Prosecco Weekend & Meet The Artist of the Festival 2025 Sat 20th & Sun 21st September.
12 noon - 6pm | Free entry.
* Booking not required.
To mark the Baggotonia festival weekend, Gerard Byrne invites you into his Studio for a weekend of art, conversation, and a glass of bubbly.
Set against Byrne's new collection Light Falls. Ode to Baggotonia, this is a unique opportunity to meet the artist, experience his new body of work up close, and enjoy a relaxed afternoon. Tucked into a quiet corner of Ranelagh — just minutes from the heart of Baggotonia — Gerard Byrne Studio offers a slower rhythm: a space of work, reflection, and close attention. During this year’s Baggotonia Festival, the studio hosts Light Falls. Ode to Baggotonia, a new exhibition that invites us into the artist’s daily world.
"We are delighted to honour Gerard Byrne as Artist of the Festival in recognition of his ongoing dedication. His luminous paintings capture the vitality of Dublin’s cultural quarter — a fitting tribute to Baggotonia, the historic heartland of poets, painters, and playwrights."
— Tom Skinner, Festival Co-founder
There is a kind of light that drifts through the city without announcement — catching on rooftops, pooling in alleyways, pausing on petals or glass. Byrne’s paintings are an attempt to hold it still, to trace what it reveals in passing. The works on view range from intimate still lifes to architectural studies and urban street scenes, many drawn from the immediate surroundings of the studio itself and historic Georgian Dublin.
Founded by the artist in 2017, Gerard Byrne Studio is both a working gallery and a living space — a creative haven where art is not only shown, but made. During the festival, it becomes part of the fabric of Baggotonia: not a destination apart from the city, but a continuation of its artistic spirit. Rooted in the tradition of Dublin’s Bohemian quarter — where Beckett, Behan, Jellett, and Bacon once lived and worked — Light Falls honours a lineage of artists attuned to place, presence, and the quiet poetry of the everyday. Byrne does not merely depict the city; he paints what lingers after looking — what the light leaves behind.
'Light Falls. Ode to Baggotonia' exhibition continues through to Saturday, November 1st, 2025.
Gerard Byrne Studio
15 Chelmsford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, D06 DE68 link
Open to the public. Free entry
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11am - 6pm and by appointment
https://gerardbyrneartist.com/
*NOTE: The Studio is usually NOT OPEN on Sundays, we're keeping the door open and hosting the event especially for the Festival.
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