Leading Irish Artists to talk at NUI, Galway

Leading Irish Artists to talk at NUI, Galway

NUI, Galway will continue to host its popular series of public talks by major Irish artists, Talking Through Their Arts, this Autumn. Andrew Folan, who takes the art of printmaking to exciting new levels, will give the first of the presentations at 8pm on Tuesday, 8 October. The series also features distinguished artists: Rita Duffy, Brian Maguire, Maud Cotter and award-winning architect, Paul Kelly. Each of the speakers works in a variety of media including screenprint, stained glass, public sculpture, painting, video and new technologies. These talks give voice to the individual creative experience and, in so doing, shed light on issues in contemporary Irish art. The artists will survey their own work using slides, discuss their art making process and share their thoughts on Irish art today. The talks take place on Tuesdays, at 8pm, in the Colm Ó hEocha theatre, (AM250), at the Arts Millennium building, NUI, Galway. Details on the wide range of Autumn/Winter arts activities are available from the NUI, Galway Arts Office webpage (listed below).

Andrew Folan

Andrew Folan belongs to an important generation of Irish artists. He studied printmaking at the NCAD, Dublin from 1976 - 1979 and print/photography at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 1981 and currently lectures on fine art print at NCAD, Dublin. Primarily known as a printmaker, Folan has gone through his own evolutions to find himself concurrent with the challenges and opportunities facing photography today. He continues to explore the sculptural possibilities of print through his unique combination of photography, sculpture and digital technology. There are a number of recurring images and themes in Folan's work: stairways, tunnels, movement, flight, music, breathing and the heartbeat. Working with photo-etching, photo-screenprinting and Photoshop software, Folan quite literally takes the art of printmaking to new levels as he stacks numerous prints to create one unique work.

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