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Kaleidoscope
Until August 25th @ Outset Gallery
Outset Gallery is delighted to present ‘’Kaleidoscope” a showcase of new mixed media paintings and installations from Galway based artist Peter Bradley. ‘’Inspired by the diversity of creative identity in his hometown, Bradley has combined traditional methods of painting, photography, collage, and flat sculpture with a modern formalist construction to harness light and shadow.”
What the Plants Know
An exhibition of paintings, sculptures and textile work that uses an interdisciplinary approach to begin unraveling the secrets held by the natural world that surrounds us.
Rooted in themes of our environment, artists Cecilia Danell and Katerina Gribkoff who are both based out in the wilderness of the West of Ireland, explore a myriad of different mediums as a method of drawing inspiration from the landscape, and offers viewers a glimpse into unique ways of seeing the natural world.
Quartet
QUARTET, an art exhibition in Kinvara, will feature tapestry, punch-needle work, created by self-taught textile artist and Galway-based teacher, Gabrielle Murphy alongside works by Liz Moran, drawing on her studies in Marine Science and from sea swimming; John Kennedy, studio painter and plein air artist and pastel works by Janet Buell. The Quartet uses eclectic and dynamic media: Paint, Pastels, Punch Needle textiles, Photography, Embroidery, Videos, Inks/dyes, and Collage.
Shadow Praise
Until July 21st @ Oughterard Courthouse
Presented by NOVA CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTIVE – Members of NOVA are Katie Burke, Deirdre Crowley, Aine Doherty, Roisin Doherty, Maria Donegan, Anne Greene, Emer MacDermott, Megan Mulcahy, Hugh Murphy, Caoilfhionn Ní Cheallaigh, Louise O’Boyle, Tonita O’Dwyer, Helen Roberts, Beatrice Stapleton and Heather Watson.
Beautiful Apocalypse
Until 24th August at Galway Arts Centre
Beautiful Apocalypse is a solo exhibition by artist Miriam de Búrca presented by Galway Arts Centre that combines a range of media to examine colonial and patriarchal legacies. Through drawing, wall paintings, collage and the ancient technique of verre églomisé, de Búrca toys with the vocabulary of colonial aesthetics, using strategies of mimicry and irony as political tools to critique the superiority of ‘high art’. In a new film installation Suspended Scream, de Búrca collaborates with French Syrian artist Taïm Haimet to respond to an old tape de Búrca shot in 2005 while in Palestine, to interrogate conflicting issues around inheritance, privilege and negation. By looking through the lens of Western art, de Búrca points to the role that art has played in the legitimisation of colonial projects – and the power it also has to dismantle and decolonise these structures.
ALL IS LAVENDER
Until 28th July at Engage Art Studios
Through the presentation of new sculptural work at Engage Gallery and Studios, O’Riordan weaves cultural and personal parallels between Queer Lexicon and the Irish Language, drawing from their individual histories of suppression and concealment, exclusion, and sanctuary. This exhibition attempts to disrupt the traditional understanding of value by merging the imagery and language of bureaucratic and ad hoc currencies, which extend beyond the economic to encompass social and cultural significance. Utilizing imagery, fonts, text, language, and slogans from various types of currency, O’Riordan employs these elements as tools for uncovering narratives and stories of place, aiming to present a decolonial queer reinterpretation of value
Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland
CCMI have spent much of the last year revamping this national treasure putting in place new thematic displays including a games zone with original Xbox consoles connected on a pre-broadband LAN (Local Area Network) to allow multiple players on one game. One of the new exhibitions is devoted to Apple Computer, highlighting different periods in the company’s history including the late 1970s to the mid 1980s with the themes of innovation, creativity, youth and counterculture.