Science, fashion and design up for discussion at TULCA

This year’s TULCA festival of visual arts is running in various venues around the city until November 29, with the main gallery at the former Connacht Tribune Printworks on Market Street.

This year’s TULCA theme, Seachange, sees exhibiting artists explore issues of climate change and people’s place in a changing landscape.

Through their work, these artists are calling for a sea change in current climate policies.

A series of talks and discussions entitled Hy-Brasil Dialogues has been running in tandem with TULCA’s art exhibitions and film screenings. These talks explore the complexity of the environment, locally and globally, and also view it from the perspective of geological time.  The final talk will take place on Saturday, November 28, between 12pm to 5pm at the Aula Maxima.

Speakers will include award-winning architect and teacher Dominic Stevens whose work has been exhibited in New York’s Guggenheim Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern art in Dublin and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

Visual artist, designer and maker Rosie O’Reilly, the co-founder of the sustainable fashion organisation re-dress.ie, will also take part. She is creative director & designer of fashion label We are Islanders, most recently showcased at London Fashion Week. Through her work across fashion art and theatre, she explores the relationship between art and science.

Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris of America’s Canary Project complete the line-up. The Canary Project is a studio that produces visual media and artworks designed to deepen public understanding of climate change and other ecological issues. Members been awarded the David Brower Center’s Art / Act Award (2016), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2014) the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2009).

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.