Current Exhibitions

Francis Scattergood
Drawings From The Kitchen Table
October 25th - December 13th 2025

The Presentation Arts Centre is proud to present Drawings from the Kitchen Table, a new solo exhibition by emerging Wexford-based artist Francis Scattergood, opening on Saturday October 25th at 2pm. All are welcome to the launch, with refreshments provided.

This deeply personal and thought-provoking collection features a series of graphite and pencil works that blend humour with darkness, innocence with experience. Through his evocative character studies and surreal compositions, Scattergood reflects on everyday life, capturing themes of vulnerability, aging, aloneness, hope, and optimism. His drawings speak to the human condition — exploring how we confront our existence and mortality while striving to hold on to the innocence and wonder of life.

Born in Dublin and now living in Wexford, Scattergood studied Fine Art and Design at the College of Marketing & Design, Mountjoy Square. Early in his career, his work was exhibited in EV+A Limerick and the Iontas Small Works Exhibition in Sligo, where he was a joint recipient of the EV+A award for visual arts. After a career break to raise his family, he has returned to art with renewed purpose, recently exhibiting in Open Call shows at Presentation Arts Centre and beginning to share new bodies of work. 

Beyond visual art, Francis is also an accomplished musician and composer, contributing soundscapes and artwork to independent film and theatre productions, including Focus Theatre Dublin and Stone Maiden Productions.

Justin Codd
Journeys
July 28th - September 27th 2025

Journeys is a photographic exhibition that reflects not only the places Justin has travelled, but also Justin’s creative development and personal path over the past few years.

The exhibition revisits selected images from Justin’s earlier project Our Town, first shown in Enniscorthy Castle in 2023. That series focused on street scenes that capture something of the town’s rhythm and spirit. For this exhibition, Justin has selected and reframed some of those images—literally and metaphorically.

All of the Our Town pieces here are presented in handmade frames, made from salvaged wood from an old trailer—treated and assembled in Justin’s own workshop. Justin wanted the materials to echo the subject matter: lived-in. “There’s a kind of honesty in working with what’s available, and that feels central to this body of work.”

Alongside these are six pieces from a trip to Iceland, printed on handmade paper Justin created at home by recycling old newspapers. In this format, printed on rough, delicate paper, these photographs have taken on a new texture and a different kind of weight. These pieces are more about atmosphere than precision—less about the perfect image, more about the imperfect feeling.

Also included are a small number of large-scale landscape photographs, taken in Connemara and Norway. These, too, are mostly framed using leftover materials. 

In preparing this exhibition, Justin began to see how much of it is not about starting something new—but about reusing, reframing, and reflecting. Much of the work came from what Justin already had: older images, scrap wood, recycled paper, leftover tape and cardboard - a process mirroring his approach to photography itself: taking what’s in front of him and seeing it differently.

“I’m always looking for new ways to involve different processes in photography. Not necessarily making images that people expect or want to see, but ones that I want to take—images that carry my own voice and creative curiosity. Sometimes they result in something finished, sometimes they don’t. But in the end, I need to like what I’m making. That’s the journey.” - Justin Codd

Lar Joyce & John Cullen
Comharsana
May 31st - July 19th 2025

Join us for the official launch of this exhibition on Saturday May 31st at 2pm. All are welcome, with refreshments provided. 

Lar Joyce is a self-taught artist based in Wexford. His artwork is significantly influenced by his youth in the countryside, where nature and animals became his main sources of inspiration. This keen focus continues to this day, and through oil and charcoal he celebrates the landscapes and wildlife of Wexford and beyond. 

John Cullen is a full-time artist. His oil paintings on display in this exhibition are a selection of pieces from his 'A Place To Play' series. With these paintings, John highlights the visual interest of sports fields and arenas - from the perspective of their boundaries - and how they become key markers on the landscape as beacons of community excellence and the pursuit of excellence. 

"The Presentation Arts Centre is the pinnacle of arts in the heart of Wexford" - Visit Wexford

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