Wexford Arts Centre
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      • Breaking Rainbows by Orla Barry
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      • Education: Living Arts Project 2017-18
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      • 2018 >
        • Group: Lions Club Exhibition
        • Solo: A Calf Remembered by Katie Watchorn
      • 2017 >
        • Group: Christmas Craft Exhibtion & Fair
        • Group: Bare Root
        • Solo: Breaking Rainbows by Orla Barry
        • Group: Hammer | Anvil | Stirrup
        • 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
        • Solo: Selected Works: 1993-2016 by John Noel Smith
        • Group: The Centre For Dying On Stage
        • Group: I like to eat with my hands / Curated by RGKSKSRG
        • 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
        • Solo: Marie Holohan & Andrew Murphy
        • Solo: My Own Unknown by Dragana Jurisic
      • 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
      • 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: Lions Club Exhibition
      • 2013 >
        • Solo: Refusal by Helen O'Leary
        • Group: Marc Horowitz, Colin Matthes, Lois Patino & Susie Tarnowicz
        • Group: Woven into Memory Textile Show
        • Group: My Place - Children's Exhibition
        • 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
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        • Solo: Andrew Kenny
        • Group: Through my Senses
        • Solo: Nick Jarman
        • Solo: Olivia O'Dwyer
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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.

Future Plans

We hope to complete our capital plans for an extension which will enhance accessiblity and sustainability for artistic programme development and develop the Cultural Spine offer of Wexford which includes National Opera House, Wexford Library, Wexford Arts Centre and Selskar Abbey.  The project will cost in the region of €3 million.  A joint application with Wexford County Council has been submitted to Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural Affairs and the Gaeltacht for support to complete.  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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