Patricia Piccinini
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Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays
- Art & Design
- July 23, 2019, 05:00
Galway International Arts Festival Festival Gallery, William St, and other venues, Galway Until July 28th giaf.ie **** It’s become the norm at the(...)

A matter of life and death: the startling lifelike sculptures of Sam Jinks
- Visual Art
- July 6, 2019, 05:00
Artist Sam Jinks makes incredibly lifelike sculptures, tufted with real hair, pigmented in human-like skin tones and often dres(...)

What does perfection look like and why does it make us miserable?
- Culture
- June 15, 2019, 05:00
Watching TV a while ago, my brother remarked how none of the adverts would make him buy anything. My brother is a problem for advertisers: he is one o(...)

We’re all deeply weird and 'normal' can be a crushing concept
- Culture
- July 26, 2017, 05:00
Two years ago Australian artist Patricia Piccinini populated the main gallery at the Galway International Arts Festival with oddly loveable creatures (...)

Gemma Tipton’s 2015: ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and the power of images
- Culture
- December 19, 2015, 05:00
Given more recent events, the shock of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in January seems distant, but visiting Paris that month I learned the enormous pow(...)

Skywhale takes off at Galway Arts Festival
- Irish News
- July 20, 2015, 01:00
Galway Arts Festival’s visiting Skywhale drew hundreds of people to the city’s South Park on Sunday evening, after a week when the Atlantic weather sy(...)

Strange evolution: meet the weird relatives
- Visual Art
- July 15, 2015, 06:00
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini makes extraordinarily lifelike sculptures, but often you can’t be sure what life they are like. In the pieces (...)

Galway International Arts Festival opens for public
- Irish News
- July 13, 2015, 01:00
Windguru and other internet weather maps will be scrutinised in Galway this week as a 30m-long “Skywhale” prepares to take flight over the city. The m(...)

Select: fall in love with some Galway grub
- Food & Drink
- July 9, 2015, 13:00
Time to make like The Pet Shop Boys and go west, as the Galway International Arts Festival returns from July 13th for a fortnight of top-notch musi(...)

Galway International Arts Festival programme revealed
- Culture
- May 27, 2015, 21:41
Sculpture from Australia, new plays by Frank McGuinness and Amy Conroy, gigs by Kodaline and The Coronas, talks, trad and street theatre. The 2015 Gal(...)