Censorship and Iconoclasm in Art: Fear, Power, & Expression
Lucy Lambe explores censorship and iconoclasm as anxieties about art’s power—how images provoke fear, moral policing, and institutional control. From Michelangelo’s censored nudes to contemporary interventions, the essay argues that restricting art denies its role as mirror, catalyst, and force for change.
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Exploring the beauty of the breakdown
Caoimhe Heaney explores the beauty of the breakdown—how change, even when painful, can open space for growth and new meaning. Her layered photomontages hold imperfection gently, finding quiet strength in vulnerability and revealing the unseen beauty and fragility that emerges through transformation.
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Anecdotes — Issue 02 (Winter 2025/26) Is Now Live
Anecdotes — Issue 02 (Winter 2025/26) explores perception, resistance and creative process through contemporary artworks, essays and studio reflections from Nua Collective artists.
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“…seeing an exhibition like this come together because of both of you and all the other artists that you’ve brought together in the collective is an absolute perfect symbol of that relationship, of bringing people together, of creating something new, of looking at the challenges in the world and making something from it and making something positive to make us think.”
Eimear Friel-Irish Ambassador in Latvia
Blackout - The International Exhibition by Nua Collective - Pictured at Wexford Arts Centre
“This exhibition faces one of the biggest challenges of our time, and that’s climate change…It’s an exhibition that prompts us to wake up, sit up, stand up, and make a difference in whatever way we can for the planet and for humankind…The Blackout exhibition will bring the message and the pending climate disaster to a wider audience, and hopefully together Nua Collective’s message will be heard,  understood, and acted upon by go all those who are fortunate enough to see it as it makes its way around the world.”
Cllr. Barbara Anne Murphy-Wexford
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