Anne McCaughey

If Only I Had Wings to Fly

16-26 July 2026

Opening 6pm, Thursday 16 July 2026

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm

‘If Only I Had Wings To Fly’ is a mesmerising personal account of leaving and losing and finding anew. The female figures in McCaughey’s work act as ciphers, obsessed with the possibility of fleshly flight, or restructuring the fabric of the world anew, but never quite. It’s a quiet grief for world and family left behind, with the understanding that thousands of people relocate, and readjust and reassemble, making new worlds from the ashes of the old.It also celebrates the indomitability of the human spirit that adapts and survives. McCaughey started the process for this work in the year 2000 when she left Ireland and it has taken all these years to grow it into reality.

And a Wind Can Carry Cloth Away

And Why My Leaves Will Never Leave

And I Will Shelter You

And I Will Safely Guide You Home

Of The Mess You Left When You Went Away