In The Grid
Apr
17
to May 23

In The Grid

Opening reception Thursday 16th  April 6-8pm 

The LAB Gallery, Foley Street, Dublin 1, D01WA07

Open Monday-Saturday 10am - 6pm

Further information at www.thelab.ie

In The Grid is Elva Mulchrone’s affective response to her Fulbright award and project in 2024/5 and research at the Graduate Center CUNY. It is curated by Margarita Cappock.

Pieces represent her response to feeling the NYC pulse from an oblique angle and personally experiencing its striking inequalities, controls, vibrations  and social climate.

Abstract work explores the city’s complex relationship with recurrent patterns and alludes to structures and systems, together with indomitable human spirit. Paintings explore medium and colour and feature disconnected and obstructed mapping.  Forms and colours are perhaps trying to break free beyond their prescribed boundary, at once helpless yet defiant, driven to abstraction.

Elva Mulchrone, Journey, 2026, Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 150 x 150cm

In The Grid (2025)

Installation,

Acrylic (and in 6 constituent pieces silkscreen) on Saunders Waterford 638gsm, 40 x 30 cm (x 9)

Acrylic and tape on Arches paper 356gsm, 38 x 28 cm (x 9)

 47 x 37 cm framed (x 18)

Elva Mulchrone, Vestige, 2026, Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 87 x 93 cm 90 x 98 cm, framed

Elva Mulchrone, Offline 2026, Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 42 x 38 cm, 45 x 41 cm framed

Elva Mulchrone, Those Who Gave Up And Became The Police, 2026, Oil, oilstick and silkscreen on canvas, 176 x 115 cm

Elva Mulchrone, Ain’t no mountain high enough, 2026 Acrylic, oil and oilstick on Saunders Waterford 638gsm, 30 x 40 cm, 39 x 49 cm framed

Elva Mulchrone, White smoke, 2026 Acrylic, oil and oilstick on Saunders Waterford 638gsm, 30 x 40 cm, 39 x 49 cm framed

“Meet the Artist: Elva Mulchrone on swapping corporate life for creativity”
— Business Post, April 11, 2026
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Elva Mulchrone, Connectivity I, 2026, Oil on linen 150 x 150cm

Elva Mulchrone, Connectivity II, 2026, Oil on linen 150 x 150cm

Elva Mulchrone, Connectivity III, 2026, Oil on linen 150 x 150cm

Elva Mulchrone, One step forward, 2023, Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 150 x 150cm

Elva Mulchrone, Activism, 2023, Oil and silkscreen on linen, 150x150cm

Elva Mulchrone, Sin é, 2023, Inkjet on Hahnemueler, 112 x 160 cm, 120 x 167 cm framed

Elva Mulchrone, 50 States of chaos, 2025, Acrylic and silkscreen on Fabriano, 78 x 100 cm, 90 x 112 cm framed

Elva Mulchrone, Deflector I, 2026 Oil on canvas 71 x 99 cm

Elva Mulchrone, Deflector II, 2026 Oil on canvas 71 x 99 cm

Elva Mulchrone, Pink prescription I, 2023, Acrylic and silkscreen on linen, 45 x 45 cm, 50 x 50 cm framed copy

Elva Mulchrone, Pink prescription II, 2023, Acrylic and silkscreen on linen, 45 x 45 cm, 50 x 50 cm framed copy

Elva Mulchrone, It is what it is, 2023 77 x 150 x 40 cm wood and nails

Elva Mulchrone, Immobility Show and Tell 2020, Installation, Acrylic and pen on Saunders Waterford 638gm, 32 x 41 cm 39 x 49 cm framed (x 9)

“Elva Mulchrone’s latest work draws on her time in New York and is reflective of grid systems, symbolising the distribution of power and control …”
— The Gloss, April 14, 2026
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Second Biennial Exhibition
Aug
30
to Jan 6
Current

Second Biennial Exhibition

The Ballinglen Museum of Art, Main Street

Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland

Delighted Journey to Order has been selected for inclusion in the Second Biennial Exhibition of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art, Mayo.

Journey to Order, Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100cm.

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Premise (Group Show)
Apr
4
to Apr 19

Premise (Group Show)

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Group show in Queen Alexandra’s House, London featuring work by Jo Dennis, Elva Mulchrone, Mark Joyce, Joy Gerrard, Manisha Parekh, Anna Blom, Tami Soji-Akinyemi, Gary Coyle, Stephen Dunne, Tamsin Snow, John Strutton, Riccardo Carbone, Ranu Mukherjee and Lara Davies.

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At day’s end, the whole sky
Feb
23
to Mar 29

At day’s end, the whole sky

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Two person show with Brian Duggan.

This is a body of work incorporating some of Mulchrone’ s work in Eudaimonia Dreaming and also work responding to ongoing research and in response to themes in her co-exhibitors practice and the themes present in the historic surroundings of Rathfarnham Castle.

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CUNY Artist Talk
May
2
6:30 PM18:30

CUNY Artist Talk

Visual artist Elva Mulchrone will describe her research-based practice and the transformative agency of interdisciplinary research and education based on several series of work, including her visual response and interpretive translation of large scale economic data about inequality into visual arts. She will discuss the parallels between artists, researchers and educators as creators of new ways of seeing, questioning, and producing world changing knowledge and action.

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Res Ipsa Loquitur (solo show with Gibbons & Nicholas)
Oct
31
to Nov 26

Res Ipsa Loquitur (solo show with Gibbons & Nicholas)

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Res Ipsa Loquitur

Solo show with Gibbons & Nicholas

“Gibbons & Nicholas presents RES IPSA LOQUITUR, a solo exhibition of new work by Irish artist Elva Mulchrone. The exhibition displays a body of work which emanates from Mulchrone’s ongoing economic research at the London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE) and her more recent exploration into the scientific investigation of antibiotics at the Imperial College London. Conceptually driven, Mulchrone’s practice has hitherto examined the role of economics, mathematics, game theory and abstraction in the re-contextualisation and interpretation of who and where we are. Now, this investigation into the repeat patterns reflected by socio economic perspectives is made unequivocally more profound through her supervenient scientific inquiry. Equally, her ability to operate in a time-lag between argument and interpretation, between objective and subjective, to offer alternative meaning and understanding, is enhanced and more pertinent than ever within the context of our current socio-economic-virologic epoch.”
— Pamela Lee

RES IPSA LOQUITUR will be on exhibit from the 31sh October to 26th November. Each of the works, accompanied by detail shots and installation views will be viewable through the online exhibition on the Gibbons & Nicholas website.

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Work to be shown

Left: Absinthe I, Oil and silkscreen on linen, 150 x 150 cm
Right: Absinthe II, Oil and silkscreen on linen, 150 x 150 cm

Economical truths, Oil and silkscreen on linen, 114 x 190 cm

Economical truths, Oil and silkscreen on linen, 114 x 190 cm (detail)

Economical truths, Oil and silkscreen on linen, 114 x 190 cm (detail)

Crossed Wires, Oil and acrylic and silkscreen on linen, 114 x 190 cm

Crossed Wires, Oil and acrylic and silkscreen on linen, 114 x 190 cm (detail)

Crossed Wires, Oil and acrylic and silkscreen on linen, 114 x 190 cm (detail)

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BREXHIBITION
Mar
25
to Mar 30

BREXHIBITION

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Delighted to be showing Departures in BREXHIBITION, curated by Wilko Austermann and Hugo Lami

Courtyard Galleries, Kensington, RCA, Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU
25th – 30th March.

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