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Written by Amanda Karolina
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In his paintings and drawings, Ruiz Abad examines the themes of replication, repetition, mirror effect, translation, and transfer by using motifs from playful mass-produced items, such as children’s coloring books. He works through associations of ideas and highlights new social paradigms as well as cultural tensions between inherited traditions and contemporary popular culture.
Tøn is an artist-run research space, project space and gallery dedicated to the promotion and advancement of Irish and international artists. Our founding principles are committed to community, environment and education in our programs. Since our establishment in July 2025 we have exhibited artists and held workshops that involve community development.
Our first project involved the building of a courtyard with artists Roisin O’Reilly and Mark Redden. We built a courtyard in the gallery using sustainable means and invited members of the public to witness and participate during the construction. The house the gallery was invited to has a direct ancient way of sustainable technology that we appreciate today.
In May 2025 Spanish artist Frances Ruiz Abad held an exhibition of paintings that involved the Institute de Cervantes and was embraced by the Spanish community, as well as the local community.
In July 2025 Irish-Scottish artist Tom Campbell held an exhibition and popular market involving hand-crafted materials and a papier-mâché creature made occupy the big staircase.
For Culture Night in September 2025 we held a poetry slam and group exhibition titled What I Know Now.


Openings, events, and notes from the space. Everything worth knowing about what’s happening at Tøn.

A solo exhibition by Merve Sagit. exploring grief, memory, and emotional residue through cyanotype and lumen printing. Copy 3

A solo exhibition by Merve Sagit. exploring grief, memory, and emotional residue through cyanotype and lumen printing. Copy 2
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