Irish Language Tour

In this Irish-language tour, artist Ceara Conway approaches Patrick Hough’s UnWorlding through the Irish language as a critical framework and lens in its own right, exploring how it carries cultural, ecological and historical lineages that open alternative readings of the work. This tour invites audiences to experience the exhibition through the textures, histories and phonic resonances of the language itself.

All levels of Irish speakers welcome

About the Exhibition
UnWorlding explores wildness, the untamed, the feral and the unruly, not as chaos but as a force that resists control. Bringing together film, photography and sculptural installations incorporating readymade objects, the exhibition gathers figures and sites where this wildness persists: in landscapes shaped by colonial violence, in the unruly terrains of queer desire, and in forms of life that exceed the boundaries imposed by the human.

Ceara Conway is an independent Irish artist whose interdisciplinary practice places song and vocal expression at its centre. Working across vocal composition, visual media (photography/film), and traditional and contemporary song, her research-led, self-reflexive work draws on personal experience to explore how we are shaped by language, our relationship to the environment and to each other, and how these forces shape our ways of living, relating, and imagining the world.

Ceara has presented and performed work widely in Ireland and internationally, including the Museum of Fine Art (Florida), STABLE Gallery (Washington), the Katzen Arts Centre (Washington), the Barbican (UK), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum (UK), the Galway Arts Centre, and the National Gallery of Ireland. Recent Annie Award nominee for Best Music for Éiru ( Cartoon Saloon).
www.cearaconway.ie

This tour 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.

Feature image: courtesy Patrick Hough