Interface Inagh

At @interfaceinagh I’m developing a project that channels environmental sound to activate motors and devices to create interventions in any location… Thanks go to @sonic_rubbish for suggesting something along these lines a couple of years ago. Full videos with sounds from close up and inside pipes will be available on my YouTube channel very soon

It was a real pleasure to host Griff Maloney as part of our ongoing collaboration with Burren College of Art, and our residency commitment to a recent graduate or student of the college. 'My work interrogates the relationship between the perceived world and the digital veil of the electronic world. I capture motion and light in my physical environment before transmuting it into digital abstractions of thought and remembrance. These ancillary memory objects are transformed beyond the electronic devices on which they are captured and their contradictions are made visible. I utilize techniques of digital transformation and signal degradation mixed with traditional animation and in camera effects. These remixed and reinvested fragments of footage and sound become facsimiles of fading memories and half remembered dreams. By creating tension between natural and electronic forms, my work examines the liminal spaces of our digital age, altering the light and texture of the human eye into digital doppelgängers of color and motion. This work uses technology as a magic mirror, transmuting natural landscape and luminescence into electronic ghosts. These encounters draw the viewer into an emotional dialogue with the virtual world, presenting questions about the transference of real objects into digital space, the role of perception in the virtual landscape, and our primal relationship to things both real and unreal. The result is an examination of the digital grid that overlays the entire scope of modern life and how it affects our perception and thought.' @gm_alone @gm_ghast @burrencollegeofart @burrencollege_community @artscouncilireland @artsofficegalwaycounty

I said it last week and I mean it, I feel so lucky to visit such beautiful places with my work and projects! Thank you once again @interfaceinagh !

Very happy to arrive at @interfaceinagh today and have the guided tour - more to come…

Thanks so much to @clarehendersontheartist for running a fantastic workshop in copper sulphate etching at Interface over the last two days... thanks too to everyone who participated in the workshop... @artscouncilireland @artsofficegalwaycounty

This day last week, we were wrapping up after 5 days of mighty craic at @supermarketart ... we were delighted to be invited to the Irish Embassy, together with the 5 other Irish arts organisations present... Pic 2 @rocky_meaney2024 Pic 3 @martina_obrien_studio Pic 4 @ms_za_za @amiralionly @cmackeystudio Pic 6 @galleriduerr @cmackeystudio Pic 7 us at the Embassy Pic 8 @martin_tore_wallen performance Pic 9 @danieltuomey @ormstonhouse Pic 10 @breda_burns @customhousewestport Many thanks to @cultureireland for their support of our travel

It certainly has been The Great Gala @supermarketart , here in Stockholm this week. Very delighted to be exhibiting metallic(Y) film curated by the brilliant @interfaceinagh . Wonderful too to be showing alongside artist @cmackeystudio . Thanks to Alannah and Emma for all their stellar work and to @cultureireland for their support. Thanks also to the Irish Embassy @irelandinsweden for meeting us during our stay. metallic(Y) is kindly supported by @creativeireland through @arts_in_co_kildare , Climate Action Regional Office Kildare and @maynoothuni • • #yttrium #visualartist #supermarketindependentartfair

We are thrilled to be at @supermarketart again... with the wonderful @cmackeystudio and @martina_obrien_studio .... this year also with @ormstonhouse @126gallery.studios @spacecraft.limerick @customhousewestport @engageartstudios @rafatasad @ Thanks so much to @cultureireland

Save the Date! We are delighted to announce our exhibition in association with Galway International Arts Festival 2026. Aleana Egan A maritime child Opening Saturday 11 July, 4pm 12 July - 26 July, 12-6pm every day during Galway International Arts Festival Continues to 16 August, 12-6pm Saturdays and Sundays only A maritime child responds to the atmosphere of pathos and human fallibility felt within the site at Interface. Aleana Egan’s artworks share an instinctive sensibility, referring to processes of adaptation, repair and reuse. The exhibition hints at a central nervous system, influenced by sensory formations carried through the low-lying modernist building, its cantilevered canopies and the various outdoor tanks, pumps and connective infrastructures of the former salmon hatchery. Egan’s subtle but deliberate sculptural forms speak with the industrial materiality of Interface, and the expansive natural landscape that encloses the site in the picturesque Lough Inagh Valley. Curated by Michael Hill. With support from Kerlin Gallery and Konrad Fischer Galerie. Aleana Egan’s solo exhibitions include Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (forthcoming September 2026); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2025); Lismore Castle Arts (2024); Void, Derry (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021); NICC Vitrine, Brussels (2020); Farbvision, Berlin (2019); Illuminations Gallery, NUI Maynooth (2017); The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2015); Mary Mary, Glasgow (2014); The Drawing Room, London (2011); Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2009); Kunsthalle Basel (2008). Egan’s work has been represented internationally in group exhibitions including Kettles Yard, Cambridge; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh; SculptureCenter, New York. Artist Talk - Sunday 12 July at 2pm Aleana Egan and Michael Hill will give an informal walkthrough of the exhibition. Image: Aleana Egan, remote sense (Isuzu Trooper), 2019 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie. Photography by Silvia Cappellari. @artscouncilireland @galwayintarts @kerlingallery @konradfischergalerie #aleanaegan @m___hill @artsofficegalwaycounty @artsofficegalwaycity

Glaoch Oscailte Tá áthas orainn an deis a fhógairt do 1 ealaíontóir ó Ghaeltacht iarratas a dhéanamh ar chónaitheacht 2 sheachtain ag Interface. Táimid ag lorg tograí ó ealaíontóirí cleachtacha, scríbhneoirí, damhsóirí agus ceoltóirí a ndéanann a gcuid oibre iniúchadh ar na trasnaíochtaí idir taighde eolaíoch, éiceolaíocht agus na healaíona. Ní mór do na hiarratasóirí a bheith líofa sa Ghaeilge. Tá an chónaitheacht seo á tacú go fial ag Ealaín na Gaeltachta. Am na Cónaitheachta: Samhain 2026. Conas iarratas a dhéanamh: Seol 1 togra i bhfoirm PDF le do thoil ina mbeidh do thogra, do C.V., ráiteas ealaíontóra, agus ar a laghad 6 shampla de shaothar le déanaí nó naisc chuig do shaothar chuig [email protected]. An méid a chuirimid ar fáil: Spás stiúideo, cóiríocht agus deontas €1,100. Spriocdháta d’iarratais: 12 Meitheamh Tabhair faoi deara: Tá ceadúnas tiomána agus carr riachtanach don chónaitheacht seo. @ealainnagaeltachta @artscouncilireland @artsofficegalwaycounty @artsofficegalwaycity @galwaycountycouncil @kerrycoarts @kerrycountycouncil @donegalcountycouncil @corkcountycouncil @mayoartsservice @meathcoco @udarasnag

Beautiful day as usual in Connemara (weather or no weather! And we did get several rainbows 🌈). Excellent workshop exploring story at @interfaceinagh with wonderful participants, then off to a quick 100th birthday celebration (with delicious tea and cake) to honour @margaretirwinwest at her home. More please. Thanks to the wonderful @durning.john for helping the day go so smoothly! ❤️ #storytelling #improvisation #connemara

We are thrilled to announce that Seán O'Riordan has been selected as one of the recipients of our recent residency open-call for a Galway City based artist. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the Galway City Arts Office for their support of this residency. Seán O’Riordan is an artist based in Galway whose multidisciplinary practice spans ceramics, woodwork, textiles, writing, and digital media. They hold a BFA from NCAD, Dublin (2016), and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2023). Seán’s work interrogates the politics of desire, value, and iconographic histories of consumption. Employing architectural and industrial techniques alongside craft and found materials, such as discarded scratch cards and nightclub tokens, they encode shifting perceptions of value through sexuality, folklore, and non-dominant language. Their practice reflects a sustained inquiry into how linguistic, material, and sexual economies might reframe our understanding of worth, place, and identity. Often subverting dominant cultural narratives, Seán uses sculpture as a tool for semi-fictional worldbuilding. These works confront normative structures through both large-scale installations and intimate, detailed pieces that often spill out as rebellious built environments. These works present what has been described as “caverns of joyous queer abandon: a currency of no value to those who can’t read it, yet meaningful for those proficient in evading banality.” We are proudly supported by The Galway City Arts Office. Faighimid tacaíocht ó Oifig Ealaíon Chathair na Gaillimhe. @artscouncilireland @artsofficegalwaycity @galwaycitycouncil @connemarachamber @connemara.ie @connemarafm @seanoriordan_