For inclusion, email info @flirtfm.ie, times correct at publishing, but do check before you head out.

OXO 2024

Until January 26th @ Outset Gallery

This year’s OXO exhibition will feature over 150 artworks from more than 140 artists, all selected from an open call. With such a large and varied collection of original artworks, OXO 2024 promises to be an exciting and highly anticipated event, drawing significant attention in the lead-up to Christmas and offering an excellent opportunity for collectors to acquire a unique piece from emerging and established artists based in Ireland.

DUST TO DUST

Until 26th December @ 126 Gallery

Dust to Dust is an exhibition featuring works by Saoirse McGarry, Mary Fahy, and the collaborative practice of Cormac Adams and Sean Connolly. Exploring shared themes of memory, mythology, and humanity’s evolving relationship with the natural world. Through different mediums, the works engage with the idea of landscapes as spaces where personal and collective histories intersect. They delve into the traces left behind through rituals, narratives, and physical presence, examining how these marks shape our understanding of identity, grief and renewal.

Lucky Once  – a solo exhibition by Colm Keady-Tabbal

14th December – 18th January @ Galway Arts Centre

Lucky Once takes its structure from the artist’s forthcoming publication Applied, Misapplied*, a book containing instructions for the production of a future play based on the life and work of Harold Burris-Meyer. The instructions proposed suggest an outline for the play as a loose adaptation of Goethe’s Faust. The text presents extensive character notes and location descriptions along with the philosophical, and historical background deemed necessary for a potential theatrical adaptation of the material. Like Faust, Applied, Misapplied* contains a series of “play within a play” scenarios. The exhibition comprises two of three films in a trilogy set in New Jersey, Derry, and Beirut, and a series of sonic and architectural interventions across two floors of Galway Art Centre.

A Collection of Disarticulating Bones

Until 31st December Ground Floor @ Galway Museum

A Collection of Disarticulated Bones is a new body of work that traverses centres of knowledge in the US, UK and Europe in order to unpick different foundation myths of the Global North: institutional, pop cultural and embodied. This long-term research project examines how decisions relating to preservation and presentation of histories can shape national and individual identities, in the context of imperialism, late capitalism, rising ethnonationalism and polarized public debate on both sides of the Atlantic.