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Westmeath Arts Office will present the first solo exhibition of work by the talented young artist Emma Williams, opening this week. Originally from Dublin, Emma now resides in Westmeath and her exhibition, The Journey, will launch in the Atrium Space of the County Buildings in Mullingar tonight, Thursday February 5 at 6pm.

An artist’s life is hardly ever easy. Recognition, or pay cheques for that matter, are far from guaranteed, even after long months, and sometimes years, of hard work on a particular project.

ST VINCENT, one of the most singular contemporary pop and rock musicians, a woman Pitchfork has declared “one of the past decade’s most distinct and innovative guitarists”, will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top.

This very fine painting ‘Listed for the Connaught Rangers, recruiting in Ireland 1878’, was painted by Elizabeth S Thompson, but following her marriage to Lieutenant General Sir William Butler of Bansha Castle, Co Tipperary, is best known as Lady Butler. It is not only extremely unusual for a woman artist to have so successfully worked in the highly masculine field of military art, but Lady Butler was an exception in many ways. She was an innovator, particularly in her sensitive and humane depiction of the ordinary soldier. Detail was all important. She was a regular visitor to Chelsea Hospital, and other retirement homes for soldiers, to question survivors, sometimes getting them to re-enact a particular scene.

ATMOSPHERIC INDIE-ROCK, blues with a touch of grunge, and passionate folk will be heard in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesdays in February during that month’s instalment of the Citóg nights.

Tonight’s edition of Imeall - the arts and culture series on TG4 - revisits local artist Pamela de Brí as her exhibition - Midland - Lár Tíre: Cycling the MGWR from Past to Present, that she worked on for three years is being installed in the National Photographic Archive.

I am an artist from Spiddal living in Westport and last year I created a series of works titled 'Neon Classical'. It involved Penneys’ underwear, Irish society’s no.1 choice in knickers and padded bras.

GALWAY ARTIST Paul Malone will exhibit his latest abstract works in the Secret Garden Café, William Street, this Saturday at 3pm.

SPIRIT OF Nature II - Beauty of Life, the second solo exhibition by Galway based artist Arja Sweeney, opens in the Renzo’s Cafe, Eyre Street, next week.

THE MOST comprehensive presentation to date of the work of Gareth Kennedy, the award winning Irish artist, who co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, opens this week in Galway.