Our Purpose: Creating Connection

Mermaid Arts Centre is County Wicklow’s creative engine-room. With a theatre, gallery, cinema, café and a lively programme of events to enjoy and participate in, we're a home for artists and artistic communities to create, connect and make memories.

Our purpose is driven by a fundamental belief in the power of shared experience and connection in combatting loneliness and isolation among people, and in the right to freedom of artistic expression and creation for all.

Gallery

Our airy and bright gallery has a total floor space of 165sq meters. It hosts on average 8-10 exhibitions per annum. It can also accommodate small-scale corporate functions, to make a booking please contact [email protected]

How to Get Here

Mermaid is located at Bray’s Civic Centre, just off Bray Main Street next to Bank of Ireland.

Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre
Main Street
Bray
Co Wicklow
A98 N5P1

Parking

Free underground parking is available for the duration of evening and weekend shows.

To access this, upon turning in from the Main Street, follow the road around to the right directly behind the Civic Offices building. The underground car park is on your left hand side halfway down this road. Please note that unfortunately this carpark is not open to customers during the day Monday to Fridays.
 

Daytime During the Week

On weekdays during the day the only option for parking is the pay & display private car-park immediately on your left hand side when you turn in off the Main Street. 

The surface car park in front of the Mermaid is Pay and Display, please do not use the surface car park without paying as regular clamping is in operation. Mermaid Arts Centre has no association with this car park.

Other “pay & display” parking is also available at the following locations:

• Killarney Road
• Parnell Road
• Connolly Square
• Novara Avenue
• Herbert Road Car Park
• Q-Park at Bray Primary Healthcare Centre
• Bray Central Car Park