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This is a look at some of what is currently out there in commercial spaces in Ireland.

The Temple of Psychic Youth continues at Kevin Kavanagh, with Elaine Reynolds, M & E (Matthew and Emelie), Jim Fitzpatrick, Jonah King, Miranda Blennerhassett, Mark Durcan, David Joyce, Oisin Byrne and Patrick Hough, Dorje de Burgh and Michael Ashur. Equal billing, though, has to go to the organiser, Pádraic E. Moore, who has shown an enduring commitment to exploring the psychic, the strange and the ironic through pattern and ritual. The show runs until Saturday 8 September.

A Summer Exhibition continues at Hillsboro Fine Art. As usual, it is a very interesting list of participating artists, including Alan Davie, Michael Canning, Gillian Ayres, Eilís O’Connell, David Crone, Patrick Graham, Eddie Kennedy, George Warren, Gwen O’Dowd, John Hoyland, John Noel Smith, Maurice Cockrill, Eamon Colman, Sheila Rennick, Paddy McCann, Michael Warren. The show ends Saturday 25 August.

Boasting artists Phil Collins, Mark Francis, Liam Gillick, David Godbold, Merlin James and Isabel Nolan, the group show at the Kerlin Gallery features contemporary, top-rung artists. The show continues until Friday 31 August.

An equally illustrous group of artists features in the Rubicon Gallery’s summer show, Undertones. They are Stephen Brandes, Rowena Dring, Blaise Drummond, Gabhann Dunne, Patrick Michael Fitzgerald, Anita Groener, Marie Hanlon, Martin Healy, Ronnie Hughes, Andrzej Jackowski, Eithne Jordan, Michael Kane, Nick Miller, Tom Molloy and Nathalie du Pasquier. This show runs until Saturday 25 August.

Peter FitzGerald is an artist and former editor of Circa Art Magazine.