2024/2025

We are delighted to announce a new exhibition will open in the Jennings Gallery on Wednesday 27th November.

Exhibition: Beauty and Wonders of Nature

Artist: Mary Rose Day

Launch Event: Join us in The Jennings Gallery from 17:30 to 18:30 on Wednesday 27th November. All are welcome.

Beauty and Wonders of Nature is an exhibition of oil and watercolour paintings by Mary Rose Day that have been inspired by the beauty, vastness and power of nature in a traditional style.

From Roches Point lighthouse and the dramatic coastlines along the wild Atlantic way to atmospheric woodland and mountains scenes and still life, all rendered in oil on canvas. Deep blues, browns and greys capture the essence and changing moods of nature and the Irish landscape. 

The exhibition will also feature a variety of paintings using watercolour and pen and ink. The translucence of watercolour is used to portray the delicacy and looseness of flowers and pen and ink will capture chickens. Paintings of lily pond, fragrant roses, tulips to lighthouses around Ireland are some of the watercolour paintings in this exhibition.

The exhibition focuses primarily on the everchanging beauty and power of nature. Being with nature is good for the mind body and soul and makes for emotional wellbeing.

Further details will be made available shortly.

Biography

Mary Rose Day had a career in academia and after taking early retirement as Lecturer in the School of Nursing & Midwifery UCC, Mary Rose participated in a number of classes on watercolour with Ann Marie Bourke.

Initially the main focus of Mary Rose Day’s art was painting flowers and still life in medium of watercolour but in the last 2 years she has started to work with oils mainly painting seascapes predominantly from her own photographs.

The inspiration for her work is influenced by the ruggedness and beauty of the wild Atlantic way coastline and her love of nature and gardening.  “I love painting, I find it incredibly relaxing, and time is meaningless when I take a paint brush in my hand.  The last few years has been a journey of self-discovery”.

Mary Rose has been a member of the the Shanagarry Art Group since 2024.

Proceeds from the sale of 10 paintings 'The Tranquility Series' will be donated to Alzheimer's Society of Ireland.

2023/2024

New Exhibition Opening on Wednesday 17th April!

In loving memory of Betty McDonald and in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Unit in CUH.

We are delighted to announce that a new exhibition entitled 'Breathe…Capturing images for health' will open in the Jennings Gallery at 6:30pm on Wednesday 17th April.

Curated by Colette Cunningham, the title 'Breathe' was chosen by Colette because the exhibition aims to raise funds for and awareness of the Cystic Fibrosis Unit and Ward 5B (CF Ward) in CUH.

Artists: Colette Cunningham, Christine Allan and Jules Versluis.

Refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

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‘Tending Joy’ - An Exhibition of Prints by UCC's First Year Occupational Therapy Students 

Opened 7th February 2024 - closed 12th April 

Since the foundation of the profession in 1917 and influenced by social movements including the Arts and Crafts Movement, art, craft and creative activities have played a central role in Occupational Therapy.

To explore this heritage and to examine first-hand the potential therapeutic power of creative activities, UCC’s first year Occupational Therapy students have an opportunity to participate in creative activities in module OT1005 Creative Occupations and Health, designed and led by Dr. Eithne Hunt in collaboration with Cork Printmakers.

The theme for this year’s creative sessions and exhibition is ‘Tending Joy’. In their creative sessions, the students were encouraged to reflect on how they experience and cultivate joy in the big and small moments of their daily lives.

The exhibition was opened by Odhrán Allen, CEO of the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland.

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Picturing War: Memory, Materiality & Medicine in An Irish Nurse’s WW1 Archive  12th Oct - January 2024

Opened on Thursday 12th October, this exhibition is a visual narrative of the experience of an Irish nurse, Agnes Maguire, in WW1.

Her photograph albums and archival materials - including QAIMNS nursing cape, medals, souvenirs, hospital-ship menus - offer a unique insight into the social, cultural and medical dimension a nurse’s wartime experience in Egypt and Salonika.

This exhibition is curated by Dr Laura McKenna, granddaughter of Agnes Maguire. 

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Art4Knowlege Exhibition  28th June - 26th July 

This exhibition featureed artworks produced by participants in our Art4Knowledge Art Therapy Workshop Series, run by the UCC Cancer Trials Group (UCC CTG) in collaboration with MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. 

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Dr John Sweeney Memorial Photographic Exhibition 11th May - 22nd June

John was a valued colleague and friend in UCC’s School of Nursing and Midwifery and an award winning photographer.

2021/22

COVID restrictions in place

2020

6th February: This Place - Róisín O'Sullivan

COVID restrictions in place from March 2020

2019

17th September: Wonder - First Year Occupational Therapy students, UCC

27th November: Celebrating 25 Years of Nursing and Midwifery Excellence at UCC - School of Nursing and Midwifery