Galway Arts Center
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon - Sat, 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Guy Ben-Ner - Second Nature

HD video, color, sound

Guy Ben-Ner born in 1969 in Israel is a video artist whose work represented Israel in 2005 Venice Biennale. He participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007. He is currently having a mid-career survey exhibition at MassMOCA and will premiere a new work at Performa Biennial in New York in November 2009.

Photograph courtesy of the Artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York

Galway University Hospital, Newcastle Road and Fairgreen Building
10.00am - 5.30 pm, Mon - Sat, 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Elaine Byrne - ‘How do you just live?’

Neon on Board

In a short residency within the hospital, Elaine Byrne explored the places and the people who passed through the hospital: people who worked there, patients and visitors. In this work, she tries to express what she feels captures the experiences in common from this wide range of people in a place that is part of life but also has the character of being apart. Elaine Byrne studied sculpture at the Kensington and Chelsea Art College, London and the Frink School of Sculpture, Stoke-on-Trent. Elaine has exhibited in the U.K. and in Ireland, most recently in THEY HAVE EYES, Leinster Gallery, Dublin, Public Gestures in the Lab 2009, White Noise , Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, 2008. 2009.

Galway Arts Center
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon – Sat 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Cleary & Connolly - R V B

Digital Video
Images Denis Connolly and Anne Cleary
Sound Denis Connolly with Dinahbird

Living and working in Paris and working frequently in Dublin, Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly’s recent ensemble of work ‘HereThereNowThen’, first exhibited at LCGA in Limerick, Ireland, regrouped at the Pompidou Centre in winter 2008, for an exhibition entitled Pour quoi pas Toi ?. Their work has been exhibited worldwide including at the Yokohama Triennial in Japan, the Czech National Gallery in Prague, the Museum of Modern Art in Marseille. They are currently presenting their interactive works at Sesc Pompéia in Sao Paulo in the exhibition Sombras e Luz (Ombres et Lumières, Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Paris ). In 2008 their work was featured at the Forum of Cognitive Science at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. Cleary and Connolly were awarded the AIB prize 2009.

Galway City Museum
10.00am - 5.00pm, Tue – Sat

Andrew Dodds - Adrift

Sound and Amplifiers

Andrew Dodds has exhibited widely in major museum spaces, public galleries, artist-run spaces and sites beyond the gallery. He has received awards from, among others, the British Council, Arts Council England and University College London, which funded a research trip to the Galapagos Islands. Andrew Dodds is a Belfast-born artist currently based in London. Amongst his many commissions, his most recent includes ‘All things’ for the exhibition A Duck for Mr. Darwin , Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2009, and ‘Arcadia amongst the ruins’ for New Sites – New Fields , Leitrim Sculpture Centre.

Fairgreen Building
12.00pm - 6.00pm, Daily

Maryam Jaffri - American Theatre

Slides Projection and Audio

Maryam Jaffri , born in Pakistan, lives and works in Copenhagen and New York. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Helsinki, The Kitchen (US), Centre d’Arte Passerelle (FR) 1st Thessaloniki Biennial, Contour the 4th Biennial for the Moving Image (BE), The Renaissance Society (US) and Salzburger Kunstverein.

Galway Arts Centre
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon - Sat 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Clare Langan - Metamorphosis

16mm anamorphic film transferred to DVD
with 5.1 surround sound

Clare Langan has exhibited worldwide, including most recently representing Ireland at Sounds and Visions , Art Film and Video from Europe , Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv (February 2009). In 2008 ‘Metamorphosis’ was exhibited in the Singapore Biennial (2008), curated by Fumio Nanjo, won the Principle Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany and was exhibited at the Lyon Biennale; Houldsworth Gallery, London; Loop, Barcelona; NCA Gallery, Tokyo; Pratt Art Gallery New York and the Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona. She represented Ireland in the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002), Brazil with ‘Too dark for night’. ‘A Film trilogy’ was exhibited at The International 2002, Tate Liverpool, The Liverpool Biennial.

Galway Arts Centre
10.00am - 5.30pm, Mon - Sat 12.00pm - 5.30pm, Sun

Dennis McNulty - location/ translation

Mixed Media Installation

McNulty represented Ireland at the São Paulo Bienal in 2004 and returned in 2008 with the collaborative multidisciplinary project ‘Weightless Days’. He was awarded a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2005. Recent shows include, The sound I’m looking for , Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2008), Landscape 08, The Dock, Carrick On Shannon (2008). Solo shows include dx/dt at VOID, Derry (2006) and most recently framework /rupture at Green On Red, Dublin (2008), which was accompanied by the seminar AFTERTHOUGHTS. Curatorial projects include Underground, Dublin (2008) and Volume at Temple Bar Galley & Studios (2009).

Galway City Museum
10.00am - 5.00pm, Tue – Sat

Paul Nugent - Orphanage II

Oil On Canvas

Paul Nugent has exhibited internationally and nationally, with recent solo exhibitions including REMEMBRANCE Part I and Part II, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2009), REMEMBRANCE, Kerava Art Museum, Finland (2009), VIGIL, Temple Bar gallery and Studios, Dublin (2007), He exhibited in TERROR & SUBLIME, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2009), EXPLORING A NEW DONATION, IMMA, Dublin. In 2008, his work was included in REPRESENTING ART IN IRELAND, Fenton Gallery, Cork, IN THE MIND’S EYE, a national touring exhibition, THERE NOT THERE, Crawford Gallery, Cork curated by Dawn Williams. Paul Nugent is a Dublin-based artist.

St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church
Family Workshop 3.00pm Sat 7th Nov
Public Workshop, 4pm - 6.30pm Fri 20th Nov

Kitty Rogers - Relic…Artifact

Multimedia Installation

While spending time in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Kitty Rogers, as the Artist in Residence will explore the roles of the ornamental and decorative in establishing the dominion of a spiritual space. Through the processes of drawing and research she will make a series of work reflecting upon the formation of spatial identity. Rogers had her first solo show last year entitled Encode , Adorn in conjunction with Meath County Council Arts Office. She showed in White Noise , in Studio 6, Temple Bar, 2008. She conducts workshops with diverse groups in the Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane. Her studies include postgraduate degrees from NCAD, IADT as well as primary degrees from UCD.

Fairgreen Building
12.00pm - 6.00pm, Daily

Ann-Sofi Sidén - In Passing

4 screen video

Ann-Sofi Sidén is one of Sweden’s most prominent contemporary artists. She often sets out from extreme situations, depicting them in an undramatic way. Ann-Sofi Sidén has participated in major international group exhibitions, including Manifesta 2 and Carnegie International , biennales in Sao Paolo, Venice and Berlin. Sidén has held solo shows in Seccession in Vienna, Museé D’Art Modern in Paris and the Hayward Gallery in London. Ann-Sofi Sidén was educated at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, where she is now Professor of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Stockholm and Berlin.

126, Artist-run gallery, Queen Street
1.00pm - 6.00pm, Thurs – Sat

Ken Fandell - Between Me & Galway Bay

Mixed Media Installation

126 is pleased to present new work by Ken Fandell. This is his first solo project in Ireland and in Europe. ‘Between Me and Galway Bay’ is an investigation of contemporary mythologising, commodifying and romanticising of Ireland, done from 3,500 miles. Ken Fandell has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Defining Moments in Photography , 1967-2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; In Words : The Art of Language at The University of Delaware; Antenae at the Houston Center for Photography. His work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.