Patricia Piccinini

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

Mon Jul 15 2024 - 11:19

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

Sat Jul 13 2024 - 05:15

Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays

Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues

Tue Jul 23 2019 - 05:00

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)

Sat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00

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

Sat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00

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

Wed Jul 26 2017 - 05:00

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

Sat Dec 19 2015 - 05:00

Skywhale takes off at Galway Arts Festival

Wind hampers cetacean’s show but event sees record footfall at visual arts exhibitions

Mon Jul 20 2015 - 08:50

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?

Wed Jul 15 2015 - 06:00

Galway International Arts Festival opens for public

This year’s series brings theatre, music and an eye-catching hot air balloon to the city

Mon Jul 13 2015 - 01:00

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

Thu Jul 09 2015 - 13:00