Sunday’s featured work from the the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, is this interior scene painted by Julianne Guinee. Read an interview that Julianne gave to Niall MacMonagle in today’s Sunday Independent, in print or online at independent.ie (€).

Today’s featured works from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, are two sculptures showing side by side from Eileen Mac Donagh RHA and Eilís O’Connell RHA. Both of these works are available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk.

There are only four more weeks to see the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald - it ends on Sunday 9th August. Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11am-5pm; Wednesday 11am-7pm; Sunday 12-5pm. Closed Monday. View and make purchases at rhagallery.ie

The Adam’s Award, announced at the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition Awards, has been given to Mollie Douthit for her painting Prequel to ‘The day of the Black Banana’ (see alt text for details). The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald continues until Sunday 9th August.

Friday’s featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, are two photographs of the front and back of a piece of embroidery by Abigail O’Brien PPRHA. These works are available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk for more details.

We would like to thank everyone who entered our open call with proposals to exhibit in the RHA Ashford Gallery for the 2027 exhibition programme. Many congratulations to the following artists who have been chosen for the space in 2027:

Stephen Doyle has won the Anita Young Bursary for a Mid-Career Painter in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the RHA (see alt text for details). The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald continues until Sunday 9th August. #RHAAnnualExhibition #RHA196

Thursday’s featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, is this Icelandic image from Adrian O’Carroll (details in alt text). Prints of this photograph are available to buy. Enquire at our front desk or visit rhagallery.ie for more details.

Today’s featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, comes from Nickie Harrington (details in alt text). This work, Kinked Logic, is available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk for more details. #RHAAnnualExhibition

The 2026 ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture has been won by Cheryl Brown for her work, Irish Goat (details in alt text). The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald continues until Sunday 9th August. #RHA196 #RHAPrizes #ESB #McCannFitzGerald #ArtsCouncilSupported

As part of the RHA Studios Programme, we are delighted to offer a two-month Clare Island Studio Residency this Autumn, through the generosity of a private benefactor. The successful artist will be in residence on the Co. Mayo island from the 1st Oct - 30th Nov. 🧵 💻 rhagallery.ie/residencies-...

𝗥𝗛𝗔 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 Discover new perspectives with this tour of the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Sunday 12 July, 1–2pm €5 per person, book here: rhagallery.ie/events/public-events/slow-looking-art-tour-8

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗛𝗔 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 - 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆! This tour will bring you through the building as well as showing highlights from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. First Day at the RHA; Saturday 11 July, 1–2pm; free, all welcome. #RHAAnnualExhibition #RHA196

Today's featured artwork, by Martin Gale RHA (details in alt text) is currently showing in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. It is available to buy - see rhagallery.ie for details or enquire in person at our front desk. #RHA196 #RHAAnnual #McCannFitzGerald

Join Elaine Byrne ARHA at 5.30pm tomorrow for an Art Form Tour of the 196th Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, focusing on Photography. Art Form Tour - Photography with Elaine Byrne ARHA Wednesday 8 July, 5.30pm Free, all welcome, no booking required. #RHA196 #RHAGallery

Helen Merrigan Colfer is a fine artist who works from her studio along the Wexford coastline, at the tip of the Hook Head Peninsula. Her work Cloud Gazers, exhibiting in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, is also available to buy - see rhagallery.ie for details.

Many thanks to the Sunday Independent’s Niall MacMonagle for his ongoing series of features on artists exhibiting in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Today's profile features Maya Brezing and her painting ‘Gentle Borrower’. 🧵

Elinor O’Donovan has won the Rewilding Ireland Landscape of Distinction Award, announced at the recent 196th RHA Annual Exhibition Awards, for her work Dig a Pony (details in alt text). The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald continues until Sunday 9th August.

Sunday’s featured image from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, is this painting from Martin Redmond. It’s one of almost 600 on view, and it’s available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk for details. We’re open today from 12–5pm.

The Ireland U20 Women's Basketball Team are in Bulgaria to compete in the Youth EuroBasket 2026, with their first game against Azerbaijan today - wishing them the best of luck! Today’s work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, is by Elaine Byrne ARHA.

Why not visit the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald this weekend. We’re open from 11am–5pm Saturday, and 12–5pm Sunday. View and make purchases online at rhagallery.ie Video: Barry Lynch, Insight Media. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #ArtsCouncilSupported

Architecture is one of the strands featured in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Erhang Wang’s project, The Lost Boys: It's OK to Cry, imagines a memorial to the Chinese cockle pickers who died in Morecambe Bay in the winter of 2004. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald

Join Elaine Byrne ARHA next Wednesday for an Art Form Tour of the 196th Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, focusing on Photography. Art Form Tour - Photography with Elaine Byrne ARHA Wednesday 8 July, 5.30pm Free, all welcome, no booking needed. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald

Dominic Turner has won the Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Award; part of the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Prints of this award winning work, Never Alone (details in alt text) are available to buy at rhagallery.ie #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald

Thursday’s featured piece from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, is this sculpture by Bernadette Doolan. Bernadette’s work is one of over 600 on view, and it’s available for purchase. Visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk for details.

Take your time to truly immerse yourself in the art and discover new perspectives with our Slow Art Looking Tour of the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald. Sun 5 July, 1pm. Cost: €5, places limited, book at rhagallery.ie/events/public-events/slow-looking-art-tour-6

Aisling Coughan’s twenty panel piece Dream Fragments is today’s featured work from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. It’s one of many works that you can purchase - see rhagallery.ie for details. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported

The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald – have 🫵 visited yet!? Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 11am-5pm; Wednesday 11am-7pm; Sunday 12-5pm. Closed Monday. View and make purchases online at rhagallery.ie #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther

Felicity Clear has won the Shota Kotake Drawing Award for her work, Exhalation, (details in alt text), announced at the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition Awards, in association with McCann FitzGerald. Shota Kotake was a much loved artist, friend and member of the RHA Technical Team.

Blaise Smith RHA’s painting of a farm building in Gloun Cross, Co. Cork, is a scene very familiar to anyone travelling the Irish byways this summer. Blaise is one of over five hundred exhibitors in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. 1/2

The Contemporary Irish Art Society Award for a work of distinction by an emerging artist has been won by Nicole Covurluian and Lauryn Creamer Nwadike, announced at the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition Awards. The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald - until 9th Aug.

Game, set and match! 🎾 It’s the start of Wimbledon fortnight and what better way to begin the week than with this work by Maev Kelly. It’s one of almost 600 works in this year’s RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. Closed today - view the Annual any time at rhagallery.ie

Our Sunday work from the 96th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with @McCannFitz, is a sculpture from Michael Quane RHA (details in alt text). The exhibition is on view today from 12-5pm. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #AlwaysFreeAdmission

It’s the weekend and the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, a bit like a funfair, has something for everyone. Today’s featured work, Helter Skelter, is a painting by Gary O’Hare. It’s available for purchase - visit rhagallery.ie or enquire at our front desk.

The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. We’re open until 5pm today and Sunday from 12-5pm. View the Annual Exhibition and make purchases online at rhagallery.ie #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland

Congratulations to Melissa June Alexandra O’Donnell on winning the James O’Nolan Graduate Award, announced at the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition Awards, in association with McCann FitzGerald. #RHA196 #RHAPrizes #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland #AlwaysFreeAdmission

It’s Friday and we’re coming to the end of the fifth week of the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. Today’s featured piece, an acrylic on Liberty fabric is by Adrian Fitz-Simon (details in alt text). It’s available for purchase - see rhagallery.ie #RHA196

Elaine Byrne has been named winner of the 2026 RCSI Art Award for her piece ‘Alessia'. The RCSI Art Award, in association with the RHA and @irishtimes.com, celebrates the link between art, medicine and well-being. More: www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-... @rha-arts.bsky.social

Today’s featured artwork from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, continues the theme of nature in yesterday’s choice. It’s a painting by Maya Brezing of a swan reposing on a nest of human detritus (details in alt text). #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald

John Behan RHA has won the Morgan O’Driscoll Sculpture Award at the recent RHA Annual Exhibition Awards. The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald continues until Sunday 9th August. #RHA196 #RHAPrizes #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland

The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald – don’t miss it! Ends Sunday 9 August. View and make purchases online at rhagallery.ie. Video: Barry Lynch, Insight Media. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #ArtsIreland #AlwaysFreeAdmission

Our midweek image from the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, is an oil on panel work from Jenny Richardson (see alt text for details). We’re open until 7pm this evening - Dorothy Smith ARHA is giving a tour of the Annual at 5.30pm. Join us if you can. #RHA196

The RHA School is now accepting applications for its Autumn term courses in painting and drawing. See rhagallery.ie/rha-school for details. The application deadline for all courses is Friday 17 July at 4pm. #RHA #RHASchool

It’s ten years to the day that Britain voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. Today’s featured work from the the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, entitled Brexit, is by Barry Delaney. This work is available for purchase at rhagallery.ie #RHAAnnual

Our galleries are closed on Mondays but you can view the196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald, online at any time by visiting rhagallery.ie Today’s featured work is a sculpture from Ugne Trib (see alt text for details). #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #ArtsCouncilSupported

Join Dorothy Smith ARHA this Wednesday at 5.30pm for an Art Form Tour of the 196th Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, focusing on Drawing. Free, all welcome, no booking required. #RHA196 #RHAAnnualTours #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported

The P.N. O’Gorman Auctioneers award for a work on paper has been won by Dorothy Smith ARHA for her watercolour My Place (III). Dorothy will give a tour of the 196th Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald, focusing on drawing, this Wednesday at 5.30pm. Free to attend, all welcome.

Why not visit the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald today – we’re open until 5pm! View and make purchases online any time at rhagallery.ie Video: Barry Lynch, Insight Media. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald #GoFurther #ArtsCouncilSupported #AlwaysFreeAdmission

It may well be the kind of weather for messing about with boats, the subject matter in this painting by Paula Brown Marten (see alt text for details), which features in the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. We're open from 12-5pm today. #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald

It’s the weekend - the perfect time to visit the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. We’re open today from 11am-5pm and Sunday 12-5pm. Closed Monday. Today’s featured artwork is a portrait by Emma Montonen (see alt text for details). #RHA196 #McCannFitzGerald