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Fiona Concannon BA Hons, MFA, grew up in Spiddal, Co. Galway - an area renowned for it's outstanding natural beauty. Fiona left her much loved Spiddal to finesse her craft and studied Fine Art Painting at a variety of institutions, including the Limerick School of Art and Design, GMIT, Crawford College of Art and Design, The University of Ulster ad The National College of Art and Design.

FOR THE past year, August 2015 to Aug 2016, I have been painting on the Prom in Salthill, in all types of weather, at all times of day and at night. My motivation was to capture images of the Prom not often represented in the various media, but at the same time real and in the moment.

SYBIL FAWLTY may not have appreciated the eternal genius of Johannes Brahms, calling his Symphony No 3 "that racket". Thankfully Galway has a better appreciation of the man's music than Basil's "little nest of vipers".

SINCE RELEASING his Tribes EP in February, Daithí has pushed his music forward into new sonic, and indeed philosophic, territory, fully embracing his heritage and background, without ever compromising his music's energy and dancability.

The Custom House Studios located at the Quay in Westport will be embracing Culture Night which takes place around the country on Friday September 16. Over the course of the night, there will be eight different events taking place in the Custom House Studio where all strands of culture will be celebrated.

Hundreds of old, punctured, deflated, and unusable GAA footballs will form the centrepiece of a new art project aimed at raising awareness about the pollution currently affecting aqua and marine culture worldwide.

Lullaby, an exhibition featuring the works of renowned Irish artist, Patrick Graham, opened at Luan Gallery last weekend and will continue until Friday, October 28.

A new exhibition from photographer Amelia Stein will run in Ballycroy National Park Visitor Centre. Precipice explores the breathtaking coastline of Dún Chaocháin in the beautiful barony of Erris. 

If Eamon Bradshaw and his crew think their courageous plan to extend Galway harbour into deep water to accommodate cruise liners is a step into modernity that will bring commercial success to the city on a grand scale, it pales almost into insignificance compared to the stunning ambitions the Galway merchants schemed in the mid 19th century.

FRIDAY AUGUST 12 sees the opening of a dual exhibition at the 126 Gallery in Woodquay featuring the work of Shane Keisuke Berkery and Ruby Wallis. Entitled, With Each It Is Different and The Same, it sees Berkery and Wallis create a visual dialogue between painting and photography.