Exhibitions

All Creatures Great and Small.
Online and touring.





Since the late 1990s, the Office of Public Works (OPW) and the Department of Finance, Northern Ireland (DoF) have worked in partnership organising an annual touring art exhibition. This year the focus is on artworks depicting creatures of the natural world and will be exhibited in line with Covid restrictions. For a digital catalogue, please visit www.gov.ie/en/news/346c3-all-creatures-great-and-small/
Cork Printmakers at Working Artist Studios.
Ballydehob, Co. Cork.


​Group exhibition highlighting the work of nine selected printmakers
based in Cork.
​From the 17th September until 31st October, 2021.
Half-light. AoifeLayton: Mezzotints.
The Blue House Gallery, Schull.
Reflections on birds, their forms and their relationship to the natural and built environments.
25th June-14th July 2021.


The Blue House Gallery, Schull, West Cork.
New Perspectives: Acquisitions 2011-2020, National Gallery of Ireland.
11 May- 2 August 2021. Beit Wing, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
I'm thrilled to have had my piece "Clash" selected for inclusion in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, and particularly pleased to have it exhibited in this exhibition.

National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West Dublin.
Christmas Bazaar at Cork Printmakers.
Cork Printmakers 10-21 December, Wandesford Quay, Cork.
Original Prints will be available for sale at Wandesford Quay, together with items from the Cork Printmakers pop-up shop, including aprons, totes and notebooks for the duration of the Bazaar.
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The International Mezzotint Festival is a biennial event held in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Now in its fifth edition, the Festival is co-ordinated by Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts and represents the world's biggest celebration of the art of contemporary and historical mezzotint engraving. The Festival will be held over the month of August 2019 over a number of venues across Ekaterinburg.
Having exhibited in each of the first four Festivals, and being honoured to accept an award in 2015, this year I will be traveling to Russia to present my work in an three exhibitions: one of contemporary international printmaking; an exhibition of works from the collection of the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, and; a separate fundraising campaign in support of ocean conservation.
Thanks to the kind invitation of the International Mezzotint Festival organisers and the generous support of Culture Ireland, I will also be involved in the technical demonstrations, talks, and cultural programme which form part of the Festival.

Details of the exhibitions are as follows:

Blackout


In the lead up to the Fifth International Mezzotint Festival, the Yeltsin Centre Art Gallery, Ekaterinburg, will host an exhibition of prints selected from the collection of the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. My work will be included alongside that of 88 artists from around the world.
2-25 August 2019

International Mezzotint Festival V


Held across a number of venues in Ekaterinburg, the Fifth edition of the International Mezzotint Festival will include a large scale exhibition of prints by international artists, curated exhibitions of contemporary art in the medium, an exhibition of historical engravings, a competition section, and solo presentations.
Venue for solo and group exhibitions: Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.
Museum facebook: www.facebook.com/fine.arts.museum.ekb
Museum website: emii.ru/en/
Festival facebook: www.facebook.com/MezzoFest/
Festival website: www.mezzotinto.ru/eng/18/

The Blue Rocker Project


This Sea Shepherd fundraising project will travel to Ekaterinburg for the duration of the International Mezzotint Festival. The original prints- which  have been created in response to the organisation's ocean conservation projects - will be exhibited together with information on each artist's specific area of concern regarding marine matters.



Venue: Art Centre, Glavniy Prospekt, Lenin Avenue.

Sea Shepherd: seashepherd.org/
Blue Rocker fundraising: tinyurl.com/y3ndkzqz