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Skate Fest Five

Fifth Edition of one of Ireland’s premier skate festivals – Full listings for skate and social events are available on Galway Skateboard Association’s Instagram

UNBOUND — A Collective Art Exhibition

28th June – 19th July @ West End Art Collective

Where diverse artists from the West End Art Collective break boundaries in style, medium, and expression. Expect the unexpected — from bold abstracts to delicate realism — all under one roof

BLÁS

27th June – July 6th @ Oughterard Courthouse Gallery

Featuring the fantastic works by mother and daughter artists Pat Byrne and Niamh Daniels; BLÁS – flavour, or taste – is promising to be an exhibition full of colour and joy with paintings by Pat Byrne, and a combination of prints and textiles by Niamh Daniels. Both artists are based in Galway and draw their inspiration from the beauty around them in Galway and Connemara

Dissident

27th June – 5th July @ Engage Art Studios

By Soňa Šmédková & Conor Burke – DISSIDENT brings together two distinct yet harmoniously discordant practices that interrogate the forces shaping our inner and outer worlds.  Through bold geometry and conceptual abstraction, one artist examines the dialectics of structure, social, metaphysical, natural and the ways we rationalise them through human-made systems. Opposing yet entwined, the second artist explores identity, migration, and the residue of political upheaval, weaving digital and material elements into evocative multimedia forms. 

Love, Rage & Solidarity

Until 29th June @ Galway Arts Centre 

Love, Rage & Solidarity is a solo exhibition by Treasa O’Brien, featuring a selection of works spanning her practice as an artist and filmmaker that focus on cultures and communities of resistance. Using documentary and narrative forms, essay film, sci-fi, and DIY tactics, O’Brien investigates the potential of video and filmmaking as both an artist and an activist. The works explore (de)colonialism, social politics, climate change and migration, with an intersectional, queer, and feminist approach. Many of the works explore their own making as part of the work and challenge ideas of authorship and collaboration.

Admiration Hyperbolique + Touchstone

Until 22nd August @ Quadrangle Gallery

Two Exhibitions by Fionnuala Quinn. 

Hyperbole is common to love poetry when an admirer shows intense admiration for another. My ADMIRATION HYPERBOLIQUE is not for the museum itself, but for the luxury of time, space and specimens of geological material entrusted to me to make work in this place, without script or rule.

TOUCHSTONE is a series of responses to the search for solace in our cities. Our profound dependence on all of the materials of the earth may be forgotten when noisy human stories, of feuds and petty detail consistently play centre stage. Mineral pigment, water, paper and wood have been pushed and manipulated to form paintings about living in a restless zone. Respite from daily clock time, however brief, is sought so that the weight of the past can be shed as it tumbles down to join the traces of history retained in the bricks and mortar of the old city