Opening is on Tuesday 23rd November at 6pm 

 

Galway Arts Centre is delighted to announce the opening of their upcoming pop-up exhibition, ‘Put a Lid on It’. The opening is on Tuesday 23rd November at 6pm and runs for four days only until Saturday 27th. Curated by Siobhán McGibbon and Zulaikha Engelbrecht, visual artists and current Visual Arts Assistants at Galway Arts Centre, the exhibition features the work of over fifty artists from around the country. 

 Each artist was asked to address the space within a jar and to create new work specifically for the exhibition. This was an opportunity for artists of any medium to work within the boundaries of a small space. This curatorial strategy produced exciting and unexpected work which showcases the diversity of contemporary art in Galway and Ireland today.

 

The exhibition presents a diverse group of artists, ranging from established practitioners to emerging artists and promising new talent.

Artists included, Timothy Acheson, Nina Amazing, Ceara Conway, David Callan,  Killian Dunne, Simon Fleming, Magnhild Opdol, Lisa Sweeney and Alwyn Renvill but to name a few.

 

What impressed me about the exhibition was the range of different responses to the theme. Reactions ranged from the whimsical to the nostalgic to the scientific to the political. For example, David Callan made a Molotov cocktail in a jar “ It is my intention that the placement of an incendiary device in a public exhibition space acts as a provocation during these times to bring into question our level of dissent and what is a morally acceptable response”.