Visual arts at GIAF 18

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

EACH JULY Galway International Arts Festival presents a diverse and quality range of work from Irish and international artists. The visual arts programme is entirely free and attracts thousands of visitors across the 14 days of the festival.

Denis Hogan students exhibition

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

AND THEY Flew V, the annual exhibition by students of award-winning artists and teachers Denise Hogan and Gill Christie, opens at the Renzo Café Gallery, Eyre Street, next week.

Exhibition of porcelain works in Kinvara

Thu, Jun 28, 2018

AN EXHIBITION of new porcelain work by Diane Reid and Sinead O'Connell, exploring the sense of occupancy, is set to open at The Courthouse, Kinvara.

Final year GMIT art students exhibition

Thu, May 31, 2018

FIFTY-FIVE students of the Centre for Creative Arts and Media at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, are about to host their final year exhibition, featuring ceramics, sculpture, textiles, print, and painting.

Tory Irvine gets set to T H R I V E

Thu, May 31, 2018

T H R I V E, an exhibition by the abstract artist Tory Irvine, whose work focusses on emotional health, will open next week in the Arts Corridor at University Hospital Galway.

Pat Flannery's solo Discovery

Thu, May 31, 2018

DISCOVERY, THE new exhibition by Galway artist Pat Flannery, fearturing works concentrating on nature, particularly the animal and floral world, opens tomorrow in The Renzo Gallery Café on Eyre Street.

Life Buoy - an exhibition in Kinvara

Thu, May 31, 2018

LIFE BUOY, an exhibition by the experimental artist Kristy Verenga, featuring works in oil and encaustic, as well as sculpture, photomontage, and photographs, is about to open in KAVA.

'We as women artists assert our rights...'

Tue, May 29, 2018

FOLLOWING THE emphatic victory of the Yes side in last weekend's referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment, a new exhibition will explore female corporeality, autonomy, strength, and vulnerability.

Exploring the lives of 'the forgotten Irish'

Thu, May 24, 2018

THE LIVES of Irish emigrants to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s will be explored in the new exhibition by Bernard Canavan, which opens tomorrow in the Kenny Gallery in the Liosbán Industrial Estate.

Art reviews: Performaphilia and Conflict

Art Reviews Tue, May 22, 2018

ONE SIDE-EFFECT of Galway not having a municipal gallery is that exhibitions pop up in various venues and two current shows worth seeing are in the NUI Galway staffroom, which is hosting Áine Phillips’ Performaphilia, and the Black Gate Cultural Centre, where the group show, Conflict, is on display.

Paul McGrane exhibition

Thu, May 17, 2018

STILL, LIFE, is the title of the current exhibition by Paul McGrane, which is runs at the Galway City Gallery, New Dock Street, until the end of this week.

Art exhibition says YES to Repeal

Thu, May 10, 2018

MORE THAN 30 artists from across Galway will show their support of a YES vote on May 25 through the Art for Change exhibition, which opens next week in the 126 artist-run gallery.

Recalling Galway's three-in-a-row All-Ireland victories

Thu, May 10, 2018

GALWAY GAA footballers have won the All-Ireland nine times, but surely its greatest achievement to date has been the magnificent three in a row All-Ireland victories in 1964 and 1965, against Kerry, and in 1966 against Meath.

'Getting off' at the Galway Arts Centre

Thu, May 10, 2018

HOW DO we maintain spaces for shared sensual/sexual pleasure, and care, when personal safety is at risk? This question is at the heart of a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.

Jim McKee and the Head Of The Sea

Thu, May 03, 2018

KINVARA, AND the south Galway/north Clare region, has inspired both the title and works of a new exhibition by the Tyrone born, locally based, artist Jim McKee.

Exhibition review: Mind Has Mountains

Art Reviews Wed, May 02, 2018

PRESENTED AS part of this year’s just-finished Cúirt International Festival of Literature, the fine group exhibition, Mind Has Mountains, is continuing at the Town Hall Theatre bar until the beginning of June and well merits a visit.

Danny Denton and Engage artists in conversation

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

DANNY DENTON, author of the acclaimed new novel, The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow, will join artists from Galway's Engage studios to discuss their collaborative exhibition, Fragmented Shore.

Make May the month to visit the National Museum Of Ireland

Wed, Apr 25, 2018

1. National Treasures - The Exhibition
The museum has just launched a new temporary exhibition, called National Treasures. The exhibition arises out of the hugely popular RTÉ television programme of the same name, which saw John Creedon and a team of curators travel around the country to assess a fascinating mix of social history objects from the last 100 years.

The changing face of Salthill through the decades

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

SALTHILL, FROM its days as a "wholesome if uninteresting place" to today, when it is a popular west of Ireland seaside resort, will be chronicled in a photographic exhibition in the Galway City Museum.

Thoroughbred horses inspire exhibition for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

THE BYERLEY Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Barb, were three 18th century stallions that were the founders of the modern thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock. They have also inspired a new exhibition.

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