What lies beneath the surface? What stories shimmer just out of sight?  Reveal, Conceal, a striking new exhibition from Louth Craftmark Designers Network, opens at The Cow Shed, Farmleigh in The Phoenix Park on Friday, 18 July and encourages you to discover the subtle boundary between visibility and secrecy.

Spanning textiles, glass, jewellery, ceramics, print, sculpture, and painting, Reveal, Conceal brings together 25 Louth Craftmark artists to present a diverse body of new work. Across disciplines, each artist probes the space between presence and absence, the visible and the veiled—revealing hidden truths, inner worlds, and layered narratives.

From the layered transparencies of fused glass artist Aoife Burke, who uses iris imagery to explore life’s constant expansion and contraction, to the embroidered dreamscapes of Sinéad Gregory, whose figurative stitching traces the contours of memory and imagination—each work invites the viewer to pause and look beneath the surface.

Colleen Eilís Murphy reimagines myth and tarot through experimental printmaking, while Suzanne Carroll’s haunting paintings confront the disappearing wild, capturing echoes of vanished species. In Blanche Kirk’s mixed-media assemblages, light passes through layers of glass and acetate, evoking questions of perception, culture, and memory.

Other featured artists include Krystyna Krasowska-Cicha, whose plein air oil paintings blend spiritual reverence with natural observation; Jane Campbell, whose ceramic forms explore the architecture of inner space; and Tracy Fry, who works with print and salvaged slate to evoke the invisible forces that shape our world.

For nearly two decades, Louth Craftmark has been a vibrant force in Irish visual culture, showcasing members' work in venues such as Bloom in the Park, Showcase Ireland, Highlanes Gallery, and Powerscourt Townhouse. Now, in Reveal, Conceal, they present some of their most daring and introspective work yet.

This exhibition does not merely display—it invites. Reveal Conceal asks visitors to look closer, to feel more deeply, and to question what lies behind the visible.

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