Celebrate Culture Night with us on Friday, 18th September 2026.
This year's Culture Night, artist Elena Santos will be in conversation with visual artist Aidden Barry at Just Art It from 6 to 8 pm. This free event offers a unique glimpse into the realities of the artists profession, and promotes the sharing of skills and experiences that can lead to a rich, creative life and career.
This talk is part of Elena's Artist Working project, an open multidisciplinary project with the aim of highlighting the nature of the artist profession beyond the artwork.
Spaces are Limited. Register for Free Admission. Join us & bring a friend!
About the artist:
Aideen Barry is a practising Visual Artist based in Ireland but with international representation. In 2020 she was elected to the RHA. She is a member of Aosdána and Lectures in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, the US and Europe.
Barry is an artist whose work encompasses a vast range of disciplines and subjects, such as domestic labour, environmental fracture, and human vulnerability. Her work meditates on feminism, classism, intersectionality, and inequality. Utilising archives, museums, and other dialectic processes, she seeks to transfer the unknown through the experiential; democratising access to visual culture and complex ideas of otherness through clever ploys of collaboration and plot devices that seduce the viewer into her multi spatial experiences. Her works reflect her commitment to confronting unsettling truths and addressing gaps in the canon.
This event was made possible by public funding support of the Galway City Arts OfficeBhí an ócáid seo indéanta le tacaíocht ó Oifig Ealaíon Chathair na Gaillimhe and the private sponsorship of Just Art It.
