Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery presents the now annual Open Call Winter Exhibition which will run throughout November and December 2025. 74 works from 68 Cork-based artists will be presented in Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery in the County Library.
Cork County Council’s 2025 Open Call Winter Exhibition, ‘Oh, the thinks you can think’ celebrates the thinking behind artworks. All art starts with an idea, whether that’s a rural landscape, a poem, a milking stool, or an abstract piece. Borrowing its title from the 1975 Dr Seuss book of the same name, the exhibition describes the many ‘thinks’ one can think and the endless possibilities and dreams that imagination can create, real or not real.
Among the 74 artworks there are many different ‘thinks’ presented. Bríd Moynihan’s ‘Memory’ is ostensibly a partly demolished building, while the deterioration of memory is the central theme. Gerard Daly’s ‘There is Always One’ is about the idea that there’s always an odd person out. He asks, are we strong enough to be that person? Inspired by W.B. Yeats’ ‘The Stolen Child,’ Aoife Casey’s photograph of the same name captures the faery realm, a place beyond the veil of the human world. Self-taught artist, Aoibheann Kennedy, is inspired by the intersectionality between her lived experiences as a woman, who is an artist and a musician and also disabled, making every day journeys.
The artists selected from an open call to present works include: Struán Bell, Mary Bowen Galvin, Sarah Buckley, Aoife Casey, Catherine Coakley, Gillian Cussen, Gerard Daly, Debbie Dawson, Elize de Beer, Arnold Thomas Fanning, Camilla Fanning, Noelle Ferris, Chris Finnegan, Abbie Foley, Anita Geaney, Mairead Geary, Siobhán Gillies, Éadaoin Glynn, Hilda Goold, Julianne Guinee, Silvia Hidalgo Pérez, Amal Hope, Niamh Hughes, David Kavanagh, Fiona Kelly, Aoibheann Kennedy, Ann Lambe, Kristin Laubach, Siobhan Leonard, Billy Lingwood, Sabina Lucas, Gina Lynch, Jacqueline Manley, Evgeniya Martirosyan, Riki Matsuda, Hannah McGrenera, John McHarg, Ann Mechelinck, Grace Mitchell, Hannah-Maria Morrison-Poulter, Bríd Moynahan, Kieran Murphy, Leah Murphy, Paul Murphy, Peter Nash, Jeni Ng, Gerard O’Callaghan, Lynn O’Donovan, Róisín O’Meadhra, Sarah O’Flaherty, Dorothy O’Riordan, Lisa O’Sullivan, Julia Pallone, Lucy Phelan, Don Samec, Silvio Severino, Daniel Sexton, Jenny Snashall, Anastasiya Stepnova, Victoria Tammadge, Patricia Tomlinson, Orla Twomey, Armand Tessier, Inge Van Doorslaer, Amna Walayat, Rachel Walsh, Ursula Walsh, and Victoria Walsh.
The exhibition at the LHQ Gallery will open on Friday, 7th November from 6-8pm, all are welcome, and will continue until Friday, 19th December. LHQ Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm. LHQ Gallery is in the County Library Building on Carrigrohane Road, Cork.
