Artist Talk: David Beattie

Join artist David Beattie, exhibiting artist in usual and generous ways for an insightful artist’s talk reflecting on his practice and the ideas shaping his work within the exhibition.

usual and generous ways is an exhibition of works from the National Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art curated by poet Padraig Regan, Galway Arts Centre’s inaugural Writer in Residence. It brings together works by artists from Ireland and elsewhere, across a range of media, in which stone is not simply a material shaped by the artist’s hand, but becomes subject matter, an object of inquiry, and an agent to think with and through.

David Beattie is an artist and lecturer at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. Recent projects have focused on the social and environmental impact of digital technologies, agroecology, psychoacoustics and the communal listening experience. He was awarded the Harpo Foundation Award in 2010 and was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, 2016. He has been commissioned to produce a number of temporary and permanent public artworks including BANG BANG POP, In Context 5, South Dublin County Council, Future Light From Distant Stars, Visual, Carlow, VOID Commissions, Derry (2021), Reflectors, Bray, Co. Wicklow and Patterns of Illumination, Griffith Barracks Multi-denominational School, Dublin.

Exhibitions include TULCA Art Festival, Galway (2025+2017), Visual, Carlow (2025+2022) CCA Derry-Londonderry (2017), Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (2011), The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh (2010), Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto (2010), The Glucksman (2019),  Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017+2013), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2010) and Quiet Revolution, Hayward Touring, UK (2009).

This talk takes place as part of our late night programme “Gallery Lates” supported by Galway City Council and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sports as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan.