Connemara in oils

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

OIL PAINTINGS of the Cois Fharraige area in Connemara - from Bearna to Indreabhán - make up a new exhibition at NUI Galway.

The exhibition, entitled Siar, by Mayo’s Áine Uí Ghrádaigh and New Yorker Elaine Conneely, will be held in the university art gallery in the Quadrangle. The official opening is tomorrow at 7pm. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. Siar will also be on view on Saturday from 12 noon to 4pm. Admission is free. See www.aineart.ie and www.elaineconneely.com.

Aine Doherty exhibition

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

OUGHTERARD BASED artist Aine Doherty is currently exhibiting a mix of new and old paintings in the Renzo Café on Eyre Street.

Ceara Conway’s Making Visible

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

CEARA CONWAY’S Making Visible project, combining art, music, and politics, is coming to the 126 Gallery, Flood Street, this weekend.

New exhibition @ 126

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

An exhibition of new work by Siobhan McGibbon, Ciara Healy, and Karl Musson opens at the 126 Gallery on Flood Street this Saturday at 7pm.

New exhibition from Jennifer Cunningham

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM, one of Galway and Ireland’s leading young artists, will host her latest solo exhibition Collective Pleasures in the Galway Arts Centre.

A Midwinter’s Dream exhibition

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

A MIDWINTER’S Dream, an exhibition of paintings, crafts, and photographs by Yvonne King and Reingard Gahan continues in Clifden until January 4.

Exhibition of youth and children’s art

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

EIDETIC IMAGERY, an exhibition of art by Galway teens and children, is currently running at The Shed, Centre Pier, Galway City Harbour.

Exhibitions - from Berlin to Galway

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

IRISH ARTISTS living in Berlin, a host of major names in the Irish art world, and numerous emerging young talent are exhibiting across Galway city.

A feast of art exhibitions in December

Thu, Dec 05, 2013

EXHIBITIONS FEATURING works from established artists to students and an exhibition of notebooks by Will Self and John Rocha, open and are running in Galway this month.

Rita Oates exhibition

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

SINGING BY Itself 2013, an exhibition by Roscommon artist Rita Oates, is on show in the Providence Market Kitchen and Gallery, Saint Augustine Street.

Pictiúr - the Baboró 2013 exhibition

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

PICTIÚR - AN exhibition of contemporary Irish children’s book illustrations, as part of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, is running at the Galway Arts Centre.

Pictiúr is a group exhibition curated by Ireland’s current Laureate na nÓg, Niamh Sharkey, that brings together 42 artworks by 21 book illustrators.

Art exhibitions

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

A DIVERSE range of artistic approaches and methods will be on display in four exhibitions which have just opened around the city.

Art exhibitions

Thu, Oct 10, 2013

A DIVERSE range of artistic approaches and methods will be on display in four exhibitions which have just opened around the city.

Clay and ceramics exhibition

Thu, Sep 05, 2013

ARTISTS FROM Denmark, France, and Ireland who work in clay and ceramics, will exhibit in The Niland Gallery, Merchants Road, this month.

Death Drive exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 29, 2013

Death Drive is a group exhibition by four artists; Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Maximilian Le Cain, and Siobhán McGibbon.

The exhibition, curated by Maeve Mulrennan, takes place at the Galway Arts Centre from September 7 to October 5 with an opening reception on Friday September 6 at 6pm.

Galway artists on display in window exhibition

Thu, Aug 15, 2013

FOUR GALWAY artists, Cecilia Danell, Brid Egan, Alannah Barrett, and Arlene McPadden, are exhibiting in an unusual location - the windows of Brown Thomas.

A ‘macho’ exhibition

Thu, Aug 15, 2013

WHAT IS it to be macho? Hard livin’, hard drinkin’, wine, women and song rabble rousing? Beer and crisps street fighter? Muscle-bound body builder? Leather clad, biker, tough guy?

What then about the ‘subversion’ of traditional images of being ‘macho’ with the tough guy look of beards, moustaches, and leather jackets being a big part of gay male culture? Indeed, can you have machismo without homoeroticism?

Jerry Marjoram to exhibit in Kenny’s

Thu, Aug 08, 2013

MARJORAM, A collection of new and retrospective paintings by Jerry Marjoram opens in The Kenny Gallery, tomorrow at 6pm.

New exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Aug 01, 2013

TOMORROW AT 6pm sees the opening of two exhibitions in the Galway Arts Centre - Linda Shevlin’s Supernature and Vicky Smith’s Megga Bubble Space Burbs.

Supernature is inspired by Lyall Watson’s 1973 best-selling book Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural . Shevlin became interested in a series of 19th century botanical experiments Watson describes as being, “an exploration of the space between those things that we understand as normal occurrences and those that are completely paranormal and defy explanation.”

Fringe Festival art exhibitions

Thu, Jul 25, 2013

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival continues up to Sunday so there is still time to see any of its 16 art exhibitions throughout the city.

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