[K]Nore Your River Art Exhibition

[K]Nore Your River

An Exhibition of Work by Bernadette Kiely

Curated by Shannon Carroll

Free Admission!

Exhibition Run

16th - 29th November, 2025

10am - 4pm

This exhibition is presented as part of [K]nore Your River, a community-powered season of events, art, science and storytelling along the River Nore. Inviting everyone to explore how the river shapes our identity and how we can care for it together.

About the Artist

Bernadette Kiely is a visual artist based on the quayside of the river Nore in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. The river flows through Bernadette Kiely’s work as it does through her life. Known for her powerful portrayals of the fragility of the natural and physical world, Bernadette draws particularly on her experiences as a child growing up on the quayside in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary, where she witnessed many flood events which have continued throughout her life as an adult living on the river Nore. For over two decades her work has beared witness to the shifting balance between water, land and community. From her studio on the quayside, she paints, draws and documents the river’s changing surfaces, attentive to the impact of water on daily life and to the ways in which communities respond to it. Her practice is grounded in slow observation: walking the river, listening to it, tracing its presence and noticing how it connects to wider cycles of change, from local floods to wildfires and environmental crises across the world.

This event is part of SEA School's [K]NORE your river project, supported by Community Foundation Ireland, in collaboration with:

Arts Office - Kilkenny County Council

The Tea Houses

Kilkenny Science Festival (Research Ireland)

Shannon Caroll (Curator)

Bernadette Kiely (Artist)