Townhall Arts Centre Gallery & Cavan Arts present:

Outside the Hermit’s Cave

A Solo Exhibition by Stephen Dunne

Stephen Dunne’s practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach, is at the core of this work. The work is realised as painting installations, books, printed matter, works on paper, animations, and as collective artworks (made collaboratively with others). Critical to this process is an interest in philosophy of mind, drawing on aspects of the subconscious to enable freer, less conscious or less self-reflexive aspects to come through in the final work.

A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Stephen has exhibited internationally on a regular basis. Selected recent exhibitions include: The Tyranny of Ambition, Highlanes Drogheda, Call Me, Galerie PCP Paris, Whistle and I’ll Come, Superweakness Den Haag, Worms In Your Head, A Journey, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon Co. Clare, Shackled To Belligerent Ghosts, Triskel Arts Center, Cork; Uchronia, Not As It Was, But As It Might Have Been, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Wilder Beings Command, Irish Museum of Modern Art; As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Stephen’s Website
Stephen’s Instagram Studio
Stephen’s Instagram Drawing

Townhall Arts Centre Gallery, Cavan

Official opening Saturday, 28th February 2026 at 3pm
Exhibition continues until Friday, 10th April 2026

Open 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Friday
11am to 4pm Saturday or by appointment

Townhall Arts Centre Gallery, Townhall Street, Cavan, H12 WV82.
Tel: 049 4380494 or email: townhallcavan@cavancoco.ie