Exhibition gets to heart of former medical building

Recollect an exhibition by artist Noelle Gallagher, currently running at the Art Corridor in University Hospital Galway, offers a glimpse into architecture and medical training in days gone by. It includes a series of paintings depicting Earlsfort Terrace, formerly home to UCD. This is a place close to many of the medical staff at University Hospital Galway, who studied in UCD.

The Earlsfort series evolved because of Noelle Gallagher’s personal connection with the place, having previously studied there. Triggered by a curiosity as to how the spaces had reinvented themselves since UCD moved to its current home at Belfield, she visited Earlsfort and captured the changes. The high ceilings of the former dissection room at Earlsfort, which were designed to limit exposure to formaldehyde and the smells of the mortuary, now provide interesting acoustics for musicians of the National Concert Hall who rehearse in the space.

Recollect also includes a series which Noelle produced in response to a residency in Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse.

An honours graduate in Fine Art from the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Galway, Noelle has exhibited in many group shows in Ireland including Tulca, Éigse, and the Claremorris Open. She was a finalist in the 2015 international biennial neo:artprize exhibition in Bolton, England, and was selected for The Open West Exhibition in Cheltenham. She has received an Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award from the Burren College of Art and 126 and an Individual Artists Bursary from Galway County Council in 2014 and 2016.

■ Recollect will be on show at UHG’s Art Corridor until July 4 and all are welcome to view it.