Wexford County Council
12th October – 20th November 2026
Opening: Friday 9th October at 6:00 p.m.
All welcome to attend. Food and wine served.
Wexford County Council, Carricklawn Wexford, Y35 WY93
The Arts Office of Wexford County Council, in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre, is pleased to present Chorus, a solo exhibition by Richard Malone. The exhibition will run in the County Hall, Carricklawn, from Monday, 12th October, to Friday, 20th November, 2026.
Wexford artist Richard Malone has steadily developed a strong and solid career since graduating from London’s Central Saint Martins in 2014. His work, spanning different media—from sculptures, performance, and textiles to drawings and installations—can be found in the collections of important institutions around the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA in New York, NGV Melbourne, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, amongst others. In 2023 he was awarded the highly respected Golden Fleece Award for Visual Art.
Malone has developed an artistic vocabulary of his own rooted in his upbringing within the Irish working class. Malone’s inspirational sources are varied, from the sewing skills and artistic sensibilities of his grandmother, his father’s discipline and work ethic in construction, and the revelry attitude of Wexford teenagers, to the work of renowned modern and contemporary artists such as Eileen Gray (in 2021 Malone curated the touring exhibition “Making and Momentum: In Conversation with Eileen Gray”); Giacometti (in 2022 he undertook a 2-month residency to respond to an exhibition of the Swiss artist at IMMA, Dublin); Anni Albers, and Sheila Hicks (he was a recipient of a Josef & Anni Albers Foundation residency).
Malone’s attention to detail, his regard and respect for his roots and sense of identity, his deep sensibility, and his incredible work ethic make for an artist who is not afraid to go deep into research and experiment. His work is at once delicate and sturdy, flexible, dynamic, sensual, and ludic.
CHORUS is an exhibition where Malone is reflecting upon his own creative process. He is continuously gathering many different materials and elements, arranging and organising them in a way that harmonises while also eliciting many different discourses and narratives. He is an artist who values skill and craft; all his pieces are meticulously made by hand and carry within them questions and ideas about Irishness, identity, queerness, place, and cultural history.
In 2023, Malone was commissioned by the Royal Academy, London, to create the Central Hall commission for the RA Summer Exhibition. filiocht faoi bhrón, as an dorchadas (poem in the dark about sadness) is a six-metre draped and stitched fabric mobile made specifically for the space. That same year, Malone was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery to create their first live performance, Concurrence, which opened the exhibition Dear Earth: Art and Hope in the Time of Crisis. In 2022, Malone was awarded the Golden Fleece Award for Visual Art and has received both the Visual Arts Bursary and Project Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Image credits:
Untitled (a cradle with a bay in the background) – detail, 2025, fabric, variable dimensions.
Landscape II (canopies, roofs or high notes) – detail, 2024, fabric, variable dimensions.
For further information on the exhibition please contact Una Cahill, Assistant Arts Officer, The Arts Office, Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford, Y35 WY93, on +353 (0)53 9196369 or email una.cahill@wexfordcoco.ie.
Wexford County Council’s opening hours are Monday to Friday from 9am-5pm.
