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That's a wrap! Engage's first trip to was a blast. We met so many interesting people and saw so much great art, and had...
04/05/2026

That's a wrap!
Engage's first trip to was a blast. We met so many interesting people and saw so much great art, and had a lot of fun too! It was exciting to see so many Irish spaces - .studios .limerick - participating and to see the health of the artist run scene in the west of Ireland.
We exhibited work by studio and orbital members and all of which was really well received, and the week was all made possible by the hard work and dedication of and our Supermarket expert
Now time to rest and think about next year!
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Engage Art Studios is delighted to be participating in SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair this year! It will ...
14/04/2026

Engage Art Studios is delighted to be participating in SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair this year! It will be our first time participating and we are really looking forward to meeting other artist run studios and galleries from around the world. We will present work by Engage members Cecilia Danell, Sara K Dunn, Joan Sugrue, and Ruby Wallis.
Watch this space for more information 🤩
With thanks to Culture Ireland for supporting us on this trip, and of course the Arts Council and Galway City Council for their ongoing support.

Cecilia Danell Sara K Dunn Joan Sugrue Culture Ireland The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Galway City Arts Office Galway City Council Supermarket Art Fair

💥News Flash💥Engage Art Studios is pleased to announce our new orbital studio member ✨ Russell Hart ✨We are delighted to ...
14/04/2026

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

Russell Hart studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art before moving to Belfast to complete an M.F.A. in Fine Art. He also holds an M.A in Visual Arts Curatorial Practice from A.I.D.T. in Dublin.

In 2007 Hart established economicthoughtprojects (ETP) work created by ETP includes live audio performances and presentations, instrument design and manufacture, photography, a series of audio pressings on both vinyl and Compact Disc, poster design and an independent record label that focuses on collaborative processes. 

A number of his audio projects were recently featured on WFMU (America’s longest running freeform radio station). His work has featured in the pages of WIRE magazine and he has exhibited nationally and internationally including, The Five Years Gallery, London, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ausland, Berlin, The Yes Way Music Festival, London and The Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin

💥News Flash💥Engage Art Studios is pleased to announce our new orbital studio member ✨ James Hatton ✨We are delighted to ...
13/04/2026

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

James Hatton is a multimedia artist based in County Galway. His practices revolve around ceramics, sound, text, moving image and their intersections. He is critically
engaged with current discourses surrounding Ecocultural Identity, Use Value and The Absurd. Contrastive landscapes and homes up- and re-root these practices, from the sedimentary Cotswolds to the feldspathic bogs of Conamara.

His work has been shown widely, with screenings, installations and exhibitions in Ireland, UK, Germany, France, USA, India and Slovenia. His recent achievements
include: Agility Award (2023); Galway COCO-funded Residency, Interface (2024); Probably a Broken Plate, Cookietown, Nashville, USA (2025) and upcoming
Interdisciplinary Residency, Interface (2027).

💥News Flash💥Engage Art Studios is pleased to announce our new orbital studio member ✨ Luke Donnelly ✨We are delighted to...
09/04/2026

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

Luke Donnelly is a visual artist based in Co.Galway. He is currently finishing up an MFA in NCAD. They are a recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award 2023 and the Galway Arts Centre + Galway Culture Company Bursary 24. Luke's practice work finds form through drawing installation, text, sculpture, moving image
and lecture performance. Stemming from Halberstam's ideas of Q***r practice as ‘a scavenger methodology’, gathered images shape the work. Found images are filtered through the practice, and let the resulting archive shape narratives that move across mediums - through gender and sexuality + non-static ideas of the Other.
He’s interested in acknowledging marginalisation however true and in effect can be weaponised, coupled with other privileges to employ Otherness as armour against
accountability.
"If in my work, a language in which to critique occurs, then I must bend that finger right back
around.”
Within this they are driven by ideas of value that are defined by a dominant social class, a ‘system of hierarchies of agreed upon social worth.’ - how these systems are mediated through a q***r lens & how these systems can dismantle/undermine q***r solidarity.
luke

💥News Flash💥Engage Art Studios is pleased to announce our new orbital studio member ✨ Joyce Tansey ✨We are delighted to ...
08/04/2026

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

Joyce Tansey is a painter living between Galway and the Iveragh peninsula in south west Kerry. She graduated from NCAD in the 90’s and attended University of Ulster and DCU as a post graduate. She is currently on the Turps Banana correspondence course. 

Joyce sees painting as a way of processing information, allowing cross pollination of memories, dreams, current anxieties etc.

The paintings do not depict particular places, objects or characters but offer an enquiry into the viscous nature of memory, recall and perception.
tansey

💥News Flash💥Engage Art Studios is pleased to announce our new orbital studio member ✨ Katerina Gribkoff ✨We are delighte...
07/04/2026

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

Katerina Gribkoff is an artist and researcher based on the west coast of Ireland, at the edge of the Burren. She has recently finished a Ph.D. in practice-based artistic research at the Burren College of Art (BCA) and University of Galway. Her project considered the application of permaculture and systems thinking to the organisation of an artistic practice, and as part of this research, Katerina started the Burren Dye Garden on campus at BCA. From her home in Kinvara, she grows and forages locally for plants to use as pigments for dyeing textiles and making inks. Her work includes quilting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and film photography, and she has recently shown work at the Linen Biennale in Northern Ireland (2025), the Galway International Arts Festival (2024), and The Irish Embassy in Indonesia (2024). Katerina regularly disseminates her research and interests through workshops, collaborative projects, and writing.

We had a great time welcoming 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶 to Engage Studios last week (though my phone camera struggled with the pr...
02/04/2026

We had a great time welcoming 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶 to Engage Studios last week (though my phone camera struggled with the projector!)
Valeria delivered a workshop to members on how best to present themselves, their practice, and their project ideas in writing and in person. She also conducted some studio visits with studio and orbital members. Thank you Valeria and hope to see you in Engage again soon!

DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ORBITAL MEMBER AT ENGAGE STUDIOS? In the past 12 months, Engage Orbital Members have been selected ...
24/03/2026

DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ORBITAL MEMBER AT ENGAGE STUDIOS?

In the past 12 months, Engage Orbital Members have been selected by Engage to exhibit at the Galway International Arts Festival (in both 2025 and 2026).  They’ve also been selected to take part in exciting exhibition exchange programmes with other galleries in Ireland like Sample-Studios  and international projects like Supermarket Art Fair
Orbital Members have been able to avail of great skills based workshops taught by artists, curators, and organisations like Praxis the Artists' Union of Ireland , FOR FREE!  They’ve been able to present their work to great visiting curators like and 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶 , with more visits planned for later in the year.  They’ve used our gallery space to present exhibitions of new work, or experiment and make work in a larger space.  They’ve used our expanding collection of AV and printmaking equipment, and taken part in members only social events.
Engage is where Galway's visual artists get to work! Join the fun!

Orbital Membership is suited to artists who have their primary workspace elsewhere, or who live outside the city but want to stay connected to a network of of professional artists. Cost is €150 per year. For more information about Orbital Member benefits, check the link in our bio.

Deadline it's March 27th at 17.00

Supported by Galway City Arts Office
And The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Congratulations to Engage member Bry Hussey who was selected by our partner Sample-Studios to present a solo exhibition ...
24/03/2026

Congratulations to Engage member Bry Hussey who was selected by our partner Sample-Studios to present a solo exhibition in Cork this winter at the Lord Mayor's Pavillion. Engage will be hosting a reciprocal solo exhibition by Sample artist around the same time.

We're excited to see what they make and happy to create these opportunities for artists to exhibit outside of their own counties and to expand their professional networks!

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