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Salthill Airshow
A Red Arrows Hawk aircraft pulls up from a dive during at the Salthill Airshow. Sunday 6 July 2003. Photo: Joe Desbonnet.
The Vixen Break at the end of the Red Arrows display. In the background is LE Ciara (Irish Naval Service) and the Clare mountains in the distance. Photo: Joe Desbonnet
Around Galway
A labrador watches the sunset at Salthill, Sunday 6 April 2003. Photo: Joe Desbonnet
Claddagh at night. Photo: Joe Desbonnet
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Once Is Too Much Exhibition at Galway Arts CentreOnce Is Too Much Exhibition at Galway Arts CentreAn exhibition of works focusing on the issues underlying violence against women opens to the public at Galway Arts Centre on Saturday 8 November. ONCE IS TOO MUCH is presented by the Galway Arts Centre, Community Response to Domestic Violence Network and Galway County Council in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art and St. Michael's Resource Centre, Inchicore, Dublin. ONCE IS TOO MUCH comprises ten works all inspired by issues of violence against women. They range from a large sculptural centrepiece to video installations and wall hangings. Since 1990 the Family Resource Centre has been working with Women's Aid on a community development model to address issues of violence against women. For much of this time they have also been engaged, with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, in an exploration of the use of culture and the arts as awareness raising mechanisms. In 1995 the group worked for two weeks with the Canadian artist Rochelle Rubenstein Kaplan, who shares their interest in these issues, during her residency at the Museum as part of the Artists Work Programme. A large artwork comprising fabric prints and hand made books illustrating family violence was created under the generic title ONCE IS TOO MUCH. Following this a number of artworks developed with a number of artists - Rhona Henderson, Joe Lee and Ailbhe Murphy. A further piece was created with Kaplan on her second visit to the Artists Work Programme and collective awareness of the women involved in relation to the issues of violence. Helen O'Donoghue, Senior Curator: Education and Community Programmes at the Irish Museum of Modern Art sees the exhibition as 'throwing public light on the plight of too many in contemporary Irish society. The issue is raw, the reality is bleak, but the artworks can act as a metaphor for the lived experience'. ONCE IS TOO MUCH continues until Sunday 6th December. Admission is free. Related Links
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