Documentation of Public Programme | TULCA 2025
Part Three of the TULCA 2025 recap series documents Gam Thàladh, a live choral work by Susannah Bolton presented at the O’Donoghue Centre, University of Galway, on 13 November 2025. The performance formed part of TULCA’s 2025 programme, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo, and was delivered in partnership with the Arts in Action programme at the University of Galway. The recording is now available to view online.
Part Three: Performance
Susannah Bolton | Gam Thàladh
Gam Thàladh began as a series of texts moving between Scottish Gaelic and English, written in North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Arranged into its current form by Ellen MacDonald, the composition reflects on support structures, collective voice, and forms of relation shaped through place and language. The work was performed by Ellen MacDonald, Ceitlin Lilidh, and Eilidh Cormack.
Susannah Bolton is an artist based in North Uist, Scotland, working across textiles, drawing, and writing. Their practice engages questions of support, language, and layered experience, and they are currently exploring time as vibration through forms such as slacklining, knots, and archival bundles. Recent projects include a research residency with ATLAS Arts and Tobar an Dualchais, participation in the Des Borda II research residency in Quehui, Chile, and exhibiting in Baggage Claim at Staffordshire Street, London (curated by Rosalind Wilson and Georgia Stephenson).
With thanks to the Arts in Action programme at the University of Galway and to Creative Scotland for supporting the development of Gam Thàladh.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland
Images: Video stills from Gam Thàladh, Susannah Bolton, O’Donoghue Centre, TULCA 2025. Photo: Jonathan Sammon
Video documentation: Jonathan Sammon