The 2024 programme of events will be launched soon! Watch this space!
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Open call for Galway County artists to apply for May residency at Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr
Áras Éanna and Galway County Arts Office are delighted to announce an open call for Galway County artists to apply for a residency in May. 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...
Invitation to Tender for an Independent External Evaluation
Áras Éanna is seeking tenders from suitably qualified individuals or organisations to carry out an independent external evaluation on the pilot programme: AIR on the Edge – Artist International Residency Programme. More info here: https://aras-eanna.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/External-Evaluator-Call-out.docx
A dance of discovery for Julie and Zina
By Ciaran Tierney For two dancers who had only ever worked together as part of a larger group in a studio in urban Germany, the prospect of spending a week on a remote Gaeltacht island in the West of Ireland was a completely different challenge. Julie McGovern (Mayo) and...
AIR on the Edge
Open Call: AIR on the Edge is a one-month international artist residency exchange between Denmark, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands and Serbia. It focuses on artists’ professional development, creating opportunities to engage with rural communities and connect with host organisations, communities, nature, heritage and cultural landscapes of a variety of rural places and cities. Creative professionals...
Old Aran in Colour
After the success of this exhibition last summer we are delighted to show this wonderful colourised photographic exhibition of old photos of the Aran islands at the Áras Éanna courtyard. Based on the book ‘Old Ireland in Colour’ by Galway University academics John Buckley and Sarah-Anne Buckley. June to September 2023
Preserving the Plassey
Philip Jacobsen spent some of his childhood living on Inis Oírr and has been a frequent visitor to the island since. Inis Oírr is one of the great loves of his life. Philip has a deep respect for the island, it’s people and it’s unique landscape. The Plassey has been an important part of the...
Buoys
After the great success of Áras Éanna’s ‘Curracha’ exhibition which saw 21 artists decorate 21 currachs displayed throughout the island during the Covid restrictions of the summer of 2021, Áras Éanna have plans to hold an outdoor exhibition on Inis Oírr on a bi-annual basis. The fishermen of Inis Oírr did a coastal clean up...
Clocha
July and August 2023 ‘Cloch/Stone’ -an photographic exhibition by Cormac Coyne and Jacqui Reed and Mr. Hwan Jin Jo If stone could talk?.. because stone has left hints of a past that stirs our imagination. Since the dawn of civilisation stone has left clues to our ancestors through carvings, structures, walls and buildings. From burial...
‘Dabhach Bhríde – by boat to Inis Oírr – Pilgrim Exhibition
This exhibition by Frances Bermingham and Mary Fahy will be held in the gallery at Áras Éanna from 3 to 23 June 2023 There is a pilgrim connection by land and sea to St. Brigid’s well/ Dabhach Bhríde at Liscannor, Co Clare by the people of Oileáin Árann (Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin) who traditionally...