Art classes with the award winning Denise Hogan

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

Denise Hogan’s popular art classes for adults in oils, watercolours, and acrylics will begin again this September. Morning and evening classes will run in 10-week terms with a maximum of 10 students accepted per class, making pre booking essential. Due to popular demand, there will be a new morning class starting on Tuesday September 8.

An 'immersive' exhibition @ 126

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

A PERSON can be immersed in water, an idea, or a situation, be obsessed, overwhelmed, or have 'taken the plunge' into something new. Likewise with transformation, it can happen to the body, the mind, or be about a state leading to the ultimate transformation - transcendence.

Watch out for the Cúirt Poetry Walls

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATIONS of work by Irvine Welsh, Philip Larkin, Dermot Healy, and Nikola Madzirov can be seen on Hertridge's Butchers, Lombard Street; the sides of buildings on Bowling Green; and in Newtownsmith carpark.

Peter Hodgins exhibition @ Renzo Café

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

GALWAY based graphic artist and designer Peter Hodgins is exhibiting his latest works in the Renzo Café on Eyre Street. The exhibition opened this week and runs until Sunday September 6.

Metaphorica exhibition in Town Hall

Thu, Aug 06, 2015

TOM MATHEWS' delightful Alice In Galway exhibition is still running at the Town Hall bar but next week it makes way for an equally wonderful exhibition, featuring the work of Dagmar Drabent and Marina Wild.

Art exhibition at Athenry Mart

Thu, Aug 06, 2015

OF ALL the places to host an art exhibition, a cattle mart seems the least likely location, but sometimes art needs to step outside the galleries and meet new audiences in new places.

Galway’s artist exhibits at Dublin Horse Show

Thu, Aug 06, 2015

GALWAY ARTIST Rachel Dubber will exhibit a large collection of her oil paintings, pencil, charcoal, and mixed media drawings at this year's Dublin Horse Show in the RDS.

Jack B Yeats exhibition in Loughrea

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

AN EXHIBITION featuring works by one of Ireland's greatest painters Jack B Yeats, as well as works by the Yeats family and their friends, is currently on display in Loughrea.

Kathy Ross's mythologial exhibition

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

MYTH, FAIRYTALES, and folkloric characters who continue to capture the imagination, are the subject of a new exhibition by County Galway artist Kathy Ross, which is currently on show in The Secret Garden, William Street West.

Paintclub - a social way to learn painting

Thu, Jul 30, 2015

PAINTCLUB GALWAY, the art night that combines painting classes and cocktails, returns to An Púcán, Forster Street, on Thursday August 6, and is open to absolute beginners and seasoned painters.

Art exhibitions at the Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 23, 2015

THE ORGANISERS of the Galway Fringe Festival have done a terrific job in transforming the former snooker hall beside the Victoria Hotel on Queen Street, off Eyre Square, into a art gallery for this year’s festival.

Jim Kavanagh FundIt campaign for exhibition

Thu, Jul 23, 2015

GALWAY ARTIST Jim Kavanagh will hold an exhibition of his work, entitled As I See It, in September, with money raised from sales of the artwork going to COPE.

Review: Exhibit B @ GIAF 2015

Art Reviews Wed, Jul 15, 2015

WHEN BRETT Bailey’s theatre installation show Exhibit B was controversially pulled from its scheduled run at London’s Barbican it was because protesters had argued that Bailey’s critique of 19th century ‘human zoos’ and racism was in itself racist, through his use of black actors silently enduring the audience gaze in a series of tableaux vivants.

Sci-fi novels inspire environmentally themed exhibition

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

THE BEST science-fiction writers do not just write about fantastical worlds in far flung galaxies, their work, be it that of HG Wells, Philip K Dick, or Arthur C Clarke, reflects on the contemporary world, and looks deeply at how technology and society may develop in the future.

Glenn Gibson exhibiting at Town Hall

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

GALWAY SCULPTOR Glenn Gibson is the latest artist to grace the exhibition space of the Town Hall Theatre bar with a show which opens there this Friday, June 26, at 6pm.

Paintclub Galway returns to An Pucan

Thu, Jun 25, 2015

PAINTCLUB GALWAY, which is a fusion of painting classes and a social night, returns to An Pucan, Forster Street, on Thursday July 2.

Exhibit B - face to face with Europe's racist history

Wed, Jun 24, 2015

UNTIL THE outbreak of the WWI, there was a phenomenon known as The Human Zoo, where African tribespeople were put on public display as exhibits and curiosities - under the guise of “ethnological enlightenment” - for the titillation of European and American audiences.

TULCA - submissions still being accepted

Thu, Jun 18, 2015

THE MYTHOLOGICAL story of Hy-Brasil, which legend says lies off the west coast of Ireland, is the starting point for this year's TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Mary Cremin.

When products go bad

Tue, Jun 02, 2015

PRODUCT RECALL, an exhibition looking at ideas of displacement, and companies having to 'recall' products that could maim or kill consumers, is currently running in the Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street.

GMIT graduate degree show 2015

Thu, May 28, 2015

THE GMIT Graduate Degree Show 2015, featuring artworks in paint, print, textiles, sculpture, installations, and ceramics, opens to the public from this Saturday.

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