The fifth Galway Cartoon Festival, which starts tomorrow, Friday October 1, has a “packed, dense and diverse programme”, with cartoonists from across the world sharing their illustrated views of the last 18 months.
With a growing expectation that we will be able to emerge from our Covid-cocoons over the coming weeks and months, the festival asked cartoonists to consider what our post-Covid social lives may look like. Will the world be scary and incomprehensible? Will we be overwhelmed when we have to talk to people? Or will we be more patient? Friendlier?
The results will be seen in the main festival exhibition, AT LARGE! in The Cornstore, Middle Street, throughout the festival, which runs until Saturday October 9.
.
Other events to look out for are French illustrator Fabrice Matray [a sample of whose work is above], hosting a talk on publishing an Illustrated book (Charlie Byrnes, October 3 at 11am ), before joining Galway's resident caricature artist Allan Cavanagh for a free public caricature session (Harbour Hotel October 3, 12.30pm ). Matray will also give an illustration workshop on Monday October 4 at 12 noon.
There will be a Spanish comics art exhibition from Instituto Cervantes; Augustus John Revisited: works inspired by British Artist Augustus John's 1915 mural of Galway; and a retrospective exhibition of cartoons from the late Brian O’Toole (1941-2001 ).
Cartoons in Irish, Tarrain E I nGaeilge’ (Draw it in Irish ) will be featured both in The Galway City Library and Aras Eanna Arts Centre on Inis Oirr.
Expect to see work by Dean Patterson, Tom Mathews, Margaret Nolan, Caoimhe Lavelle, Dara McGee, and Donal Casey. The public is invited to participate with the Draw on the Wall at various locations in the city.
For more information see GalwayCartoons.eu
