Documentation of Public Programme | TULCA 2025
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to share the public outcomes and online documentation of its 2025 programme, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo.
This instalment of the festival recap series brings together documentation from TULCA’s spoken public programme, including a curator-led gallery tour and a series of artist talks developed for the 2025 festival. The artist talks were delivered in partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts and took place across October and November at ATU Wellpark Road, alongside additional talks and tours hosted across festival venues.
Featured artists include Beulah Ezeugo, Seán O’Riordan, Tom O’Dea, and Jess Zamora-Turner.
Part Two: Artist Talks
Beulah Ezeugo
The opening talk of the series features Beulah Ezeugo, curator of Strange lands still bear common ground. Beulah discusses the curatorial framework behind this year’s exhibition, exploring how the selected artists respond to questions of belonging, shared histories, and the role of collective imagination in fractured times.
Seán O’Riordan
Seán O’Riordan discusses their recent work presented in Strange lands still bear common ground, reflecting on their process, research, and the ideas underpinning their installation for TULCA 2025.
Tom O’Dea
Artist Tom O’Dea presents a performance lecture combining readings, moving image, and reflection on his work developed for TULCA 2025. This hybrid talk expands on his interest in human relations with animals and artificial intelligence, and the role of power in these relationships.
Jess Zamora-Turner
Jess Zamora-Turner is a British-Chilean visual artist and grower based in Berlin. Jess's practice can best be described as patchworking—making materials and histories belong together in ways they weren't meant to. Their emotional and spiritual remaking, unfolds slowly, either through her own hands or by allowing the elements—rain, mud, sunlight—to colour and shape the materials. As the textiles, threads, leaves, flowers and seeds come together to form her sculptures they form alternative sacred landscapes that challenge our political and environmental realities.
Curator's Gallery Tour
Beulah Ezeugo
Join Beulah Ezeugo for a walk around the TULCA Gallery in Hynes Building to hear about the development of the TULCA 2025 programme and explore the works on display by Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil, Seán O’Riordan, Jess Zamora-Turner, Mair Hughes, Emily Joy, Durre Shahwar, and Caoimhín Gaffney.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland
Image: Installation view of Postomia, Pisagua Blanket, and Three Sisters by Jess Zamora-Turner. TULCA 2025. Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Video documentation: Jonathan Sammon