Culture Night 2025 at Ardgillan Castle – Exhibition Launch “Evolving Landscapes”

Join us Culture night 2025 for an evening of music and art. From 17:30 – 19:30 Friday 19th of September, Ardgillan castle will be open late showcasing a mix of local talents.

Spoken word, trad performers and the launch a gallery exhibit will take over the castle for your enjoyment. A complimentary shuttle bus will leave the Bracken Court Hotel in Balbriggan at 5pm, and return to the main square at 7:30pm to ensure you get to experience all Balbriggan has to give this Culture Night.

The castle will be alive with music and poetry performances from 6pm (local performers obviously), which will coincide with the launch of a gallery exhibition. Curated by Valeria Ceregini, this Fingal Supported exhibition will take place in Ardgillan’s Gallery space – found in the basement and opening into a courtyard of the castle. Evolving Landscapes is commissioned by Fingal County Council for Culture Night 2025.

Evolving Landscapes description:

Evolving Landscapes is a critical reflection on the urgent need for climate action in the face of escalating ecological instability. As biodiversity declines and environmental thresholds are crossed, artistic practices increasingly turn to embodied, site-responsive methods that engage directly with damaged eco systems and communities on the frontlines of change.

Through sound, image, material, and collective processes, this exhibition foregrounds listening, witnessing, and repair as tools for resisting environmental collapse. It challenges passive observation and calls for deeper, more reciprocal relationships with the natural world. 

Together, these practices invite reflection on how landscapes evolve – physically, politically, and emotionally – in the face of accelerating climate emergency. Small actions, when multiplied by millions, can transform the world.

The gallery exhibition will take place in Ardgillan Gallery from the 19th of September until the 12th of October 2025. The Exhibition launch is on Culture Night, September 19th at 17:30.

About the Artists

Louis Haugh Louis Haugh is a visual artist, photographer, and educator based in Dublin. His multidisciplinary practice spans sound, image, and socially engaged processes, exploring how lived memory and ecological time intersect. His recent project Scríobhtar é sna Carraigeacha, created during the Loughshinny Boathouse Residency (Fingal County Council, 2024), reflects on the coastline through the parallel languages of rocks and photographs—each shaped by light and time. Haugh’s practice fosters community reflection, slow observation, and collective ecological awareness.

Tadhg Kinsella is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental sound practitioner based in Ireland. His work investigates the intersection between ecology, technology, and sensory perception. Drawing on data gathered from Fingal’s coastline—such as water levels, tidal erosion, and wave impact—Kinsella creates immersive sound works that amplify the subtle sonic traces of climate change. His approach foregrounds listening as an active, political act, and positions sound as a medium through which we can perceive and respond to the fragility of our environment.

Laura Skehan is an Irish artist and researcher working between Dublin and Berlin. Her practice explores human and more-than-human entanglements through sculptural and moving-image installations. In works like Mutual Taming and A Drowning Melted Persistent Memory, she reflects on the evolutionary role of moss—Earth’s first oxygen-producing organism—and its erasure from human-dominated spaces. Using organic material, sound, and philosophical inquiry, she foregrounds ecological precarity, care, and the politics of attention. Skehan’s work has been supported by the Arts Council, Culture Ireland, and the Goethe-Institut.

About the Curator

Valeria Ceregini is an Italian Irish-based curator and art historian with over a decade of experience curating international contemporary art exhibitions. Her research focuses on ecology, post-humanism, and trans-cultural narratives. She is the founder of MISCIA, a platform supporting artists through mentorship and European collaboration. Recent curatorial projects include This Too Will Pass (Galway International Arts Festival 2025), Future Fragilities (Turin, 2024), Prototypes for Cyborgs (Zeitgeist Irland24), Periodical Review 14 (PP/S, Dublin), and Towards Super-Connection (Villa Croce, Genoa). She has curated projects with IMMA, RCC Letterkenny, Hugh Lane Gallery, and Interface Inagh, and has held residencies at ZK/U Berlin, SEA Foundation (Netherlands), and PP/S Dublin. Her work is regularly supported by Culture Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland, and European cultural bodies.

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