Our, Óir, Ore

The Hunt Museum is delighted to present OUR: Conversations with the Collection, which invites visitors to experience the Hunt Collection in a new and thought-provoking way. This exhibition will explore how objects can hold and convey meaning, the exhibition reimagines the collection through dynamic dialogue with contemporary art.

OUR: Conversations with the Collection features works by Irish and international artists including Ibrahim Mahama, Qiuwen Lyu, Cecilia Bullo and Guggi, offering fresh and unexpected perspectives on heritage and material culture.

Running in tandem with, Our, Óir, Ore: Four Millennia of Silver and Gold, both exhibitions offer a rich and nuanced exploration of artistry, craftsmanship, and storytelling across time.

These intimate juxtapositions animate the collection in unexpected ways, encouraging visitors to reconsider familiar objects through fresh artistic lenses and to reflect on how meaning evolves over time.

Focusing on the ‘Our’ element of the Hunt Collection, OUR: Conversations with the Collection uses the concept of Twin Souls a curatorial approach that brings historical objects and contemporary artworks into close dialogue, pairing them to reveal shared themes, ideas, or emotional resonances.

Through a series of vignette-style displays, the artworks breathe new life into selected objects from the Hunt Collection, inviting visitors to reimagine the familiar through fresh and unexpected perspectives. Inspired by Trove (Dorothy Cross and the National Museum of Ireland, 2015), the exhibition encourages audiences to reflect on what can emerge when past and present are brought into conversation.

Discover a bold new way of seeing the Hunt Collection, where history and contemporary creativity meet.