Sirius Arts Centre

15/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the latest edition of Art Adventure Day at SIRIUS. During this session, staff from SIRIUS, artist Fabiana Scaglioni and staff from Cobh YMCA Parents & Kids Together explore craft-making with children and their guardians from Cobh and beyond. The workshop offers an opportunity for personal progression through creativity in a supportive environment.

Image description: 1-3. Close-ups of children making Halloween-inspired collages.

Megan Ní Dhrisceóil
Cobh YMCA
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

14/11/2025

John Spillane at SIRIUS

John Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story, and appeals to listeners across many genres and generations. His performances shimmer with the magic realism that permeates his songs, as he effortlessly flits between poetry tinged with melancholy to roguish, irreverent irony. He can charm, mesmerise and entertain in equal measure. At SIRIUS, John presents firm favourites from his vast repertoire, along with humorous anecdotes, creating an evening of unmissable entertainment.

Friday, 21 November
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
€23.00 (non-refundable)
Booking via Eventbrite is recommended.
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception prior to the performance, subject to availability.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A person, the musician John Spillane, is leaning against a bench in a park and holding a guitar case.

14/11/2025

One week to go! I am really looking forward to playing at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh Co. Cork on Friday 21st of November. There are still a few tickets left, get yours here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/john-spillane-tickets-1597628793729

14/11/2025

Samir Mahmood’s exhibition Symplegmatic Portals is opening at RAMPA in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, 22 November, at 4pm. This presentation is a new iteration of the exhibition produced by and presented at SIRIUS in 2025.

Samir is a Pakistani artist based in Dublin. His practice encompasses painting, textiles, objects and video, with a particular focus on themes of identity, representation, bodily awareness and spiritual transformation. Symplegmatic Portals features an eclectic mix of works and is his largest presentation to date. The exhibition examines what the artist calls ‘q***rscapes’ – transcendental spaces of liberation where bodies, on their own or in dialogue with nature, are interacting, mutating, coalescing.

Symplegmatic Portals is organised by SIRIUS in collaboration with Rampa and curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through the Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme 2025. The presentation at Rampa is supported by Culture Ireland.

📷: John Beasley

Image description: An installation view of a grave-like structure covered by velvet and roses and with a piece representing a leaf at the top, surrounded by a pink curtain.






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13/11/2025

Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is opening at Highlanes Gallery on Saturday, 15 November, at 2pm, following its presentation at SIRIUS and Galway Arts Centre. The exhibition is curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. The launch includes a performance by the artist and a walking tour by the artist and the curator.

Alice explores expressions of both personal and broader historical and cultural narratives informed by their lived experience as a person with Irish and Sierra Leonean heritage. They practice across sculpture, expanded painting, digital collage, film, and performance.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics includes an expansive selection of works that examine themes of identity, familial and artistic relationships, diaspora, and sense of place and belonging. This iteration of the exhibition features a renewed set of works, some new or never exhibited in Ireland, in a fresh, site-responsive display.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is organised by SIRIUS in collaboration with Highlanes Gallery. The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Arts Council through a Project Award. The exhibition’s presentation at Highlanes Gallery is part of a tour produced by Rayne Booth. This tour is delivered with funding from the Arts Council through the Touring of Work Scheme.

📸: Tom Flanagan

Image description: An installation view depicting a digital collage and a mask hanging on a wall, a floor-based sculpture on top and next to furniture, and a monitor surrounded by miscellaneous items and in front of a chair.

12/11/2025

Exhibition – Barbara Knežević: Gvozdene Kapije (The Iron Gates)

Barbara Knežević is an artist based in Dublin with Australian, Polish and Serbian heritage. She has an enduring interest in the historical, semiotic and political functions of objects. This exhibition features a film and a series of related sculptures informed by the art, environment and history of Lepenski Vir, which place the artist’s family experience of displacement against the backdrop of larger narratives of the Balkans.

Barbara comments: “I wanted to explore the narrative potential of sculpture. I had been researching votive objects from Europe, mainly Greek, Roman and Etruscan traditions, and then I cast my eye a bit further back and came across the sculptures of Lepenski Vir, which were found along a stretch of the border between Serbia (then Yugoslavia) and Romania during the construction of the Iron Gates, a dam on the Danube River, in the 1960s. There are two reasons why these sculptures interested me. Firstly, there is a claim by the archaeologist who discovered them, Dragoslav Srejović, that they are the first monumental sculptural forms in Europe. On the other hand, they are part of what archaeologist Marija Gimbutas conceptualises as a culture structured by matriliny.”

The production of Gvozdene Kapije (The Iron Gates) was funded by the Arts Council through a Project Award. The work is commissioned by Belinda Quirke, from Solstice Arts Centre, with additional commissioning support provided by the National Sculpture Factory. Its presentation at SIRIUS is curated by Rayne Booth with Director Miguel Amado, as part of a tour produced by Booth with funding provided by the Arts Council through the Touring of Work Scheme. The tour also includes Regional Cultural Centre, Solstice Arts Centre and Wexford Arts Centre.

📷: John Beasley

Image description: An installation view depicting a detail of a floor-based installation composed of ceramic elements and a metal grid.





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Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

08/11/2025

It is wonderful to welcome curator Sara Muthi to SIRIUS for a residency. We are having great conversations about her research and plans. We look forward to continuing our dialogue and working towards joint projects and initiatives.

Image description: Two people, SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado and curator Sara Muthi, are standing in a street and looking at the camera.

07/11/2025

John Spillane at SIRIUS

John Spillane is a musician based in County Cork. His music is rooted in people, place and story, and appeals to listeners across many genres and generations. His performances shimmer with the magic realism that permeates his songs, as he effortlessly flits between poetry tinged with melancholy to roguish, irreverent irony. He can charm, mesmerise and entertain in equal measure. At SIRIUS, John presents firm favourites from his vast repertoire, along with humorous anecdotes, creating an evening of unmissable entertainment.

Friday, 21 November
8pm (doors: 7.45pm)
€23.00 (non-refundable)
Booking via Eventbrite is recommended: https://buff.ly/onwaJRr
Tickets may also be purchased at the SIRIUS reception prior to the performance, subject to availability.

Accessibility Note
Our building has accessibility limitations. There are three steps to the front door and a temporary wheelchair ramp is available upon request. Our toilets are also accessed via stairs. Public toilets are beside the Titanic Experience, by The Promenade.

Image description: A person, the musician John Spillane, is leaning against a bench in a park and holding a guitar case.

07/11/2025

Samir Mahmood’s exhibition Symplegmatic Portals is opening at RAMPA in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, 22 November, at 4pm. This presentation is a new iteration of the exhibition produced by and presented at SIRIUS in 2025.

Samir is a Pakistani artist based in Dublin. His practice encompasses painting, textiles, objects and video, with a particular focus on themes of identity, representation, bodily awareness and spiritual transformation. Symplegmatic Portals features an eclectic mix of works and is his largest presentation to date. The exhibition examines what the artist calls ‘q***rscapes’ – transcendental spaces of liberation where bodies, on their own or in dialogue with nature, are interacting, mutating, coalescing.

Symplegmatic Portals is organised by SIRIUS in collaboration with Rampa and curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through the Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme 2025. The presentation at Rampa is supported by Culture Ireland.

📷: John Beasley

Image description: An installation view depicting a painting showing a figure – the artist
Samir Mahmood – with a red orb hovering above his head.






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06/11/2025

Alice Rekab’s exhibition Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is opening at Highlanes Gallery on Saturday, 15 November, at 2pm, following its presentation at SIRIUS and Galway Arts Centre. The exhibition is curated by SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado. The launch includes a performance by the artist and a walking tour by the artist and the curator.

Alice explores expressions of both personal and broader historical and cultural narratives informed by their lived experience as a person with Irish and Sierra Leonean heritage. They practice across sculpture, expanded painting, digital collage, film, and performance.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics includes an expansive selection of works that examine themes of identity, familial and artistic relationships, diaspora, and sense of place and belonging. This iteration of the exhibition features a renewed set of works, some new or never exhibited in Ireland, in a fresh, site-responsive display.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is organised by SIRIUS in collaboration with Highlanes Gallery. The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Arts Council through a Project Award. The exhibition’s presentation at Highlanes Gallery is part of a tour produced by Rayne Booth. This tour is delivered with funding from the Arts Council through the Touring of Work Scheme.

📸: Tom Flanagan

Image description: Two people, artist Alice Rekab and SIRIUS Director Miguel Amado, are standing in a gallery space, smiling.

Highlanes Drogheda
Limerick City Gallery Of Art
Galway Arts Centre
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

05/11/2025

Driftworks traces Ireland’s Atlantic edge: six concerts, six unique evenings of discovery. From Letterkenny to Cobh, the programme varies from venue to venue, each concert revealing a shifting tide of sound - unique programmes anchored by the vibrant, uncompromising voices of some of Ireland’s leading composers and performers.

📅 Sat 6 Dec | 7pm
📍 Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh

More information and tickets: www.northernlightsproject.org

Music and performances by: Amanda Feery, Ailís Ní Ríain, John McLachlan, Paul Roe, El Putnam, Brona Martin, Robert Curgenven and Peter O’Doherty.

This evening features Amanda Feery, whose works span contemporary classical, experimental electronics, and multimedia collaboration; Ailís Ní Ríain, whose textural and experimental compositions transform space into resonant listening environments; Paul Roe, who performs a work for bass clarinet and electronics by John McLachlan; El Putnam, an artist-philosopher working in performance art, video, sound, and digital media; Brona Martin, crafting spatial electroacoustic pieces from narrative, field recording, and multichannel sound; Robert Curgenven, known for site-specific works that harness architecture and weather to sculpt immersive sonic environments; and Peter O’Doherty, merging performance, sound and electronics into bold, interdisciplinary experiences.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

05/11/2025

John Spillane at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh Co. Cork on Friday 21st of November. Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/john-spillane-tickets-1597628793729

Coming up! I am really looking forward to playing at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh Co. Cork on Friday 21st of November. There are still a few tickets left, get yours here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/john-spillane-tickets-1597628793729