Event Details
Date
13/07/2026
Time
1pm
Location
Galway Arts Centre | 47 Dominick Street
Ticketing
Free
Event Type
Talk, Tour,
Join Belfast-based sculptor John Rainey for an artist talk and exhibition tour of Deviations, presented as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2026.
Working in cast porcelain, metal and marble, Rainey’s sculptures draw on classical statuary, mythology and processes of reconstruction to create forms that are at once familiar and strange. Through a tour of the exhibition, the artist will discuss the ideas, materials and methods that inform the works on display, offering insight into the development of the exhibition and his wider sculptural practice.
Free admission. All welcome.
John Rainey is a sculptor based in Belfast. He received an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art (London, 2012), and a BA in Contemporary Crafts from Manchester Metropolitan University (2009). Rainey’s work has had solo presentations at Marsden Woo Gallery (London, 2013), Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast 2016) Naughton Gallery (2021) and BERG Gallery (Stockholm, 2019, 2022). His sculptures are held in public collections including the UK Government Art Collection, the Irish National Collection, the Ulster Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection.
Feature Image: John Rainey
