Event Details
Date
05/03/2026
Time
6:00 - 8:00pm
Duration
2 hours
Location
Galway Arts Centre | 47 Dominick Street
Ticketing
Free, no booking required
Event Type
Talk, Workshop,
Additional Info
Complimentary refreshments provided
Join Padraig Regan, poet and curator of usual and generous ways for an exhibition tour and poetry reading. Padraig will talk about the importance of geology in their own writing practice, as well as introducing the themes of the exhibition and reflecting on the process of bringing together artworks, research documents and rock samples.
The talk will be punctuated with poems, by Padraig and others, which reflect the ideas and thinking behind the exhibition.
Padraig Regan is a poet and essayist based in Belfast, with interests in the relationship between writing and the visual arts. Their debut collection of poems Some Integrity was published in 2022 by Carcanet and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Their second book, The Matter, is forthcoming in 2026, also from Carcanet. From 2022-2024, they were a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts and in 2025, they were a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester.
Image: Courtesy of curator
Presented as part of the ‘Gallery Lates’ programme, funded 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.
