The 20th TULCA Festival of Visual Arts will take place in venues across Galway City from November 4-20  with exhibitions, seminars, workshops, an education programme, artist talks and gallery tours.

This year’s festival has been curated by Clare Gormley, Director of Programmes and Curator at the Belfast Photo Festival and the co-founder and Director of the Northern Irish Art Network.

Clare was commissioned by TULCA to develop a theme for this year and she has chosen to explore the statement, The World Was All Before Them.

It’s from the final lines of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, which recounts Adam and Eve’s journey out of Eden into a new, unknown world.

Clare’s theme addresses the future and asks – at a time of global upheaval and uncertainty – what the political potential might be in imagining new futures and new ways of being. She selected Irish and international artists to respond to this theme, via a process of open calls and by invitation.

“I’m very excited to be working with the TULCA team on an edition of the festival that both takes stock of our current moment and, hopefully, provides a glimpse of the way forward as we reckon with the myriad challenges—ecological, societal, political and cultural—posed by our rapidly changing world,” she says.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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