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NEARLY 80 GMIT art students will showcase their work at the annual GMIT Graduate Art Show beginning this Saturday, June 9, in Cluain Mhuire campus.

As part of Roscommon Arts Centre’s successful Visual Art Tours & Workshops programme, Boyle-based artist and curator Linda Shevlin will host a series of gallery tours and workshops to coincide with exhibitions in the gallery throughout spring. These free tours and workshops are open to all visual art interest groups, school groups, active retirement groups, groups of friends, and just about anyone else young or old interested in learning more about the work on show in the gallery. The free informal tours of the exhibitions aim to create opportunities for people to learn and engage with the work in an informal, relaxed, and fun setting. Tours of the exhibition are followed by a free workshop, where you have a chance to get creative and form your very own artwork, using some of the methods and inspirations similar to those used by the artist in the exhibition. Experiment, engage, and explore using easily accessible materials to develop your own individual/group artwork.

Art has always been an abiding passion for Megs Morley, from drawing pictures of Jim Morrison for schoolfriends in her teens, to later hosting her own exhibitions and working with arts groups such as Enso, to more recently commissioning public art for Galway.

This exhibition of photography and video works addresses the possibilities of the image from a phenomenological position. It examines the state of the image in its relation to actuality, taking references from diverse subjects as Mikhail Bakhtin, Jacques Rancière, and Laurel and Hardy films. Usually we engage with images through a system of representation; of signs, signifiers, appropriations, referents and stand-ins. This exhibition looks to place the image in the actual, operating in the immediate. It is the image as process in operation that we are confronted with here. Using elements of humour, empathy, mimicry, and aesthetics the works on show encourage us to move on from our usual abstracted way of looking at an image, bringing it to a point where it becomes a part of our lived experience. This exhibition turns on its head our usual way of engaging with the image.

This exhibition of photography and video works addresses the possibilities of the image from a phenomenological position. It examines the state of the image in its relation to actuality, taking references from such diverse subjects as Mikhail Bakhtin, Jacques Rancière and Laurel and Hardy films.

CO GALWAY’S coastline and coastal sites are the inspiration and starting point for the programme for this year’s TULCA festival of visual art.

TULCA, GALWAY city’s festival celebrating the visual arts returns in November and to whet appetites, the programme of events for this year’s festival will be launched tonight.