Have a 'LOOK' at Arja’s exhibition

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

'LOOK', AN exhibition reflecting the changing scenery, light, and seasons in Connemara, by the Finnish artist, Arja, is on display at the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Keepsakes - documenting a migrants journey

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

KEEPSAKES - CUIMHNEACHÁIN, a new exhibition at the Galway City Museum, will document the journey of 10 migrants to Ireland through the keepsakes they brought with them or the objects that helped them feel at home in Ireland.

Artist decorated currachs on display at NUIG

Mon, Sep 20, 2021

TWENTY-ONE uniquely decorated currachs have journeyed from Inis Oírr to the NUI Galway campus - where they will be on display until next month - marking a new partnership between Áras Éanna and the university.

Laura Vecchi Ford - The West is Awake

Mon, Sep 13, 2021

FOR MORE than 30 years, Laura Vecchi Ford taught Italian at NUI Galway, but for much longer than that she has been a visual artist.

Paula Pohli - city, country, city

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

FOR THE artist Paula Pohli, farmers and visual artists share much in common: they love animals; watch the weather for changes that occur hourly; are interested in flora and fauna, and work long hours.

Reflections on the lockdown experience

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

LONELINESS AND social isolation during the lockdowns, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable in rural communities, have inspired a new exhibition which opens in Kinvara.

Solas Photography Club online exhibition

Thu, Sep 09, 2021

SOLAS PHOTOGRAPHY Club, based in Oranmore, is holding an online exhibition of its members' work, which will include a number of award winning photographs.

A Reliquary of Beasts at 126 Gallery

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

ANIMALS - THEIR place in our lives, how they have been depicted in art, and divergences on cross-border practices on animal products caused by Brexit, are being examined in a new exhibition.

What about the sea goddesses?

Tue, Aug 31, 2021

THINK OF the gods of the sea and there is really only one name - the Greek sea god, Poseidon, or Neptune if you are more familiar with his Roman name.

Home thoughts from abroad

Thu, Aug 26, 2021

STRANGE LANDS, an exhibition of photographs by the Swedish artist Ingela Stenberg, is currently running at the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Mirror Pavillion to be unveiled on Saturday

Thu, Aug 26, 2021

THE 2021 Galway International Arts Festival will open with the unveiling of the much-anticipated second part of John Gerrard’s Mirror Pavilion, Leaf Work, in Derrigimlagh Bog, Connemara.

Terry Smith - the art of a legendary busker

Tue, Aug 24, 2021

GALWEGIANS OF a certain age will remember. A trip to the Claddagh Palace cinema was not complete without seeing him. Flat cap, long hair, and guitar in hand, singing folk songs.

Megs Morley appointed head of visual art at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 19, 2021

THE CURATOR, public art commissioner, educator and editor, Megs Morley, has been appointed as the new head of visual art at the Galway Arts Centre.

New exhibition from Olga Magliocco

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

ICE MELTING into water, thermodynamics, motion, and constant change - these are the ideas behind Entropy, a new exhibition at Oughterard Courthouse.

A lifelong love affair with colour

Tue, Aug 10, 2021

A 68-year relationship between an artist and a gallery is rare, but that is how long the painter Kenneth Webb and Kenny’s have been working together.

Exhibition depicts south Galway landscapes of the mind

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

OF LAND, Sea, and Mind, a new exhibition of oil paintings by Patrick Kenneally, and inspired by the mind’s adaptation to the lockdown restrictions, and our absence from the landscape as a result, opens this weekend in Kinvara.

New exhibition from leading Galway women artists

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

AIMSITHE (discovered) is the third Exhibition of Summer 2021 from Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme and will feature the work of County Galway artists collective AKIN.

Thoughts of home at new Kinvara exhibition

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

HOME, THE new exhibition from County Galway artist and children's book author, Terri Kelleher, opens at the Kinvara Courthouse on Friday July 23.

New studio space for artists to open in the city

Thu, Jul 22, 2021

BARTON STUDIOS, a new studio space for artists in Galway is set to open on St Francis Street, and a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help equip and run the premises.