Goth-rock inspires Galway Arts Centre exhibition

Tue, Aug 14, 2018

IN 1983, the legendary British goth-rock band, The Sisters Of Mercy, released The Reptile House EP. It featured a song called Lights, which contained the line, "The night draws near and the daylight fades. Ignore the voices, discard the day. For the brand new darkness, for the bright new way."

Art, Yeah? second exhibition opens tomorrow

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ART, YEAH?, the youth art group based in Kinvara, will host the second annual ‘Art, Yeah?’ Youth Art Exhibition in the Kinvara Courthouse. The official opening takes place tomorrow at 7pm.

The Elements on display at Oughterard Courthouse

Thu, Aug 02, 2018

ELEMENTS, AN exhibition featuring work by Audrey Murray, Catherine Patrickson, Stephanie McLaughlin and Tamaru Hunt-Joshi, is currently running in the Oughterard Courthouse.

Museum to host exhibition on African-American champion fighter buried in Galway

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

AN EXHIBITION about a leading African-American bare-knuckle fighter of the 1800s, who later lived and died in Galway, officially opens at the Galway City Museum today at 5pm.

Colours Of Stillness exhibition

Thu, Jul 26, 2018

"EXCEPT FOR the point, the still point, there would be no dance and there is only the dance." This line, from TS Eliot's Four Quartets, is the inspiration behind a new exhibition in Kinvara.

Outflow - a GIAF18 exhibition

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

AN EXHIBITION exploring "the beauty, the fragility and the violence of being" on one hand, and intersections and conflicts between science and philosophy, make up the exhibition Outflow.

Tranquillity - new exhibition from Pat Flannery

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

TRANQUILITY, THE latest exhibition by Galway artist Pat Flannery, whose work focuses on the connection between emotions and the hidden stories within, will be officially opened tomorrow, in the Portershed, Eyre Square.

Engage Art Studios exhibition

Thu, Jul 19, 2018

CONVERSATIONS ON Making, an exhibition of work by members of the Engage Art Studios, opens this evening at 7pm in the studio space on the top floor of The Cathedral Building, Middle Street.

Claire Guinan's portraits of Irish musicians

Wed, Jul 18, 2018

THE CORONAS, PAUL BRADY, The Dubliners' John Sheahan, and Mick Flannery, are among the musicians portrayed in a new exhibition by the Irish artist Claire Guinan, which opens in Galway next week.

Macnas - In Sight on Inis Oírr

Thu, Jul 12, 2018

MACNAS IS best known, and hugely acclaimed, for its street parades, but there will be a chance to see a different side to its creative artists, in an exhibition on the Aran Islands.

The Art of Protest at the arts festival

Thu, Jul 05, 2018

FROM THE rallies which led to the repeal of the Eight Amendment in Ireland, to the Black Lives Matter movement in the US, to Palestinian demonstrations against Israeli occupation, our polarised world has seen an upsurge of protest.

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.

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