UnWorlding: Film Screening Programme

Join us at Galway Arts Centre | Nuns Island Theatre for a special afternoon film screening celebrating the final weekend of UnWorlding, the solo exhibition by Irish artist Patrick Hough. Taking place from 3–5pm on Saturday 27 June, this event presents a curated selection of films by Hough, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Working across film, sculpture and installation, Hough’s practice explores the strange afterlives of objects, technologies and landscapes. His films move between documentary, fiction and speculative narrative, uncovering hidden histories and imagining alternative futures. Rich in atmosphere and visual invention, they invite audiences into worlds where the familiar becomes uncanny, and where stories of labour, memory, extraction and transformation come vividly into focus.

This screening offers a unique opportunity to experience a wider selection of Hough’s moving-image work alongside UnWorlding, his current exhibition at Galway Arts Centre. Seen together, the films expand on themes present in the exhibition, including ecological change, material histories and the shifting relationship between people and the environments they shape.

Following the screenings, audiences are invited to stay for a conversation with the artist, offering insight into Hough’s creative process, research methods and the ideas that inform his work.

Whether you have already visited UnWorlding or are encountering Hough’s practice for the first time, this is an ideal chance to engage more deeply with one of Ireland’s most distinctive contemporary artists.