Dublin artist Seánie Harte takes the images embedded in Irish sporting memory and gives them a new life in oil pastel — full of colour, humour and the slightly fuzzy quality of remembering a match you watched years ago.
Seánie Harte is a Dublin-based artist whose work turns football, Irish pop culture and sporting nostalgia into bold, characterful images.
His current catalogue moves freely between Damien Duff, Packie Bonner and Roy Keane and references to Father Ted and other pieces of Irish popular culture.
Football sits at the heart of his work, alongside a distinctly Irish visual universe of sporting heroes and pop-cultural references. And one figure keeps returning: Roy Keane.
There’s something wonderfully analogue about Harte’s treatment of sporting images: familiar moments become softer, stranger and more personal when reconstructed as paintings.
From Crystal Palace in 1995 through to Porto in 2004, Harte has turned Roy Keane’s dismissals into a series of individual works.
This September, Harte brings together paintings inspired by every Roy Keane red card for SENT OFF, his first solo exhibition, at Hen’s Teeth in Blackpitts, Dublin.
“Football already means so much to people, so hopefully this exhibition can act as a gateway to art for supporters who might not normally visit an art exhibition. I’d love to see more football and art crossing over in Ireland, and if this helps in some small way, that would be brilliant.”
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SENT OFF - Seánie Harte
Hen’s Teeth, Blackpitts, Dublin 8
3rd September 2026
View more of Seánie Harte's work here.
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