Event Details
Dates
14/07/2025 – 27/07/2025
Time
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 17:00
Late opening every Thursday 10:00 - 21:00
Sunday 12:00 - 17:00
Location
Galway Arts Centre | 47 Dominick Street
Ages
All
Event Type
Exhibition,
Additional Info
Artists Talk Monday 14 July at 2pm (free)
Family friendly tour Thursday 17 July at 6pm (free)
Curators Tour Thursday 17 July at 7:30pm (free)
Games and rehearsals workshop led by artist Leann Herlihy Thursday 24 July at 7:00pm (free)
Galway Arts Centre presents pass the baton, a collaborative exhibition by artists Laura O’Connor and Léann Herlihy that draws on personal histories of competitive sport and performance to interrogate ideas of identity, nationalism and bodily resilience. O’Connor explores the tension between patriotism and nationalism, influenced by her childhood experiences in a marching band, using durational performance and fragile porcelain structures.
Herlihy’s work centres on collective resistance and queer-led self-defense, rejecting traditional notions of bodily resilience in favour of justice, solidarity and collective care. Together, the artists challenge dominant narratives of strength, highlighting the tensions between endurance and resistance through embodied research, sculpture, installation and performance.
Left: Hands Of Piece, Laura O’connor
Right: With Everything, We’ve Got, Léann Herlihy
Laura O’Connor is a visual artist and lecturer based in Belfast. Her work explores gendered representations in the media and within cultural narratives through the mediums of performance, sculpture, installation, video and digital media.
Léann Herlihy is an artist, researcher and lecturer based in Dublin. Informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theory, their practice makes use of alternative modes of expression through live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies.
