Visual artist Elinor O'Donovan will present 'Róisín', a solo exhibition at The Lord Mayor's Pavilion in Fitzgerald's Park, Cork, running October 10 to November 7, 2026. Staged by Sample-Studios, Spike Island and Sirius Arts Centre, the show culminates the Sample-Studios Spike Island Residency 2026 and draws on research the artist undertook across Ireland and New York. The exhibition takes its title and subject from the life of Charlotte Grace O'Brien (1845–1909), O'Donovan's great-great-great-great aunt. O'Brien was a writer, activist and plant collector who worked on behalf of Irish women emigrating to the United States in the late nineteenth century, campaigning against the conditions they endured in Queenstown — now Cobh — aboard ships and upon arrival in New York. O'Donovan's inquiry followed her ancestor's trail through Cobh, Dublin, Limerick and New York, moving between archives, libraries, botanical collections and connected sites. At the centre of the show is the film 'Róisín', conceived as a desktop documentary. It unfolds through a voice-over scripted by the artist, illustrated with browser windows showing archival materials and photographs, digital drawings and footage shot in Cobh and New York. A screening with a Q&A with O'Donovan and curator Miguel Amado takes place at Triskel Arts Centre on October 6. Accompanying the film is an installation that references the decorative floral plasterwork of Irish state buildings such as Leinster House. These motifs connect O'Brien's botanical interests with themes of femininity and the visual language of Irish nationhood, binding a personal family history to the wider story of mass emigration after the Great Famine.