Exhibition Details

Title: LORE: Mexican & Irish Folklore

Artists: Anna Doran, Claire Prouvost, ESTR, Gabriela Joyce, Holly Pereira, Hixxy, Kin MX, Klo-wi, Loki PookaDubh, MyfanwyNia, Novice, Ohhi, Sarah Bracken Soper, Zippy, Zurdie.

Dates: 16th - 30th October 2026

The opening reception: on 16 October is invitation-only.

Visitors: For public visits during the exhibition, the Embassy advises visiting hours of 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm, with last admission at 4:45 pm. No appointment is required, although visitors may confirm their visit by emailing culturalirl@sre.gob.mx.

Venue: Embassy of Mexico in Ireland, 19 Raglan Road, Dublin 4, D04 TX89 Public Access:

About the Exhibition

LORE approaches folklore as a living form rather than something fixed in the past. Stories change as they are told, carried between generations and encountered in new places, while symbols and traditions can take on different meanings through contemporary experience. The works in the exhibition draw from Irish and Mexican cultural traditions, exploring their distinct folklore as well as the archetypes, symbols, motifs and narrative patterns that can echo across cultures. Through their individual practices, the artists are free to explore these connections, reinterpret familiar figures and stories, or approach the traditions from entirely different perspectives.

LORE brings together new work by Anna Doran, Claire Prouvost, ESTR, Gabriela Joyce, Holly Pereira, Hixxy, Kin MX, Klo-wi, Loki PookaDubh, MyfanwyNia, Novice, Ohhi, Sarah Bracken Soper, Zippy and Zurdie, reflecting the diversity of practices and perspectives within the collective.

Hosted by the Embassy of Mexico in Ireland, the exhibition sits naturally within an ongoing cultural exchange between Ireland and Mexico. The exchange also exists within Minaw itself. Two current members of the collective, Kathrina Rupit (KinMx) and Gabriela Joyce, are Mexican artists based in Ireland, bringing a lived connection between the two cultures at the heart of the show. Kathrina Rupit is one of Minaw's founding members and has a longstanding creative relationship with the Embassy of Mexico in Ireland, having previously collaborated with the Embassy on cultural projects and Día de Muertos programming. In 2022, Kathrina Rupit received the Ohtli Award, the highest honour given by the Government of Mexico to Mexican citizens living overseas, in recognition of her cultural contribution abroad. Gabriela Joyce is one of Minaw’s newer members, working across illustration, murals and lettering, with her Mexican cultural heritage forming an important influence within her own contemporary practice.

Minaw itself began in Dublin in 2013, emerging from a community of women already painting, exhibiting and sharing space within the city's street-art scene. The collective formed around that shared creative community and its first group exhibition, with the name Minaw developed as a phonetic reworking of the Irish word mná. Since then the group has continued to change and evolve, while retaining the friendship, collaboration and mutual support at the heart of the collective.

Today’s Minaw is a diverse Ireland-based collective of female, queer and non-binary artists. Although its roots remain in street art, graffiti and muralism, the individual practices within the group now extend through painting, illustration, mixed media and other forms of studio work. That movement between collective identity and individual practice has increasingly become part of Minaw's exhibition programme.

In 2025, Street to Studio at Flux Gallery in Dublin explored the relationship between Minaw's large-scale public work and the quieter, more intimate work created in members' studios. LORE continues that development, but shifts the focus towards subject and storytelling, bringing the artists together through a shared exploration of folklore while preserving the diversity of visual languages that have always characterised the collective.

“Folklore is something we inherit, but it never really stays still. Stories change as they are retold and passed between people, places and generations. With LORE, we were interested in looking at Irish and Mexican folklore together, not only at what makes those traditions unique, but at the connections between them, the recurring archetypes, symbols and stories that can appear in different forms across cultures. Each artist has approached that idea through their own practice and their own relationship with folklore.” Minaw Collective.

When Minaw first formed, there were fewer women visible within Ireland's street-art scene. Coming together created opportunities to paint and exhibit, but it also created friendship, support and a sense of belonging within an artistic community. More than a decade later, those relationships remain central to the collective even as its membership and practices continue to evolve. LORE reflects that history: a group of artists with distinct voices sharing a space, exchanging ideas and approaching a common theme from different positions.

At the Embassy of Mexico in Ireland, that collective approach provides a fitting setting for an exhibition centred on stories that survive through being shared. LORE invites audiences to encounter folklore not as a closed record of the past, but as something living, passed from one generation to the next, retold and given new meaning along the way.LORE approaches folklore as a living form rather than something fixed in the past. Stories change as they are told, carried between generations and encountered in new places, while symbols and traditions can take on different meanings through contemporary experience. The works in the exhibition draw from Irish and Mexican cultural traditions, exploring their distinct folklore as well as the archetypes, symbols, motifs and narrative patterns that can echo across cultures. Through their individual practices, the artists are free to explore these connections, reinterpret familiar figures and stories, or approach the traditions from entirely different perspectives.