South East Technological University
B.A. (Hons) in Art – Exhibition
Friday 15th May – Wednesday 30th May 2026
Opening: Thursday 14th May 6pm
South East Technological University, in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre, is pleased to present the annual BA (Hons) in Art Degree show titled Halo. The exhibition officially opens at 6pm on Thursday, the 14th of May, at Wexford Arts Centre. All are welcome to attend.
Halo presents the work of nine BA (Hons) students from the Art and Design Campus of South East Technological University (SETU), Wexford. The exhibition, produced individually and collectively over the past four years, features work by Emma Daly, Clódagh Dempsey, Seán Fitzpatrick, Johanna Murphy, Matthew O’Neill, Natasha O’Neill, Jojo O’Reilly, Yvonne Power and Jan Szostek.
This exhibition brings together a diverse range of practices including painting, photography, sculpture, print, film and installation. While varied in approach and medium, the works are unified by an engagement with themes of identity, memory, transformation and perception. The artists examine the body as both subject and material, alongside broader questions surrounding the construction and evolution of the self, drawing on processes of fragmentation, reconstruction and abstraction to explore how personal and collective histories shape experience.
Attention to place and environment recur throughout this exhibition with both natural and domestic settings functioning as sites of reflection and inquiry. Through a sensitivity to materiality, light and composition, the works consider the relationship between visibility and obscurity, as well as the variability of lived experience. Collectively, the exhibition articulates a dialogue between the personal and the universal, foregrounding a generation of emerging artists engaged in exploring the evolving conditions of identity and contemporary life.
The Art and Design Campus at South East Technological University delivers an inquiring and testing space for students to learn, create, and develop over four years. This learning and progressive testing of creativity has been integral to students who are seeking to reflect, engage, and represent our cultural understanding of societal experiences.
Halo will run the lower and upper galleries at Wexford Arts Centre from Friday 15th to Saturday 30th May.
Wexford Arts Centre’s opening hours are Tuesday – Friday, 10am–5pm, and Saturday, 10am–4pm.
For further information, please contact Visual Arts Manager Lisa Byrne at lisa@wexfordartscentre.ie.
For further information on the B.A. (Hons) in Art at South East Technological University, Hill Street Campus, Wexford, please click here.
Images Top: Clódagh Dempsey, What is Bred in the Bones, Will Come Out in the Flesh, Archival Photograph on Matt Paper, 42.0 x 59.4 cm. Jojo O’Reilly, The Everyday (Series), Oil on Canvas, Variable Dimensions. Seán Fitzpatrick, Passing, 67cm x96cm, oil on paper mounted on board.
Images Middle: Matthew O’Neill, Breaking the Consumption, Oil and Gold on Fabriano Paper, 69.3cm x 69.3cm. Natasha O’Neill, Mother Silk (Study), Notebook Drawing. Johanna Murphy. Today I am a Flaneur II, 122cm x 182cm, Oil on Board.
Images Bottom: Jan Szostek. Shattered, Glass & Epoxy Resin, Variable Dimensions. Emma Daly, Alyssa, Oil on Canvas, 40cm x 41cm. Yvonne Power, Salt Lamp, Oil on Canvas 30cm x 25cm.
