Galway International Arts Festival 2024: 15 events to catch this year
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini: ‘We’re hard-wired to be suspicious of difference’
The Australian artist exhibits a wilderness of imagined creatures for the Galway International Arts Festival. The works challenge our empathy and revulsion
Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays
Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues
A matter of life and death: the startling lifelike sculptures of Sam Jinks
Artist Sam Jinks’s exhibition gets to grips with life (the universe and everything)
What does perfection look like and why does it make us miserable?
A new exhibition at Dublin’s Science Gallery delves into our fear of flaws
We’re all deeply weird and 'normal' can be a crushing concept
The visual art at this year's Galway International Arts Festival has lots of odd junctures, strange characters and weird journeys
Gemma Tipton’s 2015: ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and the power of images
Given more recent events, the shock of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in January seems distant, but visiting Paris that month I learned the enormous power of images
Skywhale takes off at Galway Arts Festival
Wind hampers cetacean’s show but event sees record footfall at visual arts exhibitions
Strange evolution: meet the weird relatives
It’s life but not as we know it: Australian artist Patricia Piccinini uses silicon, fibreglass and hair to make strange creatures that seem biologically plausible. But why?
Galway International Arts Festival opens for public
This year’s series brings theatre, music and an eye-catching hot air balloon to the city
Select: fall in love with some Galway grub
Galway International Arts Festival rolls into the City of the Tribes this weekend, and in among the visual arts, theatre and music there's some great food to be found
Galway International Arts Festival programme revealed
Biggest talking point likely to be Patricia Piccinini’s giant Sky Whale, which created quite a stir when it appeared in Melbourne in 2013
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