EXHIBITIONS IN THE CASTLE CAFÉ GALLERY
14-30 September during Castle Opening Hours
Our visual arts programme at Portumna Castle includes work in the Castle Gallery
above the café ​and in the grounds of Portumna Castle.
Junk Kouture
Junk Kouture This worldwide fashion competition for schools
originally started in Ireland with a focus on creativity through
sustainability. Here you will see incredible creations of wearable art fashioned from recycled materials and found items.
Gerardine Wisdom
Gerardine Wisdom is an artist who works in rushwork basketry. Uniquely in Ireland, she has taken this ancient craft of rushwork and turned it into a new Irish art form in sculpture.

Her passion for rushes is inspired by the natural beauty and cultural heritage she sees around her on the shores of Lough Derg and the Shannon.

With woven and bundled rush, she creates organic forms and sculptures using rushes she sustainably harvests by hand, often up to her chest, in the cool waters of Lough Derg.
In Focus Exhibition
Members of Portumna Pen Pushers and photographer, Brendan Lawlor, collaborated on this photo/writing project. Brendan, born in Portumna, and an observer of the world at large through the lens of his camera, shares his images with the local writing group.

A selection of the words created in response to his stunning photographs stand side by side at this outdoor In Focus Exhibition at Portumna Castle.

Pen Pushers are a local peer-led writing group who share a passion for words.

There will be a live reading on Thursday, Sept 15th at 11am.

View and download the In Focus booklet below.
School Art
Portumna Castle Gallery will feature a selection of art work from students created while attending Portumna Community School. Curated by current students under the direction of art teacher, Hayley Aldous, the pieces will reflect the talent and creativity of our young people.