Wexford Arts Centre
  • Visual Arts
    • Current Exhibitions >
      • Shane Keeling: BAD-MAN Oh Man
      • The Elephant Collective:Picking up the Threads: Remaking the Fabric of Care
    • Artist Talks >
      • In Conversation - How in the Arts?
      • Creating a response with the Elephant Collective
      • In Conversation - Art in Activism
    • Upcoming Exhibition
    • Workshops at WAC!
    • Touring Exhibition >
      • Breaking Rainbows by Orla Barry
    • Past Exhibitions >
      • 2018 >
        • The Annual Christmas Craft Fair
        • Solo: Fractured Crowd by Joy Gerrard
        • Solo: War Changes Its Address: The Aleppo Paintings by Brian Maguire
        • Solo: We are Hurtling into the Future by Joanna Kidney
        • Group: What is Life?
        • Group: Still.Life
        • Group: WCSAD Graduate Show
        • Group: Living Arts Project 2017-18
        • Group: Lions Club Exhibition
        • Solo: A Calf Remembered by Katie Watchorn
      • 2017 >
        • Group: Christmas Craft Exhibtion & Fair
        • Group: Bare Root
        • Group: Hammer | Anvil | Stirrup
        • Solo: Breaking Rainbows by Orla Barry
        • Group: And Creatures Dream
        • Group: BA Fine Art Graduate Show
        • Solo: I Wanted to Write a Poem by Jonathan Mayhew
        • Education: Living Arts Project 2016-17
      • 2016 >
        • Group: Wexford Craft Trail - Christmas Exhibition & Gift Fair
        • Solo: My Minds i by Janet Mullarney
        • Group: I like to eat with my hands / Curated by RGKSKSRG
        • Solo: Selected Works: 1993-2016 by John Noel Smith
        • Group: The Centre For Dying On Stage
        • Beyond Violet by Sibyl Montague
        • Group: What if we got it wrong? Centre Cultural Irlandais
        • Group: BA Fine Art Graduate Show
        • Education: Living Arts Project
        • 2015 >
          • Wexford Open Studio Art Trail
          • Yeats & Son - John and Jack Butler Yeats
          • Solo: Nick Miller - Selected Works: 2004-13
          • Group: Give Way - Emma Schwartz, Joey Bryniarska, Mathilde Ganancia, Paul Gaffney, Woosung Lee
          • Solo: Breathe by David Begley
          • This lasted until dawn... IMMA Collection
          • Wasteland (Project Arts Centre On Tour)
          • Wasteland - In Response
          • Amalgamations - BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduate Exhibition
          • Education: Living Arts Project
          • Lions Club Exhibition
          • Solo: Divided by Jim Campbell
          • Solo: Kay's by Caolan Barron
          • Solo: Clock stops at 3pm by Teresa Gillespie
        • Solo: Marie Holohan & Andrew Murphy
        • Solo: My Own Unknown by Dragana Jurisic
      • 2014 >
        • Solo: The Past is Present by Jennifer Trouton
        • Group: Patient Staring by Anne Hendrick, Emma Roche, Aileen Murphy
        • Group: Ian Clark, Seulki Ki, Corinne Schulze
        • Solo: Being without Finish by Anne Hendrick
        • Solo: Live Load by Frank Abruzzese
        • Group: WCSAD BA Show
        • Group: Living Art Project
        • Group: My Place - Children's Exhibition
        • Solo: Refusal by Helen O'Leary
        • Group: Marc Horowitz, Colin Matthes, Lois Patino & Susie Tarnowicz
        • Group: Lions Club Exhibition
      • 2013 >
        • Group: Woven into Memory Textile Show
        • Solo: Panto Collapsar by Mikala Dwyer
        • Solo: Iwan Bala and Gerda Teljeur
      • 2012 >
        • Solo: Cecilia Danell
        • Solo: John Noel Smith and Marie Hanlon
        • Solo: One + One by Brigid McLeer
        • Group: Antony Clarkson, Shiro Masuyama, Sabina MacMahon and Hilary Wilder
    • Artist Residency
    • D'Lush Café >
      • Current Exhibition
      • Wexford Camera Club
      • Past Exhibitions >
        • Marie Phelan
        • Nadia Corridan at D'lush
        • Group: The Sensory Group & Bluebird Care, Come in We Are Awesome!
        • Solo: Nicola Reddy
        • Solo: Andrew Kenny
        • Group: Through my Senses
        • Solo: Nick Jarman
        • Solo: Olivia O'Dwyer
    • Off-site Events >
      • A Wild Night
    • Screenings >
      • Els Dietvorst
      • Mel Brimfield
    • EVA Award >
      • Award Winner 2016
      • Award Winner 2015
      • Award Winner 2014
      • Award Winner 2013
    • Living Arts Project >
      • Living Art Project 2017-18
      • Living Art Project 2016-17
      • Living Art Project 2015-16
      • Living Art Project 2014-15
      • Living Art Project 2013-14
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  • Support Us
    • Supporting Us
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    • Bull Ring Mall - Application Information
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  • Child Safeguarding Statement
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Mission Statement

We believe that members of all ages in the Wexford community should have access to a contemporary arts programme to inspire, innovate and challenge the creative thought process.  To support this belief, we deliver an arts programme of excellence for life and for all with emphasis on contemporary arts practice, participation and education and inspire creativity in the Wexford community.

How We do it.


Here are some of our main activities we deliver facilitated by qualified arts facilitators and administration:
  1. We host a year round programme of contemporary art exhibitions - free admission with educational free talks for the public
  2. We run workshops for all ages for toddlers and parents, school children, and adults  
  3. We host vibrant events in theatre, music, comedy, and dance with after-school programmes
  4. We provide subsidised rental rates for various clubs in the county, including Picture House film Club, Occupational Therapy Group and Wexford Life Drawing Group
  5. We deliver Living Arts visual arts educational programme each year in different schools countywide in association with Wexford County Council
  6. We deliver exhibitions in Wexford County Council County Hall
  7. We provide an Emerging Visual Artist Award each year in association with Wexford County Council and Arts Council Ireland 
  8. We support management of Presentation Centre Enniscorthy
  9. We support offsite programme in varied locations countywide
  10. We promote Wexford arts and culture on a local, regional, national and international level

Our History                      Click HERE to see our video!

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Our home since 1974.

Wexford Arts Centre was established in 1974, and we are very proud to be the oldest regional arts centre in Ireland. 

We are based in the historic listed Cornmarket building.

In 1772, Wexford Corporation purchased a piece of property from Mr. John Grogan of Johnstown Castle. Building of a market house commenced and was completed in 1776. 

The lower windows of today were arched recesses for the traders, a reminder of its market house days. Inside was a magnificent ballroom and supper room. 

The protestants of Wexford formed the Brunswick club here in 1882. The founder of the Methodists, John Wesley is said to have preached here and recorded in his journal that it was one of the best public rooms he had ever spoken in.

Following renovation, the assembly rooms as they were also known were popular venues for lectures and musical evenings well into this century and people such as Percy French, composer of “The Mountains of Mourne” among other popular songs appeared on a number of occasions. 

It became the headquarters of Wexford Corporation in the early part of this century and was known as the Town Hall. 

It opened its doors as the Wexford Arts Centre in 1974 and has been providing art and entertainment for native and visitor alike ever since.  We are very thankful to all our supporters including main funding from Arts Council Ireland, Wexford County Council, Pobal and Wexford Local Development.

Future Plans

Wexford Arts Centre is currently developing plans to enhance access and sustainability with support of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Wexford County Council.

​To support ongoing developments for Wexford Arts Centre.  
You can support here by clicking Donate.  Wexford arts centre is a registered charitable organisation CHY 16712.
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Latecomers policy
Late comers are seated at the management’s discretion at a point in the performance and in a seat that will be least distracting to the performers and patrons in the theatre.

Bar Service
Pre Show drinks will be available up to one hour before the performance and during the interval for theatre style seating events.  Pre order interval drinks before the show to allow time to enjoy during the interval. No drinks apart from water/soft drink will be allowed into the theatre for these theatre style seating events.  Bar service will be available during cabaret style or standing room seating events only.
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Wexford Arts Centre
Cornmarket
Wexford
Phone: 053 912 3764
Fax: 053 912 1765
Email: boxoffice@wexfordartscentre.ie

Box office & exhibition opening hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm
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