Auspicious Eight

You are invited to Auspicious Eight: Fire Horse Edition! Opening night is 12th Feb 2026 at 6 — 9pm at FLUX Dublin in Chatham Row! @flux_dublin The exhibition runs from 12 — 15 Feb 2026, curated by @jinnyly — Join us in the Lunar New Year Festivities! There’ll be tea, snacks, music, chats and a pop-up shop! Come support and check out amazing work by our artists: @cestlahan @emerwang_art @grace_michelle_mcevoy @designbyjiayiluo @mumu_jam @stacymkim @lixyphoto_ @yyaannggs @zellyanyanping Guest Speaker: @windkid_zhang #dublinlunarnewyear @dublinlunarny #lunarnewyear #dublinartists #baohannguyen emerwang gracemcevoy jiayiluo linzhou stacykim xuyingli yangyang zellping irishartists asianartists asianirish artexhibition dublinar

Kick start @dublinlunarny by attending the Auspicious Light 2026: Fire Horse exhibition @auspicious.eight @flux_dublin Also glad to meet @dr_meishan_zhang from @asianirishcommunityconnect Exhibition goes on until Sunday 15 Feb! Don’t miss out!

Dr Meishan Zhang, Co-founder & Director Dr Meishan Zhang is an advocate for migrant rights and intercultural understanding. She is the director of Asian & Irish Community Connect and the Information and Advocacy Officer at Crosscare Migrant Project, where she provides immigration information and support to the Chinese community and the wider migrant population. From 2023 to 2025, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, where her project, “Interpreting Justice,” explored the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the Irish immigration system. Meishan holds degrees from Nankai University, the University of St Andrews, and Trinity College Dublin, where she earned her PhD in History. She previously taught Chinese at Maynooth University and has led several innovative projects that combine research, education, and cultural engagement.

We want to take a moment to thank this year’s sponsors for their kind support of Auspicious Eight 2026! Thank you to Psychiatric Service Dog Association, Hana Izakaya, and Emer’s Art Class for their contribution towards the exhibition! We thank their generosity for making it all possible. Please visit our sponsors and show some support just as they have done for us!

MEET THE ARTIST — Yang Yang @yyaannggs Yang Yang is from Yunnan, China. She moved to Dublin in 2015, now based in Phibsborough D7. She works in illustration, graphic design, brand identity, motion graphics, animation, websites, prints, videos, interiors, and paintings. Yang Yang’s foundation in art comes from painting and design, and she has always enjoyed exploring different styles and mediums while experimenting with new methods and intentions. A good process of creating becomes a mindful, flowing space that often guides me to feel more deeply and to understand others’ perspectives better. Continuing to make art feels especially meaningful at this stage of her life as she is embracing the challenges and transformation of becoming a first-time mother. Both roles exist side by side, constantly influencing and pushing her toward growth in ways she never expected.

MEET THE ARTIST — Zell Ping @zellyanyanping Zell Ping was born in Shanghai in 1980. She studied theatre directing and mass communication, and began her creative life as a documentary journalist before working in theatre and writing. In the years that followed, she wrote for the stage and for television, and published poetry and short prose. Her early practice moved fluidly between writing, theatre, and close observation of everyday life. Photography gradually became another way for her to work with reality, time, and presence. Her work was shown and published in China and internationally. At a certain point, her path shifted. She stepped away from artistic practice and spent many years in a different professional world, during which her writing and photography fell silent. After a long absence, she chose to return to creative work, resuming both photography and writing. Today, her work is grounded in a poetic approach to documentary photography. She is interested in time, distance, and quiet states of being, and in how lives are shaped by waiting, repetition, and slow change. Her photographs do not seek to explain, but to remain. She lives and works between Scotland and Ireland with her partner and two Yorkshire terriers.

Auspicious Eight: Fire Horse Edition – Takeaway Collective 🎨🐎 Experience Auspicious Eight: Fire Horse Edition at Flux Dublin, showcasing artists connected to Lunar New Year traditions and contemporary Irish visual arts. A celebration of culture, creativity, and artistic exchange. There’ll be tea, snacks, music, chats and a pop-up shop! Come support and check out amazing work by our artists: @cestlahan @emerwang_art @grace_michelle_mcevoy @designbyjiayiluo @mumu_jam @stacymkim @lixyphoto_ @yyaannggs @zellyanyanping Guest Speaker: @windkid_zhang 📅 Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 February, 12.00–18.00 🎫 Free 📍 Flux Dublin, 4 Chatham Row, Dublin 2 #DublinLunarNewYear #YearOfTheHorse

MEET THE ARTIST — Stacy Kim @stacymkim Stacy Miyoung Kim is a multidisciplinary creative that struggled for years to decide what to do with her life. That is, until she realised she can do everything, imperfectly, and with a lot of patience and perseverance. Stacy is an illustrator, graphic designer, and sometimes a potter. She mostly works with small businesses in the food and beverage sector, designing logos, packaging, posters, etc. Born and raised in Los Angeles, and sharpened in New York City, she now creates a sense of home wherever she finds herself. Usually with the help of a home cooked meal. She holds a BFA in Communication Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MA in Communications Design from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She has worked as a graphic designer for NCBUniversal and illustrated for the Adobe Max 2020 conference. If she looks familiar to you, she may even have served you coffee. In her free time she likes to study foreign languages. She often expresses her love for others by feeding them.

MEET THE ARTIST — Bao Han Nguyen @cestlahan 𝗕𝗮𝗼-𝗛𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗴𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗻-𝗩𝗼 is a cultural manager and visual artist from Nha Trang (Vietnam). She holds a BA in Arts and Media Studies with honors from Fulbright University Vietnam; and an MA in Art and Social Action from NCAD Dublin. Han’s practice combines visual ethnography and archival research, using documentary photography, experimental film, and community-centered curation to reimagine fragmented histories through vernacular narratives. She co-produced ‘Lèm dì dị Open Studios’, Nha Trang, Vietnam, 2023-2024; ‘As Time Gone By’, Da Nang Fine Arts Museum, Da Nang, Vietnam, 2024. Han’s short films trace urban memory of modern Vietnam, from vanishing river systems to playgrounds eclipsed by gentrification. Her graduation project, ‘As Water Erodes’ (2024) wove personal archives and oral histories to interrogate historical amnesia along the coastal hinterlands of central Vietnam. Han’s works have been presented in ‘Roots and Worlds’, HCMC/Hanoi, Vietnam, 2024; ‘Photocamp with Lam Duc Hien’, Hue, Vietnam, 2022; ‘toi CAB anmai residency’, Hoi An, Vietnam, 2021. Her collaborative work includes Hagait Ni, a Cham music heritage initiative, and Mai-Marai, a touring performance on Cham preservation. Since relocating to Ireland, Han’s current research is to assert her socially engaged practices from an auto-anthropological positionality, addressing identity dissonance, precarious work, and labor immigration among Vietnamese immigrant workers at nail salons.

MEET THE ARTIST — Xuying Li @lixyphoto_ Xuying (b. 1995) is dedicated to exploring the emotional connections between people’s inner worlds, and between humans and nature. Her work captures the subtle interactions between individuals and their surroundings through the lens, conveying genuine emotions and vitality in fleeting moments.

MEET THE ARTIST — Grace McEvoy @grace_michelle_mcevoy As an artist, Grace is drawn to the mysterious and the unseen, seeking to reveal the hidden forces that shape both the world around us and our inner lives. Her work is inspired by mysticism, archetypes, and primordial symbols drawn from ancient world traditions. Through layered color, geometry, and symbolic imagery, Grace explores the subconscious realms of human experience, spaces where the mystical, the magical, and the otherworldly intersect with memory, intuition, and meaning.

MEET THE ARTIST — Lin Zhou @mumu_jam Lin Zhou is a Chinese illustrator who moved to Ireland three years ago and is currently based in a coastal town in North Dublin. Working primarily with acrylic gouache, her work is inspired by nature and the changing seasons. Alongside painting, she also enjoys exploring a range of creative forms, including collage, clay, and hands-on making. In addition to original artworks, Lin focuses on illustrated print works, such as greeting cards, calendars, and decorative prints.