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IN 1991 Colin Murphy was asked to join an improvisation group at the Irish Student Drama Awards. A life on stage was not something he had really planned and on the day in question he was just filling in for a friend who had to withdraw due to illness.

Colin Murphy seems concerned. One of The Panel’s best known and loved comedians, he is reflecting on his on-screen partnership with Neil Delamere.

“I’M NOT a photographer really, I’m more of a painter,” Harriet Leander declares as she shows me round the photographs which comprise the greater portion of her new exhibition, Waste Beauty, at the Galway City Museum.

Brown Bull Walking by County Down based painter Tommy Barr at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life in Turlough Park, Castlebar, County Mayo, provides a visual treat for hungry museum visitors. The exhibition is now running in the extension area of Brambles Museum Café and runs for the summer period. This is the second edition of the exhibition and contains a number of the paintings which were so well received at Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange and Knowth) over the Spring Equinox.

DAVID HOCKNEY, one of the giants of modern British art and a key figure in the 1960s pop art movement, will be exhibiting at the Galway Arts Festival.

Have you ever wanted to have a gun in your house? Well now you can. Weapons, the exhibition, is opening on August 7 in MacDonagh Junction in the former ZAVVI unit (next door to TK Maxx).

THE GALWAY Arts Festival takes place from Monday July 13 to Sunday 26 and this year’s programme will be launched on Tuesday June 2. However if you can’t wait until then, here is a sneak preview of what to expect.

A GROUP of American and Irish artists have joined forces for a collaborative exhibition, entitled 003D, which opens in the Galway Arts Centre next week.

Dublin based artist Karina Drogowska will present Expressions of Nature in the Watergate Theatre, Upstairs Gallery from Friday January 22 to February 19.

William Evans (1798 – 1877) was an accomplished English painter who was the drawing master at Eton College. He exhibited widely including with the RHA and in Paris and, judging by the prices on his work, was held in high esteem. A number of his paintings were used as illustrations in books. During 1836 and 1837 he showed 14 Irish subjects at the Old Watercolour Society, all of counties Galway and Mayo. These consisted of a mixture of landscapes, street and quayside scenes, indigenous peasant structures, and peasant portraits. For an English artist, his choice of terrain was highly adventurous, and it could be said that his paintings brought a new area of inspiration to the attention of artists in the UK.