Limerick-based musician and media artist Mícheál Keating will launch his debut solo exhibition, Live Landscapes, from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 July at Spacecraft Artist Studios, Mungret Court, beside the Limerick Milk Market, behind Angels Adult Store (V94 HH34).
Running across three days, the exhibition showcases five years of Keating’s immersive engagement with the rural Limerick landscape through musical improvisation, field recordings, photography, video, and writing. His work evokes a reflective, almost uncanny sense of place, exploring themes of hauntology, human-land entanglement, and ecological presence.
The exhibition also marks the release of Live Landscapes—a new book and album of the same name. The 108-page publication, designed by Hugh Heffernan, features landscape photography, while the accompanying 18-track CD captures Keating’s improvised vocal and electroacoustic performances recorded outdoors in County Limerick.
Through this multi-sensory work, Keating invites audiences to consider the complexity of the land and to nurture a deeper care for the places we inhabit.
Mícheál Keating is a musician and media artist from a dairy farming background in Knockaderry, County Limerick, now based in Limerick City.
His practice spans sound composition, improvisation, performance, photography, video, writing, and generative systems. He synthesises these elements into multimedia explorations of the rural landscape of Limerick.
Keating previously released two critically acclaimed LPs as the singer, songwriter, and producer of the art-rock band Bleeding Heart Pigeons (2008–2020). He currently performs with improvised noise collective Péist, post-rock band The Low Field, and singer-songwriter Laura Duff.
He is also active as a music producer, media art technician, and festival organiser with Féile na Gréine.
Opening Hours:
Friday 18 July: 7–9pm
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July: 11am–5pm
Admission is free.
