and Hazel O’Sullivan in a group presentation at Independent. Working in sculpture, film and photography, Dorothy Cross examines the relationship between living beings and the natural world. Living in Connemara, a rural area on Ireland’s west coast, the artist sees nature, the ocean and the body as sites of constant change and flux.  Over the past 35 years, Callum Innes has developed a completely individual approach to painting that explores all these myriad possibilities. By repeatedly applying and dissolving layers of paint, rich in texture and colour Innes exposes the fundamentals of paint itself. Working across painting and sculpture, Hazel O’Sullivan reimagines artefacts and art objects within an immersive retrofuturist narrative. Her paintings frequently interpret forts and mechanisms that open gateways to the mythological Otherworld as a way to connect with pre-colonisation.