The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, a group exhibition featuring the work of seven Master of Arts in Creative Practice students from the School of Design and Creative Arts at the ATU Galway, will open at Galway Arts Centre this Friday, September 13, at 6pm.

Its title, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, is inspired by a poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1880 poetry collection, Ultima Thule.

This was one of the final collections from the renowned American poet who died a couple of years after it was published.

The poem can be interpreted as a metaphor for life’s transient nature and death’s enigma, according to curator Soňa Šmédková.

The recurring phrase “the tide rises, the tide falls” amplifies this unsettling sense of finality.

Roisin Doherty, Em, Jed Gjerek, Taïm Haimet, Amy Kramer, Emma Jane Mooney and Anastasiia Rachok are the seven students and they describe themselves as a multi-disciplinary group who “combine traditional art practices with modern technologies to create exciting work that explores contemporary cultural, environmental and societal issues”.

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls will be launched by Galway City Chief Executive Leonard Cleary,  this Friday at 6pm.

It will be open Monday to Saturday at Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, until Saturday, September 28, from 10am-5pm daily and all are welcome.

Pictured: Multiciplity – Porcelain by Amy Kramer.