Galway Arts Centre will celebrate the extraordinary Laura Buckley with a survey exhibition on what would have been her 47th birthday.
Laura Buckley’s Painting with Light, curated by Eamonn Maxwell, runs at Galway Arts Centre from 10 February to 30 March 2024.
The official opening is Saturday 10 February at 6pm with gathering afterwards at the Galway Distillery, Merchants Road, and all are welcome.
This exhibition will feature a number of Laura’s sculptural installations, and all the works in the show are being exhibited in Ireland for the first time ever.
Painting With Light is Laura’s first solo exhibition at any public gallery in Ireland, and it is fitting that the show is happening in her birth county of Galway. Laura was born in Tuam, Co Galway in 1977 and died in London in 2022.
Having trained at NCAD as a painter, Laura always considered herself as a painter of sorts, even though her practice shifted to video and sculptural installation.
Following her graduation from MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, Laura quickly built a reputation as an artist in the UK and beyond.
Megs Morley, Director of Galway Arts Centre, said that it is their privilege to show such an extensive exhibition of Laura Buckley’s groundbreaking and pioneering work in Galway Arts Centre, and to celebrate her extraordinary talent in her home county on what would have been her 47th birthday.”
