Martin Finnin

Just back from a residency at Ballyfin House, Co. Laois, Martin Finnin returns to Limerick to present work in Ireland for the first time in nearly twenty years.

Nature Studies in the Nick of Time, staged in the historic People’s Museum of Limerick, brings together oil paintings, works on paper, and sculpture.

The works explore the fleeting, fragile presence of nature in a rapidly changing world. Tigers, flowers, snakes, shells, and abstracted forms emerge and dissolve with satirical ease, echoing both the tradition of natural history illustration and the impossibility of capturing beauty as it disappears before our eyes.

“We’ve spent centuries trying to record nature, to pin it down. I’m more interested in what slips away—the chaos, the humour, the resilience.” — Martin Finnin