Documentation of Public Programme | TULCA 2025
The penultimate instalment of the TULCA 2025 recap series brings together the Artist Insights interviews recorded during the festival. Filmed at the TULCA Gallery in Hynes Building, the short interviews offer insight into the processes, ideas, and contexts shaping the work of participating artists.
Featuring Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil, Caoimhín Gaffney, Mair Hughes and Peter Tresnan, the series reflects on works presented as part of Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo.
Artist Insights
Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil
In Mirror States, a two-channel video installation, Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil brings Cuba and Ireland into mirrored reflection. Drawing on archival material and footage filmed between Havana and Dublin, the work traces overlooked political, historical, and symbolic connections between the two islands.
Caoimhín Gaffney
Caoimhín Gaffney reflects on All at Once Collapsing Together, a photographic series exploring the natural world as a site of healing and recovery. Text fragments shaped by climate anxiety interrupt these landscapes, threading queer perspectives through scenes of fragility, transformation, and environmental uncertainty.
Mair Hughes
Mair Hughes discusses A Field Guide to the Offa’s Dyke, an installation reflecting on Welsh borderland landscapes and experiences of dual Welsh-English identity. The work explores the psychogeography of the historic dyke while reimagining the borderlands as a space of ambiguity, memory, and creative potential.
Peter Tresnan
Peter Tresnan discusses The Longest Shadow Ever Cast, a diptych and video installation exploring queer interior worlds through landscape, memory, and gesture. The work forms part of a transatlantic dialogue between Galway and New York, linking two sites through mirrored installations.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland
Image credits:
Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil, installation view of two-channel video installation Mirror States (2025), TULCA Gallery. Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Video documentation:
Artist Insights interviews: Laura Griffin
Exhibition documentation: Jonathan Sammon