VisualJoe Sacco
Joe Sacco is possibly the only cartoonist in America held in equal regard by comic book fans and journalists. Sacco's brand of New Journalism - using the comics medium to tell his stories - has led to exhibitions throughout the world. Sacco was recently the focus of major exhibitions at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery and the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, the latter of which coincided with a cover feature in Speak magazine about the leading crop of New Journalists as we head into the 21st Century, citing Sacco as the leading light of the movement.
Venue: Aula Maxima 1 NUI Galway John Coll
This exhibition celebrates John Coll's 20th year exhibiting at the Kenny Gallery. Primarily a sculptor, Coll has also exhibited paintings and drawings extensively in Ireland and throughout the world where his work is held in many private and public collections. This exhibition features new sculpture created over the past two years.
Venue: Kenny Gallery Margot Quinn (In the Studio)
Margot Quinn has exhibited extensively both here and abroad and has been the recipient of many awards including Iontas Sculpture award in 2001. Her work is included in both private and public collections including O.P.W. Monaghan VEC and Longford Library. This is her first exhibition in Galway. Entitled In the studio it is a dialogue about the process of painting and the ongoing dilemma of how to contain the chaos that surrounds this. It will include several paintings of various sizes, everything from a squashed paint tube to a 6' easel, all the clutter being broken down into separate elements.
Venue: NUI Galway Gallery Michael Kane
A founder of the Project Arts Centre in Dublin and one of the earliest members of Aosdana, Michael Kane has exhibited extensively internationally since the 1960s. A skilled draughtsman, Kane's work is always challenging and uncompromisingly figurative, with brilliant use of bold colour. This collection of new and recent paintings is Kane's first exhibition in Galway since 1986.
Venue: Norman Villa Gallery Richard Billingham - Black Country
Richard Billingham's exhibition of photographs were all taken in the small industrial town of Cradley Heath in the Black Country, West Midlands where he was born and grew up. Photographed six years apart, by day in 1997 and by night in 2003, Billingham's aim was to prove that good photographs could be taken anywhere, using the most commonplace subject. These are remarkable photographs and confirm Billingham's extraordinary ability to produce ravishing images from the most ordinary material.
Venue: Aula Maxima 2 NUI Galway Rooms For Waiting In
An exhibition of conceptual work by Grace Weir, Corban Walker, Garret Phelan & Willie McKeown. This exhibition relates to the theme of waiting. While the event for which each person is waiting may change, it is the act of waiting that focuses the mind to consider the nature of time and how we form habits to structure our lives. Each artist has been allocated a room space in the Galway Arts Centre and asked to respond to this idea.
Venue: Galway Arts Centre |
