Through and Between

I oversaw all logistical and installation elements of the Through and Between exhibition while also providing important curatorial support and advice to members of The Douglas Hyde’s 2025 Student Forum.

Róise McGagh, Through and Between. Installation view at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2025. Photo: Evanna Devine. Courtesy of the artist and The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Exhibition: Friday 10 October – Monday 13 October 2025.
Location: The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art.

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present Through and Between, a group exhibition organised by the members of the 2025 Student Forum.

Through and Between seeks to capture the Student Forum’s sense of togetherness from exchanging ideas and knowledge throughout the year. The exhibition brings together the disparate practices of the group to create new connections. There are a broad range of works, across media and subject matter, that are in dialogue with one another, reflective of the experience of Student Forum members.

The title Through and Between draws on Carol Duncan’s idea of the museum as a ritual passage, a space visitors move through in ways that are choreographed. This resonated with the Student Forum cohort: “we too are in a kind of passage, between education and professional practice. The gallery becomes less of a container for art than a passage, a space where encounters happen, where variations meet, and where new connections unfold, through and between the works”.

Through and Between is an invitation to enter and share in the forum the group have created.

The exhibition participants are Anastassia Varabiova, Anna O’Leary, Bernadette Kenny, Shanaia Kapoor, Eoghan O’Kelly, Isabella Wood, Jack Pierce, Reuben Brown, Róise McGagh, Jessie Aylmer, James Ó Muirithe, Síofra Egan and Caoimhe Wandel-Brannigan.

About The Student Forum

The Student Forum is a group of students and recent graduates who engage with The Douglas Hyde and its programming in different ways over a period of twelve months. This includes participating in reading and discussion groups, meeting artists and curators, leading tours and responses to our exhibitions and group trips to exhibitions and events. Throughout the year, the group have engaged with our 2025 programme of exhibitions.

Through these engagements, Student Forum members bring their own research and artistic practices into reflections on the artworks they see, as well as into an ongoing interrogation of the purpose and possibilities of the gallery space.

Find out more about The Student Forum 2025 here.