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28/10/2026

We're currently installing Cygnus Cygnus, an exhibition of new work by 🦢 Lara Quinn 🦢 Will we see you this Friday for the opening, out on Saturday for the artist conversation with Áine Phillips ?

Dates: 31st October - November 21st

Opening reception: October 30th 6pm

Opening hours: Thursday - Saturday 12-5pm , or by appointment

Artist talk: October 31st 3pm, in conversation with Áine Phillips

Cygnus Cygnus presents a new body of work by visual artist Lara Quinn. Drawing on traditions of figurative painting alongside an increasing engagement with abstraction, Quinn combines carefully observed representations of form with the playful imaginings of formative image-making. Returning to the first impulse to draw or paint, Quinn reimagines the personal beginnings of visual expression in childhood alongside the historical beginnings of self-portraiture in art. Through her own self-portrait, Quinn considers what it means to inherit and continue a history of image-making, negotiating the relationship between memory, lived experience and imagination.

Quinn is a Cork-based artist and studio-holder at Sample Studios. Having studied History of Art at University College Cork, she holds a First-Class Honours BA in Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design (2024). Recent awards include the Uillinn Residency Award (2026), Cork City Council Artist Bursary (2026), Arts Council Agility Award (2025) and a Cork City Council Purchase Prize (2024). Past solo shows include ‘Lady Lazarus’ at the Lavit Gallery, with upcoming exhibitions at Studio 12 Gallery and the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork (2027).

Lara Quinn

This exhibition emerges from Engage's ongoing partnership with Sample Studios in Cork City. We wanted to create exhibition opportunities for members outside of their own counties, allowing them to expand their artistic and professional networks. Lara will present this exhibition here in Galway, while an Engage artist will exhibit in the Lord Mayor's Pavillion in Cork this December.

Poster design by Sara K Dunn 🍄

09/09/2026

💥News Flash💥Engage Art Studios is pleased to announce our new orbital studio member ✨ Robin Quinn ✨We are delighted to welcome Robin to our studio community and we look forward to working with them in the future. Céad Míle Fàilte Robin!

Robin Quinn is an Irish artist working with various mediums, including sculpture, film and photography. Their work centres themes of identity and q***r experience through these creative disciplines.

Currently, their work focuses on the fluidity of identity and attempts to investigate the confusion and inner exploration that often accompanies it. Robin uses their own image and body within their art, in effort of communicating their personal understanding of
q***rness, and trying to create through a lens of vulnerability.

As a trans artist, Robin is heavily influenced by their understanding of varying identities and their surrounding community. Their work reveals moments of openness and reflection, in hopes of creating an atmosphere which captures the viewers curiosity. The unpredictable nature of the q***r experience and Robin’s personal struggle with how they are perceived in society, both play into how their art manifests. By focusing on finding clarity in their identity, while simultaneously trying to conceal and suffocate it, Robin’s work strives to express a feeling of not knowing oneself but wanting to.

Robin Quinn

08/09/2026

💥News Flash💥Engage Art Studios is pleased to announce our new orbital studio member ✨ Grace McCaffrey ✨We are delighted to welcome Grace to our studio community and we look forward to working with her in the future. Céad Míle Fàilte Grace!

Grace McCaffrey is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in the west of Ireland. Her practice explores the interplay between the body, history and belief systems in Ireland through painting, installation and community engagement. Grace completed a BA (hons) in English literature and French from the University of Galway and has lived between Lisbon and Montreal in recent years. She has worked as a freelance artist and as part of the Montreal Art Center and museum, where she coordinated cultural events. In 2025 Grace completed an internship with 126 Gallery Studios. Grace has exhibited both in Ireland and internationally and holds an MA in studio practice from the Burren College of Art. In 2026 Grace will form part of the Irish team of mediators at the Venice Biennale.
My practice is driven by questions of transformation, resistance and healing in response to unresolved and traumatic histories. My most recent body work reflects on the legacy of Ireland’s mother and baby homes and the abuses which occurred there, through watercolour painting, collage, video installation, and communal making. My practice imagines how creating spaces for reflection, integration and bearing witness through art can be reparative acts with the potential to disrupt ongoing cycles of injustice. Through an intuitive process that foregrounds fluidity, I explore how fragmentation, hybridity and folklore can be reframed as resistance towards gender-based and authoritarian violence.

Grace McCaffrey

11/08/2026

ARTIST TALK!

Join us this Saturday 15th at 2pm at Churchfields to hear artist Sara K Dunn discuss the themes and forms in her exhibition Mycelium Sanctuary.

The exhibition is also open each day, except today, between 12 and 6pm until Sunday 16th.

With thanks to Galway City Arts Office and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

02/08/2026

We explored themes of memory, time and place, home and engaged with the urban and coastal landscape of Galway City where we live and walk through on a daily basis in response to As It Darkens a solo exhibition by James Wellwood, as part of Galway International Arts Festival ‘26. Working with water mixable oil paint, painting techniques and sculptural processes to make our own plaster cast snails we painted with watercolour paint, familiar locations are reimagined through paint and new perspectives considering how place is encountered as we walk through our cities. Paint, Sketch & Walk Teen Summer Art Camp ‘26. Well done !
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Artist James Wellwood
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Exhibition text by
Workshops and exhibition facilitated by Vicky Smith and Tadhg Ó Cuirrín
📍Teen Summer Camp, Engage Art Studios, Churchfields , Lower Salthill, Galway, H91 YCW9
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25/07/2026

Time flies!
Today is the final day of As it Darkens by James Wellwood as part of Galway International Arts Festival and we're open until 4pm. Thanks so much to everyone who has passed through our doors over the past fortnight. It's been busy but lots of fun 😊

22/07/2026

We're back!
As it Darkens by James Wellwood as part of Galway International Arts Festival is open again, Wednesday to Saturday, 11-4, or by appointment.
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22/07/2026

Paint, Sketch & Walk Teen Sumner Art school great sketchbook drawings, fine art drawings and compositional studies for their oil paintings made in response to our current exhibition. More to follow!
As It Darkens, a solo exhibition by James Wellwood continues as part of Galway International Arts Festival ‘26 curated by Mark O’Gorman, inaugural curator and producer of visual art at The Complex, Dublin. Open today 11am-4pm. All welcome.

13/07/2026

Join us for an artist talk with James Wellwood and Laura Fitzgerald who has written a short story, The Pale Deer, to accompany the exhibition.

When: Thursday 16 July
Time : 2pm

Exploring themes of memory, transience, and place, the exhibition draws on Wellwood’s ongoing engagement with the rural landscape of the Kilkenny dairy farm where he grew up. Working across painting and sculptural processes, familiar locations are reimagined through the shifting perspectives of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, considering how place is encountered both physically and psychologically.

This event is an opportunity to engage with James Wellwood’s paintings and sculptural works together with Laura Fitzgerald’s stunning short story.

No booking required.
Complimentary refreshments provided
All Welcome !
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Laura Fitzgerald is an artist who creates woven narratives of personal and political reflection in video, drawing, and text, often referencing the artist’s own rural background and general anxieties of international artistic professionalism.
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Artist James Wellwood
Curated by
Exhibition text by
Facilitated by Vicky Smith and Tadhg Ó Cuirrín
Image: The Night the Sky Glowed Green, Oil on canvas , 30x40cm, 2026
📍Engage Art Stufios, Churchfields , Lower Salthill, Galway . H91 YCW9
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13/07/2026

Congratulations James Wellwood on a wonderful exhibition. We all had a lovely afternoon and it was wonderful to kick start the visual arts programme GIAF’26. Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday to celebrate this beautiful painting and sculpture show. come and visit us!
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We are open
Wednesday - Saturday 11am-4pm for the duration of Galway International Arts Festival
15th -26th July , 11am–4pm
Closed Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
📍VENUE
Engage Art Studios, Churchfields, Lower Salthill, Galway, H91 CYW9
All welcome .
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Tuesday	11am - 4pm
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Thursday	11am - 4pm
Friday	11am - 4pm
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