The Garden celebrates 15 year anniversary with new exhibition ‘BOG – 15 Years of the Garden’ at Powerscourt Townhouse

This October The Garden is marking 15 years in business with a new exhibition ‘BOG – 15 Years of the Garden’. Launching Thursday 9th October 2025, the exhibition features more than 20 Irish creatives whose work echoes the quiet power of the bog, rooted in time, place, and the enduring presence of craft.

                                
‘BOG – 15 Years of the Garden’ brings together Irish artists and craftspeople to
explore the bog as both material and metaphor. Natural archives of memory and
time, boglands preserve and protect, much like the practices of making and craft.
Rooted by Grehan’s own personal connection to the boglands of Barna, West
Galway where he grew up, the exhibition invites reflection on what we keep, what
surfaces, and what lies beneath.

   
This exhibition includes work in many mediums, from photography, print, film,
ceramics, glassware, fashion, jewellery and textiles. Artists include Amo Kilfeather,
Brian Teeling, Cliodhna Prendergast, Domino Whisker, Endless Rhythm, Fermoyle
Pottery, Finn Richards, J Hill’s Standard, Julie Connellan, Linda Brownlee, Maggie
O’Dwyer, Mourne Textiles, Noel Byas, Phillip White, Simon Walsh, Superfolk and
The Tweed Project.

    
To mark the launch of ‘BOG – 15 Years of the Garden’, a film by videographer Dave
O’Carroll has also been commissioned exploring Mark’s background and practice as
a floral and landscape designer. The film is shot in Mark’s family home in Barna,
West Galway, the nearby bog and in The Garden’s Dublin shops at Powerscourt
Townhouse and Mill Street.

An image ‘Mary’s Hands’ by photographer Doreen Kilfeather features Grehan’s
mother’s hands holding the hardy but ethereal bog cotton that surrounds the family
home. Reproduced on a limited run of locally printed t-shirts, these are for are sale
throughout the month of October, with all proceeds going to Green Sod Ireland, a
non-profit land trust organisation that works to protect biodiversity, create safe
habitats for the free movement of wildlife, and restore Irish peatlands to ensure the
continued and enduring presence of the bog.

As a creative business, Grehan has forged relationships with and supported a
community of creatives over the last 15 years. “When I opened The Garden, there was a great sense of community, a willingness of other like-minded people to want to support and work with me,” explains Grehan.

‘BOG – 15 Years of the Garden’ launches on Thursday 9th October, with artworks
displayed to the public and for sale in-store at The Garden’s Powerscourt
Townhouse location until 9th November. Our special T-shirts and Turf Tote Bag have also been designed for the 15 year anniversary.

Limited edition T-shirts are priced at €35, Turf Tote Bag are priced at €25, and are available from The Garden, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin 2 and www.thegarden.ie. Follow @shopthegarden for updates.