Visual Art

Visual Art

Brian Bourke and Jay Murphy (Sun 11th-Fri 6th)
Erwin Wurm (Runs throughout the festival)
Graham Knuttel, "Retrospective" (Runs throughout the festival)
Jimmy Lawlor (Sun 11th July - Fri 6th Aug)
Nora Maycock and Wanda Yu-Ying Hu, "INSIDE/OUT" (Tue Jul 13 – Sat Aug 7)
Seán McSweeney (Fri July 16 – Thurs August 5)
Sharon O’Malley, "Threads" - An Exhibition of New Work (Runs throughout the festival)
Sinead Aldridge and Cian Donnelly (Sun July 11th - Fri Aug 6th)
Tom Matthews, "A Gander Through The Old CV" (Runs daily throughout Festival)

Brian Bourke and Jay Murphy

Brian Bourke: Portraits from Dominick Street
Jay Murphy: Welcome to Galway Mr.Grosz

One of Ireland?s best-known artists Brian Bourke exhibits a series of drawings and mixed media portraits made during an intensive five-week residency in Galway Arts Centre. Bourke has exhibited in some of the most prestigious galleries throughout the world. A retrospective of his work was held during Galway Arts Festival in 1988.

The landscape, people and events of Galway have provided the inspiration for much of Jay Murphy?s work over the past 25 years. The 2003 Macnas Halloween Parade based on the Mexican Day of the Dead is incorporated into a pastiche of George Grosz's apocalyptic cityscapes.

This marks the first exhibition at Galway's newest gallery The Norman Villa Gallery, Salthill.

Venue: The Norman Villa Gallery, Salthill
Date: Sun 11th July - Fri 6th Aug
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Erwin Wurm

Austrian avant-garde sculptor Erwin Wurm makes his Irish debut at Galway Arts Festival. Wurm?s sculptural installations are created from the human body choreographed into absurd and witty relationships with objects of everyday life -vegetables, crockery, items of furniture. Each sculpture exists for barely a minute before gravity triumphs and everything collapses. The humorous quality of Wurm's work belies a serious investigation into the relationship between performance, sculpture and photography.

Wurm created a series of images in Galway in May this year. His photographs of these human sculptures are exhibited as light-boxes on the facades of various Galway buildings.

Wurm divides his time between New York and Austria where he is the Professor for Art & Communication at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Venue: Streets of Galway
Date: Runs throughout the Festival
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Graham Knuttel

"I do not explain my work, rather my work explains me" Graham Knuttel

Retrospective at the Bold Art Gallery is a colourful exhibition that reflects the artist?s life work in a variety of mediums including sculpture, tapestries and paintings

Venue: The Bold Art Gallery
Date: Runs daily throughout Festival
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Jimmy Lawlor

Jimmy Lawlor examines the Irish landscape through the prism of his surreal vision of rural Ireland, its people and folklore. His work is infused with irreverence for the hackneyed image of a rural idyll and reveals to us the honesty and simplicity of his environ-ment. Jimmy designed posters for Galway Arts Festival in 1994 and 1997.

Venue:McDonagh Building, New Docks
Date: Sun July 11th - Fri Aug 6th
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Nora Maycock and Wanda Yu-Ying Ho

INSIDE/OUT, a joint exhibition of work by Nora Maycock and Wanda Yu-Ying Hu.

Nora Maycock centres on general concepts of subjectivity, exploring a fluid and performative idea of identity. Wanda Yu-Ying Hu takes a more personal self-analytical approach, focusing on the differences between Eastern and Western culture. For this exhibition, Nora Maycock presents a new installation titled "Mappings of a Silent Theatre" and "Micro Macula" as well as new paintings, while Wanda Yu Ying Hu presents a new site specific installation related to the architecture of the body.

Venue: Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street
Date: Tue Jul 13 - Sat Aug 7
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Sean McSweeney

Seán McSweeney is one of Ireland's leading artists whose bog pools and Sligo landscapes are iconic in Irish painting. Vibrant primaries mingle with dense blacks to suggest an almost primal depth. This exhibition of new work marks McSweeney?s first exhibition here since the 1997 Galway Arts Festival. McSweeney?s rich, expressive and worked surfaces will grace Kennys from July 16th until August 5th

Venue:Kenny's Gallery
Date:Fri July 16 - Thurs August 5
Time:-
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Sharon O'Malley

"Threads" - An Exhibition of New Work

Sharon O'Malley's latest body of work threads together connections between Classical Greek, Celtic, pagan and religious imagery. The painter's unique modern realisation and personal interpretation of these rich themes continues to garner acclaim.

Having exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including the Florence Biennale 2000-2004 and Dublin's Hallward Gallery, this is Sharon's first solo exhibition in Galway for some years. The artist's work was also featured as the Galway Arts Festival poster for 2000 and 2001. venue/ionad 47 Dominick Street dates/dátaí Runs daily throughout the Festival

Venue:Galway Arts Centre
Date:Runs daily throughout the Festival
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Sinead Aldridge and Cian O'Donnell

This show brings together the work of two Irish abstract painters. Sinead Aldridge is based in Sligo and her highly acclaimed work has been exhibited internationally. Her work is based around a language of touch and a sensitive, but expressive handling of colour.

Cian Donnelly graduated with an MA in European Fine Art from Winchester School of Art in 2001. He has since then exhibited his form of Slice Painting inter-nationally. He is based in Belfast and is Co-Director of Catalyst Arts. This is the first time Aldridge and Donnelly have shown together.

Venue:NUI Galway
Date:Sun July 11th - Fri Aug 6th
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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Tom Mathews

"A Gander Through The Old CV"

Tom Matthews work appears weekly in The Irish Times and Sunday Independent as well as Hot Press and sundry other publications. His paintings have featured in The Living Art and RHA and his cartoons are in many private and public national and international collections. This Festival exhibition is drawn largely from recent work for Hot Press and The Irish Times.

Venue:Mulligan Record Shop
Date:Runs daily throughout Festival
Time: -
Price: Free

For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com

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