In partnership with The Embassy of Ireland for Indonesia and PT Jakarta Land, ISA Art and Design proudly presents the return of Ireland’s Eye, the contemporary art exhibition series. In its fourth edition, it has brought cutting-edge Irish artistry to Jakarta, which is held at the Lobby of World Trade Centre 2 in Central Jakarta from 17 March to 11 April 2025, and soon Surabaya.
This year, acclaimed Irish artist and lecturer Mark Joyce leads as curator, handpicking a dynamic group of artists to showcase the diversity and evolution of contemporary Irish art. His curation offers Indonesian audiences a vivid glimpse into the cultural landscape of modern Ireland.
This exhibition brings together six Irish artists—Isobel McCarthy, Olivia Normile, Mary Sullivan, Aaron Sunderland Carey, and Electronic Sheep (Brenda Aherne and Helen Delany). Each of their practices interrogates the tension between tradition and modernity, and the lived experience in Ireland today. Whether urban or rural, personal or collective; from the windswept peripheries of Ireland’s Atlantic islands, to the pulsating energy of Dublin city. There are narratives of migration, ancestral legacies and the complex reality of globalisation. The exhibition considers Ireland not as a fixed place but as a living entity that is evolving and being shaped by changing human and environmental forces.
These six artists in Ireland’s Eye 2025 engage with these layered histories through a variety of media, from textiles and printmaking to film, installation, and drawing. Their works interrogate how Ireland’s past informs its present, examining the interconnection between memory, materiality and transformation in an era of rapid change.