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Open call for artists to apply for residencies for 2024

Open call for artists to apply for residencies for 2024

Áras Éanna is delighted to announce an open call for artists to apply for residencies for 2024. Áras Éanna is the most westerly arts centre in Europe, located on the small Gaeltacht island of Inis OÍrr in Co Galway. The centre supports artists through its Artist in Residence programme. We offer artists the time and...

March 31, 2023April 3, 2023
Accidental islander Pat has a magical music mix

Accidental islander Pat has a magical music mix

By Ciaran Tierney When a musical friend invited guitarist Pat Quinn to come to Inis Oirr to play a few tunes over a weekend in June 2001, little did the County Longford native imagine that the windswept island on the Wild Atlantic Way would become his permanent home. Pat had such good fun playing three...

August 20, 2022August 20, 2022
August 2019: Margot Quinn

August 2019: Margot Quinn

Official Opening Fri 2nd August. A representative of Margot’s work which is about the ordinary everyday and can be anything from a pile of washing up to some bizarre models or a newspaper headline. Margot is an Irish visual artist based in Co Leitrim. She completed a fine Art degree in London Guildhall university in...

July 2019: Macnas Associate Artists An Criú 2

July 2019: Macnas Associate Artists An Criú 2

An Criú 2 is an exhibition of theme-less, aim-less, point-less cross-disciplinary artwork; sculpture and painting, video and sound, big things and small things, inside and outside, síos ann agus suas an seo at Aras Éanna and around the island of Inis Oírr. The work is created by over 25 artists who usually work with Galway-based street performance and spectacle...

June 2019: Mick O’Dea  ‘Landscapes’

June 2019: Mick O’Dea ‘Landscapes’

Official opening by cartoonist Tom Mathews – Sat 8th June. Best known as a painter of portraits and historical subjects, O’Dea is the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited internationally.  He will exhibit selected works for the month of June before he returns to Áras Éanna as September’s Artist in Residence.

June 2019: Sarah Searson

June 2019: Sarah Searson

June resident Sarah Searson is director of The Dock, in Carrick-on-Shannon. She was inaugural Head of the Centre for Creative Arts and Media at GMIT.