Art reviews: Performaphilia and Conflict

Art Reviews Tue, May 22, 2018

ONE SIDE-EFFECT of Galway not having a municipal gallery is that exhibitions pop up in various venues and two current shows worth seeing are in the NUI Galway staffroom, which is hosting Áine Phillips’ Performaphilia, and the Black Gate Cultural Centre, where the group show, Conflict, is on display.

Paul McGrane exhibition

Thu, May 17, 2018

STILL, LIFE, is the title of the current exhibition by Paul McGrane, which is runs at the Galway City Gallery, New Dock Street, until the end of this week.

Art exhibition says YES to Repeal

Thu, May 10, 2018

MORE THAN 30 artists from across Galway will show their support of a YES vote on May 25 through the Art for Change exhibition, which opens next week in the 126 artist-run gallery.

Recalling Galway's three-in-a-row All-Ireland victories

Thu, May 10, 2018

GALWAY GAA footballers have won the All-Ireland nine times, but surely its greatest achievement to date has been the magnificent three in a row All-Ireland victories in 1964 and 1965, against Kerry, and in 1966 against Meath.

'Getting off' at the Galway Arts Centre

Thu, May 10, 2018

HOW DO we maintain spaces for shared sensual/sexual pleasure, and care, when personal safety is at risk? This question is at the heart of a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.

Jim McKee and the Head Of The Sea

Thu, May 03, 2018

KINVARA, AND the south Galway/north Clare region, has inspired both the title and works of a new exhibition by the Tyrone born, locally based, artist Jim McKee.

Exhibition review: Mind Has Mountains

Art Reviews Wed, May 02, 2018

PRESENTED AS part of this year’s just-finished Cúirt International Festival of Literature, the fine group exhibition, Mind Has Mountains, is continuing at the Town Hall Theatre bar until the beginning of June and well merits a visit.

Danny Denton and Engage artists in conversation

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

DANNY DENTON, author of the acclaimed new novel, The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow, will join artists from Galway's Engage studios to discuss their collaborative exhibition, Fragmented Shore.

Make May the month to visit the National Museum Of Ireland

Wed, Apr 25, 2018

1. National Treasures - The Exhibition
The museum has just launched a new temporary exhibition, called National Treasures. The exhibition arises out of the hugely popular RTÉ television programme of the same name, which saw John Creedon and a team of curators travel around the country to assess a fascinating mix of social history objects from the last 100 years.

The changing face of Salthill through the decades

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

SALTHILL, FROM its days as a "wholesome if uninteresting place" to today, when it is a popular west of Ireland seaside resort, will be chronicled in a photographic exhibition in the Galway City Museum.

Thoroughbred horses inspire exhibition for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

THE BYERLEY Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Barb, were three 18th century stallions that were the founders of the modern thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock. They have also inspired a new exhibition.

Enni Liessem exhibition

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

ENNI LIESSEM, the German artist now based in Dunmore, north Galway, is currently displaying her latest works in an exhibition at the Renzó Gallery Café, Eyre Street.

Engage Art Studios - one street, two exhibitions

Thu, Apr 12, 2018

TWO EXHIBITIONS, both featuring work by artists who are part of Galway's Engage Art Studios, will be on show in two locations on Dominick Street - Just Art It and the Galway Arts Centre.

The Dark Shadows of The Famine

Thu, Apr 12, 2018

THE IRISH Famine, the greatest humanitarian disaster in Europe in the 19th century, leaving one million people dead, with another million fleeing the country, is examined in a new exhibition.

Daughter Of The Dagda

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

DAUGHTER OF The Dagda, a multimedia exhibition exploring the female and the feminine in Irish mythology and iconography, is currently running in the foyer of the Arts Millenium Building at NUI Galway.

Lasair - Third year GMIT students first major public exhibition

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

LASAIR, THE first public exhibition by third year students from the GMIT's BA in contemporary art programme, will be officially launched next week by the Galway international Arts Festival's artistic director, Paul Fahy.

An exhibition celebrating the ordinary

Thu, Mar 08, 2018

ROMANTICIZING THE Commonplace is the title of an exhibition of paintings which does just that - celebrate places and sights considered ordinary or which are taken for granted.

Images of Kinvara craftspeople at work

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

A SERIES of striking photographic portraits, featuring craftspeople from Kinvara, and its surrounding region, at work, is about to go on exhibition in the south Galway village.

Life on the Aran Islands in the sixties

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

WHEN THE late photographer Bill Doyle first visited the Aran Islands in 1964 and began to photograph the local people, he was capturing a way of life that has since vanished.

Talking SIN and sexiness with artist Margaret Nolan

Thu, Feb 08, 2018

EROTICA AND sexuality are the provocative and alluring themes of a bold new exhibition opening this Saturday, in both the Town Hall Theatre bar and the Black Gate Cultural Centre on St Francis Street.

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